A few days after the battle with the bloodthirsty mosquitoes.
To the west of the station, there is a small green wine shop.
"Captain Ma, how are you doing? How will Stormstorm City respond?"
A burly man in black asked. This man in black was the captain of the Iron-Blooded Team.
Here, in addition to him, there are seven other team captains, and then there is the leader of the Iron-Blooded Team, Ma Tong.
The stable boy took a sip of wine and said, "Hey, Jin Fang, you tell me."
Hearing this, a tall and thin middle-aged man said to the burly man and the other six team captains: "This time we returned to Heavy Rain City, and we quickly met the general and the city lord. The general and the city lord knew about our situation. , but expressed some support, but the reinforcement of senior warriors was rejected. They will only support a pair of 200 junior warriors, and some supplies."
Boom!
A middle-aged woman with short hair slapped her palm on the table.
"The junior warriors are just here to defend the line of defense. Our Iron-blooded team has suffered heavy losses. What we lack is the ability to fight head-on. Can we add some intermediate warriors to our Iron-blooded team?"
"Okay, Iron Lady, during the current insect wave, it is impossible for the general to directly use the reserve force. After all, in addition to the West Lihe defense line, there are other lines of defense," said a short and capable middle-aged man.
"Hmph, Lianshan, you were born in the General's Mansion, so naturally you want to be with the General. Most of us are not from Heavy Rain City, we just came here to support because of the insect tide. Now that we are here, the General's Mansion doesn't care about our lives or our lives?"
"Iron Lady, how do you speak?"
"Okay, stop arguing!"
The stable boy put the wine bowl down heavily, "Thunder Knife, tell me what's going on with the Iron-Blooded Team now. How many wounded can be returned to the team quickly?"
The burly man Lei Dao who spoke at the beginning shook his head.
"The situation is not very good."
"Our Iron-Blooded Team was formed with 256 people. Twenty-eight people died directly in the battle a few days ago. Ninety-eight people were injured, most of them minor injuries. They will be able to return to the team soon, but ten The three of them are either physically mutilated or seriously injured, and basically cannot return to the Iron-Blooded Team during this insect wave."
"Forty-one."
The stable boy looked unhappy. The insect wave had just begun, and their Iron-blooded team had lost almost one-sixth of its manpower. This was a disaster.
You must know that they are all high-level warriors, the pinnacle masters among mortals, especially these high-level warriors from Sanhe Prefecture. Everyone has more or less fought in the Sanhe Rainforest when they were young, because mortals have corvee labor, and the warriors from Sanhe Prefecture The corvee usually served in Storm Rain City for a period of time.
It can be said that each of these high-level warriors is at the pinnacle of strength and skills, and they have a lot of experience in dealing with bugs.
Although the stable boy knew that the insect tide was dangerous from the beginning, now it seems that it is not dangerous, but cruel.
"How will the daily tasks of each team of the Jagged Team be arranged these days?"
The horse boy asked again. It's not like their Iron-Blooded Team only had to do one interception mission. They also had many missions on their hands.
"Since all the injured have not returned to the team, we either need to redeploy manpower from other units or sacrifice the rest time of the team members."
"Has anything big happened these days?"
"It's not a big deal. The mission of our Iron-Blooded Team these days is to escort supplies or support the defense line. Oh, two lines of defense have been abandoned, but the defense line behind has been reinforced, but more and more people are coming to the front line. Insects, I'm afraid there will be another war waiting for us in the near future."
Ma Tong and Thunder Blade learned something about what happened when he went to Storm City to apply for support.
After a while, the stable boy basically grasped the current situation of Xili Station.
"Well, it's pretty stable."
"By the way," the stable boy suddenly asked, "What instructions does Master Immortal have during this time?"
Lei Dao and others looked at each other, and finally, Iron Lady said: "Since Master Immortal collected the batch of insect eggs on the battlefield, he returned to his yard and basically didn't come out. He was very concerned about the camp. I don’t care either.”
Ma Tong remained silent. He heard a piece of news from a good friend in Heavy Rain City. It seemed that the relationship between the Immortal Master Zhang and the Immortal Master Tianhuo who had been in charge of Heavy Rain City for more than ten years was not very good. He didn't know if this would affect the West. Lihe Defense Line, of course, there is no need to tell these gossips to make others worry.
