Samsara Paradise: Dream Weaver of Connections.

Bubuwangang, blending into the environment, ran quickly on the grassland. In the base camp, Su Xiao held a tablet in his hand and watched Bubuwangangang's infiltration journey with Lin Yi.

Through the vision shared by Bubuwang and Baha, a giant insect nest gradually appeared in the picture.

This behemoth has a strange dark green hue, and its surface is covered with layers of shell structures. These shells are arranged closely, as if the hive is covered with a piece of armor.

When Bubuwangwang approached within 300 meters of the insect nest, it immediately slowed down its advance.

The sight before him was terrifying—the surroundings were densely packed with Zerg of various shapes and forms, with at least dozens of species and numbers so large that they were difficult to count. A conservative estimate was that there were hundreds of thousands of them.

In order to avoid encountering the surrounding Zerg, Bubuwang was very careful when moving forward to prevent himself from accidentally touching the tentacles or bodies of the surrounding Zerg and alerting the other party.

Its claws landed silently on the soft fungal carpet, and the pads of its flesh perfectly absorbed the shock of landing without making a sound.

The number of Zerg in the fourth-level Zerg nest is exaggerated, but it does not give people a messy feeling.

Around the giant insect nest, there are more than a dozen strangely shaped Zerg buildings, each of which is dozens of meters high and covered with a biomass-like cuticle.

Five of the buildings are particularly special - their structures are even more hideous, and their surfaces are covered with energy veins similar to blood vessels, emitting a faint dangerous aura.

Bubu Wang only took a glance from a distance and felt the muscles in his hind legs twitching uncontrollably, and he instinctively wanted to step back.

It is obvious that these buildings are the core defense facilities of the hive.

Once there is an invasion by foreign enemies, these five buildings will be automatically activated.

Bubu Wang estimated that he might not be able to withstand it even for one moment. Even if Su Xiao came, he could only withstand it a few times at most.

Looking at the message that Bubu Wang sent in the temporary team channel, Lin Yi and Su Xiao raised their risk assessment of the fourth-order insect nest to a higher level again.

For safety reasons, Bubuwang approached the giant insect nest at a very slow speed.

It is like a shadow that blends into the environment, and it has to repeatedly confirm its landing point every time it takes a step.

It took a full seventeen minutes to walk a distance of more than three hundred meters - this speed was even slower than a snail's crawling. The entrance to the insect nest was seven meters wide and more than ten meters high.

Judging from the color of the outside of the nest, this giant nest should have been expanded once in recent times. Part of the outer shell is light gray-green, which contrasts sharply with the dark green aging parts around it, making it particularly conspicuous like an unhealed scar.

Just as Bubuwang was about to enter the giant insect nest, he found that the entrance of the giant insect nest was blocked by a large group of Zerg that he had never seen before.

These Zerg are translucent amber in color and covered with thousands of delicate tentacles.

Each tentacle is more than ten meters long, floating and wriggling irregularly in the still air, weaving into an airtight biological warning net.

Bubuwang ignored the guards. Its body became somewhat illusory and it penetrated directly through the outer wall of the hive.

Since the main entrance is blocked, this seemingly indestructible wall becomes the most convenient passage.

For Bubuwang, wherever there is a wall, it is a door.

After entering the giant insect nest, Bubu Wang discovered that the internal structure of this giant insect nest could be called a living biological castle. The intricate passages extended like a maze, and there were nests and caves of all sizes scattered all over the place. A rough estimate was that there were nearly a hundred of them.

Compared with this insect nest, Jila's insect nest is like a rental house compared to a large manor, they are not in the same league at all.

After wandering around in this large insect nest for more than half an hour, Bubuwang finally found the fourth-stage queen, a Zerg creature very similar to a human female. She was lying in a large pool and sleeping.

If it weren't for the two tentacles on its head, Bubuwang would not have recognized that it was a Zerg.

When he came near the Zerg Queen, Bubu Wang looked down and found that the pool was full of transparent liquid. The Zerg Queen was floating in the liquid, and at the bottom of the pool, there were densely packed life stones, each of which was the size of a fist and emitted a fluorescent green glow.

Bubuwang stood by the pool made of soft biological tissue. The ground beneath its feet sank slightly as it moved. This strange touch made all the hair on its body stand up unconsciously.

After brewing for a few minutes, Bubuwang's claws reached into the transparent liquid. Its movements were so slow that it didn't even create ripples.

"who is it."

The Zerg Queen's eyes opened, with blue eyes and light red pupils.

Bubu Wang's body fell down, and his entire body was submerged in the colorless liquid. It sank slowly like a stone.

The Zerg Queen changed from lying down to standing upright. She looked around, her tentacles trembling slightly, and a look of confusion revealed in her eyes.

At this time, Bubuwang had reached the bottom of the pool. Its paw touched a life stone, which immediately disappeared and was stored in the adventure group's storage space.

One, two. When the eleventh life stone was also taken away, the Queen Mother seemed to have noticed something and suddenly dived to the bottom of the pool.

As soon as she sank, Bubuwang activated his special ability.

Its figure penetrated the biological tissue at the bottom of the pool and instantly fell into an empty room below the insect nest.

After confirming it was safe, it moved closer to the outer wall of the nest without stopping. Its figure became illusory again, and it left the nest after a few seconds.

