On a calm sea, the large three-masted cargo ship "Beluga" was sailing slowly on the sea with a gentle breeze.
Three days have passed since the thrilling battle, but the crew on the ship still talked about it.
Sailing is actually quite boring. Most of the time, there is nothing on the endless sea. In this case, besides drinking, the greatest pleasure for the crew on the ship is to find a topic to chat about.
Chatted.
In the past few days, what they talked about most was naturally the story about Xue Hua's battle with the six-armed giant. This story has now been completely separated from the original version and has begun to develop in the direction of a mythical story.
However, although Xue Hua's story was widely circulated on the ship, no one dared to disturb Xue Hua himself because of the tragic experience of a certain unlucky crew member. Even the crew members who brought him meals every day.
He just put the meal at the door of his room, knocked on the door, and then ran away in a hurry.
Although Xue Hua felt helpless about this situation, he was also happy to be quiet.
Unlike ordinary crew members on sea ships, Xue Hua can find a lot of fun through the main hive mind.
For example, right now, he is using the will clone skill to transform into an incarnation, tasting delicious sand ice brew in a famous tavern in Lugaoyin City~
The feeling of the sweet and frosty wine flowing down the throat and into the stomach, coupled with the scorching desert climate all around, oh!
Not to mention how cool it is...
This is a delicacy that you can’t taste on a sea ship~
Just as Xue Hua was immersed in the slightly tipsy feeling brought by the wine, Abathur's voice suddenly rang out in the main hive mind.
"The experimental analysis of Experimental Subject No. 2 (Giant) has been completed. Do you need to check the report?"
"Oh? Well, let's take a look..." Xue Hua immediately cut off the sensory connection with the incarnation of will, stood up from the hammock, and began to browse the experimental report sent by the evolution master.
He was quite interested in the giant that the Amazons called "the Attendant of the Storm Goddess", especially the green blood in its body that seemed to have self-awareness.
Abathur's report detailed the giant's biological composition and genetic sequence arrangement.
Xue Hua skimmed through the genetic data, which was like a heavenly book, and directly found the conclusion of Abathur's experiment.
The experimental conclusion of the evolution master revealed the true face of the giant - the body tissues of this giant, except for the blood, were very ordinary, and it was just some kind of giant ordinary sea beast.
The reason why it has become so close to human size is entirely because of the distortion of the green blood.
To be precise, those unusual green blood are actually the giant's body and the source of all its power.
Its body is just a shell transformed from the abyssal beast.
Abathur mentioned in the report that the essence of this green blood accumulated in the giant's body is actually a collection of very tiny microbial bacteria. The largest single size of this bacteria is no larger than a blood cell, and
When separated from the group individually, their self-awareness is very weak, and they may even be completely unable to move.
However, when such bacteria gather together in large numbers, they activate a special chemical secretion system. This chemical secretion system allows the bacteria to gather independent will together and form a group with considerable autonomy.
consciousness.
This form of consciousness is somewhat like that of ants, but the connection between them is closer than that of an ant colony.
But when a small part of the bacterial community is separated from the larger group (the total number of bacteria contained in the community must be more than 100,000), this part of the bacterial community will begin to multiply rapidly and try its best to move closer to the larger nearby overall bacterial community.
It is worth noting that once these bacteria are gathered together to form a whole, they will have many advantages and characteristics that only rudimentary intelligent organisms have, but at the same time, they will also add many shortcomings.
For example, these bacteria must attach to a certain fixed form of animal-like organisms to maintain their swarm as a whole. However, after they successfully attach to an animal, they will quickly replace the organism's original internal circulatory system and become the blood in their bodies.
Tissue fluid and even brain plasma.
Then, these bacteria will start to modify the shape of the host and make their shape closer to humans for unknown reasons.
At the same time, they will also proliferate in the host's body and release dozens of special chemicals to cause the host's body to grow crazily.
However, after the host size of these selected host bacteria increases to a certain level, there will be a proliferation barrier. The number of the entire population will be completely stable within a few days, and will neither increase nor decrease for no reason.
When the host's body is completely stabilized, these bacteria will begin to show another characteristic.
They will release hormones to transform the host, so that the host has some kind of specialized psychic energy reserve power. This psychic energy can only affect energy in the form of water and lightning, and cannot be transformed out of thin air like normal psychic energy.
into other energies.
The host can only use this psychic energy to cause storms on the sea, and use the power of the storm and ocean to launch its own psychic attacks.
This is an indirect psychic connection mechanism. A unit that uses psychic energy through this mechanism has almost unlimited psychic energy reserves, but it is completely unable to perfect its own psychic skills and usage methods.
This is why Xue Hua felt that this giant had a large reserve of psychic energy during the battle, but the way he used it was very crude.
These bacteria cannot be eliminated while the host is still alive. Their ability to proliferate is very powerful and the vitality of individual individuals is extraordinary.
However, once the host dies completely, these bacteria must find the next qualified host within an hour, otherwise they will quickly die in large areas because they cannot adapt to the complex external environment.
At the same time, these bacteria are also very fragile when the entire community is completely exposed to the outside of the host. Any powerful psychic attack is enough to trigger a chain reaction of the entire colony, leading to the death of all bacteria in the entire host system.
Abathur is trying to activate and transform these bacteria. It hopes to improve the organizational structure of these bacteria, make up for their shortcomings, strengthen their advantages, and make them useful to the insect swarm.
If this experiment finally comes to fruition, then all units in the swarm will likely have a new internal circulation system, and even at the very least, Abathur will be able to create a new swarm unit.
