Chapter 156 Hatching Nest, Second-Level Insect Eggs in the Meat Tower

Just as everyone was ready to kill the six or seven tiger-backed worms in front of them, another group of second-level tiger-backed worms suddenly appeared in front of the entrance to the insect nest.

Lin Feng immediately raised his hand to signal the team members behind him to stop aiming their guns.

Six or seven tiger-backed worms are easy to deal with, but once the number doubles or even exceeds, the fierce attack of everyone will inevitably cause vibrations, and then disintegrate the wormhole structure here.

If the mud, sand and rocks piles that fall from the top collapse and bury the entrance of the target insect nest...

Then all the efforts made before will be in vain.

The wormhole tunnel where everyone is located is far less solid than the large insect nest like a cave.

Moreover, the collapse of the tunnel means that the way out will be completely blocked.

So in the current situation, it is necessary to wait for the two waves of tiger-backed worm patrol teams to leave first or all of them, and then enter the insect nest first before launching an attack.

The two waves of tiger-backed worm patrol teams met each other.

As before, they used their giant jaws to touch and communicate with each other and exchange information.

After confirming that everything is fine, they will take over and rotate.

Always ensure the safety of the underground insect nest.

However, just as Lin Feng and others were waiting patiently, a tiger spine worm suddenly left his team, walked into the group of red beetles, and began to use the stingers on both sides of its giant jaws to gently hit the giant red beetle under his feet.

The red beetle seemed to receive some kind of signal, and directly discharged a pile of beige fluid from the excretion port behind the tail abdomen.

It was the food that the cricket controlled them to spit out to deliver to the queen mother!

However, the fluid pulled out of the tail is naturally not as good as the one spit out from the mouth, especially after passing through the digestive tract, it is mixed with many impurities and toxins.

But for the second-level tiger spine worm, it is still delicious.

Because the red beetle is sticking its tail up and lifting 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 worm then leans on its side and sucks with the mouthparts inside the giant jaw.

Normally, their feeding is the same as that of low-level black-spine insects. They only need to enter the biological nest, and the pipeline will automatically insert and fill up like gasoline.

But those foods can only maintain basic survival needs, and have no beneficial effect on their own promotion.

So except for eating the corpses of the same kind, or attacking humans and other insect swarms under the leadership of the queen, black-spine insects no longer have other channels for promotion.

But the tiger-spine insects with higher IQs will secretly absorb these concentrated nutrient solutions, thereby slowly but safely improving their own levels.

Although the queen mother knows this, as long as it does not affect the overall interests of the insect swarm, she will not intervene too much.

After all, the strength of the second-level Zerg also determines the upper limit of the combat strength of the Zerg.

Under the premise that the queen mother does not take action easily, dealing with the powerful awakeners among humans depends entirely on the second-level Zerg.

However, at this moment, the stealing of this tiger-spine insect made Lin Feng and others who followed the red beetle swarm sweat.

Lin Feng and Shen Jie, who were lying at the front, didn't dare to breathe, for fear that the tiger-backed worms would use their sharp claws to pierce their back shells.

Both of them were made of armor made from the giant jaws of tiger-backed worms. A light tap would reveal a clear difference.

Besides, they didn't have the ability to squeeze out so much nutritious food for the tiger-backed worms.

Fortunately, when the tiger-backed worm that had left the team just sucked the third red beetle, its companion who had already walked away turned back and whistled a few times, urging it to catch up as soon as possible.

The tiger-backed worm, which was still unsatisfied, let out a strange cry of dissatisfaction and hurried away.

The hearts of the people who were hanging slowly fell.

After the two waves of tiger-backed worms left, Lin Feng looked back at Ling Yi and asked for her opinion.

Because in telepathy, in this second-level insect nest suspected to be a second-level insect egg hatching nest, there were also tiger-backed worm guards on both sides of the entrance.

And there were more than two.

There were as many as five in total.

Equivalent to the number of a squad.

In addition, the entrance is narrow and there are not many red beetles to help cover it.

As long as they rush in, a fight will inevitably break out.

At that time, in order to deal with the front and back attacks, Lin Feng and Shen Jie must separate from the ten people to carry out front and back blocking, and Ling Yi must also be used to interfere with the insect swarm’s actions.

After confirming the plan, Lin Feng gave a brief explanation in a low voice, but Long Yi, who was standing by, gave another plan:

"Don't rush to act directly."

"This is already 350 meters underground, and the group of tiger-backed insects coming from deeper underground, as well as the red beetles that transport food, have not smelled the scent of the queen mother, which means that the queen mother of the insect swarm here..."

"It is not underground in the county, but hidden in other northern urban areas."

Lin Feng was a little confused:

"So? Our action time has been extended?"

Ling Yi hummed, and then continued:

"Not only that."

"If the queen mother is not here, I can use my artistic conception...my ability to control several second-level tiger-backed insects in the insect nest, so that we can enter the interior safely without worrying about being attacked from both sides."

Lin Feng's eyes lit up immediately.

The members of the second-level legion behind him were also shocked, and then gradually understood why the commander had to take this seemingly fragile woman with him into the dangerous underground insect nest.

If the other party had superpowers and could control the second-level insect swarm, wouldn't he be able to come and go freely in the insect swarm?

