Devouring the Stars: Zerg Overlord

Why are Zerg called Zerg?

Zergs that appear in the universe often have huge mouthparts, hard exoskeletons, and ferocious appearances that resemble insects.

Their biological morphology and characteristics are also highly similar to those of insects, which is one of the important reasons why they are called Zerg.

If all animals are made the same size, then insects among arthropods must be the most powerful.

Under normal circumstances, the body structure of insects makes it difficult for them to grow too large, because their exoskeletons and muscles cannot support a large body size.

However, the emergence of the rr virus has made this impossible a reality.

When other creatures on the earth evolved and mutated, these insects also evolved and mutated, and became one of the most terrifying monster groups.

It's just that they often like to live in vast wilderness, jungles, and they don't appear often in cities.

At the beginning, Qin Mu chose the tiger mastiff in order to give the Zerg the first combat unit.

Later, in order to expand the scale and combat power of the swarm, new monster genes were continuously absorbed.

The monsters that appear in the city are often the monsters that are mutated from the common dogs, pigs, cows, sheep, snakes and other creatures in the human world during the Great Nirvana period. In order to better integrate into it, Qin Mu also chose these most common monsters and then hatched them on a large scale.

This choice allows the swarm to integrate well into the city, and it has not been completely exposed so far.

But this also greatly limits the development of the swarm.

When the tentacles of the swarm extend to the wilderness and hunt in the wilderness, the swarm discovers more types of monsters, a considerable part of which belong to insects.

These insect monsters are often stronger than monsters of the same level, but for the sake of hidden development, the swarm does not hatch on a large scale in the city.

"At present, there are hundreds of thousands of monster genes above the beast soldier level in the Zerg gene bank.

The swarm is about to start a full-scale war with the monsters, so there is no need to consider other factors, just consider the strongest and most suitable Zerg that can be hatched under the same energy."

Sitting on the rooftop of the ruins of the city, Qin Mu pondered the structure of the swarm.

When the strength is insufficient, the concealment and development of the Zerg are the most important.

Now that it has developed, concealment is not the primary factor, but combat effectiveness.

"Mother nest, start selecting the strongest Zerg unit with the same energy, mainly the beast soldier level and the beast general level.

Mainly consider large-scale combat, the best and most reasonable arrangement in group combat."

Transmit your will to the Zerg, and all the mother nests will immediately begin to adjust the hatched Zerg species.

In City 023, the larvae around a mother nest began to mutate.

Fifteen minutes later, huge mantis-shaped monsters were hatched from eggs as tall as a person.

This is a monster called Blade Mantis, which is at the level of advanced beast soldiers.

Blade Mantis generally lives in the jungle, with a gray-green body, a slender body, nearly three meters long, a triangular head, short hind legs, long front legs, and the front legs are like sickles.

In short, it is a sickle on the arm, the weapon and the body are integrated, born with a knife, fierce.

After crawling out of the eggs, the blade mantis shook its body, opened its two pairs of wings, jumped out along the insect nest passage, and flew low.

At a subway entrance, nearly a hundred blade mantises crawled out one after another.

"Flutter--"

"Flutter--"

These blade mantises kicked their six legs hard, jumped into the air, flapped their wings, flew up and down in the air, landed on a building, and pounced on the monster in the distance.

These blade mantises are not good at flying and can only fly at low altitudes.

But this is enough for them to shuttle freely in the city.

After leaving the territory of the insect swarm, it didn't take long for them to find a group of wild tiger mastiffs numbering hundreds under the guidance of the mother nest.

These tiger mastiffs didn't know they were being targeted at all, and wandered around the city as usual under the leadership of a primary beast general-level tiger mastiff.

"Puff--"

One after another, the blade mantises swooped down from the surrounding buildings, swinging their front legs like sickle-shaped weapons, easily cutting through the fur of the tiger mastiffs, tearing their flesh and blood, and taking their lives.

Most of the tiger mastiffs had their throats cut before they could react, and only a few tiger mastiffs with rich combat experience escaped this attack.

Some tiger mastiffs immediately fought back, but when their claws bit the blade mantises, they were often blocked by the hard bones.

In just one swooping harvest, nearly half of the tiger mastiffs were killed or injured, and only three blade mantises were injured by the counterattack.

