Chapter 7: Killing
After the birth of the Zerg Empress Shiros, she held a beating cocoon in her hand.
This cocoon is a hive heart through which an entire Zerg empire can be hatched. All she has to do now is find a place to house the Hive Heart, and get the energy to build and hatch various Zerg units.
She walked to the hut that had left her in pain hours before, the dim light bulbs still flickering in the darkness outside.
It was a place that made her sick and brought her endless pain and despair, and she hated this place, and she hated the people who destroyed her, and even the human race. She felt that all suffering was caused by human beings, and that if there were no human beings, there would be no so-called pain and despair.
She wants revenge, she wants to exterminate the entire human race.
Standing outside the house, the flickering light made her even angrier, a sharp look flashed, the dim light bulb exploded in an instant, and the whole world fell into endless darkness in a trance.
She threw the heart of the hive in her hand to her feet, and as soon as she touched the heart of the hive on the ground, she drilled directly into the ground, and in an instant, a huge hive broke through the ground, covering a radius of two hundred meters.
"Darkness begins wherever it comes." The Empress was imposing.
Then a hint came from the Empress's mind.
"The Heart of the Hive is unfolded, and it is currently level 0."
"Level 0 hives produce 2,000 eggs per day, and the empress can consume the corresponding energy to hatch different units."
"At present, the units that can be hatched are sappers, the most basic Zerg units, which need to consume five points of basic energy, and the incubation time is one minute, and the main function is to collect resources, and has low lethality."
"Any organism is a resource that can be harvested, and when it is harvested, it is automatically converted into energy."
Shilos looked at the six points of base energy he had, which he had obtained by devouring a few people a few hours ago. As things stand, access to energy is the most important thing.
Therefore, Shilos gave the hive the task of incubating sappers, and after hatching, they directly carried out the collection work, and continued to hatch sappers after obtaining energy.
Five minutes later, the first Zerg unit was born. It is a creature that is 1.5 meters tall and resembles an ant. The whole body is pitch black, and there is a huge jaw on the head.
When the sapper saw Hills, his eyes were filled with excitement and fanaticism, an innate worship of the Lord.
With a wave of his hand, the sapper began its mission.
The sappers began to collect resources, but Shilos did not intend to wait, and humans could also provide a small amount of basic energy, which was also a method when the collection units were scarce. And she needs revenge and venting, and apparently the village down the hill is a good target.
In the early morning, the sky was slightly bright, and the entire slum was still shrouded in a light mist. After a night of precipitation, the air did not improve significantly, and the mist contained not only water vapor, but also the pungent smell of various garbage incinerations.
At this time, the stray dog has played the role of a chicken, dutifully calling for the arrival of a new day. Don't ask why there are no chickens, because the chickens in the slums are either on the table or on the way to the table, and none of the chickens will live to see the light of dawn.
Two men were walking along a small road in the slums.
"Last night was really exciting, that chick was coquettish enough." Slum Road Male No. 1 reminisced about the feeling of last night, and showed off to his partner next to him.
"You're good enough, but I'm like a dead fish, Shet, and I'm motionless the whole time, I thought I was a dead man." The second male on the slum road complained angrily.
Why are they called Road Man No. 1 and No. 2? Because they are just two characters who run the show, they don't deserve a name. (I'm not going to tell you that I have trouble naming names.) )
Lu Nan No. 2 wanted to continue to complain, but more than a dozen stray dogs suddenly rushed out of the mist in front of them, barking as they ran.
This scene really scared them, and they instantly subconsciously hugged each other.
But as the dogs got closer and closer to them, and finally roared past them, their tense nerves were suddenly relaxed. If these more than a dozen dogs were to attack them, they would really be killed or injured.
After the group of dogs passed them, one of the black dogs braked sharply, turned his head and barked at them twice, and then accelerated to follow the team in front without hesitation.
"Neuropathy." The two complained in unison.
But if they knew dog language, they would see that the black dog was shouting, "Don't run yet, stupid human." ”
No matter what the dog was barking, they both felt that it had nothing to do with them, whether they should keep going or keep going.
"Hey, man, am I dazzled."
Lu Nan No. 2 rubbed his eyes, and asked No. 1 in surprise to verify whether he was hallucinating. Because at this moment, a beautiful girl covered in stripes came to them from the mist.
"Man, I'd love to tell you you're not dazzled, but it's also possible that the damn effects of last night haven't worn off yet."
Apparently Number One also saw the girl walking towards them.
They were a little overwhelmed by the situation, and despite the openness and enthusiasm of the country's population and the fact that it was a slum with a high crime rate, such blatant situations were not often encountered. Moreover, the people in the slums are not all ruthless, and there are many people who want to be good citizens, otherwise they would not have spent money to soothe the souls of the turmoil last night.
