Chapter 164

"I have replied to them as you asked."

"They didn't raise any suspicions. They just urged me to get ready quickly. They also asked if there was anything wrong with the fleet led by Major General Dorn before it left."

Qi Heng nodded: "Well done."

Imper was not at all happy to hear this. He looked at the 'doctor' on the screen with a worried look on his face and said, "Though I've managed to cope for now, where can I get the amount they want..."

The removed insect wings, the specially selected insect cubs, the various grades of star stones, ores, etc., which one of these does not require time to accumulate?

Now, why do we need such a large number of them all at once? The meaning is obvious.

There is only one way to get it in a short period of time, and that is to kill the chicken to get the eggs.

——Forcing the Tianjia Zerg in the gathering place to hand over the insect pups that were born during this period and whose wings have not been clipped yet.

——Forcing them to condense star power in a very short period of time to charge the star stones and to go to the mines to mine endlessly.

It can be said that after doing this, the number of Tianjia Zerg will definitely drop by seven or eight tenths, and the lives of Tianjia Zerg will be used to fill the number required for this batch.

Would the Doctor do that? Would he sacrifice his own people's lives in exchange for a peaceful escape?

Imper may have had some thoughts in her mind, but she would never say it out loud in front of the 'doctor'.

"The quantity of the items isn't a problem," Qi Heng said casually. "What you should be thinking about now is how to get them to Tianyun Star before the handover. I need to contact them in advance, and the person I choose...can't be too low-ranking."

"Do you understand?"

The things that were intercepted earlier are still piled up on the fourth underground floor of the Dead Egg Pit. Although a lot of the star stones have been used up, they are replenished very quickly - the speed at which the mining worms dig ore is not comparable to that of the female miners.

The Star Stone cannot be replenished much at once, but the remaining part can be placed on the surface to completely fool people.

Imper didn't know that the previous batch of goods had never been sent out of Tianyun Star. In fact, if it weren't for the appearance of this investigation fleet, he would not have known about the accident of the fleet led by Major General Dorn.

As soon as he heard the news, he equated the fleet accident with the "doctor".

Now hearing about early contact again? Imper almost immediately thought of herself. Could it be that the 'Doctor' was planning to use the Cerebrate again to control the survey fleet?!

For the brainworm to parasitize, contact is necessary... Imper felt that he had seen through the Doctor's plan.

For a moment, he became even more wary of the doctor.

Seeing that Yinpo was stunned, Qi Heng didn't want to think too much about it and ended the call directly.

Imper is a clever person, and he always completes the tasks assigned to him very well. I think this time will be no different.

Qi Heng touched the brain worm lying at his feet and took it directly into the folded space.

The environment inside the folded space was the same as the last time, without any changes. In the open space in front of him were primitive Zergs that were still in the larval stage.

The brain worm next to him was half a meter tall, with a silver and white ring on its head, floating not far above its head like an angel's halo.

On its chubby body, there are two pairs of strongly arthropods growing from the abdomen, arc-shaped silver wings on its back, and blue-green compound eyes have evolved into vertical pupils... Its body shape has already become fully mature.

This was also the first time that Qi Heng saw a mature brain worm. He had to say that at first sight, he felt that this brain worm was a little dull and didn't look very smart.

But even if you think so, you still have to do what you have to do.

"Go ahead."

"In the name of the Lord of Tianjia, I grant you the qualifications to form a combat network and become the commander who guides them in battle."

He patted the back of the brain worm's head, signaling it to come forward and integrate its mental power into the dormant larvae.

The original Zerg race has only one supreme will, which is the will of the commander. Apart from this, they have almost no individual will.

If the commander is absent and the swarm splits into smaller groups, they will be led by the highest-ranking insect commander.

Due to the lack of necessary conditions, although the brain worm has entered the mature stage, it has not immediately advanced to the king worm.

Speaking of this, we have to mention that one of the necessary conditions for the brain worm to advance to the king worm is that it requires hundreds of millions of worms as the basis for the birth of powerful collective intelligence... Qi Heng cannot do this now.

In other words, the old template brainworms are not suitable for use now.

He needed the brain worms to evolve new abilities, such as the ability to think and command small swarms. Since this requirement overlapped with the abilities of the current superior Zerg brain worms, it took little effort to evolve the abilities he wanted.

It is a superior Zerg, and has the spiritual imprint bestowed by the 'Overlord', which is enough for it to become the ruler of the small swarm of Zerg in front of it.

The brain worm obeyed his command and flew to the front of the group of larvae. Then it hovered in the air and folded one of the two pairs of wings behind it to wrap its body. The silver ring on its head instantly released powerful mental fluctuations.

The intensity of the mental power that erupted at that moment was close to C level or above.

Among the larvae that received this mental fluctuation, except for some insects whose species had been determined, the rest of the initial engineer insects also began to choose the direction of evolution under the influence of the brain worm.

Qi Heng stood aside and watched, while A0 reported to him the number of transformed insects truthfully.

[Larvae: 7,900.]

[Evolution Direction: 5400 phantom bugs, 500 bluetail butterflies, 400 swift blade bugs, and the remaining 1600 larvae transformed into F-level mother nests - xue bugs.]

After integrating its own mental fluctuations into the mental network collectively formed by the larvae, the brain worm's eyes became much more alert. Under the responsibility given to it, the inherited memory hidden deep in its genes gradually unfolded.

Under the requirements of "concealment, survival, and development" given by the "Overlord", it combined the existing information and instinctively chose a path suitable for the future development of its own insect swarm.

After the connection was completed, the brain worm turned and flew back, landed in front of him and crawled at his feet, its eyes filled with loyalty and fanaticism.

"You just wait here from now on. I will take you away from here when I need you." This sentence was transmitted to the brain worm through mental power.

"--yes."

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