The primary beast general roared furiously at the other tiger mastiffs and bit a blade mantis.

The blade mantis targeted by the beast general-level tiger mastiff was not afraid at all. It raised a pair of serrated forelimbs and chopped the tiger mastiff like two big knives when the tiger mastiff swooped over.

The hard fur of the primary beast general monster could not resist the serrated sickle.

When the tiger mastiff's claws hit the blade mantis, the blade mantis dodged to the side very quickly, and only one of its hind legs was injured by the tiger mastiff's attack and broke.

But the next moment, the blade mantis that crossed with the tiger mastiff spread its wings and flew into the air.

In one battle, the advanced beast soldier-level blade mantis and the primary beast general-level tiger mastiff were both injured.

The other tiger mastiffs were not so lucky. Facing the blade mantis, they were not as fast and responsive as the blade mantis, and their attack was far inferior to the serrated sickle of the blade mantis.

Even their defense was not as good as the body of the blade mantis covered with an exoskeleton.

These blade mantises can fly!

Once injured, they immediately flew away to avoid.

This was an asymmetric battle.

When the other tiger mastiffs were killed by the blade mantis, the tiger mastiff of the primary beast general level was also cut into pieces by the overwhelming attack of the blade mantis.

Without the leadership of the beast general-level Zerg, the number of tiger mastiffs was almost equal to that of tiger mastiffs, and the tiger mastiffs were led by a beast general, and the blade mantis won!

On another battlefield, a group of giant beetles with black bodies, sickle-shaped upper jaws, large teeth, and a layer of black and shiny shell on their fat and wide bodies crawled out of the subway.

These beetles are up to five meters long, and the asymmetrical and extremely huge jaw teeth in front of them alone account for one-fifth of their body.

This giant beetle is also recorded in the military database, and it is suspected that it is a mutation of the king tiger beetle before the Great Nirvana period.

Under the guidance of the mother nest, these king tiger beetles soon encountered a group of tall and strong bulls.

When the two sides began to fight, the king tiger beetles with thick shells easily resisted their impact when they collided with the running bulls.

And the bulls seemed to have no resistance to the nearly one-meter-long terrifying jaw teeth of the king tiger beetles, and even their thick leg bones would be easily cut off when facing the attack of the jaw teeth!

Not only the blade mantis and the king tiger beetle, more insect monsters appeared in major cities.

Some mother nests hatched a large number of scorpions. These scorpion monsters were heavily armored and had venom attacks.

When fighting monsters, they often have an absolute advantage with two pincers and a tail stinger, three attack weapons.

Some mother nests also hatched insect monsters with long-range attack capabilities.

That is also a giant beetle. They can spray a high-temperature, highly toxic liquid from their tails, with a range of up to hundreds of meters.

This liquid has amazing lethality. Once it hits, it can easily kill high-level beast soldier-level monsters.

There are groups of ant monsters with shells all over their bodies, relying on their excellent group combat capabilities to kill all sides in the monster group.

In addition to those on the ground, some flying insect monsters have also been hatched and joined the selection of the main units of the Zerg for a period of time in the future.

Among them, the most attractive to Qin Mu is a beast general-level monster with a wingspan of more than ten meters, the Thunder Dragonfly.

Dragonflies are one of the earliest flying animals on Earth and are also the best at flying among insect monsters.

Under the evolution of the rr virus, they have become an extremely terrifying monster.

Thunder Dragonflies have two pairs of wings, each pair of wings can work independently and change angles at will.

The unique mechanism allows them to fly forward and backward at will.

In fact, they can fly in any direction, even backwards, and can stop at high speed and rotate 180 degrees.

There is almost no action they can't do.

When their size exceeds ten meters and their speed exceeds the speed of sound, they become the most terrifying airborne death gods.

A thunder dragonfly hovered over the ruins of the city. Suddenly, its body sank sharply and flew across a street.

The selected beast general-level unicorn wild boar didn't even react before a bloody wound appeared on its head and it was killed instantly.

There are giant poisonous bees with a wingspan of nearly two meters. They fly in groups in the air, making a buzzing sound.

The poisonous needles at the tail can easily sting monsters to death, and they can even spray venom like venomous snakes. This venom is extremely corrosive.

Too many insect monsters appeared in cities one by one, in places where they did not originally belong to live.

