Chapter 157 Qualitative Change in Zerg Strength

Three of the four newly unlocked Zerg units fly in the air, and the last one is not a ground combat unit, but a unit that sneaks into the ground to fight.

It is the Stealth Spider, a unit evolved from the Hydralisk.

Wu Qing selected the Hydralisk Nest building, which has an upgrade option to evolve into a Stealth Spider. Select the upgrade, consume resources, and after the upgrade is completed, select another Hydralisk, it will have an additional ability to evolve into a Stealth Spider.

Wu Qing hatched a Hydralisk nearby and chose to evolve it into a Stealth Spider.

After the resources are consumed, the Hydralisk turns into a pupa on the spot, and keeps wriggling and growing, and finally turns into a giant pupa, and a huge spider-shaped Zerg crawls out.

This is the Stealth Spider, it crawls on the ground, occupying a piece of land with a diameter of nearly eight meters!

In the real world, its attack ability on the ground is not strong. When it burrows into the ground and lurks, attacking through unique ground spikes, it becomes a movable Zerg defense building to defend against ground spikes.

The attack power of the stealth spider in the underground state is not much weaker than the defensive ground spike.

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Wu Qing looked at the four new soldiers he was most concerned about and tested their various abilities.

In this way, he had the most intuitive understanding of the abilities of the four new soldiers, and he would be more comfortable using them in the future.

After seeing what he wanted to see, the next step was to upgrade the mother nest to three stars and evolve it to the beast cave form. All the upgrade options that were unlocked were upgraded.

The attack and defense capabilities of the ground forces, the attack and defense capabilities of the air forces, and the upgrade options in the exclusive buildings of each branch, as long as they could be upgraded, Wu Qing chose to upgrade them all.

This is the fastest way to improve the overall strength of the Zerg. The resources required for the upgrade are not much, but it brings about the improvement of the capabilities of all Zerg soldiers. It is really cost-effective!

This kind of improvement is the improvement of the sub-items of the Zerg after the Zerg meets the overall upgrade conditions. With these improvements, the combat power of ordinary Zerg puppies is much stronger than before!

The various abilities of the host and the queen have also been unlocked, and they can perform various tasks in full state!

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The development of the Zerg has entered a new stage ahead of schedule, which was not originally in Wu Qing's plan. Many previous development plans need to be adjusted.

First of all, in terms of Zerg buildings, Wu Qing first upgraded the evolution chamber, hatching pool, hydralisk nest, air force tower and queen nest to three stars, and upgraded all the upgrade options unlocked after the upgrade to continue to improve the strength of the Zerg ground and air forces.

For the Zerg mother nest, only one mother nest in the form of a beast cave is enough for the time being. Other mother nests will not be upgraded or evolved, and will be adjusted later according to actual needs.

For the Zerg defensive buildings, choose one each of the defensive spikes and air defense towers to upgrade, and test the improvement of the attack ability, attack distance and defense ability of the two-star and three-star defensive buildings step by step.

With detailed data, some defensive buildings will be upgraded according to defense needs.

Next is the upgrade test of the arms. Wu Qing upgraded the Zerg Worker Bee, Overlord, Zergling, Hydralisks, Mutalisks, Exploding Mosquitoes and Stealth Spiders respectively, and recorded in detail the resource consumption, strength improvement and body shape changes required for their upgrades to two stars and three stars.

The results are not much different from the rules summarized before. The consumption required for each arm upgrade is one to three times higher than the previous one star.

The single combat power of the arms after the star upgrade can continuously deal with more than ten low-star arms, but when facing a group siege, it can only deal with five to ten low-star arms at the same time.

In terms of body size, the size of the arms has grown accordingly after the star upgrade, and the growth rate of different arms is different.

The Queen of Zerg recorded these changes one by one in the eucalyptus.

Whether the Zerg arms need to be upgraded to a higher star and how many to upgrade is a complex issue that needs to be decided after careful consideration according to the situation.

Finally, Wu Qing's Zerg clones, Zergs and Zerg horses have not been upgraded and tested. They need to wait until they return to the Zerg territory before upgrading and testing.

Now that the Zerg has unlocked more Zerg technology, Zergs and Zerg horses may be further optimized and improved to achieve the best state with the least consumption and stronger capabilities.

In terms of the number of Zerg standing troops, except for the Zerg puppy, the only combat unit that does not need to consume gas resources, which can be sent out without limit, other combat units need to consume precious gas resources, which requires careful calculation.

The number of Zerg Hydralisks had originally reached 25,000, and some were lost on the battlefield this time. Wu Qing plans to replenish their number to 25,000, including 2,000 one-star Hydralisks.

In terms of the number of new units, Wu Qing starts with the easiest units to decide.

