Chapter 213: New Ace
The Nicobar jumping ant and the Israeli golden bee are the simplest, combining the poison-controlling genes of two highly venomous insects, the jack jumping ant and the Israeli golden scorpion, respectively, and they are among the most poisonous ants and scorpions in the world, respectively, and their poison does not currently have any antivenom serum.
Therefore, these two kinds of bugs have no other characteristics, the only characteristic is - poison!
Venom, a legendary weapon that appeared in the process of biological evolution for hundreds of millions of years, its appearance has given creatures the ability to leapfrog the challenge of four or two thousand pounds, and the poison it bears makes it possible for even a spider with a large fingernail to kill a human.
This is the way of an assassin who blows a lethal blow and defeats the strong with the weak!
The purpose of developing these two poisonous insects is to replace the Stinger team - its cost is too high, only 1 is made in 2600, and it can't reproduce, if it weren't for the undead cells obtained by mistake later, tens of thousands of investments would be wasted.
In the future, the original Stinger Squad will take a back seat to the production line to contribute its own value, such as providing venom and quenching it on the bullet head to form a more stable kill, without having to charge into battle.
Their successors, these two insects, which incorporate the powerful reproductive genes of both the Nicobar Bowback Ant and the Ringed Vespa, are mass-produced insects, although they are not as toxic as the cyanide blood-sealed throat, but they are okay
- Is there a difference between dying once and dying 10 times?
In addition, in addition to taking over the position of the Stinger Squad in battle, they also replace the role of the Stinger Squad in another aspect: entrepreneurship, and they will be used as the new No. 1 Fist product to replace the Stinger Squad, which cannot be mass-produced and can only be used as a stepping stone.
The third and four species of insects are used differently than these two, and they are used for infrastructure.
Because the genes of these two insects involve a wide range, they are the most difficult to modify among all insects, and seventy percent of the genetic modification time is smashed here, and the difficulty of grasping the balance between the genes has reached the point where the gene chain structure diagram has been simplified, if there is no doctorate-level knowledge of biology, Lin Yuxian, who consulted Zhou Zifeng on the other side of the world, specially compiled a calculation program for him, and the final balance could not be eaten.
Cryptowinged giant termites are made with an insect called black-winged soil termites as the master version, and the decision to create this insect is not only that the termites are very superb builders, but also that they can even build a common name ant mound several meters high in Africa, and from the outside it looks like a rockery nest The infrastructure ability, and the ability to destroy even trapped concrete, but also because of their other habits:
Grow the fungus!
Many people have a misconception about termites, thinking that they simply eat wood, which is also true to a certain extent, because some termites, such as house termites, scattered termites are true, but many of their relatives, such as the black-winged soil termites in the hands of Zhong Heng, have evolved to the higher stage of "farming nation":
They do not eat wood directly, but chew it and paste it into a clump as a medium for special fungi, and then eat the mycelium that grows it.
This is the real-life version of the Zerg blanket!
In order to further these abilities, the final balance specially incorporated the genes of the other two insects to compensate for the weaknesses.
Termites can hollow out wood, cement, and even reinforced concrete, which are intimidating to other insects, relying on the acidic saliva that corrodes, softens, and finally turns these strong materials into ion-rich solutions, but they are too small, the acid they secrete is not very acidic, and they are too weak - the exoskeleton of termites is very soft, just a thin layer of white flesh similar to maggots, not the hard carapace of insects like ants.
As a result, they are very inefficient and destructive, and sometimes even some of the harder woods, such as mahogany, cannot be bored.
At the same time, in order to make up for the strength of termites limited by size, Zhongheng also integrated the genes of the giant bowback ant to control the body shape and exoskeleton - this is the largest ant in the world, the small worker ants are more than 2 centimeters, and the queen is nearly 4 centimeters, and people are bitten by it......
Zhong Heng still remembers that he used to buy a new ant in China who basically didn't raise a job except for him now, and when he teased with his fingers, he was bitten out of a wound that only healed after a week, and then sprayed with formic acid to "reduce inflammation......
This is the crypto-winged giant termite, it is the cornerstone of the road to the Zerg, and in the future, it will be grafted to the giant worm, and then the fungus and the feeding habits of the insect will be improved, even if it is not as good as the real Zerg.
Cryptopteropus termites are born as a fungus blanket for the food of the Zerg, and the cultivation of the fungus blanket is inseparable from the culture medium, and this fourth insect is created for the manufacture of this medium.
Its master is a very common insect in the flower and bird market, often sold as bird feed, like wriggling maggots, but more slender than maggots, bread worms.
The bread worm is a larva of the cloth beetle, which is very easy to feed, nothing special, that is, it can be eaten, and those who come do not refuse, as long as it can chew and move, it is their food:
Wheat bran, fruit leaves, carrion......
But in recent years, scientists have unexpectedly discovered that this guy has an outstandingness:
They can eat and digest plastic!
What's even more shocking is that after further experiments, scientists have found that the stomach and intestines of bread worms are simply a grinder, as long as what they eat is organic matter, bread worms can digest it into harmless feces.
Because of this, the study of this aspect of bread worms is known as one of the most promising projects in the recycling industry.
There will be no shortage of garbage generated by the development of harvest ants in the future, although there is not much of a problem with fewer people now, but the problem of garbage disposal will have to be faced sooner or later, so the abnormal state immunity bread worm was born.
Although bread worms are durable, they also have weaknesses, one of which is that their immunity is too poor, and it is easy to die from blight, blackhead disease, and rot disease caused by bacterial and fungal infections due to the dirty and damp environment, or eating unclean food.
