Chapter 19: The Evolution of the Swarm
Meanwhile.
On the outskirts of the rebel base, a shriveled figure was wandering in the deserted wilderness, looking as if it had lost its purpose, floating around like a ghost, searching for something.
More than ten kilometers away from this figure was a small group of well-armed assassins.
Not all Imperial Assassins can be permanently invisible, and only those with the strength of a level 7 or higher psionic can accept a constant psionic amplification transformation and transform themselves into permanent invisibility. The process was quite painful, requiring the implantation of multiple bionic organs in their bodies, as well as the inscriptions left on the surface of their skins from the ancient Lost Empire, which contained mysterious characters with psionic powers, so that the Assassins could remain invisible forever.
However, the Empire's Assassins have all been trained in invisible psionic abilities, and their psionic abilities are invisibility, paralysis, burdening, folding, and so on.
"Has the situation here been reported to Her Majesty?" A vaguely outlined figure spoke.
The assassin wearing a silver-gray combat uniform on the side said respectfully, "I have already reported it." The Empress asked us to keep an eye on it. ”
"The Empire is summoning the Knights."
At this moment, a phantom with a distinctly raised silhouette appeared in the darkness on the side, and then a cold female voice sounded: "Do we really want to deal with this monster?" ”
"The Empire has failed many times."
"Be careful." It was a vague old man who spoke, and he said slowly: "This kind of thing is not something we should consider. ”
"Her Majesty has her own decisions."
The Imperial Family has been getting more and more difficult these years, and if Edward I can be killed, it will undoubtedly be able to save some of his prestige, and even if it is unsuccessful, it can also take the opportunity to weaken the power of the ministers and the church. This operation was certainly not something that Empress Isabella's private forces could handle, and it would have to be assisted by other factions within the empire.
This mad emperor is a scar in the hearts of all the imperial people, and I don't know how many people want to put an end to it.
It is the past of the empire.
It is a constant reminder of their past failures, the terrible price they have paid, and only by killing them can the empire be reborn.
The small group of Assassins waited patiently.
But they didn't notice that more than a thousand meters away from them, there was something invisible to the naked eye that was secretly observing them, leaving traces like spiders crawling on the cliff beside them, accompanied by a blur of air, faintly revealing a creature with many legs, and there was more than one nearby.
"Discover the Scourge! ……”
"Inform the Mother Worm now! ......" A faint psychic communication came out and was sent directly to a beetle dozens of meters underground.
Soon.
A hundred kilometers away from the underground base of the rebels, a creature with a diameter of more than ten meters or so, with many tentacles, like a sarcoma, floated, and its body had an obvious spiritual power field, with the help of this spiritual power field, it could be directly suspended in mid-air, but because of its size, its movement was also quite slow.
Inside the swarm, it resembles a signal tower, which helps the mother worm control other Zerg.
Of course.
If the Mother Worm's psionic level is high enough, then there is no need for such a Zerg unit. But when necessary, they can also evolve a second time, directly evolving into a creature with bony wings, covered with a blue-purple mucus protective membrane, and then directly placed into the orbit of the planet's satellite, flying around the planet as a biological satellite, while maintaining the psionic communication network of different hives.
The communication range of the hive is directly linked to the psionic level of the mother worm, and the Zerg that exceeds the communication range too much may transform into a wild swarm.
"A natural disaster has appeared!"
"Keep an eye on them! …… The brood is preparing to hatch a Leviathan! ……”
"We need genetic seeds for natural disasters."
"Gather the swarm."
"Wait for the right moment."
A very low frequency psionic message was transmitted, and the Zerg's psionic communication network was very strange, and human instruments could only detect slight fluctuations, and only people with strong psionic energy could connect to it.
At this time.
Thousands of kilometers away from the carrier, thousands of meters underground, a huge city-like insect hive, located in the center of the corrupt organ is busy with countless busy worker bees, they use sharp mouthparts to crush ore, and then put into a constantly wriggling and crushing organ nest**, farther away is a group of insects with obvious ant characteristics, they are carrying a lot of heavy objects far beyond their own body size, the whole hive is like a huge and sophisticated machine, everything is carried out in an orderly manner.
Inside the flesh organ in the center, the floor is a carpet of dark cyan fungi, and in the center is a unique mechanical instrument on which groups of DNA gene fragments are projected.
In the dark.
A slender figure could be seen, it seemed to extend from the wall of flesh and blood, turning into the outline of a humanoid, a cold, sharp arm stretched out, with three cyan fingers on it, the sharp nails lightly on the projection, and then the order: "Continue to reorganize the genetic tree of the swarm." ”
"Let the velociraptor also have the ability to devour and digest metal ores."
