Chapter 240

"Is it related to them losing their insect wings?"

Although it was a questionable sentence, Qi Heng's tone was firm.

【Yes. 】

A three-dimensional image of the female insect appeared on the screen, with several locations highlighted, including the area on the back where the wings originally grew on the shoulder blades.

[The wings of female insects not only play a great role in combat and training, but are also crucial to their physical condition.]

[Most of the female insects in this group, using Flame as a benchmark, have lost their wings for over twenty years. Generally speaking, losing wings for even just a few months can cause significant inconvenience to their lives.]

Yan and the others were able to endure it, mostly because they were too young when they lost their insect wings.

Before he could even sense the effect of the insect wings, he had already lost them, which was why he had been able to get by peacefully for so many years. But now that he had to start cultivating star power again, the disadvantages of not having insect wings began to appear.

Qi Heng was thinking in his heart.

[Forgive A0's frankness, Your Excellency, the loss of their insect wings has had a disastrous impact on them.]

[If possible, it is recommended to mark the task of restoring the insect wings as a priority first, and find a way to restore the wings for the Tianjia female insect as soon as possible.]

[Otherwise, if you continue to practice, the outbreak of mental disorder is only a matter of time.]

More importantly, according to calculations, if this continues, their already short lifespans will be further strained. Even if their condition is slowed, the root cause of the disease won't be cured.

Qi Heng: "...I know."

Eradicate the root of the disease? To put it simply, it's nothing more than letting them grow a pair of insect wings again.

"We've discussed this before, but it's not possible at the moment."

He is not that cold-blooded. If he had any other way, he would not allow the female insect to do such a thing as moths to the flame and burn their life in exchange for strength.

Qi Heng raised his hand and pressed it on his heart, his face revealing a hint of contemplation.

"Perhaps, we should start the second phase this morning." He was referring to the progress of the integration.

This creature, though not human, appears to be a human, but in fact one third of its body has been integrated with the genes of the Tianjia Zerg.

I originally thought I could put it aside for a while, but I didn't expect the problem with the female insects to become imminent.

The system's database was damaged, and he was not the real Tianjia master - at least not his body.

Based on these two points, the previous conclusion was that there was no other treatment method, but if these two points were resolved, would there be a new turning point?

"A0, we've accumulated enough energy for the system upgrade. How long will it take?"

The system's energy has been accumulated long ago. Upgrading from level one to level two requires 100,000 energy, upgrading from level two to level three requires 1 million energy, and upgrading from level three to level four requires 10 million energy... The later the system is, the more energy it needs to upgrade.

He remembered that when he was playing the game, when the system was upgraded from level 6 to level 7, the energy required reached 10 billion.

Because I was already invincible in the game at that time, and there was probably no point in upgrading, and I would have to consume so much accumulated energy.

So even though he had accumulated enough energy to upgrade to level seven, he didn't click on the upgrade in the end.

Now that I think about it, I might as well have clicked on it. So much energy would have been wasted... With that energy, even with the current strength of the Tianjia civilization, it would be no problem to plow the Milky Way again.

[Currently, the system's energy reserve is 500,000.]

[Level 1 to Level 2 upgrade, approximately takes 01:59:00. Do you want to upgrade?]

"Two hours... proceed with the upgrade. I hope you can give me good news once the upgrade is complete."

[Consume 100,000 system energy to upgrade the system. The system will be unavailable during the upgrade time.]

[Please wait patiently, Master.]

After this sound, A0 fell completely silent.

The absence of the system doesn’t mean Qi Heng has nothing else to do.

It can be said that the system helped him a lot after he traveled through time. Although he never said it, having a familiar system after traveling through time did prevent him from feeling the panic he should have felt after traveling to another world.

You have already traveled through time, so what's the point in being anxious? According to the experiences of time travelers in most film and television works on Earth, there is a high probability that you will never be able to go back in this lifetime.

Since we are here, we should make the best of it and try to survive in the new world.

The world and environment he traveled through were indeed not very good, but they were not bad either. At least he did not face the situation of imminent death as soon as he traveled through time.

Died of laughter.

If he had traveled directly to the time when the Tianjia civilization was surrounded and destroyed, the situation would have been even more tragic.

At that time, even he would find it difficult to turn the tide.

Facing the current environment, he is still in the mood to make jokes. Doesn't this prove that the current situation is not that bad?

A three-dimensional model appeared in front of Qi Heng. The disorderly buildings piled up to form a residential area. This was the three-dimensional model of the No. 2 settlement.

Of course, it's not completely accurate, but it's as close to a one-to-one restoration as possible.

On this miniature model, the entire No. 2 gathering place is divided into 49 areas of different sizes using red laser lines, which correspond exactly to the original numbers.

There are quite a few Zerg in each area.

Qi Heng's original plan was to relocate the entire gathering place, and the relocation location was naturally the underground city which was still under construction.

After the entire dungeon is completed, it will be more than enough to accommodate the Zerg in Gathering Area No. 2, not to mention the Zerg in the neighboring gathering area.

