Chapter 897: Mother Worm
Obviously, the thing that Shacht researched to deal with spirit insects was the kind of murderous and domineering "corpse eater" outside!
According to Schacht, the bug was originally just a carnivorous insect from the outside world, and although it is rare, it is not very special. After being brought into this Yingzhou space, Shaht genetically modified this corpse-eating insect according to the characteristics of the spirit insect, thus forming the current terrifying state.
You must know that the biggest characteristic of spirit insects is actually that they have independent consciousness, which is actually a special manifestation of telekinesis. On the other hand, corpse eaters are like zombies among insects, and they don't care about anything like telekinesis.
It's like the wind blowing here, isn't it equivalent to a telekinetic impact? It kills all living things in space on the surface or above the water, but not the corpse eaters, because the corpse eaters are completely immune to this kind of thing. Judging from this feature, it is really a bit of a-for-tat with spirit insects.
Shacht recorded in his notebook that the insect had developed a noticeable restraint from the spirit worms he had cultivated. Whenever this corpse eater and the spirit insect face each other, the spirit insect will tremble and fear, as if the upper and lower levels of the food chain are in harmony.
But Schacht also said that the so-called restraint is also mutual. If the level of the spirit worm is high, and the corpse eater is in its infancy, then the spirit worm will restrain the corpse eater.
For example, if the spirit worm and the corpse eater are divided into the levels of the worm soldier, the worm general, the worm king and the worm emperor, then the corpse worm king can restrain the spirit insect general, and the spirit insect insect king can also restrain the corpse eater's insect general, and so on. At the same level, the ghouls seem to have some advantage.
In fact, this is like a lion and a tiger, the strength of the two races is roughly the same, whoever is big will be more powerful. The little lion is afraid of the big tiger, and the little tiger is also afraid of the big lion.
To be able to study to this extent is already quite unheavenly!
You must know that spirit insects are very terrifying in the outside world, how can there be any natural enemies? Now it is not easy to find the opponent of this kind of guy.
However, this thing can only be specifically aimed at the spirit worm itself, and if the spirit worm has already controlled humans or the dark species, then it will still be difficult for a corpse eater to deal with it. Although it will make the spirit worm instinctively afraid, it will still use the host's strong strength to kill the corpse eater.
As for how to control the corpse eater, Shacht has studied a way, that is, to make the human and the head of the corpse eater have a "blood alliance", that is, using the blood of the human host, with a special medicine made by him, can control the head of the corpse eater, the mother worm!
Once the mother worm is controlled, all the other corpse-eating insects will also bow down, because they are all eggs laid by the mother worm, that is, the sons of the mother worm!
Good guy, the fertility is really perverted, you must know that there are more than 10,000 insects chasing Chen Taiyuan just now, and these are all eggs laid by a mother worm!
Because Shacht said that he only bred one mother worm, because the existing resources could not breed a second one. This so-called resource is a mineral extractor that is a specialty of Yingzhou space. But the mineral was so hard to find that by the time Shacht died, he had only gotten a little more than a copy. And the extra bit only created three special potions, which were used to establish a blood alliance between humans and insect mothers.
Therefore, there is only one worm mother, and that kind of ordinary bug is infertile, so all the corpse eaters here are the sons of the worm mother.
But this also brings a problem - I am afraid that this insect mother will be unique in the world, because the mineral extracts required to make the insect mother are unique to the Yingzhou space, and this space is about to collapse......
As for the worm mother, it was the one observed in the report that was pressed under Shacht's corpse, as large as a bowl with it on its back. No wonder it's so big, it turns out that it's the old lady of all the bugs.
And the eggs are very small, it can reach thousands of eggs each time, each one is smaller than a grain of rice, densely packed in a clump. The eggs grow extremely fast, and with enough food, they can grow to half the size of a ping-pong ball in a week. This scale is also the normal adult state of ordinary corpse eaters, after all, they do not have the characteristics of insect mothers.
What's more, the egg-laying speed of the mother worm is also amazing. As long as you let it give birth, and give it enough food, it can lay eggs once a week! Thousands of eggs at a time, and after two months, it can really be described as "a house full of offspring...... The thought of this amount made Chen Taiyuan's scalp tingle.
He continued to look through his notebook and found that until Shacht's death, the mother had only laid eggs twice. This time, the births were all locked in glass covers, densely packed with more than 3,000 heads, all in the laboratory on the left.
The second time it was laid ovate, two thousand five or six hundred. However, the day after the spawning, Shacht was hit by a wind.
In other words, before Shacht's death, the mother worm had already given birth to more than 5,000 corpse-eating insects! As for the next two months, it was born once a week, with an average of nearly 3,000 at a time...... Damn, isn't there 30,000 corpse-eating insects in this Yingzhou space?!
It's no wonder that the corpses of all the people here disappear once they lie down, and it's no wonder that all the surface animals that originally existed here are gone, and their feelings have been eaten up by this group of crazy guys.
