Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

In that state of enlightenment, Sars suddenly produced an insect species that can produce a variety of biological enzymes. They intercepted the genes from Sars in a practical sense, and then used them through various methods. The pathways are spliced ​​into the Zerg individuals that are about to be born.

These Zerg species that are about to hatch are the materials for Sass's experiment this time. They will use their lives to verify what kind of trait expression the base chain obtained from Sass represents.

Zero also paid considerable attention to this. Even if his attitude was indifferent, he would not turn a blind eye to such a major event related to the future of the Zerg.

There are a total of 73 pairs of samples, each pair is exactly the same individual to prevent accidental occurrence, and all of them are Zerg land units with one water. In order to ensure the original state of the experiment, Sass did not interfere in any way with their hatching.

73 pairs, which is also the number of types of biological enzymes, are all the results of Sass's divine help. A total of 73 different base pairs were "cut out", corresponding to 73 completely different sets of expressions.

In addition, there is a pair of Zerg units that have not changed at all and are hatched simultaneously as a control group, with a total of 74 pairs and 148 Zerg individuals.

They will complete two stages of development within the next few hours and grow into adults.

The process was lackluster. It was nothing more than waiting and then conducting all-round comparisons with the control group.

Among the 73 experimental groups, 28 pairs died directly as soon as the larvae hatched. Among the remaining 45 pairs, 39 pairs grew into deformities, or experienced limb degeneration like SARS, or growth of There are strange organs, and there are some similar gene expressions in them. In short, they are all weird and all kinds of things.

They were able to survive successfully, probably because they benefited from the tenacious vitality of the Zerg, and those who died directly were most likely because they were implanted with gene fragments that controlled cell self-destruction.

The gene fragments that were originally expressed under specific conditions escaped certain restrictions when they were isolated, killing them directly.

In the end, there were only 6 groups that looked relatively normal.

Among these six groups, four groups are almost indistinguishable from ordinary Zerg land units in appearance. Zero is not sure what their respective expression results are. Perhaps it is a long lifespan like Sars, or it may just be that they have more digestive organs. A batch of fluff.

This is all possible. Sass did intercept these fragments, but even its corresponding external expression can only be determined in this way.

The differences manifested on the body can be distinguished through dissection later. Although it is not ruled out that some subtle differences will be ignored, it is still a feasible solution after all.

In short, these units that have been hatched by the Zerg are not rare species. If discovered, they can be copied at any time and more will be hatched.

As for the last two groups, both of them maintain the normal shape of their bodies, so they don't look incomplete or deformed at first glance, and cannot be put to great use. It's just that their changes are equally obvious compared to the control group.

One is just as Zero expected before. It shows a high similarity with Sass in terms of brain, but it is much smaller in size.

However, perhaps it is because they are too small in size, which does not seem to bring them higher intelligence. Compared with the control group, this pair has no other characteristics except being a lot weirder.

Obviously, it is also a useless transformation.

The other group has been tested and confirmed to be much more useful, and it is also the most useful genetic modification result so far among all the results of SARS this time, and it also gave Zero a big surprise!

Because it inherits part of Sass's ability to store and store memories!

If Sass has any obvious advantages besides his smart brain and long lifespan, it is undoubtedly his ability to read the knowledge of other living things.

This ability gives the Zerg a lot of convenience, allowing them to easily learn the opponent's intelligence when they first face the enemy, and directly obtain the results of the opponent's civilization's accumulated research, which has a very obvious promotion effect on the development of the Zerg. .

But this has always had a huge flaw, that is, Sass must come into contact with a living biological individual with a certain brain capacity in order to complete this task.

Speaking of brain capacity, it is mainly because the main thinking organ of the intelligent creatures the Zerg encounters now is the brain. Zero is not sure whether Sass's ability will be useful if he encounters other types of creatures in the future.

But in a war, Sars usually sits in the Zerg base camp, and Zero can't risk sending it to the front line.

In this way, the important enemy targets with read value captured by the Zerg on the battlefield have to travel thousands of miles to come to Sass, and in the process, the Zerg must also ensure the safety of the opponent's life. .

This will add great difficulty to this task. During the battle with the lizardmen, many high-value individuals captured by the Zerg died during the journey. It must be said that this is actually a loss of Zerg property. What a huge waste!

Zero has also thought of many ways to avoid this situation, but due to the uniqueness of Sars, whether it is to let it close to the front line after the war, or to let the Zerg transport prisoners back, or even to go in both directions, it actually requires a lot of effort. time.

Accidents often occur during this process. But now, this problem finally has a solution.

This sudden surprise really made Zero happy for a long time.

Of course, this kind of bug is just a storage container and does not have the ability to read like Sass. Its existence is equivalent to replacing the captives transported in the middle with the Zerg itself. Compared with the uncontrolled Enemy prisoners, friendly units are undoubtedly much safer and more reliable!

However, it seems that the intercepted gene fragment may be missing, or other fragments need to be involved to completely achieve this. At present, after the memory obtained by this bug is read by Sars, there will be a considerable part of it. The exact amount of loss cannot be accurately estimated, but the sense of loss of memory is quite obvious.

Obviously, although it has shown its potential and its effect on the Zerg, it is still not really useful and can only be regarded as a semi-finished product.

As for when this semi-finished product can be completed, it depends on when Sars can have the ability to "read" genes, or if you are lucky, it is not impossible to try it out through continuous testing.

Sass then conducted in-depth research on the four groups of bugs that had no visible changes in appearance before, and finally eliminated two pairs of meaningless changes, leaving only the last two groups. Even though Sass had been careful enough, he finally eliminated Couldn't find any obvious difference.

It is possible that the gene fragments they were implanted were not expressed at all, or it was possible that it was just a recessive expression. With Sass's current level of knowledge, he was unable to draw a conclusion.

More than seventy gene fragments seem to be a lot, but for the Zerg gene chain, it is only one tree in a hundred acres of forest. It is far from being able to obtain all the secrets of Zerg evolution.