They froze in place, until this delicate, fair-skinned, and incomprehensibly beautiful girl came up to them.
Without any communication, the two heads detached themselves from their respective bodies in a parabolic manner, and landed three seconds later. In the afterglow of their lives, they saw blood splattering from their necks and naked girls standing in front of them.
Killing is the eternal theme of the Zerg, they live to kill, they die to kill.
Empress Shiros, who inherited the will of the Zerg, also inherited the nature of destroying all living beings.
But in addition to killing, she also loves torture, and she likes to play with living things, especially humans.
The killing was preceded by the despair she bestowed, the despair of having no thoughts about life and powerless about death.
Countless pairs of dull eyes, countless calls for death, these could not be exchanged for the empress's mercy.
As the Empress of the Zerg, she has the means, and some of the methods that make people survive and not die. She used to be just an ordinary girl, not surprisingly, in the near future, she will marry a man and start a family, although there is a high probability that she will not necessarily marry a good man, but at least she is still an ordinary human being, and then live an ordinary life. Birth, old age, sickness and death, joy and sorrow, just like all ordinary people.
Everything changed from that night. A few scumbags had brought her that kind of resentment carved into her bone marrow, which would have rotted in hell with her corpse. But the Zerg awakened her, not only her body, but also her brutal soul.
She's back from hell.
No one wants to live, and even if they die, don't want to die neatly.
Empress Shiros killed nearly 2,000 people in a single day, all in silence, and the corpses were all taken away by the constantly hatching sappers and thrown to the hive to devour. Don't ask her how she did it quietly, the empress is so unreasonably strong.
Two thousand people is a drop in the bucket for this slum, and the entire slum has 1.2 million people. If it weren't for the fact that she didn't want to alarm too many people before she had the ability to protect herself, with her personal ability, it would be no problem to kill ten times as many humans as long as she was open for a day.
After a day and night of struggle, the Zerg now has 2,500 sappers, and the original level 0 hives have been upgraded to level 1, and two more level 0 hives have been added.
In exchange for the skyrocketing resources, there is no grass in the mountains behind the slums, which are five kilometers deep.
Despite this, no one has discovered the existence of the Zerg, because everyone who sees the Zerg has become the ration of the Zerg.
A new class has been added to the first-level hive - the Velociator, a class known for its speed and ferocity, the height and appearance are close to that of a sapper, but there are three more pairs of ailerons on the back, and the ailerons can be used for short-distance gliding. The whole body is covered with thick scale armor, the head does not have a huge jaw, and the main killing weapon is a pair of sickle-like forefeet similar to praying mantises, which are hard and sharp.
In addition to the new class types, the Tier 1 Hive can also emit Zerg spores. The spores are small pollen-like and scattered around the nest, and when they are large in number, they look like a mist from a distance.
Zerg spores have three characteristics.
First, the spore-covered organisms autophagocytosis decompose. For example, in the past, sappers carried all kinds of flowers, trees, animals and human corpses collected to the insect hive for it to devour, but after having spores, sappers only need to transport resources to the range covered by spores, and the spores will automatically devour and decompose, and generate energy. Although it seems convenient, the speed of devouring is only 2/1000th that of a hive. However, the spores cannot directly devour living humans or any living animals, but plants can directly devour them, which is why the empress is also puzzled.
Second, the spores can absorb solar energy, thermal energy, nuclear energy and other energy, and various gases that can be converted into energy, such as hydrogen, natural gas, methane, etc., although the conversion rate is low, as long as the scale of the spores is large enough, the energy obtained is also considerable. After all, when the Zerg dominated the universe, it was impossible to be invincible without a strong energy as a backing, so the Zerg evolved various incredible abilities.
Third, no matter what Zerg unit is injured, as long as it enters the range of the spores, it can recover within a certain period of time. The spores repair the damaged tissues of the Zerg units, and theoretically regenerate limbs as long as the brain is alive (albeit not developed).
So the spores are extremely powerful.
However, spores are also flawed, their life cycle is only one week, just like human cells, the nest must produce spores continuously to maintain the population size, so the spores produced by low-grade nests have limited coverage.
Three days after the muffled sound developed, the Zerg unit expanded to several Level 1 and a dozen Level 0 nests, covering an area of more than twenty square kilometers. In terms of troops, there are 20,000 sappers and 10,000 speedworms. Most of the energy is used by Shilos to hatch Sappers and Velociers, so there are no secondary hives and no new classes.
The only purpose of such a riot is to take the entire slum.
Although there are nearly 1.2 million people in the slums, it is not difficult to take the slums with the fighting power of the swarm, after all, the slums are just a group of unarmed civilians, and no matter how many people there are, they are still a group of lambs to the slaughter.