"Finally, it worked!"

In the middle of the night, after another day of busyness in the base shrouded by the enchantment, the tired harvest ant members almost all turned off the lights, only the lights in the insect laboratory where the leader Ultimateum was still on.

In front of the experimental table, Xiao Qian, who was an assistant, took a cup of coffee and drank it all, Zhong Heng cheered excitedly, and his bloodshot eyes looked at the 5 test tubes containing different strange insects on the table.

These were the first successful products made by the gene fusion module, and in order to build them, they were finally balanced for three days and three nights without sleeping, and in the garbage basket under the corner of the table, hundreds of crooked melons and cracked dates were piled up, and there was a pile of crumpled draft scraps.

Most of these corpses are extremely bizarre, as if a low-quality P-figure hand has used software to detain different insect limbs and regenerate them hard and stitch them together.

To cite a few examples: a cotton locust with six legs that are retractable knife arms of the praying mantis, and its mouth becomes a straw for bug hunting; An ant with a large jaw that has turned into a spider's fangs, and a pair of beetle-like elytra on its back; There are also dragonflies whose tails have become scorpion stingers......

They are all "sacrificed" in front of the failed brothers for the birth of the five successful products, some of them were hung up by themselves after being transformed and couldn't adapt to the environment, some of them were simply sacrificed as stepping stones, and some of them were killed after being created because they were not satisfied with the final balance......

The process of worm-to-worm gene fusion operation is roughly as follows:

Open the properties panel, and you will see a 3D scan of the bug that you can control, from the exoskeleton to the muscles to the organs within, everything from the smallest structures.

The transformation must select a bug as the master, and after the selection, silently recite the areas that need to be improved in its image in the bottom of your mind, and then the selected place will be enlarged, and at the same time, there will be several genetic maps that seem to be overlapping each other as if countless double helix stairs are overlapping each other, and each column is accompanied by a textual explanation, such as this section controls the length of the wings, that section controls the hardness of the shell, and so on.

These maps are equivalent to scratch paper, and if you want to modify the gene, you must first perform various editing operations on them, you can choose to delete, add, modify, or deduct a piece from the map of another kind of bug to fit together, and the fusion is as much as you want.

After the compilation work is completed, the 3D scan on the main interface will generate a preview image of the transformation, if you confirm that there is no problem, take one of these bugs, and make sure that the worm will be wrapped in a white light after the transformation, and there will be signs of material decomposition and reorganization around the light, and it will be completed when the light dissipates and the signs stop.

The price of gene fusion is very low, and it is only 1 basic evolution fragment to change a trait, but the so-called cheap is not good, and the modified insect body is not like the template fragment in the evolutionary body, which will automatically and perfectly fuse the protection mechanism unless you choose to die, and it is common to fail:

Genetic modification is a gradual process, if too many changes are made at one time, the insect will often be unable to bear it and the gene will disintegrate, directly turning into a puddle of meat mud; And even if it succeeds, it is often a defective product that cannot survive because of poor consideration.

For example, the first unlucky guy was the cotton locust with six legs full of mantis knife arms, this one finally tried with a playful mentality, and replaced the gene that controls the shape of the locust's legs with the one that controls the shape of the mantis's knife arm, and the result is that the performance of the guy who looks quite handsome on the simulation is instantly shocking:

The mantis's knife arm is usually curled up in front of its chest like a prayer, and it mainly relies on the back four normal legs to stand, and the result is that this cotton locust can't even stand up by opening its six spiky legs as expected by the final balance.

Moreover, the legs have become knife arms, and there is a lot of weight for no reason, not to mention, the structural changes alone have destroyed the balance of the locust's original body.

It couldn't fly anymore, so it lay on its side on the ground, kicking its legs weakly, and looking at Zhong Heng with a pleading look of "you kill me" until he burst the locust's head with one finger and ended its pain.

The genetic traits contained in every species that have survived to the present day have been tested by nature for millions of years, and the reason why it still exists is only because of the phrase "survival of the fittest", that is, it can adapt to the environment, and rashly changing it will only break the balance accumulated for thousands of years.

Take the dragonfly with the scorpion tail as an example, this guy is the second victim of the final balance, after learning the previous lesson, he did not copy and paste the entire gene chain, but took off a part of each side to find a middle balance point, and did not choose to fuse until the simulation on the preview image looked like a dot.

