Chapter Ninety-Seven: A Special Path
In order to survive and reproduce, the giant zerg, who have the consciousness of dominating the group, seems to have come up with a pretty good idea.
Worms emerge from tunnels and come between jungles and grasslands, especially where fruit grows.
Then hang piles of fruits nearby, disguised as appetizing-looking fruits.
When the animals and giants see such fruits, they only need to put them in their mouths to complete the entire parasitic step designed by the giant insects.
After the eggs that were lucky enough not to be chewed come into the body, they begin to grow extremely rapidly.
The larvae, which violently absorb the nutrients from the host, absorb most of the fat and muscle from the host in a very short time, and when the hungry host ingests the food, they directly devour the food, so that the host cannot get more nutrients, and thus becomes weaker.
However, judging by the symptoms of the giants, these larvae seem to be smart enough not to destroy their internal organs and cause accidents such as death to deprive themselves of the cradle of nutrition.
Guo Sen recalled that after the giants, whose bellies had swelled to a high degree, were exposed to the sun, the larvae burst out of their abdomen.
The giant zerg, in this aspect of reproduction, seems to have evolved a special path.
However, Guo Sen still has some questions.
Why are there only so few of these insects on this continent that are not disturbed by natural predators and have parasitic reproductive ability?
It stands to reason that it shouldn't.
Since they can kill several giants under the dominance of the mother worm, their terrifying and sharp teeth, electrified tails, and superb reproductive ability, they are almost invincible.
Guo Sen was sure that any kind of creature would be able to occupy this land if it had the same conditions as these giant insects.
But why don't they?
Could it be that there is something that restricts them from being such a huge race?
Guo Sen looked away and found another giant insect nest a little farther away.
It's almost the same as the previous two, and it's also located in the underground area of a grassland.
However, there are also the footprints of the armored orcs here, and their existence also makes the life of the zerg not easy.
Guo Sen carefully compared the nests of the giant insects that occupied three places on the land, looking for what they had in common.
The nest is also located in the underground of the grassland, and also has a sense of colony dominated by the mother insect, and the range of activities is limited to a small area.
Also, when the monster insects dig their nests, they don't seem to be too fast.
Under the command of the mother, all the insects dig down little by little, although they can quickly reach the ground as if they were digging a tunnel.
What exactly is this for?
Just when Guo Sen was puzzled, a small insect suddenly lay down in the soil and rolled around, howling!
Then, all the other insects instantly stopped moving, and together with the mother worms, began to dig up the tunnel, and hurriedly squirmed towards it!
Well? What happened?
Guo Sen was puzzled by the sudden change.
He looked at the worm and saw that it was completely motionless.
Damn, dead?
What happened? There's no other creature here, huh? Besides, what can kill such a behemoth in an instant?
Soon, however, the groundwater gushing out from the insect's body gave the answer.
The speed at which the groundwater rose was not slow, and Guo Sen saw that the slowest worm only stood in the tail of a little water, then rolled wildly, and finally convulsed and fell into the water, completely immovable.
The rest of the bugs all crawled to the ground as fast as they could, not daring to delay for half a minute.
However, it seems that greater dangers await them on the ground.
The clouds were thick, the wind was blowing through the grassland, and the moment the insects had just burrowed out of the ground, the pouring rain also fell violently!
Underground water is constantly pouring in, and the ground is getting heavier and heavier, and the bugs don't even have the slightest way out.
"Squeak, squeak!"
All the bugs crawled frantically towards the mother, covering her body, as if trying to completely cover it with their bodies to avoid the torrential rain......
Twisted screams echoed across the lush grassland.
The efforts of the insects, which were controlled by the consciousness of the swarm, were insignificant in this rainstorm.
The mother worm, which was covered with layers of insect corpses, soon became a corpse in constant convulsions under the effect of sporadic raindrops, and finally stopped moving at all.
The rain doesn't want to stop there, even if the creatures that fear it are long gone.
Thunderstorm and a song of destruction for the giant insects!
Guo Sen watched all this.
He also understood why there were only a few nests on this continent, and why there were so few of them.
There are natural enemies inside who come to steal and eat insect eggs, and there are fatal shortcomings of dogs as long as they come into contact with water, and these giant insects actually live a really difficult life.
Since their appearance, they have evolved into such a large size that they have unique reproductive skills that are even parasitic.
Unexpectedly, they were mixed up with what they are today.
If you're unlucky, the remaining two giant insect nests will probably die out collectively after accidentally digging up groundwater or leaking water caused by a heavy rain.
If that's the case......
This race is really too cupgy.
Guo Sen moved his gaze to the other two giant insect nests and counted them.
The number of these sad races in this sphere now adds up to less than three hundred.
If they could live in a place similar to the Gobi or the desert, they would be very nourishing, right?
In that kind of place, there will definitely be no rainstorm like the one just now, there will be no underground water that can be dug up if it is not dug well, there will be no armor-covered orcs to steal their eggs, and there will be no climate that is too cold for them to move normally.
Still, where there is if.
If he can survive, this non-humanoid creature that Guo Sen saw for the first time, and the creature that dominates the consciousness of the cluster for the first time, can also develop an extremely unique civilization on his sphere, right?
Pity......
Guo Sen raised his gaze.
The three intelligent creatures that live on this continent all have extremely unique ways of surviving.
The giants have extremely powerful tribes, their physical conditions that can be proud of all races, and the hierarchical concept of orderly division of labor also allows them to quickly and continuously develop the tribe;
Armored beasts live underground, in caves and even in mountains, and they have taken advantage of their environment to develop the craft of smelting gold, which they trade for food and ore from giants.
Strange insects have built their nests in arid soil far from water sources, and they are swarm-minded, and they have been expanding their populations with very special breeding methods.
There is a more complex relationship between these three races.
Strange insects will ambush giants and use them as food, and they will also hide their eggs into solids and parasitize them;
The armored orcs used the eggs of monsters as their staple food, and there was a barter trade with giants.
However, the delicate balance between these will one day be disrupted.
What happens after the destruction?