Chapter 411 Mutations in the Bug Lair

The analysis data of the "swarm host" sample provided by Emma recorded 4 main functional components.

One, the incubator, the huge mushroom-like structure on the back of the swarm host is a hatchery for millions of parasitic larvae living in its blood vessels, which are used to become super weapons. Through a simple membrane system for material exchange, glands in the host inject hormones into the larvae to accelerate their growth, and finally quickly hatch these deadly, limited-living locusts from the incubator vesicles, Destroy the swarm's enemies.

Second, digging feet. The powerful muscles of the swarm host's feet can make it vibrate at supersonic speed, which is consistent with the principle of the tunnel worm's teeth. Even so, the digging speed of the swarm host is still not fast enough to adapt to the changing battlefield environment. To improve this problem, a set of fragile but rapidly regenerating capillaries was added to the host. Now, when a swarm host digs, these capillaries burst, softening the soil with acidic blood, allowing it to burrow in seconds.

Third, the bone stabilization organ. When the swarm host is ready to attack, a set of elastic skeleton structures composed of different thicknesses will fix the host. Like the bracket of the human siege tank, this special skeleton system allows the swarm host to maintain stability and balance when spraying locusts or being attacked.

Four, blood symbiosis, where millions of parasitic larvae swim within the acidic blood vessels of the swarm host, where they feed on damaged tissue, healing the damage and destroying any foreign matter that invades the host. When the host is threatened or joins the fight, a clever chemical reaction tells the larvae to head to the incubator, where they evolve into super weapons.

The swarm host is a master of defense and counterattack. The famous "spring ditch" tactic in the battle is a consumption tactic constructed with the swarm host as the core and supplemented by other combat units.

The little bugs it hatches not only do not consume resources. And the attack power is strong, the only disadvantage is that the duration is short, and it will die within a certain period of time after leaving the mother's body. but. The duration of locusts can be increased by upgrading "durable locusts" in the Infested Abyss.

in battle. The fighting method of the swarm host is generally defense-stalemate-consumption-combined with the creep advance-suppression-general attack, because the supply of the swarm host is 3 people, which is higher than the air combat weapon such as the Corruptor, and it is a ground unit. From the overall situation Judging from it, it is a relatively tasteless combat unit.

But Tang Fang didn't think so, Abathur's unlocking process had already started, in the Heart of the Swarm battle. As the genetic engineer of the Zerg, it is committed to modulating and cultivating more powerful Zerg units. The swarm host is one of its research objects. In the later stages of the Battle of Worm Heart, one of the evolutionary branches hatched by the swarm host is the "flying locust". Status will naturally rise.

"Explosive mosquitoes, infected people, swarm hosts... There are air units, ground units, and support units. This battle is a bit tiring, and the danger is a bit dangerous. But the harvest is also rich. pole.

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Thinking of "Flying Locust", he inevitably thought of Abathur's unlocking progress. A worm queen was summoned from the system space, and ordered to collect the gene fragments of jellyfish-like parasitic organisms and inject them into the worm cave. Afterwards, Tang Fang pressed the page-turning button and found that Abathur's unlock value had changed to 11, an increase of 1 percentage from before.

"Is there any mistake, this big neck, thick neck, and many appendages are like Avalokitesvara, and the taste is so tricky? Is it easy for me to tm me? I was burnt out by the 'one-eyed Taisui', and I took everything from the bottom of the box I just came out and killed it. It's good, the unlocking progress only increases by 1%? Are you kidding me?"

He muttered angrily. Unwilling, he turned his mind to the phagosome gene: "Guys like Abathur should be very interested in phagosomes, right? After all, there is no such perverted thing in the world of StarCraft."

Due to consideration of the particularity of phagosomes. Before giving the order, Tang Fang consulted the queen queen about the possible consequences of doing so. For example, will it be parasitized by phagosomes? Another example is that after injecting the phagosome gene into the insect cave, will it have a negative impact on the Zerg base?