After all, it was her ability that helped the group cover up their disguises and go deep into the underground.

Zhiyi coughed slightly 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 insects. The distance cannot be too far. Each time it can last for half an hour, and the cooling time also takes half an hour. It cannot compare with your direct combat effectiveness."

"And it must be used in a place far away from the Queen Mother, otherwise not only will the control be taken away, but it will also be sensed by her mind, and it will be completely exposed."

Lin Feng showed a smile and pointed to the entrance of the insect nest:

"fine."

"Then let's start quickly."

"Half an hour is enough for us to work!"

Xie nodded, and under the protection of Lin Feng and others, slowly walked towards the entrance of the insect nest. At the same time, a golden light flashed in his eyes, and with the help of 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 unable to take into account every individual insect.

Although the Queen Mother's mental attribute values ​​are in the thousands, on average, even if they are scattered among the second-order Zerg, they are not as concentrated as the centralized control of Zhiyi.

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 cockroach turned around and said calmly:

"Don't worry, they have eliminated the threat."

With that said, he gave instructions to the tiger spine insect group:

"Go, block the hole for me!"

The entrance to the insect nest is only about fifteen meters wide, and a tiger spine insect can completely block it. 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, and instead showed expressions of 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 cockroach took the brunt and entered inside.

Lin Feng signaled Shen Jie to ask the seven team members to work in pairs to explore around.

Although there is also the green slime mold in the insect nest, emitting a faint light, but just like below the first line of defense, due to the huge space of the insect nest cave, with the help of sporadic weak light sources, only things within ten meters can be seen clearly.

In Lin Feng's telepathy, there was only a large light source in the darkness ahead.

There is no way to find the location of the second-order eggs.

Therefore, 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, and 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 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 jaws help 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 wormholes over there, only the black spine worms know about it. When they advance to the late stage of the first level, they will pass through these small holes and come to the incubation room to molt for the last time, remove their armor and form a cocoon. Give birth to a new life.”

Lin Feng frowned slightly. If that's the case, isn't it a lv19 black spine worm? It doesn't 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-order 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, and in the end, probably fifty second level tiger spine worms will be born."

"As for the early-stage third-order queen mother, there are only about two to three hundred second-order tiger spine worms, and at most there will not be more than a thousand."

"At the same time, it is also limited by the synthesis of the second-order giant jaw."

"Under 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."

Upon hearing this, Lin Feng suddenly realized:

"Wait a minute, 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? The tiger spine worm hatched from the egg is a new-born insect?"

The cockroach shrugged, not caring:

"Of course. This is an evolutionary shortcut that does not require killing high-level people. It uses the biotechnology conquered by the Zerg. From lower life forms to the second stage, it can be directly synthesized through biotechnology. It just costs a little more, but it is better than 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.

Seeing the huge biological factory like a mountain of meat, its still squirming appearance, and the scattered red beetles nearby, injecting nutrient solution into it.

An inexplicable and strange feeling of horror...

emerged in everyone's mind.

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, and all evolution is to better produce offspring and continue the genes themselves, while the Zerg use superb biotechnology to write genes of living organisms, giving them new functions and tasks.

For example, there are biological devices that purify and evolve nutrient solutions.

The culture medium it injects into the second-order eggs provides energy for the metamorphosis and evolution of the first-order black spines.

There are also some second-order Zerg armor synthesis factories that collect the carapace of late-stage first-order Black Spine Insects, then add other metal minerals to decompose and reconstruct them, and finally condense the solid outer armor of Tiger Spine Insects.

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 a lv19 shotgun can blow 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 Tier 2 Tiger Spiny Insect is also a melee elite. The birth process no longer relies on its own growth.

Instead, after countless years of iteration, efficient assembly with division of labor, cooperation and modularization has evolved.

As he walked, Xie introduced it 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-level tiger spine worm can always be maintained above the passing line."

"And it's extremely fast. It's several times faster than the Mother Queen directly synthesizing second-order insect eggs."

"This is also the reason why the Mother Queen does not directly produce second-level insect eggs. Second-level insect eggs can only breed about twenty or so eggs a day, so it is more cost-effective to produce ordinary insect eggs."

"As for the new second-level Zerg, they were directly synthesized and hatched after receiving more inheritance and additional biological fusion technology in the artistic conception after promotion and breakthrough."

"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 finally arrived at the final destination of the 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 looked 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 shimmering 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 insect eggs.

Therefore, it can be clearly seen 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.

Like illuminating 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 reached 210 on Lin Feng's side alone. If the four sides were included, the total number would be 840. So many!

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.

At first, there were 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 would be born.

Furthermore, there are so many second-order tiger spine insects that 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 and defeat and annex the human defenders blocking the road in one fell swoop.

Then enter Taihu Lake to complete further expansion!

The invincible fleet in Lin Feng's hands is about to face the most difficult challenge.

Thousands of tiger spine insects 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 surged...

Suddenly, Chrysalis's expression changed, and he looked nervously towards the back of the incubation nest pyramid, and began to approach behind Lin Feng...

At the same time, he reminded aloud:

"Be careful! There are other guards!"

At this moment, the light from the meat tower dimmed into the dark depths that could not be illuminated...

A humanoid-looking creature walked out.