Chapter 156: Hatching the mother nest, the second-order insect eggs in the meat tower
Just as everyone was getting ready to kill the six or seven tiger spine insects in front of them in one fell swoop, the entrance to the insect nest suddenly appeared further ahead Another group of second-order tiger spine worms.
Lin Feng immediately raised his hand to signal the team members behind him to stop raising their guns and aim.
Six or seven tiger spine worms are easy to deal with, but once the number doubles or even exceeds, the fierce attack of everyone will inevitably cause a shock and then collapse the wormhole structure here.
If the top collapses and the pile of mud, sand and rocks falls down, burying the entrance of the target insect nest...
All the efforts made before that were in vain.
The wormhole tunnel where everyone is located is far less solid than a large worm nest like a cave.
And the collapse of the tunnel means that the way out will be completely blocked.
So in the current situation, we must wait for two waves of tiger spine insect patrol teams. One group or all of them must leave first, then enter the insect nest first, and then launch an attack.
Two waves of tiger spine insect patrols met each other.
Just like before, they used the pair of giant jaws to communicate and exchange information with each other.
After confirming that everything is fine, the team will take over.
Ensure the safety of the underground insect nest at all times.
However, while Lin Feng and others were waiting patiently, a tiger spine beetle suddenly left his team, walked to the group of red beetles, and began to use the pincers on both sides of its giant jaw to gently Hit the giant red beetle at your feet.
As if receiving some kind of signal, the red beetle discharges a pile of beige fluid material directly from the excretion port behind the tail and abdomen.
It was the food that Chrysalis Yi controlled them and spit out to deliver to the Queen Mother!
However, the fluid pulled out of the tail is naturally not as good as spitting out of the mouth, especially after it has passed through the digestive tract and is mixed with many impurities and toxins.
But for the second-order tiger spine worm, it is still delicious.
Because the red beetle sticks out its tail and lifts it up, like an aphid squeezing out sugar liquid, the nutrient solution pulled out of the excretion port will gradually form a semicircle the size of an iron pot.
The tiger spine insect turns its body sideways and uses the mouthparts inside its giant jaw to suck.
Normally, their feeding is the same as that of low-level black spine worms. They only need to enter the biological nest, be automatically inserted by the pipeline, and fill up automatically like gasoline.
But those foods can only maintain basic survival needs and have no beneficial effect on one's own advancement.
So apart from devouring the corpses of the same kind, or attacking humans and other insect groups under the leadership of the mother queen, black spine insects no longer have any other channels for advancement.
However, tiger spine insects with higher IQs will secretly suck these concentrated nutrient solutions to slowly but safely improve their levels.
Although the Mother Queen knows this, she will not interfere too much as long as it does not affect the overall interests of the insect swarm.
After all, the strength of the second-level Zerg also determines the upper limit of the combat strength of the Zerg swarm.
Under the premise that the Mother Queen will not take action easily, dealing with the powerful awakened ones among humans depends entirely on the second-order Zerg.
However, the tiger spine insect stealing food at this moment made Lin Feng and others who were following the red beetle group really sweat.
Lin Feng and Shen Jie, who were lying at the front, did not dare to breathe, fearing that the tiger spine insect would use its sharp pincers to penetrate their back shells.
Both of them are made of armor material derived from the giant jaws of tiger spine insects. With a light tap, you can notice obvious differences.
What's more, a few people don't have the ability to squeeze out so much nutritious food for the tiger spine worms.
Fortunately, when this deserted tiger spine insect had just sucked in the third red beetle, its companion who had already walked away turned around and let out a few screams, urging it to follow as quickly as possible.
The tiger spine insect, still unfinished, let out a strange cry of displeasure before leaving in a hurry.
Everyone’s hanging hearts slowly dropped.
After the two waves of tiger spine worms all left, Lin Feng turned back to look at Xie Yi and asked for her opinion.
Because according to telepathy, this second-level insect nest is suspected to be the second-level insect egg hatching mother nest. There are also tiger spine insect guards on both sides of the entrance.
And there are more than two.
There are as many as five in total.
Equivalent to the number of one squad.
