Chapter 120 Insect City, a gathering place under the control of the mother body
Lin Feng reduced his movement speed and turned into a bright yellow light, shuttling through the streets and alleys.
In some road corners, he saw the opened sewer entrances, with traces of bugs inside.
As Lin Feng expected, the Zerg did not destroy the city, but directly integrated into it, using the existing sewer system to build nests to survive.
However, this is not common sense.
Just like people cannot return to caves to live in groups, the urban system is incompatible with the habits of the Zerg.
If it were not for the purpose of destroying and devouring the humans in the city, the Zerg would probably have no interest in the Iron Jungle.
With doubts, Lin Feng groped forward cautiously.
He walked past the edge where fighting had broken out.
At this time, the remains of insect corpses everywhere have been cleaned up. Except for the traces of damage caused by shotguns, it is difficult to tell that a fierce urban street battle just broke out here three or four hours ago.
It is estimated that after Lin Feng and others evacuated, the Red Beetle came out to clean up.
The land cruiser can only travel along the main roads, so there was no time to collect the black spine corpses in other corner alleys. The situation at that time did not allow everyone to stay for a long time.
Who knows when the next wave of Zerg attacks will come? If there are twice as many Tier 2 tiger spine worms next time, it will be difficult for Lin Feng to escape and support him. With more than 100 awakened people he has worked hard to save, Otherwise, it is very likely that a tiger spine insect that slipped through the net will be wiped out directly.
The retreat was very hasty and the battlefield was not even cleaned.
At this moment, Lin Feng was not surprised to see the clean streets and shopping malls.
But after taking a few steps, he suddenly stopped.
Because the glass at the entrance of a shopping mall was shattered by a shotgun, but the broken glass on the ground was swept away and piled in the corner.
The strange-smelling insect blood splashed on the ground was not licked clean by red beetles. There was a slippery film of detergent remaining on it, exuding the slightest fragrance.
How can low-level Zerg have this kind of awareness, and it is impossible for them to clean up construction waste and use detergent.
There is only one possibility, that is, there are still surviving humans in this city that has been occupied by the Zerg.
It was they who used tools to clear the battlefield.
Thinking of this, Lin Feng became even more confused.
How did this group of people avoid the patrols and sweeps of the Zerg and survive in a city where food was scarce.
Unfortunately, telepathy cannot detect life forms below level 7, and ordinary people are not within the sensing range.
With doubts, Lin Feng slowly stepped into the mall.
After spending more than ten minutes searching carefully inside and out, except for some traces of human activities, no one was found.
But some traces are obviously new, such as the soil where the footprints fell, which is still wet.
Following the footsteps, these people left the mall and walked deeper into Jiacheng.
Lin Feng hid in the shadow of the corner and continued to move forward.
He had to find this group of people to understand the strange situation in Jiacheng.
Why can human survivors coexist with Zerg?
Insects can’t talk, but people can.
As the forest wind penetrated deeper and deeper into the city center, I passed by a city park. The forest in midsummer was full of green leaves, just like the sides of the road...
The red beetles did not eat these. Low-fat foods.
The situation is completely different from the situation in the suburbs of Haicheng.
The Zerg seem to regard this city as their own homeland, trying to preserve its former appearance as much as possible.
And soon, Lin Feng, who was hiding in the corner, saw several figures emerging from the park and forest in the distance.
There are indeed survivors!
Lin Feng's eyes narrowed and he did not step out immediately to shout. Instead, he hid aside and observed the behavior of these people.
What is surprising is that these survivors are planting some kind of crops on the land of the park.
They use shovels, hoes and other agricultural tools to loosen the soil, and they look like normal humans working.
At present, if Jiacheng had not been captured by the Zerg, Lin Feng would have almost believed it.
Such a blatant planting behavior, without the acquiescence of the Zerg, they are just a bunch of lambs waiting to be slaughtered.
Lin Feng thought of a possibility.
Simply relying on force to advance and conquer cities and territories will definitely not be able to support such a large number of Zerg. There must be other ways to obtain energy stably.
It has been almost a month since the Zerg invasion, but humans have not yet understood the social and ecological structure of this alien Zerg.
The organizational order, social form, and most importantly...
Their basic energy acquisition methods!
Water source is only the basic material for obtaining energy. Just like human beings living on Blue Star, they rely on the photosynthesis of autotrophic organisms such as plants to accumulate solar energy into chemical energy such as sugar, starch, and protein.
Photosynthesis can only occur on the surface of a planet that is exposed to sunlight, while the Zerg mother nest is always a hundred meters underground, or even deeper.
In the airtight underground, let alone sunlight, even the existing life can only survive with some ancient bacteria and primitive low-level cells.
