The Zerg can evolve these traits.

Of course, these traits can also choose not to evolve, or be displayed solely in a certain Zerg individual, depending on the will of the Zerg Queen who controls the Zerg colony.

The Queen can even take back all these characteristics from Zerg that have already evolved related traits.

The Zerg are exoskeleton creatures after all.

And suppose a particular bird species had hollow bones, a natural trait that is one of the foundations of bird flight.

If the Zerg ate this kind of bird and then evolved this kind of skeleton, would they still be alive?

However, even if the traits are restricted and retracted by the queen insect, the contents contained in the insect's genes will not change.

Everything is hidden deep in the genes, including the "hollow bone" gene hypothesized by Chen Ming.

However, as the genetic complexity increases, the genes at the front of the Zerg will become difficult to mine.

And as the Zerg colony expands and multiplies, many queens will gradually lose their memory of these genes during iterations.

It would be even more difficult to evolve various genetic shapes that the queen insect might not have chosen to evolve due to the external environment.

The genetic worms that have just been eaten recently can evolve at will, but the genes that were once hidden deep in the genes.

It can only rely on the stimulation of the external environment to allow the queen insect to first find the existence of these genes in a certain individual, and then express these genes in all insect individuals.

Like combat, or extremely harsh and severe environments.

As for Chen Ming, there is a third way to make the Zerg evolve, which is to use his psychic power to perform genetic backtracking once a month.

However, in practical terms, this should also be considered the second method, extracting traits inherent in the genes, but its efficiency is not satisfactory.

In short, when Chen Ming learned that there were these large insects on that habitable planet, he took the initiative to send Yu Hui to catch a bunch of them.

Chen Ming's idea is very simple.

Anyway, the Zerg can obtain the genes by eating it, and the genes just obtained do not need to be hidden in a complex gene chain, so the Queen Zerg can evolve at any time.

Then just find more creatures to feed the queen insect.

Like the giant insect that Chen Ming caught on the habitable planet he found last week.

Some of the characteristic creatures on the habitable planets found last week.

Chen Ming fed them all to the Queen Insect.

If valuable genes are extracted, they will be evolved; if they are worthless, they will be left alone, even if this will lead to an increase in genetic complexity.

The traits that evolve during combat are meant to adapt to combat. Zerg individuals that fail to evolve suitable traits, or that evolve traits that affect combat traits, should have died long ago.

And although the Zerg have been doing this for many years.

But since they were killed by humans and became endangered species, it has proved to a certain extent that their evolutionary ability will definitely not be effective without special targeted means.

With the lessons learned from the past, Chen Ming felt that it would be better to use more scientific methods to evolve the Zerg.

That is, until he has sufficient capabilities in biotechnology to be able to analyze and test the Zerg's genes.

Directly use physical means to extract Zerg genes, analyze the capabilities contained in each gene fragment, select the useful ones, and then let the queens extract and evolve from their own genes.

What Chen Ming is learning now is, after all, the crystallization of the empire's achievements in biotechnology.

Since the Empire was once able to specifically target the Zerg and kill them to the brink of extinction.

Correspondingly, the Zerg will surely shine with new brilliance in terms of breeding.

Although Chen Ming cannot do this now, he will be able to do it in the future as he deepens his study of biotechnology.

Moreover, he always felt that direct feeding and evolution nearby was actually more efficient than relying on the Zerg's own evolution in battle.

Moreover, it can satisfy his ideas to a certain extent.

After Chen Ming learned the laws of Zerg evolution from the Queen, he already had some special ideas about the Zerg.

For example, he fed the large number of energy crystal crabs he had on hand to a few queen worms.

As long as the energy crystal crab eats normally, it can use its own secretions to create a self-energy storage material on its back that naturally contains energy.

At the same time, this crystalline shell is also an ordinary energy storage material with extremely high quality, and is even more useful than various artificial materials and artificial devices.

However, the crystal crab is an omnivorous creature. Its usual diet mainly consists of various rocks and mosses in caves, and its eating efficiency is extremely low.

The Zerg is just the opposite. They can eat anything.

And the Zerg themselves have something similar to the energy crystal crab shell.

That is, the biomass stored after the queen insect digests and transforms it.

If the Zerg absorbed the genes of the energy crystal crab, Chen Ming was a little afraid to imagine the advantages that would be brought by the combination of the two.

Chen Ming's other idea was the Alturan Sky Eel, the source of Sky Steel.

Sky steel, which can be said to be the most advanced material among advanced materials, is essential for the manufacture of hyperspace channel systems and also for the manufacture of spacecraft.

