Samsara Paradise: Dream Weaver of Connections.

At this time, Su Xiao took Am and Baha and slowly returned to the camp, dragging the last few remains of the insect nest.

Although his black windbreaker was stained with some mucus, it was not obviously damaged. The long sword in his hand had already been sheathed. It was obvious that he did not encounter much difficulty in dealing with these insect queens.

"it's over?"

"Yeah." Su Xiao replied briefly and threw the remains of the insect nest on the ground.

As soon as the remains of the insect nest fell to the ground, several nearby mantis beetles pounced forward impatiently, and their sharp forelimbs quickly decomposed the outer shell of the insect nest.

The stinger follows closely behind, carrying the broken pieces back to the nest.

Things like insect nest debris need to be decomposed and absorbed as quickly as possible, otherwise the bioenergy in the damaged outer wall of the insect nest will continue to evaporate.

Not long after, 10 more mantis beetles ran out of Jila's insect nest and joined in the decomposition and transportation of the nest fragments.

The shells of these new individuals are still covered with a lot of mucus, but their work efficiency is no less than that of their predecessors.

As the nest debris was devoured, the nest of Jila trembled slightly, and a high-frequency buzzing sound came from inside.

At this moment, the Thorn's hive is already 25 meters high. Among the five hives, the first one has been completely digested. The biological energy contained in it has prompted the Thorn's hive to start a new round of expansion.

After confirming that it would take some time for Jila to evolve, Su Xiao threw the life stones he had looted from these insect nests into the insect nests.

Lin Yi could hear the sound of swallowing coming from the insect nest. It seemed that Jila had swallowed all the life stones and converted them into bioenergy.

"These Zerg corpses are surprisingly all different. I thought that the first-stage Zerg would only produce the same type of engineers." Lin Yi squatted down and used a dagger to fiddle with the remains of a Zerg corpse. Some of the corpses had sickle-shaped forelimbs, some had evolved glandular structures that could spray venom, and some even had a few corpses covered with sensory cilia.

Baha fluttered his wings and landed on Lin Yi's shoulder, tilting his head and explaining: "Who said it wasn't true, but the IQ of these guys is indeed worrying. Once the mother died, everything was completely messed up."

It pointed with its beak at several insect corpses that had been biting each other not far away: "Look over there, some guys have even started to kill each other. If not, it would not be so easy to bring back so many insect nests intact."

Time passed quietly with the sound of the insect nest devouring. Half an hour later, when the Thornworm nest broke through the 30-meter mark, its devouring efficiency was at least fifty times that of the initial time.

This height marks the maximum capacity of the second-stage hive - and just a few hours ago, Jila had just completed the evolution to this stage.

This terrifying growth rate perfectly illustrates the snowball-like racial characteristics of the Zerg.

As long as you survive the initial fragile development period, you will usher in explosive growth.

After the insect nest was finished devouring, Lin Yi checked the bioenergy inventory.

[Current bioenergy of our own insect nest: 9129/10000. ]

It turns out that going out to plunder other Zerg species can develop hundreds of times faster than hunting animals.

Compared with the previous slow accumulation of energy by hunting ordinary creatures, the harvest from this raid on other insect nests was an exponential growth.

Even though Jila has used most of its energy for nest expansion and functional upgrades, the remaining bioenergy reserves still exceeded the half mark.

[A new genetic memory has been awakened: Bladehopper (combat insect race)]

[A new genetic memory has been awakened: Weaving Spider (can build traps and quickly repair damage to the insect nest). ]

[A new genetic memory has been awakened: Shield Blattodea (combat insect race). ]

[A new genetic memory has been awakened: Thorns (combat Zerg). 】

[A new genetic memory has been awakened: neural carpet (Zerg building). ]

[A new genetic memory has been awakened: acid spores (Zerg building). ]

As Jila advanced, a series of prompt sounds appeared in Lin Yi's ears.

Lin Yi checked the newly unlocked Zerg buildings of Jila, and the most important one among them was the neural carpet.

It can be said that with this thing, Jila finally meets the Zerg in Lin Yi's mind.

"Jila."

"I'm here."

"Spread out the fungal blanket."

Following Lin Yi's order, Jila's mental fluctuations suddenly became active.

Thousands of worker insects poured out from each chamber, carefully holding up quail egg-sized fungal spore eggs with their forelimbs.

The surface of these eggs is covered with a translucent film that undulates like breathing. The curled purple mycelium inside slowly stretches in the nutrient solution, emitting a faint bioluminescence.

When the worker insects place them in the predetermined position, the egg shells begin to vibrate violently, making crisp crackling sounds.

