In Leviathan's evolution chamber, Xue Hua looked at a huge monster emerging from the holes in the ground, his face filled with wonder.
This is the "Void Diver", the evolved species of the Nydus Worm.
This thing still looks very much like a Nydus worm in appearance. The head with thick fixed spikes has a huge thick muscle cortex, and the cortex is inlaid with densely packed crushing saw teeth like sharp blades. The teeth of these teeth
The main function is to dig channels. Of course, if something accidentally falls in while it is operating...
Imagine the scene when a person falls into a metal grinder, it will definitely impress you...
But apart from the head, the Void Burrower and the Nydus Worm are completely different in other parts.
First of all, under the epithelial layer of the mouthparts of the Void Delver, there is an enhanced psychic nerve sense. This sense allows the Void Delver to further access the main hive mind so that it can understand the high-ranking commander or master of the swarm.
The specific location where it breaks out of the ground - this is also an important reason why the Void Burrower can drill directly from the ordinary surface without the chemical positioning of the carpet. Its accuracy has reached the meter level, and it will basically not deviate from the designated target.
The location is too far.
Second, around the fixed spikes on the Void Digger's head, there is a full circle of wrinkled cheek pouches. This cheek pouch can carry a large number of fungal carpet spores, and the Void Digger can also shrink the cheek pouches.
The carpet spores are emitted from the cheek pouches.
In this way, it can quickly expand a huge territory for the Nydus Worms that arrive later, and at the same time, the Zerg Vanguard Legion transported through it can directly fight and work on the carpet.
The third difference is that behind the Void Delver's head, a complex neuroma node has evolved that the Nydus Worm does not have.
This neuroma node is very large and flat as a whole, like a "scarf" wrapped around the "neck" of the Void Digger.
A large amount of bright yellow subcutaneous nerve tissue is derived from the neuroma node. These nerve cords spread from the neuroma node to all parts of its body and extend to all surfaces of its body.
The function of these neuroma nodes and nerve cords is to allow void diggers to break through the limitations of space, using a large amount of biological energy accumulated in a short period of time to forcefully break through the physical barriers of space, thereby achieving the effect of drilling into short-distance wormholes.
Its body is strong enough to support the violent space tearing force in short-range space wormholes, allowing it to maintain the continued existence of the channel.
However, since there are a large number of hormones in this neuroma node that are enough to cause chemical information positioning disorders for ordinary tunnel worms, the number of void diggers in each tunnel worm network should not be too large to avoid the inability of ordinary tunnel worms.
An unexpected accident at work.
Moreover, the hatching cost of a Void Burrower is fifty times that of an ordinary Nydus Worm!
In other words, a resource reserve equivalent to 5,000 crystals and 10,000 gas is required to hatch one!
It is obviously unrealistic to replace the Nydus Worms on a large scale at this price. They can only be used as an extension of the ordinary Nydus Worms and as an elite creature to be used as the vanguard of the insect swarm.
After having a general understanding of the various characteristics of the Void Delver, Abathur's evolution campaign has come.
In this evolutionary battle, Xue Hua's side is still the insect swarm, and his opponent is still a group of demons whose combat power is comparable to that of the insect swarm units.
However, this time the demons did not occupy any fortress. They set up their strongholds on dozens of islands drifting on the magma sea.
Xue Hua's goal is to transcend the limitations of magma and eradicate those demonic strongholds one by one.
Due to certain restrictions, the insect swarm was unable to receive air support in this battle. Only a few surveillance king insects and node king insects helped them open maps and monitor the movements of the demon stronghold outside the atmosphere.
So everything can only rely on the army troops of the insect swarm.
Xue Hua first immediately found projectors inside the insect swarm. This type of unit is also good at transporting insect troops through impenetrable terrain obstacles.
Although he knew that the main purpose of this evolutionary mission was to test the Void Burrower, for some reason, just like playing games in his previous life, Xue Hua always wanted to see if there was anything in Abathur's campaign settings that could be used.
Fun bug to exploit...
Unfortunately, Abathur, the master of insect swarm evolution, obviously has a higher IQ than Xue Hua, so of course he failed to find the projector.
Xue Hua, who had no bugs in the gameplay, had no choice but to follow the rules set by Abathur. He searched around the island where the insect swarm troops were located, and sure enough he found the Nydus Worm Control Center placed on the other side of the island.
——This is the biological structure called the "Insect Network" in the game.
After finding this thing, things became very simple. Xue Hua easily used the main hive mind to take control of this "wild control hub" (sweat! Are there such things as tunnel worms in the wild?), and then as expected,
Two void diggers were found inside.
Using these two void diggers, Xue Hua dispatched insect mothers to easily pull out the demon strongholds scattered on the lava islands all over the map one by one.
When the springtails knocked the last "Evil Lord" to the ground, Xue Hua's perspective returned to the evolution chamber.
Abathur was waiting for him in front of him.
"The Void Digger has excellent performance and can be finalized and send genetic changes to various insect nests..."
The swollen vesicles on the body of the Zerg Evolution Master flashed with light, and all the Zerg nests immediately received information about the evolution of the Void Digger.
After it finished this, Xue Hua said to it: "Tell me about your fifth report next. Is that new type of biological warship roughly finalized?"
"The new hull design, inspired by the Xel'Naga flagship, is capable of capturing smaller individual ships, destroying them, occupying them, kidnapping them, and has multiple uses.
Its core essence is hard-won, and most of the first planet specimens used as experimental samples have perished. If more samples can be obtained, the design progress will be accelerated."
"Getting new samples? Doesn't that mean we have to send people to die near that damn planet again?
Who knows if Xel'Naga is monitoring that place, is this risk worth taking?"
Xue Hua frowned and questioned.
"The new biological battleship has reduced many unnecessary evolutionary configurations for non-flagship-level battleships. Its price is lower than that of flagship-level battleships. It can be hatched and produced with the current resource reserves of the insect swarm, without waiting for Zuzade's planetary activation plan.
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In addition, this type of biological mothership can be deployed in the first fleet as the quasi-flagship of the current insect swarm fleet. It has a large crew space inside, can carry a certain number of insect swarm troops, and can even be equipped with a separate small insect nest.
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The commander of the swarm fleet, Stukov, can use it as a replacement flagship for the fleet. Even if Leviathan is successfully hatched in the future, this type of biological mothership will not withdraw from the strategic preparations of the swarm."
Abathur's explanation is well-founded and convincing.
Anyway, Xue Hua has been persuaded by it.
The most embarrassing thing about the swarm fleet now is that it already has a large fleet, but as the commander, Stukov still stays in the belly of the king worm to command the battle...
If this spreads out, the master Xue Hua will be embarrassed... (To be continued)
