Chapter 155: Sneaking underground, a strange journey into the insect nest!
After saying that, the second-order legion team behind Lin Feng raised the shotgun in his hand. At the same time, Lin Feng also raised the tiger-tooth chain sword, ready to go.
Once the tiger spine insects pass by, kill them all with the force of thunder!
However, at this moment, Zhi Yi, who was interrupted from the introduction, suddenly spoke in a low voice and in a hurry:
"Wait, don't do anything yet!"
Lin Feng turned his head and frowned slightly.
From his telepathy skills, there were several second-order tiger spine insects two hundred meters away on the left, and they were about to pass by the wide wormhole in front of them.
Be prepared in advance and you may be able to win it in one fell swoop.
But Chiyi continued to explain:
"You are contaminated with the smell of a lot of black spine worms, and this ventilation duct is flowing upward, so your whereabouts have not been revealed yet. ! ”
"Those tiger spine insects are just patrolling as usual. There is no need to expose our existence just for a few tiger spine insects!"
Lin Feng frowned slightly:
"Patrol? If there is any If we follow a certain route, will we pass by an important second-level insect nest?”
Zhizhi nodded and saw that Lin Feng had put down the tiger-tooth chain sword in his hand, then he breathed a sigh of relief and continued:
"Yes, as long as we follow them, we can figure out the general distribution of the underground insect nests, and it will be much easier to find them."
"And with me here, I can also help you cover up, especially your mental fluctuations, making it difficult for the Mother Queen to detect."
"But after discovering the second-order insect eggs, once they are destroyed, the Mother Queen will definitely get Alarm, so it’s time to break out of the insect siege.”
“If we launch an attack now, the opponent will definitely move all the second-order insect eggs to the deepest place since they have been warned by the Queen of Sea City. The mother's nest..."
"With our current strength, we cannot face the fate of the Queen Mother underground."
Lin Feng took a deep breath and clicked. He nodded, signaled his team members to put away the shotguns, and sneaked close to the cave wall.
After slowing down, Lin Feng asked curiously:
“Isn’t the Mother Queen moving very slowly underground?”
As soon as the cockroach walked forward and led the way, he said as he walked:
“To control tens of thousands of low-level Zerg, it takes a lot of energy to control the second-order Zerg. Most of the spiritual power of the Mother Queen sinks into the entire Zerg, so it grows such a bloated and huge Zerg. The body consumes a lot of nutritional energy every moment to replenish the brain state.”
“The slow movement speed is completely dragged down, and every time it moves forward, it must destroy the insects in the nest. Large biological nests, cut and relocated”
"Tens of thousands of red beetles need to be mobilized."
"So the invasion and expansion speed of the Zerg is only three or four kilometers per day at the fastest."
"Unless the mother queen feels that her life is threatened , will release the mental control of the entire insect swarm at all costs and move forward with all its strength..."
"In that case, it can probably reach ten meters per second and come from the deepest part of the underground. , a distance of seven or eight kilometers."
"After we plunder the second-order eggs, the mother queen's deepest nest will probably have a minimum of fifteen minutes to escape, but if this mother queen comes out. Because of caution, we didn’t leave in person, so we can harvest normally.”
"Generally, as long as all the second-order insect eggs are not destroyed, it will not risk its life. After all, the cost of doing so is that it will take at least four or five days to recover, regroup the insect swarm, and organize the organizational structure."
Lin Feng nodded secretly. It seemed that outside Jiacheng before, in order to avoid further deterioration of the situation, the cost of forcibly breaking out of the ground was far more than the release of the domain and the reduction of his own level.
Similarly speaking, if it were not for a life-and-death crisis, the Queen Mother would never give up controlling the insect swarm and kill the enemy herself.
And an extremely cunning existence like the Queen of Haicheng would not reveal its specific coordinates just because of a few second-order Zerg.
After all, although human nuclear bombs pose no threat to the mother nest five hundred meters deep underground, ground-penetrating missiles have been put into actual combat in spaces one to two hundred meters deep.
While the two were discussing in a low voice, Zhiyi in front suddenly closed his mouth, stopped at the same time, and then waved his hand to signal the fully armed second-order legion team behind to hide.