In addition, the environment at the entrance is small, and there are not many red beetles to help cover it.
As long as you rush in, a battle will inevitably break out.
At that time, in order to deal with the front and rear attacks, Lin Feng and Shen Jie among the ten people must be separated to block the front and rear attacks, and Chi Yi will also come in handy to interfere with the movement of the insect swarm.
After confirming the plan, Lin Feng gave a brief explanation in a low voice, but then he gave another plan:
"Don't rush and act directly."
< br>"This place is already 350 meters deep underground, and the group of tiger spine insects coming from deeper depths, as well as the red beetles transporting food, have never smelled the breath of the mother queen wafting out. Explain that the mother queen of the insect swarm here..."
"It's not underground in the county seat, but hidden in other northern urban areas."
Lin Feng was a little confused:
"So? Our operation time has been extended?"
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The cricket hummed and then continued:
“It’s not just that.”
"If the Mother Queen is not here, I can use all my power to control the second-order tiger spine insects in the insect nest, so that we can enter safely without worrying about being attacked from both sides."
Lin Feng’s eyes immediately lit up.
The members of the second-order legion team behind them also showed shocked expressions, and then they gradually understood why the division commander had to take this seemingly weak woman into the dangerous underground insect nest.
If the opponent has special powers and can control the second-level insect swarm, wouldn’t it mean that he can come and go freely among the insect swarms?
After all, it was her ability that helped the group disguise themselves and go deep underground.
Xie Yi coughed lightly and explained in detail:
“It’s not very useful, the conditions for use are too harsh.”
“Currently, we can only control a maximum of seven second-order tiger spine worms. It can’t be too far away. It lasts for half an hour each time and takes half an hour to cool down. It is not as good as your direct combat effectiveness.”
“And it must be used far away from the Mother Queen, otherwise it will not only be taken away. The control power will also be sensed by his mind, but it will be completely exposed."
Lin Feng showed a smile and pointed to the entrance of the insect nest:
"It's okay."
"Then let's start quickly."
"Half an hour is enough for us to work!"
Cho nodded and looked at Lin Feng. Under the protection of the person, he slowly walked towards the entrance of the insect nest. At the same time, a golden light flashed in his eyes. With the help of the artistic conception, the mental power spread out in waves.
Although she is only lv20, her mental attributes have exceeded the limit, reaching the upper limit of 390 in the early stage of the second level, which is far beyond the comparison between ordinary awakened people and second-level Zerg.
As soon as Xizhi activated his mental control, the second-order tiger spine insects guarding both sides of the entrance had a flash of bright yellow in their eyes, and then they all backed away.
The Queen Mother's mental control is like an invisible net covering the entire insect swarm, and it is obviously impossible to take into account every individual insect.
Although the Queen Mother's mental attributes are in the thousands, on average, even if they are scattered among the second-order Zerg, they are not as good as the centralized control of Chi Yi.
In addition, as the clone of the Mother Queen, she is already familiar with how to control the second-order tiger spine insects.
It only took a dozen seconds for Xie Yi to seize control of the mother queen here and successfully control the five tiger spine insects in front of him.
Then, under the leadership of Zhi Yi, the second-order legion team carefully stepped into the insect nest.
Then I saw the stunned tiger spine insects on the left and right sides of the entrance, like lifeless sculptures.
However, the ferocity exuded from them still made the team members raise their shotguns and take aim.
The cricket turned around and said calmly:
“Don’t worry, they have eliminated the threat.”
With that said, he issued an instruction to the tiger spine insect group: "Go, block the entrance of the cave for me!"
The entrance to the insect nest is only about fifteen meters wide, and a tiger spine insect It can be completely blocked and filled. As long as the hole can be blocked, everyone will have enough time to collect resources.
As soon as he finished speaking, the controlled tiger spine insects began to take action, curling up one after another and squeezing into the relatively narrow entrance.
Seeing the obedient tiger spine insect, the team members no longer doubted it, but showed great admiration.
It is not difficult for them to kill tiger spine insects, but in the underground insect nest, the mental power of the control system is obviously more effective than pure force.
For example, now, everyone has enough time and energy to explore the entire insect nest.
The crickets took the brunt and entered the interior.
