In addition to being able to mutate into the Overlord Insect, the King Insect now also has another mutation route. A new unit called the "Node King Insect" has been imported into the Overlord Insect's mutation candidate gene pool by Abathur.
This kind of king insect has no vision detection ability, and cannot serve as a transport aircraft, but it can amplify psychic signals and serve as a receiving/transmitting relay station for psychic signals.
Moreover, the node king insect can also eavesdrop on signals from hundreds of carriers including psychic energy, radio waves, plasma and lasers. If the monitoring king insect is the "eye in the sky" of the insect swarm, then the newly emerged node king insect is the insect.
The "ears" of the group.
With this thing, Xue Hua only needs to ask the insect swarm fleet to take a few of them before setting sail, and the contact radius between them will be greatly increased.
Coupled with Xue Hua's own psychic communication range that has skyrocketed after the main nest was strengthened this time, Xue Hua's main nest's mental coverage distance has basically covered this star area.
The appearance of the node king insect is not much different from the ordinary king insect, but where the ordinary king insect has the balloon-like abdominal pouch, it has a pair of tentacles with blood-red mosquito coil-like patterns on the surface. The pair of tentacles are curved upward, with the top
There are many tiny, fluffy tentacles floating slowly.
The Node King has three skills. The first skill is called "Communication Monitoring". This skill allows the Node King to monitor the signals of various carriers.
The second skill is called "Mimetic Invisibility", which allows the Node King to be invisible when not moving to avoid enemy detection.
The third skill is called "Signal Shielding/Amplification".
This ability is very special. It is in an "amplification" state under normal conditions, and is generally used to enlarge the main nest mental link range of the master.
Once this ability is converted into the "shielded" state, the Node King Insect can be used to block all remote communications in an area.
However, the Node King Insect cannot move when it enters the "shielded" state, and if you want to block remote communications in an area, the Node King Insect must be close enough to that area.
This is very dangerous, even if the Node King is invisible when not moving.
The mutation price of a node king insect is 25 gas higher than that of a surveillance king insect. The overall price (including the price of the king insect hatching) is 150 crystals and 25 gas.
After the Overlord and its two variants, the report also mentioned some changes to the Mother.
Since the insect mothers at the current stage have evolved sufficiently, Abathur did not make any more changes to them. In addition to enhancing some of their basic abilities, Abathur only expanded the command authority of all insect mothers.
, making it easier for them to do their job as mid-level battlefield commanders.
The last part of the report is about several new units that appeared in the swarm.
Units such as Spear Hunters, Prowlers, and Node King Insects have been introduced before, so Xue Hua simply ignored them and looked at the other new units behind them.
The first unit is called "Shadowworm". Its inspiration and genetic source code come from some genetic fragments of invisible creatures collected by Dehaka from the mysterious dune area and some information about the darkness of the protoss found on the asteroid base.
Records of the Templars.
This guy with an unremarkable name is actually a very dangerous assassin.
From the appearance, this creature looks like a large mantis as tall as a person, with a springtail head and two pairs of knife feet.
It looks thin and long, with a flat insect belly hanging on the back half of its body, making it look very frail in appearance.
But if you take a look at its pair of terrifying sharp blades on its upper body, you probably won't think so.
This pair of sharp blades is about three meters long when fully extended. Its overall material is exactly the same as the single-molecule giant blade of the Thunder Beast. Its edges are so sharp that they can "break hair by blowing it".
Moreover, this pair of sharp blades is very thin. If one is struck by it, no one will be able to "stand" and talk and laugh.
The Shadow Bug's body is very thin, but the only thing that looks muscular is the appendages behind the pair of sharp blades. The strong multi-layered fibrous muscles provide it with very strong explosive power for wielding these murderous weapons.
Everything in front of you will be chopped into pieces in an instant.
This pair of three-meter-long sharp blades are folded when the shadow insect is in action. Only when it is ready to start killing people, this thing will be instantly extended.
Shadow bugs have three skills. The first skill is called "Permanent Invisibility". Shadow bugs, like the Protoss Dark Templar, can make themselves permanently invisible, even when and after launching an attack.
Appear.
In addition to the reliable anti-stealth detection system, other anti-stealth methods have no effect on them. Their blades ensure that they can climb over walls, and the special mirror carapace on their bodies also prevents their bodies from being contaminated with any dust.
The shadow bug's second skill is called "Lethal Pursuit". The shadow bug can hunt down injured but not dead targets by tracking the blood of the targets it slashes. Don't expect to spray perfume or anything to escape its pursuit.
, that is definitely a joke with your own life.
The third skill of the shadow bug is called "Gliding Elytra". This skill allows the shadow bug to jump a long distance and land silently when jumping from a high place, so for those who want to escape from rivers, streams or tall buildings
, you can go into the coffin and rest.
The emergence of the shadow bug gave the insect swarm its first assassination unit. If this terrifying killer is used in conjunction with the new mimicking hatchling of the supervisory king insect, Xue Hua can basically easily plunge a country into civil strife and panic.
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To hatch shadow bugs, you need to build a new biological building "Shadow Cellar". Each shadow bug costs 250 crystals and 125 gas.
This unit itself is very fragile and should not be used in direct conflicts.
After the Shadow Worms, another new type of Zerg unit appeared in Abathur's report.
The name of this unit is "Projector", and it is a very special type of backup unit.
The projector itself does not have any destructive power. It looks like a giant lizard with a conch shell on its back and a straw-like mouth.
There is a circular opening on the top of the shell on its back, and the shell can also be raised or shrunk to a certain extent.
Projectors are rare Zerg units that have no combat effectiveness on their own. They are extremely fragile when acting alone and pose no threat to the enemy.
But once they are placed under the heavy protection of the insect swarm army, the enemy's front line will be completely useless and will no longer have any meaning.
The Projector can suck smaller Zerg units such as Springtails, Banelings and other units into the body using its straw-like mouth, and then project these sucked-in units out of the body through the shell opening on its back.
The projectile distance and height of the projectile are adjustable, and when projecting a unit, it will wrap a layer of buffering spores on the unit to cushion the impact when the unit lands.
The projectile's projection speed is very fast. Within ten seconds, the projector can launch twenty springtails into the target area.
This kind of unit can be regarded as the nemesis of the fixed defense line. Coupled with the jumping skill of the cockroach and the phantom charge skill that the Ultralisk has just obtained, the insect swarm is now fully capable of tearing apart any traditional defensive tactics in an instant.
To hatch projectors, you need to build a "slime chamber". Each projector costs 250 crystals and 100 gas.
Projectiles have no attack power or armor, and are only affected by the "Ground Swarm Functional Upgrade" option in the evolution chamber.