Chapter 168: Swarm Building Plan (Part I)
Under the silent moonlit night, an electric beetle flew on the clear stream, and from time to time a puff of electric arcs burst out between the yellow and blue wings, emitting dazzling blue light, setting off its body blue like a huge firefly, like a dazzling star in this empty dense forest.
"It's coming!"
In the low grass, the final balance of the senses was excitedly said.
When he woke up today, it was about eleven o'clock in the morning, and after dealing with some miscellaneous things, he never expected that he would have the opportunity to return to his old job in this virtual space - studying bugs!
Uh, well, it's a kind of bug in a virtual work, but it doesn't prevent it from adding to it the professional and rigorous material supplement that the architect of the worldview dreams of:
Electric beetle, insect class, Coleoptera, Scarabidae subfamily, Weevil, electric beetle species (newly added) organisms.
This is the classification determined by the final balance through his own knowledge, and then through the habits of the insects in this classification and the subjective feelings after opening one-to-one control, the habits of the electric beetle are roughly determined:
Insects of the Scarabidae family are vegetarians and prefer to inhabit rotten trees and feed on the sap of plants; In captivity, beetle jelly mixed with agar, brown sugar, and fruit juice can also be fed directly to fruits, and the same is true for electric beetles.
Combined with the knowledge learned, first let it find food on its own under the control of the puppet, and then intuitively feel its craving for different foods through sensory acquisition, and finally determined the recipe of this guy:
Like the beetles of the genus Rhinocarab on Earth, they mainly eat plant sap, and there are also some other fruits, grass leaves, and fallen leaves, but this guy doesn't like ordinary tree sap.
It's relieved to think about it, after all, such a huge insect, even if there are two people hugging an ordinary tree, it is not enough for it to eat, so the plants it likes are either particularly tall and unique to this world, like the towering giant trees of the earth's tallest tree-redwood, or succulents with hypertrophic vegetative organs and rich nutrients.
At the same time, this guy has something different from his relatives on Earth, that is, in order to make up for enough protein, he will occasionally eat some carrion or small animals; On the other hand, like many monsters in this world, such as Chiron, the electric beetle also has a certain love for natural ores, mostly iron ore or a blue ore called chaffinite that is more common in the world of Monster Hunter.
Of course, it can't eat these like birds to eat, and the final balance speculates that it is likely to make up for trace elements such as iron, copper, zinc, and silicon to ensure the hardness of the exoskeleton, and it is also speculated that it can gather arcs In addition to the strong power generation organs in the body, it may also be related to the content of these trace elements in the body.
On the one hand, they strengthen the conductivity of muscles and carapace to ensure the flow of current, and on the other hand, they may accumulate two metal elements such as zinc and copper in the head and tail respectively to form a battery-like circuit.
With such a chaotic diet, coupled with some questioning of some villagers and hunters in the village, finally Heng learned that this thing mainly lives in a good environment with abundant water and grass and clear streams, so he came to the final conjecture:
When designing the electric beetle, the game designer obviously combined the characteristics of many kinds of insects, although the image is rhino beetle, but in terms of habitat, the requirements of the electric beetle are relatively similar to the firefly family, which has high environmental requirements, and it is also somewhat similar in terms of discharge (light); As for diet......
There is no way to determine this final balance, after all, there is no insect on the earth that will eat ore, so it should be considered that a new species has been discovered.
After figuring out the habits, the final balance conducted another combat test and made the following discoveries.
In terms of combat effectiveness, as Zhang Jiawei said, the electric beetle is a monster more terrifying than the male fire dragon, it has three axes: electric howitzer, charged rush, and power grid coverage.
Needless to say, the electric howitzer is its ultimate kill, and the power of one shot is not weaker than the thunder and lightning in nature.
But this move is too expensive, and continuous opening is like going to 1000 meters at a speed of 100 meters, and it is easy to run out of physical strength, even if the electric beetle in a full state can only shoot 5 to 6 rounds at most.
Charged charge, that is, the first time to kill the final balance of the trick is more cost-effective, lethal but not large, once the use of electric beetle speed will rise several times - the final balance speculates that this may be similar to the principle of the motor, the higher the current intensity, the faster the running speed, the stronger the power.
