Chapter 15: You're Kidding Me!!

Speaking of the impression given by the fictional race of the Zerg, it is generally attributed to the tactics of the Bug Sea, predators, swarm consciousness, gene theft, and division of labor evolution. In various novels, movies, and comics, the Zerg can steal the genetic makeup of the devoured race and produce corresponding evolutions.

From a biological point of view, the degree of destructiveness and evolution of such a race is very high.

At the moment, the demon hunting insect absorbs the eridium element that can be classified as a mysterious side mineral, and if it is a zerg in the ordinary sense of a tabula rasa in the sense of pure biology, the probability of mutation is very small. But Su Jing's demon hunting insect happened to be transformed by an unknown god and demon, and it was a composite creature with two attributes: the scientific side and the mysterious side. After absorbing a considerable amount of Eridium, the switch buried in the Demon Hunter's instinct was gradually turned on.

Due to the limited information capacity of genes, and as a kind of secrecy measure, the genes of functional zergs are very concise, leaving large blanks. The meaning of the existence of the dominant royal family in the Zerg is to store a huge number of effective gene pools, and only the mother nest that produces the Zerg will produce the corresponding functional Zerg after injecting genes.

Originally, the demon hunting insects that had reached the second star had already evolved to the end in terms of their own biological nature. If it is a servant of a swarm master, it will need to return to the brood and undergo further specific genetic modulation. But in the hands of Su Jing, who was just a human being, it had to absorb the "transcendent blood", the purpose of which was to provide a key for further transformation and a guide for the way forward.

If it absorbs the blood of a creature with excellent quality, it may be that the flesh has evolved more enhanced functions, such as a further increase in signal transmission distance and an increase in flight speed. But if the elemental ores on the mystical side are absorbed, new and unpredictable properties can be generated.

By now, the Demon Hunter's card has become:

[Two-Star Item: Demon Hunter Insect Mature Body]

[The Demon Hunter Worm, which has reached its own limit, has developed a new ability on the elemental side after absorbing the blood of the spider ant that has been polluted and mutated by the eridium ore. 】

【Signed: Su Jing】

[Abilities: Dark Vision (Passive), Basic Identification (Passive), Optical Vision, Infrared Vision, Thermal Vision, Psionic Vision, Elemental Vision, Elementary Illusion Break, Elementary Faction Discrimination. Elementalization (incomplete). 】

Elementalization?

Su Jing thought for a moment, summoned the demon hunting worm, and the silver-purple beetle lay on his palm tamely.

Try to ...... Elementalize it.

Unfinished skills may now be much less effective when used, and the Demon Hunter Worm seems to take two or three seconds to charge up, and then with a thud, its whole body is on fire.

"Wow! Su Jing, why do you have a fire in your hands! Gage exclaimed, "Shoot out!" ”

Even Gage can see it! The optical invisibility effect of the Demon Hunting Worm is gone!

Su Jing already had a plan in his heart, if the price of elementalization was the loss of optical invisibility ability, then in this case, the demon hunting insect could only be used for infiltration and raiding, but Su Jing was not sure where the limit of this "elementalization" skill was.

Come back. Su Jing gritted his teeth, risking being blinded in his left eye and recalling the Demon Hunter Worm.

When that flame fell into his pupils, Su Jing only felt that his left eye was hot for a while, and then the vision of his left eye turned red for a moment. A fiery energy coiled in his left eye, and what now existed in the socket seemed to be no longer his own eye, but a red-hot jade.

But...... It's nothing!! I'm not dead yet!!

Su Jing stretched out his hands, and the flame-like energy exploded as if it was spiritual, first spreading to the entire brain, and then down the spine.

With a bang, small flames erupted from Su Jing's body, and this energy appeared on the surface of his body, but he did not touch the clothes on his body as if he were spiritual. With a thought, all the flames gathered on the right hand holding the buzzing axe, and a string of flames plated the blade of the buzzing axe with a layer of golden-red light.

It wasn't until his own energy was connected to the Demon Hunting Insect that Su Jing really mastered everything about the Demon Hunting Worm. This little thing absorbed the blood of several people's bodies, and added the strength of the spider ant king insect, and the stored energy value alone was still above Su Jing himself. Now, as long as he had a thought, the temperature of these flames could be arbitrarily converted between a cold flame that didn't hurt people to a hot flame with a high temperature of thousands of degrees. However, Su Jing only tried the flames of thousands of degrees slightly, and he felt that his energy was rapidly decreasing.

Gai Qi watched Su Jing play magic tricks and toss a ball of ever-changing colors between his palms, and couldn't help but say, "I said...... If you say you're a witch, someone will believe you. ”

"But...... I'm a man! ”

"At Dr. Ned's, sex reassignment surgery only costs fifty points, and the price of a cold can't even be compared."

