Chapter 23: Mutation
Central Asia, central region of Afghanistan.
In the world where Qin Xin originally lived, this should have been a continuous mountain range.
But in this world, a huge pit suddenly appeared in the Hindu Kush mountain range, cutting the mountain range into two ends.
This is where the comet that brings death and hope to this world has descended.
Initially, the crater caused by the comet's landing was not as large as it is now. However, the meteorite that was detonated with extremely high energy and the countless nuclear bombs that were dropped here to destroy insects and beasts have expanded the crater to its current state.
And in this big pit, countless insect hive entrances and exits, as well as insects and beasts that keep coming in and out, use their actions to announce that the nuclear bomb washing the ground will not bring too much trouble to the insects and beasts living underground.
Even inside the pit, the extremely high concentration of radioactive rays everywhere seemed to have no effect on the insects and beasts who were busy in the pit, perhaps they had already evolved to be immune to nuclear radiation.
Inside this large crater, in addition to sickle worms and bone stinging worms cruising back and forth, you can also see some workers mining ore in the nearby disconnected mountains from time to time.
They are doing their best to dig out the minerals they see and need little by little with the pliers on their forelimbs and put them on their flat and broad backs, and then move them back to the inside of the hive from the entrances and exits scattered throughout the large pit.
Not far from the outside of the pit of the insect beast's nest, a worker insect was constantly turning the dirt on the ground while using its tentacles to detect the ingredients inside.
Countless earth, rocks, and minerals that originally belonged to the pit were thrown out of the pit by a series of violent explosions and scattered on the surrounding land.
Here, with very little effort, the workers of these insects and beasts are able to obtain enough minerals.
This has always been the main mining location of this hive.
Just as the worker insect kept turning the dirt scattered on the ground, a small piece of blue crystal that I didn't know what it contained fell out and fell in front of the insect beast.
Seeing this blue crystal, the worker directly discarded the ore grabbed by its two forelimbs, carefully picked up this small piece of blue crystal that was insignificant compared to its size with its own pliers, and crawled towards its own hive without looking back.
Although the comet that fell here was successfully detonated, which in turn induced an even more severe explosion.
However, it seems that because the internal material of the meteorite is not very pure, a small fragment of the intact blue meteorite still survived, and was blown away by the violent blast wave to the vicinity of the crater.
And most of these scattered fragments were found by the population of insects and beasts in close proximity, and then moved back to their nests.
The insects and beasts that appeared because of the meteorite seem to be born to absorb the energy in such blue crystal fragments, and after these blue crystal fragments are devoured by the mother worm in the worm nest, most of the cases will start to evolve rapidly again, and then give birth to more new types of insect beasts.
Worker insects, sickle insects, and bone spur insects are the result of the mother worm Tongguò evolving again and again, and finally obtaining mutation.
The worker who followed the will of his mother immediately gave up his work and returned to the hive with this blue crystal, intending to pay tribute to his mother.
But the two clamps carefully clamped the blue crystals and kept moving forward, but the insect beast did not appear, and the blue crystal fragments they were holding seemed to contain a piece of impurity that was almost invisible.
After being inspected by the elite guard insect beast that guards the mother worm, this worker worm finally came to the "core royal family" that humans call the deepest part of hell.
After handing the blue fragment from his pincers to the guard insect who was in charge of serving the mother worm, the worker worm who had completed its mission turned and left.
Even if it is a worker born by a mother, it is not eligible to go here.
After being inspected by the Guard Worm, this small piece of blue crystal was finally brought into the Core Imperial Family by the Guard Worm.
Inside the core royal family, a female worm with a huge belly that looks like a worker insect magnified countless times is lying in the center of this nest.
The mother's huge abdomen was constantly wriggling, and one after another white eggs were born by the mother, and then the guard worms were transported out of the room and handed over to the waiting workers outside.
