Chapter 2083: Negative Space Zerg

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On earth, the most famous social insects are of course ants and bees. In addition to them, some wasps and termites are also social.

Many people think that termites are also a kind of ants, but they have different colors? Is it similar to black ants and red ants?

But in fact, termites belong to the order of the insect class Blattaria, and the ants belong to the order of the insect order Hymenoptera. The difference between the two is not too big, because in this way, compared with ants, termites and cockroaches The kinship is closer.

The environment of the earth is unique. Any weird creature in the universe can find similar "relatives" on the earth, and the Zerg is no exception.

Of course, there are some subtle differences. For example, social insects on the earth have three major characteristics.

The first is flexibility. The nests can adapt to changing environments at any time.

It may be the external environment, such as flash floods, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, etc. It may also be an internal change, such as the sudden death of the queen, the outbreak of a nest ecological crisis, and so on.

However, a mature and complete nest group will always have a way to deal with these situations. Their sociality makes up for the weakness of individual strength and can avoid environmental changes that are the extinction for most insects.

The second is the robustness of the nest. Even if the individual fails, the entire nest will still complete the task.

Another example is ants. They sometimes prey on some large insects as food, such as scorpions. A single ant is not worth mentioning to a scorpion and can kill a large number of them.

But when thousands of ants swarm up, the scorpion will eventually be bitten through the weak joints of the carapace, and finally die of formic acid poisoning.

Some people may have seen the scene of ants crossing a river. They will form an "ant ball", wrapping the queen and eggs in the center, and layer by layer of worker ants on the outside to form a protective layer. This kind of ant ball can pass through. Large rivers are more common in areas flooded with seasonal floods like the African grasslands.

The worker ants in the outer layer must be dead and uplifted in the end, but those ants in the inner layer will be protected, allowing the nest to move forward.

This is that after the nest group has set a collective goal, the life and death of the individual has been set aside, and they work collectively for only one goal.

The third point is the difference between the Earth's social creatures and the various alien zerg species.

The social insects of the earth have a'personality'.

You can’t find two identical individuals from an ant nest or bee nest. Although worker ants and worker bees are both'tool people' who have no reproductive ability, they can actually be observed under a microscope. There are differences, and if their genes are taken out for examination, each one is different.

The social insects on the earth are thoughtful. They use pheromone and body movements to communicate, listen to commands, and act in coordination.

The nest is the main body of their service. Every insect lives for it and works for it. The individual is not worth mentioning, including the queen bee, which can be replaced because it is only a reproductive machine and an important part of the population.

But these characteristics do not hold true for the alien zerg, just as if someone finds troublesome. The bottom layer of most of the worker bees seems to be printed from a mold, there is no difference, it is just a pure copy of flesh and blood. .

These worms that come down the ‘assembly line’ have the same appearance, the same smell, and the same genes. They may not even have independent thoughts.

Some Zerg races don't even have a brain, and only have a receiver in their head shell. They may be ruled by a ‘worm’s nest thinking’ through technology or mental abilities, and everything they do is to serve that will.

"The three zergs in negative space can be understood as locusts, bees, and ants." Su Ming put down the empty can in his hand and rolled it back and forth on the table to play, attracting his cousin’s eyes to follow it. turn to.

"Locust?" Dumu repeated a word of concern: "I don't remember that locusts are social insects."

"In fact, this is called environmental'stress-type colonization.' The locusts are originally scattered insects, but when the environment is not suitable or the population density in an area is too high, their CYP305M2 gene will be activated, causing them to mutate and secrete pheromone. The ability to transform into a gregarious form, the Asian migratory locust is the most typical example."

Su Ming explained that he would inevitably think of his past life when he said that, and he still wanted to laugh.

Because I read novels online in my previous life, and for a while I loved to read history. It was said that someone had traveled back to ancient times and happened to encounter a plague of locusts, so he gave the emperor an idea to let the people eat locusts to eliminate the plague.

It is also said that the locust plague is like a dark cloud. Take off your shoes and take a pocket in the air to be a grand slam. The people eat meat and eat fat.

With the protagonist’s ‘cunning plan’, the ancients wiped out the locust plague in a few days, and then the protagonist was rewarded by the emperor as a high official, married several princesses, and reached the pinnacle of life.

Every time he sees a similar plot, Su Ming will be poisoned to death, because swarms of locusts cannot be eaten.

I don’t know if anyone has noticed that the scattered locusts look emerald green or a little yellow~www.NovelMTL.com~ but the swarms of locusts are "blackened" because they produce pheromone due to their colony. , The chemical environment in the body changes, and two other substances are produced accordingly.

Phenylacetonitrile and hydrocyanic acid are the reasons why locust plagues cannot be eaten. The former just has a pungent and unpleasant odor, which makes birds and other natural enemies no longer eat locusts, while the latter is highly toxic and has a lethal dose per human 0.4 mg of weight per kilogram.

The ancient people who ate locusts in those novels might have gained weight, but that was the swelling of the skin caused by the destruction of the blood circulation system after poisoning, right?

It's just that the past things are only missed when I think of it now. Su Ming has traveled through it himself. Maybe everyone in the universe of those ancient travellers is anti-drug MAX?

"Ahem."

Su Ming cleared his throat and threw the empty can to his cousin to play. Wade immediately squatted on the ground like a cat and rolled the can with his hands. He himself continued to say to Dum:

"The annihilation in negative space is actually like a template for locusts. They originally evolved from the spores on the planet Argorr and do not have any group characteristics, but when the space-limited planets gather enough After more Annihilation Zerg races, they formed nests, and the Annihilation Insect King who picked up the Cosmos Control Rod became their leader and ruler."

Dr. Doom put down the soda bottle, took his arms, he was thinking, and then his voice came from under the iron mask:

"In that case, the individuals among them can actually think and have independent consciousness, right?"

"Yes, the Annihilation Zerg is not the most dangerous of the three negative space Zergs, but it is indeed the most cunning. They have advanced technology, strong individual soldier ability, massive biological warships, endless sources of troops, and a single body. The king of the top strength in the universe."