One is to use pincers to collect various resources and return them to the hatchery to maintain the operation of the latter.
The other is to activate the nesting genes inside the body, mutate and grow into new insect structures.
Both uses are indispensable means of development for the insect swarm.
As a top player, Chen Hao is already familiar with the operation of the entire Zerg clan.
At this time, he boldly approached the hatchery and took a look. As expected, just like in the game, there were several larvae the size of adults, with a loaf-like shape, and no other organs except for a spiky mouth.
Squirming and crawling around the hatchery.
"Well, without interference, the hatchery can only store three larvae." Chen Hao looked at these larvae and murmured to himself.
"But with the splitting pool and the breeding of the Zerg Queen, using egg injection, a hatchery can store up to nineteen larvae."
He touched his chin and looked at the hatchery again, with an indescribable light in his eyes.
"In this way...as long as the resources can keep up, and when more advanced technological buildings are available, a large number of larvae can be converted into troops at any time to ensure the safety of me and the nest."
This is the most basic way to develop an initial swarm of insects. The zerg rely entirely on larvae to thrive.
However, there are currently no resources in the hatchery, and Chen Hao has nothing to feed these little creatures that are waiting to be fed.
So he decided to give the worker bees instructions to collect resources first to see if they could find the necessary development resources from the nearby environment.
After receiving the order, the happy worker bees immediately dispersed to look for materials to collect, and even their "coo" sounds became a bit louder.
Immediately afterwards, Chen Hao quietly watched their collection operations for a few minutes and found that the difference between the Zerg in reality and in the game was indeed huge.
In the game, various resources are deliberately placed according to the needs of the game.
Except for the resources that come with the game at the beginning, which are the most convenient and safe to mine, all large map resources need to be captured through war.
In the middle and late stages of the battle, it will be evaluated who has the greater troop advantage, and whoever has higher gathering qualifications and battlefield initiative.
As a Zerg gathering unit, worker bees use two special pliers to dig out the placed resources, no matter what their ingredients are.
Then, the resources are handed over and classified by the hatchery into "minerals" and "gas".
The former, crystal ore, is easy to obtain and is a fast-consuming resource for mass production of combat units.
The latter, high-energy gas, is relatively rare and is used to produce materials for some advanced military units. It is also necessary for upgrading war technology.
Generally speaking, the value of gas is much higher than that of minerals.
Of course, nothing is absolute. The earlier the development, the more prominent the role of minerals. After all, worker bees are the larvae that consume minerals and mutate.
More worker bees will speed up the acquisition of resources. This is a virtuous cycle operating model.
But now that Chen Hao is not in a game battle, he does not have such urgent needs for war, and his development ideas are more inclined to be steady and steady.
Therefore, although he has a considerable thirst for both resources, he is currently more inclined to obtain minerals.
It is the mission of the worker bees to satisfy the needs of the master.
The worker bees were digging around in the darkness in the mountains. Chen Hao had no night vision and had no way of knowing what they were doing among the rocks and bushes.
But this did not prevent him from understanding the strengths of the worker bees - these insects could see at night and discover many things in the dark that even he, the master, did not understand, and then relied on their unique sense organs to classify resources, break them down and refine them, and then collect them.
This is exactly the case.
Chen Hao couldn't see clearly how they worked, but the results turned out to be very good. He could only scratch his head and sigh, comforting himself with words such as "specialization in the art".
After ten minutes of observation, the worker bees went back and forth many times, each time returning some strange, shiny fruits to the hatchery, or various beautiful fruits that reflected various colors under the moonlight.
Crystals of light.
Although it is very different from the crystal mines in the game.
But Chen Hao does not deny the worker bees’ judgment on resources.
From his perspective, these things do seem to be valuable treasures.
Those colorful crystals were extremely dazzling under the moonlight. Although Chen Hao didn't know what ingredients were in them, if they were placed on the earth, each piece would be worth a lot of money, right?
As the worker bees repeatedly brought back these things that Chen Hao had never seen before, he became more and more certain that he was probably quite far away from the earth now...
"Anyway, I hope I'm okay this time." Although his heart gradually sank to the bottom, Chen Hao, who looked worried, still pursed his lips and clasped his hands together to pray for his future.
In any case, he didn't want to die in a foreign country.
The only thing that gave him some comfort was his identity as the master of the swarm. The zerg controlled the infinite development possibilities, at least a solid trump card, which was a consolation prize for him.
Chen Hao felt more urgent.
"It seems that resources have been collected to a certain extent."
Because it is completely different from game operations, and there is no digital visual information as a reminder, Chen Hao can only make some vague judgments about the amount of resources collected in the hatchery.
