Han Biao shuddered at the thought of this, this behavior of the mutant insects is similar to the biological instinctive behavior of "collective suicide" that will occur after the overload of some biological groups to ensure the continuation of the group? Or is it an instinctive optimization behavior that spontaneously removes the chaff in the process of evolution?

Of course, it is also possible that the mutant worms have produced extremely high-level worm kings and queens, and have produced extremely high humanoid intelligence, which is enough to control all the mutant worm groups on γ-44 to obey its rule.

If it's the first two cases, maybe it's better, and if it's the third case, it's acceptable, but if there are some "people" who control the mutant swarm to carry out this behavior...

Then it's not a disaster, it's a disaster.

Han Biao had also seen a large number of high-level mutant insects under the ruins of the Industrial City, whether it was the number or level, they were higher than those on the periphery of the gathering area, but they were hidden in the dark corners of the huge underground space in the ruins of the Industrial City, and they appeared directly in groups, and the intuitive surname was completely different.

Even though Han Biao now relied on the protective ability of the Thunderbolt Eagle and the knife to dare to charge in the swarm full of level 4/5 mutant insects, he couldn't help but feel disgusted and frightened when he saw the scene of mutant insects lying on the crater of insect corpses munching on the mountain.

Think about it, if for every 10,000 level 1 mutant worms, devouring one of the same kind of same class can evolve into a level 2 mutant worm, then if you continue to devour, it is possible to produce 2,500 level 3 worms, 1,250 level 4 worms, 625 level 5 worms, 312 level 6 worms, and 156 level 7 worms......

Of course, it is impossible for a mutant worm to simply devour a similar species to evolve and advance, and this ratio may need to be ten, ten, or even hundreds of times, but how many mutant worms are there on γ-44 now?

If in the end, the mutant worms devour each other and all evolve into "top worms", or "king-level worms", then maybe not too many, only about 1,000 of them are left on the entire planet, and they can completely gnaw γ-44 into a barren land without even stones!

Don't forget, even the D.87 ecosphere base, there are only a dozen level 9 insects, and the defense is destroyed, paralyzing the entire defense system, leading to a total fall, although the current news is not clear, I don't know if other more advanced bases have also been destroyed because of this situation, but Han Biao believes that when the time comes, there will definitely be more than 1,000 king-level insects on the γ-44!

Because just under the ruins of the Industrial City, what he saw was no less than tens of thousands of insects that exceeded level 7, and the ghost knew if there were more advanced mutant insects in deeper places, Han Biao even suspected that under the ruins of the Industrial City, it had become a nest for breeding high-level insects, but those high-level insects had been lying underground and had not appeared on the ground.

Otherwise, there is still a wave of insects besieging the city, and a tenth of the high-level insects under the ruins of the industrial city will come out, which is enough to flood the slum-like survivor base in the gathering area!

Don't think this is an exaggeration, there is no need for the insects under the industrial city to be dispatched, just how many high-level insects are surrounded by the outer perimeter of the insect corpse crater outside the gathering area? A ** wave of insects that rushed to death, as few as a few million, as many as tens of millions, even if there is a 1 in 10,000 probability of the birth of a high-level insect above level 5, the number of high-level insects that exist around the gathering area is probably more than hundreds of thousands!

Hundreds of thousands of mutant insects over level 5 hit such a broken place as the gathering area, what effort does it take? You're too much to think of human energy weapons! Whether the city defense-level defense cannon can kill the level 5 insect with one shot is still a question mark, but what about the level 6 one? What about level 7? Or even more than level 10?

Also, on γ-44, how many places like the ruins of the Industrial City are there? I'm afraid it's more than the sesame seeds on the pancakes, right? The insect nests near the small place of the D.87 base alone are already so terrifying, what will happen to those urban ruins and underground buildings that are larger than the industrial city?

According to the records of humans cleaning up the protomutant worm after setting foot on γ-44, the highest level mutant worm that has ever appeared is level 20! It almost took out a starship formation to bomb it from space, and almost dug up an artificial ocean to kill it!

And now, does humanity have a starship? Is there a space strike force? No! There weren't even many vehicles that could fly, and even if there were, they wouldn't be able to fly under the skies where γ-44 was already dominated by flying bugs.

The most frightening thing is that human technology is reviving and evolving, but mutant insects are also evolving, and even they have shortened the process of mutation and evolution from hundreds of thousands of years to just a dozen years, and now they have evolved a mutation mode that can devour each other to produce evolution, shortening the evolution process that may take years and decades to the time of a meal.