"Pfft-"

The first egg suddenly burst, and sticky purple liquid gushed out. As soon as the liquid touched the ground, it immediately began to expand and spread in all directions as if it had life.

Immediately afterwards, a series of explosions were heard around the camp, and hundreds of eggs exploded at the same time.

The purple fungal blanket expanded on the surface at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the originally gray-brown sand and stone were dyed into a disturbing dark purple, as if the entire land was infected by some unknown life form.

Just then, an injured mantis beetle staggered into the area covered by the fungal carpet.

The wound on its shell that was deep enough to see the bone began to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye, and its originally slow movements became noticeably more agile.

Lin Yi squatted down cautiously and stretched out his index finger to gently touch the surface of the fungus blanket. The touch from his fingertips was neither like plants nor fungi, but a strange texture in between.

【Hint: The neural carpet has been built. 】

[Neural carpet]

Type: Zerg Building

Building Effect: The fungal blanket secretes lubricating mucus, greatly reducing the friction resistance of Zerg units, Zerg movement speed +30%, health recovery +15%/second. The skill cooldown time of Zerg units (such as spore scorpions and overlord towers) on the fungal blanket is shortened by 20%.

The fungal creep continuously releases disruptive pheromones, which reduces the movement speed of non-Zerg units by 25% and the field of view by 40%.

When biological debris falls on the fungal blanket, it will be wrapped by hyphae and decomposed into "bioenergy". When the bioenergy reserve is running out, the fungal blanket can dissolve 50% of its area on its own, providing temporary emergency energy for the insect swarm.

Introduction: The "absolute territory" of the Zerg battlefield.

Seeing the effect of the neural carpet, Lin Yi could only say that it was indeed the most critical strategic-level building of the Zerg, integrating the three functions of recovery, suppression, and resource recycling.

As the fungal blanket multiplied, the surface was dyed purple in a blink of an eye. Bubu barked and carefully found a corner with less fungal blanket coverage and lay down.

These constantly wriggling active hyphae made its belly itchy, making it feel a little uncomfortable.

Lin Yi called up the panel and found that building such a large area of ​​fungal blanket only consumed 200 points of bioenergy.

This consumption is much lower than he expected. It seems that the fungal mat is essentially just a layer of active mycelium network laid on the surface, and the demand for bioenergy is indeed not high.

If the consumption were greater, the cost-effectiveness of this fungal mat would not be worthwhile.

The fungal blanket has a fatal weakness - it is extremely afraid of high temperatures.

Once encountered by a flamethrower or incendiary bomb, the entire fungal blanket will be reduced to ashes in a short time.

Fortunately, as long as the core of the hive is intact, the fungal blanket can spread again and cover the battlefield in a short time thanks to its powerful regeneration ability.

"The stones are gone." Jila poked his head out of the insect nest stealthily, his slender tentacles swaying restlessly, obviously asking if there were more life stones to devour.

Lin Yi ignored it and found that there was still about 700 points of biological energy left for Jila to evolve. If he wanted to continue relying on hunting, it would take at least three days.

Over the past period of time, large creatures around the insect nest have been almost hunted out, and it has become difficult to find suitable prey within a radius of dozens of miles.

If they wanted to expand the hunting range, not only would the journey be long, time-consuming and labor-intensive, but they would also be more likely to encounter patrols from the Sun Tribe, leading to unnecessary conflicts.

However, this inefficient method of hunting is obviously no longer suitable.

At the moment, annexing other Zerg nests is undoubtedly a faster option - not only can you directly plunder the opponent's bioenergy reserves, but you can also absorb their gene pool, which is killing two birds with one stone.

"Baha, go determine the location of that fourth-stage hive."

Su Xiao took out the remote receiver and put it around Bubuwang's neck.

Lin Yi took a look at Bubuwanggu and instantly understood Su Xiao's plan. Su Xiao was going to use Bubuwanggu's unique stealth ability to sneak into the high-level insect nest and steal the precious life stone.

Although this plan is risky, the benefits are indeed attractive.

Su Xiao lit a cigarette. If the plan went well, once Jila evolved to a high level, he would have a huge army. A huge army.

"In the grassland where we fought at the beginning, I took a look at the insect nest in the south. The nest was about 150 meters high."

"Bubu, is there a problem?"

"Woof." Bubu Wang puffed out his chest, his eyes flashed with confidence, and he wagged his tail vigorously, indicating that there was absolutely no problem.

"Well, Baha, you stay near the insect nest to meet Bubuwang. If anything unexpected happens, you two should retreat immediately."

"Do you need me to summon the Shadow Corps to assist?"