Besides, this is a conflict between the immortal masters, and it is difficult for them to intervene.
Zhang Changkong's courtyard, incubation room.
The incubation room was a place specially used by Zhang Changkong to incubate insect eggs. It was specially designed to be a warm and humid environment, and some plants were specially transplanted inside to simulate the environment of a rain forest as much as possible.
Of course, Zhang Changkong did not study in depth what temperature, humidity, lighting conditions and other factors are needed for insect eggs to hatch. He just arranged a seemingly reasonable environment. Eggs that can hatch will naturally hatch. If they cannot hatch, they will be replaced. One way, since there is a constant source of eggs, there will always be ones that can hatch.
Fortunately, I don’t know whether it’s because the environment of the incubator is really suitable or because the eggs have strong vitality, but the success rate of hatching in the incubator is still good.
At this moment, Zhang Changkong looked at the insect eggs in the wooden boxes in the incubation room. There were about two hundred eggs, some the size of a thumb, some the size of an adult's fist, but the most numerous eggs were the size of an egg. There were about 200 eggs. More than one hundred and fifty, these are the eggs of bloodthirsty mosquitoes.
"I didn't expect to get so many insect eggs in one battle. I harvested three or four nests and that's all I harvested." Zhang Changkong had some flaws. "Unfortunately, it would be great if these were all hard-shelled beetles, even strong acid ants." It’s okay.”
It's not that Zhang Changkong is greedy. If the number of bloodthirsty mosquitoes doesn't increase, it's just too rubbish. About two high-level warriors can easily kill these more than a hundred bloodthirsty mosquitoes. It's not an exaggeration to say that they are useless snacks.
If he had time to control these hundreds of bloodthirsty mosquitoes to fight, Zhang Changkong might as well just shoot two tofu walls.
"Fortunately, I don't want these bloodthirsty mosquitoes to fight as my bugs. If there are more of them in the future, they can serve as cannon fodder for a short time and just keep them for a long time. This kind of thing is not worthy of me providing them with food." , it is very suitable as a research material. Alas, why is my major in college not biology? I just passed my high school biology score. Well, after so many years, I should have failed. It’s my kind of study. Damn it, can you come up with some research results? I think it’s a bit confusing.”
"Fortunately, these eggs are not precious goods. The biggest contribution to this research is my time. Save the rest if you can. It would be best if a miracle happens. If I don't have it, there won't be much loss."
Zhang Changkong was thinking about how to start research, and at the same time, how to reasonably squeeze out some time to do this unproductive experiment, and try to reduce the experimental expenditure as much as possible.
There was no way. The more he thought about this aspect of research, the less confident he became. This hybrid experiment was even more complicated than his attempt to control bugs.
The insect hybrids he studies are naturally not about breeding offspring from two different bugs to obtain insect eggs.
It is a more crude method based on insect eggs, extracting a little insect fluid from one insect egg and injecting it into another insect egg. In theory, this can mix the genes of the two insects, because the eggs have good Vitality, even if there is a tiny hole in the shell of the insect egg, it should probably be able to hatch.
There is no way, the scumbag Zhang Changkong has abandoned scientific thinking.
If he hadn't still had some delusions about artificially cultivating Zerg, he would have given up. This is really not what he is good at. What he is good at is cultivating immortals.
"Most of these eggs have hatched in these two days. The insect genes inside have already been formed and can be operated."
Zhang Changkong took out a syringe that he specially ordered someone else to make.
After thinking about it, it seems that it needs to be disinfected.
"The True Explanation of Burning"!
The left hand releases flames.
Zhang Changkong watched the flames dancing. Well, the temperature was not high. It was about the same as lighting a piece of firewood. He just wanted to use fire to disinfect it.
I thought again,
"What if this needle burns soft? I didn't prepare a second one."
"Forget it, the environment in which bugs live is extremely harsh. A few bacteria are nothing. What if these bacteria are also the catalyst for mutation?"
So Zhang Changkong extinguished the flame and walked towards the eggs with the syringe.