However, today, there are no corpses or living creatures in this Yingzhou space, and the number of eggs laid by the mother must also be reduced, right? Even if they are laid, due to the lack of enough food, the eggs cannot grow so quickly.
Therefore, Chen Taiyuan also suspected that the true number of corpse-eating insects in Yingzhou's space might not reach the theoretical limit of 30,000.
Originally, knowing this, Chen Taiyuan also understood the ins and outs of the spirit insects and the reasons for the emergence of corpse eating insects. But once it was considered that the corpse eater was the natural enemy of the spirit worm, Chen Taiyuan naturally couldn't ignore it easily!
He flipped through Shacht's notebook and found that Shacht had used a special potion that had injected his own blood into the mother's body, so the mother would obey his orders. It is precisely because of this that Shacht was not eaten even after he died, because the mother worm regarded him as the master, and naturally did not allow ordinary corpse eaters to eat him.
This has proven the effectiveness of this method of control - even if the owner dies, the worm mother will not be able to turn her back on the "blood alliance", what a strong control.
So Chen Taiyuan's eyes lit up - if he found the remaining two elixirs, he would find the worm mother...... Wouldn't I have an army of corpse-eating insects right away? Not only can I get rid of the trouble of corpse-eating insects, but I can even take them out and become an important "force" to restrain spirit insects!
In addition, although it is difficult to take out the things in the special space, the insect mother is different. Shacht said that the mother worm was originally a worm that came in from outside, but it had become more powerful in the Yingzhou space. As for the cubs under it, they should probably be regarded as alien creatures for the Yingzhou space, right? Could it be that there is also some kind of "landing account" here? The ghost knows, just go back and try it.
In short, the worm mother should be regarded as a great fortune, once he can get his hands on it, Chen Taiyuan will be developed!
After a while, Chen Taiyuan found the two special potions in the freezer in the next room. After all, there has been no movement here since Shacht's death, and the drugs and everything are laid out as before.
It's just that due to the collapse of the space, the two bottles have also become smaller, and the estimated amount of medicine is only equivalent to the original one. It doesn't matter anymore, I don't expect to use it a second time anyway.
And in this laboratory, Chen Taiyuan also saw a big bottle, but the lid had been opened. Chen Taiyuan could guess that at that time, Shacht thought that he could completely control the insect mother, so he only ordered it to hide in it, and did not control it firmly. And once Shacht died, this insect mother would become an ownerless monster, and could naturally wander everywhere.
Not only that, but the worm mother even released two batches of her own children, it must have done it! Chen Taiyuan saw that next to a large glass cabinet in the corner, the door was actually opened. The cabinet was for ordinary corpse eaters, and Shacht and the others were closed when they died, so who would have opened it?
And from this, Chen Taiyuan also realized that the insect mother should not be taken lightly! It is different from ordinary corpse eaters, because it already has a certain amount of wisdom. Even, it already has a certain emotion - it knows that it can save its own children, and it also knows that it is not allowed to devour its former owner.
"It seems that it may not be easy to find this guy. Chen Taiyuan thought for a moment and stuffed the two potions into his trouser pocket. "The biggest clue now is to find the previous batch of bugs and find the mother worm through them. ”
The mother of insects, equivalent to the queen ant in the ant colony and the queen bee in the colony, lives only to be pampered, and her duty is to have children. So the food it needs must need those ordinary corpse eaters to bring it back, right? In this case, it should be able to find the mother worm by following the route of the corpse eater, right?
Of course, this will be a more difficult process, you may not be able to find the swarm if you are far away, and you are afraid of being bitten by the swarm if you are close.
At this point, he held up Dr. Schacht's shrunken corpse and placed it in a large glassware covered with a curtain. In this environment, there is no need to bury it anymore, maybe it will not be long before the earth will disintegrate and ashes will be lost, and dust will return to dust.
After doing this, the rain outside also began to lighten. Taking out an umbrella that had become two circles smaller from the office, Chen Taiyuan stepped into the rain, and this time he actually began to take the initiative to find those bugs. Of course, we must pay attention to ways and means, otherwise it will be very troublesome.
First, he returned to the underground chamber and told Shacht about it, and at the same time handed Shacht's notebook and laptop to the Great Elder. Of course, everyone was surprised, but they also had a certain understanding of those strange bugs.
Fear often stems from the unknown, and once understood, it is less scary.
"So, when will you be able to get back to the lab above?" asked Diana, clutching her head a little uncomfortably. Although wearing that big helmet, although because of the obstruction of the stone cabinet, it will only encounter an impact in ten minutes, but it is still very uncomfortable.
Not only was she uncomfortable, but even Chen Taiyuan and the Great Elder actually felt a little headache. No matter how strong a master is, he can't help but attack this kind of mental power again and again.