How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 753: The Origin of the Mutation

The Zerg was born on an earth-like planet called 'Tyre'. There is no ocean on this planet, only lakes scattered all over the planet. The Zerg was first bred in these large and small lakes.

However, the Zergs of that period could not be regarded as Zergs, they were just savage beasts without intelligence, from single cells on a microscopic scale to various creatures on a macro scale, deceiving, killing, and disguising... in order to survive, they did everything they could. It can be said that there are other species with complex ecosystems, and this planet also has them.

Every once in a while, Tyr will be baptized by ionizing radiation. The radiation intensity is not high, just to the extent of destroying the genes of a wide range of organisms.

The reason is that the massive celestial body around Tyre is not a star, but a neutron star with relatively slow rotation. The pulse beam of the neutron star does not directly hit Tyre, but the diffuse ionizing radiation still reaches Tyre.

The first creatures that climbed onto the land in Tyr could not adapt to the terrestrial environment. Even though the ionizing radiation of the neutron star was filtered by Tyr's atmosphere and the radiation was greatly weakened, it was still inevitable that a large number of creatures would die due to radiation. Only Aquatic life can survive, because the water body is also a natural radiation barrier.

The seeds are still there, and there will be aquatic creatures climbing onto the land one after another.

Tyre is a planet whose land area is larger than the water body, and there is a wider living space on the land. As long as the survival instinct of the creatures on Tyre is not lost, they will not live peacefully in the lake.

Not afraid of life and death, just for survival!

After long years of extinction and reincarnation of terrestrial organisms, some organisms on Tire finally evolved genes that are highly resistant to radiation, and climbed onto the land to explore and conquer.

Although after a long period of time, a gene that is highly resistant to radiation has finally evolved, but strong resistance is only strong, and it does not mean complete immunity.

Therefore, whenever Tyr's rotation faces the neutron star, and daylight comes to one side of the planet, the land creatures in that area will mutate on a large scale.

Most of the mutations are very deformed, and even survival is a problem, but there are also a few creatures with very advanced mutations. They are the one in a thousand lucky ones, Africans who smuggled into Europe by lottery.

Through the law of natural selection in the ecological circle, species that cannot adapt to survival will be wiped out. Under the big waves washing the sand, the biological population on Tyre has become more and more advanced, and the evolution rate of species is far faster than other complex ecological circles. On the planet, the evolution of species on other planets is measured in ten thousand years, but on Tire it is measured in years.

On Tire, as long as a creature with the size of an ant is lucky enough, after fifty or sixty years, it may evolve into a powerful predator with the size of a mammoth and dominate one side.

However, it is not easy for intelligent species to evolve in such a highly competitive environment. A large brain will occupy a lot of nutrients in the body, which will prevent intelligent species from physically competing to overwhelm other creatures.

The manufacture of tools does not happen overnight, and the accumulation of knowledge also requires a process, but the competition of organisms is every moment, and the high-speed evolution brings a far more competitive environment than other planetary ecosystems.

This has led to many intelligent species on Tire who have won the "brain expansion" lottery, and are going to destruction because they cannot adapt to the fierce biological competition.

But there are exceptions to everything. A special kind of intelligent creature was conceived on Tyr and gained a firm foothold in the highly competitive ecosystem.

They are the original prototype of the Zerg - the nest.

The appearance is similar to a volcano. By breeding a small biological "worker bee", the hive is responsible for producing worker bees and making food that is easy for the worker bees to digest, while the worker bees are responsible for hunting and guarding the nest. The relationship between them is similar to that of an ant colony.

At this time, there is no Zerg network, and they rely on biopheromones to maintain their relationship with each other.

Since there is enough nutrient supply, and there is no need to participate in the fierce competition for survival, the wisdom of the hive will open naturally.

Before the awakening of wisdom, the hives will communicate with each other, because this can increase the probability of survival. Even for wild beasts, communication is a very useful means of survival. For example, lions and tigers on the earth will have consciousness. Leaves excrement on the edge of the territory, warning of intruders outside the territory.

The hives communicate through pheromones, leaving the pheromones on a worker bee, and using the worker bees as messengers to deliver "pheromone letters" to complete the information communication between the hives.

The improvement of wisdom means that the complexity of communication has increased, and the amount of information transmitted between the same kind is increasing.

Such an information circulation network has built a primitive civilized society. The insect nest in this social system is the initial command class of the Zerg, and the most intelligent leader in the class is revered as the 'master'.

The power of the group is very strong, especially after the emergence of "civilization", other creatures that are still in the category of "beasts" cannot fight against the Zerg at all. Because the Zerg has successfully promoted to "civilization", it has become the top of Tyre , the most suspenseful predator.

However, no matter how powerful a creature is, it is also very powerless in the face of natural disasters.

A slap in the face of reality woke up the Zerg from the dream of "Invincible". An asteroid with a diameter of 30 kilometers hit Tyre, and the shock wave destroyed all creatures in an area of ​​Australia, and the Zerg there were not spared either. .

Dust clouds covered the sky for 20 years, accompanied by 20 years of severe cold, the ionizing radiation was weakened by the dust clouds, and the entire ecological circle entered the era of "big brakes on evolution". Unable to survive the severe cold and went extinct.

In the face of nature, all living things are so fragile.

The Zerg race almost perished because of this. If the master didn't call on all the same kind to command the worker bees to dig underground, so that the entire Zerg race could hide underground and rely on geothermal heat to survive the severe cold for twenty years, the Zerg race might have been extinct.

However, even if they hide underground and rely on geothermal heat to survive, the situation of the Zerg is not very good, because there is no food, and the extinction of a large number of species on the ground means that the Zerg has lost its source of food, and many nests starve to death , No way, the activity of the brain consumes too much energy, but they can't find a new source of bioenergy, so they can only be starved to death.

As for the Zerg that survived, it was because they were forced by the environment to learn how to plant, and lived underground for twenty years through a fungus plant that absorbs geothermal energy to produce bioenergy.