The queen's reply is "no". For itself, the immune cells in the body, combined with mitotic enzymes, will have a strong exclusive effect on the phagosome gene, making it unable to parasitize.

As for the insect nest, as the hatching place of the insect swarm, its viability, adaptability, and immunity are stronger. After the phagosome gene is injected, the gene chain will be broken up by a special decomposing enzyme, and the most basic nucleotide Decompose it into simple compounds, then record its arrangement and compound formula, and store them in the gene pool of the Zerg Spirit Network.

After receiving such a reply, Tang Fang nodded and gave the "collection" command to the queen.

After about a few breaths, after obtaining the phagosome tissue cells, the queen was taken back to the system space by Tang Fang, and injected the phagosome tissue cells into the decomposition pool of the worm cave as promised.

Tang Fang pressed the hotkey again, and the production menu on the right side of the wormhole changed, Abathur's unlocking progress bar changed from 11% to 31%, evil eye 4%, giant snake 6%, and the phagocytic gene suddenly increased 20% off!

"Sure enough!" Tang Fang nodded with satisfaction, quite contented.

But at this moment, the sudden change made his facial expression freeze. The creep that originally radiated the entire window quickly shrank inward, like the ebbing sea water, shrinking to the edge of the outermost building of the Zerg base in a blink of an eye.

At the same time, the 5 sharp blades gathered at the top of the wormhole stretched outwards, and the huge mouthparts sprayed out a large group of reddish-brown organic vesicles similar to creep, suspended above the zerg base, wriggling regularly like a heart .

The organic vesicle is like a Zerg building in the hatching state suspended in mid-air. Brown-gray veins are scattered on the skin of the vesicle. Below the vesicle, there is a thick pipe connected to the mouthparts on the top of the wormhole. If you look carefully , you can see the organic solution flowing inside.

"What... what's going on here?" Tang Fang was stunned, why did the creep shrink? What is this huge vesicle? Didn't the queen say that the phagosome gene would not have a negative impact on the Zerg base?

He quickly picked out the worm queen who had sworn to him just now that nothing would happen, and asked sharply what was on the worm hole, and why did the creep shrink? I don't know that the queen of insects asks three questions.

Tang Fang held back his anger and went to look for Emma, ​​but the adjutant couldn't figure it out, and couldn't explain why, but just told him to rest assured. The system is functioning normally and there have been no malfunctions.

After hearing these words, he lost his mind for a moment. After waiting in fear for 3 to 5 minutes, no other abnormalities appeared in the Zerg base. And the creeps spread out slowly, and everything was on track.

"Could this be a sign that the worm nest is about to upgrade to 3 main nests?" Tang Fang comforted himself like this. He clicked on the larva and pressed the hatching hotkey of the worker bee. After a few breaths, the worker bee broke out of its shell.

"Hatch unit is normal!"

Next, he selected the newly hatched worker bee, switched to the building menu, and pressed the hotkey of "mutate into spine crawler". The worker bees burrowed into the creep. When young, fresh spine crawlers "come out of the oven".

"The mutant building is normal!"

Finally, he moved the cursor to the Abyss of Infection, and clicked on the three upgrade items of "evolving pathogenic glands", "evolving neuroparasites", and "evolving durable locusts" in turn.

The resource value dropped from 13360125, 245934 to 13355125, 240934. After the upgrade progress is completed, command a larva to mutate into an infected. Seeing a large bug with eight legs, walking wobbly, and leaving a lot of secretions, the size of a siege tank appeared in front of him, Tang Fang chose to take a look. "Neural Parasite" is shown as available.

"The upgrade plan is normal!"

"All the functions of the Zerg base are normal... This is strange, what is the vesicle above the worm hole? There can't be an extra strange object without any explanation for no reason, and the cursor cannot be selected."

"Tang Fang. Tang Fang... are you okay?" At this moment, Zhou Ai's voice came from the communicator.

"I'm fine." Tang Fang shook his head. Since he couldn't figure it out, he simply gave up thinking about it. There are many things he can't figure out about the StarCraft 2 system, as long as it doesn't affect his use.