But this is not an urgent matter, and you can decide the next step by trying it.
"You, stop." Feeling that it was almost done, Chen Hao asked a worker bee that had just returned the resources to stop working.
This insect, which was several times larger than him, immediately landed from mid-air, closed the gravity levitation air bag in its abdomen, crawled on the ground, closed its eyes at Chen Hao's feet and began to rub his trouser legs, completely looking like it wanted everything it wanted.
Although the appearance of worker bees is still difficult to adapt to, this obedient attitude, which is similar to that of pets, has greatly reduced Chen Hao's fear of them.
He gradually began to like his identity as a master.
"I order you to start mutating the split pool." Chen Hao dragged his chin with his right hand, pointed at a sticky gray ground beside him, and ordered the worker bees.
After Chen Hao understood everything about these smelly and disgusting things spread on the ground, he naturally knew what they were - carpets, auxiliary organisms that maintain the basic survival of the entire insect swarm and can improve the combat capabilities of the zerg.
Ever since the zerg race became active in the universe, they have nurtured this unique symbiotic fungus.
Each hatchery will carry a carpet of bacteria to ensure its own survival, and later it has completely evolved into a magical symbiosis.
The evolved Overlord has gained the ability to release creep, and the Zerg Queen can also reproduce the creep by producing unique tumors.
In short, creep is something that is absolutely difficult for Zerg to give up.
For worker bees to mutate into zerg structures, their own genetic energy alone is not enough.
They can only start their new life on the carpet.
The worker bee received the order, and although she was a little reluctant to leave, she quietly opened her small eyes and looked at her master.
Immediately, it screamed, crawled over according to the order, and began to press its body completely against the carpet, motionless.
After a while, its body organs dissolved like an overheated candle, began to reorganize, and evolved into a "cocoon"-like thing protected by a transparent and hard flesh membrane and filled with fluid inside.
Through the flesh membrane, one can clearly see a protozoan insect swimming rapidly in the fluid - that is the life essence of the worker bee.
As long as this essence matures again, this worker bee will no longer be a worker bee.
It will follow Chen Hao's order and mutate into the first troop-producing structure of the Zerg: the Split Pool.
And this step is also the first step for the Zerg to show its fangs and start its own expansion path!
"Although it's very sci-fi and very scary, I have to say that this feeling is simply more enjoyable than conquering the earth!" Chen Hao swallowed and couldn't help but cheer himself up.
This experience of controlling a group of alien lifeforms is very exciting, but when I think of myself as dancing with wolves, it would be a lie to say that I am not afraid.
However, it was no longer possible to give up ruling the swarm, and he could only comfort himself in this way.
After a while, the original zerg cocoons mutated by the worker bees grew larger and larger.
After absorbing the energy provided by the hatchery essence and the carpet, the entire fluid-filled cocoon became very large, not much smaller than a large bus.
At a certain moment, the insect cocoon burst open with a bang, and the fully mature zerg new life form inside was revealed in front of Chen Hao:
This is an elliptical hemisphere, filled with a huge fleshy pool full of bright green zerg tissue fluid. The liquid is now very active, as if it is about to give birth to something. And on the edge of this big fleshy pool, there are countless ferocious barbs.
, highlighting the Zerg's always violent, manic, dark and terrifying racial personality.
The fluid in the meat pond is the source for cultivating springtails.
It can continuously recombine the springtail genes by using the nutrients provided by the hatchery, deliver them to the larvae, allow these little things to emerge, and finally hatch out ferocious springtails from the eggs.
Now that we have come this far, Chen Hao will certainly not stop.
He immediately ordered the hatchery to start the first round of hatching work for this big guy.
The huge and disgusting dark red meat ball indeed obeyed Chen Hao's order and did so exactly.
Just after Chen Hao's order was issued.
Some fermented fluid resources flowed down from the hatchery, and it was clearly visible mixed with the green water provided by the splitting pool, which was filled with springtail genetic sequences.
And the three silly larvae immediately sensed it and began to open their mouths and suck these nutrients crazily...
It didn't take a while for the three little things to swallow the liquid completely. Their bodies soon stopped moving, and then began to harden and feather.
In another ten seconds, three shiny cocoons were placed below the hatchery.
They were beating like hearts, and Chen Hao, as the master, could clearly taste the sprouting of new insect life among them.
And as time goes by, their vitality becomes more and more obvious and powerful.
(Springtails, springtails are about to be born.)
Chen Hao gradually slowed down his breathing.
At the moment when he was waiting with bated breath for the insect eggs to burst, in the sky, the king insect that had gone out before reappeared and returned.