Now that Chen Ming is running around the star field with a bunch of afterglow, he really needs this kind of material.

But he had no stable source of sky steel and had no choice but to buy it at a high price.

Although Chen Ming can rely on his relationship with the factory director to buy it from Sinda Company, the company is currently mainly focused on the mining space station.

They want to rebuild the mining space station at a new location to facilitate the subsequent development of Sky Steel.

Therefore, at present, Sindar Corporation can only rely on some mining ships to collect a small amount of sky steel, which may not be enough for its own use, and some has to be donated by its partners.

Chen Ming definitely has no share.

So a large amount of expenditure is needed to purchase sky steel.

Chen Ming was thinking, if he could feed the air fish to the Zerg, would there be some unique output and effect? ​​The air fish is a little difficult to deal with.

At present, Chen Ming only knows that there are two places where empty fish exist.

One is the galaxy with the mining space station, which is managed by the company.

The other one is Yu Hui’s side.

When Yuhui raided the military outpost in the star zone, they captured several air fish.

Chen Ming knew which galaxy Yu Hui sent Kong Yu to, but it was not so easy to bring him out.

So Chen Ming still needs to think about Kongyu's matter again.

Although both the energy crystal crab and the air fish are good ideas, they are not combat-oriented and will not significantly improve the combat capability that the Zerg species needs most.

However, Chen Ming had never seen a powerful combat creature with his own eyes.

The only powerful creature he had ever seen with his own eyes was the mammoth-like black Zerg in the Zerg genes.

Of course, never having seen a powerful creature doesn’t mean that Chen Ming doesn’t know that powerful creatures exist.

Because when he was studying biology, he also knew about many ecological protection areas, or ecological protection planets, within the empire.

These are basically planets with unique creatures that were discovered during the Empire's pioneering era. Some of these creatures were placed as examples in the Empire's biology textbooks.

These unique creatures are worthy of special protection and each has its own special features.

For example, Chen Ming knew of a giant butterfly that lived in the atmosphere. A cluster of butterflies had the ability to create auroras over a large area.

The entire planet is shrouded in a beautiful environment covered by the aurora all year round.

So in addition to being an ecological protection planet, this planet is also a good tourist planet.

Although the butterflies on this planet seem to have nothing to do with combat power.

The biology book only gave a brief introduction to this species and did not explain that this butterfly was aggressive or had strong fighting abilities.

But if you think about it carefully, you will find that something is wrong.

The cause of the aurora is the ionization reaction caused by the flow of charged particles entering the planet's magnetic field, which generates plasma light.

That is the same plasma as the Plasma Burst Propulsion and Plasma Armored Entanglement on the Brilliant Class.

Therefore, these aurora butterflies actually have the terrifying ability to control powerful charged particle flows and even plasma.

Although in the empire they became animals in the zoo for people to watch.

But if their genes can be absorbed by the Zerg, how can the Zerg evolve? This is just a unique creature that Chen Ming has briefly learned about.

There are many such ecologically protected planets within the empire, as well as many unique and powerful creatures.

So Chen Ming’s current plan is to feed the queen worms to a few crystal crabs first and see the effect.

Of course, he did so. It was not difficult to transport the energy crystal crab from the temporary base to the Queen of Insects.

Once he is sure that the crystal crab has sufficient effect, or the queen insect has shown some potential, he will try to get some other interesting creatures.

Of course, it is done through legitimate means. Poaching and the like are not allowed in the prosperous star field.

Even. After Chen Ming's fleet went to the space station held hostage by Zuo Jing,

Chen Ming still had some thoughts in his mind about feeding the fungal psychic creatures he had recently obtained to the insects.

We still have to wait and see how the Queen of Insects performs, and also see the progress of Chaofan.

Let’s see what Chaofan can research.

See whether it is more valuable to cultivate the fungus yourself or to feed it to the queen insect.

But just after Chen Ming finished recording what happened in the past week.

He suddenly received news from the Queen of Insects.

The queen insect has spun a cocoon.

Chen Ming immediately took over a bug in the Queen's hive through the Zerg hive thinking network.

They went to the Queen Insect's biological spaceship, which no longer needed to be buried deep underground and could build its nest directly on the surface.

The Queen Insect had eaten the crystal crab a few days ago, but I didn’t expect it to start making a cocoon now.

When Chen Ming observed the current appearance of the Queen Zerg through the Zerg's compound eyes and hive mind network.

