Azeroth Shadow Trail

Chapter 1194 290. Inferior genes! There is no collection value, it is recommended to throw it into the larvae nest - [seeking monthly ticket 33]

"How many bugs are there?"

On the way to the giant insect nest on Shanze Island following General Liresa, the "commander of the swarm" who did not welcome guests but had to come forward to greet them, Zhu Talan felt uncomfortable all over the place as he looked at the busy and orderly army of workers and insects around him. Master Zhu couldn't help but ask.

"How many? That's a layman's question, you should be asking how many groups there are, not how many."

Windrunner's mother scoffed at the question, saying:

"That's a number beyond your imagination. If you count the unhatched eggs, it's probably comparable to the number of pandaren in the Jade Forest?

Of course, not every egg can be hatched, but even if only two-thirds of the battle bugs can hatch, the mantid will face a challenge in terms of numbers. "

"But don't worms need time to grow?"

The little mage Jaina also asked a question that she was curious about when she was in the Silithus Desert.

At that time, she was supposed to join the fight, but because the annoying Mr. Bo Laike gave her a hypnotism, which caused her to sleep for three days in Cenarion Hold, perfectly missing the battle with the bugs.

The little mage's understanding of the swarm was limited to the information that his idiot sister Fenna bragged about.

"You have so many questions, but I don't have so much time to answer your questions.

I'm going to get busy, and someone will answer your questions. In addition, don't wander around on Shanze Island, some swarm hunters are not perfect in controlling their pets

I mean, it's going to be a problem if you guys get eaten. "

General Liresa, who was already a ghost, was tired of answering questions, so she found an excuse to slip away, and found her adjutant, Braike's nominal disciple Emmoreel Shadowguard, to answer these "basic questions" .

The summoned Miss Shadow Guard soon flew over on her swarm lord, a gray-white flying insect covered in thick horny armor.

The appearance looks very intimidating.

Especially when its thick sickle blade opens and closes, it is exactly the same as the predatory action of a praying mantis.

However, her lord of the swarm is in the low-level position of the forward commander in the command system of the Qiraji, and is not as "high and powerful" as Princess Yarki of General Liresa.

"Hey, little Jaina. Oh, I should call you 'Commander' now."

After a period of self-cultivation, Miss Yingwei is obviously in a good mood.

She quickly jumped down from the back of her flying insect lord, landed right next to the little mage, and gave Zhu Taran a non-standard monk etiquette.

Zhu Sect Leader returned the gift, and asked Jaina's previous question again.

"Ah, well, generally speaking, it does take time for larvae to grow into adults, but after the swarm enters a state of war as a whole, the growth time for larvae can be greatly shortened."

In a good mood, Ms. Shadow Guard led Jaina and Zhu Taran to continue towards the insect nest, walking on the creepy blanket, she turned around and explained to the two:

"Bugs are really amazing creatures. The druids of the Cenarion Council have been studying their habits during this time, and they found that the lords of the bugs can use special hormones to speed up the growth of larvae.

It's like giving an order, and then the larvae will complete their development within a day or two by eating a lot of food, but this high-speed growth is done at the expense of the lifespan of the worm.

Even if these 'ripened' bugs can survive the war, they can't survive more than ten years of life like other bugs. They will die one after another within a month of birth.

Therefore, such a 'war order' is also an emergency measure for the swarm. "

After finishing speaking, the shadow guard pointed to the ground outside the insect nest and said:

"You see that Shanze Island has been scraped off a layer of land within a few days, that is, the swarm is preparing enough food for the fast-growing larvae.

Of course, an island is not enough.

There are just enough larvae hatching so far to launch a raid, and when enough mantid are killed, the remaining larvae will actually begin mass reproduction.

According to the estimates of several swarm hunters, the real swarm may take three to five days to form after the start of the war. "

"In other words, our fighters need to fight for three to five days for the swarm?"

Zhu Taran narrowed his eyes.

He thought about it in his mind, and then looked at the densely packed eggs hanging around the big worm nest. The monk leader saw with his own eyes the war potential of these swarm hunters.

Although he was still disgusted in his heart, he quickly made up his mind.

"Even a three-day battle with the mantid would have taken horrific casualties, but such casualties were avoidable."

Master Zhu stroked his chin and said to Miss Yingwei:

"Do you worms eat food? Rice, wheat, sorghum, etc?"

