Chapter 42
After making sure nothing was left out, Qi Heng turned back.
Advancing underground was much easier than on the ground. It took him most of the day to go back and forth. When he returned to the fourth floor, all 2,210 new original Zergs had been born.
Seeing Qi Heng appear, the fat worm dropped the half-eaten ore and pounced on him, saying coquettishly as he pounced on him: "Look, father, I have bred all the worms you want. Isn't it great?"
"Well done." He pinched Fatty's soft face.
The blue-tailed butterflies are all adults, and the firefly larvae are taken care of by adults. At this time, they are lying on the star stone, trying to absorb energy to allow themselves to enter adulthood.
On the other side, the obviously newly born mining worm larvae, under the instruction of Huige, continued to gnaw at the location of the tunnel rock wall as adult mining worms. They were able to not only produce new crystal ore but also eat up the soil and rocks and digest them into the energy they needed.
The newly born engineer worms are constantly eating the scraps dug up by the miners to make their bodies stronger. It seems that they will be able to take on the role of porters in no time.
These were not his orders, but were arranged by Fatty himself.
Fatty straightened his upper body and said confidently and proudly: "I learned it from my father. He taught me before."
Before? Probably referring to the past when they were playing games, Qi Heng understood clearly.
He told the fat worm to go back and continue eating: "Try to store as much energy as possible. You may need to breed more original insects later..."
“Ouch—”
The fat bug rubbed its head against his waist, twisted its body and moved back to the edge of the mountain of obsidian ore that was constantly piling up. It opened its mouth to reveal a mouthful of big white teeth and bit the ore with a roar. The crunching sound of eating continued to ring out in the empty space.
Seeing that it was eating happily, Qi Heng looked away and then issued an order to the gray grid at the entrance of the tunnel.
The instructions were to instruct Huige not to dig in the same area as before, to recall the mining bugs still near the distant cave... to dig in an uninhabited place as much as possible, to divide the ore brought back into two parts, etc.
After leaving the fourth floor, Qi Heng walked briskly towards the third floor.
Behind him were two hundred adult fireflies emitting a faint white light, separated from the group. He still had five seeds that he had exchanged earlier, and he planned to plant them on the third floor.
After planting the seeds of the fungal blanket, Qi Heng left the tunnel dug by the Devourer and faced the golden-red sunset with an orange hue.
Spent a day on the ground.
He came out of the Dead Egg Pit and walked in the wilderness. The setting sun shone from behind him, stretching his shadow long.
"You can follow me, but don't get discovered by other Zergs." Qi Heng raised his hand and flicked his fingers to brush away the blue-tailed butterfly on his shoulder.
The blue-tailed butterfly spread its wings and flew up, dancing in the sky behind him, not too far away.
This blue-tailed butterfly is the one that carries a little bit of the commander's consciousness and is responsible for communicating with other blue-tailed butterflies to transmit information. It is more beautiful than the ten blue-tailed butterflies born later, mainly because its wings are a circle larger.
After the birth of ten new blue-tailed butterflies, it naturally became the leader of the "blue-tailed butterfly tribe", forming a superior-subordinate relationship with ordinary blue-tailed butterflies.
There was a clear hierarchy among the Primordial Zerg, but no lower-ranking Zerg were obliged to obey the orders of the middle-ranking Zerg. Unless they received orders from the Overlord or Commander, they would obey the orders of their own pack leader.
In the past, the leader of the original Zerg branch group was always the Overlord. Therefore, the order was generally issued in the following order: Overlord/Commander → Overlord (group leader) → small leader of the original branch Zerg group → lowest-level tool Zerg.
Qi Heng was rebuilding the old system. Why not continue using a system that had been tried and true? If there were no Overlords, he could just start with ordinary bugs. That was how it had been done in the past.
Gray Grid and the blue-tailed butterfly that carries the commander's consciousness are the tool insects chosen by him. In addition, there are no good insects to choose from among the fireflies for the time being, so the initial engineer insects can only be used as transport insects before they choose the direction of evolution.
Qi Heng was not in a hurry about this.
With a simple biological communication matrix composed of blue-tailed butterflies, both the fireflies and the engineer bugs can be directly commanded by the fat bug, so there will be no problems in the short term.
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"I'll pick up Lele." Qi Heng's eyes swept over Fang Ran, ignoring the other's pregnant belly.
Sure enough, no matter how many times I see him, it’s hard to get used to him.
The day after Yan Le's wings were clipped, Yan Ning sent the insect cub to this "kindergarten" to be taken care of by Fang Ran, and followed Yun Jiu to the mine.
If he had to wait for Yan Ning to return from the mining area, the little bug would have to stay in the kindergarten until dark, which was obviously not good for the cub. In addition, the bug cub had become obviously depressed after losing its insect wings, so he didn't think much about it and said he would pick it up himself.
He had come to pick up Yan Le twice before, and Fang Ran knew him, so he just smiled and turned to the little cub sitting alone with his chin in his hand, not saying a word, and said, "Le Le, your Uncle Qi is here to pick you up."
Yan Le, who was squatting on the side, looked over for a moment when he heard Fang Ran's words, and then ran towards him.
"Uncle Qi——"
Qi Heng bent down and picked him up: "Yes."
"You are so happy to see your Uncle Qi. Isn't it fun here with Uncle Fang? There are so many little bugs for you to play with." Fang Ran looked at Yan Le gently.
Yan Le hugged him with her head buried in his shoulder, feeling a little embarrassed to answer.
"I'll take him away." Qi Heng said.
Fang Ran smiled and nodded, but his expression seemed to indicate that he wanted to say something but was hesitant.