But the biggest problem now is: it is not completed.

No matter how fast the underground city is built, it has such a huge area that it cannot be completed in a short time - he means within one or two years.

According to conservative estimates, it will take about five years to complete and deliver the entire underground city.

During these five years, the dungeon will be under construction.

It's not impossible to repair part of it and relocate part of it, but is it necessary?

Qi Heng folded his arms across his chest, leaned back in his chair, and stared at the miniature model in front of him in a trance.

The surface of Tianyun Star is no longer suitable for living, but it is not completely uninhabitable. It is just no longer habitable.

According to the Tianjia civilization's standards for habitable planets, Tianyun Star is probably the kind of planet that can be turned into a mining area, and the people would have been relocated there ten thousand years ago.

But the conditions are different now.

Living on a planet like this, which has an atmosphere but is only too cold for a few months a year and has strong winds and sand and a harsh environment at other times, is actually not unbearable.

When he first designed the dungeon, one of his reasons was to improve the living conditions of the Tianjia Zerg. With existing technology, living underground might be more comfortable than living on the surface after the dungeon is completed.

Secondly, it was considered that if a war broke out in the future, the underground bunkers would be more solid and would not be like the paper-mache buildings on the ground, which would be destroyed by a few shells falling from the sky without leaving anything behind.

No matter how optimistic Qi Heng was, he was not so optimistic as to think that after the Tianjia Zerg exposed the fact that they had escaped the control of the Star Alliance, the Star Alliance would still let them go with a smile.

Even though Lu Ze has been arranged to go to the Western Ring Star Belt to provide some cover.

For example, they would contract all the Zergs subsequently sold on Tianyun Star to prevent the Star Alliance from realizing that Tianyun Star was slipping out of their control.

For example, he infected the people in charge of the affairs of Tianyun Star in the Ikar civilization with brain worms, making them his undercover agents planted in the Ikar civilization, and later he planned to go undercover in the main civilization galaxy of the Ikar civilization, etc.

However, even if this is done, the time that can be gained is limited.

If they're unlucky, maybe in three years? Or five years? They might be exposed.

If they were lucky enough to hide for another five to ten years, allowing them to grow and become stronger, they could even compete with the Star Alliance on the battlefield... But if it was the former...

Qi Heng had to think of several backup plans, so that when the time came, he would not be left with no way to survive.

We can't just abandon this bunch of bugs and ignore them.

He rubbed his eyebrows, feeling a little hesitant to make a decision.

Although he already had a new plan in mind to deal with the Zerg before this section of the dungeon was completed.

Basically, it means letting them live in the existing settlements unchanged, and then making new plans based on the existing settlements. Not to say that their lives will become much better, but at least they will be better than now.

Think about the days when I first came to this world and lived in Yan Ning's house.

That kind of environment is even worse than the situation in my hometown in the 1960s and 1970s.

Not to mention beds, they just spread some dried hay on the ground and then covered it with a layer of synthetic fabric. The food and accommodation were poor, and if you didn't catch a cold or have a fever, you had to rely on your physical strength to withstand it.

——I should really thank myself for giving the Tianjia Zerg strong physical qualities when I lit up the evolutionary direction of the Tianjia Zerg.

Qi Heng enlarged the model and selected Area 1.

District 1 is relatively easy to renovate. The buildings here basically look like houses, unlike the tin houses and stone houses in other districts, which make you feel like you would shiver if you live in them in winter.

With a swipe of his hand, he pulled out a model that was similar to the one in front of him, but somewhat different. The latter was more detailed than the former and had many more buildings that the former didn't have.

It is unrealistic to build a public central circle that can be used by millions of Zergs under the current conditions, so the Zerg population can be lowered.

For example, fifty thousand.

"Fifty thousand is not an easy thing." He muttered to himself and sighed.

We need to renovate the ground living areas, and every aspect of food, clothing, housing, transportation, education, medical care... is a key point.

Food and clothing are not a big problem. There is still a lot of stock of the messy clothes that Ikal brought with him, so there is no need to worry about not having enough clothes to wear in the short term.

He is not the stingy Grandet of the Icarian civilization who would skimp on clothes.

Long before, he had directly asked the unicorns to open up the exchange and ensure that they could survive this harsh winter safely.

Housing is the biggest issue. The existing "houses" are in such bad condition that it is imperative to gradually advance their renovation and reconstruction, but how to proceed is another problem.

People are not worried about scarcity but inequality. We should try our best to avoid this kind of thing.

Traveling is probably the least problematic issue.

The underground train to the underground city that was previously built can not only travel back and forth between Gathering No. 2 and the underground city, but can also travel within Gathering No. 2, between Area 1 and Area 49.

That's good.

At least some important but indispensable facilities can be shared by several districts.

Qi Heng leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes for a nap, but his brain did not stop thinking. There were still many problems that needed to be solved that popped up one after another.

I don’t know how much time has passed.

The optical computer he wore on his wrist, which was more decorative than practical, made a slight buzzing sound, reminding him that he should open his eyes.