Chapter 683: The Queen Worm Is Only Sixteen Years Old
It turns out that Romantina's mental detection was able to attract the attention of the entire Zerg Kingdom. It was all the fault of Tianmeng Ice Silkworm!
Zhou Qing had already guessed about this, and didn't pay too much attention to it. He changed the topic back to "controlling the insect swarm" and asked, "How are you going to make the information... That's all. You won't tell us until we give you a definite answer. I'm just a little curious. Since the insect swarm can only receive the pheromones of the queen insect, even if you make the pheromones, how can you drive the insect swarm to serve you?"
"The swarm of insects bred by the queen insect will not obey the orders of other creatures, but they still have simple biological instincts."
Talos picked up a piece of black moss from a nearby rock and gently poked it, and some tiny pale white particles floated out.
"This black moss dust has been processed through a certain process and has an effect close to that of pheromones. And... it should not be affected by human sweat. Or, is it because of the pheromones emitted by the human body that it has an effect?
We don't know, but the pheromones we made from the black moss dust can indeed enable transport insects to execute some simple transport commands, such as transporting insect eggs."
Hearing this, Zhou Qing was certain that these two people had no idea about research and only relied on the experience accumulated over a long period of time.
But Zhou Qing does not look down on them. On the contrary, empiricism is the most ancient labor wisdom accumulated from generation to generation.
And Taros said this, obviously having conducted relevant tests, and it is even possible that she has already stolen insect eggs from the hatching area.
"It's easy to talk to smart people." Taisi admitted frankly that they had indeed stolen an insect egg and planned to cultivate another queen insect.
"How can you be sure that the eggs can hatch into mother insects?" Dugu Bo was puzzled.
"I took you to see the queen insect before. How many years do you think it has lived?" Taros did not answer, but asked this question instead.
Dugu Bo: "A thousand years?"
Rico: “Two thousand years?”
Timitite: “Three thousand years?”
Romantina: "With such a huge body, it must have taken a long time. I guess 20,000 years."
Bunny Girl: "I can't guess. Could it be as old as this abyss ruins?"
Taros smiled mysteriously, and was not in a hurry to answer. Instead, she looked at Zhou Qing who was thinking, and asked: "Why don't you take a guess?"
"Within two hundred years..."
Zhou Qing gave his own guess: two hundred years, and even thought that this time might be shorter.
reason?
The years reported by the six people before were getting older and older, and Taros' smile became more and more intense. This only proved that the age of the queen insect was definitely younger than a thousand years.
In addition, Zhou Qing had learned some science fiction settings about the Zerg in his previous life: short growth cycle, complete military types, etc. The Zerg Kingdom was almost identical to the Zerg except for the lack of the Zerg's aggressiveness that seemed to devour everything.
Therefore, he speculated that the age of the queen of the swarm might not be proportional to its huge size.
"How could it be so young?" Dugu Bo couldn't believe that such a big queen insect could be only two hundred years old!
"The age you guessed is closest to the true age of the queen."
But Taros confirmed Zhou Qing's guess, "It has only been sixteen years since the birth of this queen insect...if we remember correctly."
"We don't have time to listen to your jokes!" The bunny girl put on a smiling face, but her eyes were quite serious.
"This is not a joke—" Taros shook her head and recounted an incident that happened in the past.
Sixteen years ago, an explorer named Lisa angered one of the two guardians of the seventh layer and was chased to the sixth layer by one of them. An earth-shattering war broke out, causing the previous queen of the Zerg Kingdom to suffer an unexpected disaster.
That is, before the protection mechanism of the Zerg Kingdom could react, the Queen was turned into ashes by a cremation cannon fired by the Guardian.
But after one shot, the guardian seemed to have consumed too much energy and was attacked by the rest of the insect swarm. It disappeared in the sea of insects, leaving only a mechanical broken arm...
Needless to say, Zhou Qing also guessed that the broken soul-guided mechanical arm was taken away by Liko's mother, and later used as a favor to carve up the value of the white flute.
Riko was very excited to hear the news about her mother again. She interrupted Talos and asked, "Do you know where she is? Did she go to the seventh floor?"
"Ryza?" Talos looked at Riko's round face again. "She looks similar to Ryza, but I always thought that the people of Abyss all have the same face shape."
"Well!"
Riko puffed her cheeks, her defense broken by this sentence.
Fortunately, Taros did not tease me too much and continued, "As an explorer, you naturally have to continue exploring downwards."
The implication is that Lisa did go to the seventh floor.
As for life or death——
They just don't know.
But Riko didn't care. As long as she got the news about her mother and knew that she was still exploring, she was already very satisfied.
All that’s left is to catch up with my mother!
At this time, Zhou Qing understood why Taros and Taisi wanted to control the Zerg, because they had seen the power of the Zerg and had bitten off the arm of one of the two guardians of the seventh floor.
Talos also continued the story of one of the guardians being swallowed by the sea of insects, saying: "We don't know what happened to the guardian in the end, but we do understand the power of the insect swarm.
After the previous queen was destroyed, the remaining swarm found an egg and placed it at the location where the queen was originally located. After it hatched, it grew rapidly. In just three months, it grew to the size you see today, allowing the nearly collapsed swarm to be rebuilt, and the number has also returned to its original state. "
Taisi continued, "The egg that hatched into a female insect was the one that was taken out of the hatching room without any pheromone application."
Zhou Qing understood it clearly.
The queen can be born from any egg as long as it is not affected by any pheromones.
Theoretically, if Taros and Tais could really steal an insect egg and hatch a larva that is similar to the mother insect, then the pheromones they emit might really allow them to gain control over part of the insect swarm.
But in this case, the two queens will inevitably come into conflict in order to develop. Either one will die, or one will leave the swarm kingdom and rebuild another swarm.
The fact was just as Zhou Qing guessed. Taros really cultivated a brand new queen larva. However, the larva was very restless after it was born, as if every minute and every second of living in the Zerg Kingdom was torture. While she and Tais were out, it quickly split into countless tiny individuals, built a prop for them to float, and instinctively fled from the Zerg Kingdom...
(End of this chapter)
