With Ling Dang's understanding of genes, it was impossible for him to make a species with the ability to copy genes and steal the genetic advantages of other creatures.
However, if there were already biological samples with the ability to copy genes in the world, the difficulty would be greatly reduced. He would be able to succeed after repeated experiments.
The water bear had such an ability. It had the genes of tens of thousands of other creatures in its body, making it the most tenacious creature on Earth.
Ling Dang said, "According to my estimation, it will take about three billion times to make the Internal Combustion Beast successfully copy genes."
"In other words, if you modify it every second for a hundred years, you'll definitely succeed …"
Bai Ge was speechless. "I can modify a hundred Internal Combustion Beasts in one second at most. This time can be shortened to a year, but I can't just do nothing for a year."
"Yes, the probability is very low … but you can use the BGM to enhance your luck," Ling Dang said.
Bai Ge was stunned. He immediately turned his head to look at Scoop, who kept hitting him.
He saw that the spoon was persevering and never stopped.
This was the result of his first luck enhancement …
Ling Dang said, "Don't worry. When you faced Scoop, there were only two possibilities if you used the BGM. Either it was you, or it wasn't you … That's why I told you not to use it … "
"But it's different this time. The probability of success is low, but no matter how low the probability is, there's no difference between the probability of success on the first try and the probability of success on the nth try."
"If your luck is very high during a modification and you use the BGM, you might succeed in one try."
Bai Ge said, "What if I'm unlucky most of the time?"
"It's just a failure if the modification fails. In any case, the result of a failed modification is a genetic breakdown. We rely on a large amount of materials to achieve this result. Even if there's a worse result, it'll be the responsibility of the modified Internal Combustion Beast. It has nothing to do with you," Ling Dang said.
Bai Ge nodded and decided to do it.
This was because this was an opportunity to create the embryonic form of the Zerg race. Once a macroscopically powerful creature possessed the ability to steal the superior genes of other creatures, it would become a super species that would grow stronger as it came into contact with more creatures.
Of course, this was still a long way from the real insectoids. In short, the new Internal Combustion Beast alone was enough to give the Mercury a hard time.
Bai Ge used the pure black stone tablet to create two thousand new Internal Combustion Beasts.
Ling Dang transferred all of them to Mercury and began her training.
When the Quicksilver people saw the terrifying new Internal Combustion Beast, they were caught unprepared and their armaments were lazy. Therefore, a large number of people died.
The new Internal Combustion Beasts quickly established nests in forests, deserts, glaciers, and even cities.
Under the hive mind, they ate and reproduced in large quantities. In just three days, their numbers increased from two thousand to one billion.
Near the nest, the plants quickly decayed, forming a decaying ground that released methane on the ground.
There were also corpses of all sorts of creatures piled up on top of it, covering everything on the ground and continuously expanding.
Although they looked powerful, Bai Ge could actually destroy a nest of them by blowing air.
This was because oxygen was the natural enemy of these nests. Bai Ge could directly blow up a nest with a large amount of oxygen.
Even simple oxygen could do this, let alone the Mercury people, who were not inferior to Earth's civilization.
After being defeated in the early stages, the Mercury people quickly realized this and began to mass produce combustion accelerants to destroy these creatures.
Of course, this also caused great damage to their living environment because they were more resistant to fire than Earth. Large and specially made oxygen tanks were strategic weapons … The same was true for chlorine and fluorine tanks.
Combustion accelerants were a great invention of the Mercury civilization that was comparable to explosives. It allowed them to enter the era of thermal weapons.
It was also because of this that nuclear fusion was still not invented …
Even so, with the strength of the Mercury civilization, they could still destroy the Internal Combustion Beasts.
However, the war with the Internal Combustion Beasts only lasted for a few days before they couldn't take it anymore and started to defend themselves.
Because of the war, many of their beautiful cities and great wonders were severely damaged.
The Mercury people's war weariness soared rapidly. They knew that they couldn't negotiate with the Internal Combustion Beasts, so they chose to persuade Ling Dang.
"Ambassador Ling Dang! Hurry up and destroy these monsters! "
"We don't want technology anymore!"
"These disgusting creatures should have gone extinct a long time ago. Why do we still have them?"
