Chapter 0160: An unexpected surprise in the Heart of the Swarm



“I’m finally back.”

Back in the snow-covered forest cabin, Fang Zheng stretched out his body. Nymph beside him also yawned, as if she had finally returned home for the New Year after a long journey.

"It's still more comfortable here, Master."

"Yeah, that's what I thought."

Fang Zheng didn't have any problem with the Zerg, but those damn obsessive-compulsive people who would die if they didn't lay out the fungal blanket almost covered the entire planet with fungal blanket. Frankly speaking, it's a bit interesting to watch it once or twice, but it would be torture to look at the same scenery every day. At present, under the "hard work" of the Zerg, the planet Char is no longer the blue sky and white clouds it used to be, but a bright red. Except for the trees and rivers that survived, other places are full of fungal blankets and Zerg buildings...

To be honest, Fang Zheng felt like he was watching Saya no Uta. Staying in this place for too long would drive people crazy. As expected, even though his body had been transformed, his aesthetic sense was still at the level of an ordinary human, and he could not degenerate to the level of the Zerg.

Nymph obviously felt the same way. As for the little one, she preferred cute animals and blue sky and white clouds. She also had no good feelings towards the Zerg's expansion, which was like a large-scale ecological disaster.

But never mind, it’s that world’s business anyway.

"Anyway, let's take a break."

As he spoke, Fang Zheng stretched out his hand and snapped his fingers. Soon, the air in front of him began to distort, and then turned into an invisible servant, who began to diligently clean the chairs and beds. Although they had been away from this world for more than ten days, perhaps because of the heavy snow that blocked the mountain, this place was not that dirty, so it only needed to be cleaned up.

Nymph also sat aside and continued to tease the cute kitten. As for Fang Zheng, he sat down on the chair, opened his dimensional code, and began to examine his gains this time.

First, a different picture.

After Fang Zheng opened the Dimension Codex, the heavy book automatically opened, and then a bright red planet emerged from it in the form of a phantom, rotating like a 3D projection. This was the planet Char in the world of Predator. After becoming a free world, it was no longer a "world copy" and appeared in front of Fang Zheng in this special way.

This meant that Fang Zheng could enter and exit this world at will, just like he could enter the three free dungeons of "Mind, Skill and Body". However, just like the free dungeons, no matter how long Fang Zheng stayed in the Iron Blood World, the time he spent back in this world would not exceed five minutes.

But it's not all bad.

At least Fang Zheng can now wander around the Earth in the Iron Blood World, and even buy some simple and convenient food for eating in the wild. Of course, Fang Zheng did not forget to remind the Zerg to stay away from the solar system. Anyway, according to the development speed of humans in that world, they will not be able to leave the solar system within 50 years. After that... it depends on their luck, or whether the Zerg will leave them a way to survive.

Fang Zheng also wanted to see how the humans in this world would feel if they tried desperately to escape from the solar system, only to find that they were being kept captive by the Zerg.

But that was probably a long time in the future.

After completing the "Homeland" mission, Fang Zheng received two rewards.

One is the promised fixed [Heart of the Swarm], and the other is an inherent skill called [Dimensional Channel].

[Dimensional Channel] is a special summoning ability. It can even be said that this ability is used in conjunction with [Free World]. As long as Fang Zheng uses [Dimensional Channel], he can summon his servants in the Free World. The advantage of this skill is that it does not occupy the space of soul stones and summoning stones. As for the disadvantage, it has an upper limit.

That's right, Fang Zheng's current [Dimensional Channel] level is E, and the upper limit is 100 points. Fang Zheng didn't know how this value came from, but after trying it out, he had some understanding. For example, creatures like Aliens and Zerglings basically cost one point to summon one, while Hydralisks and Cockroaches cost ten points, Wyverns and Lurkers cost thirty points, Ultralisks cost fifty points, and as for Leviathan... it can't be summoned at all.

In other words, Fang Zheng can only summon a hundred jumping insects or aliens, or ten hydralisks, or three flying dragons, and two thunder beasts with the help of [Dimensional Channel]... In short, it seems to be useless at the moment.

After all, the main world is not like the Iron-Blooded World. There are many strong people here who can tear thunder beasts apart with their bare hands. If the Zerg does not have hundreds of thousands of them, I am afraid they can forget about coming to the main world to dominate.