Qin Mu also felt a little emotional as he sensed the competitive hunting of more and more Zerg units.

"No wonder this race is called Zerg. The insect monsters hatched under the same energy are much more powerful than monsters of the same level."

In actual combat, the combat power of a high-level beast soldier-level blade mantis and a high-level beast soldier-level tiger mastiff are simply not on the same level.

How can they fight when they are not as fast, attack, defense, or even nerve reaction speed as the other party?

The most desperate thing is that the blade mantis can fly!

This gives the blade mantis an absolute advantage in the battle.

Not only the blade mantis against the tiger mastiff.

There are also the king tiger beetles against heavy units such as unicorn wild boars, bloodthirsty tanks, and wild bulls.

The strength of the king tiger beetle also made Qin Mu's eyes light up. This kind of insect monster, whose weakest strength is at the primary beast general level, shows super combat power.

The lethality of the pair of giant upper jaws is simply the best of its kind. Even monsters known for defense such as bloodthirsty tanks cannot resist it.

Even some higher-level monsters are the same!

Compared to their lethality, their defense is also extremely amazing.

That layer of black shell is as hard as metal. Qin Mu saw with his own eyes that a charging bull used its horns on its head to hit the shell of a tiger beetle head-on.

As a result, although the tiger beetle was knocked more than ten meters away, it just turned over on the ground and got up to continue fighting.

Not only that, although the tiger beetle cannot fly, it has a common ability that many insect monsters have, that is, burrowing!

Even in the ruins of a city covered with concrete, they can easily drill through the ground.

"Too outrageous!"

"The energy required to hatch a beast general-level tiger beetle is equivalent to that of a beast general-level unicorn wild boar, but the combat effectiveness is several times different!"

In addition to these two types, after seeing the beetle with long-range attack capabilities, Qin Mu did not hesitate to list it as a key focus unit.

Although the attack method is a bit unsightly, it is very practical.

After checking the military database, Qin Mu also learned that this is a kind of insect called the cannon beetle that mutated before the great nirvana.

In fact, the cannon beetle is the common fart beetle.

It's just that after mutation, the ability of this long-range attack is strengthened.

After this test, most of the originally hatched Zerg units are almost facing the fate of being eliminated.

Not only the main combat units on land, but also in the sky.

Nowadays, the most numerous flying monsters in the swarm are gray skylarks, but the gap between them and similar flying insect monsters is also huge!

Among the dozens of flying insect monsters that compete with the Grey Skylark, almost every one of them surpasses it.

In terms of combat power, bird monsters are indeed not ranked.

Among these flying monsters, the one that Qin Mu is most concerned about is the Thunder Dragonfly.

This beast general-level monster is one of the insect monsters used by the mother nest to compare with medium-sized flying units such as the Golden Vulture.

Too smooth!

The way of flying is too smooth!

In Qin Mu's eyes, the flying ability of the Thunder Dragonfly can be called art!

Not only is it faster than the Golden Vulture, its flexibility is also far superior to any Zerg unit.

For flying monsters, when the opponent is faster than you, more flexible, and of the same size.

It means that the opponent can play with you at will!

The result of the battle will only make people despair.

"Continue the test, pull out all the strong combat capabilities in the gene bank for comparison! Conduct actual combat tests!

I want to select a group of the most powerful units!"

Qin Mu conveyed his will to the entire insect swarm.

In order to hide in the city before, too many powerful units were hidden.

On the first day alone, so many Zerg units appeared that surprised Qin Mu.

"Such tests should be kept and conducted every once in a while."

Qin Mu thought.

This screening is limited to the beast soldier level and beast general level, and only land units and flying units.

The reason for not having lord level is that the current Zerg has too few lord-level monsters, only dozens of them, and which one is strong can be seen at a glance, so there is no need for testing.

The same is true for water monsters. There are not many that really have combat power, but when the Zerg enters the ocean, similar screening will definitely be carried out.

Compared to the ocean, there are too few monsters in land lakes.

"Once the Zerg unit screening is over, it can be hatched on a large scale.

But before that, I have to contact Councillor Jia first."

Sensing a military team that seemed to have decided to risk their lives to enter the subway to explore under the surveillance of the Zerg.

Qin Mu whispered to himself.