Section 995 The Heart of the Swarm
What about the "useless things" that are said to be good?!
It's just a hatching, and Angel actually said that it was a suspected female worm!
Kante only felt that his inner defense line was like a collapsing wall of snow, peeling off little by little, revealing his mottled old heart.
"Females? How is this possible? Females are extinct earlier than morphing softworms, and there are no more fish that have slipped through the net. Kanter said dryly.
"But if it's not a mother, why can it lay eggs and hatch?" Ingres wondered.
Spawning and hatching?!
Kante only felt the corners of his mouth twitch, "You admit that you are mistaken, maybe it is not a soft worm." ”
Angel was even more puzzled: "But, didn't this worm egg give it to me from an adult?"
Kanter was speechless, and although he was extremely resistant to the fact that he might have given away a "female egg", he couldn't help but look into the hive.
At this glance, he was completely stunned.
He hadn't even looked into the deepest depths, just by seeing the layers of soft insect corpses outside, he had already determined a fact in his heart.
At the beginning, there were only a few eggs he gave to Ingres, but looking at the corpses of this soft worm, there were at least dozens of them!
There is no mother worm to reproduce new eggs, which simply cannot be explained!
When he saw the hall in the depths of the hive, he immediately closed his eyes, and at the same time began to spit in his heart for the pearl that had mistaken the pearl for a fish.
This is the mother of molluscs!
It was exactly the same as what he had seen!
"Lord Kanter, isn't this really a female worm?" Ingres asked again, as if fate had opened a bow and shot another arrow straight into Kanter's chest.
Kante resisted the urge to vomit blood, and said with difficulty: "This ...... This is indeed ...... Female. ”
"Really?!" Ingres' eyes lit up.
"Really. Kante was extremely uncomfortable in his heart, but he still had to maintain the demeanor of an elder on his face, and even praised against his will: "You raised ...... Very good. ”
Seeing Ingres holding the hive with a look of surprise, Kanter felt that his floating heart was once again blown by the rain and wind, and at the same time, he was run over and over again with his feet.
Kante couldn't help but blame himself.
However, after the drama in his heart, Kante returned to reality. Was he really blind? Carefully recalling the situation when he first got the eggs, in fact, he carefully examined them.
It was even given to other wizards for identification, and the final result was that this was an ordinary soft insect egg, and the vitality was not too vigorous. The only thing worth mentioning is that the hive is very good, and there is even the smell of a mother worm in it.
Could it be that it is because of the breath of the mother worm contained in the hive that the hatching of the eggs is promoted, and even a female worm appears?
Kante personally doesn't believe it.
He took the hive from Angel again, ready to take a closer look.
When he got serious, many details that he had overlooked before came back to the case: "Why are there so many molluscs on the periphery? Why are molluscs always guarding an invisible border, as if there are natural enemies on the other side?"
For these two questions, Angel said with some embarrassment: "Actually, it's because I raised a dream weaver ant who likes doves to occupy magpies' nests." ”
Ingres's eloquence gave Kanter a rough idea. But this is the first time he's heard that Dream Weaver ants eat soft worms?
"Although the Dream Weaver Ant is not a precious thing, it has also been extinct for many years. Unexpectedly, you still have one. Kanter said this, and continued to look inside the hive.
At this glance, he found another important clue.
The inside of the hive was filled with the smell of energy essence blood, and he searched carefully, but finally on the side of the hall, he saw the reserve hall of Aksol essence blood.
"This is, wizard-level demonic beast essence blood?"
"Yes, both Dream Weaver Ants and Soft Worms like the essence blood of Warcraft, and the Dream Weaver Ant also put this essence blood under the eggs of the soft worms, which made the eggs of the soft worms hatch. ”
Now, Kante was even more confused. The Dream Weaver Ant doesn't just eat soft worms, it also raises eggs?
Moreover, Kanter also knew at the beginning that the energy of some demonic beasts was very abundant and suitable for raising demonic insects. Therefore, he also used the essence blood of the Warcraft to raise these eggs, but never absorbed any eggs, so he was identified by some of his friends that the vitality of the eggs was not high.
He didn't use the essence blood of the demonic beast to make the soft insect eggs look abnormal, why did Angel do it?
Is it the relationship between the Dream Weaver Ants, or is it because of the essence and blood?
Kanter cheekily asked Ingres for a drop of essence blood, looking at the blood crystals in his hand that exuded rich vitality, Kanter hesitated for a moment and took it into his mouth.
In an instant, a powerful life force flowed out of the essence blood.
As soon as this life force poured out, it immediately formed a hedge with Kanter's own vitality. Although Kante was able to repel this life force in the end, in the early stages of the defense, the explosive power of that life almost broke his defense. It can be seen how powerful the energy contained in the essence blood is!
What's more, it's just a drop of essence blood.
Kanter's eyes flashed with a strange look, and then he carefully probed the information leaking from the blood. After a while, Kante's face was shocked.