As a result, the Zerg must rely on other methods unknown to humans to obtain additional biomass.
So when Lin Feng saw the scene of survivors farming in the area occupied by the Zerg, he thought...
Could it be the Zerg enslaving humans?
Forcing them to grow food for the Zerg.
Just like the parasitic mother body that controlled Cheng Zhan, she revealed before her death that this alien insect race had invaded multiple planets, and the red beetles at the bottom were the alien life forms they had captured and enslaved.
Perhaps in the future, after human beings are really defeated, they will also become the slaves of the Zerg to help them complete logistical supplies or take care of high-level Zerg descendants...
Thinking of this, I Lin Feng, who was about to ask, leaned down and quietly retreated.
After leaving the park, continue deeper into the city center.
Not long after, after crossing two districts, Lin Feng used telepathy to detect a group of dense light points within five kilometers of the city center.
Judging from the size and brightness of the light source, they all have around 100 health points.
It should be a group of black spine worms in the early stage of the first order.
But the problem is that they gather too densely, there is even one per square meter, which is much denser than the insect swarms that Lin Feng had previously detected.
As he continued to go deeper, another possibility soon emerged in his mind.
Could it be that the light spots in the induction are not Zerg, but a group of human awakeners?
This idea has been swirling in Lin Feng's mind since it appeared...
Ten minutes later, Lin Feng arrived a hundred meters away from where the light spots gathered, and then squatted on the top of a tall building.
The location of the target is a large chain mall, Wanya Shopping Center.
Seeing this scene, Lin Feng became more and more sure of his inner guess.
Because this shopping mall cannot accommodate hundreds or thousands of black spine worms, only small and thin human awakenings can survive in it.
Soon, the humanoid creature walking out of the mall gate confirmed Lin Feng's inner guess.
A group of human survivors left the mall and headed for a nearby green belt.
There, they also grow many crops.
Seeing that there were only five people, Lin Feng quietly walked over and came behind them.
Controlled his strength, knocked out three of them with his knife, and then pointed the gun at the man and woman who had not reacted in the end.
Their strength is stronger than the other three. They are all mid-level first level above level 13. They are considered the minor bosses in this gathering place.
“Raise your hands, don’t move!”
Lin Feng shouted in a low voice, and at the same time released his aura as a mid-level second-level awakener, frightened the two of them and turned around and hurriedly knelt down. land.
Seeing the survivors from outside, the two men looked hesitant and shocked.
It seems that there are hardly any other outsiders here.
After all, a large number of insect swarms can be gathered and guarded outside the city, responsible for blocking "invaders".
"You...you are from outside?!"
The man kneeling on the ground with his hands raised was the first to react. He knew every face in the gathering place, but in front of him The young man, neither his appearance nor the aura he exuded was in his memory. Lin Feng nodded slightly and asked:
"Jiacheng has been captured by the Zerg, why are you still alive? Why didn't the Zerg swarm outside the city attack you?"
The man swallowed and looked slightly excited, while the woman with a numb expression on the side flashed a look of excitement after hearing Lin Feng's admission.
"We...we were trapped by them."
"Managers of the gathering place, they are a group of..."
A trace of fear appeared on the man's face, and he stood aside The woman who came back to her senses gritted her teeth and added:
“A group of insect-people who are neither humans nor ghosts!”
"There is a parasitic insect behind them that can control their speech and thinking, rule and enslave these survivors."
Lin Feng nodded, not surprised.
Since the Mother Queen of Haicheng can use her parasitic mother body to infiltrate the upper echelons of the Thirteenth Division and steal information, then the Zerg Mother Queens in other places must also be able to control and enslave local humans with their parasitic abilities.
But the man and woman in front of them were a little surprised by Lin Feng's natural expression.
They believe that if this news is passed to the outside world, it will definitely cause an uproar.
After all, the Zerg, who have always been low-minded and stupid, actually possess high intelligence and can even communicate directly with humans through parasitism...
"Continue to talk about the purpose of the Zerg keeping you in captivity."
Lin Feng raised the muzzle of his gun and spoke in a stern tone. He didn't trust the other party yet, even if they were not parasitized by insects.
The man was shocked and said quickly:
"My name is Huang Qixin and she is Lin Ping."
"The Zerg arrived here half a month ago."
"There were still tens of thousands of Jiacheng locals left in the city at that time. Unfortunately, the Federation did not send defenders. We were on the way to evacuate. , and were surrounded by a large number of insects, and a large number of survivors had no choice but to retreat into the city..."
"The last few thousand people were hiding in the center of Jiacheng."
"But that day. , the Zerg did not launch an attack, but a few people walked out of the insect wave...Insect people"
"They announced that we can survive as long as we obey their orders and do not leave the center of Jiacheng. Can own the resources of the entire city ”
"After that...our nightmare began."
