"Look carefully, let who will fall back a little, yes, stop here, see, this is its biggest ganglion, what is its function? Looking at the back, I stimulated it a little, don't worry, it's useless magic that may produce visual effects, it's just the simplest thunder stimulation. The function of this ganglion should be to coordinate its whole body movements, and not to fall when stepping on its legs, and not to tear off its chin when opening its mouth. Yes, this is the limit it can do with itself. So, what is it fighting us and the little spider?"

"Rely on instinct?" Shure tried to explain, "Instinct cannot be explained yet, such as being born to eat, and you have said before that the remaining instinct on their corpses is to kill all aliens."

"Yes, this can explain their blind attacks before, but instincts will not let them line up to rush to the front line, nor will they let them restrain their instincts and not attack the enemy, but instead adopt a siege." Militi shook her head, "I know you want to say that a commander gave them instructions, the problem is..."

“What do they use to understand commands?”

"Yes, they do not understand the concept of command at all. In Pavatiga, even two ants will exchange and understand information by touching their antennae. However, they do not have an organ to understand information at all. In theory, they cannot be ordered at all. No, they should not exist at all because they are meaningless."

"That's interesting." Xiuer pondered his thigh and pondered, "The phenomenon we see is completely opposite to the theory."

"So, they are not an ‘independent’ biological individual at all, but an organ of a certain organism. If our hands are cut off, can we still move? But we can use our brains to control the arms to make various movements. On the same basis, the commander of the bug we imagine is actually the brain of the creature, which controls most of the subjective actions of the creature through a way we don't understand yet, including controlling each bug."

"It's very similar to your undead manipulation."

"Ha, you're right. Just like I control the undead, the brain should be able to control everything. Most of these insects have eyes. In theory, what each insect sees can be fed back to the brain. The insects have no sense of touch. Therefore, when the insect swarm is killed in large quantities, the brain will not be overwhelmed by pain. It can be said that the brain is an alternative undead mage, but it is just too exaggerated to control the undead, and it is as convenient as breathing."

"But how do they maintain their lives? It is impossible to survive without eating, drinking, or breathing."

"You still don't understand, Shul." Militi looked at Shul with a compassionate look, "Can your hands eat and drink? Can your hair breathe? They are part of you and don't need to do these things yourself."

"There are no need for these in your hands and feet. It's because my blood delivers nutrients to them. I can eat and drink water myself, but the insects..." As he said, Shuer seemed to understand something and said in surprise, "Bacteria blanket?"

"In addition to absorbing the energy generated by the decomposition of the corpse, the two-way energy channel will also transport energy outward." Militi breathed a sigh of relief, revealing a tired expression of communicating with the layman. "Did you see these uses in the corpse unknown? This is the energy channel. The bacterial blanket directly transports energy to them and maintains their lives."

"So when they left the bacterial blanket, their strength and desire to attack were reduced." Shur nodded thoughtfully, "because the energy delivery was cut off."

"Well, leaving the bacterial blanket, you should only rely on the energy you reserved. I guess you will run out of energy and die if you don't last long."

"But there is a problem. There is no bacteria blanket around the mutant spider mother's nest. Mia, Dak, you... Well, you see, they also saw it, there is no, but the brain still keeps those bugs around, aren't you afraid that their energy will be exhausted and they will die?"

"I can't understand this." Militi frowned, "It shouldn't be like this. They are waiting at the door, just wasting their energy reserves in vain. How could they do such stupid things?"

"Wei, the image of dot No. 1." The mutant spider nest, which has been compiled as point No. 1, was displayed in front of everyone. Yesterday the image disappeared. According to Wei, the invisible detector was destroyed, but then a new one was re-created and sent over. So Shuer looked at it several times today but was not affected, including now, "Look, there is no germ blanket here, it is all... Huh, Dark Moon Blessing, what is this?"

As he spoke, he turned around. The moment Shuer saw the image, he suddenly couldn't continue talking. The scene in the image was really unexpected.

In the back of the insect swarm, three strange buildings were erected, covering the cave in the center in a triangle. Looking closely, those were actually not buildings, but like some kind of creature. Two of them were like insect cocoons, half protruding out from the ground, and the surface beating regularly like the heart, and occasionally twisting, as if something was about to break out of the cocoon.

The third one should have just broken out of the cocoon, and there are still many pieces of flesh cocoon hanging on the surface of the body. It seems to grow out of thin air from the ground, with a height of three or four meters, and its whole body is full of wriggling muscles. From a distance, it looks like a mountain of meat. The surface of the mountain of meat is constantly popping up and the size of a fist is constantly rupturing. Each sarcoma breaks, and the bacteria carpet on the ground extends a little outward.