Many requests were sent to Ling Dang, but Ling Dang was a resolute person. How could he be persuaded?
"You clearly have the strength to destroy them. Why are you begging me?" Ling Dang asked.
"But the price is too high!" said the Mercury people.
If they wanted to destroy the new Internal Combustion Beasts, the Mercury people would have to pay the price of destroying their cities, stagnating their production, losing their population, and collapsing their economy.
Countless of their treasured works of art would be destroyed in the war. All these things made the Mercury people's hearts ache.
In response, Ling Dang said, "I won't take them back. You will have to deal with them yourselves. Kill the Internal Combustion Beasts as soon as possible … This is my last advice."
Actually, as long as they hardened their hearts and quickly destroyed the Internal Combustion Beasts, these losses were bearable. Although it sounded powerful, any small-scale war on Earth would have such a price.
Compared to the competition for survival, these costs were actually negligible.
However, the Mercury people didn't want to accept these costs. They only wanted to pin their hopes on Ling Dang. As long as Ling Dang took them back, there would be no need to fight the war.
After Ling Dang told them clearly that he wouldn't take them back, the Mercury people still wanted to avoid the war and continued to persuade Ling Dang.
As a result, they seriously delayed the war.
On Virgo, Ling Dang said, "Lord, as a civilization with good technology, even if we strengthen the Internal Combustion Beasts, we can still easily destroy them. However, the Mercury people don't have the courage to fight. Every day they waste, they will have to face more and more races. It is estimated that in three days, the number of Internal Combustion Beasts will increase to 60 billion … In order to get enough food to feed themselves, they will go even crazier. "
Bai Ge said, "They could have finished it quickly, but they insisted on dragging it out until Hell Mode …"
If they didn't want to pay a small price, they would have to pay a bigger price.
In front of the overwhelming horde of beasts with rocket accelerators, the Mercury people could only fight back and regain their long-forgotten spirit.
"Don't let them be destroyed … After all, I promised to give them the right to live. They are too stupid to be saved. Extradite some of them to me, I will raise them …" Bai Ge said.
"Don't worry, Lord. Any race under the pressure of life and death will burst out with amazing potential, especially a civilization with such rich cultural heritage. They will definitely have a technological explosion," Ling Dang said.
…
On the fourth day after leaving Earth, Virgin had entered forty-five star systems in succession.
These star systems were all entrusted to Bai Ge, and now there were a total of fifty star systems supplying energy.
Most of them were red dwarfs, and the rest were yellow dwarfs.
Logically speaking, after four consecutive days of jumping, he should have found more star systems than this.
However, he was unlucky. During this period, the spaceship had a total of thousands of malfunctions! It took a lot of time to reorganize halfway.
Sometimes, as soon as the spaceship appeared, it happened to be in the orbit of a planet and 'collided' on the spot.
Sometimes, when it entered a star that was in a highly active period, the spaceship's communication system, positioning system, and detection system were all damaged.
Even something as unlucky as appearing directly in the core of a gaseous planet had happened …
In addition to these spaceship accidents, the body of the spaceship often spontaneously malfunctioned, or the ladies suddenly started quarreling, broke through the spaceship's outer shell, and rushed outside to PK.
Of course, the most unlucky one was Scoop. Every time he jumped, Scoop would teleport to Bai Ge's jump location, and then fall to knock on Bai Ge.
However, there was a low-probability event where Scoop did not appear nearby, but just happened to teleport outside of the spaceship.
Then, under the irresistible knock, he would casually pierce through the spaceship …
After all, Scoop's teleportation tracking point was random. As long as he could knock a second time one second earlier, it did not matter how long the distance between the two hits was. After all, the damage was the same.
Therefore, under these unlucky events, Bai Ge could only laugh bitterly and silently bear it.
Who asked him to keep the background music on all this time?
In order to create the Zerg, Bai Ge often kept the background music on with nine times the luck buff, just waiting for a stroke of good luck.
Although in the process, there were many lucky moments, such as the discovery of a habitable planet with a similar environment to Earth, the discovery of a super large mineral planet with excessive heavy elements, and the discovery of a second low-level civilization whose productivity was so low that it was not even as good as the Shang Dynasty.
He obtained precious data from a massive white dwarf, and then the technological level took a big step forward.