Lin Feng squinted his eyes, and through the dark lenses on his front armor, he saw a fork in the road about ten meters away from the crowd.
After walking down for more than a hundred meters, we finally entered a wide wormhole with a diameter of twenty meters. This is a passage for the high-speed migration of the Zerg army, and it is also the area where the second-order Zerg usually patrols.
And it leads all the way down to the second-level insect nest deeper underground!
When everyone clung to the cave wall...
Not long after, there was a thumping sound from the wall that was reinforced with red beetle mucus!
Boom! Boom! Boom, boom, boom!
As the messy knocking sounds came closer and closer, a group of second-order tiger spine insects suddenly appeared at the entrance of the cave in front of everyone.
Lin Feng and others randomly held their breath and concentrated.
Tighten your breath as much as possible and stay stunned.
These tiger spine insects walk very slowly and will explore around to make sure that there are no other unknown creatures hidden in the corners and cracks of the wall.
Obviously, the invasion of Awakeners on the surface has made the Mother Queen underground become more cautious.
Control the tiger spine insect patrol team and investigate carefully.
After they left one after another, Xie looked back at Lin Feng, nodded and then took steps, leading the people behind him into the widened wormhole one by one.
The second-order legion team continued to hide their presence, ignoring the red beetles that were transporting supplies around them, and shuttled among the insect swarms under their feet...
Sneak up and follow the tiger spine insect swarm dozens of meters away.
As their patrol route began to extend deeper into the ground, Lin Feng and Zhiyi became more and more excited.
And soon, when everyone had dived two hundred meters underground, they finally saw a second-level insect nest appearing in front of them.
As the second-order tiger spine insect patrol team suddenly stopped, everyone also crawled on the ground, hiding among the red beetle groups, carefully observing the scene in the distance.
There is some kind of luminous slime mold growing on the wall of the nearby cave. Its faint green light is like the white phosphorus fire burning in the cemetery, illuminating the dark underground tunnel.
Although the vision was dim, the ten people present were all second-level awakeners, so they could naturally see it clearly.
At the entrance of the insect nest not far away, two pairs of giant jaws poked their heads out and came into contact with the patrolling tiger spine insect swarm.
It seems to be saying hello intimately.
This is where the two communicate information through the pheromone-releasing organ under the giant jaw to confirm that the vicinity is safe.
Each second-level insect nest has special guards.
The further down you go, the tighter the Zerg's vigilance becomes.
After the two sides exchanged information and the patrolling second-order tiger spine worms left, everyone, led by Zhi Yi, continued to move forward with their heads down to avoid being caught by the hidden tiger spine insects on both sides of the cave entrance. The guard found out.
Half-crouching and hiding among the red beetles, Lin Feng stretched out his hand and pressed down on Chrysalis's shoulder after walking through the hole.
The other party turned around and saw Lin Feng gesturing with his hands, asking if it was the target of their trip.
Because Lin Feng detected through telepathy that there was a huge light source in this second-level insect nest.
It was the same as the last time I passed through the biological furnace of the riverside shipyard and entered an insect nest.
There is also a large biological factory in the secondary insect nest behind him. Through telepathy, the feedback in Lin Feng's mind is a large bright light source.
This shows that it contains extremely high life energy.
However, the cockroach shook its head slightly.
Then continue forward.
After she was nearly a hundred meters away from the entrance of the insect nest, she whispered to everyone:
"There are no second-order insect eggs there, but a centralized incubation center for first-order insect eggs."
“Basketball-sized eggs bred from the body of the mother emperor are sent to the nest of hatching creatures. If there is sufficient food, it only takes about three or four days to give birth to an early-stage first-order black spine worm. "
"Because it is catalytic accelerated growth, the biological nest needs a high temperature and high temperature environment to complete the transformation from eggs to adults so quickly."
"A hatching biological nest is probably at the same time. There are nearly 10,000 black spine worms hatching, and one-third of them can be hatched to maturity every day. There are usually a dozen of these secondary worm nests in a swarm.”
Lin Feng's face was solemn, and the people behind him even showed horrified looks. Such a fast hatching speed, coupled with the total number of hatchings at every moment...
