Chapter 18
Yan Ning's refusal was expected.
"Take it."
"Go and exchange some meat. I'm craving for some." Qi Heng gave the reason he had already thought of.
Yan Ning said without thinking: "Brother Qi, I don't use the points you gave me. If you want to eat, I can use the points to exchange."
"You should keep the Star Stone for yourself."
"What can I exchange for that few points?" He was speechless.
The ecology of Tianyun Star has deteriorated, and there are not many creatures left, and even fewer are edible. The occasional prey that can be caught requires a lot of points to exchange for.
Even with the minimum of one basket of ore that he was stuck with every day, the points he got in return after being targeted were only 5. Not to mention exchanging them for meat... it was even difficult to exchange them for anything else.
"Take it."
"I told you before that it's one thing for me to live in your house, but I can take care of my own food and clothing."
"I don't like owing favors to people."
"Whether it's points or star stones, just consider it my food expenses."
Qi Heng knew the reason why Yan Ning refused the star stone. It was because it was not easy to cultivate star power. A female insect needed to practice for several days to replenish a star stone.
He was also surprised when he learned this.
Logically speaking, the Zerg are a race that is born with mental power. They do not need to cultivate it, they just need to develop their innate mental power.
Female insects will naturally gain mental power after their first evolution in childhood, and male insects are born with it, but it is not obvious during the early stages of development.
In this case, the cultivation of star power should be very easy. Even if the cultivation method used is inefficient, it should not take several days as Yuntian said to charge a low-level star stone - to be precise, a broken A1 star stone.
When Qi Heng went to exchange the empty shells of the star stones, he discovered that these star stones were almost all broken pieces that had been deliberately shattered. After scanning with the system, he found that there was not even a single intact star stone in the full frame.
The current situation of the Zerg in the slums is full of weirdness. The more Qi Heng learns about it, the more he can't help but feel secretly frightened.
Fortunately, he is not completely powerless to resist when he encounters danger now. Maybe... it is time to plan to leave Tianyun Star. Only by making preparations early can he not miss the opportunity to leave.
Qi Heng was distracted for only a moment and quickly came back to his senses.
"Here."
He stuffed the Star Stone into Yan Ning's hand and said without waiting for Yan Ning to speak, "It's getting late. I should go."
Before leaving, Qi Heng did not forget to pinch the face of the little bug in the nest at the door.
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At the entrance of District 49.
Qi Heng saw Yun Jiu from afar, walked up to him and said hello, and then they ran towards the mining area together.
The mining area is not far from District 49, but it is not close either. The straight-line distance is about 20 kilometers.
In order to get there early and dig more ore, we basically ran on the way.
The female insect's physical condition is already very good, and after cultivating star power, its physical condition will increase significantly.
Although the star power cultivated has been absorbed into the star stone, the body has been tempered to some extent during the cultivation process, so the speed of running at full speed is about 30 kilometers per hour.
This is the conclusion Qi Heng came to after using the system to test Yun Jiu's speed. It is absolutely true and reliable.
This speed is above average for today's Zerg, but it is far behind the average level of female Zerg during its peak period.
Even he could only say that it was very necessary for those civilizations that trapped the Zerg on an abandoned planet like Tianyun Star, which had nothing to offer, and imposed more restrictions on it.
Otherwise, even an abandoned planet cannot trap them.
If the Zerg continue to develop normally with their physical fitness, even if they cannot develop into an interstellar civilization in more than 10,000 years, they will definitely have no problem developing into a planetary civilization.
Daily queue to go to the mine.
Qi Heng had not been in the same mine tunnel with Yun Jiu these past few days. He specifically looked for mine tunnels where no female insects went, and then tried to hide his tracks as much as possible so that other female insects would not notice him.
As usual, I stayed in the mine all day.
His mining skills became more and more skilled, and he could mine even faster when he manipulated the star power. So the ore that usually took him a whole day to mine was done in just half a day today.
In his free time, Qi Heng began to study the system.
His understanding of the system is still limited to the game mode, but the fact is that the system after crossing is different from the game system.
Now that the original Zerg has been created, it is imperative to awaken A0 for better use.
He unbanned A0.
Intellectually, Qi Heng knew very well that A0 was more suitable for him now than A1. After all, A0 would come up with completely different ideas from A1 on some matters involving the Zerg.
He found a random place to sit down, leaning his back against the wicker basket filled with ore.
On the system interface that only he could see, his personal attributes had changed slightly from when he first crossed over.
[Civilization Simulator System]
[Bound by: Qi Heng]
[Race: Human/Tianjia Zerg (Fusion in Progress)] [Current First Stage Progress: Fusion Degree 39%]
[Gender: Male/Male (Fusion in Progress)]
[Identity/Title: Lord of Tianjia Civilization…] [Omitted]
[Age: 27/23000+]
[Height: 187]
[Spiritual Power: 110/110 (Phantom God Level, Fusion Sealed)]
[Star Power: 5/60 (Half-Step Galaxy Fusion Sealed)]
[Physical Fitness: 85/105]
[Money: 0]
[Resource: Obsidian Ore Vein.]
[Special Resources: 0]
[Subordinates: None.]
>[Primal Zerg: [Miner Engineer] 450.]
