After Xue Hua made his choice, the scene in front of him suddenly changed. The insect host with spots of light in the incubator on its back shattered into pieces, and the body of the insect host was covered with blue flashes.
The patterned insect swarm hosts raised their heads and roared in victory toward the sky.
Survival of the fittest, survival of the fittest.
This rule is especially applicable in the insect swarm.
The evolutionary task of the swarm host has been completed, and Abathur also threw the ball of light gray essence into a hole behind him.
Next, it pushed another ball of pure black essence in front of Xue Hua.
"The essence of the No. 1 test subject is separated into the regenerable tail of the creature. It is suitable for the army - poisonous baneling insects."
"The poisonous banelings integrated into this essence produce six mutation tendencies, and four of them are meaningless, leaving two mutation tendencies to choose from."
"The first mutation tendency is to strengthen the regeneration gene of the poisonous baneling so that it can leave a residual body after the first self-destruction or being destroyed. The residual body will sneak into the ground and completely recover and emerge again after ten seconds.
On the ground, each springtail has only one chance to use this ability. The second time it is destroyed or self-destructs, the poisonous baneling will still be completely eliminated."
"The second mutation tendency is to strengthen the armor structure and body balance of the poisonous baneling, so that the poison sacs on its body that were previously exposed are now protected by a disposable and quickly regenerated bone plate. These bone plate structures are not only
It can enhance the anti-strike ability of poisonous banelings, and can also enhance the body balance of poisonous banelings to a certain extent, thereby greatly enhancing their movement speed.
The ability 'Evolve - Centrifugal Bug Hook' will be removed after selecting this mutation tendency, and will be replaced by 'Evolve - Bone Plate Fragments'.
Since this mutation tendency makes the poisonous banelings no longer need centrifugal hooks to enhance their mobility, the evolution option is changed to enhance the destructive power and damage type of the poisonous banelings.
The Bone Plate Fragment evolution option will cause sharp cracks to appear on the edges and interior of the Baneling's disposable defensive bone plates. When the Baneling self-destructs, these cracks will cause these bone plates to turn into sharp bone shrapnel and fly around.
, harming creatures, splitting armor, and allowing poisonous banelings to damage creatures that are highly resistant to strong acid."
After Abathur introduced the mutation information, he didn't say much. He just pointed his appendage in front of Xue Hua again.
That scene appeared in front of Xue Hua's eyes again.
This time, Abathur simulated an offensive battlefield. One side of the battlefield was still the human defenders of the Terran Empire. The place they were guarding was a giant fortress built in a valley.
The insect swarm controlled by Xue Hua was very powerful, numbering in the millions. However, the army could not spread out in the valley, and the human defenders also had a large number of siege tanks, fortress artillery groups and Thor mechas inside the fortress.
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If they attack rashly like this, these human mechanized heavy artillery units will cause heavy casualties to the insect swarm.
Therefore, Xue Hua must first control thousands of poisonous baneling "regeneration bug" variants to blow down the door of the human fortress, so that the insect swarm can directly drive in without having to spend more on siege.
It's a huge price to pay.
The way for poisonous banelings to enter the battlefield is through high-altitude airdrops from overlords.
The King Insect will directly airdrop them to a location not far from the fortress to prevent the Banelings from suffering heavy losses due to the opponent's powerful firepower.
After the combat mission began, Xue Hua quickly controlled the baneling swarms to disperse and advance on the battlefield to avoid concentrated bombardment by the opponent's heavy firepower system.
The fierce firepower in the human fortress was still beyond Xue Hua's imagination.
Huge explosions and soaring mushroom clouds continued to bloom along the path of the poisonous banelings.
The endless poisonous banelings were bombarded with slurry and shattered into pieces.
However, Xue Hua keenly discovered that some of the scattered limbs of these poisonous banelings that seemed to have been blown to pieces would remain active and take the opportunity to burrow into the ground and hide.
And when Xue Hua controlled the fewer and fewer remaining poisonous banelings to arrive at the gate of the fortress, in his main hive mind, those poisonous banelings that had been "lost contact" suddenly appeared again.
come out.
Although Xue Hua was mentally prepared for this situation, it frightened the human defenders who were firing wildly in the fortress.
"Oh my God! Where did those come from?!"
"It's alive! They're alive! God damn it!"
"Then kill them once!"
"But those in front have already rushed to the door!"
"Commander! Assign fire channels!"
In the human heavy firepower cluster, radio messages exploded into chaos. Since the human commanders were still stunned, these siege tank and Thor mecha pilots and fortress gun operators had to fire freely first.
A random blast.
Fortunately, the human commander finally reacted, began to allocate firepower channels, and quickly eliminated the resurrected poisonous banelings.
However, it was too late for him to react at this time. About half of the remaining Baneling Swarm had already rushed to the metal gate of the fortress and activated the self-destructive protease reaction chain in the body.
Boom boom boom boom boom boom!!!
A deafening explosion sounded in front of the metal gate, and all the human defenders immediately held their breath.
However, after the explosions were completely extinguished, the metal door still stood firm despite being twisted and deformed.
"Great! We win! Kill those damn bugs!"
"Let the Viking fighter planes increase patrols! We can no longer withstand the next poisonous baneling attack!"
"Damn bugs! Come on! Your uncle is going to kick your ass!"
"Kill the bugs! Kill all these bugs!!"
"Wow! I absolutely love those engineers! Thank them for making our gate so strong!"
The human defenders who saw this scene immediately cheered collectively. They all believed that as long as they blocked this wave of Zerg raids, the Zerg commander would not risk attacking this fortress that was armed to the teeth.
However, Xue Hua, who also saw this scene, only slightly raised the corners of his mouth.
So naive, these humans are so naive!
He sneered as several SCVs rushed out from behind and quickly came to the fortress gate to repair the gate.
At the same time, in his main hive mind, the poisonous banelings that had already self-destructed once began to quietly "resurrect".
"No! Everyone! Stay alert!"
After all, the human commander still had two skills. He did not join in the cheers of his subordinates, but frowned and looked at the radar screen in front of him.
And when he saw poisonous banelings suddenly emerging from the ground in front of the fortress gate one after another, his face suddenly began to turn pale as if he had seen a resurrected ghost.
He yelled in the communication channel, trying to have all defensive fire positions immediately launch artillery fire on the baneling swarms that were emerging from the surface. However, when the tank crews heard his warning, it was already too late.
The resurrected poisonous baneling swarm crashed directly into the nearby fortress gate, and then the deafening explosion sounded again.
This time, the alloy-structured metal fortress gate could no longer withstand such an intense attack. Less than ten seconds after the explosion sounded, it was shattered into metal fragments all over the sky.
At this moment, the expressions of all the human defenders who had just been celebrating their victory suddenly froze...
The swarm quickly launched a general attack and captured the human fortress that had lost its gate almost without any hindrance.
And Xue Hua's vision quickly retreated from the battlefield.
Thinking about the battle just now, Xue Hua thought seriously for a moment, but finally shook his head with a wry smile.
The regeneration bug variant can explode twice, which is equivalent to doubling the value of a poisonous baneling bug, but the problem is that other than that, it has no advantages.
In addition to being twice as destructive as an ordinary Baneling, this variant behaves no differently than an ordinary Baneling in other respects.
Moreover, this doubled destructive power can only bully enemies who are seeing this variant for the first time.
When fighting later, people only need to put an anti-stealth unit on the battlefield. After the poisonous banelings self-destruct or are destroyed, while the remaining limbs burrow into the ground and regenerate, they can directly use heavy firepower to destroy the regenerating underground.
The poisonous banelings...
Then this variant is equivalent to having no effect at all...