Chapter 51: The Food Crisis of the Swarm
Dark.
Endless darkness.
I couldn't see my fingers around me.
Long Aotian felt that his eyes were pitch black, as if he was in a dream, a groggy feeling enveloped his head, he couldn't feel the existence of his body, and he felt that his entire soul was floating in nothingness.
"Where am I?"
"Am I dead?"
In a daze, Long Aotian could feel that his brain was thinking, but he was thinking very hard, as if his brain was stuck, and his speed was very slow.
Immediately afterwards, successive life clips came from all directions, like a life book about Long Aotian being opened, which also reminded Long Aotian of many things.
"Yes, I'm dead."
"Is this the world of death?"
Before Long Aotian could think about the deeper question, he felt a sharp pain coming from an unknown place in the void, causing his consciousness to fall into the darkness of being unable to think again.
No one knows how long this darkness lasted.
"Smack!"
Long Aotian was awakened by a stinging pain, as if something had hit him in the face, and his independent consciousness seemed to awaken at this moment.
Faintly, Long Aotian seemed to hear a muttering sound coming from the sky.
"No, there are some defects in gene replication, and we have to try new methods."
"Let's go to the battlefield and see if we can collect new genes."
Long Aotian was in a very strange state now, he felt that he should know what this voice was saying, but he couldn't understand the language of this voice, as if he was hearing the sounds of different species.
He lost the ability to speak and understand.
This feeling is extremely unreal.
It seems that the only self between heaven and earth has been lost, and Long Ao is now unable to determine the existence of his self.
Long Aotian wanted to try to wake up, but the more he tried, the more he fell into the boundless darkness.
......
"The test subject's signal is broken, and the first test fails."
"A large number of amnestics have been detected in the subject, and the language system and self-perception have been completely lost, requiring the remodeling of the structure of the living organism."
"The second phase of the trial is being simulated and a new hive facility will need to be built before the second phase of genetic testing can be provided."
Wang Hui sat on the tentacle seat that grew out of the fungus blanket, and the report of the brain worm echoed in his ears, and he was always engrossed in observing the special object in front of him.
The top part of the hive was completely cracked, and three thick tentacles like pipes were entangled, spreading beyond the hive like flower buds, holding an oval Zerg gene jar in a weirdly curved posture.
The gene tank is completely composed of the flesh and blood of the Zerg, beating slowly like a heart, the epidermis is very thin, and it can even be said to be translucent, Wang Hui can clearly see what is inside the gene tank when he stands outside.
It was soaked in a large amount of Zerg nutrient solution...... Brain tissue.
The central lobule and the parietal lobule, which twitch from time to time on the outside of the brain, seem to tell Wang Hui that it is alive, and it is trying to perceive all the information around it, but because it is separated from the carrier, it cannot successfully feel any information feedback.
"Juggernaut, the genetic content of the test subjects found in these meat mounds is too small, and the ghoul toxin produced by the Big Bang has seriously contaminated the original genetic sequence of the test subjects."
The voice of the brain worm came: "I need more complete and uninfected subjects-related genes in order to better complete the follow-up test process." ”
"yes, I see."
Wang Hui nodded: "Let a ghoul worker bee dig more on the battlefield, you send the genetic sequence that needs to be collected to the worker bee, and it can find the gene you want." ”
Finding resources and specific items is what worker bees do best.
"Yes, Juggernaut."
The brainworm's voice fell silent again, and it was contacting a ghoul worker bee that was cleaning the battlefield ahead, transmitting the subject's genetic serial number to the ghoul worker bee.
The Great War is long over.
To be exact, it's three hours after the Big Bang.
The Wolong gathering place was already a mess, full of corpses, and after Wang Hui confirmed that the ghoul tide would not return, he had already sent industrious jumping insects and worker bees to swim in the ruins of the Wolong gathering place.
The explosion caused the entire Wolong gathering place to be completely destroyed, and there were ruins everywhere, but the tenacity of human beings was far beyond Wang Hui's imagination, under such a dense explosion, there were still people in the Wolong gathering place who were evading the pursuit of the ghouls and struggling to survive.
What surprised Wang Hui even more was that the tide of ghouls turned out to be unusual, and instead of leaving a large number of ghouls to enjoy the human food in the Wolong gathering place as predicted by the human commander, he chose to continue to advance.
Except for a small number of draugr who broke away from the group and coveted the people in the gathering place, the ghoul tide had been away from the Wolong gathering place for three hours, and was not shaken by the delicious humans at all.
"This act of restraining nature and instinct must have a powerful clan leader in the ghoul tide, controlling every move of the vast majority of ghouls."
Wang Hui's arm rested on the armrest of the tentacle seat, tilting his head and thinking: "Obviously, the ghoul tide wants to defeat Baihai City in one go, and they don't intend to give Baihai City a breather, and Baihai City's battle plan has completely failed." ”
"Humanity, or all humans in this area to be exact, should be in great trouble."
Wang Hui was a little worried, not worried about the safety of human beings, he was silently calculating in his heart how much biomass he would lose.
In Wang Hui's view, the humans in this area have long been their prey and are the food of the insect swarm.
The behavior of the ghoul tide is to compete for resources and food in the territory of the swarm!
Can this be endured?
"Wait."
Wang Hui suddenly realized a problem and muttered to himself: "A low-level humanoid ghoul can decompose to obtain two points of biomass, but an ordinary human can provide no biomass at all. ”
"So...... Can I encourage and help the ghouls to infect all the humans in this area, and then devour the ghouls, wouldn't I be able to obtain several times more biomass than the original! ”
Wang Hui's voice had just fallen, and the brain worm suddenly spoke.
"Juggernaut, you're doing something wrong."
"Since low-level ghouls do not possess intelligence and memory systems, we do not know the social system and hierarchy within ghouls for the time being, and there is no way to confirm whether ghouls infected from ordinary humans can effectively provide 2 points of biomass."
"In addition, according to my analysis and observation, ghouls have the same migratory characteristics as humans, and have a special symbiotic relationship with humans, and ghouls will follow the trajectory of human races and migrate."
"If all the humans in this area are allowed to be infected by ghouls, then all the ghouls will leave the area in search of a new human settlement."
"And our people will lose a stable source of food."
The tone of the brain worm was serious: "Juggernaut, it's not a question of how much biomass is harvested, but that we are experiencing a crisis. ”
Brain worm: "A food crisis." ”