Chapter 303: Swarm Construction - Class Chapter

The human army has different social divisions of labor, farmers, soldiers, scientists, engineers, etc., together constitute a complete society, highly socialized insects, such as harvest ants in ants, all-alien giant ants and other ants have also achieved the ultimate in the division of labor, there are often dozens of body types in an ant nest, and the smallest individual and the largest weight are more than hundreds of times, which is larger than the gap between humans and elephants.

Therefore, the class that designs the swarm must be based on the division of labor.

In the end, the current conditions are still too far away from creating a giant Zerg mothership such as the Leviathan for entering space, so he plans to divide the insect swarm into these three major arms like the human army is divided into three armies, such as the sea, land and air forces, and then design ordinary infantry units, engineering troops, tank troops, fighter units and other similar combat units under the banners of all parties.

His strategy was to prioritize the Air Force, then the Army, and finally the Navy.

The reason for giving priority to the development of the air force is that in modern warfare, apart from the first round of information-based warfare, there is a struggle for air supremacy, and all countries in the world are now busy developing aircraft carriers, and the struggle for sea power is essentially an extension of it.

Building your own mobile air force is a top priority:

"That's you!"

Looking at the hideous projection on the hologram, Zhong Heng nodded with satisfaction.

This is the most basic combat unit in the air force he designed, and finally Heng gave it a name, called the Caracalfly.

The bug is gray in color, about 40 centimeters long, and at first glance it looks like an enlarged version of a dragonfly, but its head is very hideous, and acid drips from its meat grinder-like mouthparts from time to time.

It is a cannon fodder-level unit with only one purpose, which is ...... Impact, as well, self-detonate!

The mother of this bug is an ordinary giant bee, and most of the gene segments have been replaced with the code of a common large dragonfly nearly 10 centimeters long, the ghost dragonfly, and the genes of a stone dragonfly that is not a dragonfly although it also has the word dragonfly in its name.

The latter's real name is the Vietaka giant tooth butterfly, a giant insect distributed in the Sichuan province of China, covered in heavy armor, with a pair of huge clips on its head, and a wingspan of up to 20 centimeters!

After the genetic modification was completed, the caracal was modified by self-exploding insects, and a cyst-like biochemical wind tunnel was installed on its back, and trace metal elements were added to the shell to withstand the strong wind pressure it faced during the flight.

After the transformation of the insect flight speed is very terrifying, after the wind tunnel is started, the speed can reach Mach 2, the sonic boom produced is enough to break the eardrum of people, the modern air force is attacking high and low defense, F22, the fifth-generation aircraft is likely to crash when it hits a bird, if it is overwhelmed by the ocean of dragonflies, what will be the consequences of the natural needless to say.

It's just that...... It's just too expensive.

A set of worms is transformed, and it takes nearly 5,000 evolution fragments!

These insects modified with the magic transformation ability devoured from other evolutionary templates cannot reproduce themselves like genetically modified, they are just one-time expensive consumables, and the limitations are still very large, even if they are modified, they will not be able to fly more than 100 meters in the sky because there is not enough oxygen around them.

But why does the final balance still say that it is a cannon fodder-level combat unit?

Hehe, this has to be the most precious benefit brought back from this mission, the alien egg.

The queen after hatching is no different from in the movie, as long as it is given enough edible organic nutrients, it can lay larvae like dumplings at any time, and it only takes a few days to hatch face-hugging eggs.

After testing, the final balance found that if it was at full power, it could produce 50 ordinary cannon fodder-level or 5 elite Praetorian Guard-level every day, but queen-level products like it were relatively rare, and it might take months or even a year to give birth to one, and the final balance did not have one now.

As we all know, the strength and form of the resulting alien are tied to the type of host it parasitizes, and it can be judged from how strong the queen in the final balance is.

So, the question is, what will happen if the host it spawns is not as strong as the host it was born from?

The answer is degradation.

These days, Zhongheng has experimented with Japanese corpses and prisoners of war, and found that the mature body born is no different from the ordinary alien in the movie except for the acid spraying ability inherited from this queen, which is about the same level as a level 2 evolutionary, if the parasitic is the kind of level 2 cyborg will be slightly more powerful, and the basic attributes will be higher to reach the level of a level 3 evolutionary.

It can be seen that parasitic humans are far from achieving the combat power effect of the Zerg army that the final balance wants.

