Chapter 107: Zuzadeh - Master of Environmental Transformation
After explaining what happened to Greck, Xue Hua turned his attention back to Abasser.
"The new unit has been introduced, so what happened to our new commander?"
"The new high-level zerg, with a strong brain evolution, is based on the infected, strengthens the analysis function on the basis of retaining the powerful psionic capture organs, adjusts consciousness fluctuations, greatly strengthens the autonomous consciousness, and catalyzes a large number of psionic energy collection organs through strong catalyst catalysis.
Positioning, a master of biological environment improvement, mainly responsible for transforming and strengthening the planet's bioenergy, can gradually stimulate the barren land and restore the stable biological environment breeding ability by incubating special creeping fungus blankets, the specific ability is listed below. ”
After a brief introduction, Abbather transferred the details of the new high-level commander to the main nest mind ** Xue Hua for viewing.
The new Swarm High Commander is seven points similar in appearance to the infected, but the psionic sense tentacles on the head have been greatly increased, and the body is covered with reticular psionic harvesting organs, and the nerve nodes on the back have strengthened the tentacle-like brain tissue similar to Zagara's and the coronal bone armor that protects these brain tissues.
The overall body size is larger than that of the average infected person, and two pairs of sharp, hollow stinging needles grow next to the sac-like storage organs in the abdomen.
From its details, Xue Hua learned about the abilities of the new high-ranking commander.
Its psionic level is similar to the current Abbathhar, which is around 9.4, but its combat power rating is not high, and it is purely a scientific research unit.
Named "Zuzad", this new high-level Zerg has the ability to survive in a cosmic vacuum, and is capable of transforming the environment of barren lands and planets by incubating a special fungus blanket that it has specifically transformed.
In short, Zuzad was able to bring some of the otherwise non-yielding solid barren planets back to life, and although the process would take a long time, the planets that were transformed by it would have the ability to continue to provide resources for the Zerg after the transformation was completed.
Zuzad has two Commander skills.
The first Commander ability is called "Creeping Blanket", and this ability is the main ability it uses to transform the planet.
The special fungus blanket it hatches is able to absorb rays from the universe and grow itself, and convert the absorbed rays into special energy to feed back to the barren land where it grows.
At the same time, the creeping blanket also emits a special gaseous fungus from the air, which will help the creeping blanket transform the land and form a simple atmospheric isolation layer over the planet.
Zuzad's second Commander ability, "Environmentally Adaptive Cultures", allows Zuzad to spread a viral strain beneath the surface of a barren planet with a strong ability to survive and mutate itself.
These strains will continue to mutate while absorbing information about the surrounding environment as they grow, and they will eventually mutate into a variety of special plant lifeforms with different abilities, which will form different species groups with the help of the creeping fungus blanket and activate the biological reproduction and natural evolution of an entire land.
In short, Zuzad has the ability to transform and bring the Dead Star back to life, and these planets that have been modified by various fungi will automatically provide a constant supply of resources to the swarm.
At the same time, Zuzadeh is also a master in the study of the biological environment, which can study and modify the environment of various planets in the same way that Abbather studies biological genes, and makes the biological environment of these planets develop and evolve in the direction of favoring insect colonies.
Beyond that, Zuzad's only means of fighting is to incubate mutants to protect himself like the Inved, but the mutants he hatches are made up of a variety of fungal plants that are extremely difficult to destroy and possess a variety of special abilities.
Zuzad's abilities were so important to the current swarm that Schwart almost immediately wanted Stokov's swarm fleet to take it with him to transform the otherwise useless Death Stars near the Sanctuary world.
Although according to Abasser, it would take Zuzad at least a year to completely transform an entire planet, for Xue Hua, who was already thinking about the resource star and was about to go crazy, a year was completely worth the wait.
What's more, Zuzad's transformation ability only needs it to be adjusted and laid out by himself in the early stages, and when the creeping fungus blanket and environmentally adapted bacteria begin to grow on their own, Zuzad can get out and continue to transform the next planet.
In this way, Xue Hua's swarm may be able to obtain a sufficient supply of five or six resource stars in one to two years, and with these inexhaustible resource stars as the backing, the development and evolution speed of the swarm is estimated to soon break through the sky.
"Isha, when Zuzad comes out of the cultivation sac, immediately let the Second Fleet of the Swarm take it to transform the surrounding barren planet without a moment's delay, understand?"
Xue Hua shouted to the adjutant with some excitement.
"Understood, Juggernaut." Isha answered in the mind of the main nest, and then went to monitor Zuzad's cultivation bag herself.
"Very well, with the presence of Zuzad, the swarm will have a second way to obtain resources in addition to plundering in the future!"
Xue Hua nodded hesitantly.
He had a hunch that this newly emerging high-level zerg would bring great changes to the evolution path of the swarm.
Perhaps when the swarm is fully powerful, plunder will no longer be the only way for the swarm to obtain resources, and at that point, the swarm will have room to allow the other conquered universe races to surrender.
After a while, Xue Hua, who had calmed down his excitement a little, looked at Abbather again, waiting for him to introduce the remaining two research results.
"The preliminary decoding of the Planet 1 test sample has been completed, and a special gene splicing method has been obtained from the core gene outer layer of the sample, which is basically the same as the gene splicing method on the mother of the sand worm and the previous No. 1 sample, but with improvements, judging from its method of gene splicing, the advanced intelligent creature is trying to modify the essence of some very dangerous organisms."
Abbather said as he stretched out his right hand appendage and took out a dark green vesicle from a hole next to him, which was wrapped in an enlarged spiral-shaped gene chain, which was very similar to the human gene chain at a glance, but a closer look revealed that the gene chain was obviously spliced, and the splicing method was very peculiar.
For example, the genes in this gene chain are like two pieces of cloth of different colors, and then they are sewn together with threads removed from the cloth of another color.
"The experimenter forcibly blended and spliced multiple biological genes together, and used superb skills to shield the mutual exclusion effect between different types of genes, and his technical strength is so powerful that even for me."
Abbather did not shy away from telling Xue Hua that he was inferior to this guy who did gene splicing, but later expressed his disdain for the experiments he was doing.
"Although the experimenter is very technically powerful, the purpose of the experiment is very unclear, and I found thousands of unrelated genetic samples on the periphery of the core gene layer of the sample, including the genes of special organisms unique to this world.
One of these genes is named 'Demon' in this world, and it's the 'High Demon' gene that we have acquired before.
Judging from this, the experimenter's purpose in conducting the experiment may be to weave together a large number of genes and try to use the fusion effect of these modified genes to transcend the nature of biological evolution.
But IMHO, this kind of experiment will inevitably end up being a dead end, because all evolved gene sequences have their own unique characteristics, no matter how sophisticated the technical means, can not completely integrate all these characteristics, and if there is no fully compatible environment within the genes, then it is nonsense to transcend the essence of biological evolution. ”