In order to overcome this weakness, the final balance incorporated the immune genes of cockroaches and ants into it.
The body fluids in the ants are acidic, and the content of a special antimicrobial peptide component that is resistant to disease in the body is higher than that of many insects.
This is a well-deserved "little strong"!
After becoming an evolutionary, the American cockroach finally caught a lot of them to breed as feed, and their strong reproductive ability led to the number of "bursting" soon, and a while ago they were running around without a foothold, and they could not be released to harm the environment, so the final balance had to make a painful decision:
Destroyed!
After the insecticide was sprayed, all of them died, but there was one that resisted the poison and jumped around, and after finding that it was not dead, the final Heng sprayed it a few times with the insecticide, and even changed two kinds of insecticides, this guy still has no, even if it is the vicious dichlorvos that has been discontinued, it is equivalent to taking a bath!
Obviously, this is a rare mutated drug-resistant individual, and after realizing the value of this guy in the future, Zhongheng kept it, and now it just came in handy - Zhongheng specially used the evolutionary template to deduct this Xiaoqiang's anti-drug gene segment, and then embedded it in the body of the breadworm, it is precisely because of this gene that it can deservedly "be exempted from abnormal states"!
In addition to resistance, it also fused the genes of the Titan Hornhorn after the longest was originally no more than the thickness of the band, two or three centimeters of body shape became the thickness of the racket shaft, 7 centimeters to twelve or thirteen centimeters, and the mouthparts that could only eat soft objects were also turned into a crusher because of the fusion of a carnivorous insect called the sand crab and the mouthparts of the Titan Hornhorn that can even bite off with a pencil.
How scary is that?
Zhong Heng once tried to throw a small piece of hard bamboo down, but after half an hour, only a piece of debris remained......
In the end, there are only the rigid parasitic wasps.
This bug is special because it is not genetically modified from fusing other bugs with one bug as the master, but can be redeemed directly from the Shopstore module that devours the dragon's confidence!
This function was discovered by the final balance in the past two days.,In addition to being able to exchange for natural bugs,You can also exchange for new species designed by the original design of the template owner.,The design doesn't cost money.,Just set the characteristics and habits, and the mall will automatically debug to the best state without the troublesome process of groping like gene fusion.。
However, exchanging for an original or natural one costs a mid-level unit of Evolution Fragments, which seem to convert non-life into life.
After the final balance reward is given in the task, he can see the intermediate and advanced evolution fragments on the hologram, but they are much more sparse than the density of the primary units, and there are millions on the Dapeng Peninsula of the basic units, but the intermediate ones are only a few thousand, and the advanced ones are not even hundreds.
There were not many of them, and the final balance didn't dare to waste them, so in order to enjoy the shade under the big tree, he directly exchanged for a kind of insect left over after the dragon introspection was designed before, the Gangdi parasitic bee.
This is a mixture of two kinds of insects, Toxoplasma gondii and Ji Wa, so that the larvae of Ji Bee, a parasitic wasp, can survive in the human body like a human parasite, and it inherits the abilities of Toxoplasma gondii in its entirety.
It's not that it's the Ji Bee, which is a species that sits on a cold bench in his hobby, but that the name Toxoplasma gondii caused a great shock in the final balance.
It is a parasite that uses felines as its ultimate host, and humans or other animals are intermediate hosts, which is not surprising at first glance, but Toxoplasma gondii has a breathtaking ability:
All infected individuals will develop a sense of affinity for cats, and will be so desperate that they want to make contact with cats in order to complete the transition of Toxoplasma gondii from the host.
For example, rats infected with this parasite will no longer be afraid of cats as natural predators, and will actively play with cats until they are eaten by cats, while humans will become extremely fond of cats and like to touch cats' chrysanthemums and other parts (convenient to touch feces) to help the parasites in their bodies complete the transmission!
Similar abilities are also widely present in parasites, the most typical is the nematode, the reproduction of this parasite must be completed in the water, the praying mantis, locusts and other insects parasitic by it will become in a trance, and they will drown in the water, and then the parasitic nematodes in the body will break out of the abdomen and burrow, so the corpses of these insects can often be seen at the water's edge in summer.
This control mechanism has been a mystery, and no one knows why these parasites don't even have brains, but they are able to control much higher organisms than them to perform complex behaviors that they cannot understand, and the most widespread hypothesis is that they can release special hormones that circulate through the blood to stimulate the host's brain.
In the future, Final Heng will definitely have to deal with insects in this area - don't forget, there is still an alien queen egg in the worm bank, and if that statement is true, it will also have a certain relationship with the hormone template that he devoured but has not had time to study, so in order to pave the way for future development, Final Heng temporarily exchanged for Gangdi Parasitic Wasp to study.
It's just that......
Zhong Heng yawned a lot, shook his dizzy head, and used the designed map to expand the population of several insects to reproduce enough, Zhong Heng stretched his waist, and said to Xiao Qian before leaving:
"You won't be tired, you don't have to sleep, so help me watch the lab, I'll go rest for a while, call me ...... if you have a problem"
"Okay, let's go rest, I can't see the ...... that can't die for two or three hours" The other party smiled and complained, "You, you're really crazy, do you need to fight so hard?" ”
Zhong Heng smiled bitterly: Can you not work hard these days, isn't the doctor also busy abroad this time......
Recalling the situation outside these days, he continued: Anyway, compared to those who don't like it and are upset, such as cheating with a bunch of old foxes in the mall in two days, I think it feels good to fight in the field I like......
"Hahaha-"
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After washing, Zheng Heng, who had just changed into pajamas and lay down, was about to close his eyelids and fall asleep after a long absence, when a rush alarm suddenly made his pupils widen!