Chapter 50: The Terrible Truth

Wang Zhiyuan gave up tracking from looking at the Lancheng drone following behind, and thought: "Sure enough, you still have thoughts about me, fortunately, there are too many Zerg burrows on the other side of the worm nest that need to be cleaned, and they shouldn't have taken care of me recently." ”

The sky outside was getting darker and darker, and Wang Zhiyuan saw a brick factory in a mountain col not too far from the road. The orange sun was still a little red against the edge of the mountain in the distance, and the fiery red clouds pressed against the black-gray horizon in clusters of fire. A dark red tank circled into the col and quietly stopped behind the giant mixer of the brick factory.

Confirming that there was no danger around, Wang Zhiyuan opened the tank transformation interface and couldn't wait to ask: "Cortana~ What are today's harvests?" ”

Cortana opened a list and said, "Master Chief ~ The biggest gain today is two energy cores, as well as 6,800 units of compost particles. In addition, some data on the Laizi escape pod was obtained. ”

Wang Zhiyuan glanced at the detailed data and said, "Why do you get two energy cores, one is 68 percent of the energy, and the other is only 42 percent. It's only been so long since this was on Earth, how can you use so much? ”

Cortana projected the two energy cores and said, "That's the crux of the matter, the escape pod is carrying an intelligence analysis AI module." However, due to the impact of the mountain into the atmosphere, the intelligence analysis AI module has been damaged. When Wang Zhiyuan heard that he had discovered other AI modules so quickly, he suddenly came to his senses and asked, "Then there is always some information left, right?" ”

Cortana said, "There is a portion of the logbook left, and a portion of the research materials of the Terrans during their war with the Zerg. ”

Wang Zhiyuan got up and poured a cup of coffee back, leaned back and said, "Hmm~~Cortana~ continued." ”

Cortana displayed a 3D model of more than a dozen alien zergs on the bridge screen and said: "Through the research of the king god people, it has been found that this is a low-level social animal that has evolved through continuous expansion and non-stop hunting. It's essentially the same as most of the social insects such as termites and bees that exist on your planet. ”

Taking a sip of coffee, Wang Zhiyuan looked at Cortana on the screen with puzzled eyes and said, "It's not too much like termites on our earth?" We humans didn't run out of the earth, and the alien termites ran to the earth? ”

Cortana amplified an obese bug and said: "This very fat bug is named a headhunter, and according to research, this species can forcibly parasitize the cranial nerves of captured creatures in its own body." It is then raised in egg sacs hanging from a tree-like structure on its back, which can obtain information about the creature, its way of thinking, its way of fighting, and some of its DNA. ”

Next, Cortana zoomed in on the foot of a praying mantis insect and the foot of the mantis insect photographed in the battle just now and said, "See, the steps of this creature in the data of the king god are frog-footed, because most of the landforms of the king god are wetland swamps, and this frog-foot-like structure can facilitate movement. ”

Zooming in on the foot, he said, "In today's photo, you can see that the frog's foot-like feet have evolved into long, stretched limbs, making it easier to bounce and run. Earth's gravitational pull is slightly higher than that of Kings, and the Zerg's exoskeleton is also evolving in a thicker and thicker direction. ”

After carefully comparing the 3D model and the photos, Wang Zhiyuan said: "It seems that the armor pieces on the chest and back are not the same, will they eventually evolve to the extent that bullets and cannons cannot penetrate them?" ”

Cortana said: "Probably not, the main weapon of the king god is particle weapons, so the outer carapace of the Zerg is basically a hollow honeycomb-like structure. The earthlings mainly use chemical kinetic weapons, and if the Zerg want to evolve to a state that can completely resist chemical kinetic weapons, then their shells must have enough mass to cancel out kinetic energy. It's similar to a tortoise on Earth, but even a tortoise is obviously not completely resistant to machine guns and shells. ”

Wang Zhiyuan clicked on the outer armor beehive-shaped structure of the Zerg and looked at it and said: "It's also right~ Isn't it true that human beings can't build tanks and warships that are completely indestructible." If you want to be stronger, it will have to be heavier, and the heavier it will be, the more difficult it will be to move, and the cost of maintaining it will have to increase exponentially, but it will not have stronger combat power. "After looking at all the Zerg species recorded by the Wang Shenxing people, there are roughly eight species.

The first small flatworm, less than a meter long, runs around the Zerg base, called an industrial fungus, and can use the associated parasitic fungi in its body and the mucus secreted by its abdomen to build nests and other tasks. Similar to the worker ant among ants.

The second type of praying mantis-like bug is called the Soldier Bug, and its main attack ability is a pair of forelimbs that have evolved into a sickle, and a pair of giant chelicated mouthparts on the head. It moves quickly, and the proportion of numbers is also the largest among the zergs.

The third species is called spinyback, which is similar in length to the scorpion on Earth, except that the head can be raised high when fighting on the tail. The front pair of giant claws, which form a honeycomb on the outer side, will generate a kind of chitin-made spines inside, and will use the muscle contraction inside the shell to spray through the enemy.

The fourth species is called the jumping worm, which has not yet been seen, and it seems to resemble a mixture of wasps and jumping spiders on the earth. Approximately 60 centimeters in size and with 12 long thin legs, he jumps on his enemies and stings them with poisonous mouthparts and abdomen.

The fifth type is called a jet insect, and its appearance is basically a one-horned fairy beetle that grows three or four meters long and is inverted. It's just that the head and thorax have evolved into a strange tubular structure, folded over the tail end of the hypertrophied abdomen. During combat, it bounces and sprays a rapidly hardening biogel, rendering the target incapacitated and adept at burrowing.

The sixth type is the kind of flea, long-legged flea, which I saw at the ammunition depot at the range. Sneaking up on the prey and piercing the prey's nervous system with an abdominal sting implant larvae can partially control the prey's movements, and finally develop into an adult worm within the prey. The people of Wang Shenxing call this terrible insect a medulla.

The seventh species is called headworms, which have large abdomen, thick limbs, tree-like structures on their backs, and light green oocysts. Swallows prey into his abdomen and likes to keep the head of his prey in the oocyst behind his back. Comparing the data model of Wang Shenxing with the last three encounters, the changes in the shape of the chest and head seem to be getting closer to the upper body of humans.

The eighth species is called the Poison Explosion Bow Back Armor, no matter how you look at it, this species is the Poison Explosion Worm in StarCraft, the only difference is that it is fixed to the ground by its head, arching its back armor and bouncing towards the prey. And even if the fat abdomen has a violent biological energy explosion, the head and chest that have been blown away can grow new abdomen after a period of time.

After reading it, Wang Zhiyuan thought to himself: "I don't know if this is all the Zerg species, it is already more difficult to deal with than in StarCraft, and it will also capture people's heads to obtain information." If StarCraft is so difficult, who will continue to play~"

Cortana opened a zoomed-in picture covered with hyphae and said, "Isn't it scary, but according to my data analysis, the real harm to life on Earth at the moment is a fungal infection associated with the Zerg." The humans of the earth used a nuclear bomb to destroy the Zerg interstellar migration insects, and the fungal spores associated with the fragments of the wreckage of this giant species were blown away by the nuclear explosion storm to the entire atmosphere, causing a large number of earth creatures to be invaded. ”

Wang Zhiyuan slapped the table with dissatisfaction and said: "That's not Wang Shenxing, these useless guys brought the Zerg to the earth, the Zerg spaceship with a length of more than 40 kilometers, what can you do without a nuclear bomb?" ”