Shadow Trails in Azeroth

Chapter 1194 290. Inferior genes! It has no collection value, it is recommended to throw it into the larvae nest - [Please vote for 33 months]

"How many bugs are there here?"

On the way to the large insect nest on Shanze Island following General Lilesa, the "Commander of the Insect Swarm" who did not welcome guests but had to come forward to greet them, Zhu Taran looked at the busy and orderly army of worker insects around him and felt uncomfortable all over. Master Zhu couldn't help but ask.

"How many? It's really a layman's question. You should ask how many groups there are here, not how many."

Windrunner’s mother scoffed at this question, saying:

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

Of course, not every insect egg can be hatched, but even if only two-thirds of the combat insects can hatch, the Mantid will face a quantitative challenge. "

"But doesn't it take time for bugs to grow?"

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

She was originally going to join the battle at that time, but because the annoying Mr. Black gave her a hypnotic spell, she slept in Cenarion Fortress for three full days, perfectly missing the battle with the bugs.

The little mage's understanding of the insect swarm was limited to the information told by his idiot sister Fenna when she was bragging.

“You have so many questions, but I don’t have that much time to answer your questions.

I'm going to get busy, and there will be someone dedicated to answer your questions. In addition, don’t wander around Shanze Island. Some insect hunters are not perfect at controlling their pets.

I mean, it would be very troublesome if you got eaten. "

The undead General Lilesa was tired of answering questions, so she found an excuse to leave and found her adjutant, Blake's nominal disciple Emeril Shadowguard, to answer these "basic questions".

The summoned Shadow Guard lady quickly flew over on her own insect swarm lord, which was 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 like the predatory movement of a mantis.

However, her swarm lord is in a low-level position as a forward commander in the Qiraji command system, and is not as "highly powerful" as General Lyressa's Princess Yalki.

"Hey, little Gianna. Oops, I should call you 'Lord Commander' now."

After a period of cultivation, Miss Shadow Guard is obviously in a good mood.

She quickly jumped down from behind her flying insect lord, landed right next to the little mage, and gave Zhu Taran some unstandard monk etiquette.

Sect Master Zhu 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 entire insect swarm enters a state of war, the growth time of the larvae can be greatly shortened."

Miss Shadow Guard, who was in a good mood, took Jaina and Taran Zhu and continued to move towards the insect nest. Walking on the carpet of bacteria that felt bad, she turned back and explained to the two of them:

"Bugs are really magical creatures. The druids of the Cenarion Circle have been studying their habits during this time. They found that the lords of bugs can speed up the growth of larvae through special hormones.

It's like giving an order, and then the larvae will complete their development within a day or two by eating a lot, but such rapid growth is accomplished at the expense of the lifespan of the worm.

Even if these 'ripened' bugs can survive the war, they will not be able to live for more than ten years like other bugs. They will die one after another within a month of their birth.

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

After saying that, the shadow guard pointed to the ground outside the insect nest and said:

"You saw that a layer of land was scraped off Shanze Island within a few days. That is because the insect swarms are preparing enough food for the fast-growing larvae.

Of course, just an island is not enough.

The larvae currently hatched are just enough to launch a surprise attack. When enough mantids are killed, the remaining larvae will truly begin to reproduce on a large scale.

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

"In other words, our soldiers need to buy three to five days for the insect swarm?"

Zhu Taran narrowed his eyes.

He thought about it in his mind, and then looked at the dense insect eggs hanging around the large insect nest. The monk leader saw with his own eyes the war potential of these insect 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 a terrible toll, but such toll was avoidable."

Master Zhu rubbed his chin and said to Miss Shadow Guard:

"Do you bugs eat grain? Rice, wheat, sorghum, etc.?"

"They eat everything!"

Miss Emeril seemed to remember some unbearable scene, she covered her eyes and said:

"When they are extremely hungry, they will even eat each other. When transporting a batch of insect swarm samples to Moonglade, our hunters neglected to prepare food in the box. As a result, when they arrived, only a group of bugs were left. One end.

That guy made himself fat and strong, and even mutated his body from devouring too many of the same kind. He almost frightened the little druid sister who was responsible for receiving it to death on the spot. "

"Then if we provide you with enough food, can your insect swarm reach its limit before the war begins?"

Zhu Taran blinked and said:

"If we can let these evil bugs charge into battle, then we can effectively reduce losses, and our troops are very fast. If we can defeat the Mantid army in a short time, it will be good for us all.

Letting your evil bugs stay in Pandaria for one more day would be a terrible danger to the order of this land. "

"sure."

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

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

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

The little mage shook his head and explained:

"The most indispensable thing in Pandaria is food. I saw their granaries when I passed by the Valley of the Four Winds before. To be honest, the pandaren can kill human civilization with their food.

You don't have to worry about this.

And I also agree with Master Zhu’s opinion.

Although this is my first time as a commander, I feel that if we can reduce the casualties on our side, it would be a great boost to morale. "

"Then start now?"

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

"When can you deliver the food?"

"No special transfer required."

Master Zhu shook his head and said:

"Niuzao Temple has enough food in stock. I will go back and prepare it now. The first batch of food will be delivered last night and this afternoon. How long will it take for the insect swarm to reach its limit?"

