Chapter 007: Genetic Memory

Shen Zheng ran towards the smell without hesitation.

Like a wolf that smelled the scent of prey, he chased after it with a hungry light in his eyes, and soon passed through the training ground and came to another military camp.

That was the barracks building of the fourth squad barracks. Somewhere in this building, the tempting smell continued to emanate outward, making Shen Zheng's hungry brain feel even more hungry.

"What on earth is it?" He thought as he looked at the barracks building.

There was no sentry standing guard here, only an old soldier on duty, who was sitting in the guard room reading a book, showing a silly smile from time to time, obviously attracted by the plot of the book. [

"Good opportunity!" Shen Zheng's eyes were shining, and he looked around. He crouched and sneaked over without hesitation, passed quickly under the guard room door, and got into the barracks building.

All the barracks buildings of the Wolf Fang Legion had the same layout, so for Shen Zheng, this place was no different from the building where he lived, and he could find any place he wanted with his eyes closed.

Moreover, there was always that kind of breath guiding him on the road.

Soon, he came to a door on the fifth floor. The door was very strong, a reinforced safety door made of steel plate, and the words on the doorplate were "Emergency Armoury Room".

That kind of breath was emitted from the Armoury Room, and at this moment, because of Shen Zheng's approach, it became more intense, making Shen Zheng almost crazy.

But Shen Zheng knew that the Emergency Armoury Room stored emergency weapons and other military equipment. It was a spare weapons room for emergency use when soldiers did not have time to get weapons from the Armoury in case of emergencies. It was usually strictly guarded. This thick steel door could not be opened even with a 20mm blast.

Without the key, he could not get in.

But there were exceptions, for example, the door was not locked at all.

I don't know whether it was because of carelessness or because he thought that there would be no more dangerous elements to steal in the barracks of the Wolf Fang Legion, so the emergency armory room in the barracks of the fourth team was not locked, and the door was slightly open downwards, revealing a small gap.

Hunger made Shen Zheng lose his mind. He couldn't bear it anymore, so he opened the door and rushed in. The voice-controlled light immediately lit up, illuminating the emergency armory room.

Fortunately, this is a strictly protected room, so there is no light at all, otherwise someone outside would find that the light suddenly turned on here and know that someone came in.

Without looking around blankly, his eyes were directly fixed on something like a marching bag. That thing was on the back of a member of the death squad not long ago, but now it has been placed in the emergency armory.

It was an insect egg collector that had been used on the death battlefield before. Obviously, a member of the death squad accidentally forgot a collected insect egg in the collector when sorting it out.

The feeling of hunger made him lose the power to think. He rushed over and opened the collector, and then he saw a black insect egg.

Only one.

The strong and tempting breath was emitted by this fist-sized thing. At this time, this round and black thing was freed from the restraint of the collector and began to emit a stronger breath.

In Shen Zheng's view, this was simply a peerless delicacy. He stared at the insect egg and grabbed it with both hands.

Reason told him that this was not something that could be eaten, but instinct urged him again and again-hurry up, swallow it!

Just as his will and instinct struggled to fight, a force flowed out from his fingertips and penetrated into the solid shell of the insect egg. In an instant, the shell became torn into pieces, and the liquid inside quickly turned into a purple mist, condensed into a line and sprayed towards Shen Zheng's forehead. [

A cool and comfortable feeling surrounded his forehead, and the strong feeling of hunger disappeared in an instant.

It disappeared in an instant.

"What happened?" Shen Zheng looked at the shell fragments of the insect egg in his hand and couldn't help being stunned.

At this moment, a burst of intense pain instantly swept through his body. He felt like a giant monster had drilled into his body and was constantly being stretched to the point of exploding. This feeling was not too unfamiliar to him. He had a clear experience on the day he received the insect plant.

What happened?

He bent over painfully, knelt on the ground, and continued to curl up and fall down. He curled up on the ground like a pupa, and his body kept shaking. In these waves of trembling, he felt that his body was being torn apart inch by inch, and he felt as if he had been crushed into fine pieces, and he felt that his body and soul had been decomposed into particles.

Am I going to die? Am I going to die?

He asked himself in his heart, and then he burst out with a strong will to survive. The power of the foundation-building insect that was perfectly combined with him rushed violently at that moment, surging and flowing all over his body, and instantly calmed the pain of being decomposed.

The physical pain disappeared, replaced by an extreme comfort. Shen Zheng couldn't help but lie quietly and immerse himself in this comfort. It felt like drinking a glass of cold orange juice in summer, a glass of slightly hot milk in winter, and getting fresh air in the forest when he was about to suffocate.

He was immersed in this wonderful feeling and forgot where he was.

After an unknown period of time, he was awakened by footsteps and laughter. He suddenly realized that he was in the barracks of another team, and he had entered the strictly controlled emergency armory. If he was discovered, it would be a serious crime.

This shock made him sober up immediately, and he jumped up in a hurry.

