Chapter 16

Qi Heng did not give the larvae overly complicated instructions. He was the master, not the commander, and he could not control these little white worms to work all the time, so he could only give them simple orders, such as [eat][grow][collect ore] and other instructions.

Fortunately, he has a system. As the larvae are created by the system using energy, some of their behaviors can be controlled by the system.

After he used his mental power to engrave the instructions into the little white worms' poor brains, the round little white worms rolled over twice in front of him with their small black eyes open as if to please him, and then began to move slowly on the ground.

As mining engineering units, their talent is mining, which is engraved in their instincts.

Qi Heng asked them to go through the pile of stones in front of them and dig behind the pile of stones.

These stones were obstacles for him, but for the mining worms, whose bodies were only half the size of a little finger, they could easily pass through the gaps in the stones.

The little white bugs received the instructions and moved onto the stone little by little in a very orderly manner under Qi Heng's gaze.

Then, under the guidance of the system, it passed through the gap in the stone pile. When it encountered a very narrow gap, the leading little white worm opened its mouth as if it was yawning slowly, revealing its shiny teeth, and bit the stone blocking the way with a roar.

Even though the stone fragments they bit off were very large compared to their body size, they were still eaten by the leading little white worm. It crawled and ate at the same time, and soon a tunnel the size of a fist was bitten through the back of the stone.

These images are monitored through the system. As a product of the system, the little white worm can transmit the images it sees in its field of vision back to the system without consuming energy when the distance is not far.

There are no better tools than these primitive Zerg without self-awareness. They are not afraid of hardship or fatigue and can keep working as long as they are well fed. Sleepless nights are nothing to them.

The little white worms that passed through the pile of rocks dispersed immediately after seeing the buried mine tunnel, and began to bite the wall in big mouthfuls according to the instructions of the master.

Qi Heng looked at them working hard from the system interface and smiled slightly.

It turns out that it would be faster to find helpers to collect energy together. If I rely on myself, not only do I have to dig every day, but I also have to hand in hundreds of kilograms of ore. It will take a long time to accumulate the energy needed by the system.

Mining bug engineers, three per energy point.

Their food source can be rocks in mineral veins. If there is enough food, it only takes three days for them to grow from larvae to adults. During this period, except for the cocooning necessary for growth, they are digging all the time.

They are very good tool insects for Qi Heng, who needs to be thrifty, otherwise he would not choose to create them to obtain energy.

Qi Heng left the mine and would not come back again until three days later.

At that time, he will not only be able to harvest a pile of processed raw ore, but also create a new batch of mining insect engineers - after all, if he wants to dig out the entire vein, relying on 150 is not enough.

Well, what will happen to Tianyun Star after the mineral veins are exhausted?

What does that have to do with him now?

He protected the ecological environment of Tianyun Star in the past because it was his territory. Now that Tianyun Star has changed its owner, there is naturally no need to protect it.

It would be a waste if we don’t eat it. Anyway, we must not let the evil forces behind Tianyun Star who are enslaving the Zerg get any benefit.

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After leaving the abandoned mine tunnel marked as No. 1, Qi Heng found a mine tunnel to complete his KPI for today.

With the help of the system, he was distracted while digging.

It has been nearly a week since I traveled to the Zerg. When the system brought me to Tianyun Star, I only had 500 energy points left. Apart from some used up at the beginning, the remaining 10 energy points were consumed to maintain the daily operation of the system.

Activating [Energy Conversion] today cost 200 energy points, and creating 150 mining bugs cost 50 points... The remaining energy is rounded up to 180 points, which can keep the system running for 18 days without other consumption.

Qi Heng's thoughts fell on the mining bugs he had just created.

Miner Sappers are related to the Tenga Zerg, but belong to a different evolutionary branch.

The Tianjia Zerg is a branch of the original Zerg that emerged during its evolution. Unlike the original Zerg where "one is ten thousand and the commander is the swarm", the Tianjia Zerg is an advanced Zerg race that was born from the original Zerg and has human appearance and intelligence. Each one of them is an independent individual.

The only thing that is similar to the original Zerg is that each of them has the worship and respect for the Overmind engraved in their bones.

The original Zerg were under the leadership and command of the commander, and the commander was subject to the master of the Tianjia civilization.

In the past, well, Qi Heng is referring to the past in the game.

——When the Tianjia civilization walked out of its mother planet and into the galaxy, conquering various interstellar civilizations in the Milky Way with overwhelming force, the original Zerg firmly occupied the position of the top military leader of the Zerg with its absolute number of Zerg sea tactics.

The "natural disaster" that made all the major interstellar civilizations cry for their parents and tremble in fear at the sight of the Zerg refers to the Tianjia civilization in general, but if it is taken alone, it undoubtedly refers to the original Zerg.

Under the leadership of the commander, the original Zerg can continuously produce various types of troops as long as they have sufficient energy.

