Chapter 002: Zoophytes

Langya Town Guard, in front of the Langya Legion barracks.

"Shen Zheng? The genius with an adaptability value of 98?" After receiving Shen Zheng's registration card, the old soldier who was welcoming the new recruits immediately widened his eyes, stood up hurriedly, and saluted him, which made Shen Zheng at a loss for what to do.

"Genius, it's that genius!" There were hundreds of young soldiers who came to report. Someone nearby heard this and immediately surrounded him.

"Oh my God, it's you!" Some young soldiers shouted and tried to get close to Shen Zheng. "Remember me? We were tested in the same queue that day!"

"Genius, sign for me!" Some young soldiers shouted excitedly and handed over paper and pen. [

"Sign for me too!" Immediately, many young soldiers rushed up, including more than a dozen female soldiers, looking at Shen Zheng with ambiguous eyes.

Shen Zheng was a little excited. He was a little worker who was unknown before, but now he suddenly seemed to have become a superstar. This strong contrast made Shen Zheng feel a little dizzy.

"Hmph, what's so great about that!" In contrast to the enthusiasm of the crowd, another tall boy snorted coldly. "No matter how high the fitness value is, it's useless. It depends on which kind of insect it is adapted to! If it's not a combat insect, it's still a waste!"

"Hey, isn't this the genius with an fitness value of 86?" The young soldiers turned their heads to look at the man, and then someone laughed.

"Are you jealous nakedly?"

"That's right. Even a fool knows that the higher the fitness value, the easier it is to complete the fusion with the combat insect. He is obviously jealous."

"No, I think it's a curse. Genius, you'd better go cool off! Jealous of a true genius with an fitness value of 98? Bah!"

The tall boy blushed, glared at Shen Zheng hatefully, handed his registration card to the veteran at the registration office, and went into the base without looking back.

Shen Zheng looked at his back, and suddenly felt a little uneasy.

Yes, he was right, but it was useless to have a high fitness value. The key is to see which kind of insect it is adapted to.

The power of human beings cannot be compared with that of insects, but human wisdom makes up for it. As early as more than 2,000 years ago on Earth, humans who developed "insect technology" had already used powerful combat insects to strengthen themselves.

The specific method is to implant the eggs of a certain type of insect into one's own body, and through special technological means, fuse them with one's own cells, and finally possess the power of this insect, which is called "insect planting".

Not everyone can accept "insect planting". Only those with super physiques have this possibility. The better the physique, the more perfect the insect planting can be. This degree of perfection is expressed in numbers, which is the adaptation value of insect planting.

The higher the adaptation value, the easier it is to complete the insect planting and the easier it is to integrate with the combat insects.

There are many types of combat insects, but there are roughly two types-melee and long-range. Melee insects can give insect planters great melee power and powerful melee weapons, and long-range insects can give insect planters the ability to create and launch spikes, corrosive liquids, and even flames, ice, and light.

Only those who can implant these two types of insects can be considered truly powerful warriors, "supermen" that ordinary people can rely on.

Will I really be that peerless genius?

Shen Zheng couldn't help but feel uneasy. With this uneasiness, he signed for others and entered the base with everyone else. In a corner of the base's field, three hundred young soldiers gathered together to form a square.

"Don't be nervous." An officer stood in front of the square and smiled at them. "Although you are only qualified in theory, no one with qualified fitness value has ever completed the insect implantation. So you are also qualified in practice. Next, we will implant the insect, and I hope you can complete it with a relaxed mood." [

"Yes!" The young soldiers said in unison.

Soon, they were divided into ten groups and taken into the laboratory in the base building. There, military doctors in white coats were busy preparing insect implantation instruments and insect egg boxes.

"Genius, look! Those are the egg boxes of combat bugs!" A young soldier whispered beside Shen Zheng, pointing to the rows of hexagonal boxes on the metal rack in front of the wall.

"Don't call me that." Shen Zheng was a little embarrassed.

"Don't be modest, the adaptability value is 98, which has never been seen before." "Yes, you are a real genius." "It is a great honor for us to plant bugs with you!"

The young recruits around him talked at once.

"Ah!" At this moment, the first recruit to receive the insect planted screamed in pain, scaring everyone.

Sitting on the insect plant chair, the recruit who was tightly bound was struggling desperately, but he could not get rid of the restraint of the chair. The military doctor in a white coat looked at him expressionlessly, gently pressing a few buttons on the computer control panel on the side to adjust the various values.

The injection needle connected to a large transparent tube was firmly stuck in the wrist of the recruit. The wrist was fixed very tightly, and the injection needle would never fall off because of the recruit's struggle.

At the other end of the tube was a fully enclosed instrument, more than two meters high, that looked like a giant pupa. A hexagonal egg box was placed in the instrument, and a round egg had been extracted. After being compressed and softened, it flowed out of the tube like liquid and was slowly injected into the recruit's body.

"A guy with an adaptability value of only 64 is really troublesome." The military doctor muttered unhappily while adjusting the computer.

Soon after, the eggs were completely injected into the recruit's body, and the recruit's muscles immediately tensed up.

"Turn on the energy field adjustment." A senior military doctor directed the military doctors to get busy. Soon, with the insect-planting chair as the center, a circular light shield was quickly generated, wrapping the recruit in it, and the recruit's trembling and struggle gradually slowed down, and finally calmed down completely.

"Success." A military doctor nodded at the phantom light screen of the computer. "We have one more melee fighter."

"Show your strength." Another military doctor smiled and closed the circular light shield and opened the restraints on the chair.

The recruit stood up in confusion, and suddenly shook his body twice, then shook his hand.

Something immediately broke through his sleeve and swung out. It was a sharp blade-like limb, as hard as steel and as textured as insect armor.