It can be seen that just like before, the entire biological spaceship is completely covered by augmented organisms.

If you get close to the cocoon, you can hear the heavy and slow heartbeat of the biological spaceship inside the cocoon.

Chen Ming specially asked the Queen Worm, who had been running around in the past few days to open up the highest point of the hyperspace channel, to return to the Queen Worm and scan the cocoon.

It was this darkness that added a bit of anticipation to Chen Ming's heart.

After waiting for more than a day.

The queen insect moved again and successfully broke out of the cocoon.

Although there is no change in the Queen's external biomass spacecraft, it is still covered by the streamlined black shell as before.

However, when Chen Ming was studying while distractedly controlling a bug to enter the biological spaceship, Chen Ming discovered that the evolved biological spaceship was different from the previous one.

Originally there were some fluorescent cocoons inside the bio-spacecraft that could provide extremely tiny amounts of lighting.

Provide some lighting for the bugs inside the bio-ship in the dim environment.

The bugs, which have night vision and thermal sensing capabilities, only need this little lighting to move freely in the dark environment inside the spacecraft.

Now, all these fluorescent cocoons have been replaced by some luminous crystals with bright green color, which seem to be full of radiation.

Of course, there is no such thing as radiation.

These crystals are the biomass converted from the digestive waste of the Zerg, which is actually condensed after the Zerg Queen expresses the genes of the unique glands that the crystal crabs use to condense their carapaces.

These things are just like the shell on the back of the energy crystal crab, which are self-storage materials that can store energy.

It is called [Thorne Zerg Biomass Energy Crystal].

This thing has a unique meaning to Chen Ming.

Because Chen Ming's ability still has an unsolvable problem.

Transmission of energy.

For Chen Ming, almost any kind of energy storage material, including artificially manufactured batteries and the like, as long as he uses psychic power to transfer it, all the energy stored inside it will be completely dissipated.

Only the self-energy storage material, which is the only exception and naturally carries its own energy, can still store energy in it under the influence of Chen Ming's spiritual power.

Even if the energy is exhausted, it can be recharged using some common methods.

The energy subsequently stored can also be transmitted over long distances by Chen Ming through the carrier of self-energy storage materials.

According to Chen Ming's previous understanding, the self-energy storage material of the energy crystal crab's shell is much more powerful than most of the artificial energy storage materials he has known about.

The back shell of a typical energy crystal crab can store two to three times the energy of an energy storage device or material of the same volume.

The Zerg energy crystals condensed from glands that evolved from the Zerg absorbing the genes of energy crystal crabs are even more terrifying.

Any one of them has an energy reserve more than five times that of the top-level artificial batteries on cruisers of the same size.

At this point, Chen Ming already felt that the name of his earlier plan to mass-produce crystal crabs could be changed.

Change to the energy crystal worm mass breeding plan.

Let the Queen of Insects produce some insects that are specifically used to produce these energy crystals.

The cultivation of such insects is definitely simpler than that of crystal crabs, as only the queen insect is needed.

It is easier to raise than crystal crabs. They can eat everything. If they can't eat it, they can let special nutritional insects convert it into insect glue.

The materials are also easier to harvest than the energy crystal crab, and it can even spit out energy crystals on its own initiative.

Just like the Queen of Worms just did.

Chen Ming saw that the Queen Insect was gradually charged with the brightness of these energy crystals. When it reached the highest point, it actively expelled these energy crystals from the flesh and blood of the biomass spacecraft.

Some of the insects responsible for the transportation work were sent to a giant storage capsule that had shrunk several times because it no longer needed to store fluid biomass.

Such insects can be bred and mass-produced, and almost everything can be used as food for the Zerg and converted into this powerful material.

Chen Ming has already foreseen how important an impact it will have on the development of Chen Ming's colony in the future.

As long as the Queen of Insects is there, Chen Ming doesn't even need to be responsible for collecting the information.

What he had to do was to find a way to put these materials to practical use and trade them within the empire in the future.

However, it is still too early to talk about trade now, and studying the practical application of biomaterials does not mean simply replacing batteries with self-energy storage materials.

There are many complicated processes involved.

Chen Ming is confident that he can produce results within a year.

But don't think about it now. The technical level he has now is not enough, and Chaofan also has things to do.

So after confirming the Queen Insect's body, Chen Ming calmed down and looked to see if there were any new changes in the Queen Insect's body.

We’ll talk about the future later.

After all, Chen Ming still remembered that the Sinda Company had just developed an antimatter reactor that could produce large quantities of power stably and was more powerful than all the power generation equipment currently in the empire.