"They eat everything!"

Miss Emeril seems to have remembered some terrible scene, she covered her eyes and said:

"In the case of extreme hunger, they will even devour each other. When sending a batch of swarm samples to Moonglade, our hunters were negligent and did not prepare food for the box. After arriving, only one head.

That guy made himself fat and strong, and even mutated his shape because he devoured too many of his own kind, almost scaring the little Druid sister who was in charge of receiving it to death on the spot. "

"Then we provide enough food for you, can you let your swarm reach the limit before the war?"

Zhu Taran blinked and said:

"If these evil bugs can be allowed to charge forward, then our side can effectively reduce losses, and the speed of the soldiers is extremely valuable. If we can defeat the mantid army in a short period of time, it will be good for us.

Allowing your vile worms to remain in Pandaria for another day is a dire threat to the order of the land. "

"of course can."

The shadow guard looked at Zhu Taran with a puzzled expression, and she said:

"But to meet the needs of so many bugs, the food you have to provide is astronomical. Do you have that much food? Don't starve your people because of a war."

"The Pandaren tradition of brewing wine from food has lasted for nearly ten thousand years, Shadow Guard."

The little mage shook his head and explained:

"The most important thing in Pandaria is food. I saw their granaries when I passed the Valley of the Four Winds before. Seriously, the pandaren can use their food to kill human civilization.

You don't have to worry about that.

And I also agree with Master Zhu's opinion.

Although it's my first time as a commander, I feel that if we can reduce casualties on our side, it should be a great boost to morale. "

"Then start now?"

The shadow guard accepted the suggestion without much hesitation. She looked at Zhu Taran and said:

"When can you bring the food over?"

"No special transfer required."

Master Zhu shook his head and said:

"Nuzao Temple has enough food in stock. I'm going back to prepare it now. The first batch of food will be delivered last night and this afternoon. How long will it take for the number of insects to reach the limit?"

"If there is enough food, two to three days."

The shadow guard calculated the time and said:

"It will also take three days for the tunnel worms to dig underground tunnels. At that time, the swarm will be divided into two. One team will support the front line, and the other team will attack the Great Queen's palace from the rear under the command of the swarm hunters.

The mantid are also descendants of the Aqir Empire, they are also special insectoids, and they also have the will of the swarm.

Therefore, the tactics against the qiraji can be applied to them. As long as Grand Empress Shek'zeer is killed, the mantid's command system will be horribly chaotic. "

"Very good, I will personally command the elite monks to join this beheading operation!"

A cold light flashed in Zhu Taran's eyes, he said:

"The pandaren have been exhausted by the once-in-a-century cycle of the mantid, a problem that should be addressed in our time."

After speaking, he gave the shadow guard a monk etiquette, turned and left to go back to allocate resources.

And watching Zhu Taran leave, Emeril said with emotion:

"This head Zhu is really an outlier among the pandaren. He is indifferent and wary of outsiders but has enthusiasm for his own people. Although he sometimes speaks very rudely, he does not refuse beneficial power because of his stubbornness."

"Master Zhu is indeed a qualified leader. He has a lot to learn from him."

Jaina nodded too.

She is also preparing to leave and go back to deal with heavy military affairs.

But when he left the big insect nest by another way, he saw an astonishingly large and brightly colored Qiraji flying insect lord doing very "strange" things to several captured mantid in a space of the insect nest .

The huge Qiraji hovered in mid-air, flapping its dragonfly-like wings.

On a black altar in front of it, the mantid infused with paralyzing poison knelt there like a sacrifice.

And the flying insect lord pierced the mantid's head with his sharp mouthparts like a dagger, sucking its body fluids, making the elite mantid tremble convulsively.

In a few seconds, the unlucky egg lost its breath of life, and several small flying insects flew over, lifted the drained shriveled corpse and sent it to the larvae hatching room on the other side.

Jaina's eyes widened at the cruel sight.

If the other little girls were here, they might be scared to death, but Jaina is an archmage after all, and she has seen some more cruel experiments in Dalaran.

Suppressing the discomfort in her heart, she turned to look at Emeril and said:

"What is this doing? Is this some kind of torture between bugs?"

"Uh, let's not talk about it."

Emeril was also a little uncomfortable with this scene. She reached out to cover Jaina's eyes and whispered:

"I'm afraid you will have nightmares at night, go back quickly, and don't listen to the dark secrets of these swarms."