Bubuwang shook his head immediately after hearing this, knowing that the key to this operation was secrecy. Too many people would easily alert the insects and disturb the queen insect deep in the nest.

It scratched the ground with its claws, indicating that it would be safer to act alone.

At the same time, in a swamp, the contractors of the Death Paradise finally escaped from the pursuit of the Reincarnation Paradise.

They stopped panting, the mud under their feet making an unpleasant gurgling sound.

Someone in the team glanced at the dying insect queen. Its once shiny shell was now dull and its limbs drooped limply.

Alex made a prompt decision: "We can't delay any longer, let's build a hive here!"

Although the swamp environment is harsh, it is indeed an ideal hiding place.

The dense reeds provide natural cover, and the rich biological resources in the swamp are sufficient to support the initial development of the hive.

Unfortunately, just as the group was preparing to build an insect nest, sparse sounds suddenly reached everyone's ears.

In the black water of the swamp, countless scorpion-like insects were seen breaking out of the water, their shells covered with mud, their stingers raised high, surrounding the group of people in Death Paradise.

"Damn it, they've run into someone's lair. No wonder those mad dogs suddenly stopped after chasing us to this area. It turns out they were waiting here for us to fall into their trap!" After seeing this scene, the leader of the Death Paradise, Yaklo, had tears in his eyes.

A deep blue energy cannon whizzed out and exploded in the center of the dense swarm of insects. The blazing shock wave blew away a dozen scorpion-shaped insects, and shell fragments and sticky body fluids splashed everywhere.

Instead of shocking the swarm of insects, this attack was like disturbing a hornet's nest.

A hair-raising rustling sound came from deep within the swamp; the entire mire seemed to be boiling.

More dark shadows emerged from the turbid water, their shells covered with humus, and bloodthirsty light flickered in their compound eyes. In the blink of an eye, they narrowed the encirclement by an entire circle.

A flamethrower in the hands of a contractor spewed out long tongues of fire, burning several approaching scorpion insects into charcoal.

But what was despairing was that the carapaces of these swamp insects seemed to have undergone special evolution and were surprisingly resistant to high temperatures. Even if their shells were burned to carbonization, they could still drag their broken bodies and continue moving forward.

"Don't fight to the death! Break through!" The leader of an elite adventure group shouted sternly, sweeping the sword in his hand.

The sword swept across, and the two scorpion insects were cut in half in an instant, and their smelly internal organs sprayed into the mud.

Every time he swung his sword, the violent sword energy could tear a bloody path through the Zerg swarm, but in the blink of an eye more Zerg would fill the gap.

This swamp is a killing field tailor-made for the Zerg. The sticky mud makes it difficult for the contractors to move, and every step requires several times more effort than usual.

On the other hand, the scorpion-shaped insects, with their flat bodies, thrive in the mud. Their six appendages paddled quickly, splashing up streaks of dirty water.

What’s even more terrifying is that they seem to be able to transmit signals through some kind of pheromone, and can always predict the direction of human breakthrough and block it.

Soon, several contractors who fell behind were entangled by the scorpion insects and were dragged into the depths of the quagmire while screaming.

As soon as one of them raised his staff, three spikes pierced his chest at the same time.

The moment the poison entered his body, his entire face distorted, and purple-black spider-web-like lines appeared on his exposed skin at a speed visible to the naked eye.

His body convulsed violently as if he had been electrocuted, his staff slipped out of his hand and fell into the mud, and three seconds later his eyes widened and he stopped breathing.

"We can't go on like this! There are too many Zergs!" A female contractor holding two guns gritted her teeth. She had already used up most of her bullets, but the Zergs still kept pouring in.

Yaklo's eyes were gloomy. He took out a dark purple crystal and smashed it hard on the ground.

"boom--!"

The violent explosion shock wave swept around, the mud and water in the swamp were shaken up into the sky, and dozens of scorpion insects were blown to pieces.

However, the aftermath of the explosion also caused several contractors who were too close to be blown away and fell heavily into the mud.

"Yaklo! Do you fucking want to kill us too?" someone roared.

"Stop talking nonsense!" Yaklo wiped the mud off his face, his eyes flashing with madness, "Follow me if you want to live!" He took advantage of the brief gap when the insect swarm was stunned by the explosion and rushed to the edge of the swamp with the remnants.

Just when everyone was about to break out of the encirclement, the entire swamp suddenly shook violently.

The calm water surface suddenly boiled and rolled without warning, and a huge whirlpool formed in front of them.

"Crack-!"

Accompanied by a deafening sound of breaking water, a huge monster rose into the sky from the center of the whirlpool.

