Samsara Paradise: Dream Weaver of Connections.

At the same time, the contractors of Death Paradise also launched a large-scale search operation in the wilderness.

However, their luck was really bad. During the search, they accidentally entered a large insect nest territory.

The insect queen in the nest mistakenly believed that these uninvited guests were scouts sent by the Totem Tribe, and immediately dispatched a large force to encircle and suppress them, vowing to annihilate all of the contractors of the Death Paradise to prevent the news from leaking out.

Faced with the sudden Zerg army, the contractors of Death Paradise fought hastily.

They paid a heavy price in the fierce breakout battle, but one of the elite teams accidentally discovered a growing second-level insect queen during the breakout process.

This young insect queen was actually an abandoned child expelled from a nearby large insect nest.

Although it has lost the protection of the main nest, it cunningly builds an insect nest outside the main nest, which not only maintains a safe distance but also can use the power of the main nest to deter other predators.

The insect queen of the main nest knew this very well, but chose to acquiesce - after all, these were the offspring she had raised herself, and she could regard it as a long-term investment in the future of the tribe.

After discovering the developing second-stage insect queen, the elite team of Death Paradise immediately realized that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

"Captain, do you want to take action?" A contractor lowered his voice.

Captain Tiegan did not answer immediately. He carefully scanned the target area through the tactical eyepiece: the second-level queen's nest was less than five meters, and there were less than thirty guard insects around it, and most of them were low-level soldiers.

The tricky thing is that the location where she built her nest is less than five kilometers away from the main nest - a distance that is very fast for the Zerg.

"Quick battle, quick decision!" Tie Quan gritted his teeth and ordered, "The psychic should control the insect mother first, don't let her send out a distress signal!"

The team members instantly dispersed and surrounded the enemy from different directions.

The psychic took the lead. The third eye on his forehead suddenly opened, and a sharp mental spike attacked the insect mother's consciousness.

The Insect Queen's body paused, a hint of confusion flashed in her compound eyes, but soon, her mental barrier actually blocked the sneak attack!
"Oh no, she has mental resistance!" The psychic's face suddenly changed.

After being attacked, the insect queen suddenly let out a high-frequency scream. This sound not only stimulated everyone's eardrums, but also contained special pheromone fluctuations.

The guard insect swarms around suddenly went berserk, and the friction of their shells made people's teeth ache.

What's even more terrifying is that the ground in the direction of the main nest in the distance began to vibrate regularly - that was the unique vibration frequency when a large-scale swarm of insects marched.

"Forced attack!" Tie Wan acted decisively. The Zerg reinforcements arrived much faster than he had imagined.

Upon hearing this, a contractor immediately threw a specially made high-explosive grenade, which stuck precisely to the weak spot on the outer wall of the hive.

With a deafening explosion, a hideous gap with a diameter of three meters was torn in the nest wall made of biological tissue. Smelly body fluids poured down like a rainstorm, revealing the queen insect inside.

Following a burst of rapid nerve fluctuations, dozens of worker insects desperately rushed towards the gap and used their bodies to form a meat shield.

"Shock bomb." Tie Wan shouted sternly, with a hint of ruthlessness in his eyes.

They had gone through so much trouble to find this opportunity, so how could they let their prey escape so easily?

The Demoman reacted extremely quickly and immediately took out a cube device that flashed blue light from his tactical belt.

This fist-sized precision instrument is covered with resonant coils on its surface. It is a neural oscillator specially developed for the Zerg.

"Try this, cutie!" He grinned and threw the device towards the densest part of the swarm.

The moment the device landed, a blue ripple visible to the naked eye spread out in a spherical shape.

All the Zergs passed by the ripples twitched violently as if they were electrocuted - the worker insects' compound eyes lost focus instantly, their limbs twisted unnaturally, and a few even started biting each other due to nervous system disorders.

The insect queen let out a shrill whine, her soft abdomen spasmed violently, the pheromones she secreted were completely disordered, and it became difficult for her to even stand.

Iron Fist rushed into the hive first, his tactical boots making a sickening puffing sound as they stepped on the sticky ground of the hive.

When the roar of Zerg reinforcements was heard in the distance, the people in Death Paradise had already evacuated quickly carrying the unconscious Zerg Queen.

The insect queen of the large insect nest did not react at all after learning all this. In this cruel world of Thornworm Star, the law of the jungle is the eternal law.

Even someone like her might become a dead soul at the hands of the Totem Tribe tomorrow.

An immature second-stage insect queen? Just another insignificant loser on the road of evolution.

After bringing the insect queen to the camp, a contractor in Death Paradise took out a prop with heartache.

This epic item can force creatures with lower charisma than the user to have absolute trust, and it only lasts for seven days.