Qi Heng did not fail to see it, but he did not ask anything. He could probably guess what Fang Ran wanted to say.
On the way back.
"Why don't you play with them?" He stroked the soft short hair of the insect cub in his arms.
After a long while, a muffled reply came: "I don't want to."
"Still thinking about the insect wings." His hand slid down and landed lightly on the original position of the insect wings.
Two days later, with the female insect's healing ability, the area had already scabbed over, and in a few days, you might be able to see the scar left after the scab fell off.
Normal wounds on female insects, with their exceptional resilience, would leave virtually no scars. However, slicing through the tissue at the root, leaving only a fraction less than five centimeters buried in the skin, and this wound, occurring where the wings grow, would leave a permanent scar.
Scars are not only branded on the body, but also engraved on the heart.
The originally cheerful and lively cub became depressed after losing its insect wings.
"No more, wuwuwu." Yan Le burst into tears of grievance when he mentioned this.
Therefore, the Ikal civilization is really committing a sin. For female insects, gouging out insect wings is no less than losing half their life. The importance that female insects attach to insect wings is probably second only to that of male insects.
"Uncle Qi, my insect wings are gone, I can't fly... I'm so ugly..."
Qi Heng had a headache. This was the reason why he didn't want to mention Chong Yi to Yan Le these past two days. When he mentioned this brat, his eyes were like a faucet that had been opened, and tears kept flowing.
——When Yan Le’s wings were cut off, Yan Ning held him in her arms for a whole day to calm him down.
At the same time, perhaps because of the scene, he saw two pairs of red and swollen eyes when he returned. After that, he knew that the female insects cared about the insect wings much more than he imagined, whether they were cubs or adults.
"It will happen, it will happen in the future." He comforted her earnestly.
Yan Le looked at him with tears in her eyes: "Will there be another one?"
"meeting."
Yan Le sniffed and stopped the golden beans from falling: "Afterwards, how long is it?"
"When you grow up and are as tall as me."
The method A0 mentioned cannot be used on minors, so if Yan Le wants to try it, he has to wait until he is an adult. A rough calculation shows that it will take many years.
Yan Le blinked, looked down at his feet that were dangling in the air, and then looked at him: "Well, Uncle Qi is taller than my father."
"Um."
"Is it okay for Lele?" Yan Le said unconfidently, grabbing his collar.
"Eat well, exercise, I will."
"Don't you believe me?"
Yan Le didn't even think about refutation: "No, I believe Uncle Qi."
"Well, then listen to Uncle Qi and be a happy bug cub. Don't think about losing your wings anymore." Qi Heng pinched Yan Le's cheek and said with a smile, "Unhappy bug cubs won't grow tall."
"What do you want to eat today?" he asked.
"Meat!"
"Then we have to go to Yan's place first. They should be back by now."
In order to try to find the method that A0 mentioned, he refused to go hunting with Yan and the others these two days, but unfortunately, there was no progress at all.
Maybe I was too impatient, Qi Heng thought.
But how can I not be anxious? Excluding today, there are only thirteen days left until the Falling Star Day.
One or two failures will not make him discouraged. The experience of failure is also experience, and he will definitely succeed.
Opening the brain area is much more difficult than Qi Heng thought.
It was the night of the eleventh day, and there were less than forty-eight hours left until the Day of the Falling Star.
In a dream.
The highest point of the temple is an area that only the master can set foot in.
The tower has a white spire, and on the outside are continuous upright pure white stone pillars with carved patterns and white stone railings around the waist of an adult.
On the planet Tianjia, no building is taller than the spire of the temple.
At this moment when the sky is clear and the breeze is blowing, you only need to lower your eyes slightly to overlook the entire temple and the shadow of a prosperous city in the distance.
Qi Heng closed his eyes, repeating the same "search" that he had done countless times since he fell asleep.
There can only be one spiritual body in a body. Unless the spiritual body is powerful enough to interfere with the rules of the real world, the spiritual body can only stay in the brain.
——And the master is him, or more like him who has lost his memory.
Then it goes without saying that the only spiritual entity in this body is himself. Even if it is wrapped in layers of memories dominated by the master in the deepest part, as long as he wants to find it, he will always be able to grasp the connection between the spiritual entity and the physical body.
So he frequently appeared in this scene in his dreams in the past few days.
He didn't understand why at first, but after countless attempts, he finally grasped the vague connection in his perception.
Qi Heng unconsciously stretched out his hand and grasped in the air, grasping it lightly and then suddenly tightening it. Gradually, a brightly colored "red line" appeared in the palm of his clenched hand.
"I got it." He opened his eyes and stared at the red string in his hand.
He held one end of the red silk thread in his hand, and the other end extended towards the distant horizon, penetrating the clouds in the sky and extending out.
Having grasped this connection, Qi Heng was no longer a spectator in this dream. A sudden realization arose in his heart - he could now move freely in the dream.
Since I can move freely, why not give it a try...
The next second after this thought came to his mind, Qi Heng used his free hand to support himself on the stone railing, then turned over and jumped off the towering tower, falling straight down.
at the same time.
The scene around him began to change, cracks appearing like a mirror, first small and then large.
Qi Heng held the red line in his hand and fell down with his eyes closed. He could not see the changes around him, but at a certain time he clearly heard an ethereal crisp sound.
It was as if he had fallen into the sea. He thought while floating up and down, and then he opened his eyes.
...I felt that I was not deceiving myself, I really fell into the sea after jumping off the tower.
——My thoughts turned out to be correct.
Qi Heng swam upstream in the direction of the red line.
Very close, he thought.
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