The Queen consumes a lot of resources and is a special combat unit. The standing number does not need to be too large. When it is really needed, it can be hatched at any time.

Wu Qing is going to hatch three more, making a total of four queens, one in each direction, which can perform many tasks.

Stealth spiders can be kept in a certain number to follow the Zerg ground forces. Their strength is ground defense. When a major war is really needed to strengthen the Zerg army's ground defense, the hydralisks in the army can evolve into stealth spiders at any time.

Wu Qing is going to hatch 100 Hydralisks in the Zerg territory and evolve them into Stealth Spiders. The star level of Stealth Spiders can be upgraded at any time according to the needs of the battlefield.

These Stealth Spiders will go to the newly recovered city to strengthen the defense capabilities there.

Disposable Explosive Mosquitoes also consume a lot of gas resources. 100 are hatched and standby in the Zerg territory, and they will fly to where they are needed.

In the same way, as long as there is a need, these arms can be hatched quickly and replenished in time.

The arm that the Zerg really needs in large quantities now is the flying dragon. With the flying dragon, in the surrounding areas of the entire Zerg territory, the general scale of the war does not need other arms to be dispatched. The Zerg only needs to send out the flying dragon to solve it.

The flying dragon has an extremely fast flying speed and can quickly reach the battlefield. It is also an air-to-ground area killing attack. Enemies without strong anti-aircraft arms can only sit and wait for death.

So far, the Zerg has only been attacked by flying creatures sent by the weird on the first night of its arrival. Wu Qing has not seen flying arms in this world.

Mutalisks are much more convenient, flexible and effective than ground troops!

This is the natural main force of the Zerg, and the number must not be less!

Wu Qing calculated the available amount of system gas resources and decided to hatch 5,000 mutalisks first. If he wants to increase the number, he needs to see the speed of increase of system gas resources.

With Wu Qing's continuous layout in this world, even if he does nothing now, he will get a certain amount of gas resources every day.

Stable and continuous channels for obtaining gas resources are what Wu Qing has been working hard to manage. The more the Zerg develops, the more gas resources it will need.

Without gas resources, everything is empty!

Hydralisks, 5,000 mutalisks, 100 stealth spiders, 100 explosive mosquitoes, 4 queens, and hundreds of thousands of puppies whose number is constantly increasing. These are the standing forces of the Zerg at this stage!

Among them are 2,000 one-star hydralisks, 4 three-star queens, and three-star troops upgraded by Wu Qing during the test. There is one of each troop except the queen.

At the current speed of the Zerg's rapid growth, if the hatching of puppies is stopped, all the troops will be hatched in a few minutes!

At this moment, the overall strength of the Zerg has been qualitatively improved!

Five thousand flying dragons are flying over the ground bases and underground bases of the Zerg territory, covering the sky and the sun!

The Zerg's air forces cannot drill into the ground, so they need to find some places to settle.

Wu Qing plans to expand the Zerg's ground territory to the side and incorporate large areas of dense forests into the Zerg territory. These areas only need to build a small number of defensive buildings, and retain the original trees for the flying dragons and other Zerg air forces to live.

With the cover of dense forests, it is not easy to find the location of large-scale Zerg air forces from the air.

In the Zerg underground territory, if a war breaks out, flying dragons, explosive mosquitoes, queens and other air forces will also be useful. Wu Qing plans to let the worker bees open up some platforms on the cliffs within the territory for the air forces to live.

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After the Zerg standing forces were arranged, Wu Qing and the Queen began to optimize and upgrade all Zerg creations.

With the support of more powerful Zerg biotechnology, those Zerg creations that used to consume too much resources and whose functions were not perfect enough can be optimized and upgraded.

Wu Qing and the Queen took out the Zerg's biological colonization suits, identity cards, identity authentication spores and parasites one by one, and optimized and improved them according to the current level of Zerg biotechnology, trying to optimize them to the best state.

After the Queen optimized these Zerg creations, the relevant changes would be recorded in the creation gene library, and the next time these things were made, they would be optimized and perfected products.

Those products that have been made will be updated online through the Zerg network, and the optimization and update will be automatically completed with the energy of the binder.

This is the same principle as the upgrade options of Zerg buildings, and all upgrade-related Zerg units will change after the upgrade.

After all these things were done, Wu Qing and the Queen settled down to redesign the Zerg people and reduce the resource consumption of manufacturing Zerg people to an affordable level.

If the resource consumption is not reduced, not to mention the production of more Zergmen, it will take a lot of resources just to upgrade Wu Qing's Zerg clone and his ten Zerg guards.

Including the Zerg war horses they ride, they all need to be redesigned. With cheap Zerg war horses, the human soldiers of Daxia will not have to spend time and energy to tame wild horses as mounts.