super predator system

Chapter 645 On Creep

Chapter 645 On Creep
Chapter 653 On the creep, the Zerg live forever

Under everyone's gaze, the creep quickly began to spread at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the overall shape began to gradually change.

The first is the change of the root system.

This kind of creep was created by Dai Lin himself through technology and experimental theory. It is not the so-called Zerg creep in the game, so some shapes must be completely different from the game. In the game, the creep It may be a milky purple, semi-fluid, semi-solid substance with a strong sticky feeling.

But in the actual form here, the creep is a thick blanket-like tissue interwoven with dense fibers and tube stems. If you insist, it is a bit like the root system of turf.

As thick as a thumb, and as thin as a hair, there are countless tubes and filaments, overlapping and intertwined, forming a thick blanket-like structure while piercing deeply into the soil and rocks, and emitting There was a very slight hissing sound, but the sound was very weak. If Ye Ren's senses were not extremely powerful now, Nan Yi might have heard it.

"Um……"

Seeing that the creeps had begun to move slowly and regularly, Ye Ren's eyes narrowed slightly, and the power of the star's eyes was activated quickly, allowing him to directly observe through the thick cover of the creeps. The places he wants to observe.

For example, the root system of creep.

If the growth rate of the creeper itself is visible to the naked eye, then the growth rate of the root system of the creeper has completely exceeded Ye Ren's expectations.

One by one, the thick or thin tubular structures are continuously drilled into the ground, and split into more tubular structures, which continue to permeate the ground, and at the same time slowly secrete a very special oily substance that dissolves Analyzing rocks, soil, and sucking those nutrients.

These root-like tubular structures increase and split extremely fast. Almost when the creep on the ground has just increased in value by a few centimeters, the underground roots have already penetrated four to five meters underground, and the dense network of roots, Almost the entire underground is completely locked, and the trace elements, minerals, and water in it are continuously dissolved and separated, and converted into sufficient nutrients through its own chemical reaction.

"It should be almost there."

Because Dai Lin here also has see-through eyes, she observed the creep a little bit at this moment, and then nodded: "You can already absorb nutrients."

"Is it so fast?" Ye Ren couldn't help being taken aback after hearing this.

"Yes."

Dai Lin nodded and smiled confidently: "You can let the zerg try it."

"Queen, get a Zerg to try."

After hearing Dai Lin's words, Ye Ren turned around and gave instructions to the queen.

"Squeak~" The queen was also very interested in the source of this new food, her tentacles shook slightly, and an engineer-type zerg quickly crawled out of a cave, and directly climbed onto the creep, and began to test up.

I have to mention here that the wisdom of the Queen of Worms is really quite good.

Without Dai Lin and Ye Ren's reminder, the engineer-type zerg controlled by the queen tentatively ate the tubular structure, but only found a small amount of mucus, so he immediately changed several methods, Instead of always choosing to eat the tubular structure, and quickly found the correct way to absorb nutrients.

The engineer zerg used its two arthropods to pry open the surface of the creep, and found a very thick, silvery tubular structure, and bit it off with its jaws. Immediately, the viscous slurry gushed out. Naturally, the engineer zerg didn't have any ambiguity, and directly swallowed the viscous juice in big mouthfuls, and soon its belly swelled up.

[Father, the nutrient content of the creep is so high. 】

Here, the queen controls the engineer-type zerg, who are constantly devouring the creep secretions, and at the same time sent a spiritual message to Ye Ren in some surprise.

"How high exactly?" Ye Ren naturally knew what the Queen of Insects reminded him. After all, he had already seen it with his eyes of stars, but he still didn't know the specific conversion ratio, so he asked: "The conversion ratio with insect honey." how many?"

[Almost one to one. 】

The Queen's voice came again.

"I'll wipe!" Ye Ren was stunned after hearing this: "What did you say?"

[Father, the nutrient content of the secretions of this kind of creep is almost equivalent to that of insect honey. 】

The queen narrated it again.

