Civilized Zerg Lord

Chapter 84 Cold Resistance Evolution
This kind of duckweed is undoubtedly Gu Hao's best choice to solve the food source of the insect swarm.

The yield of duckweed is extremely amazing. If it is kept in ideal condition, duckweed can cover the area of ​​four earths in four months.

However, duckweed also has relatively high requirements for water temperature. Basically, winter and the cool seasons of spring and autumn are not suitable for its growth.

Gu Hao decided to use his newly acquired talent to evolve Duckweed's cold-resistant genes.

He stretched out a finger, and his fingertips turned into dozens of threads, slowly connecting to the duckweed.

The silk threads blend into the duckweed, as if they were part of the natural growth.

Gu Hao felt a subtle connection with Duckweed.

He could sense that Duckweed contained seeds of vitality, waiting for the trigger of evolution.

Gently guiding the silk thread, activating long-dormant genes in Duckweed's body.

As the silk thread and duckweed merged deeper and deeper, Gu Hao began to feel a weak but powerful flow of energy.

This energy seemed to be the power of nature, injected into every cell of Duckweed, awakening part of the genetic sequence.

Gu Hao used saltpeter to make ice to artificially interfere with the ambient temperature and began to allow duckweed's cold-resistant genes to evolve.

Civilization talent: The gene control network can only control the genes of the people, and it can only control existing gene fragments. It cannot create something out of nothing, and it does not have the ability to evolve genes.

Therefore, Duckweed's cold resistance gene evolution can only rely on Gu Hao's own innate ability.

And this is also the first time Gu Hao uses his advanced abilities.

This kind of talent does not require any blood. As long as the whiskers of evolution are connected to Duckweed's body, it can affect the direction of evolutionary genes. It is infinitely stronger than the previous talent.

The leaves of duckweed began to tremble slightly, and the metabolic activity in the cells accelerated.

Gu Hao could feel that Duckweed was beginning to transform under the connection with the silk thread.

New gene segments are activated and cold resistance is enhanced.

Time passed, and after just one month, Gu Hao concentrated on maintaining the relationship with Duckweed.

He can sense the changes in the genetic sequence in Duckweed's body, and the cold resistance gene is gradually improving.

This is a small and magical evolutionary process, in which Gu Hao and Duckweed established a special and profound connection.

Finally, when Gu Hao felt that Duckweed had completed the evolution of cold resistance genes, he slowly retracted his fingers.

He looked at the duckweed leaves swaying gently in the breeze in front of him, and his heart was filled with joy and expectation.

This evolution will provide the colony with a more abundant and sustainable food source.

Gu Hao thought that if this kind of duckweed could be evolved and cultivated on land, it would be a great initiative.

By then, the insect swarm will initially master the biological technology of the carpet.

At present, after Gu Hao's improvement, this kind of duckweed already has preliminary application conditions.

But its growth has huge demands on water resources, especially a stable pond environment.

The surge of the river will cause the duckweeds to scatter and lose their original growing environment.

Therefore, Gu Hao ordered the digging insects to take action and massively transform the farmland by the river.

These digging insects are as efficient as machines. Their digging feet turn over the soil, gradually shaping flat farmland into ponds one or two meters deep.

Each pond is like a giant bowl waiting to be filled with water.

Due to the stability of water flow, these ponds are not connected together, but are distributed relatively independently in the farmland.Still, the number of ponds is staggering.

Around Guman City, thousands of acres of ponds have been formed, like dots of sapphires inlaid on the green carpet.

The first duckweeds were dropped haphazardly into the pond.

Under the sunlight, duckweed spreads rapidly on the water, forming an emerald ocean.

The sun shines through the clear water and shines on the duckweed, making it glow alluringly.

Digging bugs are busy working along the shore to ensure that each pond is well supplied with water.

The growth cycle of duckweed is very fast. Basically, within ten days of being put in, these ponds have already started to harvest these duckweeds.

Gu Hao found that fishing for duckweed with nets one by one was really time-consuming and laborious, and very inefficient. The simple collection work wasted a lot of labor in Guman City.

Therefore, Gu Hao began to let the tribesmen use spider webs to weave a special web specifically for fishing duckweed.

The mesh holes are sized to allow water to flow out from underneath, but the duckweed remains in the net.

Because this kind of net needs to be mass-produced, Gu Hao also fixed the size of the pond, and each pond needs to have uniform specifications.

In this way, the produced collection net can be directly fixed in each pond.

As soon as it is time to collect, you just need to pull up the net, load the duckweed into the cart and let the insects transport away.

So this requires the digging bug to remodel the dug pond again so that it can be suitable for fixing the collection net.

It took another month. Although it was time-consuming and laborious, the effect was very good.

A pond of thousands of acres only requires a hundred people to manage it and a large amount of duckweed can be collected every day.

These high-protein plants are transported to nests where flesh insects breed.

Under the sun, baskets of dark green duckweed were carefully loaded into wooden carts, and the insects were busy transporting them to their breeding nests.

At the entrance of the lair, a group of meat worms are waiting for this delicious food.

When duckweed is dumped into the nest, the carnivorous insects flock to it like crazy, converting these protein-rich plants into various amino acids and other organic matter that the carnivorous insects can absorb.

The sunlight shines in from the entrance of the nest, reflecting the busy feeding figures of the meat insects, which forms a sharp contrast with the green duckweed outside.

After possessing a large amount of organic matter, Gu Hao's female worm finally began to exert its strength.

A large number of eggs are expelled every moment, and these eggs are carefully transported to different nests by broodworms.

In the bone centipede nest, the broodworm places the eggs of the bone centipede in carefully dug holes.

Stinging insects, sharp-bladed mantises...the eggs of each type of insect are placed in different nests.

This also makes it easier for Gu Witch to check the development of these eggs, otherwise it would be difficult to distinguish the types of these eggs with the naked eye.

The broodworms busily shuttle between nests, feeding different types of soldierworms the nutrients they need.

They know exactly the proportions and timing of nutrients each soldier species needs.

This will not only meet the growth and development needs of the soldier insects, but also maximize the overall strength of the insect swarm.

Broodworms play a vital role in this unique and complex ecosystem.

They are indispensable assistants to the insect nest and have made great contributions to the balance of the entire Gu Man City's nest.

(End of this chapter)