Chapter 647: A Breeding Ground for Hatching
The Venom of the Vampire Mosquito is a good thing, and it is useful against some high-level mutated mobs such as deathclaws, but it is difficult for the player to collect.
There is no other reason, the essence of this toxin is a protease, after the death of the blood-sucking mosquito, this protease will also be quickly inactivated, into a non-toxic substance, if you want to extract the venom of the blood-sucking mosquito, then only after catching the blood-sucking mosquito alive, send it to the laboratory, under strict conditions can be done.
And apart from venom, there is nothing of value on the vampire mosquito.
This is one of the reasons why players hate vampire mosquitoes the most - not only are they difficult to deal with, but even after spending a lot of effort and time to kill them, they don't get any loot, and even for some unknown reason, these vampire mosquitoes don't even burst out of the mutated serum.
The mastermind did not give a detailed explanation of this, but some biologists came to a conclusion.
That is, the blood-sucking mosquito lives by sucking the blood of other mutated organisms or humans, and their food is huge and varied, and when sucking blood, it will inevitably ingest each other's genes into the body, and over time, the blood-sucking mosquito itself will be mixed with a large amount of foreign DNA in its own gene fragments.
Because the genetic structure of the vampire mosquito itself has been relatively perfect, these foreign DNA will not bring much change to the vampire mosquito, but when people want to extract the mutant serum from the bloodsucking mosquito, these foreign DNA will become a problem that cannot be ignored.
No one knows whether the bloodsucking mosquito has absorbed the body fluids of a worm or the blood of a deathclaw, so no one can be sure what biological DNA will be contained in the mutated serum of the bloodsucking mosquito, out of this uncertainty, the generation of each bloodsucking mosquito serum needs to consume a lot of computing resources of the brain, although for the brains themselves, this amount of computing is just a drop in the bucket, but it can't stand the qualitative changes caused by quantitative changes, and a large amount of redundant data is also a burden that cannot be ignored for the brain. Therefore, the main brain sensation directly canceled the serum drop of the mutant creature of the vampire mosquito.
Not only the Vampire Mosquito in the Glowing Sea, but also other creatures similar to the Vampire Mosquito in the wasteland do not drop the Mutant Serum.
Although there is a suspicion of cutting corners, players are helpless, and, on the other hand, even if there is a bloodsucking mosquito serum, no one will be willing to absorb this mixed gene - the bloodsucking mosquito itself is only an elite-level mutant creature, but who knows if it will hide a piece of Alpha deathclaw gene fragment in its serum?
If a low-level evolutionary absorbs this serum, it will 100% cause the gene to collapse and die.
And even if there are no high-level gene fragments in the serum of mosquitoes, due to too many impurities, the success rate of fusion is not high, to put it bluntly, the serum of this creature is similar to chicken ribs - tasteless, it is a pity to discard.
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Qi Lin had just disposed of these bloodsucking mosquitoes, when suddenly a buzzing sound quickly approached, and when he looked back, he saw another group of bloodsucking mosquitoes chasing after him.
"I'm annoyed, why are there so many mosquitoes...... Could it be...... Damn, forgot to dispose of that deathclaw's corpse! ”
Qi Lin slashed the fastest flying bloodsucking mosquito with a knife, and found that the color of the wing membrane of this bloodsucking mosquito was almost light and transparent, which showed that this bloodsucking mosquito had just completed its transformation.
The longer the time passes after the bloodsucker mosquito completes its metamorphosis, the darker the wing membrane will become, and the group of bloodsucking mosquitoes in front of them are almost all newborn individuals with transparent wings.
Qi Lin immediately realized the problem.
The corpse of the deathclaw...... That's where these bloodsucking mosquitoes hatch!
After sucking the blood of the prey, the blood-sucking mosquito will also lay its eggs into the carcass of the prey, and after the eggs are hatched, the larvae will feed on the carcass of the prey, and the rate of larval development is determined by the quality of the food.
With a deathclaw as a breeding ground for development, it only takes a short period of time for the larvae of the bloodsucking mosquito to shed their juvenile stage and complete their metamorphosis.
And when Qi Lin passed by the deathclaw just now, the corpse of the deathclaw was probably an empty shell left, and the reason why Qi Lin didn't notice any movement in the corpse was because those larvae were in the pupal stage-
And now, they're out of the chrysalis.
The buzzing gradually became more and more, and I don't know when, Qi Lin was already surrounded by hundreds of blood-sucking mosquitoes.
"I wanted to save some energy......
Qi Lin shook his head a little helplessly and turned on the energy shield.
The story of the ants biting the elephant to death is not just a story, if Qi Lin only uses the bone blade to face these more than 100 bloodsucking mosquitoes, although the odds of victory are still not low, but in case of negligence and being bitten by the bloodsucking mosquitoes, he may have to explain his resurrection opportunity here.
The poison of the vampire mosquito can't even carry the deathclaw, let alone a human like him who is not as resistant to toxins as deathclaws.
The best weapons to use against swarms of vampire mosquitoes are flamethrowers and repeating shotguns, but for Qi Lin, an energy shield is enough.
The two bloodsucking mosquitoes quickly rushed in front of Qi Lin, but before they could pierce their spear-like mouthparts into Qi Lin's body, the two bloodsucking mosquitoes instantly turned into a fireball and fell to the ground.
The Energy Shield itself also has an offensive ability, and its effect is somewhat similar to two of the most famous pieces of equipment from the old era - the "Sunfire Cloak" in League of Legends and the "Radiance" in DotA, although the damage is not high, but it is enough to deal with the fragile vampire mosquitoes.
Qi Lin just turned on his energy shield and rampaged through the mosquito pile, and in a short time, more than half of the mosquitoes turned into char on the ground, and the air was filled with the unique smell of burnt proteins.
When there were only twenty or thirty of these bloodsucking mosquitoes left, they finally chose to give up, and they rose to a height of dozens of meters one after another, and flew away towards the depths of the Luminous Sea.
"It's finally over...... Qi Lin exhaled lightly and turned off the energy shield, which had consumed a tenth of the energy in the concentrating vortex in the space of a few minutes.
On Qi Lin's Wednesday, there were scattered black mosquito carcasses, among which there were several individuals that were one size larger than ordinary bloodsucking mosquitoes, which were F-class albino bloodsucking mosquitoes, which belonged to the alien species of bloodsucking mosquitoes, which were faster and more toxic than ordinary mosquitoes - however, after turning into charcoal, the albino bloodsucking mosquitoes were no different from ordinary mosquitoes except that the corpses were slightly larger.