But it's not the same if parasites, especially those that have been modified.

As an aside, those "magic reform" insects are not incapable of reproduction to be precise, but the success rate is very low due to the destruction of the stability of germ cells by being transformed, but even if they mate with each other, the offspring they give birth to are just ordinary insects, and they do not have the ability to be transformed - think about it, otherwise, if you can reproduce, you only need to spend tens of thousands of evolution fragments to make up a few pairs, which is not equivalent to being invincible in the world? How can there be such a good thing.

The reason for this is that after dissection and gene map comparison, Zhong Heng found that the so-called modification did not change their genes, but only used some special means to transplant some biochemical products on their bodies, which is the same as transplanting the same limbs as normal people to a person who is congenitally disabled due to genetic diseases, but if they do not change their genes, their offspring are still disabled, and it is a truth that ugly girls are still ugly girls after plastic surgery and become beautiful women.

But these modified insects are different when combined with aliens.

The final balance found that the mature body born from the parasitic face-hugging worm can partially inherit the ability brought by the transformation due to the ability of the alien to absorb the advantages of the host!

Take this dragonfly as an example, after parasitic it, although I don't know if it's because the bug and the alien are closer to the human and the alien in terms of kinship, the insect alien change born from the dragonfly's body is not much compared to the original, but there are more bumps on the exoskeleton in some places to look more hideous, and the power of self-explosion has also been weakened, but there is more acid blood and the spring-like retractable tongue of the alien.

However, due to the change in body structure, the overall combat effectiveness has increased as expected, about 50 percent.

Then here comes the question again:

If it is a queen larva, is it possible that the face-hugging worm that is born after the parasitic maturity can inherit its ability as long as it parasitizes anything?!

Theoretically, yes.

You must know that the obviously over-modified cyborg Ichiro Onizuka himself has no reproductive ability, but the queen born with it as a host does, and the offspring born after parasitizing ordinary humans still inherit the ability to spray acid and part of the regenerative power, and theoretically parasitic demon transformation insects also have the same effect.

After launching this conclusion, the final balance roughly determined the direction of future development: first transform the species as a host for the queen larvae to parasitize, so that in the future, only the insects that have not been transformed by self-explosion insects or toxicity enhancement, but only the ordinary modified insects are parasitized by the ordinary face-hugging insects with these abilities born by the queen, and after several rounds of such circulation, you can use the selection method similar to the breeding of pet cats and dogs to create a real Zerg army!

On the other hand, he can also do the opposite, grafting the genes of the alien to these modified insects, so that the dragonfly can overcome the problem of lack of oxygen, and from time to time it drips corrosive saliva.

Everything is difficult at the beginning, after getting the caracal dragonfly, the work after accumulating experience is much easier, and finally Heng began to design other bugs.

Since the giant insects in their hands have not multiplied, many insects only have a careless conceptual composition on the simulation map in the computer, and even only have some data references that stay on paper.

But Rao is so, and it is also precious.

They, similar to the source code in computer data, are the foundation of the swarm, and the first step in the rise of the final balance to become the supreme master!

The Caracal is a suicide cannon fodder air unit used as a missile, and in addition to it, the Zerg army also has two types of units in the air force:

Electro molten insects, giant eagle moths.

The former is based on the electric beetle as the master, fused with the ability of the cannon beetle to fire biochemical cannons, and then fused with the native earth bugs, and the genes of the air cloth beetle have been optimized.

He designed this bug because he was inspired by Ai Science's molten energy electromagnetic cannon, and planned to reproduce its splendor on this bug, and even if it was only one-tenth of the power at that time, it would be remarkable enough.

And it's not just the final balance.

In the future, he will use the power of the Harvester Ants to create a biochemical version of the molten electromagnetic cannon in his abdomen for bombardment, in addition to a cannon for aerial melee dogfights on his head, and equip several modified Sword Horn Locusts in the crevices of the carapace as miniature intelligent defense missiles.

The latter is the product of the beetle's control genes that have been modified to a certain extent, and then fused with an earth insect.

This earth insect is called the hummingbird eagle moth, and its flight ability is very high - not because it flies fast, but because it can hover in the air for long periods of time like a hummingbird, even when its body is turned upside down, and it is very responsive to changing air currents, even during storms brought by typhoons!

