Chapter 8 Fungus Blanket
Chu Heng already has a very clear understanding of the future development of the Zerg, and the most suitable development model for the Zerg should be in the infinite cycle of plundering resources, completing evolution, developing populations, and then plundering resources. Until one day, the Zerg evolved to the same height as the super civilizations of the Seven Universes, and surpassed them. But Chu Heng is not too satisfied with the current way of collecting resources of the Zerg, no matter how big the forest is, there is an end, and no matter how many demonic beasts there are, they will be hunted cleanly. Once the Zerg consumes the resources of this planet and has not yet evolved to the height of cosmic travel, I am afraid that the Zerg will not be far from extinction.
There has also been an energy crisis on the earth, and there are many ways to solve it, but now the only suitable for the Zerg is solar energy. While harvesting solar energy can be slow, it's a good steady and consistent method of energy harvesting. In order to collect a large amount of solar energy, there must be a very large organism that can collect more energy, and such a creature needs a small amount of resources to create, otherwise the gains outweigh the losses. Chu Heng's first thought was the organic matter ground of the Zerg in StarCraft, the fungus blanket.
In StarCraft, the architecture of the Zerg is basically inseparable from the fungus blanket, and now Chu Heng can easily understand the effect of the fungus blanket on the Zerg from his own perspective. It can play a role in the transportation of nutrients, it is a guarantee that the Zerg that hatches on the fungus blanket can continue to get nutrients, can quickly replenish the energy required for the activities of the Zerg, can be used for the absorption of solar energy, and for Chu Heng, it can also be an important protective measure for the Zerg base.
After all, the idea needs to be practiced, so Chu Heng called out KEY to discuss his idea, and finally determined a biological sample as the blueprint for the fungus blanket, and this new species of fungus blanket that was created is currently Chu Heng's most satisfactory work.
The fungus blanket only needs to provide organic matter to grow on its own without energy, and the organic matter required by the fungus blanket can be very varied, trees, flowers, birds, beasts, insects, and fish, which is very important for Chu Heng, because in this way, he can get the harvest without investment. The growth of the fungus blanket spreads around the Zerg base as the center, and can connect the various buildings of the Zerg, so that they can exchange nutrients and energy freely. The fungus blanket currently absorbs solar energy at an efficiency of 10 low-level energy per hour per 100 square meters. Although it is not much, it has a continuous flow of energy. The Fungus Blanket can also detect non-Zerg units stepping into the Fungus Blanket's range, and when needed, it can also secrete a powerful adhesive liquid that can trap creatures that invade the base, so that while it does not kill or trap the target entirely, it can assist the guard puppies in the base to kill the target.
When the insects run out of energy needed by the body, they can also eat the nutrients secreted by the fungus blanket to replenish the consumption. The smooth nutrient delivery of the fungus blanket can also ensure that the building organisms and the egg-forming Zerg organisms can hatch faster, which can save about 20% of the time. The blanket also provides protection for the larvae, allowing the base to store more larvae for future thrive if needed. At present, the base can store 16 larvae, and with the fungus blanket, the base can put the larvae on the fungus blanket near the base without worrying about the death of the larvae, which can increase the larval storage capacity by ten times.
After the second base is hatched, KEY also enters the genetic code of the fungus blanket into the Zerg base, so that it can automatically grow the fungus blanket to the surrounding area. After a while, I saw a moss-like plant spread out from the base at a speed visible to the naked eye, but the color was purple. Chu Heng estimated that at this speed, a range of 100 square meters could be spread out in 3 hours, which was already a very fast growth rate for a microorganism like a fungus blanket. Moreover, the spread of the fungus blanket is also controllable, Chu Heng doesn't want to destroy the ecological balance here too much, and it may not be a good choice to cover the entire planet with the fungus blanket, after all, the purpose of creating the fungus blanket is also to create an energy source that can collect sustainable development. At present, Chu Heng's order is to cover the cleared land that has been cut down with a fungus blanket.
While Chu Heng was eating the eggs of unknown birds raw with nausea, an uninvited guest did not have the slightest shame to disturb Chu Heng's meal. Chu Heng received a hurried message from Host No. 2 and found a strange bird with a wingspan of nearly eight meters flying towards the base in the air. Chu Heng was petrified in an instant, he had created so many species that none of them had a long-range strike means, and if that big bird attacked his base, he was afraid that he would not even have a chance to resist. As he was thinking about it, the information about the soul of Host 2 came more quickly, and it turned out that he had been captured by the big bird.
Chu Heng hid behind the base and looked at the sky from afar, a creature that looked like a pterosaur tightly clasped the host No. 2 floating in the air with its claws, and the constantly flying tentacles of the host No. 2 obviously caused a lot of trouble to the pterosaur. The pterodactyl had a mouth, and a circle of blue runes surrounded him, and Chu Heng was shocked when he saw it, this turned out to be a demonic beast!
The blue runes lined up in a triangular circle, and then a strong flash of lightning passed through Host 2. Host-2 quickly dried up like an inflated balloon had been poked into a hole, causing the pterosaur to grasp a rag. The 40 puppies controlled by Host 2 were in a hurry to run around when the host was caught, jumping and jumping to help, but at the moment of the host's death, they all stayed on the ground and remained motionless. Chu Heng knew that the inside of the Dao host was actually hollow, and its weight and volume were not large, otherwise it would not be possible to float in the air, and what made Chu Heng frown even more was that these Zerg puppies with low IQ directly lost their command when their controller died, which was a fatal weakness for the current Zerg.
The pterosaur had apparently not expected this to be the case, and the delicacy that had come to his hands turned into a shriveled piece of flesh. So he decisively let go of the dead host 2 and aimed at host 1, but after hesitating for a while, he did not attack host 1, apparently his small head could also tell that it was the same species. I saw the dense puppies and male peaks on the ground, so I pounced, grabbed a male peak and drove away......
"Hey!" Chu Heng sighed, losing a host and a male peak was just more than a hundred low-level energy for Chu Heng, but it exposed two Achilles' heels of the current Zerg, one was that there were no air combat units, or long-range attack units, and the other was the problem of low-level insects losing command after the death of the host. Solving the first problem is as simple as creating new bugs. The second question is more troublesome.