What are the vesicles above the wormhole, the answer will always be found in the future, let's think about the aftermath now.

"Come in, there should be no danger." Tang Fang jumped out of the deep hole in the center of the hangar with a few vertical leaps. He raised his head and looked at Thor, whose external armor was riddled with holes, and looked like a mountain of scrap iron from a distance. Sighing lightly, put it into the system space. Hand over to new production for repair.

Outside, Byron, Aros and others saw him jumping out of the pit. There was nothing serious about his body. They all breathed a sigh of relief, walked out of the control room of the quarantine station, opened the safety door, and entered the hangar.

To them, Tang Fang is like the trunk of a towering tree, and the others are the green leaves and branches attached to them. If the trunk collapses, they will be reduced to a mess.

Veterans have advised him many times not to act recklessly. For a handsome man, the Chinese army can sit in the town, and his own sons and daughters will be brave in the front. However, when fighting against human forces, Tang Fang can also remotely control and rely on high-tech arms to win, but when facing the phagocytosis, he has to go out personally.

Fortunately, with the help of Thor this time, if the phagocytic body was bigger and more capable, I really don't know what the result would be?

When a few people came to Tang Fang, he was recovering Zealots, Stalkers, Viking fighters and other units damaged in the battle. Byron walked to a piece of inactive, shriveled and withered phagocytic flesh, punched it down, and scattered dust all over the ground with a "wow".

Tang Lin saw a nurse sister holding a sealed box in her hand and following her elder brother step by step, her expression changed: "Brother...are you injured?"

Tang Fang touched the right temple where the wound had already healed, leaving only a smear of blood, and said with a smile, "I'm fine, the live phagosome samples are sealed in the sealed box."

"Under such a powerful attack, it...is it still not dead?" The corners of Tang Lin's mouth twitched continuously.

They watched the scene of Thor's full firepower just now through the closed-circuit surveillance system of the quarantine station-hangar, especially the high-energy particle stream emitted by the Thor's Hammer particle accelerator with both arms of the big man, who suffered such a level of attack. I'm afraid the battleship will be evaporated, but I didn't expect "Tai Sui" to survive.

"Don't worry, even if it's not completely dead, it's already dying. It's like a candle in the wind." After Tang Fang put the last scrapped Goliath armed robot into the system space, he turned around and patted the sealed box in the nurse's mm hand. , explained with a smile.

"That's good." Thinking of the horror of the "one-eyed" Tai Sui, Tang Lin still has lingering fears.

"Commander, although the cargo ship carrying the phagosome has been destroyed, the transaction log recording system protected by layers should be fine. If you want to study the formation process of the 'phagosome', you may wish to obtain the data chip that records the flight log." While the two were talking. Emma's prompt came in his mind.

"Okay, I see." Screened back Emma. Tang Fang turned around and approached the wreckage of the cargo ship. After analyzing and comparing the structure of the ship, it took a quarter of an hour to finally dig out the scrapped "black box" from under a pile of rubble. He took out the data chip inside and handed it over to the nurse mm save.

After more than an hour, Ruskin and the others didn't know what the rush was like, so they thought about it for a while. He ordered Byron: "Contact Ruskin and tell him that the monster is dead, and the blockade of Area G can be lifted."

"Okay." Byron agreed, and walked quickly to the door.

At this time, Tang Fang suddenly realized that something was wrong with Zhou Ai, her little face was flushed, just like a big girl who had drunk 2 cups of Zhuyeqing and was overwhelmed by alcohol.

"Zhou Ai, what's wrong with you?"

"I...I'm fine." The girl straightened her messy hair, and gently wiped off the sweat that overflowed from her forehead: "Maybe I'm a little tired."

"Brother..." Tang Lin walked to him. State the fact that Zhou Ai was almost parasitized by follicles.

"Zhou Ai, let me have a look." Tang Fang strode up to the girl with a sullen face, and raised her arm. Press and hold the lock and snap it down, a piece of shoulder armor snapped open.