"This is the excellent gene that Ayamis is selecting for the swarm."

Emmaril wasn't going to say it, but the other guy wasn't hiding it.

Beastmaster Rexxar, who was dragging a few "fresh" mantids with a rope, took his big bear Misha into the nest, and he explained in a low voice:

"Both the Qiraji and the mantid belong to the descendants of the ancient Yaqi Empire. They migrated to different regions after the demise of the Insect Empire. They chose different evolutionary branches for tens of thousands of years, thus possessing different forms and characteristics. strength.

But they have an ancient unified lineage.

This means that the less evolved Qiraji can achieve the unified 'evolution' of the swarm in a short period of time by devouring the high-quality swarm genes of the mantid. "

"Oh, what are you talking about to children?"

Emeril Shadowguard said to Rexxar angrily:

"We just need to know about this kind of evil. The outside world has misunderstood us enough. Once the news of the swarm devouring evolution is spread, our reputation will be even worse.

The idiots out there aren't even sure what to do with us. "

"It's not evil."

Rexxar looked at the insect lord pet that he was picking out the mantid gene. The big orc explained seriously:

"This is the way of wild beasts to strengthen themselves, and it is an extreme manifestation of nature's will to survive the fittest.

It's no different than a wolf eating a rabbit to grow.

I think the reason why you haven't been able to achieve a perfect fit with your flying insect pet is because you subconsciously feel that the evolution of insects is evil.

But it is not.

This is just the way of the beasts of the swarm. As hunters, we should adapt to it instead of actively repelling it. "

"You still think it's normal for beasts to eat people."

Emeril complained:

"You are an extreme beast sympathizer, Rexxar, I admit that you are a good hunter, but please don't spread such indifferent and weird ideas everywhere.

You know what weird questions Hidden Passage recruits among the elves have been asking their mentors lately?

Obviously, your thoughts have started to affect them.

We are the hunters, and we command the herd.

But we can't live like wild animals, that's very dangerous behavior. "

Rexxar was noncommittal about this, obviously this big man "Batman" thinks that people can survive and fight like beasts, and his bestial comprehension with Brad Laike has perfectly proved this point.

"Can bugs grow stronger by devouring genes?"

Little Jaina is no stranger to the word "gene". There are also mages in Dalaran who study this topic. She listened to the debate between the two hunters with great interest, and interjected:

"Then can they break through the restrictions of beasts by devouring foreign genes?"

"good question."

Rexxar appreciated it.

The orc with the wolf head mask shrugged and said with some regret:

"I hope it can, that means the future of the swarm will be extremely bright, but unfortunately, they can't do it yet, they can only accumulate evolutionary genes by devouring the mantid who are also worms.

We've been working on this for the past few days.

But it's a pity that the mantid has not gone too far on the evolutionary tree of the swarm, and my Ayamis has almost collected all the advantageous genes.

If I want to find more, I'm afraid I have to look for those ancient mantid heroes and nobles. Their genes in terms of intelligence and strength will definitely allow my flying insects to evolve faster. "

After speaking, Rexxar threw the mantid he had captured on the altar of his flying insects, and he patted the brightly colored head of the hunter Ayamis.

The latter also used an intimate gesture, touching Rexxar with the terrifying scythe limb that could easily cut off the head of an orc.

It has to be said that this orc's talent in animal taming is really terrifying. He is currently the hunter with the highest degree of compatibility with his own bug war pet among all bug hunters.

Not even Windrunner's mother could compare to him.

But this time Rexxar also miscalculated.

The mantid he captured were not accepted by his flying insects.

On the contrary, the brightly colored flying insect lord just sniffed the prey in front of him, and showed a disgusted attitude.

It neighed a few times, and flying insect guards flew over immediately, throwing the few living mantid into the nearby larvae nest.

Soon the chewing sound from the hive and the mantid's wailing made little Jaina's scalp tingle, and she left here as if fleeing with Emeril.

Watching Jaina leave, Rexxar looked away, and said to Misha who was glaring at the flattering bitch beside him:

"That's why his sister really looks like him, especially those eyes, they are exactly the same."

"Aww~"

Misha yelled, Rexxar nodded in agreement, and said in a low voice:

"Well, indeed, not very smart."

"She didn't even notice Bo Laike's poor disguise."

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(end of this chapter)