Chapter Seventy-Four: The White-Collar Ape

Jiangjia, whose body was a full circle stronger than before, stood not far in front of Mo Lan, still standing there calmly and quietly.

Although it doesn't seem to have changed much on the outside, it has really been "upgraded" by Mo Lan as a whole, and its combat ability is no longer the same.

"Leveling" this kind of thing is actually very simple, re-release a hatched Zerg soldier into the hatching nest, and increase the strength of some body parts that have been fixed and fixed, or add some organs of other races.

It's like a machine that has been replaced with the latest version of hardware and added features.

Some of this kind of "upgrading" is like a private customization, which is based on different individuals and has different tendencies.

Mo Lan's game character upgrades for players are almost the same principle, but that kind of upgrade is all Mo Lan adjusted a template in advance, and then upgraded according to the same template, so the difference will not be too big.

But for those players, there will still be some subtle differences in each character, because everyone will certainly do different things during the time they control the game character.

Different behavioral habits can also cause subtle differences between game characters.

For example, some players like to directly use energy points to supplement the satiety of the game character, and some players like to experience the various food flavors in this game, and usually choose to eat to ensure the satiety of the game character.

These two feeding methods will cause different changes to their game characters.

It's just that this change is so subtle that most players don't notice it, but the truth is that anything players do in the game will have an impact on the characters they control.

So that the same upgrade, the final result will be many different.

However, players are willing to contribute their own energy and then get the promotion of the game character, which Mo Lan will not mind.

This kind of service is meant to enhance the gaming experience of players and make them more addicted to the game...... It's just that there are benefits, so Mo Lan is willing to do it.

And when those ordinary Zerg soldiers arrived, Mo Lan would not do such a thankless task, because the cost performance was too low.

Those Zerg soldiers who have been promoted are not as powerful as other types of Zerg that have been hatched with the same energy.

If you can produce one part of energy, why spend two parts of energy? That's thanks to that.

However, as an elite individual who stood out among the thousands of tentacle-type zergs, a considerable number of zerg soldiers died in the last process, but only hundreds survived in the end, and all of them added up to tens of thousands.

Jiang Jia is obviously worthy of this kind of treatment that Mo Lan "upgraded" for it.

Since it was the tentacle-type Zerg that hit a wall here last time, this time Mo Lan also plans to let Jiang Jia find the field again.

"Don't let me down." Mo Lan looked at Jiang Jia and muttered to herself.

She is looking forward to it, and she doesn't know if there will be another elite individual as outstanding as Jiang Jia in this war.

"It's amazing." Shiqi looked at Mo Lan's line of sight and made such an evaluation.

Obviously, they have the same genes, the same body, and the same race, but there will always be one or two special beings who hold the same chips but play a role several times over.

There are humans, and there are also Zerg.

Mo Lan is very clear and understands the things that Shi Qi has done recently, after all, all of Shi Qi's actions must rely on Mo Lan's spiritual network.

It can't do it, and it's not necessary to hide anything from Mo Lan, although it is said that Shiqi was originally an artificial intelligence that existed because of the creation of human beings.

But after more than a hundred years of being assimilated by the spiritual power of the current Zerg Empress, in fact, Shiqi has long lost its sense of belonging to human beings, but most of the information in the data is telling it that it belongs to the camp of human beings.

But Shiqi was originally just a string of data, and all the concepts about human beings were only added to it by human beings, not what it owned.

Mo Lan had a feeling that she felt as if she was transforming an artificial intelligence composed of data into the direction of conscious life.

The judgment of life is a very ambiguous concept, because the definition of life is to be alive, but this kind of life is divided into two kinds, one is conscious and the other is alive in vital signs.

It's hard to tell which is right, but it's important to admit that both forms of life exist.

In this universe, there are many races of creatures, and their life nature is completely different, for example, some creatures are alive with their bodies, with the nature of living, but they do not have their own consciousness.

Then there are some racial creatures, they do not have a living body, the whole is composed of spiritual power, and they are lives like energy waves that are invisible to the naked eye, but they have an independent thinking individual consciousness, just like some invisible ghosts in human fantasies.

Therefore, it is difficult to use the body or consciousness to define a living thing as belonging to the category that does not belong to life, and there is no specific definition of what kind of life will exist in the universe.

Artificial intelligence, which is composed of a string of data, is inseparable from the underlying data logical structure set by humans.

In fact, it is difficult to determine whether it belongs to life or not, because no one knows whether it is the consciousness of a single individual, or whether the data is the result of mechanical and logical calculations.

Artificial intelligence is not a human being after all, it is just a human tool.

However, the change of Shiqi is also here, because it has been assimilated by the spiritual power of the current Zerg Empress for a hundred years, so that its data form has the characteristics of transforming into spiritual power.

It is precisely because of this trait that it can be fully received by Mo Lan into his spiritual network, of course, this point is absolutely inseparable from the special nature of Mo Lan's spiritual network, if it is other Zerg queens, they will definitely not be able to do this.

And because Shiqi directly entered Mo Lan's spiritual network, this assimilation became more specific and obvious.

Mo Lan can actually feel that Shiqi is detaching from data and transforming into a real conscious life.

It's just that Mo Lan can't be sure about the length of this transformation time, after all, she just has such a feeling, which is more like a keen intuition brought by too high mental power.

But so far, Shiqi is still within the scope of normal data, and this kind of life level transformation has not been carried out soon, and Mo Lan does not have to worry about the problems after the change.

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Xiao Jiang is like Mo Lan's shadow, following her all the time, silently and like a shadow.

In addition to landing on this planet at the beginning, Xiao Jiang hunted the first batch of prey for Mo Lan and saved the first pot of gold for Mo Lan's development...... energy, let Mo Lan hatch the other zergs.