Lin Feng signaled Shen Jie to ask the seven team members to work in pairs to explore around.
Although there is that kind of green slime mold inside the insect nest, emitting a faint light, but just like below the first line of defense, because of the huge space of the insect nest cave, with the help of sporadic weak light sources, only ten people can be seen clearly. Things within meters.
In Lin Feng's telepathy, there was only a large light source in the darkness ahead.
It is impossible to find the location of the second-order eggs.
So we need to separate temporarily, expand the search scope, and speed up the search.
The seven members, plus Captain Shen Jie, were divided into four teams. Lin Feng naturally had to follow the footsteps of Zhiyi and form a fifth team to prevent this guy from monopolizing the harvest.
Zhiyi turned his head slightly, seeing all Lin Feng’s little thoughts, he just smiled slightly and introduced as he walked:
"This second-level insect nest is used as an incubation mother nest. It covers an area of about four to five square kilometers. Most of them are meat mountain-like biological nests. They are used to extract nutrients, inject second-level insect eggs, and stack second-level insect nests. The giant jaw helps the tiger spine insect finally take shape."
"The area where the real second-order insect eggs are placed is in the innermost secret corner."
"And there are some small insects over there. Only the black spine worms know about it. When they advance to the late stage of the first stage, they will pass through these small holes and come to the incubation room to shed their shells for the last time, shed their armor and form cocoons, giving birth to new lives.”
Lin Feng frowned slightly. If this is the case, then it is not a lv19 black spine worm. It does not need to obtain the energy to upgrade to a lv20 tiger spine worm?
As soon as he walked in the muddy insect nest, he continued to move in a certain direction. He noticed Lin Feng's confusion and opened his mouth to explain:
"Don't think too much. It's impossible for all first-order late-stage perfect black spine worms to become second-order tiger spine worms. First, ten cocooned black spine worms can fuse into one second-order egg, and secondly Less than half of the second-level eggs can successfully metamorphose into tiger spine worms.”
“Based on the fact that out of 10,000 black spine worms, one thousand will reach the peak of the first level. About fifty second-order tiger spine worms can be born.”
“The third-order initial queen mother only has about two to three hundred second-order tiger spine worms, and no more than a thousand at most.”
“At the same time, it is also limited by the synthesis of the second-order giant jaw.”
“With limited resources, the construction and production arrangements of biological nests are also limited, and they need to be allocated rationally. ”
"Unless we enter an environment like Taihu Lake and have abundant biomass resources, we will fully produce."
Hearing this, Lin Feng suddenly realized:
"Wait a minute, insects If the egg tissue liquefies..."
"When the first-order black spine worm is promoted to the second-order tiger spine worm, will everything in the past be forgotten? Are the tiger spine worms hatched from the eggs a new insect? ”
Chochi shrugged and didn’t take it seriously:
"Of course. This is an evolutionary shortcut that does not require killing high-level people. It uses the biotechnology conquered by the Zerg. From the evolution of lower life to the second stage, it can be directly synthesized through biotechnology. The price is just a little more, but it is better. Fix the evolution mode and compress the time to become stronger.”
At this moment, the two of them, like other team members, have found the large biological nest in the insect nest.
I saw the huge biological factory like a mountain of meat, still squirming on the outside, and the scattered red beetles nearby, injecting nutrient solution into it.
An inexplicable sense of strange horror...
appeared in everyone's hearts.
There is a living giant organism in front of us!
Like a colony or a jellyfish, it has no consciousness and only mechanically executes certain fixed behaviors engraved in genes.
The genes in Blue Star are mainly genetic. All evolution is to better produce offspring and continue the genes themselves. The Zerg use superb biotechnology to write the genes of living organisms as if they are writing codes. , giving them new functions and tasks.
For example, there are biological devices that purify and evolve nutrient solutions.
The medium liquid it injects into the second-order eggs provides energy for the metamorphosis and evolution of the first-order black spine worms.
There are also some second-order Zerg outer armor synthesis factories that collect the carapace of the late first-order Black Spine Insect, then add other metal minerals to decompose and reconstruct it, and finally condense the solid outer armor of the Tiger Spine Insect.
