Chapter 281 New Soldiers and New Partners
Even with so many Zerg puppies around the 996th city of the alien race, they still do not have the ability to launch an attack on a city guarded by a strong army like the alien army.
Wu Qing tested it in other directions of the 996th city of the alien race. Hundreds of thousands of Zerg puppies launched an attack, but they were basically wiped out before they rushed to the enemy.
This is the same as the army of other races attacking the Zerg army. With a powerful long-range attack unit in place, the pure melee unit can't attack at all.
The alien army is an army with powerful long-range attack units.
"There are no cheap troops like the puppy. Troops with long-range attacks and air defense consume a lot of resources."
"The gene sample of the poisonous ray scorpion that the Zerg just obtained has been combined with the genes of the Zerg to develop several solutions. The resources consumed are basically not much different from the Zerg Hydralisk."
"If you want to continue to reduce consumption, you can only weaken their abilities. I will immediately come up with a plan to weaken their abilities from high to low."
The Queen of Zerg understood Wu Qing's thoughts very well. As soon as Wu Qing made a request, it immediately came up with a plan. They basically thought of the same thing.
The various Zerg troops that are finalized or under development with Zerg technology have more factors to consider, and the consumption of each troop is not low. Except for the special case of the Zerg puppy, there is no particularly cheap and easy-to-use troop.
The poisonous ray scorpion, whose gene sample the Zerg has just obtained, is an insect creature that has evolved very close to the Zerg in this world, and its abilities are more in line with Wu Qing's requirements.
Therefore, after cracking the control gene of the poisonous ray scorpion, the Queen of Zerg continued to study the plan to integrate the poisonous ray scorpion into the Zerg.
Based on the genes of the Zerg protozoan, the various abilities of the poisonous ray scorpion can be integrated to obtain a Zerg unit with very good abilities.
However, after careful consideration of various integration plans, they all feel a bit useless.
If the long-range attack ability of the new unit is strengthened, its positioning will be similar to that of the Zerg Hydralisk, and it consumes a lot. It is not very useful for the Zerg to add another such unit.
If its melee and long-range abilities are strengthened at the same time, more resources will be consumed.
If it is placed in the main combat unit of the Zerg as a powerful unit and cooperates with other units, their melee abilities will hardly be used.
Let it perform tasks alone, and it cannot form a numerical advantage like the Zerg puppy. Sending it out is also a drop in the bucket and is not useful at all.
If the resource consumption is further reduced, its ability will become very weak.
Therefore, the Queen of Zerg thoughtfully gave a series of plans with continuously weakened abilities and continuously reduced consumption.
The decision on important matters must be made by Wu Qing. When the Queen of Zerg took out this plan, Wu Qing looked at it seriously.
On the battlefield, the Zerg are using Zerg Zerglings to consume the alien human army. There is not much technical content, and the Queen of Zerg can just watch.
After reading the plan for the new soldiers given by the Queen of Zerg, Wu Qing felt that this idea was very good. A soldier can obtain different abilities by consuming different resources, just like consuming different resources to obtain different star strengths.
If designed in this way, the new soldiers of the Zerg will have an additional ability variable in addition to the variable of strength.
The ability and strength of the new soldiers can be selected as needed.
Of course, it is meaningless to design too many ability variables. Wu Qing chose three constants and finalized three branch soldiers in the new soldiers.
The strongest one is the branch soldier with all-round ability, which strengthens its long-range attack ability and melee ability at the same time.
Consuming 75 energy and 35 gas resources can obtain a soldier that is stronger than the Zerg Hydralisk and all-round in long-range and melee.
In the middle is the branch soldier that strengthens the long-range attack ability alone, which can be used as a substitute for the Zerg Hydralisk to strengthen the long-range attack and air defense capabilities.
This branch of soldiers needs to consume 50 energy and 20 gas resources, which is lower than the consumption of Zerg Hydralisks.
The last branch of soldiers is the partner of Zerg Zerglings that Wu Qing urgently needs. It is a design with the least resource consumption.
Only 25 energy and 5 gas resources are needed to obtain a soldier with only the ability of Toxic Ray Scorpion and Toxic Ray.
This is a soldier with the basic ability of Zerg, fast action speed, and the ability to launch Toxic Rays. The other abilities of Toxic Ray Scorpion and Zerg are abandoned.
Because there are 25 energy points as a base, the basic quality of the Zerg is still good. The action speed, defense, and self-healing recovery ability are comparable to those of Zerg Zerg Zerglings, and it has the ability to burrow and lurk.
The melee ability is only at the level of Zerg's instinctive self-protection. It has lost the powerful melee characteristics of Toxic Ray Scorpion and only retains the long-range attack ability of Toxic Ray with the same range as Zerg Hydralisks.
This branch of soldiers only needs to consume 5 gas resources, which is the ultimate that Zerg can do at this stage.
