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Chapter 179 Summary of Harvests

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    Now, the Zerg is just a cunning prey for those aliens. If he wants to upgrade to a hunter, Li Ping will have to work hard for a long time, at least to completely get rid of the tail behind him.  But this is not enough. Although he is studying biology, Li Ping still knows a little about other technologies. If he wants to make breakthroughs in science and technology, theoretical progress is necessary, especially mathematics. When he was on earth, he  I have heard many people say that mathematics is the foundation of all subjects.  Just like his biology students, many aspects of genetics require the help of mathematics to thoroughly study.  But under the current circumstances, how can you ask Li Ping to study mathematics?  Although they have self-awareness, fundamentally those queens and ship bugs are still bugs, and it is too difficult for them to study mathematics.  From this point of view, we have to say that human beings have excellent talents.  After so many years, the mathematics level of those queens has not improved much.  "If it weren't for the weapons and equipment "contributed" by the pirates and mercenaries, it would be shameful to see what level the Zerg are now.  Fortunately, the silicon crystal has always been very powerful. As long as I do experiments near it, I will always bring some surprises to myself.  After studying genes for a long time, Li Ping discovered that his understanding of genes was only superficial. If we use computer technology as an analogy, what Li Ping now masters is only the technology of programming in C language, and he only knows which genes have  What are they used for, and which genes are combined together for what purpose.  As for the use of individual bases, how these genes work, and how these genes are combined to produce complex life movements, he has no clue at all, just like ordinary programmers who rarely know the binary language used by computers.  To study the same thing, there are so many bases and so many secrets. Li Ping, who has not had a peaceful journey, really has no time to study.  Just like now, after just finishing the sneaking thing, Li Ping naturally didn't dare to waste time and ran very fast along the way. Anyway, he had a lot of silicon crystals in stock. After thinking about it, he didn't feel bad about consuming a little. This thing  Just like money, there must be an in and an out.  It wasn¡¯t until after three hyperspace voyages that the aliens behind him couldn¡¯t catch up for a while that Li Ping found a star system to hide.  After hiding, he naturally looked at the loot. Even though he had figured it out now, Li Ping still drooled shamefully when faced with such a large piece of silicon crystal.  In the core storage bag on the mothership, Li Ping threw himself directly into the pile of silicon crystals like a greedy uncle.  The faint blue silicon crystal is much more beautiful than the sapphire. It emits a faint blue light and illuminates Li Ping's face blue and green, which is very strange.  After finishing his addiction, Li Ping finally returned to normal, but the smile on his face never disappeared.  Looking at the silicon crystal that was as tall as a person in front of her, even Louise felt a little excited.  "Master, the silicon crystals collected this time reached 24.8 cubic meters." "Haha, this is twice the size of all the silicon crystals we collected before." Li Ping was very happy now, so he put off all the research work.  Finally.  ¡°It¡¯s a pity that our time was too tight and we only collected less than 20% of the total reserves.¡± Even Louise felt regretful giving up Nebula, which had more reserves.  After hearing this, the corners of Li Ping's mouth curled up even more. You must know that although the reserves of the entire galaxy are large, only less than 60% of them can be mined. In addition, the mining costs are too high, and in the end it is worth mining.  It¡¯s just over 30%.  During this trip, I stole half of the valuable silicon crystals. I wonder if the aliens will go crazy when they find out?  "It's a pity that those aliens have to live to deal with the bugs they left for them before they can discover those suddenly "missing" silicon crystals.  But the bugs alone were enough to keep them busy.  "It doesn't matter. Let's leave those to the aliens. Once we get rid of them, we will have plenty of opportunities." Just like oil, energy grabbing can be said to be the most cruel battle. Either you die or I die. Without energy, there will be no energy.  It is possible to survive in this vast universe.  "Of course I know, Master. If that cheating detector hadn't been so secretive, how could we have been discovered. If we hadn't been discovered, we could have collected those silicon crystals." Li Ping was quite calm at first.  But after hearing the word "cheating" pop out of Louise's mouth, she was a little surprised.  You must know that Louise's body is the result of the fusion of mosquito and computer system, so like a computer, the words are often very rigorous and data-oriented.  But Li Ping has never heard Louise say such an emotional word as "cheating". Today is the first time. It seems that Louise is really worried about those silicon crystals.  "Hehehe," Li Ping chuckled.?? did not answer, "Okay, don't worry about those things, sort out the current technology and prepare for overall evolution!" "Yes, Master." After all, it is not a human being. Although she cares a little, Louise doesn't care.  Like humans, she will always have worries. For her, this is nothing more than closing a program.  Since the last time they evolved and were bumped into by aliens, the Zerg have not systematically evolved once. This time, we just took this rare opportunity to transform some technologies into genes, which are similar to those of Zerg genes.  The modifications come together to create a big evolution.  As the voyage mileage increased, Li Ping gradually felt that the energy provided by nuclear fusion alone was a bit stretched. Every time they calculated the route, Li Ping and Louise had to make careful calculations for fear of insufficient high-energy fat.  So in this evolution, Li Ping mentioned the use of silicon crystals as the first priority in research.  