[Subsystems enabled:]
>[Energy Conversion]: Energy conversion rate increased to 120%
[System Energy: 220)
The personal attribute interface will become more and more detailed as the system functions are re-enabled. Qi Heng, who has played the game, had already anticipated this.
The growth of his mental power and star power was within his expectations. The mineral veins were directly assigned to him by the system, mostly because of the miners who worked hard every day.
"A0, is there a more convenient way to absorb energy?"
Qi Heng released his mental power as a warning so that he could sense if a female insect approached him. He was not afraid that his conversation with A0 would be overheard.
I have to go in and out of the abandoned mine every time. It doesn’t matter if the number of times is small, but it’s hard to say if the time is long.
[You can create energy converters or crystal worms to convert the energy contained in obsidian into more portable energy crystals.]
After hearing Qi Heng's question, A0 answered in a serious tone.
A0 was finally released, and of course it didn't want to be sent back to solitary confinement so soon. In addition, Qi Heng had placed restrictions on it, preventing it from taking the initiative to initiate tasks... Under normal circumstances, A0 could fully take on the responsibilities of A1, and even do better than A1.
"no."
"The two types you mentioned consume too much energy."
Qi Heng rejected A0's proposal without even thinking. If he could do both of these methods, why would he ask A0 what to do? None of them was easy.
The Crystal Erosion Zerg is at the top of the middle Zerg among the original Zerg, and is not on the same level as the Mining Zerg. Even creating a larva requires hundreds of energy points, and one Crystal Erosion Zerg is not very useful.
As for the energy converter, it sounds simple but it has a high technological content. Directly using energy to manufacture it without the support of technological foundation will result in greater consumption.
[You are right.]
"So, have you considered awakening the original Zerg leader?" A0 said seriously, as if he had no ulterior motives.
[The commander himself has the energy to produce energy crystals by consuming mineral crystals. Even if he is just a larva, he can be as powerful as a hundred crystal-eating insects. It is very useful for you now.]
[And after awakening the commander, you can directly let the commander take over the mining insects in Mine No. 1 and command the lower-level Zerg directly.]
The biggest difference between A0 and A1 is that it will proactively ask questions and propose solutions, unlike A1 which rigidly commands operations and responses.
If it was A1, even if a solution was proposed at this time, it would only be to create a commander, and he would not consider whether Qi Heng had the energy to create a commander.
A0 will proceed from reality.
Therefore, the sword intent proposed by A0 made Qi Heng puzzled and surprised.
"Wake up the commander?"
[Yes, sir.]
He frowned and pondered for a while, then suddenly thought of the 'Commander' who had fought with him in the interstellar conquest war for thousands of years in the game.
A0 used [Awakening]. Does this mean that the commander who was reincarnated for the second time is still alive?
"You mean it's still alive... That's impossible. If it were still alive, why did the Zerg lose so miserably back then?"
Qi Heng could never have imagined that after more than ten thousand years, the commander was still alive.
You have to know that even the commander of the original Zerg could not have such a long lifespan, not to mention that the commander had exhausted his potential and lifespan because of the war. If it were not for the crazy krypton energy and the abilities that the commander accidentally evolved, he would have been declared dead long ago.
It took the Tianjia civilization 11,000 years from the time it developed writing to the time it dominated the starry sea. During this period, the commander of the original Zerg was always the same.
By the time civilization reached its peak, the commander himself was already very weak, and it could be said that a second reincarnation was imminent.
The commander who uses this skill will absorb a huge amount of energy and gradually regress to the larval stage over a long period of time. Then, he will gain a second life like a butterfly larva breaking out of its cocoon, and will also undergo new changes.
However, the process of secondary reincarnation is extremely long, and one use takes almost half the development time of Tianjia civilization.
At the beginning, it was not the original Zerg that the Tianjia civilization needed the commander to lead, but at that time the Tianjia civilization was already very powerful. Even if the commander went for a second reincarnation, there would be no hostile forces that could threaten the Tianjia civilization. Therefore, Qi Heng simply let the commander use the second reincarnation.
No matter how long the second reincarnation lasts, it is only 5,000 years of game time. When the commander wakes up from the second reincarnation, he can continue to shine for the Zerg.
That’s what Qi Heng thought at that time.
Who knew that soon he found the game boring and never played it again.
After crossing over, one thing after another happened. I only thought about the commander for a second when I awakened the mining bugs, and I didn't think that the commander was still alive at all.
After all, more than 10,000 years have passed in the game. If the commander could wake up, he would have woken up long ago.
——With the commander's 'elegant and easy-going' character that inherits the fine traditions of the Tianjia civilization and was brought up by the master through words and deeds for ten thousand years, I'm afraid that as soon as he wakes up, he will start fighting against the civilization that destroyed the Tianjia Zerg.
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My update habit is to update on time at midnight every day. If I can't update due to something one day, I will put a leave note at the beginning of the introduction, but I usually won't stop updating without reason.
ps: Introductions like personal attributes displayed by the system will not appear too many times. The free chapters are fine, but the paid chapters after V will generally only appear in the summary or when the plot requires it (I will try to write them as concisely as possible).
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Thanks to the little angel who cast the mine: 1 bald flower from Xianyu check-in;
Thanks to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution: 3 bottles of rock sugar snow pear; omitted..., 1 bottle of powder and ink inverted;
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