Yes, after the meat mountain is formed, the bacterial blanket begins to grow outward with it as the center, which should grow outward from its body. The expansion range of the bacterial blanket is very slow, and it is estimated that it will only extend outward for dozens of centimeters in one hour. However, although the speed is slow, it will not stop for a moment. According to this efficiency, at most three or four days, the bacterial blanket will cover the surrounding area of ​​the crypt.

"Pa", of course there was no sound, it was just a dubbing in everyone's heart. The second meat mountain broke out of the cocoon. Sure enough, as soon as it appeared, another mushroom blanket was generated on the surface. The insects became busy and collected the broken meat cocoon fragments again and threw them on the mushroom blanket.

"Well, Moria, you're right. The bacteria blanket is indeed part of some kind of living thing." Shure suddenly looked up and asked loudly, "Wei, can you trace the generation process of these three things? From the beginning, I'm curious about how they appeared."

"Sorry, Commander, only the images in the base are retained, and No. 1 is retained."

"But you have a long-term battle with the bugs, so there should be a record of this."

"Yes, Commander. The three objects you are referring to are called supporters, and are one of the basic buildings of the swarm. Their role is supposed to provide basic support for the swarm. All buildings of the swarm and more than 90% of the daily activities must be unfolded on the fungi blanket."

"Similar to blood vessels." The image of the eight people easily understood the role of the so-called supporter. Shuer asked, "Are all the buildings of the insect swarm generated similarly?"

"Yes."

"Similar to organs." Several people looked at each other and nodded, all connected. It seemed that the insect swarm was really like a perfect living body. Shuer sighed and said with a wry smile, "At least we know what the queen of the insect is waiting for now. It seems that when the bacteria blanket covers the entire battlefield, it is time for the decisive battle."

"I'm afraid it's not necessarily just waiting for the bacteria blanket to expand." Militi said with a lip , "Didn't you doubt that when the insect swarm attacked us before, those strange species did not participate in the war? In fact, those insects might not exist at that time."

"You said something similar yesterday, but there was no detailed explanation." Shuer asked in confusion, "What new discoveries are there?"

"I checked seven species of bugs and found that their traits were all the same."

"Well? If your theory is correct, they are all part of this peculiar individual, and their traits are of course the same."

"Nonsense." Militi was not polite at all, "You are talking about the origin, not the trait. Your hair, your nails, and your skin are the same, but the traits are too different. And these bugs have exactly the same traits, which means they are actually the same thing."

“To put it simply.”

"The stud moth, the most notorious group-like monster on the Pavadiga grassland." Militi explained impatiently, "I heard that. They have a characteristic that they have no gender during the larval period. After forming cocoons and becoming pupa, they will determine their gender based on the number of male and female in the group when they finally transform."

"Well, I have also read this information, and there are a lot of research on stud moths."

"I suspect that these bugs are the same, but they determine not gender but form when they metamorphosis. All the bugs we see are actually transformed from the same larvae. There were no other types of bugs before, because there was no brain control, the larvae would only transform into those we fought against. Once the brain appeared, only one day later, so many kinds of species appeared."

"Wei, you said there is no basic information about the insect swarm, but is there any information about the birth of insects?"

"No, Commander, these are included in the basic information of the insect swarm. In the branch base database, there are only the names and brief introductions of a few insect swarm soldiers. The remaining detailed data is stored in the planet's main system. You need to review and can be queried at any time. However, it is impossible to connect to the planet's main system and the relevant information cannot be provided."

"Okay, I understand." Shuer sighed regretfully and stared at the three-dimensional image. "One ten of the million insect swarms are obviously special types of insects. In one day, they have so many new insects?"

"That's what I think." Militi nodded with a serious face, "So they are still waiting, maybe waiting for the expansion of the bacterial blanket, but more likely, waiting for a new batch of bugs to be born, more troops, more diverse troops, and more tactical combinations."

"No, you can't wait any longer." Shuer pondered for a long time, and suddenly slapped the table. "If Militi's guess is correct, it will not be the problem of the cave spiders being broken in a few days. Instead, even if they fight on both sides, they can kill us and the cave spiders. They must leave this projection world as soon as possible."

"Wei, organize a copy of all the information related to the insect swarm you can find now. Tomorrow, everyone's base will be standby and try not to leave the base. Moria, the speed of long-distance movement is the fastest except Dak. You and me will go out tomorrow."

"Hey? Do you want to change the form?"
Chapter completed!