The war potential of every mother queen in the Zerg tribe , are all better than a medium-sized country on Blue Star.
No wonder I always feel that the low-level Zerg cannot be killed all.
Seeing this, the worm shrugged, and then explained:
"Although the early third-order Zerg mother queen can lay one first-order insect egg every second, it does not happen every second. Each egg will successfully develop into the adult stage.”
"Excluding the weak ones with insufficient innate abilities and some mutated and deformed defective products, only about 60% of the eggs can grow into the first-order early stage black spine worms."
"So in fact, as early as the conception, At the beginning, the active selection and elimination of the Zerg began. Although the low-level Zerg were lacking in intelligence, they absolutely obeyed orders. "Such quality is several times stronger than that of the ordinary human army, unless the mother queen has already." Die, otherwise there won't be a large-scale rout."
During the narration, the red beetles around everyone were still marching, making chaotic footsteps, covering up the crickets. One explained in a low voice.
After hearing the first few sentences, Lin Feng fell into deep thought.
He was estimating the overall strength of the Zerg race ruled by the Queen Mother at the early stage of the third level.
As a clone of the Mother Queen, the information given by Chiyi must be the most accurate.
Based on this, one insect egg per second is about 86,000 eggs per day. Even if the final yield is only 60%, more than 50,000 eggs will be born in three or four days. Black spine worm.
This is the maximum output of an ordinary insect swarm.
The Zerg mother queen generally does not put all her resources into hatching larvae, so most low-level insect eggs are not in a hurry to hatch completely.
Zhiyi has introduced before that the Queen Mother who is at the beginning of the third level, that is, lv33, can control about 200,000 low-level Zerg.
Considering that the second-order tiger spine insect swarm will disperse a large part of the energy, the size of the lower-order insect swarm is usually only maintained at a little over one hundred thousand.
The Zerg Mother Queen is like a large computer. While maintaining the expansion of the swarm, she must also allocate reasonable computing power to each part of the clan.
From this point of view, each biological hatching nest can hatch about three to four thousand black spine worms every day, and the total is about forty to fifty thousand.
So within a short time of one day, the Zerg can explode and increase the number of the Zerg swarm by 50% in an instant.
As mentioned before.
The lv36 mother queen who is in the middle of the third level has a low-level insect swarm that reaches six to seven hundred thousand, and after the army explodes, it can expand to one million in one day!
As long as you successfully defeat the enemy and plunder the opponent's biological resources, this kind of explosion of troops in a short period of time can continue.
If you postpone it to the next day, it will be 100% from the beginning!
The Zerg will continue to expand until every individual of the enemy race is killed!
If I want to hold on to a certain territory in the future and start a decisive battle with the Zerg, I will have to have at least about 100,000 awakened ones to completely suppress the third-order mid-level mother queen in one day.
Destroy their underground insect nests.
Leave it without a chance to breathe and explode the troops!
Fighting a war of attrition, humans who cannot mass-produce will always end in failure.
With only 5,000 soldiers and hundreds of Awakeners in hand, Lin Feng can only use the high mobility of the fleet to carry out peripheral guerrilla attacks.
In other words, before all five thousand warriors were trained into first-level awakeners, Lin Feng did not have the ability to fight a decisive battle with a certain early-level third-level queen.
At the same time, at least a well-equipped second-level legion must be formed to follow and assist him in fighting into the underground of the insect nest.
The last condition is that Lin Feng himself must have the ability to kill a high-level Queen Mother with tens of thousands of health points within ten seconds!
These three need to be synchronized...
One is indispensable.
Thinking of this, Lin Feng looked at the second-order tiger spine insect swarm not far ahead, his eyes became more and more fierce.
As soon as he was keenly aware of something, he immediately turned around and put his fingers in front of his lips. After shushing, he shook his head:
"Don't release your murderous intent. You have already killed the nearby red beetles. I’m scared, the insects in the nest are very sensitive to this kind of smell.”
Lin Feng nodded, took a deep breath, and calmed down.
The nearby swarm of red beetles, which are worker insects, is the best camouflage for everyone, but they cannot be scared away.
And soon, the tiger spine insect swarm in front stopped again, which meant that it passed another second-level insect nest.