As the pink light sank into the insect queen's ganglia, her originally hostile compound eyes gradually became docile.

Upon seeing this, everyone in Death Paradise immediately took action - they knew that if this war failed, everyone would die.

So the group of people didn't hide anything and took out all the good things they had.

Just one hour later, an insect nest with a diameter of eight meters miraculously stood in the center of the camp.

Although this nest is simple, it has already taken shape.

The newly born queen insect lies docilely in the center of the nest. Although there are no worker insects to drive for the time being, the contractors of the Death Paradise can temporarily serve as worker insects to help it through the early stage.

Just as the contractors of Death Paradise had completed their group deployment, a sharp gunshot suddenly tore through the silence of the camp.

boom--!
The bullet grazed the cheek of a contractor and blew a hole the size of a bowl in the outer wall of the hive behind him.

"Shit! We've been discovered!"

"Don't worry about the supplies! Prioritize transferring the Zerg Queen!" Tie Wan acted decisively, and several melee contractors immediately rushed to the core area of ​​the Zerg nest.

They roughly grabbed the insect queen, who was still adapting to the new environment, and threw her onto their shoulders like a sack.

Fortunately, Death Paradise has reinforced the structure of the insect nest, otherwise the shot just now would be enough to kill the insect queen.

The contractors knew that if they lost the insect queen, they would have no hope of turning the tide in the battle for the world.

In the forest, White Dove was leading several assassins to watch the performance in the Death Paradise below.

Just now it was just a tentative attack by Bai Ge, and that shot just now was just a test - it would be best if the insect queen could be killed by a snipe, but even if it fails, it can put some pressure on the opponent.

Bai Ge narrowed his eyes and observed through the sniper scope the Death Paradise contractors who were fleeing in panic below.

The corners of his mouth rose slightly, and his fingertips gently rubbed the trigger, but he did not fire a second shot.

"Captain, don't you want to continue sniping?" an assassin beside him asked in a low voice.

"No hurry." Bai Ge's voice was calm and low, "Let them run for a while."

He raised his hand and made a tactical gesture. The figures of the assassins behind him disappeared in the dense forest after a few rises and falls, leaving only the slight rustling of leaves.

The contractors of the Paradise of Death were escorting the Insect Queen to evacuate quickly, and the dense forest was filled with the sound of chaotic footsteps and rapid breathing.

"Damn it, how did the people from Samsara Paradise find this place?" A contractor gritted his teeth, holding a flashing red bomb in his hand, ready to detonate at any time to cover their retreat.

"Now is not the time to dwell on this! Immediately activate the backup plan and retreat in three groups! Group A leads the insect queen eastward, Group B sets traps to delay the pursuers, and Group C covers my retreat!"

The team quickly dispersed, but what they didn't notice was that among the treetops above their heads, several dark shadows were silently following the direction of the three groups' retreat.

At this moment, the insect queen carried on the contractor's shoulders suddenly twitched violently, and a glimmer of struggle flashed in her compound eyes.

"Knock it out first."

At the moment, everyone was busy taking care of themselves and escaping, so how could they care about the insect queen?

Before he could finish his words, a sharp knife strike had already hit the insect mother's neck heavily, knocking it out completely to prevent any further complications.

"Hey, Boss, the people in Death Paradise have already started to retreat according to your plan. Are you going to start chasing the pigs or just catch the turtles in the jar?"

Bai Ge took out a headset. Ever since the contractors from the Samsara Paradise set up a temporary camp on the primitive continent, several contractors from the science and technology department launched three micro-satellites into low-Earth orbit. These inconspicuous metal lumps were now floating outside the atmosphere, providing stable communication support for the entire team.

Perhaps hundreds of years later, when the indigenous people of this world look up at the stars, they will discover these mysterious metal creations.

"No need, just run away, don't let these guys get desperate. Keep them away, don't give them a chance to breathe. Also, keep a close eye on the movements of the miners in Apocalypse Park, and report any abnormalities immediately." At this moment, Twilight's voice came from the headset. When he was not sick, Twilight's decisions were still very effective.

In fact, as early as when the Death Paradise began searching for the Worm Queen, the Samsara Paradise had already locked onto their whereabouts.

But Bai Ge and his men did not close the net immediately, but deliberately left the opponent a glimmer of hope - this was a tactic specifically instructed by Twilight.

A desperate trapped beast will fight back desperately, while a hopeful prey will walk into the trap obediently.

A sneer appeared on Bai Ge's lips. He knew too well the character of those people in the Paradise of Death.

As long as they are left with a chance to live, these people will never carry out suicide attacks like the crazy people in Samsara Paradise.

