Chapter 163: Using Artistic Conception, the King Spiny Worm in the Crater

Hearing Liu Yi's report, Lin Feng's eyes flashed with surprise, and then he silently turned his gaze to the side. Shen Jie, who was curled up like a baby in the black and yellow insect egg.

At this moment, the shell of the insect egg absorbed the layers of insect armor that had fallen off Shen Jie's body, condensing into a black and yellow hard shell. Compared with the previous white insect egg, it looked more like a cocoon.

However, whether he could break out of the cocoon and become a butterfly, and finally be reborn, depended on Shen Jie's own efforts to break free from the spiritual world of the insect race.

Lin Feng thought for a moment and turned his head:

"How are these awakeners doing after waking up?"

Liu Yi swallowed his saliva. What happened now was even more mysterious than what he experienced in the underground insect nest, which made him feel uneasy for a while:

"It's okay..."

"But their consciousness collectively appeared in the same dream world. According to the description of those who are conscious, the dream world is desolate, and there are many second-level tiger-backed insects, leading black-backed insects to besiege and hunt them."

"And after being killed in the dream, their self-consciousness will awaken in the real world."

"Those who killed tiger-backed insects are in surprisingly good condition after waking up. Those who didn't kill them and died directly became a little confused and depressed..."

"But they will be fine after a rest."

Lin Feng nodded and watched the first batch of second-level awakeners come out one after another. Among the thirty people, there were seven or eight people whose identified data were 20 to 30 points more than others in terms of mental attributes.

It is probably related to killing tiger-backed insects in the spiritual world.

And the fact that they unexpectedly appeared in the Zerg spiritual world that Shen Jie was trapped in might be the characteristics of the Zerg artistic conception or domain.

A certain spiritual energy, like radiation, invisible and intangible, is spreading outward from Shen Jie, and the creatures that are undergoing deep awakening nearby will be intertwined with this artistic conception energy when their spiritual attributes start to leap, and thus be involved.

Lin Feng secretly speculated in his heart, but he had to ask the Zerg queen, Ling Yi, for the specific situation.

Ling Yi obviously knows more about the research theory of spiritual artistic conception and the field of cosmic life than he does.

However, the other party has not returned yet, and this phenomenon has not caused any danger for the time being...

So Lin Feng plans to continue the experiment:

"Let them summarize their experience, inform the next batch of people who have awakened for the second time, and then concentrate near this insect egg..."

"I will come to protect them personally!"

Liu Yi nodded. In this case, only Lin Feng, as the leader, can take the initiative to stabilize people's hearts.

Soon, the second group of thirty first-stage late-stage perfect awakeners, who were also the first group of veterans to follow Lin Feng, after each of them killed a second-stage insect egg and drank the organic nutrient solution inside...

They stood neatly between the insect eggs, looking at the sergeant in front of them with a little nervousness.

Lin Feng smiled slightly:

"Don't worry, the dream you experienced with Captain Shen Jie is not life-threatening. Even if you die in battle, you will only be mentally depressed for a while, but as long as you kill the tiger-spine insects, you can get additional improvement in mental attributes. The more you kill, the faster and more you will improve. This is a unique and precious opportunity."

"Especially for awakeners like you with enhanced physique, the increase in mental power can give you an extremely tenacious will, and at the same time, you are more resistant to mental attacks."

"Have a good grasp of it."

"Finally, tell Captain Shen Jie not to forget his identity as a human being. His girlfriend is still waiting for him here."

After that, there was a burst of laughter from the audience.

Lin Feng nodded, indicating that they should lie down beside the killed eggs and enter the second deep awakening state.

With the protection of the red black armor and the sergeant guarding by his side, safety is beyond doubt.

And this time, Lin Feng immediately opened the telepathy, concentrated on covering a radius of 50 meters, with the black and yellow cocoon where Shen Jie was as the center, and spread to the awakened people around.

As expected, in the energy radar map displayed in the brain, a very dim energy wave spread out from the cocoon.

Like the magnetic field of high-energy matter, it is continuous, and when it comes into contact with the thirty nearby high-energy light spots, it will produce ripple-like shock waves.

These traces are actually very weak. If it is not to narrow the concentrated sensing range and observe it specially, it is extremely difficult to detect under normal conditions.

It’s a pity that Lin Feng can’t enter it.

Unless he also opens the awakening state now, absorbs the source of the artistic conception of the killing node mother body, and waits for the two to interact, there is a chance to enter the same time and space.

However, Lin Feng does not intend to take risks.

The soldiers and second-level legion members in front of them are not strong enough to deal with possible crises, such as the elite second-level Zerg that will come to support.