“…… Let's move on to the mission. ”

"No way, the external wiring of this communication system seems to be broken, probably gnawed by spider ants." Gage slammed his hammer into the console, smashing a hole in the stainless steel countertop, "ECHO's signal isn't very good underground, use your character card to contact HQ." ”

Su Jing found a chair and sat down, and intently connected to Serina's line.

[Is that so?] There's another solution, you can go to the bottom of the factory, kill the queen of the spider ants, and come back with its iconic parts. 】

The voice of the octopus girl came from Su Jing's ears, and the communication of this character card seemed to be a convenient device that was directly chained into the auditory nerve.

Cutting off the call, Su Jing sighed, stretched his hands to Gai Qi and said, "There is no way, it seems that you can only continue to go down." ”

"Expected." Gage began to organize her gear.

The two men were now sitting in the communications room, holding the door against a few chairs. Outside, the spider ants could be heard banging on the door, and the thudding sound sounded like a sense of looming crisis. However, Gai Qi himself is a seventeen-year-old bounty hunter who has experienced a lot of battles, and Su Jing has just finished upgrading and awakened new skills, and is in a state of bursting confidence, so he doesn't pay attention to this kind of small scene at all.

"Gage, do you know the truth? Since my abilities have been upgraded, I have been able to switch between Corrosion, Fire, and Lightning, and I can not only set fire, but also release lightning and corrosive gas. ”

"Hmph, you're really weak. My death trap is much more high-end than yours, okay? As one of the most gifted mechanical engineers in the five galaxies, I've developed modular accessories that correspond to various attributes, and as long as I release the Death Trap, I can make it switch between four states freely, and I have one more purple scum state than you! ”

Gage triumphantly patted her mechanical left arm and smiled lovingly.

Purple Dregs is a new attribute attack in Borderlands 2, the effect is about to weaken the opponent, enemies contaminated by Purple Slag will fall into a state of defense reduction for a period of time, if combined with other guns, it can deal a lot of damage in just a moment.

"Then let's compare, who kills ants faster!"

"Don't cheat if you lose!!"

Su Jing kicked open the chair used to block the door, wielded the flame-enhanced buzzing axe, sawed the front paws of the soldier ant in two, and then moved sideways to avoid the collision of the soldier ant, and cut it into two pieces with an axe.

"One!"

"Don't sneak away!"

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Selina sat in a chair with a cup of coffee in her left hand and a table in her right hand on which the standard calculations of various metals were made. Her four mechanical appendages were disassembling a pistol on the workbench in front of her.

"Serena, how's that newcomer's ongoing mission?"

Ivan Vanko was a tall, burly Russian with a white-haired parrot squatting on his shoulder, his hair braided into pigtails, multiple tattoos on his body and face, and a very strong Russian accent in English. If it weren't for the character cards that automatically translate languages, Serena wasn't sure she would understand what he was saying.

Despite his scruffy appearance, Ivan is a four-star silver-level strongman who has broken away from the world of Iron Man's films. As the head of the Borderlands, Ivan has a power that rivals that of a small army. The Iron Man armor he transformed not only surpassed the strength in the movie, but also improved step by step in actual combat to become more and more dangerous and powerful.

Ivan Vanko was one of the first adventurers to enter the Borderlands, a dangerous Russian who helped the original protagonists complete a generational story and banish the Crimson Spear Knights from Pandora. At the beginning of the second plot, he preemptively led the commando team of the joint technology to directly capture the 4N631 satellite that had been monitoring everyone, and at the same time laid down the fortress of the Hyperion company, rescued the controlled angels, and finally used the railgun system of the 4N631 satellite to completely expel the final villain of the second generation of the main story line "Handsome Jack" from Pandora.

In the Vault, Ivan's reputation can be compared to that of Roland, the leader of the Crimson Cavalry, and the Russians have developed a deep fighting friendship with the Mane Four of a generation, so they help Roland escape death at the beginning of the second game. Because of this, Roland's Crimson Cavalry joined the forces of the Technology Alliance, making the Technology Alliance the greatest controller of the planet Pandora.

"Uh...... It has been investigated that some spider ants have raided the refinery. Serena got up and reported, "I've asked them to continue clearing the remaining spider ants and bring back the queen ant markers, even if they complete their mission." ”

The Russian's thick eyebrows gathered together, and he twisted the toothpick in his mouth and said, "How can ordinary spider ants take the initiative to attack the refinery?" Bring up the satellite image. ”

Serena covered the half-dismantled pistol with oiled paper and turned on the stereoscopic projection system.

"Uh...... It doesn't look like much. ”

"Switch to biothermal horizons."

It took a few seconds for the monitor to switch, and then Serena took a deep breath.

"This heat source...... Are you sure it's a spider ant? Ivan spat out the toothpick in his mouth.

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"You're kidding me!!"

"It's not scientific!!"

Even the self-proclaimed well-informed Gage was stunned at the moment.

"There are such big spider ants, ahh——!!h

The two screamed in unison.

PS: Although Gage's robot DeathTrap translates to "Death Trap", I prefer a more stylish and appropriate translation of "Death Trap......