"Keep flying the kite."

Hearing the voice in the headset, the assassins in the shadows immediately adjusted their tactics and dispersed tacitly like a pack of wolves hunting.

They always kept their distance - not so close as to provoke a desperate counterattack from Death Paradise, but not so far away as to give the prey the illusion that they had escaped.

A silenced sniper bullet suddenly grazed the feet of the leading contractor, and the splashed mud hit the tactical boots of the Death Paradise contractor.

Almost simultaneously, a vibration mine thirty meters away was remotely detonated, and the shock wave caused leaves to fall. The Death Paradise team was forced to turn around and rushed into denser bushes like a herd of frightened deer.

"This group of lunatics...what on earth do they want to do?!" The contractor carrying the insect queen squeezed out these words from between his teeth.

The insect queen twisted restlessly on his back, the corrosive body fluids had already soaked through his tactical vest and were eating away at his flesh bit by bit.

He could smell the burning protein, but he didn't even have time to stop and bandage it.

The lunatics in Samsara Paradise clearly had the ability to wipe them out, but they chose to use bullets and explosions to weave an invisible net, forcing them to flee along the preset route.

It's like driving cattle to the slaughterhouse.

While the contractors in Death Paradise were busy running around, the construction of the insect nest on Lin Yi and Su Xiao's side was also progressing simultaneously.

With Am's brute force, an open space of several dozen meters in size was cleared around him. Am then froze the ground and lifted up the entire frozen layer of soil - as easily as lifting up a carpet, he created a space for building an insect nest.

Su Xiao grabbed Jila by the scruff of the neck and placed her in the middle of the open space like a kitten.

"Okay, you can build the insect nest here."

"I can not do it."

Jila shook her head, as if she felt the shock from Su Xiao, and she immediately added: "Only the mantis can build a nest. It has the genetic memory to build Zerg buildings."

"what will you do."

"I can cultivate mantis beetles, but I need five El units of active biological cells. These active biological cells must be non-corrosive and active in..."

Su Xiao waved his hand, interrupting Jila's explanation.

These high-sounding professional terms simply mean that fresh flesh and blood are needed, and the so-called mantis is just the most basic engineering unit of the Zerg.

"Baha, go get some living creatures." Su Xiao ordered.

Not long after, Baha returned dragging a dying giant herbivore.

The giant beast weighing more than two tons was thrown heavily in front of Jira, and the splashing mud and water wet her insect wings.

Jila slowly stretched out his slender fingers, and his fingertips suddenly became as sharp as a knife.

She stabbed hard, her fingers sinking into the beast's hide.

However, the mud under her feet caused her to slip, and she fell directly on the back of the giant beast, looking like a ferocious predator, but also a bit clumsy and cute.

Am couldn't bear it anymore, so he strode forward, grabbed the beast's back with his two huge hands, and tore it hard. The flesh and skin tore apart, and Jila immediately stuck his entire arm into the flesh.

About a minute later, Jila pulled out her arm. She was obviously much weaker, and something was surging inside the dead animal.

After waiting for about ten minutes, a knife-like foot broke through the flesh, and six mantises crawled out from the flesh.

These engineer bugs have a perfect functional structure: the forelimbs are two pairs of sharp recurved blade legs, the six claws in the middle support the body, and the tail has evolved into a structure similar to a scorpion tail.

However, the tip of their tail is not a poisonous stinger, but a circle of deployable precision barbed blades that can both cut biological tissue and fix heavy objects for transportation.

From the moment they were born, these mantises had only one mission - to build, transport and maintain for the prosperity of the Zerg. They are the most loyal architects and porters of the Zerg hive.

The six mantises immediately surrounded Jila and formed a solid protective circle. This was an instinctive reaction engraved deep in their genes.

Jila gently vibrated his tentacles, releasing a special mental wave.

The mantis beetles received the order and immediately took action. They quickly crawled towards the corpse of the giant beast, secreting thick green digestive fluid from their mouths.

As the digestive fluid seeped in, the giant beast's body began to dissolve at a speed visible to the naked eye, gradually transforming into a gelatinous semi-solid substance.

The six mantis beetles were busy with clear division of labor: some used the barbed blades on their tails to accurately cut materials, some used their cutting feet to carry tissue blocks, and others were responsible for stacking these biological materials into shape - a rudimentary insect nest was quickly taking shape.

"As long as there is enough flesh and blood, you can breed worker insects?" Lin Yi asked thoughtfully.

After witnessing this scene with his own eyes, he finally understood why the Zerg could fight the Totem Tribe so evenly.

This terrifying ability to mass-produce troops has simply maximized the potential for war.