Although it is not as strong as the pair of second-order giant jaws, it can still resist the attack of individual missiles.
Even if the lv19 shotgun blows up a building with one shot, it can only seriously damage the outer armor of the second-order tiger spine insect.
As a basic combat unit in the second-level Zerg, the second-level tiger spine insect is also a melee elite. The birth process no longer relies on its own growth.
But after countless years of iteration, efficient assembly with division of labor, cooperation and modularization has evolved.
Chrysalis introduced it as he walked, with a sense of pride. This is the strength of their Zerg civilization:
“The biggest advantage of mass production is to ensure that the minimum limit of the second-order tiger spine worms can be maintained forever. Above the passing line.”
“And this is extremely fast, several times faster than the Queen Mother directly synthesizing second-level insect eggs.”
“This is why the Queen Mother does it. The reason for not directly producing second-level insect eggs. Second-level insect eggs can only breed about twenty in a day, so it is more cost-effective to produce ordinary insect eggs."
"As for the new second-level insect race, that is promotion. After the breakthrough, more inheritance and additional biological fusion technology were received in the artistic conception, which was directly synthesized and hatched.”
"There is no such thing as a larval stage."
Seeing that there were no other humans around Lin Feng, Zhiyi stopped hiding anything and told all about the Zerg's operating mode.
And along the way, the two of them finally arrived at the final destination of their trip.
Not far ahead, a giant pyramid-shaped mountain of meat appeared. Its base was five hundred meters wide, and its entire body was emitting a faint shimmer.
It looks very solemn and solemn.
If it weren't for the brownish-red fleshy layer on the surface, which was still slowly shrinking and squirming, Lin Feng would have almost regarded it as some kind of civilization relic.
And on the surface of this shimmering meat mountain, the second-order insect eggs that everyone has been thinking about for a long time are embedded in it!
Half of these eggs are wrapped in meat mountains, with more than a dozen nutrient delivery tubes inserted at the top and around them, while the other half is exposed in the air.
The glimmer of light comes from the blood vessels that transport nutrient solution, and is connected to the transparent biofilm on the surface of the second-order eggs.
And they also illuminate the internal structure of the eggs.
Therefore, we can clearly see to what extent the second-order eggs have developed.
Some are still a pot of thick organic liquid, while some have gradually developed and begun to look like tiger insects.
It's like shining a light on a hatching egg and observing the developing chick inside the eggshell.
At this moment, the number of second-order insect eggs embedded in the surface of this meat mountain alone reaches 210 on Lin Feng's side. If you include the four sides, the total number is 210. There are as many as 840 pieces!
There are twenty second-order eggs in the bottom row, and then they decrease in sequence upwards, forming an arithmetic sequence.
Lin Feng only took one look and calculated how much he wanted to sum up.
However, it is simply impossible for a Mother Queen at the early stage of the third level to possess so many second-level insect eggs.
First of all, there are only tens of thousands of low-level black spine worms under its command. Within a certain period, at most, five hundred second-level worm eggs will be born.
Furthermore, there are so many second-order tiger spine insects, which are far beyond its control.
And this just confirms Chi Yi’s speculation...
The Mother Queen of Haicheng is handing over all the production tasks of the second-order tiger spine worms to the Alliance Mother Queen in Jiangbei, and she is doing her best to hatch and synthesize the new second-order worms.
At that time, the two groups of Zerg will cooperate again, defeat and annex the human defenders blocking the road in one fell swoop,
and then advance into Taihu Lake to complete further expansion!
The invincible fleet in the hands of Lin Feng is about to face the most difficult challenge.
Thousands of tiger spine worms chased and intercepted them,
And the indiscriminate bombardment by hundreds of new second-level Zerg!
Just when everyone saw so many second-order insect eggs, their hearts were surging...
Suddenly, the expression on Chrysalis changed, and he looked nervously towards the pyramid as the hatching nest. From behind, footsteps began to approach Lin Feng...
At the same time, a voice reminded:
"Be careful! There are other guards!"
At this moment, from the dark depths of the meat tower that was dimly illuminated...
A humanoid creature walked out.
(End of this chapter)