Everyone stopped and waited patiently.
After they finished their exchange and left this time, Chiyi did not stop either. He continued to lead everyone in a half-squat, carefully passing by the entrance of the insect nest.
However, most of the red beetle swarms near the team began to crawl into the entrance of the insect nest behind them.
Lin Feng frowned slightly. The large number of red beetles leaving was not a good sign.
Xieyi immediately explained in a low voice:
“There is a scrapped biomass recycling mother nest, which is where the Zerg drags back the corpses of their dead companions and finally sends them in.”
"Things that are still valuable will be repaired again, and those that are worthless will be decomposed into nutrients and supplied to the entire insect colony."
"Recycling to reduce losses."
Speaking of this , Chrysalis stopped, looked at the scattered large red beetles around him, raised his head again in the air, smelled it, and his expression gradually became solemn:
"It seems that the wormhole diagonally downward in front is probably the road leading to the second-order hatching mother nest."
"These red beetles are all transporting food, and each one has a bottom mother nest. Breath, we will be easily discovered if we go forward."
Lin Feng stood behind her, waiting for the next words.
At this moment, we are already three hundred meters underground, and the target is about to appear in front of us. There is absolutely no reason to retreat.
In these last few dozen meters, even if you are exposed, you have to fight your way in!
However, Chiyi quickly came up with a solution.
She took a deep breath, then stretched out her hand to hold the nearby lv9 red beetle.
Under her mental control, these large red beetles walked obediently, and then spit out part of the gelatinous substance in their tail abdomen.
Chochi reached out and gently applied the viscous fluid on the ground to his arms and neck,
while doing it, he explained:
"These are the biological populations on the surface. The extracted nutrient solution is similar to that in the second-order insect eggs."
"They are used to feed the mother queen, and tiger spine worms usually eat these secretly. ”
“And because each region has different biological populations, the final concentrated high-grade nutrient solution has subtle differences in taste and smell.”
“This. It has also become a characteristic that distinguishes different insect groups and prevents foreign second-order insects from sneaking in and parasitizing."
"The number of red beetles further down in the insect nest is sparse, and it is filled with the smell of food."< br>
"Although it's disgusting, this thing can help us and is easy to hide."
"What are you still looking at there? Come over here and apply more, you guys are tired..."
" Well, your men's sweat glands smell very strong, so you need to apply more."
The scene before them was beyond everyone's understanding, and they all looked at their leader Lin Feng.
Lin Feng opened his visor and took a sniff, confirming that there was a faint scent of rice, which may have something to do with the large farmland area in Jiangbei...
Then he walked over to Chiyi and applied the nutrient solution on the armor.
Shen Jie was the second one to come forward, but he didn’t mind it so much and couldn’t wait to taste it.
He smacked his lips, nodded and said:
"Yes, this stuff is similar to organic nutrient solution."
"But it also contains trace amounts of toxins from the Zerg. Ordinary people You can’t eat much, and the awakened person can’t eat too much, as it can easily get a bad stomach.”
After hearing the previous words, the other team members immediately became happy. However, Shen Jie's addition quickly extinguished their excitement and anticipation.
I thought I found a treasure, but I didn’t expect it to be poisonous.
Lin Feng coughed lightly:
"Okay, don't be greedy for this."
"Wait until we find the hatching nest where the second-order insect eggs are, let you Drink it all in one go!”
"Cheer up now. There is no room for carelessness in the last stretch of the journey!"
Everyone immediately nodded and accepted the order.
Then the whole body armor was smeared with the fluid mucus spitted out by the red beetle.
Soon, under the leadership of Zhi Yi, a group of people got behind the red beetle tail, lay down on the downward slope, and carefully groped their way over.
Not long after, the slope beneath our feet gradually leveled off, and now it had dropped to a depth of 350 meters.
And here, the second-order insect nest that everyone had been waiting for finally appeared.
Because not far away...
Next to the second-order tiger spine insect swarm, there are several red beetles, carrying huge eggs into the second-order insect on the left side of the cave wall. Nest entrance!
And that place must be an important place for hatching second-order insect eggs!
Lin Feng made a gesture with his fists.
Inform everyone and prepare for action!
(End of this chapter)