Chapter 690: The Swarm’s “Selfishness”
Become a Zerg!
Is this the purpose of brainworms?
No one wants to accept such a fate.
But at this time, except for Zhou Qing and his group, the rest of the people and the mutants had no power to resist the swarm.
【This was the path the Swarm would have chosen.】
The brain worm changed the subject and began to explain.
[This is also why there are various different appearances in the insect swarm, and some even look like they are not the same species.]
[We absorbed the genetic material of ants, wasps, mantises, and all other creatures, analyzed the information in them, integrated it into our genetic material, and transformed it.]
Most people don’t understand these contents.
But the brainworm continued to speak.
Because it knows that there is someone below who can understand it.
Words can lie!
Mental fluctuations can also be controlled and imitated artificially!
However, only the true thoughts in one's heart will cause the body to emit certain pheromones, which can be detected by the brain worm. The brain worm then judges the true thoughts in one's heart based on various factors such as the speed and quality of the pheromone release.
It can't be called mind reading, it can only roughly determine the direction of one's thinking, but for the brain worm, this is enough.
However, the brain worm was more "considerate" after all and gave a demonstration to everyone.
Three eggs that had just been secreted by the mother worm below were presented to the brain worm by the three transport worms. Then, the three hatching worms crawled up along the mother worm's shell and smeared the corresponding pheromones on the eggs.
Immediately afterwards, the surrounding energy of heaven and earth gathered towards the three insect eggs, causing the liquid inside to begin to change and form a heart.
Pounding!
As the heart beats, the rest of the internal organs are gradually conceived, and the life inside the egg gradually takes shape, but the direction of development is different.
One has a longer body, covered with scales, and has two horns on its head.
One has a body like a horse, a face like a lion, and a single horn.
One is covered with feathers, has thick tail feathers, and has two wings and two claws.
They are dragon, unicorn and phoenix!
Even though he had not yet been truly born, the blood pressure revealed by him caused the bodies of some people and mutants present to begin to tremble.
"Pure blood!"
Dugu Bo's eyes trembled in disbelief. The pure-blooded dragons, unicorns and phoenixes that were said to be no longer visible and might even be completely extinct actually appeared before his eyes, and they were born from insect eggs.
Just how powerful is this brain worm?
Click!
The insect eggs shattered, and three pure-blooded creatures, a dragon, a phoenix and a unicorn, were born. The power they exuded was even stronger than when they were inside the insect eggs.
but--
Swish!
The three-headed soldier insect stepped forward, waving its pincers, and instantly slaughtered the three pure-blooded dragon, phoenix, and unicorn cubs, and delivered the corpses to the mother insect's mouthparts for her to eat.
At this moment, the whole place was silent.
[As you can see, it is easy for us to create dragons, phoenixes, unicorns, and even other species, because the genetic material of these creatures has become a part of our insect swarm. As long as they are stimulated accordingly, they can be reborn into the world.]
[Genetic material, this concept is a little unfamiliar to you. Another way to put it is blood. But blood itself is not important. What is important is the information contained in the blood. The process of presenting this information is called expression.]
Riko trembled, "Now, are you going to fuse human genetic material?"
This is also what the rest of the people and the mutants are worried about.
They don't want to lose themselves!
【No. 】
The brainworm actually answered Riko's question, and it was beyond everyone's expectations. [The information contained in human genetic material has long existed in our insect swarm, and there is no need to deliberately integrate it. ]
[My appearance is only because two people repeatedly violated the insect swarm's protection mechanism, causing the insect swarm to have a stress response.]
Who are these two people?
One has been hung in front of the brain worm and has become its mouth substitute.
Another person——
People who knew Tais and the mutants all turned their attention to Taros.
Control the Swarm.
There are many people and mutants who know about the plans of these two people, and some of them even tend to cooperate with them, but now they just want to cut off ties with them to avoid being liquidated by the Zerg.
"So, what do you want?"
Dugu Bo asked the brain worm, gathering a ball of emerald green soul power in his hand, as if he was going to strike first if there was a disagreement.
[After hundreds of thousands of years, the collective of the swarm mind has once again found a carrier, forming me, just to take a look at what is happening to humans on Earth today.]
The brain worm said this and gave three more options.
First, humans and mutants can continue to stay in the Zerg kingdom, and the brain worms will not erase their memories, but they can no longer violate the Zerg's rules.
Second, leave the swarm and either survive somewhere else on the sixth floor or go to the seventh floor.
Third, stay in the core area for now and wait for it to deal with the two people who broke the rules before taking any further action.
The first and second options are the Zerg's warning to them, so they don't take it too seriously, but the third option is somewhat intriguing.
Without exception, most of the people and mutants present chose the first or second options. They were then healed of their injuries by a swarm of slug-like insects and taken away from the core area.
The only ones left were Zhou Qing and his group, as well as Taros.
[As I expected, humans and mutants who are used to living in the insect swarm on the sixth floor will not resist the insect swarm.]
The brainworm spoke in a calm tone.
"Maybe they just don't have the power to resist." Zhou Qing said dimly.
[Once the thoughts of intelligent creatures are set, it is indeed difficult to change and control them. However, sometimes, as long as the environment in which intelligent creatures live can be controlled, they will be forced to change in order to survive. All living things are evolving between adapting and being adapted, that's all.]
The brain worm did not deny what Zhou Qing said, and understood that he was just looking for trouble, but it still spoke of the wisdom of the swarm like an excellent teacher.
"We choose to stay. What will you do with us in the future?" Zhou Qing was surprised that the Zerg's thinking pattern was similar to his own.
In this case, there is a possibility of cooperation.
[You address me as "you", not "you"... You are a human who truly understands the existence of the Zerg. ]
The brain worm's tone was slightly surprised, but then it returned to calm.
[I will make arrangements for you after I have dealt with these two arrogant people who violated the rules of the Zerg. ]
Zhou Qing raised his eyebrows slightly.
The brain worm is the embodiment of the swarm's collective thinking, but it often refers to itself as "I" rather than "we".
"As expected, once wisdom and thought are embodied, selfishness arises, and the instinctive desire for independence arises... I seem to understand why the operation of the swarm in the past did not require the thoughts and wisdom of individuals."
(End of this chapter)
