Chapter 112: Coming Out of the Cage
Just when Pan Wen felt that D21's progress was slow but barely smooth, a certain fat worm was actively arranging a big business.
After coming into contact with humans and settling down, the fat worm had to spend some time every day trying to recall useful information, and finally he remembered a big event some time ago.
Just a few days before human contact, there was a colored light in the sky, and he didn't have the help of a "telescope" at that time, and thought it was an aurora or something. When I think about it, I feel more and more that it is a space war.
Also, since then, every ten days or so in the sky, you can see a lava planet, which didn't seem to be there before.
Regardless of whether the lava planet was the work of the orbital fleet or the work of their enemies at the time, and in connection with the fact that the shape of the battleship that appeared during the regular patrol of the battleship observed by the "telescope" in the back was rarely repeated, it was basically concluded that the fleet staying in orbit was much more powerful than he had guessed before!
This is not good news for fat worms.
He could find a way to create enough overbearing bugs to attack low orbit from the ground, but he couldn't make an outer space-type bug that could fight the fleet under the watchful eye of the fleet - those bugs could not have evolved naturally in the existing ground environment just by propelling the structure, and would definitely be targeted if they appeared.
The fat worm began to realize that under the suppression of the orbital fleet, it was too difficult to occupy this planet, especially under the premise that he did not dare to massacre the local insect swarm, and the speed of the ontology level rise was not as fast as the production capacity and technological expansion speed of the ground base.
Suicide is not possible, he has been reincarnated several times since the beginning of the Galactic Era, only now he is the highest level. Reluctance to the current level is one of them, and it is more important to survive in too many uncertainties, and it is unknown whether there are local insect swarms that can provide more experience and essence, and it is not clear whether they will be thrown directly into the human laboratory to die.
I remember one time he was reincarnated and was forgotten on a planet without atmosphere, and the environment was ...... Before he died, he had only gained one-thirtieth of the essence he had consumed, not to mention experience and development.
In addition, after the small flying insects that evolved before were integrated into the local insect colony, although they brought some trouble to humans, they still didn't really stop their development. After careful consideration, he decided that his next goal would have to be to find another planet for himself to develop and avoid the damn fleet overhead.
The goal of changing planets with the power of this time seems ridiculous, but after planning, the feasibility is great.
It took some time to move the settlement down to two kilometers below the surface to ensure the safety of the body, and gave birth to small bugs that would not dig large holes to help collect rock essence. Collecting rock essence doesn't give him experience, but it can also be used to raise bugs.
The Fat Worm uses its imagination and begins to breed some wonderful flying creatures and blend in with the local insect colony.
For example, jellyfish-like objects that can float in the air in areas with high air pressure, various flying creatures with methane air sacs or wings or without wings.
The new creatures don't do targeted suicide attacks on metal like small flying insects, but it's only natural to occasionally pass by human bases or join the local swarm's death units to make humans known. The aim is to give humans the illusion of "dense evolution of flying creatures".
As a colony of insects that retains the biosphere evolutionary system, it is normal for dense evolution to occur regionally with a clear population tendency, either in response to environmental changes or as a result of external stimuli.
Given more than ten days for humans to adapt to the fact that there is occasionally an extra flying bug, the fat worm's plan can finally move on to the next stage - the search for a place to develop.
The most unrealistic part was easy here, he knew how many moons the huge gaseous star above his head could capture, and the one in front of him would definitely not be the only one with an atmosphere.
A modified version of the Great Scout Bug was created, which was no longer used to scout the ground, but to the air.
Atmospheric diffuse reflection is the biggest obstacle to observing space from the ground, and the observation effect of using the improved large reconnaissance insect to fly at an altitude of more than 20,000 meters to avoid the dense area of the atmosphere will be much better, and this altitude will not cause excessive vigilance of the orbiting fleet.
There are too many gaseous satellites, and on one of them, you may not be able to see all 80% of them in a few years, so you need to wait patiently and meticulously and sort out the information.
After a long time of observation, he found three moons with atmosphere, one of which seemed to be covered with the same fungus blanket as the local one!
If you have a goal, is it far from success?
There is no need to calculate the launch track, the fat worm squeezed out most of the essence of the whole body and catalyzed a very special bug to load itself in, calculated the patrol time point of the orbital fleet, and brought it to an altitude of 20,000 meters by the improved reconnaissance bug.
