Chapter 23: Testing the Hive

Xue Hua asked the insect mother who was in charge of the hatching work about the hatching progress slightly, and left satisfiedly after receiving a smooth answer from Melee Combat.

He turned his attention back to the sanctuary world and connected with the astral phase technician Kellers through the Mother Worm who had stayed in the mysterious dunes.

The phase technician had been locked up in his lab for the past few days, working day and night on the fragments of the World Stone.

As his research progressed, Kyles discovered that this strange crystal shard indeed bore many similarities to the Keldarin Crystal, an important source of energy for their clan.

He didn't know why, but he was more adept at using the Keldarin Crystal to dispose of the World Stone fragment.

In addition to its many similarities with the Keldarin Crystal, the Worldstone Fragment naturally resonates strongly with everything that comes into contact with the rules of this world.

For example, the pieces of divine runes that were the nourishment for its growth, as well as the altar runes that Xue Hua imprinted from the altar in the cat-man oasis a long time ago, also emitted extremely unique energy fluctuations when they approached the fragments of the World Stone.

These phenomena fascinated Kyreus, and he had spent days in the lab without sleep or food since he got the World Stone Fragments.

Xue Hua's arrival slightly interrupted his research progress, but Kelles was not annoyed by this, in fact, within these two days, if Xue Hua didn't come to him, he would also take the initiative to find Xue Hua.

Because he had just made a breakthrough in the research of the Worldstone and the Golden Swarm, he needed Abbather's knowledge of biology and the Swarm to send an experiment to help him continue his research.

"In other words, you've figured out how to completely energize the crystal and make it biological, and now you need Abbather to help you inject this energy into the genetic chain of the swarm?"

The mimic chick incarnated by Xue Hua frowned and nodded, and contacted Abbather in the mind of the main nest and pulled it into this conversation.

"Yes, I have found the ability to re-reduce this unique solid-state energy junction solid into a quantum substance that can be accepted by living organisms, and its internal energy molecules are similar in structure and form to ......."

"Ahem... Speaking human ......"

"Uh... All in all, all you need to know is that I already have a way to recode this crystal from an inorganic state to an organic state.

As for the rest of the steps, I'm not good at biogenomics, and I need the help of your biological experts and the biological resources of the swarm. ”

At this time, Abbather, who had been listening, joined the discussion.

"Solid inorganic recoding, designed as an acceptable form of organic matter, the scheme is too simple, the gene coding of the insect colony is regular, orderly, exclusive, it is difficult to accept the intervention of new organic matter information, the gene cutting process is too complex, the sequence re-grafting is difficult, it is easy to cause the overall collapse of the gene order, there is a risk, and it will change the old hatching sequence of the insect colony, it is not recommended to directly use the units in the main nest group for gene recoding."

“... Well, what do you mean? Xue Huazhi frowned when he heard the complicated technical vocabulary, but he still roughly understood what Abbather meant.

This experiment is risky, and if it were to be carried out directly with existing interconnected nests, it could cause the collapse of the entire gene sequence of a given unit.

Therefore, Abbather does not recommend starting the experiment directly with the existing nest group.

"Separating individual hatcheries, implementing genetic isolation, and establishing a copy of the gene database for independent hatchery experiments can turn risks into invisible.

Intercepting gene samples and recording the experimental process can effectively capture the gene map of successful experiments, and through the inclusion of genealogies of the same lineage, the successful samples can be easily implanted into the main gene information database of the insect colony. ”

"This method is okay, just do what you said, let the mother worm in the mysterious sand dunes cooperate, and establish a hatchery independent of the genetic information database of the main nest group of the Zerg as soon as possible."

Xue Hua nodded, thinking that this method was not bad, so he asked Abbather to do it immediately.

But Abbather did not respond immediately, but continued to speak, telling Xue Hua the hidden dangers of this method.

"The experimental hatchery, where the genetic information base is cut off, will also be independent of the mind of the main nest and become a hatchery for wild aliens.

Its hatchery data will no longer be under the control of the swarm, and the Juggernaut will have no control over the hatchery. ”

"Wild insects?" Xue Hua was stunned for a moment, and his brows slowly furrowed.

That's not a good start.

The Alien is a race with a very clear command class.

Low-level Insect combat units are generally not self-aware, and only use the common main nest mind as a telepathic communication transmission network.

Only the King Worm, the Mother Worm, and the High Commander have a certain sense of self, but they are still firmly limited by the mind of the main nest and the control of the master.

In the vast hierarchical command system within the swarm, the Hive mind plays an indispensable and critical role.

It connects the Juggernaut with its swarm, allowing the Juggernaut's will to be clearly and unambiguously communicated to the consciousness of all Zerg units.

As soon as a hive breaks away from the mind of the main hive, which is of course not possible under normal circumstances, then the hive becomes a wild hive.

Wild insect nests that are isolated from the mind of the main nest will immediately fall into an extremely primitive state of wild development if there is no commander at the level of the mother worm to command.

The king worm has a certain command over the hive, but the king worm alone cannot completely and perfectly command the hive.

In this state, the hive will become quite dangerous, and the Zerg units that hatch from the hive will fall into a state of disorder.

They will attack everything around them, unfettered or hindered, following the primitive wild instincts of the insects, trying to evolve themselves by devouring them.

This state of the wild hive will continue until it is brought back into the jurisdiction of the master hive's mind - or a new mother is born from the hive.

A new mother born outside the mind of the main nest.

The chances of a wild nest giving birth to a mother are very small, but once a new mother is born, the mother will be independent of the mind of the original main nest.

It will lead the insects of the wild nest to rebel against the domination of the Dominator, and will begin to try to evolve itself until the time comes.

Once the time is right, the mother worm will try to create her own mental network of the main hive, and in doing so, will completely free her hive from the control of its original dominant.

This is a challenge to the authority of the original Alien Sect Domination, and generally speaking, the Zerg Ruler would not ask for trouble like this.

But Abasshur's suggestion is very pertinent, and it is possible that Kelles's new experiment will cause a disruption to the Zerg genetic information base, and if this risk is ignored, it may lead to unpredictable variables in the evolution of the entire Zerg population.

Thinking of this, Xue Hua let out a long sigh, and then said to Abbather: "Let's do it, but we must firmly incorporate the experimental insect hive into our monitoring system, I don't want a new blade queen or something to suddenly appear in the nest group when I don't know." ”