586 Chapter 580: Gradual Evolution
However, whether she's naughty or not, Finn Lewis has no idea. Originally, he wanted to give Robert Green face and attend the 110th anniversary celebration at University F. However, the timing was just too perfect. Olivia Thatcher had already informed him that Keller had made all the preparations, all the forces have been amassed, and what's left was full-scale invasion. Naturally, Keller hadn't stopped the development of the Insect Species, and was still fully expanding the Insect Species, but the increase now was not in their numbers anymore, but in their technology.
Don't think the Insect Species are just a bunch of insects with no technological system. It's not like that. Their main nest may be the most basic unit, but the main nest stores more genetic imprints, storing all genetic imprints of the Insect Species, and then converting all the different minerals that the worker bees have gathered into energy essential for the Insect Species, and then concentrating this energy.
But, if you want to produce higher-ranking Insect Species, they need various kinds of main nests, just like humans need tank factories to produce tanks and docks to produce ships, the incubation of high-ranking Insect Species needs a relevant special kind of main nest to develop and produce. So, right now, Keller is storing energy and minerals, hatching these high-ranking main nests first, and then continue to store energy.
Once need arises, the Insect Species can mass hatch large volumes of high-ranking Insect Species directly, and straightaway flood their enemies with a sea of insects.
For example, the lowest-ranking Swift Beast that was about the size of a wolf dog. Then there are the parasites that Finn Lewis came across the most. But Finn Lewis just found out that parasites don't exist on their own but are hatched from a type of Insect Species unit called infection bugs. Each infection bug can hatch tens of thousands of parasites, and these parasites can interact with each other and hatch.
Then there's the jet bug that's just like a cockroach. Its size is just about half of that of an ordinary horse, but it can spit out a form of acid that has a very strong radioactivity from its mouth. Furthermore, this cockroach insect can travel underground, and also very quickly. Another thing about the cockroach insect is that within the acid it spits, there are countless low-ranking insect eggs. These insect eggs can directly parasitize within the units that were killed by the cockroach insect, and quickly parasitize off of the corpse. In an extremely short period of time within just a few minutes it can hatch directly, and then because only able to live for an hour or so. But when it's about to die, it can blow itself up and spray the acidic liquid contained within its body to cover a range of one or two square meters.
Just these few types alone numbered at least in tens of thousands. But these Insect Species units are not the same as ordinary animals. Taking the Swift Beast as an example, although it's only as large as an ordinary wolf dog, its speed can almost catch up to a cheetah's speed, and its jumping ability is astonishingly strong, even able to jump up cliffs tens of meters high. Although it can only jump once within a certain period of time, this is enough. This greatly enhances its flexibility.
Moreover, its skin's hardness is even comparable to steel. Ordinary handgun bullets couldn't pierce through it at all. Although rifle bullets could, they could only just pierce. Unless multiple tens of bullets were shot, it would be very difficult to kill it. Even with a large caliber machine gun, it would still be very difficult to tear it apart and kill it. And disregarding this, this thing is actually the most common consumption unit of the Icarus Insect Species. Its intelligence quotient is even lower than that of a worker bee.
Just inside this space now, just by looking with his naked eye, he saw so many that it was just like locusts, giving Finn Lewis goosebumps. No wonder Zero had solemnly warned Finn Lewis several times. Indeed, if these things were to multiply, it would simply be a killer*.