Chapter 3: The Underground Kingdom Begins to Operate, Incubating Fireflies with Weapon Abilities
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Everything was going smoothly, and the Stygian knew that the food reservoir was full, and another food reservoir was dug up, and then another one.
To tell the truth, the food resources in the primeval forest are quite abundant, and birds and animals have everything.
And he is not an ordinary predator, especially in terms of IQ, he can crush all prey, so it is not difficult to find some low-grade ordinary food to start with.
In this way, it took him ten days to prepare enough food, and then the rest of the time began to feed the mother worms, and then constantly warmed the hatching base, and even drew drawings in the cave when he was bored, thinking about how to build his underground kingdom.
In this way, a total of 16 days passed, and the eggs in the hatchery base finally hatched successfully, with a success rate of 99%.
The scrapped egg is estimated to be insufficient for the male to combine with the female egg after being squeezed dry!
And these bugs seem to have been genetically inherited very well, and when they are the larvae of the second stage, they are all red.
But it's unclear what they're going to be in the end, as the process of mutation and growth continues.
Egg-larvae-pupa-adult.
Now they're only in the second step.
Next, Hades began to continue his efforts, putting a lot of prepared ordinary food into the hatching substrate.
Now they are larvae, and they can directly and quickly absorb the flesh and blood of animals, and quickly develop and grow into pupa.
The pupal is an important stage of the change of these bugs.
At this point, the underworld doesn't need to interfere anymore, just create a quiet and comfortable environment for them.
Two days later, the bugs pupated.
Three days later, the pupae burst through their shells to reveal their final form.
Without exception, ordinary peasant insects are the majority.
But there are also some mutated insects, there are more than 100 soldiers with strong combat power, more than 10 bee ants with reconnaissance ability, more than 50 flying insects, and even a young female worm.
These bugs all have the same color, and they're all cute red!
It seems that in terms of color genes, they all inherited the genes of the male insects in the Dead Desert.
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Now these bugs have successfully hatched.
But it is also necessary to give them a growth period, that is, a non-stop feeding period, generally these newborn larvae only need to eat for half a month, and they can go to work normally.
Therefore, the underworld carried out all the prepared food and let them eat enough, and if it was not enough, he would just catch it again, anyway, he would go back and forth fast enough.
In fact, it is.
At first, he underestimated the amount of food eaten by the more than 1,000 insects, and finally he became a day and night hunting all kinds of food for them, and sometimes he had no choice but to feed them plants.
Fortunately, the Zerg diet is more omnivorous, eating everything, and even eating soil when hungry.
After much hard work, the day of service was finally over, and he was ready to begin to enjoy the blessings.
Because after half a month, these insects finally grew up quickly.
The body size is one meter tall and two meters long, reaching the basic size of the original insect species.
Now facing this batch of troops, although he can't directly control the ideology of these insects, but with the mother worm in his hands, he can indirectly and better control these insects.
So the hell gave these insects a clear division of labor.
There are 500 worker insects, 100 combat sappers, and 10 reconnaissance bee insects.
From there, an average of five teams were drawn and infiltrated into the Primordial Forest in search of food.
The main battles were carried out by sappers.
If the enemy is tough, sometimes the male worm who is responsible for finding and carrying food will also join the fight.
The bee ants in the team are equipped with one in the front and rear of the team, and they are responsible for reconnaissance and security in the front and rear of the team, in order to better predict the danger and the sudden enemy attack of some insects and beasts in advance.
In addition, don't underestimate the primitive race from the ant and zerg tribe here.
The insects of this family all have antennae, and even if the antennae of some insects degenerate, their antennal ability will not disappear, but will be stored directly in the brain.
So what is the ability?
The primitive zerg from the ant family can transmit information silently with their antennae, and they can also spread over long distances.
Therefore, after these insects are dispersed, they are like an invisible net, which can not only find food targets on a large scale, but also expand the range of safety factors, and thus predict and avoid dangers.
Even their antennae can also sense hot and cold at room temperature at a long distance, which is very useful for quickly finding food or targets.
Therefore, there is no need to worry about the problem of food and reservoir volume.
And the remaining workers in the base must start expanding the base and building more hatching bases for him.
Then the three female worms naturally begin the next round of "" pregnancy, and the other newborn mother worm begins to breed and wait for a few months to be "pregnant".
Everything is going smoothly like this, expanding the strength step by step, and the small amount adds up.
A month later, two months later, three months later.
The female worm has entered the peak period of egg laying, and one female worm can lay thousands of eggs at a time.
So after the fourth month, he got a total of four batches of recruits, and the total number of bugs reached more than 10,000.
Because after the third month, another female worm also joins the mating to retrieve the eggs!
In this way, more labor can be added on the basis of the original division of labor.
Five months later, when the members of his Zerg reached 20,000, the underground base had been dug three thousand meters deep.
Suddenly, a stream of hot lava flowed out, illuminating most of the underground base.
On this day, the underworld had a new idea.
"The era of insects with capable weapons is about to be created in their own hands!"
Because while he asked the workers to keep digging, he had already prepared a magma discharge channel.
It's everything he planned!
What he wants is to dig out the magma underground, in order to use the energy in the magma to build an advanced hatching base, and then use gene incubation technology to hatch bugs with the ability of fireflies.
As a result, there may be cannon bugs, fire-breathing insects, lighting bugs, etc.
With sufficient labor, it didn't take long for half a month to establish a high-level incubation base on the mouth of the erupted magma.
This time, Hades combined the flying insect with the mother, in order to get more genes, and ordered the mother to mate and eat the flying insect.
These flying insects are red all over their bodies, and the original species of insects came from the extremely hot desert.
Therefore, their offspring also meet the conditions of heat resistance and high temperature resistance, and with the abundant organic mineral energy provided by magma, it is an energy element containing fire attributes.
So in this stage, the four female worms were conceived and gave birth to a total of 5,000 eggs, all of which were placed in the constructed hatching substrate, mainly based on the energy in the magma, and the temperature was controlled at about 30 degrees, and they were not afraid to roast the eggs as snacks.
This incubation was very smooth, and I don't know if it was because the incubation base was at the advanced level, and the whole incubation process from egg-larva-pupa-adult, it only took fifteen days, about ten days earlier than before.
The underworld was overjoyed.
After further inspection, it was indeed successful in hatching the worms with capable weapons, and the success rate reached 20%.
They are as red as flames, and have cannonworms, fire-breathing insects, and lighting bugs, but they are twice as small as peasants.
There are also fifty percent bugs, although there are no genetically mutated bugs.
But their combat effectiveness is several times higher than that of ordinary soldier ants.
They have very hard red armor all over their bodies, which is hard and very resistant to high temperatures.
Thirty percent of the eggs were in a state of obsolescence, and no insects had hatched, so the insects that had just come out of the world were eaten to gain some energy.
Next, just wait for this batch of insects to pass the feeding period, and then they can be used for armed reserves, and wait for that day to conduct an on-site military inspection to see if there are any dumb fires, or if there are any problems.
After all, no evolution can be done in one step, but in the process of continuous evolution and change, a perfect and powerful upgrade can be achieved.
But no surprises.
Fifteen days later......
On the insects in this period, the size of the ability class should be smaller, and the basic growth will stay at two feet high and six feet long. The super-grade red sapper insect must be much more powerful, almost one meter five high and three meters long. As for the reconnaissance class, it will definitely be much smaller, and it will definitely never grow small, and it can reach a foot tall to be considered the sky.
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