In addition, it is already past five o'clock, and the invincible fleet commanded by Chen Yanyan should have arrived long ago, but there is no sign of it until now.

For the sake of safety, Lin Feng plans to let this batch of soldiers who have started the second-level awakening go to test the waters first.

Killing the tiger spine worms in the spiritual world can increase the spiritual attributes, and it can also make these second-level legion reserves prepare in advance.

The increase in spiritual attributes represents stronger willpower, which is also effective in resisting the assimilation of Zerg genes.

If they successfully kill the tiger spine worms, they will become the seed players of future gene warriors.

It is also the final complete body of the second-level legion.

Absolutely invincible from weapons and equipment to personal strength.

Such an invincible army, even when facing the elite second-level squad of the Zerg, such as the Pulse Scorpion, the Tank Flame Armor, and the most dangerous warrior hunters in the underground hive, still has a great advantage.

So Lin Feng decided to make good use of this opportunity to lay a solid foundation for the birth of the second-level army in advance.

Thinking of this, Lin Feng opened his eyes, looked at the black and yellow cocoon beside him, and smiled.

It seems that the top biotechnology of the Zerg must be well developed and excavated in the future, especially in the spiritual field.

When Lin Feng was in the underground hive before, he thought that Lingyi was full of pride in the automatic production line of the second-level tiger spine worm, but it was actually unworthy of the name.

As a mass-produced unit, the tiger spine worm is not perfect, especially the defect of low spiritual attribute, although this is also related to the Zerg's demand for war weapons...

But defects are defects.

And the mass production that Lin Feng wants must be perfect in all aspects at the same time.

A device that can effectively improve the spiritual attribute value is very attractive and creates value.

While Lin Feng was staring at the black and yellow cocoon, thinking, Shen Jie inside was also struggling painfully in the spiritual world of the spinal worm.

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It has been more than a few months since he met the group of human awakeners.

During this period, although Shen Jie was able to stay awake, he would always unconsciously fall into a lost state in the killing. Self-cognition changed and struggled back and forth between humans and Zerg, and even gradually tore.

Even every time when the wound on half of his face grew a new beetle armor again, Shen Jie would tear it off without hesitation and crush it again.

Use the burning pain to remind himself that he is a human being, not a bug.

But Shen Jie knew very well that if he continued like this, he would sooner or later become a schizophrenic lunatic.

So this time, he looked at the central area of ​​the sulfur zone, the volcano that was still emitting thick smoke and constantly releasing dust and magma!

He has already entered the late stage of the second stage for a long time...

But from the moment he was promoted to the late stage, Shen Jie instinctively felt that there was some kind of terrible creature hidden in the volcano, a powerful Zerg that was ten times or even a hundred times more powerful than the second-level tiger-spine worm.

Shen Jie guessed that there might be a high-level Zerg hidden there, and killing it might be the only way for him to get rid of the Zerg spiritual world!

Thinking of this, Shen Jie planned to take this final feat of suicide while he was still sane and could stay awake.

It took him a few more days to get rid of all the tiger-spine worms in the sulfur zone near the volcano. Regardless of the cost of being completely assimilated, he feasted on all the high-energy insect meat.

He pushed his strength to the peak of the second stage, which was at the critical stage from the second stage to the third stage, infinitely close to the high-level Zerg.

If he faced the second-level peak tiger-spine worm in the underground mother nest again, Shen Jie would be confident to fight it.

And at this moment, his body has expanded by two times.

It was three and a half meters high, and a pile of giant bone blades with arms was six or seven meters long.

Then, with madness in his eyes, Shen Jie sat on hundreds of tiger spine worm corpses. After tearing off the armor on half of his face, his naked eyes were extremely determined, and he turned into a residual shadow and flew towards the crater in the distance.

The diameter of the base of the entire volcano reached several kilometers, and the vent at the center of the top was also hundreds of meters wide.

This is an extremely active active volcano.

It has been in a semi-eruption state...

Unlike the bubbling hot springs in the sulfur zone, the bubbles here are orange-orange liquid magma, and the surging lava heat waves can instantly carbonize organic matter.

The temperature nearby is as high as hundreds, and the steaming air is like surging waves, distorting the space under the refraction of light.

Further down, there is yellow-white poisonous gas, which drifts in large quantities from the porous rocks of the volcanic mountain, diffuses halfway up the mountain, and forms a ring-shaped poisonous miasma that continues to sink.

Ordinary first-level life, even if they climb to the foot of the volcano, will be directly poisoned to death by the extremely harsh environment here, let alone being able to step into the crater...