After making this qiē, the guard worm took out the food that had a disgusting smell from the pincers of the worker worm and was regurgitated by the stomach of the worker worm, and brought it back to the mother worm to feed the mother worm.
When this small piece of blue crystal fragment was brought to the mother by the guard worm, even the mother worm seemed to be surprised by the blue crystal that had not appeared for a long time, and the four pieces of mouth that kept opening and closing and the tentacles that kept waving showed that its owner was in a hurry.
When this blue crystal is fed to the mother's mouth by the guard worm, the mother worm swallows the tiny blue crystal in one bite.
After smashing her mouth in a hurry, the mother stopped producing for a moment and began to lie down to prepare for the powerful power of the blue crystal being digested.
Suddenly, the body of the female insect lying on the ground shook, and the light blue light suddenly lit up on the female insect.
Under the somewhat painful struggle of the mother worm, the power of blue is constantly promoting the evolution of the female worm's body. With the birth of blue light, the body of the female insect begins to become larger, and the upper body similar to that of the worker insect begins to become more hideous. The limbs that are several sizes larger are all showing that the strength of the mother worm has increased since it evolved.
But the mother queen of the most common species, her own strength improvement is not the most important, the most important thing should be how much evolution the newborn insect beast born after it evolves.
According to past experience, the mother worm will soon begin to ovulate again after digesting the energy in her body. The insects born after that will be improved by leaps and bounds in terms of strength and carapace thickness, and may even give birth to new types of insects.
And now, the blue light on the female worm has begun to gradually dim, and the female worm has also moved slightly to adjust the position of her unconscious movement during evolution.
It seems that the mother worm is about to digest the energy from the blue crystal and is ready to start laying eggs again.
Boil!!!
Just as the blue light on the surface of the female worm's body dissipated, and the female worm was about to squirm her abdomen and start laying eggs, the strange wriggling of the abdomen and the severe pain made the female worm let out a sharp roar.
The pain of the violent explosion even caused the mother worm to roll around the core royal chamber with a huge belly that began to mutate.
Seeing the sudden appearance of his mother, the guards next to him were anxious to turn around, but there was no way to help his mother.
Puff puff!
Suddenly, inside the mutated abdomen of the female worm, it seemed that tentacles that had absorbed enough nutrients broke through the epidermis of the abdomen of the female worm, violently stretched out and flew in the air.
Although he didn't know what the tentacles that were sticking out of his mother's body, the instinct to protect the mother emperor made the guard worm start to bite from the tentacles that pounced on the mother's abdomen, and at the same time used the hormones in his body to warn the guard insects and beasts outside the core emperor.
Without the mother worm to stop it, these guard worms will keep biting!
However, the bite of the guard insects had no effect, and was directly crushed and engulfed by these outstretched tentacles.
At this time, the elite insect beasts that rushed from the guard hall next to the core royal family saw this scene in front of them and rushed towards these tentacles without hesitation.
But without exception, these insect beasts, which were much higher than the ordinary insect beasts outside, both in appearance and ability, were also swallowed by these waving tentacles.
In the process of continuous devouring, this strange tentacle seems to have obtained enough nutrients and substances to begin to divide and mutate.
As the tentacles continued to mutate and wriggle, with the mother worm's body as the core and the core royal family as the foundation, a creasing living structure that was constantly wriggling appeared in place.
On the building, the tentacles had regained their calm, mutated into appendages on the surface of the building, and white eggs were constantly expelled from them and piled aside.
The surviving guards saw the scene in front of them, felt the hormones in the middle of the building scattered with their mother emperor's safety, and paused for a moment, then resumed their previous work.
Although he wondered why his mother suddenly became like this, it was not without precedent, so these guard insects didn't pay attention to it.
But what these guard insects didn't know was that in the center of the building formed by this lifeform, on the original mother queen's body, no matter what insect beast or even the mother emperor could not make, no matter how screaming was being made by this mutated mother emperor's hideous face.
"Space Goddess !!"
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