Chapter 52
[Time in the first space-time copy has been reversed to the initial time. 2000 energy points have been deducted.]
At Yan Ning's house, Qi Heng opened his eyes and heard A0's voice.
As time went back, he only felt a moment of trance, and then he appeared in Yan Ning's home from the main control room of Research Base No. 2.
He stood up and walked out the door.
This time, Qi Heng did not go to the trading center but chose to walk towards the river, then turned into a small road and stopped.
He released his mental power to scan the surroundings, then quickly retracted it.
The next second, a light blue butterfly flew out from the corner.
Qi Heng stretched out his hand towards the butterfly.
Then the blue-tailed butterfly fluttered and landed on his fingertips, gently flapping its wings to express its closeness.
This blue-tailed butterfly carries the commander's consciousness and has been responsible for following him and delivering messages.
...In order to prevent others from noticing that there was a butterfly following him, Qi Heng placed it on this inconspicuous path so that it would only come over when he needed it.
At other times, if there is urgent news that needs to be conveyed, the blue-tailed butterfly will take the initiative to fly to find him.
After communicating with the blue-tailed butterfly using his mental power, Qi Heng withdrew his hand and watched the blue-tailed butterfly fly towards the distant sky.
Originally, it was just to deliver information and there was no need for Blue-tailed Butterfly to fly in person, but this time it was different from ordinary information delivery, as it was related to part of the plan he was about to launch.
Even if it only involves part of the plan, the amount of information it can carry is quite a lot. It can only be directly imprinted in the consciousness of the commander of the blue-tailed butterfly through a mental link, and when the fat worm receives the information, it will be clear when it reads it.
Next, it’s time to go to the tower.
Qi Heng thought about it and turned to leave.
The other side.
The blue-tailed butterfly flew extremely fast and soon arrived at the dead egg pit.
It flew into the dead egg pit along the phosphorus powder it left behind, passing through the gap left specifically for itself and entering the internal passage.
The inside of the tunnel is completely different from when it was first dug out.
After walking ten meters into the passage from the entrance, you can see the dreamy fungal carpet climbing on the top of the passage. About five or six centimeters of pure white plants hang down from the fungal carpet, emitting a bright white light that illuminates the entire passage.
White fireflies live in the dreamy fungal carpet, and among the shadows you can see many tiny, indistinguishable white spores.
The blue-tailed butterfly's entrance immediately caught the attention of the glowworms living on the fungal mat, but the presence of their kind prevented them from doing anything. On the other hand, if the intruder were an intruder, the glowworms would use their symbiotic dream fungal mat to attack the intruder with spores.
The dreamy fungus gets this name not only because its appearance looks dreamy and beautiful, but also because the juice that bursts out of its spores after exploding has a hallucinogenic effect.
The blue-tailed butterfly flew all the way to the depths.
The Devourer was already fast, and with Qi Heng's orders and the addition of several engineer bugs, the speed of digging and clearing the underground passages increased several times. In just over half a month, all the underground areas of the original nursery were cleared out.
And they are cleaning outwards from the dead egg pit.
The nursery is located in the original city center, and most of the surrounding buildings are special buildings in the city, so they were very sturdy from the beginning.
Although not all buildings have underground floors, and it's unclear how much remains after ten thousand years, there's nothing else the Devourer can do, so Qi Heng lets it continue digging.
Thanks to the Devourer's hard work, the passages under the Dead Egg Pit were dug in all directions.
There were seemingly plain rock passages, as well as original passages cleared by the Devourer that had once belonged to the nursery. The walls, constructed of a special alloy, remained solid even after ten thousand years, shining as if new, as if they had just been built.
Four underground floors.
The original four-story entrance was widened to three and a half meters high and four meters wide, and the same was true for the passage outside - the Devourer's body size would grow rapidly after entering the growth period, and it only grew to a height of two and a half meters as a result of being suppressed.
The interior space of the fourth floor was also different from what it was half a month ago. The extra metal shelves were pushed and stacked in the corner. A round white worm, about the same size as a golden retriever, was constantly biting off the metal around it and holding it in its mouth.
It took a long time before the metal in the mouth was spit out.
Unlike when it ate it, the metal it spat out was a cube the size of an adult.
This is a gold-eating beetle larva. There are two oval eyes on its head, the size of pigeon eggs, similar to the metal it spits out. Those are the eyes it formed for itself after swallowing the metal.
The metal eyes are purely decorative and have no practical use.
It will deliberately give itself a pair of eyes just because this is the dominant aesthetic. Otherwise, it will only have a mouth on its face, which will easily make people feel embarrassed.
The Metal Eater is a mid-level Zerg among the original Zerg. Its characteristic is the ability to devour, refine, manipulate, fuse and digest metal. Of course, that is the adult form, but the juvenile form can also change the swallowed metal into the desired shape.
The energy consumed to nurture it is even more than that of the Devourer. Although it is already discounted by 50% because it is a commander's nurturing, it still consumes about 2,500 energy points.
Qi Heng chose to let the fat worm breed it, of course not just for the metal in the nursery... You have to know that this place once had the largest urban building complex on Tianyun Star, and there would be no shortage of metal here.
Even some very precious special alloy metals.
The devourers will bring back the metal they encounter and hand it over to the gold-eating worms to devour and melt it into metal blocks as a backup resource.
In addition, there are metal mines buried underground, which can be mined and handed over to gold-eating insects to extract the required metals.
The metal shelves were pushed down, making the fourth floor extremely empty. At the opening of the mine, a steady stream of insects came in and out, carrying the ore to the bottom of the middle platform. The ores piled up into two huge ore mountains.