The high temperature of Baidu is like an air fryer, which has fried the flesh and blood life to a brown before dehydration.

At this moment, Shen Jie has arrived at the halfway point of the mountain and is about to face the thick yellow and white miasma in front of him.

It is sulfur and other substances, which form acidic poisonous fog with water vapor under high temperature evaporation.

The pungent smell makes Shen Jie feel slightly dizzy.

After closing the mouthparts and the breathing holes in the abdomen, he rushed into it in one go.

However, Shen Jie still underestimated the power of the miasma.

These yellow and white poisonous fogs are not only highly toxic, but also have a high temperature inside.

The temperature of the rocks on the surface is as high as hundreds of degrees, and the poisonous fog lingering on the mountainside is also heated to sixty or seventy degrees. At the same time, the dust and water merge and become extremely sticky.

Shen Jie's forward speed quickly slowed down, and when the insect armor on his body came into contact with the poisonous mist, it was corroded by the liquid concentrated sulfuric acid in it, making a sizzling sound.

The most painful thing was the half of his face that was torn open. The thin shell that had not yet condensed into a shape was quickly corroded by the poisonous sulfuric acid, revealing the facial muscles and blood vessels inside...

The subtle burning pain was like a thousand needles piercing his face at the same time, stimulating the induction of every nerve ending, and when it was concentrated and fed back to the brain, Shen Jie almost fainted from the pain...

Once he fell into a coma here, the result would naturally be that he would be swallowed by the poisonous miasma, and before turning into cooked meat, his whole body would be corroded until there was nothing left, not even the bones.

Shen Jie gritted his teeth, and the strong life energy accumulated in his body began to be activated in advance, pouring into every tissue on the surface of his body, stimulating them to proliferate and divide, and filling the parts corrupted by the miasma.

After the warmth from the core flowed into his limbs, especially his feet, Shen Jie rushed directly with his head down...

Finally, after more than a few minutes, a figure with pits all over his body rushed out of this poisonous miasma area that was hundreds of meters wide...

Shen Jie fell to the ground, feeling the scorching heat from the broken insect armor on his knees and hands, to confirm that he was still alive...

When he gradually recovered, he raised his head and looked up into the distance. The final destination of this trip was not far away:

The crater was just the last 100 meters ahead.

Shen Jie climbed up step by step.

The instinctive fear in his heart became stronger with each step closer.

He could feel that the high-level Zerg was right under the armor on his feet, in the magma at the top of the crater...

The human part of his rationality made Shen Jie unable to believe that there would be a terrifying life form in the world that could withstand a thousand-degree high temperature.

Even if he had reached the peak of the second level, he could only withstand the high temperature of two or three hundred degrees for a few minutes. If it lasted longer, the armor of this creature would not be able to withstand the high temperature and would eventually burn into a pile of charred shells.

So what kind of existence can feed on magma and live in a volcano! ?

After going through all the hardships and dangers...

At this moment, Shen Jie was no longer able to fight, but he still wanted to witness with his own eyes the truth of the fear that lingered in his heart with the determination to die.

As he stepped onto the top of the crater step by step, the thick armor on the soles of his feet burned and fell off layer by layer, and also grew again layer by layer.

It was not until more than a minute later that Shen Jie climbed to the top of this active volcano.

He then leaned over and looked down...

In the elliptical crater with a diameter of three or four hundred meters, except for the volcanic rock that had cooled to several hundred degrees and covered the edge, the inside was full of black and yellow magma blocks, forming a 300-meter wide magma pool.

And farther away, from the mouth of the mountain top that was constantly eroded and collapsed by the magma, billowing gray and black smoke and countless volcanic ashes floated into the atmosphere, over the years, until the entire planet was completely covered.

Shen Jie took a deep breath. When he got here, the instinctive fear from his heart was not so strong.

But it couldn't stop his determination to challenge!

He took a deep breath, and the hot air baked his throat and lungs, and the burning pain stimulated him...

He used all his strength to make bursts of hissing!

This is the provocative sound of tiger spine worms fighting, and it is also the signal of spine worms to challenge.

As Shen Jie tried his best to vent his unwillingness, anger, and final powerlessness...

The next moment, the magma pool in the crater suddenly surged like boiling water, and even the ground was shaking!

Then a long golden leg hundreds of meters long emerged from the magma pool like a sharp knife...

And stabbed directly at Shen Jie at the mountain pass.

The next second, Shen Jie was resurrected from the spot.

He tore open his clothes and looked at his white chest, where he could still feel the burning and tearing sensation.

"Level 3... King Spine Worm!!!"

"Intention of killing..."