"The survivors were captured into the center of the mall, where the bug-men created a living flesh and blood incubation device, and we were forced to ask to enter Among them, reproduction is forced inside..."
"Two weeks after conception, they will remove the placenta from the woman's abdomen."
"Place the flesh and blood object. Come and make an offering."
As he spoke, Huang Qixin glanced at the woman beside him.
Lin Ping's haggard and numb expression, as well as her shriveled abdomen, confirmed his words.
After Huang Qixin finished speaking with lingering fear, Lin Ping added:
"You...the explosion that came from the east of the city this morning was the federal army coming to rescue us?" ”
Lin Feng did not answer, but shook his head slightly, and his eyes became colder.
It seems that the ambition of this Queen Mother is no worse than the one in Haicheng.
The fighting strength of his subordinates is not as good as that of Shanghai City, but they are already planning to seize human beings' reproductive ability, and want to completely control human beings and use them for their own purposes.
Children raised by Zerg are mixed into the safe zone of humans. Without being physically parasitized, any scanning method is useless.
Subtle mental control and brainwashing are more terrifying than all means.
At this moment, Lin Feng even had the idea of destroying this gathering place controlled by the Zerg.
After all, if they are allowed to develop like this, they might come up with something weird.
Compared with the human Zerg genetic warriors, will the Zerg be able to mass-produce high-intelligence combat-type second-order Zerg-men in the future? !
To speed up the disintegration of human resistance.
When he thought of this, Lin Feng looked at the survivors in front of him, and his eyes became colder and colder.
Although he tried hard and was able to rescue some people, he was unable to rescue all the thousands of people in the entire gathering place.
This means going to war with the entire city of Zerg.
Instead of just breaking out from one side.
In comparison, killing is always easier than saving.
If they stay here, they will always be a hidden danger...
Just when Lin Feng decided to pull the trigger, suddenly, a group of humans came from behind.
Most of them are just enhanced people, but behind these people, stands a strange man in a cloak. Its back is bulging high under the cloak, like a hunchbacked old woman.
And this weirdo's strength has reached the early stage of the second level.
Lin Feng's eyes quickly revealed its identification data:
"Zerg mother body, lv21/29"
"HP 250, constitution 210, spirit 290"< br>
While confirming the opponent's identity, Lin Feng's gun was already pointed at it.
Then from the numb crowd, the hoarse voice of the parasitic mother came:
"Hello, brave human warrior..."
The corners of Lin Feng's mouth raised slightly:
"Disperse these people. You should know that they have no influence on me."
The old woman laughed and said indifferently:
"The weakest point of human beings is kindness, whether it is towards the same kind or other living beings."
"So only a few strong people can overcome this nature and become the true rulers of your ethnic group."
"Then they kept praising the greatness of this emotion, trying to turn all living beings into lambs for wanton slaughter, so as to facilitate their long-term rule..."
Lin Feng frowned slightly and suddenly turned the gun. , and two bang-bang shots were fired towards the back! !
I saw a man and a woman kneeling behind Lin Feng, slowly falling to the ground with a deep hole between their eyebrows.
In Lin Ping's hand, she was holding a sharp cone with purple-black fishy pus stuck on it, which looked extremely poisonous.
Lin Feng turned around, switched the god-level pistol in his hand back to the lv25 armor-breaking railgun, and then looked at the parasitic mother behind the crowd with interest:
"What conditions were promised to them? , Are you willing to die?"
The old woman waved her withered fingers to disperse the humans in front of her, and replied:
"Her unformed child, and freedom."
"You have this almost pathological obsession with sacrifice for your relatives and descendants, and this can be easily exploited..."
"And you humans have a famous saying,"
"As long as the benefits are sufficient, , you can trade everything."
Lin Feng smiled and nodded, aiming the gun at the mother body not far away:
"You are right."
"So if the people inside take another step, please stay here forever."
The parasitic mother immediately looked embarrassed and waved her hand to prevent her men from continuing to evacuate.
Then he seemed to feel something, bent down and said respectfully:
"Your Majesty wants to talk to you personally..."
Lin Feng frowned slightly:
"I have nothing to talk about with you."
"I am more interested in you than meeting the Queen Mother."
However, as soon as the words fell, I saw the parasitic mother in front of me, and fell to her knees. He fell to the ground, and then his whole body trembled and twitched, and the hunchback of the sarcoma on his back swelled several times.
The next moment, a gentle female voice came out from the mouth of the old woman who was lying on the ground:
"Then how many benefits will it take to impress you..."
"For example, a hundred second-order tiger spine insects?"
Some people say that the Zerg are not smart, but that's not necessarily true.
The next plot is a train, come on!
(End of this chapter)