"Yes, yes. But at the advanced stage, the energy provided by ordinary flesh and blood is far from enough. At that time, high-energy materials such as Life Stone are needed."

Among all the people present, Jila was the only one who was not so afraid of Lin Yi and Bubu Wang.

Whenever she faced other people, she would subconsciously curl up into a ball, fearing that she would be tied up and made into a Zerg specimen if she wasn't careful.

Especially when Su Xiao's gaze swept over her, she didn't even dare to move her tentacles, like a little insect being targeted by its natural enemy.

"What is the Life Stone?"

Jila shook her tentacles upon hearing this, and carefully organized her words: "I only know that this is a special material that can only be produced by insect nests above the third stage." Her forelimbs rubbed against each other nervously, "In simple terms, it converts the 'bioenergy' stored in the insect nest from liquid to solid."

Following Jila's intermittent explanation, Lin Yi and Su Xiao quickly understood the essence of the Life Stone.

This thing is a highly concentrated crystal of biological energy. It can only be produced by high-level Zerg nests, and only the Zerg mother can directly absorb and utilize it.

In Zerg society, Life Stone does play the role of currency.

The various mother bodies occasionally trade with each other, so they all have the habit of hoarding life stones.

This is not only a reserve of wealth, but also a guarantee of survival - even if the insect nest is destroyed, as long as you escape with enough life stones, you can quickly make a comeback.

It can be said that the emergence of the Life Stone is inevitable. Currency has epoch-making significance for a race. The Zerg are not just competing with each other. The threat of the Totem Tribe has always been there.

More importantly, the value of the Life Stone is not limited to the Zerg.

The primitive people of the Totem Tribe also covet this magical energy crystal - when breaking through the realm, if they can be assisted by the Life Stone, the success rate will be greatly improved. This also explains why the Totem Tribe will fight the Zerg to the death at all costs.

Jila added timidly: "My previous mother body particularly liked to hoard life stones."

She secretly glanced at the long knife on Su Xiao's waist, and her voice became smaller and smaller: "I heard that some powerful mother bodies even set up special vaults to store gold."

After confirming the strategic value of the Life Stone, Lin Yi immediately posted a top announcement on the war channel: [Attention all members: Prioritize the search for strategic materials called Life Stone within the sphere of influence of the Zerg and Totem Tribes]

Soon after the message was sent out, someone in the channel replied to Lin Yi, asking if this was the Life Stone they were looking for.

[Condensed Crystal (Low Purity)]

There is no introduction to this thing except its name.

According to the contractor, this strange crystal without any description is being enshrined in the core treasure house of the Totem Tribe and requires an extremely high contribution value to be exchanged.

"Looks like this is it."

This discovery made the two of them adjust their strategic deployment immediately. According to Jila, the Life Stone can greatly shorten the early development cycle of the Zerg and is the key to quickly establishing power.

The construction of the insect nest was faster than expected. In about four hours, a five-meter-high semi-elliptical insect nest was built, and the surrounding area within a radius of twenty meters was covered with a wriggling fungal carpet.

These symbiotic fungi unique to the Zerg can absorb moisture from hundreds of meters underground, ensuring that the Zerg nest will never dry up.

Jila crawled into the core of the hive tremblingly, surrounded by six mantis guards.

For her, this is the safest harbor - the last time she was forced to leave the hive, she still feels her tentacles tremble when she recalls it.

[Hint: Your summon has built a special biological building. ]

[Determining...]

[This insect nest belongs to the hunter, and the information of this insect nest will be digitized soon. ]

【Dataization completed.】

[Insect Nest (to be named).]

[Rank: 1st rank (5 ranks in total, this rank is determined according to the power system of this world). ]

[Bioenergy reserves: 0/2000 points. ]

[Attached Zerg organs: energy storage tissue (first order), egg-forming tissue (first order), cultivation capsule (first order). ]

[Energy Storage Organization (Level 1): Absorbs and stores bioenergy. This is the basic ability of the insect nest. If the insect nest reaches Level 3, it can produce special resources, which requires the consumption of bioenergy.]

[Egg-forming tissue (first level): can be used to cultivate mantis eggs (requires 2 points of bioenergy) and stinger eggs (requires 10 points of bioenergy). 】

Tip: If the mother body is promoted to a higher rank and its genetic adaptability is improved, the egg-forming tissue can unlock more Zerg genes to cultivate other types of Zerg eggs.

[Cultivation capsule (first level): This Zerg organ can be used to cultivate Zerg eggs to adult form, which requires the consumption of biological energy.]

Tip: It takes 10 points of biological energy to cultivate an adult mantis beetle.

Tip: It takes 30 points of bioenergy to cultivate an adult Stinger.

...(End of chapter)