Even though there are not many silicon crystals, there are still a lot of small pieces. It is not that silicon crystals are used as the main energy source. A small piece of silicon crystal is enough for a shipworm in emergency situations.  ¡°And it¡¯s not like Li Ping doesn¡¯t have sources of silicon crystals. As long as he can get out of these pastoral star areas, he will have more silicon crystals when he attacks a small mineral vein.  Among the information Li Ping obtained, there are many approximate locations of small silicon crystal veins.  Those mineral veins are located in desolate galaxies far away from the center of cosmic civilization. The location is basically kept secret. You can know it with a little search. Li Ping, who has obtained many space pirate memories, naturally knows the approximate location.  Just like the oil fields on the earth, they are controlled by powerful forces. Even if the location is exposed, no one dares to grab it.  But the Zerg are different. Those civilizations are enemies to Li Ping, and anything that can make the enemy suffer is a good thing.  When the time comes, they can grab a handful and run away, and there is nothing they can do about themselves.  The universe is so big, no matter how many alien civilizations there are, they cannot occupy many galaxies.  In the memories of those space pirates and mercenaries, except for the more lively galaxies, at least half of the general galaxies have not been explored, and it is very common for thousands of new civilizations to pop up every day.  Not to mention those desolate galaxies. Except for a few routes that serve as highways, other places are basically undeveloped.  When the time comes to hide in those places, what can those alien civilizations do to the Zerg, no matter how advanced their technology is?  So Li Ping is not worried about future development at all. In his opinion, instead of worrying about the future now, it is better to spend more time and energy summarizing combat experience.  You know, the Zerg had fought a lot before.  To sum up combat experience, we must first look at the performance of each ethnic group.  Starting from the most basic worker bees, all the way to the shipworms, all the groups that hatched during this period were moved out.  Worker bees perform well, work hard, and can basically adapt to most planetary environments. They are also cheap enough.  Although the Alien Mosquito is small, it is the best choice for supplementary reconnaissance and emergency blockade of space orbits.  Although bellworms are cannon fodder, they are cheap and hatch quickly. It is still very impressive to produce tens of millions or hundreds of millions each time.  The cockroach is so-so, but it has gradually fallen behind when facing these mercenaries. The main reason is that the carapace is not good enough and needs to be upgraded.  The attack methods were also a bit weak, so Li Ping decided to move the plasma cannon up. Now this miniaturized technology can be done with hard work.  Hydralisks are the best and are considered the mainstay of the planetary race.  Even the army is not afraid of facing those alien mercenaries. Apart from the routine upgrading of muscle tissue, there is no need to upgrade anything else.  Like the Hydralisk, the Flying Mantis is the backbone of aerial power. When flying insects cannot be mass-produced, they still hold up the Zerg's dominance in the universe.  Needless to say, tank bugs have large tonnage and heavy firepower, but their carapace also faces threats. After all, this thing is also a threat to any alien.  Flying insects are also good, but like tank insects, they are expensive!  Not only is it expensive, but the hatching speed is extremely slow.  But it has to be said that flying insects are now a rare group of Zerg that can effectively threaten alien spacecraft.  Not to mention the plasma bugs, it was thanks to them that the space pirate fleet was eliminated in that battle.  Especially after plasma-type anti-air colonies and plasma bugs can transform into each other, plasma bugs can be said to be the orbital-level weapons of the Zerg.  But other than these, nothing else showed up. The Cannon Scorpion didn't come out, and a few giant scythe dragonflies hatched, but they were only used as transport planes.  The flying dragon could not fly in space before, so it did not hatch.  The lurking bugs hatched during the battle in the Milky Way, but in the end the open space there was pushed together, and the lurking bugs did not play any role.  "However, Li Ping has no intention of destroying them. Anyway, if they don't hatch them, it won't waste much resources just by adding genes. But if they encounter any special situations in the future, they might be able to deal with them.    After the meeting, the Zerg summarized a lot of experience, which was gained from actual combat and played a great role in improving the strength of the Zerg.  Although it is not a major evolution, it covers such a wide area that it still takes a few weeks. Li Ping is not afraid of hiding here. The route is so long. Who knows where he exited the hyperspace voyage?  So I was too lazy to worry about other things and just researched my own.  Since the war with aliens, it is impossible to count how many Zergs have hatched and died. Through the Zerg core network, Li Ping has collected a large amount of information, some of which are about casualties and some about resources.  There is also a lot of information collected about various details of the entire operation of the Zerg.  Based on this information, Li Ping can know which aspects of the Zerg are running well and which aspects are lacking.  After the Queen and the ship bugs analyzed a lot of information, Li Ping knew that the Zerg's worst performance at present was defense!  For the current carapace, the laser cannon commonly used by alien mercenaries still does a lot of damage to it, especially for large targets like shipworms.  As for Li Ping, as long as the shipworm is fine, everything else is easy.  After wandering in the universe for so many years, Li Ping has collected a lot of strange substances and elements. Many of them have very weird or even weird physical and chemical properties. These things will be left to Isa to study. It is estimated that by then  There will be many organic substances with miraculous functions.  The modifications to the combat group have all been made according to Maggie. It is responsible for the martial arts. It is expected that the results will be achieved soon under the leadership of a group of queens. These things are not difficult for them.  