Such an ability, if amplified by genetic fusion, is perfectly suitable for making transport planes, so the length of each giant eagle moth will reach 12 meters, and the wingspan will reach 40 meters - this is the largest size that can be carried after the calculation and derivation of existing data, and the power of flying in the air is no less than that of the most famous moth monster, Mothla!

In the future, it will serve not only as a transport unit, but also as a bomber, as well as an "aircraft carrier" for the docking of the modified self-detonator, which is simply a fortress in the air!

After talking about the Air Force, let's look at the Army.

The basic unit of the army swarm is the Praying Mantis, and their ability to control the silk thread makes it easy to control the best platform for weapons such as machine guns, cannons, and other weapons on their backs, and the final plan is to integrate each heavy beetle into the genes of the electric beetle to give them the ability to discharge electricity - so that they can obtain the energy to propel electromagnetic weapons.

Then, he will reduce his 20-meter-long size by two to three times to enhance mobility, and the blade arm will also be magically modified to make it poisonous, which is already comparable to the melee ability of a level 4 evolutionary, and with heavy weapons, each of them will not be weaker than a tank, and can adapt to various terrains, and the torrent composed of tens of thousands of charging together is definitely a nightmare for any army!

What is the name of this modified bug?

Well, although the combat power of the pavilion mantis will become weaker after the size becomes smaller, it is also much stronger than the puppys of the Zerg, and because there are weapons that are generally a little more powerful than the stinging snake, it is called the stinging mantis!

With the basic soldiers, how can there be no tanks responsible for cover?

The final balance has been decided in this regard, and the heavy beetle cannon beetle is in charge, as their flat backs are the best platform for carrying heavy weapons.

He will fuse the genes of the Alien Queens with them to give them greater physical strength to support their larger size, and remove the extra scissor-shaped tails to ensure balance, expand the diameter of each one's body to the limit of 20 meters according to calculations, and install a giant biochemical cannon behind it that is boosted by a biochemical wind tunnel and analyzed after the weapons captured by the Clam City Battle last year!

Combined with the small self-detonating insects that inhabit its body for defense, and the melee weapons such as machine guns mounted on the side, if the giant moth is a fortress in the sky, then they will be land cruisers!

Well, the name of this kind of unit is called Land Cruiser Bug, referred to as Land Patrol Bug!

The stinging mantis and the land patrol insect are combat units, and it is the turn of the logistics troops below.

There is only one kind of insect in this regard, and Zhong Heng has designed it a long time ago - the cryptoptered giant termite, which has been perfected to add the gene of the mole cricket, so that its front legs have become shovel-shaped and more suitable for digging.

They don't intend to be parasitized by the alien, but only fuse the genes that can survive in the vacuum environment and the strong acid genes of the aliens, and then use a creature that he can control after he obtains control of crustaceans, the coconut crab, as the mother version, to obtain a huge size and a sturdy shell.

In the future, their job is to carry out official construction, and the cultivation of the newly obtained transformation bacteria will be similar to the existence of worker bees in the Zeg Zerg, although now due to the relative scarcity of coconut crabs as the master version, these days they have found various channels, and they have spent a lot of money to finally get more than 30, but the transformed queen ant has shown their terrifying infrastructure ability:

Well, dozens of them are added together, and the ability to dig holes is no weaker than that of the alien queen, and the granite stones with corrosive secretions are like digging tofu.

After some transformation, it is not appropriate to call it cryptowinged giant termites again, because their own ability is biased towards engineering operations, and finally Heng named them engineering insects.

This is the army, and there is still a navy left among the three major branches of the armed forces, and since the current focus of the final balance is not on water warfare, it has not yet been designed.

Others, such as the giant bee that fuses the light insect gene and self-detonates to block flash grenades, or the white-fronted stilt spider that fuses the thunder light insect that can release the current that causes a short circuit in an instant, etc., are used for infiltration operations, and then parasites, and even biological invasion weapons have been studied a lot, but most of them have not had time to put into production due to conditions and time constraints.

With a wealth of experience and theoretical support, the same Zerg with the unique characteristics of the earth has been produced, and the Zerg base of the Ultimateum is flourishing like a small tree that spits out tender shoots, every day is a new atmosphere, and his strength is also rising step by step.

But that's not enough!

After the general work on the design side was almost complete, the final balance turned his gaze again.

This time, he stared at a higher level:

Stratagem!