These three branch soldiers look exactly the same and belong to the same army.
Their appearance is almost the same as that of the poisonous ray scorpion in this world, but they have been slightly changed according to the characteristics of the Zerg, and it is difficult for the outside world to tell the difference between them.
After the plan was determined, Wu Qing immediately handed it over to the Queen of Zerg for execution.
In the newly built poisonous ray scorpion research building in the Zerg territory, the Queen of Zerg locked the gene template of three branches of one soldier, and this new soldier officially joined the sequence of Zerg soldiers.
The name of the new soldier is Zerg poisonous ray scorpion, and the three branches are called type one, type two and type three in order of strength.
For the time being, Wu Qing only needs the Type 3 Zerg Toxic Ray Scorpion branch, and the other two branches are only for backup.
At this time, all the larvae in the Zerg First Branch Base under the 66th City can choose to hatch the Type 3 Zerg Toxic Ray Scorpion.
Wu Qing stopped the hatching of the Zerg puppies, consumed tens of millions of gas resources, and chose to hatch two million Type 3 Zerg Toxic Ray Scorpions.
Groups of Type 3 Zerg Toxic Ray Scorpions that look exactly like the Toxic Ray Scorpions on the Naga Desert Battlefield hatched.
As soon as they hatched, they rushed to the battlefield outside the 996th City of the Tianwai Human Race, with a speed comparable to that of the Zerg puppies.
With the speed of the Zerg First Branch Base, two million Type 3 Zerg Toxic Ray Scorpions were quickly hatched.
Wu Qing possessed a Type 3 Zerg Toxic Ray Scorpion and actually tested its ability and strength. Except for its excellent long-range attack ability, there was nothing particularly outstanding in other aspects.
The new Zerg troops also enjoy the overall strength improvement brought by the upgrade of the Zerg hive. The actual combat power of the three-type Zerg poisonous ray scorpion is equivalent to that of ordinary one-star troops.
It shows that the power of the poisonous ray is equivalent to that of the one-star poisonous ray scorpion in this world, and the sustained attack capability and firing rate have been greatly improved.
The long-range attack capability of the three-type Zerg poisonous ray scorpion is much stronger than that of the poisonous ray scorpion in this world, but its capabilities in other aspects such as close combat and underground stealth are much weaker.
This is a mediocre Zerg with enhanced long-range attack capabilities. The biggest advantage is that the resources consumed are relatively few.
Before these two million three-type Zerg poisonous ray scorpions arrived at the battlefield, a large number of Zerg explosive mosquitoes and a thousand three-star Zerg queens had already joined the Zerg air mobile forces.
Under the command of the queen, a thousand three-star Zerg queens used spawning attacks on the alien mages who were attacking the Zerg puppies.
After using the spawning ability, the thousand three-star Zerg queens immediately consumed a lot of resources and upgraded to four stars.
A thousand alien mages were attacked by the Zerg Queen's egg-laying attack, lost their combat capability, and fell into a struggle with the self-destructing parasites in their bodies.
Among them, the alien mages below the five-star level will be killed quickly, and those who can survive are all five-star or above.
After a thousand three-star Zerg Queens are upgraded to four-star, another thousand alien mages will be lost.
Wu Qing returned to the battlefield, and a thousand Zerg Queens upgraded to four stars had killed another thousand alien mages.
The number of alien mages has been reduced to more than 6,000.
Whether the one thousand four-star Zerg Queens should be upgraded to five stars must be decided by Wu Qing, which will consume a huge amount of resources.
The system's resources have been increasing and decreasing. Several battlefields and other sources of resources have gained a lot, but compared with resource consumption, there is still a gap.
Wu Qing had to invest a huge amount of resources in one decision. If there was no support from the family assets left, today's resource income would not be enough for today's consumption.
Wu Qing thought of the important role that the Zerg Queen would play, gritted his teeth, and chose to upgrade a thousand four-star Zerg Queens to five-star.
The one thousand newly upgraded five-star Zerg Queens did not hold back their spawning attacks, and directly randomly eliminated a thousand powerful mages of the alien race.
More than half of the tens of thousands of powerful mages of the alien race have been lost.
The spawning ability of the first five hundred five-star Zerg Queens who attacked was almost restored.
The spawning ability of the second batch of five hundred five-star Zerg Queens who attacked would also be restored after a period of time.
As time goes by, the powerful mages of the alien race will eventually fall under the spawning attack of the Zerg Queen.
On the front battlefield, the alien army that rushed out of the city was completely annihilated and disappeared in the coordinated attack of Zerg Destroyers, Zerg Zerg Zerg Spiders and Zerg Cockroaches.
All Zerg Zerg Zergs within the attack range of the alien city Jiujiuliu were withdrawn to safe areas, or burrowed underground to recover.
The main battle position of the Zerg main battle force also began to move from the area with the ground fissure abyss.