Although there were occasional good luck, most of it was still bad luck.
As a result, he still had not succeeded in giving the Internal Combustion Beast the ability to steal genes.
A huge warehouse was specially set aside for the Internal Combustion Beast in Virgin, allowing it to reproduce in order to provide a large amount of materials.
The Internal Combustion Beast could reproduce as much as it wanted because Bai Ge consumed the materials too quickly.
There were several times when he accidentally killed all the Internal Combustion Beasts on the spaceship.
"Chi …" Suddenly, an Internal Combustion Beast that was illuminated by the pure black stone tablet did not die. It calmly looked at Bai Ge.
"Success," Ling Dang reminded.
Bai Ge immediately turned off the background music and carefully looked at the Internal Combustion Beast that had the ability to steal genes from other creatures.
There seemed to be no change, but it seemed that its reaction speed had decreased a lot, and it looked a little sluggish.
Bai Ge created many more creatures on Earth and let him try to capture them.
From dinosaurs to birds to felines, the Internal Combustion Beast had no interest in hunting any of them.
Bai Ge frowned and said, "Is it a vegetarian?"
Soon, the creatures on Earth died in the oxygen-free environment.
At this time, the Internal Combustion Beast moved. It crouched on the corpses of the creatures on Earth and began to excrete.
Its excrement easily rotted the corpses, and it began to eat a little of the mushy remains.
"This …" Bai Ge was speechless.
Ling Dang said, "The oxygen in the bodies of the creatures on Earth is poisonous to the Internal Combustion Beast … Although it's fine to eat a little, it's obviously very smart. It chose to eat after the creatures died."
After the Internal Combustion Beast was full, it moved a little and began to reproduce. Hundreds of thousands of rice grain-sized eggs were discharged in large quantities.
After that, it continued to eat. The whole process was neither fast nor slow, leisurely and leisurely.
Bai Ge checked with the pure black stone tablet and found that the Internal Combustion Beast's genes did not change.
"Doesn't it think that the genes of the creatures on Earth have an advantage? That's right. In an oxygen-free environment, it instinctively gave up on stealing the genes of creatures that need oxygen … "Bai Ge said.
As he spoke, Bai Ge slowly injected oxygen.
Soon, the Internal Combustion Beast noticed the change in the environment. The oxygen level was slowly increasing.
This was a strengthened Internal Combustion Beast. Its exoskeleton could help it prevent oxygen from seeping into its skin.
Bai Ge looked at it. The Internal Combustion Beast's genes still did not change. It was still silently reproducing.
"It doesn't seem to be working …" Bai Ge said.
Ling Dang said, "No, Lord, it has changed."
The genes of the first batch of offspring were very different. Bai Ge grabbed one and sent it into the brain hole for analysis. Soon, Ling Dang said, "The first batch of offspring has a stronger bite force …"
The Internal Combustion Beast's reproduction speed was extremely fast. Its offspring's genes were all different. It was as if it wanted to give birth to all kinds of offspring …
"The second generation's muscle strength coordination is perfect."
"The third generation has wings, which can make up for the Internal Combustion Beast's lack of agility and energy saving when flying."
"The fourth generation's Internal Combustion Beast can adapt to oxygen. This actually increases its internal combustion power."
Bai Ge raised his eyebrows. It had succeeded. It had stolen the genes of foreign creatures.
It could not directly change itself. It could only pass on the advantageous genes that it felt should be absorbed to its offspring.
Because it could not distinguish which genes had which effect, its offspring had a high mortality rate. Many deformed children were born, and it would not take long for them to die young.
However, it could not stop its reproduction speed. Its growth period was very short, only three days.
In order to distinguish which genes were worth preserving, it used its large number of offspring as test subjects. Through exhaustive selection, only the truly advantageous genes would be passed on for each future generation to inherit.
"Give it my genes … and then continue to produce all the creatures on Mercury and Earth from ancient times to the present to feed it …"
Although it could not obtain an absolute ability, Bai Ge had the genes to survive in space.
Once this was replicated, the Internal Combustion Beast would not be limited to the atmosphere. It would gradually become a space race.
"Although it is still far from the Zerg, it can already be called one."
"A half-finished Zerg."
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