In addition to the completely unavoidable difficulties faced by the research on the Rune Language system, Abathur has also hit a wall in its original line of work - biological genetic research, which makes Xue Hua feel a little puzzled.
According to Abathur's report, it encountered unexpected special difficulties when studying the genes of the giant beast it called "Desert Specimen #001" (referred to as Specimen No. 1).
The genes of that strange giant beast are extremely complex and sophisticated, with almost no redundant gene sequences. In the process of natural evolution, this situation is almost impossible to occur.
Any evolution caused by natural selection will sometimes go into misunderstandings, and once biological evolution goes into misunderstandings, it will produce useless redundant genes and biological tissues.
But the genetic sequence of specimen No. 1 seems to have been carefully selected, and it is composed of different genetic sequences pieced together and arranged.
Judging from the biological posture of specimen No. 1, this sign is also very obvious.
It has a whale-like front body and a tadpole-shaped tail composed entirely of bony plates and scales without a nervous system. It also has toad-like bulging eyes and a mouth full of sharp teeth.
These biological characteristics all indicate that this thing seems to be a failed biological experiment made up of several different biological genes.
The reason why it is said to be an experimental failure is because of the brain of specimen No. 1.
The brain capacity of this creature is surprisingly small. Its biological instincts are only to sleep, eat, and fight back in times of danger. It has no response to any other emotional touch. This thing doesn't even have the urge to reproduce!
You must know that in the swarm, even the simplest physiological structure of springtails has much more complicated biological instincts than this thing. At least the springtails know how to obey the orders of the master and other Zerg commanders at all levels, and
You can also obtain certain independent tactical coordination capabilities through genetic memory.
The simplistic brain structure of Specimen No. 1 prevents it from understanding any commands - even the simplest instructions.
The biological reconstruction copied from this biological structure is completely out of control and cannot be controlled to any extent in any way.
However, there is a reason why this creature is so large and its biological instincts are so simple.
Abathur mentioned in the research report that apart from some necessary energy absorption and excretion tissues and organs, the body of Specimen No. 1 is almost a mobile biological weapons arsenal.
Its body has evolved special mucus hair follicles specifically for defense. The mucus secreted by these hair follicles is very flexible and slippery, and is slightly corrosive and highly alkaline. This characteristic not only allows it to survive on soft ground such as deserts
It "swims" easily under the surface like a fish, and its most important front body tissue has strong resistance to strikes and acid corrosion.
In addition, there is an extremely special plasma conversion organ in its body, which can convert all the energy it absorbs into a very destructive plasma energy body.
This plasma energy is the kind of black flame floating in the air that Xue Hua once saw in a black sandstorm.
Not only does it have an extremely high temperature, but it also has a very strange characteristic. It can automatically transform any unit it touches and destroys...or reconstruct into a kind of black iron sand, and these iron sands will be
The body of specimen No. 1 is absorbed and surrounds it at high speed. This is the reason why the "black sand storm" in the desert legend is formed.
In addition to the above two defense and weapon systems, this thing also has a very, very strong self-regeneration ability.
This regenerative ability is particularly concentrated on the tail of its hind body.
Its tail is like a gecko's tail, a consumable appendage that can be discarded at any time, and its tail is entirely composed of bone structures and scales, with no other biological tissue except a central nerve that can be detached at any time.
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This thing's tail can quickly regenerate after being abandoned, and the regeneration process requires very little on its biological energy reserves, and it can even be said to have almost no impact.
This made Abathur very suspicious. The purpose of the tail of this thing was entirely to prevent the enemy from capturing and studying its genetic structure.
After the regeneration ability, this thing also has a set of removable sharp teeth like a great white shark, and these sharp teeth can be fired as missile weapons.
However, this powerful weapon organ has absolutely no practical value due to this guy's too low brain capacity. This creature only knows how to swallow what is in front of him with its mouth, but does not know how to use its own weapon system at all.
In other words, it is so stupid that it does not know how to shoot out its teeth, even if this is its biological instinct.
Even the organ that generates black sandstorms is only able to work because it operates automatically, and it is also very incomplete.
This guy simply allowed the powerful plasma conversion system to run on its own without any intention of actively controlling it. Only when he was about to be fatally threatened and activated his desperate resistance instinct, would he cover the plasma energy body in an extremely superficial way.
Use it as a protective layer on yourself.
But it works...
All I can say is hehe~
In addition, its eyes are also a very sharp psychic image processing organ. Even among the insects, this processing organ is only found in the Supervisory King Insect.
This means that it can not only detect enemies far away in advance, but also see targets clearly in sandstorms.
It can even see through invisible units!
However, this completely brainless guy only uses it to hunt prey, and it never turns its eyes...
This is also the reason why black sandstorms always only move in a straight line~
However, although this big guy is really stupid, Abathur, the master of insect swarm evolution, still feels frustrated by it.
This frustration is not due to its complex and sophisticated gene chain arrangement system, nor is it due to the number of gene types on this guy.
It's because this creature's genes actually have several very tight genetic locks that block it!
These genetic locks exist within the genetic structure and are not only very strong in themselves, but are also interconnected.
Every time Abathur tries to unlock one of the gene locks, it will trigger other connected gene locks, and then these gene locks will start the gene collapse program, turning the genetic specimens in Abathur's hands into a pile of useless objects.
protein.
It tried almost tens of thousands of times, but never once was it able to access the genetic sequence behind the gene lock.
This made it feel very frustrated, and at the same time, it became more convinced that this creature was the failed product of some kind of biological weapons experiment.
Because if those complex and meticulous genetic structures and the genetic characteristics of multiple organisms can be found in nature, then such things as gene locks should never appear in any naturally evolving organism.
On the body.
You must know that gene locks not only prevent others from snooping on the genes of the organism, but also lock the natural evolution path of the organism.
Once a creature's genes are genetically locked, it no longer has any possibility of natural evolution.
This is behavior that violates all basic survival laws and evolutionary instincts of living things, and it is absolutely impossible for living things to evolve on their own!
Therefore, Abathur recorded all its suspicions in the report and then handed it over to Isa to report to Xue Hua.
When Xue Hua finished listening to Abathur's report, his back was already soaked in large pools of cold sweat, and he didn't even hear the little girl Fenia calling him to have dinner.
There was only one sentence echoing in his mind at the moment.
Biological genetic experiment?! A genetic lock that even Abathur can't unlock?