As soon as he stood firm, a surge of power quickly flowed through his body. This power was agitated from the inside out, and suddenly broke through his skin and flesh barriers and surged out of his body. He felt that a hard thing was generated on his body surface, protecting himself.

"What is this?" He raised his hands in surprise and saw the two hands exposed outside the military uniform. At this moment, the two flesh-and-blood palms had completely changed their appearance. The surface was covered with a layer of hard shell as hard as steel, just like wearing a suit of armor.

This is... Shen Zheng was stunned.

The power of insects!

That's right, it can't be wrong!

In an instant, this idea flashed in his mind - the strange scene just now was a bizarre process of insect planting, and now this change in his body is the sign of successful insect planting. He already has the power that the unformed insect in the insect egg sucked into his body should have!

How could this be? A person can actually complete insect planting with the power of the flesh? This is simply incredible!

There is no time to think about it. The footsteps and the sound of talking and laughing are getting closer and closer. He doesn't want to be sent to the military prison to wait for trial and punishment.

Collecting the shell fragments of the insect eggs, he quickly ran out of the emergency armory, ran along the corridor to the bathroom, opened the door and flashed in. Almost at that moment, there were also soldiers coming down the stairs to the corridor on the fifth floor. If Shen Zheng had been a step slower, he would have been seen by them.

The bathroom faced the back of the barracks building, where there was only a lawn and a high wall, and no sentries. Shen Zheng stood in front, looking at the height from the fifth floor to the ground, and smiled bitterly. [

"Jumping down like this is just looking for death. I was too confused. I only thought that this place could lead directly to the back of the building, but I forgot that this was the fifth floor..."

It's over. Now I can only wait to be caught.

At this moment, the power that had been surging in his body began to stir again, and it concentrated along the nerves of his whole body and penetrated into his brain. A kind of knowledge memory that seemed to be natural suddenly appeared in his mind. He felt it with surprise and found that it contained some skills that could be used after having this steel-like shell.

The genetic memory of insects!

He thought of this immediately. In his past studies and training in the military camp, he had learned such knowledge - the truly powerful ones are not ordinary insect planters, but the real supermen among the insect planters who can implant multiple insects. And among these real supermen, the most powerful ones are those who can receive the genetic memory contained in the insect eggs.

In other words, this kind of insect planter can directly absorb the fighting, survival and all the innate abilities of the Zerg without any acquired training!

At this time, what came to Shen Zheng's mind was the skills that the strong insects such as the steel beetle used to protect themselves when falling from the air - or simply put, how they jumped from a high place and survived.

"Great!" He couldn't help but tremble with excitement.

It didn't matter why he could strangely plant insects by himself. What mattered was that he not only became a superman who could implant two kinds of insects, but also had the ability to receive the genetic memory of insect eggs!

He seemed to see that the hell of suffering surrounding him was falling rapidly and far away from him, and a piece of light had appeared above, waiting for him to step in.

The footsteps were getting closer. He didn't have time to think about it. He immediately opened his pockets, saw the people and the ground below, and then jumped down.

The fall made the sound of wind in his ears. In the whimper of the wind, he quickly curled up according to the instructions of the genetic memory in his mind, letting the strong shell on his back serve as his protection. He fell straight down from the air like a ball and fell to the ground.

When his back touched the ground, a slight shock spread throughout his body, and it felt like he fell on a spring bed. He jumped up with surprise, looked at the small pit on the ground, pressed the egg fragments into it, and then buried it with soil, and immediately ran along the wall.

He consciously retracted the shell into his body. When retracting it, he clearly felt that under the hard shell, there was a soft tissue connected to his skin and flesh, like a spring, which evenly dispersed the impact on the shell and minimized the force transmitted to his body.

Strong, too strong! This is the power of the steel beetle?

This is my power?

When he returned to the barracks of his third squad, entered the barracks building, and returned to his dormitory, the other three recruits in the same dormitory had already returned and were lying on their beds busy with their own things. When they saw him coming back, the three of them showed a look of contempt and jealousy.

"Oh, genius, you finished your meal so early but came back so late, did you go somewhere to meet your lover?" A recruit teased him.

Shen Zheng didn't intend to pay attention to him. He would hear this kind of teasing several times a day.

"Humph, some people are just lucky." Another recruit said, "I thought that I joined the death squad without knowing my own ability, and there must be a return, so that we can have a bed in our room to store our sundries. I didn't expect to encounter a battlefield where both sides had died, and he also got a chance to act together with the formation leader. Bah!"

"What did you say?" Shen Zheng could tolerate teasing, but this kind of blatant curse made him unable to tolerate it anymore. He walked to the other's bed and stared at him.

"I say..." The new recruit seemed to want to pick a fight with Shen Zheng, but as soon as he sat up from the bed, his eyes met Shen Zheng's.

He felt that the other's eyes were flashing with a terrifying light that made him shudder. At that moment, he couldn't help but sit back down, trembling with fear.

"Don't mess with me." Shen Zheng's eyes swept over the other two people, and he got the same effect.

"I am no longer a useless waste!" He said secretly in his heart.