Chapter 74: Hydralisk Mutation (Finally came back alive~)
When Xue Hua arrived at the evolution pit, Abathur was already waiting for him there. There were two objects beside it. One was an egg mutated from a larvae. The egg was pulsing slightly and was obviously pregnant with something.
, below the egg is a pool formed entirely of green biomass. The green liquid in the pool continues to flow into the egg along the blood vessel-like channels on the egg, and the egg is also accelerating with the inflow of biomass.
Pulsating.
The other object was a group of green gelatinous vesicles floating in the air, with some tiny creatures in the center constantly rotating around a fiery red sphere, which looked very strange.
"The evolution of the insect swarm requires new genes, capturing new core sequences, eliminating the dross, distorting the essence, and obtaining the essence."
Seeing Xue Hua arriving, Abathur directly began to introduce his work status.
"Separate the essence sequence, obtain two genetic structures, improve one of them, and create a new insect swarm variant."
It pointed several pairs of arthropods at the accelerating pulsating insect egg, which meant that this was the new unit of the insect swarm that was about to appear.
"The other part of the essence is missing key sequences and cannot be perfected, but it can be added to the gene sequences of existing insect swarm troops to make them stronger."
It touched the green vesicle with another pair of arthropods. The vesicle suddenly burst open, and the fiery red sphere floated in front of Abathur. Abathur used two pairs of arthropods to lift the fireball and continued to explain.
Said: "The powerful flame essence can decompose its operating principle and use the microbial colony simulation effect to enhance the destructive power of the existing insect swarm units."
"Applicable arms - Hydralisks. Hydralisks fight by shooting out spines. The spines have strong penetrating power and are strong. After a long period of evolution, there is no possibility of improvement. However, a second set of spines regeneration reserve system can be added. Chapter 1
Two sets of ratchet reserve systems can be used to implant the microbial population, making the ratchet hollow, reducing penetration and strength. However, when the ratchet hits the target, it can activate the microbial population implanted in it. This population is extremely unstable and explosive.
, the explosion spreads fragments, causing an area-wide destruction effect.”
Xue Hua listened carefully. Although there were many things he couldn't understand, he finally understood the effect of this new evolution.
To put it simply, it is to equip the Hydralisk with a second type of ammunition. This type of ammunition does not have the same penetrating power as conventional needles and is very fragile, but the needles will explode after hitting the target, just like Amazon's explosive arrows, which will cause an
Small range AOE damage.
This evolution makes Xue Hua very happy, because it means that the insect swarm will have a range of attack power from now on. Although the range of one spine is not large, if more than ten hydralisks unite to spray such high-explosive spines,
For light-armored or even unarmored units like the Sinking Demon that rely on numbers to win, it is simply a killer weapon.
"To evolve the hydralis' spine regeneration system, it is necessary to evolve an additional microbial culture chamber in the hydralis' body so that the hydralis itself can produce explosive microbial communities. The physiological balance system of the hydralis has reached its limit and cannot produce microbial communities on a large scale. It provides two
There are two options. First, evolve the Hydralisk's brain balance system so that it can reserve a portion of the explosive spines for backup before joining the battle. After they are consumed during the battle, the spinet ammunition can be slowly replenished. This solution maintains the cost of the Hydralisk.
It will not change, but it will make the hydralisk lose the ability to continuously fire explosive stingers."
"Option two is to comprehensively evolve the physiological balance system in the Hydralisk to expand its brain capacity and be able to bear the burden of more weapon systems. This option can enable the Hydralisk to evolve a complete explosive ammunition production mechanism, allowing the Hydralisk to
The two types of ammunition can be freely switched during combat, and there is no limit on the number of explosive stingers. However, this solution will completely optimize the Hydralisk weapon system and brain capacity, which will increase the cost of Hydralisk production. The cost of each Hydralisk will increase by 25 crystals and 25 gas.
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Xue Hua was immediately confused when he heard the multiple-choice question Abathur threw to him.
In fact, the problem is very simple. If you don't want to increase the cost of Hydralisk, then this high-explosive ammunition will become a limited-supply ammunition with a limited quantity. You cannot spray it casually in battle. Once it is used up, you can only rely on Hydralisk to slowly release it.
Supplement, to put it simply, with the CD, and if you are willing to increase the cost of the Hydralisk, this evolution will turn the Hydralisk into a full-time gunner who can shoot both armor-piercing and high-explosive shells. The two types of ammunition can be used without restrictions, and
You can also switch at will.
The former plan is the killer series, and the latter plan is the conventional weaponization series.
If there is no negative effect of increased cost, then there is no need to choose this option at all.
Don't think that the cost increase of 25 crystals and 25 gas is nothing. You have to know that the cost of a hydralisk is only 100 crystals and 50 gas. If you choose the second option, it is equivalent to a quarter increase.
One crystal costs half as much as one gas.
Hydralisks are the main land-based long-range strike force of the swarm in the future, and they are also an important part of the swarm's ground army. The number will definitely not be small. Increasing the cost by so much is equivalent to increasing Xue Hua's explosive power in disguise.
The difficulty of the soldier.
Especially for Xue Hua at this stage, there is no doubt that the financial pressure will be very great to make this choice.
But after thinking about it for a while, Xue Hua decided to choose the second option.
There was no other reason. He didn't want to let go of this evolutionary option that could greatly enhance the quality of the insect swarm's troops. He also asked Abathur if he could choose the first option first, and then wait until the resources are available later.
After changing to the second option, Abathur told him very clearly that the answer was no.
Because once a kind of benign evolution is combined with the insect swarm, the genes of the insect swarm will contain gene fragments of this evolution. If you want to forcibly unbind this gene later, it is very likely that the insect swarm connected to it will be
The unit undergoes widespread genetic collapse, causing the swarm to completely lose this unit.
The price of completely losing the Hydralisk was too high. Xue Hua didn't even dare to think about it, let alone think about it.
So he could only answer the multiple-choice questions honestly.
Then after thinking about it, I suddenly thought of the time when mining deposits in the evil cave. Since there are minerals in this world that can be used by the insect swarm, why worry about resources?
Once you find a large-scale mineral deposit and put it down as a real base, won't the resource problem be solved?
Thinking of this, Xue Hua nodded firmly to Abathur and expressed his choice in the spiritual network.
After Abathur accepted Xue Hua's choice, he directly threw the red fireball in his hand into a pothole next to him. Suddenly there was a shrill neighing sound in the pothole, which sounded familiar to Xue Hua, and then he thought
It sounded like the sound of a hydralisk.
"The evolutionary gene sequence has been written, and the main hive mind is transporting biomass. The hydralisks in the Overlord's existing troops will complete the evolutionary mutation in three minutes. After the mutation is completed, the Hydralisks will become a new variant. The Overlord can name the new variant.
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"Let's call it Hydralisk. After all, the attack method has not changed. However, we can add the number name of 'Explosion Bug Variant' to distinguish it from the previous Hydralisk community." Xue Hua nodded, but did not call the Hydralisk.
The name was changed, and a numbered name was added to the Hydralisk according to the naming method of the troop variants obtained from the evolution mission in the Wormheart campaign in the game.
This will also make it easier for Abathur to sort out the evolutionary history of insect swarm units.