The special insect is actually similar to the launch vehicle, the fat insect is only two or three kilograms in size after squeezing out the essence, and the rocket insect is only two or three kilograms in length because of the special propulsion method used, it does not need to be loaded with fuel or the like, and the length is only more than two meters.
Getting out of the atmosphere is the hardest part, and in order to achieve sufficient speed, the rocket worm uses the essence as the energy source to burn its own tail to accelerate when orbiting low orbit, and of course the direction has to be staggered where the orbital fleet may be.
By the time it reaches its speed and leaves its birthplace, the size of the rocket worm has shrunk by half.
Taking advantage of the fact that the rocket worm is small enough and its relative speed is slow to attract attention at all, before heading to the target place, the fat worm passes directly above the ground base at a distance of less than 40,000 kilometers, and "sees" his opponent for the first time with the few organs reserved on the rocket worm's body.
After reading it, he regretted it.
The so-called ignorant are fearless, and when he sees the other party's arrangement in synchronous orbit, he understands that these guys are not small, and they are afraid that they are carrying out planetary development. In time, he will inevitably face a bunch of powerful enemies.
But at this time, he had no choice, he didn't go to the target planet to take root, relying only on the simple structure of the rocket worm and the little essence left, I am afraid that it will take thousands of eight hundred years to fly out to find a suitable planet to land.
The slow-moving rocket worm traveled through space for several days before finally delivering it to the target planet.
The rocket worm continues to burn itself during the landing process to prevent the internal overheating, and the speed drops almost directly from the fat worm itself.
The body of the fat worm is an amoeba, and it is not a problem to turn into a parachute, a gliding model, or something, and he even has time to choose an area with a scattered fungus blanket in the air to land.
As soon as he landed safely, he infiltrated the topsoil, and with the only remaining bit of essence, he created two small insects that dug for rock essence, and slowly recovered his abilities.
When he made the battle worm again, he didn't get carried away, and only cultivated less than twenty before stopping, and divided into two batches to plunder the essence of the local insect swarm. Stabilizing at this number, the fat insect once again made a "telescope" vegetation, always paying attention to the sky, for fear that an orbital fleet would also emerge here, and it was easy for the big scout insect to observe the planet, and it was no fun to find a fleet that was about the same as dust compared to the planet at that distance, so it was necessary to guard against it.
The efficiency of the battle worm to collect biological essence is far faster than gnawing on stone to collect rock essence, and there is also experience to get. The fat worm made some "telescopes" and began to cultivate "queens" below the surface. Once the perimeter security is confirmed, he has to make explosive development, otherwise sooner or later he will be gnawed by the group of guys in the orbit of another planet.
The name queen worm is naturally similar to the queen ant and queen bee, which is the ground variety that comes with the gene pool of the fat insect family. In addition to being able to give birth to several varieties of native bugs, the queen can also greatly increase the range of mental sensing for fat insects, which is similar to an external antenna, and the queen who has evolved to a higher stage can also learn some simple tactics on her own.
The first worm was set up and the necessary tunnels were dug, and the fat worm didn't want to wait any longer, and with each additional day, the enemy became stronger.
With the help of the battle bug, it quickly moved to a few kilometers away and buried it underground again, formed a network again to increase the sensing range, and began to remotely control the behavior of the insect after the explosion of insects.
When 90% of the newly acquired essence was concentrated on the queen, it took only one day for twenty insects to become forty, and the additional essence supply the next day allowed the queen's insect explosion efficiency to continue to increase. In a few days, a radius of more than ten kilometers centered on the queen of insects has become a forbidden area for local insects.
Refreshing! After the level was enough, it was the first time that he had the opportunity to let the Queen Worm Burst play the truly powerful side of the swarm, as long as he confirmed that this planet did not have an orbital fleet to manage, he would soon be able to completely replace the local swarm.
When the number of ground war insects was about the same, the fat insects controlled them to accumulate essence for a few days, and made a sub-evolution for the insect queen.
The evolved queen is the real basic power of the swarm, and it can lead the swarm to carry out simple commands - kill here or there.
Randomly gave the queen of insects a direction of slow advancement, the fat worm stayed in place and continued to store the hunting essence of a dozen or twenty war insects, it planned to give the queen a month, as the scale of the increase in the movement of that batch of insects will become bigger and bigger, if anyone pays attention to this place, even if it is sluggish, it should react.
In case no one cares...... Hum!