How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 82

Perpetually frozen, it doesn't know what has happened to the collectors who are pinned on it to obtain the right to live in the ice-melting area of ​​the hive.

"Hurry up! Dig quickly! Work hard! We must dig out all the ice here today! Those who don't work don't get food, and the more you work, the more you get. Do you understand?"

Several foragers holding stone daggers in their tentacles swayed their fins, standing steadily in the icy water, and the object of their yelling was the group of foragers holding round stones.

These collectors with rounded stones endured the cold like workers and pounded on the ice. After receiving the yells from the holders of stone daggers, these collectors pounded on the ice harder.

This change also started from the war among collectors. In that war, the victors not only learned the "selfishness" that should have been extremely difficult to get in touch with, but also had the right to live in the melting ice area of ​​the hive.

However, they soon discovered that the number of collectors was still too large, and the food in the melting ice area was not enough to support all the victors to survive.

At this time, the victors are faced with two choices, continue to fight to reduce the number of individuals, or find another way out.

Just after the battle ended, the victors knew very well that their victory was just a fluke, not to mention that those who survived were all individuals with outstanding combat skills among the gatherers. You must win by yourself.

Those who cherish life are precisely those who were once close to death. This also applies to collectors. No collector dares to provoke a full-scale chaos again, because they will be attacked immediately.

They chose to find another way out.

By chance, a collector smashed the ice around the melting zone, and a high density of microorganisms entered the melting zone from the ice.

The hive has established a wonderful ecosystem on this ice-covered surface, not only limited to the microorganisms living in the ice-melting area, but also new types of microorganisms in the ice layer around the edge of the ice-melting area.

Just as the initial attacking microorganisms allowed the microorganisms to expand to the entire planet by slaughtering the autotrophic microorganisms, the mass killing of microorganisms by the collectors also forced some microorganisms to hide in the ice to continue their life.

This new type of microorganism relies on a small amount of heat energy in the melting ice area to maintain life, and reproduces in large numbers in the absence of natural enemies.

Gatherers found new food sources.

So the question is again, who will destroy the ice at the edge of the melting zone?

Destroying the ice is a labor-intensive task, but the collectors who have learned to be selfish don't want to do this kind of work. As the winners, they should enjoy the food in the ice-melting area. This is the point of contradiction.

Then, they came up with a compromise.

The victors deserve their food, let the non-victors do the laborious work, and all opinions will be balanced.

The new collectors were bred asexually, and their number was equal to that of the victors, but this time it was not for the purpose of expanding the population. These were all their 'slaves', and the victors were all slave owners.

These newly-emerged individuals do not have the genetic memory of the original body, and this is all due to the achievements of the collectors who opened up the microcosmic level under the leadership of Perpetual.

When they were first born, the victors told them that they were born to serve the victors.

As a result, the 'god' was forgotten, a privileged class emerged among the collectors, and the 'rights' were unlocked.

The victors set a rule for those laborers—work more, get more, work less, get less, and die if you don’t work.

More work pays more, that is, if you collect a number of microorganisms from the smashed ice layer that can meet the food intake of more than two collectors, you can get a food that can fill your stomach.

Less work and less gain means that the number of microorganisms collected by smashing the ice layer is lower than the standard of collecting more for more work. In this case, labor can only get half-full food.

Tasting the taste of hunger, in order to fill his stomach, labor will naturally work hard to smash the ice layer to obtain a sufficient number of microorganisms.

If you don't work, you will die, literally, if you don't participate in labor, you will be executed immediately.

'Selfishness' is not something that can be resolved by mutual understanding. The life field channel only makes it difficult for 'selfishness' to appear in the field of vision of the collectors, but it cannot eliminate 'selfishness'.

The victors can feel the fatigue of labor, but they will not pity labor, they will only watch from afar, thinking—fortunately, I am not them, I don't need to suffer like this.

Laborers can also feel the comfortable life of the victors. They are very envious, but any individual resistance among them that tries to gain status will be suppressed immediately. Compared with laborers who have no combat experience, victors who have experienced chaos are more aware of What is the key point of the forager, how to kill the same race faster and more effectively, and the weapon is sharper than the round stone.

After several failed resistances, the function of channel sharing has further stabilized the class power of the victors. Laborers also have their own selfishness, and they don't want to die.

The small society in the melting ice zone has been maintained like this for a long time.

Over time, the victors discovered a curious thing, that there was a surplus of collected food, which was skimped from labor, and that the microbial biomass mined from the ice was greater than that of the victors. More than expected, they can't eat so much food.

So, there is a winner's proposal-to distribute food to the collectors who need it.

However, the victors face a problem, that is, if the food is distributed to the laborers, the long-standing rules will be broken, and no one knows what changes will be triggered at that time.

Will the well-fed laborers raise the flag of rebellion again?

The victors were not without casualties, but their numbers were relatively small compared to labor.

After weighing again and again, the victors bred a new batch of collectors, but the number of these collectors was very small, and they were assigned a special task, which was to urge the laborers to work, and when appropriate, they would be called Whip allowed.

The middle class, which specializes in attracting hatred for the lower-level laborers, was born. As the winner of the top class, it retreated behind the scenes and served as an effective enforcement force after the rules were violated.

A similar situation occurs in the ice-melting area of ​​each hive. The distance is too far to cause the channels to be connected. The ice-melting area established by each hive is like an isolated island, but the same thing happens by coincidence. , the strong oppress the weak, the strong exploit the weak, and the strong rule the weak.

Maybe... this is the so-called necessity.