This time it's quite like a thing, you can fly, you can crawl, you can attack, but the layman can't see it, but as an insider, the final balance still sees the problem at a glance:

In the journey of evolution, what biology pursues has never been "survival of the strong", but "survival of the fittest", and the most urgent need of natural species is to put it simply, just to eat enough rather than to pursue the coolness of appearance like humans, a bug-level species that has been above the food chain.

The extra tail made the dragonfly lose its ability to make sharp turns, and its flight speed was reduced by half, which meant that it was no longer able to catch nimble insects such as flies and mosquitoes.

The extra poisonous tail not only did not become a boost, but became a burden - the whip-shaped tail of the scorpion needs to be stable to hit, and its hit rate is very low under flight conditions, even if it is aimed at a target as big as a human head, it can't stop the car when it is close, not to mention that the main component of venom is protein, and it takes a lot of nutrients to generate, and dragonflies will consume a lot of biological energy in fast flight, and the secretion of venom must reach at least 1.5 to 2 times the original nutrient intake!

Originally, the number of insects caught was greatly reduced, but now that it consumes more energy, this increase and decrease will only bring one result - it will not be able to make ends meet, and the dragonfly will soon starve to death if it cannot catch its prey.

As for surviving on the ground like a scorpion, it is even more impossible, because it does not have the pincers that scorpions use to clamp their prey and a hard exoskeleton with strong defense, but it has an extra pair of wings that are equivalent to cumbersome to crawling on the ground, and it is difficult to compete with those rough-skinned prey on the ground without flying.

That's why dragonflies with stingers on their tails once existed on Earth, but they later became extinct.

Therefore, genetic modification cannot only consider combat effectiveness, otherwise it will be like a dragonfly, which is equivalent to tearing down the east wall and making up the west wall, creating a new advantage and then wearing out the original advantage.

It needs to take into account many aspects, such as what the modified insect should eat, what kind of habits it should match, what kind of environment it can adapt to, how to deal with emergencies, and so on.

So, after that, he became much more cautious, first listing the ideas for transformation on scratch paper, then deducing each idea based on what he had learned in his chest, building an analysis model based on the preview diagram, and then putting it into practice.

There are naturally a lot of difficulties encountered during the period, often after changing a gene chain due to new defects, it is necessary to change several gene chains in other places to make up for it, many insects die of genetic collapse due to multiple modifications, and of course, in the end, it is naturally accompanied by a bunch of waste products like locusts and dragonflies, which have to be destroyed, and finally there are these 5 new ace bugs.

The most cost-effective of all the modified insect weapons is the biological invasion weapon, but the current opponent of the final balance is the ruling, the existence of evil evolutionaries and other hidden in the shadows, and this kind of weapon used to target opponents in the light, such as those big powers, is obviously useless.

Besides, it is unknown whether the conditions at hand can control this evil weapon that will cause a disaster that will make him the public enemy of the whole world, just like the alien egg at hand, so it is not planned to develop this kind of bug for the time being, but will focus on other places:

Now, he needs combat bugs, and at the same time, the harvest ants are in the period of great construction, and various bugs for auxiliary production are needed, and under the impetus of this demand structure, the following 5 kinds of strange insects that have never appeared in the world have been born:

Nicobar jumping ant, Israeli golden bee, cryptopteropera termite, anomaly immune breadworm, rigid parasitic wasp.

These bugs are not strictly the final product, because they lack the most important factor compared to the Zerg, size, and in order to get a large size, they must be mastered by those giant bugs.

These insects have many genetic conditions that the Zerg civilization should have, such as the release of thunder and lightning by the electric beetle is a good embodiment of bioenergy transformation, the firing ability of the cannon beetle is the prototype of the biochemical cannon, and the ability of the mantis to spin silk to control the mechanism is even more limitless if it is combined with the mechanical technology of Ai Science, and it is these that make the final balance level evaluation rise to level four, plus they can adapt to the earth's environment under the premise of maintaining their body size. There are many research values in terms of muscle and bone conditions.

If you incorporate the advantages of some native insects on the earth, such as the colony genes of ant termites, the prototype of the zerg will basically come out, but the only regret is that their number is too small at this stage.

The five kinds of insects that have been researched these days should be regarded as paving the way for the Zerg era to accumulate experience!