Energy crystals seem to be able to produce some kind of wonderful cooperation with antimatter reactors.

Therefore, since antimatter reactors have not yet been mass-applied, it is not easy for Chen Ming to mass-produce energy crystals now.

Let’s talk about these two things that are expected in the future.

On the Queen Worm's biological spaceship, apart from the most obvious changes in the energy crystals, the only other changes were some optimizations in the structural details.

The overall changes are not significant. It seems that it is mainly the crystal crab that promotes the cocooning and evolution of the queen insect.

The other creatures that Chen Ming had fed to the Queen Insect were of no use.

However, when Chen Ming observed the details of the changes in the Queen Insect.

He suddenly noticed that the Queen had called back all the Zerg that were out collecting various foods.

It directly absorbed most of the Zerg in the hive, leaving only a few Zerg responsible for defending the hive.

The Queen of Zerg began to breed a new generation of Zerg with the genes of energy crystal crabs.

Two days passed in the blink of an eye.

Under the control of the Queen, an energy crystal capable of storing a large amount of energy is condensed in the body of every Zerg individual.

It can greatly extend the activity time of all Zerg individuals outside and improve the combat effectiveness of Zerg individuals to a certain extent.

There is no doubt that more energy reserves mean a stronger body.

However, the condensation of energy crystals may also lead to some negative effects.

For example, when the Zerg are fighting with the enemy, the energy crystals on the Zerg corpses may be taken away.

But compared with the negative effects of some extra energy consumption, the improvement in the quality of the entire Zerg race is obviously more important.

And the abundance of energy means that the Zerg's expansion speed will increase again.

The speed of the Queen's evolution will surely accelerate again.

Chen Ming is looking forward to the day when the Queen Insect evolves into a cruiser.

If necessary, he could even take the initiative to sacrifice a cruiser, like the Queen's mother whom he was controlling now, and transform the artificial cruiser into a biological cruiser.

Ever since the day the Queen of Insects re-evolved the hive.

Another four days passed in the blink of an eye.

The research equipment Chen Ming bought earlier finally arrived.

There was absolutely no situation in which Chen Ming deliberately delayed the progress in order to give Chaofan more time to study biotechnology, and he insisted on waiting until all the equipment was gathered before notifying Lao Wu, which led to the delay.

In short, Chaofan has almost figured out the situation of this group of fungal psychic creatures in the past week.

So biological research can indeed be put aside for a while, and it is time to give Supernormal the freedom to research what it wants to research.

Chaofan wrote down Chaofan's research results using the level of knowledge in biology that Chen Ming could currently understand and delivered them to Chen Ming.

However, Chen Ming did not look at it at the first time, but continued with the morning class with Bai Quan.

It was not until noon, when Chen Ming was having a meal and resting, that he put the terminal with the open document aside and contacted Chaofan.

But before he even looked at it, Chaofan came to the conclusion directly and said: "These psychic fungal creatures are actually almost harmless to humans."

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"What?"

Chen Ming quickly swallowed the food in his mouth to avoid choking.

He had clearly seen these fungi kill several people in Zuojing before, how could they not be harmful? Chaofan directly adjusted the content on Chen Ming's terminal to a page of photos, which was the photo of the damaged culture room in the laboratory that Chen Ming had captured when he was controlling the space station.

Several bodies of people from Zuo Jing were lying there.

"According to my research, I found that the genes of this psychic creature have been artificially modified."

"They have been implanted with some special root genes, which are genes that cannot be modified a second time. If they are modified, the species will die."

"This gene has only one effect: human tissue is extremely toxic to it."

"So these spores died after killing those people."

"And, since they are psionic creatures, even fungi do have a faint consciousness."

"They will actively move away from things that are dangerous to them."

"So that's why I think it's pretty much harmless to people."

"And look here."

Chaofan explained, marking a special device on the photo.

"It was this device that instantly released a large amount of fungal spores, causing the deaths of those people."

"Under normal circumstances, the concentration of spores in the air is not high. Once the spores come into contact with human skin tissue or the mucous membranes of the nose and mouth, they will die directly."

"The dead fungus may cause some minor illnesses like upper respiratory tract infections, but it will never kill you."

"To reach a number of spores that would be lethal, you'd be almost inhaling pure spores."

"So I seriously suspect that there are humans on the space station using special equipment to deliberately collect extremely high concentrations of spores for discharge."

"This is a special attack method used on that space station to target invaders."

(End of this chapter)