Then, he grabbed the military uniform and pulled it hard, with a "stab", a section of white and smooth jade lotus root appeared in front of his eyes.

Now he is not in the mood to admire Zhou Ai's delicate, well-proportioned arms without a trace of fat, and he is not in the mood to make jokes and take advantage of words.

After carefully inspecting the arm, there was a "chi" sound. The general uniform was torn apart a little, exposing most of the shoulder blades on the back.

No wounds. No ulcers were seen, and the girl's skin was intact. Thin and slippery, there is a hint of fragrance of body wash.

"It's okay." Tang Fang let out a long breath.

"How is it? Are you okay?" Aros also looked worried.

"fine."

"That's good."

Zhou Ai himself also breathed a sigh of relief, covered the exposed skin of his arms, and buckled the shoulder armor again: "I told you it's fine, but you still don't believe me." Because her little face was flushed, and she couldn't see any signs of shyness or embarrassment. Class expressions.

Of course, according to her previous tough style, Tang Fang didn't think she would be ashamed of such a trivial matter.

"Being on the safe side, it's better to go back to the Morning Star and let Valentine do a physical examination for you." After speaking, Tang Fang waved to Aros and Tang Lin: "Let's go back to the Morning Star first, to clean up the battlefield. Leave it to the folks at Venus Pharmaceutical."

The three nodded, without saying anything, followed him out of the hangar, just as Byron walked out of the control room of the quarantine area: "Ruskin has lifted the blockade of G area, and someone will come here to open the isolation gate soon."

"Okay." Tang Fang nodded, turned his head and glanced at the control room behind Byron, unconsciously thinking.

The one who survived the battle was instructed to quickly walk into the control room and completely destroy the data host.

At the beginning of the war, Tang Fang only cut off the monitoring network between Area G and the outside world. Considering the existence of Zhou Ai, Aros and others, he did not destroy the electronic equipment in the control room of the quarantine area. The battle was over, and Ruskin's men were about to enter the hangar to clean up the battlefield. He didn't want to expose his secrets to outsiders.

Appropriately expressing one's ability is helpful for strategic planning, but the details do not need to be known to others. Only by maintaining a certain sense of mystery can the people in "Venus" Pharmaceutical be in awe.

"Crack... creak..." Not long after the data host was destroyed, the sound of the gate opening came from the other end of the connection channel in the quarantine area.

Tang Fang glanced at Zhou Ai who was still flushing beside him, frowned slightly, and walked out quickly.

Although no wounds were found on Zhou Ai's body, her mind and performance were normal, but for some reason, there was always a strange feeling in her heart, which was neither good nor bad, and it was very different from usual anyway.

When several people walked through the connecting passage together, the isolation gate had been raised, and the security door opened. Stephen Sue was the first to rush into Area G. Seeing that everything was as usual by Byron, he breathed a sigh of relief and felt relieved.

Ruskin followed closely behind with a few soldiers wearing "Lancer" power armor. When they met, they saw the blood on Tang Fang's forehead and asked worriedly, "Are you all right?"

"A little injury, it doesn't matter." Tang Fang responded with a smile.

"What about the big guy? Is it... is it really dead?" Ruskin still had doubts even though he knew that Byron could not joke with him about this kind of thing. Even the big railgun in the center of the hangar couldn't kill it, so how many people in Tang Fang could kill it?

Tang Fang didn't answer directly, and dropped a sentence: "Sorry, I ruined one of your hangars." After finishing speaking, he walked towards the exit with Zhou Ai, Aros, and Tang Lin.

Ruskin didn't get a satisfactory answer from him, so he turned his head to look at Byron, only to see the one-eyed dragon raised one corner of his mouth, smiled at him a few times, said "haha", and said: "Don't look at me, what am I? I don’t even know.” Then they chased after Tang Fang and the three of them, leaving him and Stephen Su to look at me and I look at you, speechless. (to be continued)