Devouring Stars: Master of Evolution

Chapter 92 The Zerg Shouldn't Be Like This

"There are just too many inherited memories! It took the entire swarm of hundreds of mother hives a full ten days to absorb them all!"

Inside the Queen Mother's Nest, Qin Mu's eyes were filled with surprise.

Originally, he thought he would only be able to obtain the inheritance of a peak-level world lord insectoid, or perhaps only a portion of the insectoid genes preserved in the mother nest.

As it turned out, the Queen Mother's Nest contained a complete Zerg heritage.

"We need to sort out these inherited memories first, as they are quite extensive."

Although these inherited memories have been preserved in the swarm, they are merely knowledge, a means of knowledge transmission.

This knowledge is stored in the Zerg hive, but to master it, one must learn and comprehend it oneself.

At a cursory glance, this inherited memory is mainly divided into the Zerg's own inherited secret techniques, which are further divided into special secret techniques and ordinary secret techniques.

There are 68 special secret techniques and 12231 ordinary secret techniques.

"This secret technique is incredibly powerful; it can even launch a soul attack like that!"

"This combined attack technique allows the attacks of millions of Zerg to converge on a single point, easily defeating even more powerful enemies!"

"The Zerg Queen already possesses a powerful advantage in terms of her soul; combined with these secret techniques, no wonder she can easily defeat opponents of the same level!"

Qin Mu was stunned by these secret techniques after just casually flipping through some of their descriptions.

too strong!

Compared to his previous rudimentary method of using the swarm's mental energy to attack enemies, any of these methods are a thousand times more sophisticated than the ones he had researched.

However, there are too many secret techniques, and it is impossible to learn them all. Instead, one should choose one or two that are most suitable for oneself.

Aside from arcane abilities, the biggest difference between the Zerg and other races is their ability to spawn large numbers of Zerg warriors.

This heritage contains billions of Zerg warrior genes and 108 Zerg gene modulation methods.

These billions of types of Zerg warrior genes, depending on the different modulation methods, can yield even more varieties, making it possible to obtain the most suitable Zerg warriors for your needs.

There are too many classifications of insectoids. Based on species, they can be divided into crustaceans, mantises, bees, ants, and so on.

Based on their abilities, they can be further divided into detection, attack, assassin, and ranged attack types.

Because there are so many Zerg units, each Zerg Queen will select a few main Zerg warriors during her infancy or adulthood, and focus her energy on the breeding and production of these Zerg units.

Some ordinary, weak Zerg units can be easily hatched by all the Zerg Queens, without needing to be specifically researched.

Changing the type of soldiers being trained would come at a considerable cost.

"There are actually such restrictions?"

Qin Mu was somewhat puzzled. Shouldn't the Zerg be able to hatch larvae at will as long as they followed the genetic map and provided enough resources?

With the Zerg swarm's powerful evolutionary and mutation capabilities, a single battle may give rise to a variety of different Zerg units, and an even more powerful Zerg may emerge at any time.

The Zerg Overlord's ability to control the Zerg race allows him to freely adjust Zerg genes and develop new Zerg units.

Shouldn't it be normal to replace the Zerg warriors you've bred?

Qin Mu has only had the Zerg clone for about a year, and he has already developed several Zerg units. In battle, he has evolved and mutated over a hundred different types, including more than a dozen powerful ones.

For example, the first Zerg unit hatched by Qin Mu, the Tiger-Ao-Hound, has many variants, such as the Unicorn Tiger-Ao-Hound, the Two-Headed Tiger-Ao-Hound, and so on.

The Scyther, which has hatched billions of units and undergone numerous battles, has evolved into hundreds of different species.

Among the more powerful ones are the Six-Armed Blade Mantis and the Crimson Blade Mantis. Qin Mu himself has also developed a method to integrate metal into the Blade Mantis.

Given the Zerg's powerful ability to evolve and mutate, why would they have to pay a price to change the type of warriors they breed?

Even if hatching powerful Zerg warriors requires comprehending different laws, it shouldn't be like this!

"Um?"

Suppressing his doubts, Qin Mu continued to sort things out.

"What the hell? One queen and one mother hive?"

Before long, Qin Mu discovered something was wrong again.

Qin Mu recalled that the Zerg Queen in the Devouring Starry Sky seemed to have only one mother hive. Even those Zerg Queens at the Immortal level only had one mother hive, only the size of the mother hive was different!

For example, a Lord-level mother nest is only the size of a sphere with a diameter of 800 meters, while an Immortal-level mother nest is only 10 kilometers in size.

"No wonder it takes a lot of effort to replace the Zerg warriors bred by the Queen's hive. It turns out there is only one hive, and they don't hatch Zerg units through larvae."

Instead, it's the hatching chamber of the mother hive. Ordinary Zerg units, like the Mantis, can hatch freely, but advanced units like the Tiger Beetle can only hatch in specific hatching chambers.

To upgrade to a higher-level unit, you must adjust or rebuild the hatchery.

Qin Mu frowned at this incubation method. It was too restrictive. Once the Zerg warriors were fully formed, wouldn't they be easy targets?

In the event of a special environment, such as engaging in combat in the deep sea, the Flame Tank insectoids hatched by the Queen Mother's Nest would be unable to exert their combat power.

The swarm I command is different. Although I have also chosen several main combat units, I can hatch different Zerg units at any time to defeat my opponents, depending on the changes in the battle situation.

For example, when the Zerg swarm is fighting monsters in the desert, the Blade Mantis is not well-suited to this environment, so it will be replaced by units like the Desert Giant Scorpion.

"In this universe, the Zerg's ability to evolve and mutate, absorb superior genes from other races, and even hatch seems to be limited."