There was a strong vitality in the essence blood, and its vitality was so abundant that it was the rarest of the demonic beast essence blood he had seen.
Although for a wizard-level life form like him, this drop of essence blood is like a poison. But for mortals, or primary beings, the vitality in this is enough to keep people alive forever.
In other words, relying on this drop of sperm and blood is enough to give the eggs continuous and long-term vitality.
In this way, there is a high chance that the eggs will be revived and hatched.
Moreover, Kanter also felt an extremely secret strange aura in this drop of essence blood, which was very obscure, a bit like the smell he smelled in some medical schools when Kanter was a mortal.
Kanter couldn't help but ask, "What kind of demonic beast's essence blood is this?"
"I don't know, but it's said to be the blood of a snake. ”
Looking at Ingres' wandering eyes, how could Kanter not know that Ingres was lying. However, the essence blood of the snake should be real.
Kante didn't press it, after all, he was an apprentice to an old friend, and he himself valued Ingres' potential.
"This Demonic Beast Essence Blood has a very good effect on primary life, and it can even make people stay alive forever. Kante sighed.
After hearing this, Angel remembered Axor's essence and blood, but he maintained Dodolo's thousand-year-old lifespan, and even his functions maintained his youth.
Thinking of this, Angel couldn't help but think of Jon.
Is Axel's essence blood useful to Jon?Perhaps, when Sanders returns, he can ask about it.
"The vitality in the essence blood of this demonic beast is indeed possible to hatch the eggs, but I think there is still a gap to make the eggs hatch into the mother. Kante looked at the corpses outside the hive, but his heart moved: "Perhaps, it is the Dream Weaver Ant that has played some role in the eggs of the soft worms." ”
Does the Dream Weaver Ant still have a stimulating effect on eggs?Ingres looked at Kanter suspiciously.
"According to some records I have seen, although the mother worm is responsible for the reproduction of the entire colony, its fertility rate is actually affected by the outside world. ”
Kanter was in the process of explaining, but he was also thinking. Moreover, with the rapid rotation of thinking, many things that cannot be figured out are becoming more and more smooth.
"However, because of the emergence of the 'natural enemy' of the Dream Weaver Ant, the mother worm will reproduce in large numbers and avoid being threatened through a war of attrition. ”
As soon as Kante said this, Ingres instantly understood.
Like a link in the ecological chain, they are hostile, but in a way, they are also mutually reinforcing.
Perhaps, the birth of the mother worm was also the result of the dream weaver ant "raising insect eggs". Because from the beginning, the swarm understood that soft insects could not deal with dream weaver ants, and their birth would only become nourishment for dream weaver ants.
In the case of not being willing to be born and die.
As a result, it may be stimulated by a certain hormone or pheromone to cause one of the eggs to mutate.
And this abnormal egg is the later female.
This can also explain what happened later, when the mother worm knew that she was an "egg", the dream weaver ant would not touch it, but raised it, so it refused to hatch for a long time. has been absorbing the essence blood of Axel to accumulate strength.
Once hatched, it immediately competed with the Dream Weaver Ants.
It has remained until now.
In fact, there are two major prerequisites for the whole relationship to be established, the first is the abundance of vitality.
At the beginning, Angel obtained a whole coffin of Axol's essence blood, which solved the problem of vitality. It also allows the mother to lay a large number of eggs without worries.
The second premise is the number of natural predators.
If there are a lot of Dream Weaver Ants, then the swarm knows that it has no hope of winning at all, so it will not give birth to a mother worm at all. Even if the mother does hatch, she will not lay a large number of eggs, because there is no hope of victory at all.
These two premises eventually led to the hatching of the eggs and the smooth birth of the mother.
After realizing the truth, Kanter did not feel sorry for himself anymore, because even if the eggs remained with him, it was impossible to hatch them like Angels, or even hatch the mother.
After all, it was Ingres's fortune that led to this result.
"I once stumbled upon the name of a legendary great wizard of the summoning system, whose name was 'Heart of the Swarm', and I used to scoff at it, how could the Swarm have a heart. Now that I think about it, maybe this is the heart of the swarm, as long as there is a glimmer of hope for survival, its heart will not be extinguished. ”
Kante sighed, and looked at Ingres's eyes a little softer.
Although he is also very jealous of Angel's good luck, it can also be seen from this that his original vision was not wrong, Ingres not only has extremely high potential, but also has luck here.
"Ahem, Angels. ”
Angel looked over suspiciously.
Kanter smiled and said: "Speaking of which, you people from the demon lineage, you haven't been to Lilith's house, and when this is over, after returning to the wizarding world, you might as well come to Lilith's house to live for a while? ”
Angel shuddered, why did he talk to Kanter, and from time to time he had to pull on Qili?
"Well, we'll see when the time comes. Ingres said vaguely, and then quickly changed the subject: "Lord Kanter, since this is a female worm, can it give birth to a deformed soft worm?"