Fortunately, the Iron Blood World is a scientific world, and everything is very scientific, so the situation like the main world did not occur. Otherwise... who knows what it would become.

On the contrary, [Heart of the Swarm] was a pleasant surprise for Fang Zheng.

You know, when [Heart of the Swarm] was on Kerrigan's soul stone, Fang Zheng didn't think this skill was that powerful. At most, it could command the swarm and communicate with it.

But when the Dimension Code solidified this skill in Fang Zheng, he finally felt the power of [Heart of the Swarm].

In other words, the moment Fang Zheng obtained the inherent skill "Heart of the Swarm", he truly understood why Kerrigan always said "I am the Swarm".

Because, I am the Swarm.

Even now, it was still the same. This was a very subtle feeling. Fang Zheng could feel that deep in his soul, there were countless insect swarms. They were like his subjects, his subordinates, and his actors. But there was something different. It felt like wherever Fang Zheng looked, the insect swarms would move their gazes and follow him. To make an inappropriate analogy, Fang Zheng was like a performer. He waved his baton and pointed it at a certain place, and tens of thousands of insect swarms would look there with him.

It was a magical feeling, because during this process, the insect swarms were not puppets as Fang Zheng thought, on the contrary, they had their own ideas, which appeared in Fang Zheng's mind like a group of people whispering behind him. For example, if Fang Zheng looked at a rabbit, the insect swarms would also stare at it, and then all kinds of thoughts would be exchanged. For example, this rabbit looked more delicious, or this rabbit looked weak, how to hunt it more efficiently, etc.

Of course, this would not affect Fang Zheng's judgment. In fact, Fang Zheng would only hear the thoughts of the insect swarm when he was willing to listen. It was just like a person had to concentrate extremely to hear those tiny sounds that were almost inaudible on weekdays, so it would not have any impact on daily life.

But the important thing is not this, but... Fang Zheng's spirit has been closely connected with the Zerg.

One is everything, and everything is one.

Of course, this ability didn't seem to have any special effects, but Fang Zheng was very clear that it might be able to solve a problem that he had been worried about.

That is the mental operation of the enchantment system!

After learning magic, Fang Zheng also understood the principles of enchantment and illusion. The power of enchantment is a magic that acts on the human spirit and interferes with it. Although it is said that people with strong minds can resist these spells, the premise of strong minds itself is very vague, and no one is sure that they can resist mental attacks.

Since everyone's mind is independent, when facing a mental attack, except for the memory killing or being suddenly encouraged by a dead being, there is basically no possibility for them to rely on themselves to get rid of the mental influence.

But Fang Zheng is different.

If any enchanter wanted to attack him now, then he would not only need to manipulate Fang Zheng's mind, but also the millions of Zerg minds connected to Fang Zheng! And this was only for now. With the further expansion of the Zerg, the number of Zerg connected to the Heart of the Swarm in the future... Billions would be unstoppable.

Even if he could succeed, the sheer number of them would probably tire the other party to death.

From a certain perspective, this can be considered as an alternative buff that makes me immune to mental operations?

But what to do next?

Thinking of this, Fang Zheng couldn't help but glance at Nymph who was teasing the kitten.

He had finally cut off contact with the temple, but hiding in such a ghost place was not a good idea. He always needed power, money and territory. Becoming a bandit was the worst prospect, and occupying the mountain as a king would only bring more trouble.

The important thing is that in order to avoid the temple search, Fang Zheng now has a lot of soul stones that he can't use.

Needless to say, Kerrigan could not be used. Malthael was also an exception. The Temple was looking for him now, and they were probably too tired to study the process of Malthael's coming. He had no plans to release any expansion packs, nor did he plan to bloodbath the city and create hell on earth, so Malthael could not be used.

Similarly, Arthas also needs to be sealed.

As for magic... Fang Zheng could indeed go on adventures as a wizard, or join a mercenary group to play the pig and eat the tiger, but he thought about it and gave up. Fina had warned him that the spells cast by wizards have their own unique aura, and if someone caught up with him, it would be a big trouble.

Well, I can't use my trump cards, and it's not time to summon them with krypton gold, so the only thing left is...

Looking at the soul stone in his hand, Fang Zheng thought for a moment, and then came up with a good idea.

It seems that this is the only way.


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