"I feel a strong force!" the recruit said excitedly.

"In the next few days, you will receive training from the examiner and learn how to use this force." A military doctor said, "After the training, if your insect power value can be greatly improved, you will become a true superman-like warrior. Okay, next one!"

At this moment, the door of the laboratory suddenly opened, and a tall and mighty senior officer in his fifties walked in accompanied by two guards. The military doctors in the laboratory immediately stood at attention in front of him and saluted.

"Where is the genius?" The tall senior officer glanced at everyone.

"Here!" A young soldier pointed at Shen Zheng, his face full of excitement. [

"Very good!" The officer looked at Shen Zheng and nodded, "This is exactly the kind of talent our third formation needs! Young man, you have been honored to be recruited into the most elite third formation of the Wolf Fang Corps!"

"Oh, Captain Carters is really fast at snatching people." The door opened again, and another senior officer came in accompanied by guards. This man had black hair, was tall and slender, and had a slightly gloomy expression.

"Not bad." Along with this senior officer came two other senior officers accompanied by guards. One of them was nearly 41 years old and had long golden hair. He nodded as soon as he came in. "The affiliation of the new recruits must be uniformly dispatched by the Corps Commander."

"It seems that this newcomer is very eye-catching." Another senior officer looked at Shen Zheng and nodded. This man looked to be in his early thirties, with black hair, handsome face, and a calm and peaceful temperament.

"Sir!" The military doctors stood at attention and saluted these people.

"Excellent talents should be commanded by excellent people." The third squadron leader Carters looked at the other three colleagues and snorted.

"So, Shen Zheng should belong to our first squadron?" said the one with a gloomy expression.

"It should be mine." said the one with long blond hair.

"I am also interested in him." said the one with a calm temperament.

"He is indeed a genius!" The recruits whispered, "Before the insect plant, the four squadron leaders have already started to fight for him."

"I really envy him!"

"There is no way, he is a genius."

The discussion sounded low, and the recruits looked at Shen Zheng, all with envy and admiration.

"Carters, give him to me, I don't want any recruits this year!" The officer with long blond hair said to the third squadron leader.

"I will return this to you exactly as it is." Carters sneered.

"I am determined to get him." said the one with a gloomy expression.

"I don't want to give him to others." said the one with a calm temperament.

The argument started from here, from someone taking advantage of the last conscription to someone having too many talents in a certain formation, which seriously disrupted the balance of the strength of the four formations. In short, for Shen Zheng, the four formation leaders argued fiercely.

This made Shen Zheng a little excited, agitated, and a little at a loss.

Just then, the door opened again, and a majestic old man in his sixties walked in. The old man was wearing a unique officer's uniform. When the recruits saw the shoulder straps on it, they immediately stood up straight.

The shoulder straps of the legion commander.

Obviously, this old officer was the highest commander of the Wolf Fang Legion - the Wolf Fang Legion Commander Liang Long.

The four formation leaders stopped arguing. When they saw Liang Long coming in, they stood at attention together and saluted in a standard military salute.

"I heard it was so lively here, so I came to see it." Liang Long looked at the four people and said slowly. "I didn't expect that my four squadron leaders were quarreling."

"It's not a quarrel." The calm black-haired officer smiled, "It's just that we all love talents."

Liang Long also smiled and turned his eyes to Shen Zheng among the recruits, which made Shen Zheng feel flattered and made the other recruits more envious.

"Are you Shen Zheng?" Liang Long asked.

"Yes!" Shen Zheng hurriedly imitated the officers and saluted with a not very standard military salute.

Liang Long nodded: "Work hard, the future will be bright."

"Yes!" Shen Zheng answered loudly.

"Don't argue with each other." Liang Long looked at the four captains, "Let him finish the insect planting first." As he said, he nodded to the senior military doctor who was in charge of the insect planting.

"Shen Zheng, you go first." The senior military doctor immediately understood.

The four captains also stopped talking.

Shen Zheng walked over slowly with a nervous mood and sat on the insect planting chair. The military doctor who controlled the computer pressed a few external keys, and immediately a strong strap fixed Shen Zheng firmly on the chair.

"Do you want to try the long-range combat insect first?" The military doctor in charge asked Liang Long, and Liang Long nodded.

Immediately, a military doctor came over, took a hexagonal box from the shelf, and carefully inserted it into the instrument that looked like a big pupa. Soon, a part of the instrument took out the eggs in the box, extracted a little body fluid from it, mixed it with some transparent liquid, and transported it along the transparent tube to the newly replaced injection needle.

"Before implanting the insect, you must first identify whether the person being implanted is adapted to this kind of insect." A military doctor explained in front of Shen Zheng, looking very friendly. This is not because he likes Shen Zheng particularly, but because he knows that this genius has unlimited future.

Shen Zheng nodded.

The military doctor picked up the injection needle and gently pierced Shen Zheng's left wrist. Shen Zheng did not feel any pain.

On the other side, a military doctor stared at the computer's phantom screen and nervously adjusted the values. From Liang Long to the four formation leaders, they all stared at the phantom screen.

"No, it doesn't match." After a while, the nervous military doctor shook his head. "His various values ​​show that he can't match with long-range combat bugs."

"No match?" Everyone was a little surprised, and Shen Zheng became nervous.

"From this point of view, he should be a super warrior in close combat." Liang Long's eyes were full of expectation, and he signaled the military doctor to change to another type of combat bug.

The egg box was taken out, and another box containing close combat bug eggs was stuffed in. A little body fluid in the eggs was extracted, mixed with transparent liquid, and transported to the injection needle and injected into Shen Zheng's wrist.

The military doctor stared at the phantom screen nervously again.