"It's a bit of a mouthful." After hearing the queen's confirmation again, even Ye Ren couldn't help but nodded, and then asked again: "What about the taste?"

【...Father, Zerg has no sense of taste. 】

The insect queen reminded.

"Okay." Ye Ren wiped his face, then walked over by himself, dipped his finger in the thick slurry, put it in his mouth and tasted it.

The taste is a bit bitter and sticky, not particularly delicious.

But of course, the taste is at most similar to bitter gourd juice. It is much better than all kinds of strange insect body fluids, lymph fluid, etc., at least it can be swallowed.

"..."

Seeing that Ye Ren really ran over to taste it, Bai Mengmeng looked at Ye Ren with a disgusted expression.

"Ahem, Dai Lin, how big can the largest area of ​​this thing grow?"

Ye Ren touched his nose, ignored Bai Mengmeng's dislike for him, and asked Dai Lin who was beside him.

"Originally, it should be no problem to overgrow the fungus hole, but you cut off half of it before, so I guess it can only cover the lower layer. As for the top of the cave, I guess it can only be empty." Dai Lin said that Ye Ren tasted the creeper. The behavior of the secretion didn't feel too much. When I saw the other party's question, I answered it honestly.

"Well, the other half happened to be taken to Mars for experiments."

Ye Ren nodded, then glanced at the creep on the ground, and asked again: "Is it possible to use insect honey to speed up the growth of creep?"

"can."

Dai Lin nodded and said: "The tissue structure of the creep is very special. It can absorb almost any nutrients for its own division and reproduction, and then try to obtain more nutrients and energy. Other things thrown on the creep will also be decomposed by an oily liquid containing certain bacteria secreted by the creep."

"Oh, after all, fungi are nature's decomposers."

Ye Ren nodded. Some fungi in nature grow on wood and decompose rotten wood, so it makes sense that the fungus blanket can have such characteristics.

"After you go back, you can try to debug it. If the creep can really decompose some other organic matter as nutrients, and it can dissolve inorganic matter as nutrients, the creep will be really invincible." After a little thought, Ye Ren gave Dai Lin an order.

"Well, okay, it's not difficult, I'll fix it when I get back."

Dai Lin nodded. Her current brain has liberated the seventh brain domain. In a single field, it has already surpassed humans by a lot. What is difficult for humans is actually not for her. Just a little thought.

"I'll try throwing this on Mars first to see if it can grow out." After receiving Dai Lin's affirmation, Ye Ren nodded, and then a silver-purple wormhole appeared in front of him.

The Queen of Worms and Ye Ren are connected with each other. As soon as the former mentioned this, the latter immediately opened the wormhole.

"Do you want to go together?"

Ye Ren held half a ball of creep in his hand, and before he was about to enter the wormhole, he asked everyone a question.

"I won't go." Bai Mengmeng didn't have much interest in this aspect, so she waved her hand: "I'd better go back and rest for a while, I'm a little tired."

"Let me go and take a look with you."

Dai Lin had also been endowed with the gene of space lungs by Ye Ren before, and she used the experiment to constantly attune her body, so she is not afraid of the harsh environment on the surface of Mars at the moment.

"Where's the queen?" Ye Ren turned to look at the queen again.

"Squeak~"

Seeing Ye Ren questioning herself, the worm queen naturally let out a soft cry, and at the same time took a few steps forward, expressing her strong curiosity.

"Then together."

After seeing the worm, he also wanted to go and have a look. Ye Ren nodded, and then stepped into the wormhole first.

Next second, Mars.

Ye Ren slowly walked out of the void wormhole, looked at the roughly excavated cave in front of him, and directly used his electromagnetic senses to sense the structure of the cave, looking for the most suitable cave for planting fungi.

