Under everyone’s eyes, Si Sheng stretched out his hand and the king zerg card floating in the air flew over and automatically fell into his hand. Then he handed it to Xu Sili.
Xu Sili took it and glanced at it.
[A two star king zerg card that can release an interstellar king zerg bound by puppetry. The effect is unknown.]
Looking at the information given by the system, Xu Sili was a bit surprised. This king zerg was only a two star? It was a bit different from what he had guessed.
After thinking about it, he understood.
Now was the early stage of the zerg’s appearance. The individual strength of the zerg wasn’t strong, but they became very scary after forming a group, especially their terrifying reproduction and evolutionary mutation capabilities.
This king zerg was born not long ago and needed time to grow into a super boss that would dominate Ampsonton in the later stage.
After learning about the appearance of the zerg, Xu Sili searched for relevant information about the zerg on the Future Forum. Players and future biologists had already thoroughly studied the zerg.
He also already knew the origin of the zerg that Louye Ranchen and the others were still looking for.
In fact, the original form of this black beetle was just a type of garbage processing insect. It was an insect that fed on garbage on a trash planet and was called a garbage bug for short.
These garbage bugs mutated during the long period of natural selection. The mutants stood out from their peers and quickly became the overlord of the garbage planet with their terrifying devouring abilities.
Originally, due to the special geographical environment and their own structure, they could only be trapped on this garbage planet, feeding on human domestic garbage, various wastes and their own kind.
However, this garbage planet hadn’t been abandoned and interstellar spaceships would regularly transport garbage there for dumping.
Then the mutant trash bugs entered the universe through the transport ships.
Scientists speculated that the oxygen content on the garbage planet was already low, and these bugs must’ve evolved the ability to survive and reproduce in an oxygen-free environment in the universe.
Thus, the black beetles were born.
They started to attack the spaceships they encountered frantically. The metal shells of the spaceships couldn’t stop them at all, but instead became their favorite food.
The black beetle started to mutate and evolve in various extreme environments, mutating in a direction that was more adaptable to the environment.
Due to the concealment of the zerg eggs and the passage of interstellar logistics, they were carried through the universe, blooming and bearing fruit everywhere.
The initial neglect of interstellar humans meant the black beetles were given time to develop and grow. This eventually led to the zerg becoming uncontrollable.
The king zerg, as the name suggested, as the ruler of the zerg race.
Just like the queen ant in nature, it was only the ruler of a group and couldn’t command all the zergs. According to data, there was a high probability that a king zerg would be born among every ten million zergs.
The combat effectiveness of the king zerg was average, and its basic attributes were focused on defense. It had high health and defense, making it very difficult to kill. The biggest feature of the king zerg was that it was hermaphroditic and very fertile!
In the future, the entire planet of Ampsonton would become a zerg nest and the zerg occupying the entire planet would basically be born from this king zerg.
Just now, the king zerg used sound to call and make the eggs hatch early. This was one of its special skills. The king zerg could also control the zerg born from it and their descendants through blood connections.
As for the zerg of different origins and whether they could be controlled or not, Xu Sili hadn’t found any information yet.
Perhaps he would know the answer after he completely controlled this king zerg.
After subduing the king zerg, Xu Sili wanted to leave with Si Sheng. As for the zerg still wreaking havoc in the laboratory and the people carrying eggs in the audience, it was none of this business.
The defenders of Ampsonton shouldn’t be so incapable of resolving such a minor problem, right? He had already taken away the most troublesome king zerg.
He tilted his head slightly, looked at the highest-ranking official sent by the Interstellar Alliance in the venue and said in a calm voice, “The rest will be left to you.”
Just as he was about to leave, he paused, looked at the camera again and said, “What Princess Val said just now is still valid. Roland welcomes all scientists with dreams to come.”
After saying that, Si Sheng hugged him and they disappeared from the spot together.
The two people fell from the sky and disappeared out of thin air. What they said before leaving immediately caused an uproar on the Star Network.
[They are Roland’s people!]
[Ahhh, the one with blonde hair is Roland’s Guardian! No wonder he looked so familiar to me. It is definitely him!]
[Could it be His Majesty Roland in his arms? Oh my god, they look so good.]
[So it is the Guardian. No wonder why he is so strong.]
As for the Starry Sky Forum, related topics had long exploded.
Now some players had gradually entered the universe. They were limited to a few friendly nations, but this alone was enough for players to have fun.
After all, a nation map was an entire planet! Such a large map was simply not something that could be fully explored in a short period of time. Players had also accepted this gameplay update of gradually opening up the map.