In order to support such an invincible army, the original Zerg ate wherever they went. The star fields they passed through were like a swarm of locusts, leaving no grass behind. The original Zerg with excellent teeth would not even leave behind a meteorite.

All civilizations in the Milky Way know that the only one who can order the original Zerg to stop is the ruler of the Tianjia civilization, so if you wake up one day and find that a large Zerg army has arrived at the doorstep of your home planet, it is recommended to raise the white flag and surrender directly rather than having your home destroyed.

This is also the origin of the two titles that Qi Heng won when playing the game: [Disaster Creator] and [Disaster Chain]. While he created the disaster, he also became the only chain that could stop the disaster and confine it to a safe area.

——No civilization can resist surrendering in the face of the Zerg's natural disaster, unless they seek the destruction of civilization.

A piece of ore was pried out of the rock wall with a crowbar.

Qi Heng bent down to pick it up and threw it into the wicker basket which was already half full.

I don't know whether to say it's the Zerg's misfortune or the other civilizations' luck. If the original Zerg commander from more than 10,000 years ago was still alive, other civilizations probably wouldn't have had any chance... But once it's released and there's no one to stop it, it's only a matter of time before this entire galaxy is eaten up.

The original Zerg don't know what restraint is.

The existence that can contain them will no longer exist, and the shackles imposed on them will be broken. In this case, interstellar civilization will only face a real natural disaster.

No matter how glorious the Tianjia civilization was ten thousand years ago, that is now a thing of the past.

As glorious as the Zerg overlord was back then, Qi Heng is as miserable now, just like a Zerg that has fallen from the clouds of the starry sea into the humble dust.

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Three days later.

Abandoned mine tunnel No. 1, in front of the pile of rocks blocking the road.

Qi Heng observed as he approached here and found that no other Zerg had come here except the traces he left three days ago.

During this period, his mental power has undergone a qualitative change. According to the classification of mental power control levels, he successfully entered the first level after the total amount of mental power exceeded 100. The range covered after releasing mental power is much farther than at the beginning.

The mining bugs remembered the frequency emitted by the dominant mental power. The moment Qi Heng released the mental power, the mining bugs sensed it.

He asked the miners behind the pile of stones to clear the stones blocking the way and create a passage for himself to pass through.

After a while, the sound of rocks being gnawed was heard from behind the pile of rocks.

Soon, a hole large enough for one person to pass through appeared. Leading the way was a small white worm that was half-upright and about as tall as his knees. Its soft and cloud-like body revealed that this mining worm had entered maturity.

Qi Heng looked at the mining bug in front of him: "What a surprising appearance."

He doesn't look ferocious or scary, he's even a little cute.

But then again, the image of these small insects in the game is not very scary. Even some combat troops, when they don't show their fangs, can easily make people think they are harmless and let down their guard.

As the only one among the 150 mining bugs that could move in front of him to greet him, it was also a bug of status among these mining bugs, roughly equivalent to the foreman of this group of mining bugs.

"Lead the way." He said this while using his mental power to give instructions to the miner in front of him.

Although the original Zerg have no self-awareness, if there is no higher-level superior, the same type of soldiers will elect the most powerful one as the boss to carry out detailed division of labor.

For example, the worm in front of you, numbered as Mining Bug 28 within the system, has become the foreman of this group of mining worms because of its fastest evolution. It is responsible for adjusting the division of labor during work and continuously improving the speed of mining.

The big white bug understood the command and took him behind the pile of stones.

The mine tunnel behind the stone pile can no longer be called a mine tunnel. The space inside is far larger than the outside. The rock walls continue to widen to both sides, and a large amount of clean crystal ore is piled up next to it.

Except for the twenty-eight who were leading the way for him, the other one hundred and forty-nine were working hard.

Really capable.

Qi Heng sighed in his heart, then instructed the two insects to get some stones to block the entrance they had come in through, so as to avoid being discovered by other female insects who came to mine.

No one can refuse a group of 007 employees who work efficiently and do not ask for anything in return. He is not a black-hearted capitalist, but he cannot say no either.

Qi Heng took a look and saw a mouthful of big steel teeth, which was completely different from the cute miners when they kept their mouths shut. After a little thought, he knew what was going on - most likely they obtained some metal ions from the rocks when they were gnawing on them, and after synthesis, they formed the teeth that could help them improve their work efficiency.

He walked over to the ore and held out his hand, letting the system absorb all of it.

These ores were different from the ones he dug out himself. The stone skin that originally covered the outer layer of the ores was eaten clean by the mining insects as food, leaving only pure obsidian crystals.

In this way, not only will the system's energy absorption and conversion efficiency be greatly improved, but after the obsidian crystal is absorbed, nothing will be left except a pile of powder, so there is no need to worry about what you are doing being discovered.

Qi Heng took a quick glance and made a rough estimate in his mind, and concluded that the amount of obsidian crystals here was definitely no less than one ton.

After doing this calculation, he couldn't help but feel more excited.

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