The shipworms are naturally left to Crusu, an old subordinate, to improve themselves. After all, this is their old profession.  As for Parker, without detection technology that exceeds the speed of light, he can only use it as an astronomical telescope to supplement star map information.  Li Ping and Louise are naturally working on the most difficult technology, which is the technology to utilize silicon crystal!  Although the Zerg have been able to utilize the energy and matter in silicon crystals a long time ago, it was just a stopgap measure, too wasteful, and the gap between effectively using silicon crystals is still too big.  If silicon crystals were used directly like this, Li Ping would really be reluctant to part with it. It would be such a waste.  He hoped to conduct a surprise experiment with Louise during this period to see if there was any progress.  If you want to use the energy in silicon crystal, you must first let it release energy.  The way for the silicon crystal to release energy, as far as the current Zerg is concerned, is to rely on life energy.  As long as the silicon crystal is stimulated with a sufficient concentration of life energy, the silicon crystal can give back more energy, accompanied by the emission of a large number of alpha particles.  These energies are very similar to life energy, and the two can be quickly assimilated. This is one of Li Ping's trump cards.  Through the memories of space thieves and mercenaries, Li Ping knew that aliens basically rely on other equipment to extract the energy and matter contained in silicon crystals. Not only is the equipment complicated, but the process of extracting energy is also cumbersome.  This is similar to the petrochemical industry on earth. Although the only energy that is mined is oil, it can be turned into gasoline, diesel, lubricating oil, paraffin, asphalt, etc. after undergoing complex processes such as fractionation and condensation.  of useful products.  "If their aliens want to make full use of silicon crystals, they also need huge and complex equipment to convert and produce them. After a series of processes, they will turn into light ion fuel, heavy ion fuel, various alloy and non-alloy materials and a large number of other products.  Although the alien technology is advanced, it will definitely take a lot of time to complete such a set of procedures. This time is enough for the Zerg to extract a large amount of energy from the silicon crystal.  As long as silicon crystals are collected, any insect nest hatched can quickly absorb the energy in the silicon crystals. It can also absorb some high-energy alpha particles incidentally and obtain a certain amount of material supplement.  It's a pity that the Zerg's utilization rate of silicon crystal energy and particles has been very low before. The energy is about 6%, and the particles are only about 1%. If it weren't for this utilization rate, Li Ping would have immediately destroyed all the ships.  The insect has been replaced with silicon crystal.  There is also the unlucky "space jump" spacecraft. Its wreckage has been collected by the Zerg. Many results have been researched intermittently. With the tissue gene that absorbs alpha particles obtained in the forbidden area of ????the earth, the utilization rate can be  A little higher is a little higher.  Li Ping had studied this kind of tissue back then. Now, in the center of his own body, there is a layer of this kind of tissue wrapped around a silicon crystal. Although the utilization rate is not high, the penetration ability of alpha particles is very weak, and there is no  As for penetrating this layer of tissue and damaging the brain tissue.  However, the time was tight and there was no experience, so now it has caused some problems in Li Ping's biological brain.  Originally, regardless of nuclear fusion or nuclear fission, the total charge remains unchanged, but when it comes to silicon crystal, the conservation of charge is completely broken.    Originally, the silicon crystal itself was not charged, but it emitted large positively charged ¦Á particles. Now these particles are accumulated in Li Ping's body, causing it to carry a large amount of positive charge.  This results in the mothership always carrying a large amount of positive electricity outside its carapace, causing a lot of unnecessary trouble.  If there is any big progress in the research, Li Ping also plans to upgrade his body.  A week passed quickly, the experience was summed up, and the areas that needed improvement were also improved. Almost all the high-level consciousnesses of the Zerg were summoned by Li Ping to do research on silicon crystals.  During this period, Li Ping learned through the core network that the entire mercenary force was attracted to the group of Xingyun, which gave the Zerg a precious period of peace.  So Li Ping simply summoned all the top Zerg leaders to take advantage of this rare time to tackle a technical problem.  Although the war has made the Zerg evolve more aggressively, it cannot solve the fundamental shortcomings of the Zerg, and that is theory!  So far, it can be said that there is no theoretical research on the Zerg at all. The queens can study genes, or cultivate individual groups.  But when it comes to research theory, the abstract thinking of these queens is not enough, which makes Li Ping often sigh.  After studying together this time, Li Ping discovered that the theoretical scores of these queens were extremely poor.  For the Queen, the formula "1+1" is completely incomprehensible to them.  Although I know that one shipworm plus one shipworm equals two shipworms, I cannot understand the purely theoretical one plus one apart from the real thing.  There are also multiplication and division. The Queen only knows how to use it like ordinary people, but she is completely confused. Even they only know that a shipworm can do it after processing an invisible and intangible thing called "multiplication".  There will be two, but what makes it difficult for them to understand is that there is actually still one shipworm in space. What is the significance of this?  The queens were very puzzled. One is one, two is two. Add one and subtract one, multiply two and divide two. No matter how you do it, the number of shipworms remains the same. One  Or one, two or two!  ;
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