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

The shadow guard calculated the time and said:

"It will take three days for the tunnel worms to dig underground tunnels. By then, the worm swarm will be divided into two. One team will support the front line, and the other team will attack the Grand Queen's palace from the rear under the command of the swarm hunter.

Mantids are also descendants of the Yaqir Empire. They are also special bug people, and they also have the will of the swarm.

Therefore, the tactics used to deal with the Qiraji can be applied to them. As long as the Great Queen Shek'sir is killed, the mantid's command system will be in terrible chaos. "

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

Zhu Talan's eyes flashed with cold light, and he said:

"The pandaren have been exhausted by the once-in-a-century reincarnation of the mantid, and this problem should be solved in our time."

After speaking, he made a monk courtesy to the shadow guard, turned around and left to allocate resources.

And watching Zhu Talan leave, Emeril said with emotion:

"This Master Zhu is really an anomaly among the Pandaren. He is indifferent and wary of outsiders but passionate about his own people. Although he is sometimes very rude in his words, he does not refuse beneficial forces because of his stubbornness."

"Zhang Zhu is indeed a qualified leader. He has a lot for me to learn."

Jaina also nodded.

She was also ready to leave and go back to handle the heavy military affairs.

But when I left the large insect nest from another way, I saw an astonishingly large and brightly colored Qiraji flying insect lord doing very "strange" things to several captured mantids in an insect nest space. .

The huge Qiraji flapped its dragonfly-like wings and hovered in the air.

On a black altar in front of it, the mantid that had been injected with paralyzing toxin knelt there like a sacrifice.

The Flying Insect Lord used his sharp mouthparts like a dagger to pierce the mantid's skull, absorbing its body fluids, causing the elite mantid's whole body to twitch and tremble.

Within a few seconds, the unlucky guy lost the breath of life, and a few small flying insects flew over, lifting the dried up body and sending it to the larvae hatching room on the other side.

This cruel scene made Jaina's eyes widen.

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

She suppressed her inner discomfort, turned to look at Emeril, and said:

"What is this going on? Is this some kind of torture between insects?"

"Well, 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'll have nightmares at night, so go back quickly, and don't listen to the dark secrets of these insect swarms."

"This is Ayamis's excellent gene in selecting insect swarms."

Emeril didn't intend to say it, but the other guy didn't hide it.

The beast king Rexxar, who was dragging several "fresh" mantid that he had just captured, with a rope, walked into the insect nest with his big bear Misha. He explained in a low voice:

"Both Qiraji and Mantid are descendants of the ancient Yaqir Empire. They migrated to different areas after the demise of the Insect Empire and chose different evolutionary branches over tens of thousands of years, thus possessing different forms and 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 Mantid's high-quality swarm genes. "

"Geez, why are you saying this to a kid?"

Emeril Shadowguard said to Rexxar angrily:

"We only need to know about this kind of evil thing ourselves. The outside world has enough misunderstandings about us. Once the information about the swarm devouring evolution is spread, our reputation will be even worse.

The idiots outside may not know how to arrange us. "

"It's not evil."

Rexxar looked at the flying insect lord pet that he was selecting with mantid genes. The big orc explained seriously:

“This is the beast’s way of strengthening itself, an extreme manifestation of nature’s will to survive the fittest.

It’s no different than a wolf eating a rabbit and growing up.

I think the reason why you have never 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's not.

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

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

Emeril complained:

"You are an extreme beast affinity person, Lexa. I admit that you are a good hunter, but please don't spread this slightly indifferent and weird idea everywhere.

Do you know that recently, the recruits recruited by the Secret Path among the elves have been asking their mentors some weird questions?

It's obvious that your thoughts are starting to rub off on them.

We are hunters and we command the herd.

But we cannot live like beasts, that is very dangerous behavior. "

Lexa was noncommittal about this. Obviously, this big man "Batman" felt that humans could survive and fight just like beasts. He and Blake's understanding of animal nature had perfectly proved this.

“Can bugs become stronger by eating genes?”

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

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

"good question."

Lexa praised.

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

"I hope so. That means the future of the swarm will be extremely bright. But unfortunately, they can't do it yet. They can only accumulate genes for evolution by devouring mantids who are also worms.

We've been busy with this for the past few days.

But it is a pity that the mantid has not gone too far in the evolutionary tree of the insect swarm. 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 saying that, Rexxar threw the few mantid he captured on the altar of his flying insects, and he patted the hunter Ayamis' brightly colored head.

The latter also used an intimate gesture to touch Rexxar with his terrifying sickle limb that could easily cut off an orc's head.

It has to be said that this orc's talent in taming beasts is really terrifying. He is currently the hunter who has the highest compatibility with his insect pets among all the insect hunters.

Even Windrunner's mother is far behind him.

But Lexa also miscalculated this time.

The mantid he captured was not accepted by his own flying insects.

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

It neighed a few times, and immediately the flying insect guards flew over and threw the living mantid into the larvae nest next to it.

Soon, the chewing sounds and the screams of the mantids in the insect nest made little Jaina's scalp numb, and she fled here with Emeril as if fleeing.

Watching Jaina leave, Rexxa withdrew his gaze and said to Misha who was glaring at the flattering bitch beside him:

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

"Ouch~"

Misha called out, and Lexa nodded in agreement and whispered:

"Well, indeed, not very smart."

"She didn't even notice Blake's poor disguise."

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