2045. The evolution of Togot Swarm
Abathur's work efficiency is very high. After one day, Togot Swarm gave birth to three brand new bugs. The egg sacs inside the mother nest are laying eggs almost all the time, and then the workers send the eggs to the incubator for hatching.
Just two days later, the first batch of new bugs hatched. The bugs broke out of their shells and immediately began to eat. After eating a lot, they grew almost at a speed visible to the naked eye. After another two days, they had grown into adult bugs.
There are three types of new bugs. The first one is a very bloated looking ball, at least 5 meters high. There are more than 20 small insect legs below the insect to support the body, which can only move slowly. There is a huge mouthpart full of sharp teeth on the front, and there are dozens of cavities around the body that are constantly wriggling like intestines.
As soon as this bug was born, the soldier bugs used by Togot Swarm moved towards it one after another under the command of the mother nest, and were then eaten by it bite by bite, and then converted into highly concentrated biomass and stored in the body.
This is Broodmother. The organs in its body are very simple - eating organs, digestive organs, storage bags, excretory organs and feeding organs. The only function of this kind of bug is to eat, keep eating, and then use its powerful digestive organs to transform and store it, and then feed it to other bugs.
Broodmother's powerful digestive organs can even digest the stratum corneum, and the substances excreted by it are dregs that cannot be transformed no matter how they are processed.
The second bug is an improved soldier bug, called Scythe Drones. This bug has greatly strengthened its body muscles, including strong hind legs that can jump five meters high, as well as forelimbs and scythes that can even cut through the armor of armored vehicles. In order to achieve the maximum effect, Scythe Drones has canceled the eating and digestive organs, and almost the whole body is made up of strong muscle groups. The only remaining mouthpart can be connected to the feeding organ of Broodmother. It directly obtains concentrated biomass from Broodmother and stores it. One meal can maintain activity energy for at least a week.
If this kind of Scythe Drones were to fight against the previous soldier insects that were a combination of flies and mantises, they would be able to defeat at least twenty of them.
The third type of bug is called Transport Bug. This insect has six well-developed legs and can travel over mountains and ridges very quickly. Even in complex jungle and mountainous environments, it can reach a speed of 60 kilometers per hour. If it is flat land, it can run at least 80 kilometers per hour.
Transport Bug also has four very flexible long arms, which can pick up various objects of different shapes and carry them on its back. There is a groove full of barbs growing on its back. The objects it grabs are placed in the groove, and then the long arms turn around to hug the objects, even if it jumps up and down.
There is no doubt that this kind of bug is specially used to collect resources, bring them back to Broodmother to eat, and then convert them into biomass.
Abathur told Tang Xiao that this was just the beginning. Next, he would gradually build Togot Swarm into a terrifying and efficient cluster.
In fact, a comparison can tell that the bugs before Togot Swarm are actually bugs. They have all the organs in their bodies. They can find food for themselves, store the energy of the food they eat, and can attack immediately when they find an enemy. The advantage is that such a bug can eat here and there in the wild without having to return to its nest. It can wander outside for several years without any problem.
The bugs created by Abathur are ruthless tools that specialize in one thing! Scythe Drones is used for fighting, including the step of eating, all body structures are muscles, muscles, all kinds of muscles! There is even a bio-hydraulic structure on the forelimb of the sickle. If the sickle is curled up and used as scissors, a 20mm homogeneous steel plate can be cut!
But the disadvantage is that these Scythe Drones can only move around the nest. But it doesn't really matter. As long as they can expand the scope of their nest, these bugs will become a terrifying force!
If we want to make a comparison, the bugs before Togot Swarm were just a group of miserable refugees, as long as they could eat, drink and survive. And now the bugs made by Abathur are an extremely sophisticated army! This army will be composed of countless detailed and precise parts. Although it is more complicated internally, from the outside, this force will be irresistible!
Of course, in order to maintain such a sophisticated insect swarm structure, Togurt Mother Nest's own consciousness also needs to be upgraded. Abathur told Tang Xiao that until the mysterious gene that enables Kilik Swarm to produce wisdom is completely cracked, he can only enhance Togurt Mother Nest's thinking ability by enhancing physical functions, but this has an upper limit.
Therefore, the key to the matter is still to decipher the genes of Kilik Swarm.
By the way, in the process of transforming Togot Swarm, Abathur used all of Togot Swarm's own genetic sequences, and did not use the genetic sequence of Zerg Zerg that Tang Xiao gave him. Although his current transformation ideas actually follow the ideas of Zerg Zerg. For example, the design of Scythe Drones is frankly a replica of Zergling Zergling in Zerg.
However, whether it is Scythe Drones or Zergling, they actually do not involve any very complicated gene sequences. It is not surprising that they have the same purpose.
Moreover, Abathur also said that the gene sequence of Togot Swarm can be said to be useless, and its only value is the mysterious Kilik Swarm gene.
However, no one knows what kind of organizational structure Kilik Swarm had during its peak period. Their largest known nest was in Alderaan, and they also left behind an extremely huge nest, Relics. Alderaan has had a dedicated research team studying Kilik Swarm for a long time.
But even so, even Alderaan's experts can't tell how Kilik Swarm fought at its peak. They swept the entire galaxy without any rivals, and even became the chosen sons of the Ones, building the super miracle project Midpoint Station. No one still knows the true identity of Kilik Swarm, which is so brilliant, so brilliant, and so powerful.
Therefore, Abathur can only reconstruct the structure of Togot Swarm according to his own ideas. If he follows his ideas, he will definitely be familiar with Zerg Zerg's ideas.
Only after Abathur discovers more information about Kilik Swarm's mysterious gene can he gradually shift the trajectory of evolution to Kilik Swarm's route.
As for how to explore more genes?
Abathur's statement is very simple and direct, "The genes of Togot Swarm are incomplete and weak. War, expand, and collect the essence of other ethnic groups. Dismantle, analyze, and piece together to find a more complete Kilik Swarm gene. Reproduce, improve, sublimate... to achieve the final evolution."