Before, while Ye Ren and others were busy with other things, the Bug Queen had already sent some bugs to Mars, and controlled those engineer bugs to expand this area that was originally just powered by power. More space was dug out of the cave again, and it continued to extend downwards in order to build a complete insect nest on Mars.

"Well, it's the bottom place."

Through electromagnetic induction, Ye Ren quickly determined the specific size of the insect nest that had not been fully established, and began to move down directly along a cave.

Because at the bottom of the cave, there is a very spacious cave.

"Queen, what are you planning to use this cave for?" Even after choosing a place, Ye Ren didn't forget to ask the queen behind him: "Is it for the female worm?"

"Squeak~"

The queen groaned softly, and then the spiritual message sounded.

【My lord father, that's not a place for female worms to use as a birth bed. In fact, I originally planned to try to grow worm warts there. 】

"Oh, like this."

Ye Ren nodded: "It just so happens that the creep has arrived. After a while, after the creep unfolds, we should remove the warts. After all, this crop itself is considered a failure."

【Okay, my lord. 】

The Queen of Worms responded.

Constantly communicating with the queen here, Ye Ren soon came to the cave at the bottom. Because he has the effect of being immune to darkness with the eyes of the stars, he completely ignored the surrounding dark environment and directly put half of his hand into the cave. A ball of creep fell to the ground.

"Pa-ta... Goo..."

Because the temperature of Mars is very low, and the earth's core has already solidified, that is to say, even if it hides underground, it may not warm up, so the creep here is almost an instant after being thrown on the ground, and it immediately reappears. Hugged into a ball, it didn't stretch out immediately like it did on Earth.

And this, of course, made Ye Ren couldn't help frowning: "Dai Lin, this thing doesn't seem to be able to survive on Mars..."

"Ye Ren, why aren't we waiting?"

As the creator of the creep, Dai Lin obviously understands this primitive little guy better than Ye Ren, so when faced with Ye Ren's doubts, she only puts on a faint smile on her face.

"Okay." After hearing Dai Lin's words, Ye Ren could only nod his head, but out of curiosity, Ye Ren still tried to focus all his attention on the creep, and worked hard. Try to find something different.

Soon, Ye Ren discovered something different.

Ye Ren found that his electromagnetic senses did not feel any signs of weakening of the electromagnetic waves emitted by the creep itself, which indicated that the other party was not in danger, not even dormant, the fibrous blanket structure was full of Unimaginable vitality.

"Goo...coo..."

Unlike the slightly moist softness on Earth, it seems that because of the lack of liquid water on Mars, the wet tubes on the surface of the creeps began to become dry and smaller, and those tiny fiber tube structures gradually interweaved and swelled. It became strips of reddish-purple fluff. Compared with the wet and slippery thick blanket-like structure on the earth, this kind of blanket-like structure like some kind of strange plant is obviously lighter and fluffier.

After such changes, the tubular fibers at the roots of the carpet also began to move in the same way.

An unknown acid-like liquid is secreted from these tubular fibers, and they cooperate with them to drill through the Martian rocks rich in iron oxide, and then continuously dissolve a large number of trace elements, minerals, and everything in the rocks. Creep can transform and refine substances.

Soon, those thick tubular structures hidden in the creep, the special secretion full of nutrients flowed inside again, just a small opening was enough for a zerg to feast on.

"Success!"

Seeing this scene, Ye Ren naturally showed a happy smile on his face: "This thing really deserves the name of the creep, it's too darn good."

"This is just an experimental version of creep."

Although Dai Lin was equally proud, she just smiled slightly: "If we are studying it, maybe it can bring us more surprises."

"That's enough surprises for now."

Ye Ren's eyes started to shine: "Insect Queen, bring a female insect from the island insect nest here. I will figure out a way to deal with the breathing structure and so on. You do it now."

【Yes, my lord. 】

(Sorry for repeating again. Sure enough, if the manuscript is submitted at the last second, it is easy to copy and make mistakes. I will try to be a little earlier tomorrow~)

(End of this chapter)

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