Chapter 687 Stealing Insect Eggs
After the discussion, everyone divided into groups, taking turns on duty and resting in turn.
Although based on what is currently known about the Zerg Kingdom, the Zerg will not actively attack them, but it is better to be safe than sorry.
Control the swarm?
They no longer have this idea.
But Taros and Tais went to the hatching area, waiting for the opportunity to steal an insect egg.
"Sister, didn't the new group of people disagree? Can it be done with just the two of us? What if the hatched larvae run away again?" Taisi had many concerns, especially the last one. If the larvae ran away, they would be most helpless.
The only bad thing about the Zerg is that everything depends on pheromones, and the two of them cannot release the pheromones that can command the swarm themselves, so they have to find a way to create them. Over the years, they have only found more than ten kinds of pheromones that can allow specific Zerg swarms to complete simple commands.
Among the newcomers, there is a boy with a very good brain. If he can join in, he might be able to explore and create pheromones that can enable various insect swarms to execute orders.
however.
The other party is too cautious and too soft-hearted.
They are just brainless bugs.
"I can only say that some major changes have really taken place in the world of soul masters, and even in the outside world." Taros could only imagine this, but the curiosity of the outside world could be postponed. The most important thing now was to control the insect swarm, defeat the guardian of the seventh floor, and reach the eighth floor.
"It doesn't matter if they don't join us."
Then, Taros talked about her plan again, "Since we have come to this level, we definitely don't want to stop here.
Titled Douluo, Soul Kings, Soul Lords, mutants, and ordinary people, this combination is indeed strange, but what is even stranger is that they are quite united.
Regardless of the reason for now, it can be judged from this that they will not ascend easily, otherwise, except for the gray-haired rabbit, the rest of them will not be able to withstand the curse of ascending.
After all, when ascending from the sixth level, one will either die before transforming into an alien body, or transform into an alien body. If the transformed alien body is not perfect, and there is an error in the fusion of martial soul and flesh and blood, it will lead to physical deformity, memory loss, and low intelligence.
Therefore, as long as you come to this sixth floor and enter the Zerg Kingdom, even if you don’t join us, your fate has already been linked to ours.”
Taisi suddenly realized.
All creatures in the Zerg Kingdom, whether they are the Zerg itself or these outsiders, once they come here, all the necessities of life have become part of the Zerg Kingdom. The only private property retained is wisdom and thoughts.
Therefore, once their plan succeeds and causes turmoil in the Zerg, they, who possess thoughts and intelligence, will never be able to empathize with the Zerg and can only seek cooperation with those who also possess thoughts and intelligence.
"And the reason why I took action so quickly was because that kid's brain was very useful. I just told him some basic information about the Zerg Kingdom, and he thought of so many things..."
The person that Taros was most wary of was not the strongest Dugu Bo, but the plain-looking Zhou Qing. "If time drags on for too long, the initiative might be in his hands. We must strike first."
Recalling Zhou Qing's understanding of the effects of pheromones, Taisi had to admit that the boy's brain was indeed too good.
So, she took out a pale white, saliva-stained piece of meat from under her tongue and rubbed it gently. In this special space of the Zerg Kingdom, tiny smoke-like particles emanated from the surface of the meat, and the meat slowly shrank.
When the soft area shrank to one-half, hatchlings with spider legs and squid tentacles came over and stopped in front of the two of them one by one.
This is one of the pheromones made by the two, which can be used to call the hatched insects to stand by. Although the insect swarm does only accept the pheromones transmitted by the mother insect, the insect swarm is indeed composed of independent individuals, and independent individuals will definitely have unconditioned reflexes.
Unlike conditioned reflexes, which can be formed through training, unconditioned reflexes refer to instinctive reactions after innate stimulation.
The more than ten kinds of pheromones developed by Taros and Tais that can give commands to specific insect swarms take advantage of their unconditioned reflexes.
Logically speaking, all life activities of the Zerg are affected by pheromones and should be unconditioned reflexes. However, considering the contradictions in the Zerg kingdom, Zhou Qing has an 80% probability that the Zerg's reaction to pheromones is mostly a conditioned reflex recorded in its genes and blood, rather than an unconditioned reflex in the innate sense.
This is also one of the fundamental reasons why Taros and Tais were able to create pheromones that allow the swarm to execute some commands.
To some extent, we have found a "loophole" in the operation of the Zerg Kingdom.
Putting the meat ball back under his tongue, Taisi counted and found that there were twenty hatched worms coming over.
"It's a bit much."
Talos only needs one.
"There's nothing we can do. We can only wait for them to disperse on their own." Taisi was helpless.
Pheromones that repel hatchlings?
Have.
But the insect swarm is extremely sensitive to pheromones, and once they are taken out, there will be not a single one left.
Fortunately, the effect of this pheromone was not strong. Ten minutes later, the hatching insects did not receive any new orders and left one after another, returning to their original positions and carefully taking care of the eggs.
When only one hatchling was left, Talos approached, spat out a ball of black mucus from her mouth, and smeared it on the tentacles of the hatchling.
The tentacles of this hatchling worm moved, and its body staggered away.
Three minutes later.
It came back, with a fist-sized light blue egg wrapped around its tentacles. It handed it to Taros, and its tentacles wrapped around her body, leaving trails of sticky liquid.
Talos was not angry.
Because this mucus is the proof that she can hold the egg, which means she can move the egg. Otherwise, before she leaves the hatching area, she will be blocked and surrounded by the hatching insects and the aggressive insect swarms in this area.
"It's done!"
Taros smeared the mucus on her body onto Tais, and together they left the incubation area and headed towards the outer area.
The hatching process must not be carried out in the hatching area. Otherwise, once the larvae break out of the shells, the invisible pheromones they emit will cause an instinctive reaction from the mother insects in the core area. Only in the outer area, where various worker insects frequently come and go, can the dissipation of the larvae's pheromones be prevented.
Some worker insects are also affected by the larvae's pheromones and transport the collected food and minerals to the larvae and leave them to guard them.
The empty "ranch" they had taken Zhou Qing to before was developed by taking advantage of the previous larva.
(End of this chapter)