It was a giant scorpion worm with a dark purple body. The upper part of its body that was exposed above the water was more than five meters long, and its shell was covered with hideous bone spurs.

The most horrifying thing is its tail stinger, which is as thick as an adult's waist. Dark green venom is constantly dripping from the tip, and every drop that falls on the mud makes a hissing corrosive sound.

Its compound eyes flashed with a cold light, locking their eyes on everyone in the Paradise of Death.

"Elite Zerg?!" After reading the other party's information, Yaklo's face suddenly turned ugly.

Under normal circumstances, Yaklo was confident that he could deal with this tricky enemy within five minutes, but at the moment everyone was surrounded by the Zerg. Once they were held back by this thing, everyone would die.

The giant scorpion worm suddenly raised its head and let out a series of shrill screams, the sound waves causing ripples on the surface of the swamp water.

The surrounding insect swarms seemed to have received some kind of combat order and instantly went into a frenzy.

"Fight!"

Deep in the misty forest, thick fog lingered among the towering ancient trees, and visibility was extremely low.

However, a certain area in the Misty Forest was unusually lively - hundreds of contractors were wielding pickaxes and energy cutters, frantically mining the exposed ore underground.

"Ding! Ding! Ding!"

The sound of metal knocking came one after another, occasionally mixed with a few excited shouts.

"Another piece of high-purity Bauhinia ore! Hahaha, I'm going to make a killing on this trip!" A contractor from Apocalypse Paradise had an excited look on his face, holding a fist-sized dark blue crystal in his hand, which was glowing faintly in the dim mine.

A female contractor from the nearby Holy Light Paradise glanced at him and snorted, "Hmph, you're lucky."

"Hehe, same to you." The Apocalypse Contractor grinned, stuffed the crystal into his backpack, and continued to dig hard.

Who would have thought that there were such rich mineral veins buried underground in this forest?
At the beginning, the contractors of the Holy Light Paradise scoffed at the hard work of "mining" - they were contractors, powerful people who traveled through various worlds, how could they do such low-level work?

However, when they discovered that the ore they dug was worth 200,000 Paradise Coins, all the contractors in the Holy Light Paradise fell silent.

Two hundred thousand paradise coins!

This is almost equivalent to the reward for completing a high-difficulty world mission! And now, they can earn it just by mining!
As a result, the situation that followed became extremely magical - the contractors of Apocalypse Paradise and Holy Light Paradise tacitly divided the mining area, and each occupied an area for excavation.

Occasionally, someone would dig up top-quality ore, which would attract envious glances - now no one wants to waste time fighting, mining is the way to go!

……

At the same time, the funny duo Bubu Wang and Baha have entered the area where the four major parks were previously in a melee.

Due to the existence of the sacrificial cow, the grassland within a radius of ten miles became an unspoken restricted area for all forces.

Even the insect nest in the south, which was expanding madly, deliberately avoided this area as it spread, and its expansion route made an abrupt right angle.

This fear is not without reason. The secret of the mysterious disappearance of the fifth-level Zerg Overlord is still being passed on by word of mouth among the top leaders of various forces.

It is said that the arrogant Zerg overlord had just completed his evolution and was about to sweep across the continent when the sacred bull clan arrived in this world for the first time.

When the Zerg war machine was discovered, the leading sacrificial bull rushed to the core area of ​​the Zerg nest without saying a word, raised its front hooves and stomped on it - the poor fifth-level Zerg nest and the Zerg King inside were trampled into a pool of meat on the spot.

From then on, the area where the sacred cow was sacrificed became an absolute forbidden zone that all forces were afraid to talk about.

"Wow—"

Bahamut swooped down from the clouds, and Bubu Wang, wearing customized goggles, was already ready to go.

The moment Baha flew over the ground, Bubu Wang kicked off his hind legs and jumped up accurately, firmly grasping Baha's claws with his two front paws.

With this momentum, Bubu Wang drew a beautiful parabola in the air, and after landing lightly, he did not forget to shake off his fur that was covered with grass debris.

Baha: "South, 1250 meters. If I get any closer, I might be discovered."

Bubuwang: "Leave it to me."

Baha: "Be careful. If the fourth-stage mother has any strange abilities, notify me immediately and I will rush into the insect nest to rescue you. After that, whether you live or die depends on luck."

Bubuwang: "The perception of the Zerg is very average. Have you ever seen a Demon with a real attribute of more than 200 points?"

Baha: “It’s a fraud.”

Benny: "Meow meow meow?"

Bubuwang: "The money-scattering cat."

Benny: "Erha."

Su Xiao: "Everyone, be quiet." (End of this chapter)