Through the inheritance of memories, Qin Mu discovered that after the Zerg Queen selected her main units, she basically improved the strength of the Zerg units by inheriting the genetic structure from her memories and through her own research.

In the later stages, it is even more necessary to comprehend the laws in order to improve the strength of the Zerg warriors.

"The path of laws?"

Qin Mu sighed, noting that the Zerg in this universe focused almost all their energy on the laws, rather than the divine power path that Luo Feng later took.

Although Qin Mu had many feelings of admiration and doubts, he continued to sort through the inherited memories.

Just classifying these Zerg warriors takes a considerable amount of time.

After roughly sorting through the information, Qin Mu discovered some strange things.

Upon further reflection, I recalled the Zerg warriors that appeared in the original timeline of the Devouring Universe.

Qin Mu finally realized that something was wrong.

In this universe, Zerg warriors are all very small!

Almost none of them are over 100 meters tall; they are usually around 30 meters or smaller.

Even an immortal-level Zerg warrior is only about 100 meters tall.

When encountering enormous creatures, such as the Golden Horned Beast, which is thousands of kilometers in size and is a world lord-level beast, the only way to kill them is by using the method of ants gnawing on an elephant.

They lack even the ability to fight head-on, relying solely on a secret combined attack technique!

The reason for this is quite simple; it is related to the way the Queen Mother's nest incubates.

After all, the chambers in which the Queen hatches the Zerg warriors are all inside the hive. The hive is only so big, so how big can the Zerg warriors be?

Qin Mu couldn't help but think of what the Zerg Queen had said after Luo Feng enslaved her.

"Because the endless Zerg warriors bred by the Zerg are designed to win by sheer numbers, they are destined to be unable to have a very large size."

Upon seeing the Golden Horned Beast, the Zerg Queen remarked that the larger the beast, the more resources it consumed. Even creating a legion of Zerg warriors for a single World Lord would not be enough to produce a Zerg warrior as massive as the Golden Horned Beast.

That's really strange. Because it consumes a lot of resources, they abandoned the large warriors and focused on attacking small Zerg. If it were just one Zerg Queen, it would be fine, but it's really strange that all the Zerg Queens are doing this!

In war, there is often a need for soldiers of this size.

When Qin Mu was commanding the insect swarm in the war against the monsters in City 003, he mobilized a large number of massive mammoths, which broke through the enemy's defenses in one fell swoop.

If it's just a small Zergling, it will be at a great disadvantage when facing a huge monster!

resource?

When you become strong, how can you lack resources?

The universe is never short of resources!

Putting everything else aside, the universe is so vast that humans rely on various spaceships to travel through it.

What about the Zerg?

Traveling through the universe involves placing Zerg warriors into one's inner world and then relying on the hive or other means.

After building a massive Zerg army, the Zerg Queen stored it in her inner world, accumulating its numbers over time and summoning it repeatedly during battles.

But the Zerg Queen is not like the Golden Horned Beast, who has an inner world at the planetary level.

Only after a World Lord-level being opens up their inner world can they put the Zerg army into the hive.

How big is an inner world?

Even for a Golden Horned Beast that is born with an inner world, the inner world of a World Lord is generally only 9 million to 1 million kilometers long, and even someone as strong as Luo Feng only has 1 trillion kilometers.

How many Zerg can you house in such a small space?

10 billion? 100 billion? 1 trillion?

Is it too much?

Too little!

These are Zerg!

In the year since Qin Mu's Zerg appeared, the number of Zerg on Earth alone, including marine species, has exceeded 10 billion.

Qin Mu's initial plan was to cover all the planets within a thousand light-years of Earth that were covered by Hu Yanbo's spatial secret technique with insectoid creatures.

How large will Qin Mu's insect swarm be by then?

At least in the trillions!

These Zerg units are certainly not elite units, but these swarms will collect massive amounts of resources in space to hatch even more powerful Zerg!

Why is Qin Mu eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Golden Horned Beast?

Isn't the plan to capture the Golden Horned Beast after it descends, obtain its genes, and build an invincible Zerg fleet with the Golden Horned Beast as the core?

Not only the Golden Horned Beast, Qin Mu also looked forward to entering the starry sky and the extraterrestrial battlefield, capturing more starry sky beasts and even special life forms to create a truly invincible swarm!

The Inner World?

In other words, it means deploying some powerful elite units, which is a last resort in battle, a desperate measure.

How could a single Zerg unit within an internal world be the entire Zerg swarm?

Furthermore, the reason this Zerg Queen was put into a deep sleep by Huyan Bo's soul-binding technique was actually because she had experienced the war in the outer realms, and under the threat of death, her Zerg warriors were exhausted.

After being discovered by Huyanbo, he didn't even have time to summon the remaining Zerg warriors in his inner world before he was struck by a soul-binding magic and fell into a deep sleep.

This is absolutely unacceptable!

The Zerg in this universe have almost all their talents focused on their souls. Their various soul techniques are extremely powerful, and their combined attack techniques are terrifying.

The Zerg Queen's own talent is also extraordinary, possessing ten thousand soul essences, each of whom is a born soul master.

But the Zerg units themselves are just awful!

The Zerg Queen and the Zerg Overmind are indeed powerful, and that's to be expected, but the Zerg warriors shouldn't be like this!

Zerg warriors could be even more powerful; they should be scattered among the stars, as large as the Golden Horned Beast, capable of hatching at will, evolving and mutating, and being freely manipulated to absorb the advantages of other races.

The Zerg shouldn't be like this; they shouldn't have so many restrictions!

At the very least, this is not the Zerg that Qin Mu envisioned!

(End of this chapter)