Chapter 21: The Great Expansion (1)
"Sucking the cerebral marrow to read memories? That's a useful DNA sequence...... Huge biological brains? I don't know what the use is for the time being, so let's get one for the main nest first. ”
While reading the genetic sequence structure of the brain worm, Xue Feng thought about the use of these new abilities.
The main nest has been assisting her all along, so she also wants to give the main nest a smarter brain, so that she can help Yukikaze do more things.
Humans are still developing artificial intelligence to reduce the workload, and the main nest itself has enough intelligence, and Yukikaze doesn't know if the previous mother emperor will do this, but there is no reason for her to put such a convenient unit without it.
So when Yukikaze upgraded the main nest with a brain, the research on the new unit finally became semi-automatic.
As soon as Yukikaze comes up with a new problem, the main nest, which has all the technology of humans and insect swarms, will start developing an evolutionary plan, and at most it will encounter any difficulties along the way, and Yukikaze, who is more active in his thinking, will find a solution.
Moreover, the development of the swarm does not need the complete instructions of Xuefeng, the main nest will automatically match the number and speed of the hatching units according to the current needs, and the main nest has completely become the second-in-command of the swarm, but it is willing to do so.
Yukikaze, who was free, finally had time to study his own abilities.
These few battles made her discover many flaws in her own abilities, and she finally understood that although the energy of ghost energy is easy to use, it is also not omnipotent, and more ways to use it have yet to be developed.
But the first thing that Xue Feng upgraded for herself was not the new use of ghost energy, but the fact that she installed a tail for herself.
The tail of the flesh whirring, sticking out under the armor of the snowwind skirt, wields nimbly in the air, like a whip.
This three-meter-long tail is actually a variant of the root tentacles of the hive, and the real focus is not on the tail, but on the tip of the tail.
A sharp tip that can pierce any metal, a hollow straw that can be opened, this is Xuefeng's transformation according to the ability of the brain worm, and the effect is naturally needless to say, the ability to suck the cerebral marrow to read memories, she has been greedy for a long time.
Whether it's to blend in with the sapient biota or to gain access to valuable information, it's indispensable.
Xue Feng doesn't believe that there are only human beings in the vast universe, and this intelligent population, brain worm is enough to prove that in this universe, Xue Feng and her race are not alone.
This tail is usually hidden under the skirt armor, and only when it needs to be used, will its hideous side be revealed, and it will also be a terrifying killer weapon in battle.
Imagine that others think that you only have hands and feet, but suddenly a tail comes out of the back coldly, I am afraid that most people will be hit, the penetration of the tip of this tail is so terrifying, an absolute killer.
Of course, in addition to this terrible tail, Xuefeng also wanted to add some weapons to herself, but unfortunately, Gou's way of giving birth to arthropods on her back would really deviate from her once human aesthetics, and she vetoed it.
As for you saying that humans don't have tails either?
Who could see it hidden under the skirt armor?
And with the easy-to-use ability of ghost energy, it's not a weapon that is too urgently needed, what Xuefeng wants more is something that can hit far like Barrett and has enough destructive power.
Although the ghost energy also has a long-range attack, it is not as convenient as the hot weapons made by humans, and every time she uses the ghost energy excessively, her head hurts as if it is about to explode.
This is very fatal in battle, but Xue Feng can't think of how to improve it, after all, it is not a power that he has mastered step by step, and it will take some time to understand.
Xue Feng didn't continue to study his own abilities, because the king worm that was hatching was about to be born!
Walking outside the main nest, I just saw the scene of the king insect breaking out of the shell, although it is the same as the way ordinary units break the shell, but the body size with a diameter of two hundred meters is much more spectacular.
If it weren't for the snow wind standing at the door of the main nest, with the help of the main nest, I am afraid that it will inevitably be drenched with a slippery slime.
The newborn king worm looks like an enlarged version of the host, with a carapace jellyfish floating up to the sky and finally hovering at an altitude of a thousand meters above the ground.
However, Xue Feng couldn't help frowning when he watched the scene of the king insect flying.
"The lift-off speed is too slow, and it consumes too much energy, is it really because of the irregular shell?"
The irregular shell may be in a vacuum, which will not affect the speed, but on Titan, which has an atmosphere, the resistance of the air makes the king worm rise into the air at a speed that cannot be fast.
Yukikaze circled around Titan on the king worm, testing its speed and hovering, only to find that the giant king worm wasn't as good as she had imagined.
Like the host, the king worm still uses chemical energy, and just by assisting the anti-gravitational lift-off propulsion, it consumes a large amount of mixed liquid methane, which can reach 300 kilometers per second comparable to the solar wind, which is already the limit of chemical energy propulsion.
From a human point of view, this speed is already very fast, after all, human beings have not yet been able to build a flying machine that exceeds the speed of the solar wind, and Xuefeng thinks that this speed is still too slow.
At this speed, let alone interstellar navigation, even if you want to reach the Earth's orbit from Titan, it will take at least half a year, and the three king insects will run a transportation trip once every half a year, and the daylilies will be cold.
Maybe in the future, the number of king insects will increase, and the transportation capacity will be improved, but Xue Feng thinks it is still too reluctant.
It was necessary to optimize the performance and reduce the speed of energy consumption, but after thinking about it for only five seconds, Xuefeng came to the conclusion that the calculation of the main nest also had the best evolutionary scheme.
"Changing the shape to elongate the body of the worm, the shuttle type helps to climb altitude in the atmosphere, and it is also easier to control the direction in the universe."
After all, it's round, and you can't figure out which side is the head, so there is no accurate direction of advancement, and floating around is a serious waste of resources, and Xue Feng hates it.
"The king worm abandons the easy-to-replace multi-segment carapace and uses a streamlined inlay to reduce air resistance."
Or many segmented carapaces are very suitable for the appearance of round jellyfish, but the shuttle type of king insects is more suitable to use stacks of streamlined covering, which can allow the king insects to fly in the atmosphere and reach the ultimate speed.
Those tentacles that originally hung down were completely abandoned by Xuefeng, and now that they have a lower-level host, as transportation in the atmosphere, these tentacles seem to have no need to exist at all.
As a result, the tail of the shuttle-type king insect has an additional structure like a flower, which is a new propulsion opening, which is more convenient to control the direction of flight.
And then there'...... Add a controlled fusion core, and a new way to propulsion with plasma jetting. ”
Plasma propulsion technology has long been a mature product on Earth, but controlled nuclear fusion is still in the laboratory stage.
Xue Feng once used his spirit to invade the network, hacked into the secret research institutes of various countries, and obtained all the controlled nuclear fusion technologies, all of which are now in the new brain of the main nest.
In fact, this technology has already achieved preliminary results, and it is only one step away from getting controlled nuclear fusion out of the laboratory and into the practical stage.
She estimated that if the earth was not destroyed, it would only take about thirty years...... No, in just ten years, mankind will usher in a new era of space development, but it is a pity that all this has become a big glass ball along with that beautiful planet.