Finally, there is the cool power grid coverage, Kai always thought it was very expensive, but after careful inspection, it was found that its consumption was less than one-fifth of the electric howitzer, the reason may be similar to the principle of the electric baton, the current intensity is low but the voltage is extremely high, and those cool-looking arcs may actually just be static sparks generated by contact with air.
There are also some miscellaneous moves, such as topping people, tail flicking, etc., but they are not of much value and will not be listed one by one.
To be able to release such a huge amount of electrical energy, it is impossible to do it with insufficient biological energy for transformation, so the endurance of the electric beetle is very good, and it is speculated that it is full at one time according to the final balance of sensory acquisition, and if it has not been discharged, it can probably fly hundreds of kilometers, and its power is also large enough to bring several people to the sky - the only regret is that the electric power on its back in front of its wings, probably at the neck, can only sit two people at most.
After figuring out all the characteristics, Zhong Heng rode his newly acquired "mount" and began his great plan - to capture the powerful insect monsters in this world, form his own army, and start the "Zerg Era" ahead of schedule!
This trip has three purposes, first, to capture some monsters that seem to be weak, but under the control of the final balance, they can exert their power at a super level, such as giant bees, reptiles, and large thunder insects.
Giant bees, in particular, are extremely adaptable, and they are present in the harsh environments of this world, from the polar regions to volcanoes, forming obstacles in the game that disturb hunters' hunting and paralyze people at critical times.
Its leader, the queen bee, is a powerful monster, with a body size of more than 2 meters, and its tail can also spray corrosive acid, even if it is not as strong as an electric beetle.
Although these worms may be extremely difficult for others to deal with, they are ...... Even the queen bee, when it enters the range of 100 meters, it has no ability to resist under the ability of insect control, and it will all turn into puppets of the final balance at a glance.
By controlling a giant bee, ordering it to return to the nest and finally Heng rode an electric beetle to follow closely behind, and he easily found the nest that was extremely difficult to find in the game, and it was necessary to kill a large number of little brothers to lure the boss out, and by controlling a large number of worker bees, he directly blasted out the queen bee from the queen bee and captured it with a look.
Like the golden-ringed wasp raised by the final balance, as a kind of social bee, their habits are generally similar, such as only one queen, omnivorous and carnivorous, when there is something to do in a group, there is nothing to act alone to find food to return to the nest, there is a certain territorial range, etc.
The only difference is their social organization structure - the earth's golden-ringed wasp is a "** society", with absolute equality between individuals, and the queen bee is just a reproductive machine with no privileges;
But here, the queen bee is like a real Zerg queen, with absolute control over the nest and the power to kill her subordinates, by emitting a special pheromone to give orders to her subordinates, and those who dare to disobey will not die under the siege of the rest of the members or under its jaws.
This also makes it easier for the final balance - at least he doesn't need to put a lot of "array eyes" to control the entire swarm, but only control the queen bee, the source of authority that gives orders.
On the way to fly more than ten kilometers around the village of Demira before dark, dig out three giant bee hives, and catch more than 40 crawles that look like grasshoppers, as well as a large number of miscellaneous material insects that have not had time to study how to use them, he also completed the second purpose by the way:
Brush points.
What is the purpose of creating a swarm? Of course, it is to get more benefits in this world, such as brushing points.
This world is very rich in species resources, just a cannon fodder-level blue speed dragon king has a few hundred points, it's not too cool to brush, with a newly combined army, especially one of them has an electric beetle and a newly transformed 3 super self-detonating bees with explosive power comparable to missiles, as long as you don't encounter the ancient dragon species in this world, you can go sideways!
Although he didn't go too far today, and because he was too close to the human gathering place, there were no powerful monsters nearby, but for those monsters who dared to rush up when they saw him, such as the big monster bird, the big boar king and the like, he just wanted to say one thing - retarded people like you need electricity!
There is no need for the ultimate killer move of electric howitzers, if it is on the ground, the final balance will "dismount", and let the electric beetle directly kill the opponent with an electric worm; If it is encountered in the air, "you can't get off the horse", and finally Heng will directly let the giant bee army led by the queen bee go up and knock down the opponent and then go down to make up the knife.
These extra deceased people made the final balance unexpectedly receive two or three thousand points.
The third purpose is to capture high-end combat power such as electric beetles!