On the platform, the fat worm was sitting like a human, with the ore brought from below by the engineer worm in its hands. It kept putting one ore in each hand into its mouth and chewing them with its two claws.
The part of the insect that drags the ground behind it is slightly bent to circle an insect egg, so as to prevent the insect egg, which has become active recently, from rolling off the platform when it is not paying attention.
Eating constantly for 24 hours a day is a burden for even the most food-loving people, but the fat worm does not have this worry. It eats happily and quickly.
After it had excess energy, it first strengthened its mouth and teeth. After the upgrade, it could chew crystals into pieces very quickly. A piece of obsidian ore the size of a basketball would be eaten up in just three bites.
Part of the energy consumed is used to slowly repair the body and is stored, and only a small part is used to breed the original Zerg.
Even so, the number of mining bugs and glowing bugs increased dramatically in a short period of time, and the number of engineer bugs exceeded one thousand. Now the total number of the original bug swarm has reached more than six thousand five hundred.
This reproduction rate would be enough to strike fear into any faction, but for the Commander, it wasn't even one percent of its peak. Now that he had enough energy to replenish himself, he didn't breed more Primordial Zerg simply because it was the Overmind's order.
When the blue-tailed butterfly appeared at the entrance, Fat Bug noticed it.
It ate the remaining mineral crystals in its hand and let the blue-tailed butterfly fall on its body. Through the mental link, it indirectly received the message left by its male father.
Communicating using mental links is much faster than using language, not to mention that the blue-tailed butterfly already carries part of its consciousness, so it immediately understood the new task assigned to it by its father.
"Let Huige come to me." Fat Worm connected with the blue-tailed butterfly following Huige through a mental link.
The mine tunnel is getting deeper and wider as we dig.
The sturdy Huige was digging ore as hard as other mining bugs. If it weren't for the blue-tailed butterfly following him and the gray-white crystal between his eyebrows, it would be hard to tell the difference between him and the surrounding mining bugs.
Suddenly, it stopped moving, then leaned forward and moved rapidly in one direction.
After receiving the commander's order, Huige immediately headed for the exit of the fourth-level mine. Under his order and with the blue-tailed butterfly leading the way, all the insects that had been lining up to transport ore moved to the sides to make way.
Inside the fourth floor.
Gray Grid stopped at the bottom of the platform and did not go up. With its status and position, it was not qualified to get any closer to the commander. It crawled at the bottom of the steps and waited quietly for the commander's orders.
'A new mission.'
"...Go to the second floor and assign 500 Engineer Bugs and 2000 Miner Bugs to build the dungeon. Follow their lead."
Upon hearing this, Huige raised his head slightly and looked over, and saw a strange Zerg flying up from the commander's side. He felt a sense of fear at just one glance.
There is no doubt that this is definitely a superior primordial Zerg.
After having enough energy, the commander granted Huige the evolution. Now Huige has become a mid-level Zerg, but he still feels fear instinctively when facing this strange Zerg.
This newly emerged superior Zerg had a body half the length of an adult's arm, and was completely black except for a pair of white circles where its eyes should be, as if it was wearing a pair of glasses.
On its back is a pair of four-winged diamond-shaped crystal wings that can cover its entire body when unfolded. The middle of the black wings is covered with a transparent dark film. The surrounding thin star power condenses between the crystal wings and continuously feeds back to the body that is being catalyzed and matured.
There are three pairs of claws on its abdomen, and one of them is currently holding a metal pen.
"Yes, Your Excellency the Commander."
Huige found the name of the branch of this superior Zerg from the genes - the Nest Zerg.
Don't be fooled by its humble name, it is the only one among the original Zerg that can plan and design war fortress-level nests.
The original Zerg's nest is called the mother nest. From low-level to high-level, from underground, deep sea to the surface, and then to deep space, there is nothing that the Zerg cannot design and build.
Although this is a biological instinct and an innate talent for the Zerg, and does not require any thought, it is enough to shock other civilizations that do not understand the original Zerg.
And as long as there are specific requirements, even building an underground city will not be difficult for them.
After all, in the past, a large underground city was built underground on the other side of their planet.
A Zerg flapped the crystal wings on its back and flew towards the gray grid. After landing in front of the gray grid, it stared at the gray grid with its white eyes without blinking, and communicated with the gray grid using the unique communication method of the original Zerg.
The general meaning is to let Huige take it to the second floor, and it has to complete the task assigned by the commander-in-chief - to survey the site and design the dungeon that the commander-in-chief needs.
The commander-in-chief said that he would obey the words of the superior Zerg in front of him. Of course, Huige did not dare to refute him, so he led the way in front.
The nursery has four underground floors. The first floor was blown through, and the fourth floor is where the commander lives.
The remaining second and third ones were basically cleaned up. Apart from the Devourer, only Gray Grid had been there. This was also the reason why Gray Grid was arranged to bring the Nestworms with him.
After Gray Grid and the others left, the fat worm grabbed the crystal ore next to it and continued to eat it.
Creating the Hive Zerg consumed 70% of its stored energy, and allowing the Hive Zerg to quickly enter adulthood consumed half of the mine. Just for this one Zerg, 15,000 energy points were consumed.
Xiong's father said that other tool worms were needed, and we had to eat more to reach the number Xiong's father required, otherwise there would not be enough mining worms for the miners to mine.
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The author has something to say: The first person to build a house was called Youchaoshi, and the fat worm's subordinate who could build a house was called Youchaochong.
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