Later, Xiao Jiang rarely had a chance to make a move, after all, its main duty was to protect Mo Lan's safety.

But Mo Lan has always been in the middle of the Zerg soldiers, surrounded by those Zerg soldiers, it is the safest place, and if there is no danger, Xiao Jiang has no room to play.

Mo Lan faintly ignored it...... This is unlikely, Mo Lan's consciousness is always connected to every Zerg, and he can feel everything that happens around every Zerg at all times, there is no rest time, and he can't even sleep, Mo Lan's consciousness is always awake.

If Mo Lan didn't have the memory of her previous life, she was just a simple Zerg queen with human genes, obviously she would accept this kind of thing well, but unfortunately, Mo Lan not only had the memory of being a human in her previous life for more than 20 years, but also had the habit of sleeping every human being.

The tranquility of completely disappearing consciousness and not having to think about anything made Mo Lan miss it very much.

This kind of state of being completely awake without rest and all the time is a pain for Mo Lan.

She likes to watch all kinds of interstellar movies stored in the core of the abandoned starship, in fact, for this reason, because she has no way to sleep, so she can only find a way to let her spiritual consciousness indulge in one thing, and then ignore other things, which can be regarded as a kind of rest in disguise.

Mo Lan didn't forget the strange things that Xiao Jiang showed at the beginning, but after such a long time, Mo Lan really didn't find any problems in Xiao Jiang.

All of Xiao Jiang's performances are the performance of a normal zerg, but his behaviors really make Mo Lan feel that something is not quite right every time she thinks about it.

However, Xiao Jiang's performance was very normal, which made Mo Lan feel at ease but could not be completely reassured.

Mo Lan still attaches great importance to Xiao Jiang, after all, among so many Zerg soldiers, the only Zerg image that can be seen is only this Xiao Jiang who was not hatched by Mo Lan.

is used to seeing those strange-shaped Zerg soldiers, and only Xiao Jiang can save Mo Lan's eyes and let her retain a correct aesthetic.

Looking at the Zerg soldiers she hatched by herself every day, Mo Lan was going to feel depressed, was her craftsmanship really so bad? Why are the Zerg she hatched so ugly? Can't they look better on their own?

But there is no solution to this problem.

It's also thanks to the fact that Xiao Jiang has not appeared in the player's field of vision, otherwise the players would definitely be clamoring for the production team to make Xiao Jiang's image and become a selectable game character option.

But Mo Lan really can't do this!

Because Xiao Jiang was hatched by the current Zerg Empress, and when the current Zerg Empress hatched Xiao Jiang, the biological genes used by Mo Lan are not available here.

Those biological genes were collected by the current Zerg Empress, and it took thousands of years to collect them, and Mo Lan wanted to copy them directly without anything, and some of them were too difficult for her.

Therefore, if you can't create a substitute, Mo Lan can only make a low-cost replacement version.

And her low-cost replacement version, to be honest, she doesn't have much confidence in herself, and it is estimated that after it is made, it will be the kind of image that players will spurn.

Damn it! Mo Lan really can't figure out what the reason is! Why can't she make a good-looking Zerg! I don't understand it at all.

Mo Lan sometimes feels that she is very fine, on the one hand, with the increase in the number of Zerg soldiers under her hands, the genes and instincts belonging to the Zerg queen begin to subtly change her personality and behavioral habits.

On the other hand, it was the human memories and experiences of more than twenty years in Mo Lan's previous life that made her always maintain the mentality of a young girl to fight against the cold-blooded and cruel non-humans who belonged to the Zerg Queen.

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The brutal war is going on, Mo Lan still has time to stand by and think about some things, she is not particularly worried about the result, she has failed once, she will not fall in the same place twice.

Mo Lan's enemy this time is a creature like a monkey, a single individual is not strong, the size of more than two meters in the forest at this depth is only medium-sized, like the four or five meters of the split tiger is a large creature.

It's just that this kind of creature called "white-collar ape" by Mo Lan is a kind of social animal, and the individual is not strong, and the appearance of groups is a powerful and terrifying force.

The most important point is that this group of white-collar apes is quite intelligent and has not weak intelligence, not only knows how to divide labor and cooperate in the population, find the weaknesses of the prey to attack, but also use tools, make weapons, and set traps.

Mo Lan, who had just met them, was simply beaten and her mind was full of bags.

The white-collar ape is a kind of almost black hair, some hard and not soft, and it is not wet at all, it is very strange, there is a circle of white collar-like special hair on the neck, so Mo Lan named them white-collar apes.

They are quite agile, with exceptionally long legs and legs, and a nimble tail that allows them to jump and move from treetop to treetop, and even climb back and forth.

This is difficult for the Zerg soldiers under Mo Lan to do, although some Zerg soldiers can also climb trees, but when they climb trees, they inevitably lack the ability to fight.

And these white-collar apes, when they are in the trees, do not reduce their combat ability, they have very sharp and flexible long claws, one hand or foot, can firmly grasp the trunk of the tree, hang the whole body.

Even if the body of a tentacle-type zerg is scratched by the sharp claws of a white-collar ape, it will be scratched deep marks.

Moreover, this group of white-collar apes will also hide and set traps, for example, digging irregular holes in the ground and covering them with leaves and dirt, when the Zerg soldiers pass by, accidentally step on them and fall into them, and cannot move for a short time, they will suddenly appear from the treetops above, and throw them at these Zerg soldiers who can't dodge with carefully selected stones with sharp tips.

Stones thrown down from trees dozens of meters high smashed on the body...... Even if it is on the body of a Zerg soldier, the effect does not need to be described.