After several days of training, the harpies still have little understanding of many concepts, but at least they are still willing to study hard.
The three-dimensional drawings, project progress, and construction plans are all understandable. Through a large number of hatched Overlord, the harpies have successfully completed the task of Swarm Node, and the engineering efficiency of Swarm has been improved.
Surprisingly, not only were more and more power plants built, but the harpies also discovered a small High-energy Crystal mine and a rare metal mine with Venomspider.
With these two minerals, Hatchery will soon be able to hatch flying units like Mutalisk. Of course, it is not the kind of interstellar Mutalisk that can physically fly in the universe, but it is enough to fight in the atmosphere.
However, even Mutalisk and Zhang Han in the atmosphere are not willing to hatch too many, as there are really no corresponding enemies. Just hatch some of the simplest flying insects.
Mutalisk is a very excellent air combat unit like Swarm. Their biggest advantages are cheapness, high maneuverability, and high recovery. The disadvantage is that their firepower is weaker and they are also more fragile.
Now that there are a lot of rare minerals stored, Zhang Han is planning to develop a new unit. Chloe only has five thousand fighting insects there.
Although Stars said it should be enough, he plans to support Chloe with some more powerful Swarm units.
The laboratory under Hatchery became busy again.
If you want to support a powerful unit, you must consider that it has strong capabilities in all aspects. It can not only support the battlefield, but also break through the front line, and it is best to be able to fly.
The cost of cultivating new troops according to this standard is very expensive. Considering how much does not need to be hatched, with the current energy reserve of Hatchery, it can be fully consumed.
Viper, Infestor don't need to be considered at all. Don't ask, the question is that Hatchery is too low level.
The good news is from Cerebrate that part of the genetic code has been unlocked and the host can be hatched.
The host is an ugly-looking expendable soldier. Its back is full of eggs, which can hatch into some fast-growing and fast-dead bugs, and consume the enemy through these bugs that are cheaper than Zergling.
Its weaknesses are its large size, poor mobility, and no means of attack other than small insects. It is the unit chosen by Swarm when the battle line is in a stalemate and enters a war of attrition.
The support performance of the host is enough. The difficulty is how to strengthen its combat effectiveness. The Psionics organ must be added. You must have a certain amount of wisdom to use the Psionics organ, so the host's brain must be increased to make them very smart.
In order to hatch small bugs, the host's body structure is very bloated, which is why it has no combat effectiveness and poor mobility. After two days of experiments in the Hatchery laboratory, a solution was finally developed.
First, the host egg-laying organ is discarded and replaced with a small Hatchery Pool, which is the Hatchery Pool that incubates the Swarm unit inside the Hatchery.
Because of its simple structure and miniaturization, this Hatchery Pool has no other functions except producing nutrient solution and hatching bugs.
This modification increases the cost of the host and does not seem to improve functionality much.
In fact, it is not the case. The first nutrient solution can be converted into Creep to provide combat support for Swarm units far away from Hatchery.
The second large amount of nutrient solution can support the host to drive stronger organs, such as the spiked tentacles and giant needle sacs of Creep Tumor.
In a fierce battlefield, the 8-meter-high host will wrap the fragile Hatchery Pool behind it with its carapace, and use the nutrient solution inside to strengthen itself.
Then a huge tank will appear on the battlefield, waving spiked tentacles, spraying giant steel needles, and running rampant. The speed can reach half of Zergling!
This tank can also use Psionics to attack enemies and strengthen itself!
With this kind of fighting power, Zhang Han jokingly said, Ultralisk is known as the little host.
As for mobility, Zhang Han really has no choice. You can't make a powerful Hercules as agile as a monk.
Zhang Han can only use a compromise method, using a large number of flying insects to carry the new host for rapid maneuvers.
Flying insects are new units that can be hatched after unlocking flying technology. They are actually a bit like giant dragonflies, with high maneuverability and great strength.
But there is no long-range attack method. The attack method is only a pair of forelimbs that have been transformed into bone knives.
The positioning and combat effectiveness of flying insects are similar to Zergling on the ground, with the highlight being that they are cheap and large in quantity.
In order to reflect the new host's supply Swarm and the effect of charging and breaking the formation, the new host was named Siege Beast.
The powerful effect means high cost. Zhang Han was mentally prepared and only planned to hatch 50 birds.
Later, after looking at the cost, in order not to delay the development progress of Swarm, I had to reduce it to 10, and the hatching was completed after more than ten days.
Why is Hatchery, which has been developed for so long, still so short of energy?
Because Zhang Han is carrying out two super projects at the same time, one is the giant Cerebrate, which will become the processing terminal for various information of Swarm in the future.
It is also a technology terminal. It can develop technology while using mental power to scan everything within Tabi Star 2 light years.
For early warning of emergencies, when the Psionics organ is strengthened, this Cerebrate can even release Psionics Shock that breaks out of the atmosphere, and can be used as an air defense matrix.
The cost of making such a powerful Cerebrate is definitely not cheap. The energy required to hatch it is enough for Zhang Han to point out two million Zergling.
Even now that energy sources are very abundant, there is still a gap in energy in order to hatch the giant Cerebrate.
There is no other way. In order to solve the huge energy gap, we can only start a second super project to develop the existing active volcanoes in greater depth.
More than 100,000 Drone are working underground in the volcano, and with them are thousands of harpies. The underground environment is very harsh, and the harpies can barely endure it by wearing masks specially made for them by Hatchery.
Overmind set a very high score for this project, so that the harpy ninja is willing to endure the underground that is full of heat and poisonous gas.
But it has to be said that long-term engineering work has also tempered their working ability. Under their command, Drone moved soil, sand and gravel, and reinforced walls. Everything was so orderly.
The purpose of this project is also very simple, to detonate the active volcano and then guide the magma into the excavated tunnels and cavities.
After these cavities are filled with hot magma, biogeothermal generator units can be added to the periphery.
If this kind of project were placed in Earth, it would be impossible to do it. If it weren't for the successful cases in Hive Mind, Zhang Han really wouldn't believe that there is such an unconstrained approach.
The power of Cerebrate's computing power is clearly reflected here. With higher mathematical theory and more efficient algorithms, Cerebrate can calculate the magma flow inside a complex volcano as accurately as a stream.
High-energy Crystal also plays a key role here. High-energy Crystal driven by Psionics can produce chemical explosions.
This does not mean that High-energy Crystal is unstable, it just means that it is very stable because it has almost no radiation. Moreover, it can be used as a fissile material. After precise and special processing, High-energy Crystal can start a chain reaction and is a simple nuclear weapon.
The explosion of this weapon is just right enough to detonate an active volcano.