"Biochemical modification can be stopped for a while."
"Human organ implantation and biological modification are not suitable for insect swarms, and it is too inefficient to do so."
"The swarm needs to evolve to perfection on its own."
With its orders given.
Inside one of the hive's massive flesh cavities, thousands of swift worms were frantically gnawing on the crimson ore on the side, their sharp teeth crushing the ore into powder and swallowing it into their stomachs bit by bit. The genetically modified stomach pouch began to digest the ore, but in a matter of moments, hundreds of swift worms began to show signs of madness and rashness, and then some began to die, and some began to attack the other zergs.
More and more swift bugs either went berserk or died, and eventually all the zerg in the flesh cavity turned into piles of cold corpses.
"Evolutionary failure."
"The current gene bank recombination is not yet able to completely digest the metal ore and transfer it into the limb evolutionary sequence."
It was this huge flesh cavity that sent out the psionic message, and it seemed to possess a certain amount of wisdom.
"Recover the body."
"Collect genetic changes and detect mutation sequences."
On the wall of the flesh cavity, there was a sudden wriggling that opened up one after another flesh pipes, and then a dark green liquid like stomach acid gushed out, quickly submerging the corpses of these zergs, but in a short time, the corpses of those zergs were completely digested cleanly.
"Three imperfect mutant genes were discovered."
"Is it included in the gene bank?"
"Samples are being collected and the evolutionary model is being recalculated."
Three minutes later.
After the last batch of Zerg all died, soon thousands of velocrats entered this flesh cavity, they should have just hatched, because some of them still have a trace of light blue mucus on their carapaces, they consciously gathered in the center of the flesh and blood organs, and then continued to devour the ore on the side under the order of the mother worm.
This time, a clear change has occurred.
On some of the velociraptors, their carapace has undergone some special changes, with a hint of silvery-white appearing on the abdomen and a hint of crimson gushing out of the back, all of which exude a metallic luster.
A large number of velociraptor insects died.
In the end, less than five survived, and the carapace on the surface of the body had a distinctly metallic color.
"Surviving units appear."
"Genetic testing is underway! …… Evolution isn't perfect! …… Start testing the intensity! ……”
The flesh passage on the side opens.
Then hundreds of other velocrats poured out, they rushed over frantically, attacking the survivors with their claws and teeth, and the velocrats with metalized carapaces on their bodies were even more ferocious, their blood-red pupils shrank slightly, and in an instant, they killed more than a dozen of their kind.
The relentless killing continues.
In the end, the five evolved swift worms were killed by their unevolved kind.
"Test complete."
"The degree of biological carapace enhancement is 120%, and the degree of biological claw enhancement is 150%, which does not meet the specified requirements, and biological superalloy samples are being collected to restart the genetic mutation experiment!"
"Recover the mutant gene."
From within the dark red wall, a dark green liquid gushed out again, quickly digesting the Zerg corpses inside, and then seeping into the flesh floor little by little, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
A few minutes later.
Thousands more swift worms were thrown into the flesh wall, and a new round of evolutionary experiments began again.
Cold, ruthless, cruel, efficient.
There is not only this one flesh cavity in the entire hive, but there are also huge fortress-like cavities on the side, which are constantly excreting and incorporating, swallowing a large amount of flesh, nutrients, and metal.
Thundered.
Suddenly, a massive explosion occurred in one of the flesh chambers.
Along with the flying wall of flesh and blood, in a wriggling hatching organ, a silver-gray scorpion appeared, its diameter was about five meters, the length was nearly twelve meters, its body was flat, its limbs were developed, the tail was a barb, and below the barb was a black hole in the biological cannon barrel, which was emitting wisps of light blue light.
"The evolutionary sequence of the bioplasma attack is complete! Power achieves the desired goal! ”
"It's being included in the gene pool."
"It has been detected that the supply of bioenergy is insufficient, and the evolutionary sequence is incomplete...... Evolves are only expected to launch three attacks...... Transforming gene sequences......"
"It is recommended to implant a higher-level Zerg psionic template."
"Evolution materials are out of budget, optimizing the genetic sequence, weakening the carapace defenses, and enhancing mobility......"
A large swarm of worker bees rushed over.
They were carrying some black-purple flesh matter, and began to repair the flesh cavity with their own slime, and soon the entire flesh cavity was completely sealed again, and only piles of material could be seen being sent into it.
The center of the hive.
The entire hive was moving at an alarming rate, and in the center was a huge sac that was impossible to see, but the outline was a bit like a fish, beating slowly and forcefully like a heart, and thousands of flesh pipes connected to its massive body, constantly pumping nutrients into it.
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