Therefore, many players also paid attention to the mecha competition between the Interstellar Alliance and Roland, not to mention that it was also broadcasted in Roland.
It was just that the people of Roland weren’t accustomed to the Star Network, or they hadn’t quite figured out how to play it yet. So they didn’t appear in the barrage, but it was different for players.
When they saw the zerg appear, they beat their chests and stomped their feet. Anyone with a discerning eye could see that it was a mission and a reward!
However, they weren’t at the scene and the matter had nothing to do with them.
Lin Mu and the others, who were envied and hated by them, happily returned after sending the NPCs back to Roland.
Results! Results!
As soon as they came back, they saw His Majesty Snow and Si Sheng taking action! With a few cool moves, such a huge bug was captured!
In this sudden plot, all they did was a mission to escort the NPCs back and it was over! Ahhhh!
Lin Mu and the others were nauseous to death, but they had no way to protest. One NPC was the faction leader and the other was the strongest person in the faction. They couldn’t afford to offend the two.
They were unwilling to give up, so they continued to stay since His Majesty Snow didn’t order them to go back.
Xu Sili naturally didn’t care about them. This mecha competition ended successfully, and he also had unexpected gains. This trip was worthwhile.
However, he didn’t return to Roland immediately. Instead, he asked Xiao Wu to find a remote star field. After sending Si Sheng there, he released the base he had obtained from Flaming Fox.
The Flaming Fox base looked like a meteorite, but the meteorite layer had been destroyed by Si Sheng, leaving only a bare metal ball. This still had a futuristic and technological feel.
Xu Sili and Si Sheng entered and released the king zerg from the card.
The time in the card had stopped, and the progress bar of puppetry hadn’t finished.
However, this king zerg was only two stars in strength after all. It couldn’t be compared with Si Sheng at the beginning. Once it was released, the light rope disappeared in less than a minute.
The information about the king zerg being controlled appeared in front of Xu Sili’s eyes. Then he was faced with two options to choose from. Without thinking, he chose to erase the king zerg’s consciousness.
Once this option was selected, the giant beetle trembling in front of him suddenly froze in place.
A control panel appeared in front of Xu Sili with the specific information of the king zerg written on it. The introduction even included its upgrade information, revealing a bit about its life experience.
[After being fed in the Interstellar Alliance’s laboratory, it fortunately broke through to two stars and unlocked the innate skills: Gigantism and Accelerated Birth.]
Therefore, the mutation of this king zerg was really due to the laboratory that the alliance set up on Ampsonton.
Xu Sili shook his head.
Seeing that he could give it a name, he hesitated for a moment. Then he simply and crudely gave it the name Black Armor.
He skipped the attribute values and went straight to the skill column. Currently, Black Armor only had five skills.
Devouring: Eat everything, and evolve in the direction of what it eats.
Reproduction: As the name suggested, it could reproduce zergs individually.
Command: Can control all zerg swarms of the same bloodline.
Gigantism: As the level increases, the body develops towards a giant size.
Accelerated Birth: A skill possessed by all king zergs, it emits special waves to make the eggs within the coverage area hatch early.
Xu Sili looked at these skills and started to study the king zerg.
This involved the hatching of zerg eggs, so he was cautious and didn’t go back to Roland, fearing that it would cause trouble for Roland.
First, he took out the interstellar beast cards he had stored before and threw the corpse of a two star interstellar beast to Black Armor. Then he clicked on the Devouring skill.
The black king zerg, which had been motionless, suddenly pounced on the two star beast and started to gnaw on it. It ate very quickly and in less than three minutes, it had eaten the two star beast which was as big as a cow.
After eating, Black Armor stopped moving again. Its shell looked brighter, with a hint of red showing through the black.
Its data panel also showed a trend of evolving into a red-eating beetle, or a flesh-eating beetle.
Xu Sili touched his chin, stopped feeding and let the black beetle reproduce. It gave birth to thousands of black larvae.
He could clearly see that these larvae were connected to Black Armor by strings. There was a + sign after Command in the skill column.
If he clicked on it, he could see the number of larvae from 1 to 1,000. He could also group these numbers and command and control these larvae through Black Armor.
He fed the first batch of larvae with interstellar beast meat from the sea and observed the changes in them.
His current goal was to cultivate zerg that could target interstellar beasts and only devour the flesh of interstellar beasts. In this way, he might be able to quickly eliminate the remaining interstellar beasts on Escher Star.
On the other hand, on Escher Star, players were still exploring the wilderness map.
On this day, a post appeared on the forum.
“What do you think about the magnetic field around Escher Star? Why do you get lost when you enter it? I would like to give it a try.”
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