When Han Biao first came into contact with mutant insects, all he saw were garbage mutant insects below level 1, but in just a few days, the insect swarm had evolved to about level 2, and now, it has directly crossed a stage, and level 3 and 4 insects have generally appeared, I believe that if they are given another ten days and half a month, they can see level 6, 7, level 8, and 9 mutant insects crawling all over the ground.

The more Han Biao thought about it, the more frightened he became, the more certain he was that the densely populated area could not stay, and he must speed up to build their escape convoy and leave here, these terrible insects almost used the gathering area as a granary, and the human beings were raised in captivity as domestic livestock, and sooner or later, they felt that they were fat enough, and when it was time to slaughter, they would not hesitate to eat them all.

In fact, the abnormality of the mutant insects is very obvious, but human beings have not thought about this aspect at all, and have always thought that the mutant insects are just low-level mutant creatures with material energy, but they have not found that the mutant insects that have arrived in the gathering area will neither kill each other, nor will they really attack the gathering area, but like fools, they will pounce on the insect corpse crater and eat desperately, and every once in a while, there will be a phenomenon of attacking the gathering area very regularly.

Is this normal?

Obviously abnormal, they attack the colony not to destroy it, but to consume their own population to provide enough evolutionary food for the entire race, and also to intimidate the human survivors into keeping them in captivity!

If someone pays attention to observation, they will find that those who take the initiative to attack the defense line of the gathering area every once in a while are all low-level insects, or some insects that no longer eat, which means that these low-level insects, and the insects with "anorexia", are cannon fodder abandoned by the mutant insect group.

Not to mention low-level insects, why do some insects that have evolved into high-level insects through "food supplements" also become cannon fodder? Because they have lost the possibility of further advancement because of their individual relationship, once they lose the possibility of advancement and do not reach a high enough level, then they will also become individuals abandoned by the race, and become food for those companions who have the possibility of continuing to advance.

Driven by this terrible group of people who ignore individual interests and have no regrets and self-sacrifice, it is foreseeable that in this "Gu refining" catalytic advancement method, how many high-level insects will be born?

Han Biao began to retreat slowly, to be honest, he was a little scared, with his current ability, without any equipment, hand-to-hand combat is not a big problem to fight a level 5 insect, and a level 6 insect is dangerous, the level between the insects increases, and the growth of its strength is not as simple as 1+1=2, 2+1=3, but multipliers.

If Han Biao wears power armor, maybe he can challenge level 6~7 insects, but the outcome is unpredictable, if he has a knife possession, he may be able to deal with level 8 insects, just "maybe", after all, he has not yet encountered level 8 insects, as for wearing a thunderbolt vulture after the knife is possessed, whether he can challenge level 9 insects, it is even more unknown.

This is just a heads-up situation, the insects have never been in the habit of going head-to-head with you, and it is their style to rush to the top, once there are more of them, Han Biao is also able to wear the Thunderbolt Vulture and the knife possessed, dare to move in the low-level insect swarm The arrogance of fighting, you let him stop the hard resistance directly in the insect swarm, he is also unbearable, the best ending is to be tired and half dead and then be overwhelmed by a group of insects, and line up to step on his face.

Just when Han Biao didn't dare to disturb the large group of high-level mutant insects who were having a good meal and began to slowly retreat, the "biological brain" Qianshou suddenly reminded Han Biao:

“… Genome! Please attach the accessories of the individual soldier terminal to the body of the breeding beast, I can turn on the absorption function on the body of the breeding beast through remote control, and the breeding beast can hunt and absorb nutrients and bioenergy nucleus crystals by the breeding beast independently! ”

As he spoke, the individual terminal on Han Biao's wrist detached a small silver-gray metal square that was no bigger than the size of a thumb cap and looked a bit like some kind of electronic component, and there were a few sharp stitches underneath.

Can a knife enter the swarm instead of itself to absorb nutrients?

Han Biao couldn't help but swallow his saliva when he thought of the movement speed of the knife, the mutant insect would not take the initiative to attack the knife of the same kind, the knife could be like a "vacuum cleaner" around the surrounding area to frantically absorb the corpses of the mutant insects killed by the laser fire, first, it could store nutrients and bioenergy nucleus crystals for Han Biao, and secondly, it could also inhibit the evolution speed of the mutant insect swarm, limiting their danger level increase as much as possible!

The most important thing is that if you put the knife outside the gathering area, it can collect nutrients while slaughtering any mutant insects that are weaker than it, and at the same time binge, it will be able to advance again! ――

(To be continued)