"Master, Commander Stokov of the Insect Fleet sent a report that our fleet has been resupplied. Three new biological battleships, the Heavy Artillery Governor, have joined the fleet. It asked the fleet if it wants to set off immediately.
Conduct an in-depth investigation of the protoss beacon location that was not completed last time?"
Isa asked in the main nest mind.
Hearing its question, Xue Hua turned his mind back to the future of the two girls, sorted through the various information he had learned some time ago, and then gave an answer.
"Let them wait a moment and stop exploring the beacon location. I will ask Zagara to send the next two deciphered protoss beacons into their hands through the Corruptor. Their next mission is to explore this beacon.
Two new beacon locations... As for the previous location, make detailed records for the time being and send a squadron there to monitor and observe. Other matters will be discussed later."
The reason why he handled this matter in this way was mainly because Abathur took the time to conduct a brief research report on him some time ago.
The content of this research report is mainly about the tentacle biological samples that the insect fleet retrieved from the planet designated as "TG-001" (hereinafter referred to as Planet 1).
These biological samples made Abathur, a biogenetics expert, very puzzled because he could not accurately determine whether the biological samples evolved naturally or were modified.
According to Abathur, the biological samples obtained from "Planet 1" have a certain degree of natural evolution characteristics - its gene sequence contains redundant genes and invalid gene sequences, which are representatives of naturally evolving organisms.
feature.
However, there are quite hidden and vague genetic stitching traces in the core gene sequence of this creature. These stitching traces are so vague that even Abathur is not sure that they must be artificial stitching by the hands of intelligent creatures.
You should know that even in nature, there are examples of mixed genetic traits such as "chimeras".
Although their numbers are very rare, it is undeniable that they do exist.
The genetic traits of chimeras are mixed and disordered. They are like naturally occurring "chimeras", carrying genetic information from different species.
Abathur found that these biological samples all have such characteristics, but the genetic stitching traces in these biological samples have certain patterns, and are not completely chaotic like the "chimeras" that exist in nature.
Therefore, Abathur hopes that Xue Hua can give him more time to compare and study those biological samples, and it also recommends not to provoke the alien creatures on that planet until a breakthrough is made in its research.
Because after Abathur studied those biological samples, he discovered a very surprising fact, that is, although these biological samples were collected from different tentacle-type biological specimens, their genetic compatibility reached 100%.
Even among several larvae born from the same male and female pair, there will definitely be slight differences in genetic compatibility, just like how identical twins can be distinguished using DNA testing.
Even Xue Hua knows this.
There is only one possibility for the genetic samples collected from two different biological specimens to be 100% consistent.
That is, these biological specimens actually come from the same individual!
This means that on the "Planet One" that the insect fleet has visited, there is an indescribably huge creature entrenched there in some unknown way.
In this case, it is very dangerous to rashly send the currently weak insect swarm fleet there again for in-depth investigation before having complete information about the other party.
This reckless behavior may cost the swarm fleet an unimaginable amount of money.
Therefore, Xue Hua resolutely stopped Stukov's intention to continue the last exploration and assigned it other exploration tasks.
As for "Planet One"... let's send someone to watch it first. It won't be too late to deal with him after Abathur reveals his true identity.
After taking care of the fleet, Isa began to report to him on the latest progress of Dehaka's exploration operations in the mysterious sand dunes.
After Dehaka received Xue Hua's order not to go deeper into the dunes, he began to build an underground insect nest network around the center of the dunes.
Although there are no resources in the mysterious sand dunes, the purpose of building these insect nests is not to obtain resources. What it wants to obtain is the essence of the strange creatures in the mysterious sand dunes - that is, genes.
With the help of the two thunder beasts, almost no creature on the outskirts of the mysterious sand dunes can escape the trap cast by the insect swarm.
A large number of rare genes were found and then transferred to Abathur's laboratory through the insect mother, constantly adding to the evolutionary process of the insect swarm.
Although Dehaka's almost unselective habit of absorbing essence made Abathur feel very disdainful and even contemptuous, he had to admit that it was precisely due to the efforts of this original zerg leader that the swarm's gene pool was
It quickly became fuller.
Of course, there are still some abnormalities hidden in this batch of genes whose origin cannot be verified, which means Abathur will not easily use these genetic traits to directly mutate the insect swarm.
But it also said that once these anomalies are eliminated, it will be able to conduct an unprecedented upgrade of the nest group based on the existing genetic inventory.
Abathur is planning this upgrade. According to some information he revealed, this upgrade project will no longer be limited to a certain unit, but will benefit all existing units and even buildings of the entire Zerg.
All Zerg organisms, including the main nest, will be strengthened to varying degrees in this upgrade.
The biggest obstacle to this upgrade project currently comes from two aspects. The first aspect is the abnormal information displayed in the genes passed in by Dehaka. If these abnormal information are not cleared, there will be security risks in the upgrade of the insect swarm. This
This is something that neither Abathur nor Xue Hua can tolerate.
The second obstacle comes from Xue Hua, the master himself.
Abathur told Xue Hua that this time the insect swarm's major upgrade may completely raise the level of the main hive to the height of free evolution, reaching an unprecedented level 4, and this upgrade is very likely to lead to the main hive's mental state.
The further expansion and spread of power.
As the controller and main carrier of the main hive's mind, if Xue Hua's own psionic level is not enough, he will be unable to withstand such a powerful spiritual expansion and cause the evolution of the entire hive to fail.
Therefore, Xue Hua must at least increase his psionic energy level to 2.2 before the entire nest group evolves. This is the ultimate carrying level and must not be lower than this level.
It is for this reason that Xue Hua, after arranging for Abathur to continue to unlock the secret key in the Sandworm Queen, rushed to the ground non-stop, preparing to use the remaining time to practice a wave of levels in the oasis without asking for anything.
To upgrade your level to another level, you need to increase your experience by at least about 10%.
After all, his current level is only level 15, which when converted into psionic level is only about 1.3, which is still some distance from the target level of 2.2. And with the depth of his experience pool, he wants to upgrade from level 15 to 23-24 in a short period of time.
Level is undoubtedly a very challenging thing.
Xue Hua estimated that he might not be able to accomplish this feat in the Aranok Desert.
Therefore, the large-scale upgrade project of the insect swarm will probably have to be implemented in the rainforest area...