As soon as Bubuwang left the insect nest, the whole nest exploded.

The guard Zergs that were originally sleeping at the door suddenly rioted collectively and poured into the nest like a tide.

Countless biological tentacles as thin as hair stretched out from all directions, and in a blink of an eye they covered every corner of the insect nest, leaving even the smallest gaps untouched.

The Zerg Queen was suspended in the pool, her slender fingers gently stroking the empty space at the bottom of the pool.

Although she could not find any trace of the intruder, the eleven obvious gaps at the bottom of the pool pricked her nerves - those were the high-level life stones that she had spent countless efforts to cultivate!
These high-level life stones are completely different from ordinary ones. Each high-level life stone contains amazing biological energy. Any one of them is enough to allow an ordinary insect queen to jump two levels, directly from the first level to the third level.

Even for her, it would take her several months to cultivate a Life Stone of this level.

As the queen mother let out a sharp hiss, the entire hive was boiling.

All the Zerg fell into a state of frenzy. They searched around frantically, and their sharp limbs scraped against the walls of the nest, making harsh sounds.

The Queen Mother's mixed emotions of anger and confusion were transmitted through the mental network, stimulating the Zerg to become more and more restless.

All the Zerg within a radius of several miles received the alarm and began a carpet search of the surrounding area.

As soon as Bubu Wang rushed out of the Zerg encirclement, he spread out his four legs and ran for his life, looking as if he wished he had rocket thrusters installed on his butt.

When Bubuwang rushed out two kilometers in one breath, a loud cry suddenly came from the sky.

Bahamut made a beautiful dive and almost flew close to the treetops.

Bubuwang seized the opportunity and jumped, landing steadily on Baha's broad back.

The dog and the bird cooperated perfectly, and in the blink of an eye they turned into a blurry afterimage and disappeared into the sky.

Shortly after they left, a deafening commotion was heard from the direction of the hive.

Tens of thousands of Zerg swarmed out, like efficient harvesters, razing all the trees and bushes within a radius of several miles to the ground.

What's even more terrifying is that countless reconnaissance Zergs are deployed around the area, either lurking underground or hanging on tree branches, forming an impenetrable surveillance network.

Obviously, Bubuwang's daring act of theft completely angered the Zerg Queen.

In order to prevent similar incidents from happening again, the furious ruler spared no effort to spend a huge amount of resources to thoroughly transform and upgrade the entire surrounding area of ​​the hive.

The insect nest, which was already heavily guarded, has now become an iron wall that not even a fly can get in.

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On the other side, Su Xiao took out a life stone from the adventure team's storage space and handed it to Jila.

Bubuwang had previously stored all the life stones in the adventure team's warehouse, so Su Xiao could take them out directly from the warehouse.

I have to say, this life stone is really big.

Ji La stretched out her small hand and barely held the Life Stone which was too big for her.

She instinctively opened her mouth and tried to swallow it, but soon showed an embarrassment - the size of this life stone was almost as big as her head.

"I can't swallow it." There was some grievance in Jila's voice. She was worried that if she forced to swallow it, she might be choked by the big stone.

But the Life Stone can only be absorbed by the mother body, and the Hive cannot do it for it.

After hesitating for a while, Jila closed her eyes and placed the life stone in her hand on her forehead. She frowned, as if she was thinking about something.

"absorb!"

Jila shouted with all his might.

The embarrassing thing was that except for her flushed little face, the Life Stone remained motionless.

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After seeing Jila's immature behavior, Lin Yi and Su Xiao fell into a strange silence. "What kind of nonsense did Bubuwang and Baha show this little guy recently?" Su Xiao rubbed his temple, with a bit of helplessness in his tone.

Lin Yi shrugged: "It seems to be the "Crazy Young Cultivator" series of novels. Last time I saw Baha reading to her."

"Well done." Su Xiao interrupted expressionlessly, "Don't do that next time."

Su Xiao grabbed the Life Stone, exerted force with his hand, and crushed the Life Stone with a snap.

The fist-sized life stone shattered in Su Xiao's hand, but no bioenergy leaked out.

Seeing this, Jila carefully took the fragments and started to eat them in small bites like eating biscuits.

After absorbing only about one-fifth of the fragments, the hive's bioenergy reserves have reached saturation.

Jila yawned contentedly, rubbed his slightly bulging belly, and walked back to the insect nest slowly with lazy steps.

The next second, the bioenergy patterns on the entire surface of the hive lit up one by one like a circuit board, emitting a dazzling emerald green light.

The Zerg that were originally wandering around seemed to have received some kind of call. They gathered around the hive and quietly fell into a state of sleep.

Jira, who was still a first-stage mother yesterday, will be qualified to be promoted to the third stage and reach the level of Zerg Queen after one day.

If other Zerg queens knew about this terrifying promotion speed, they would probably be shocked.

Through the video footage sent back by Bubuwang, Su Xiao noticed that there were at least hundreds of life stones of the same quality stored at the bottom of the pool of the fourth-level Zerg Queen.

However, this kind of business obviously cannot be done often - there are only three known fourth-order insect nests. The success this time was purely due to good luck, as the exact location of one of them was known in advance.

As for the other two fourth-stage insect nests, God knows where they are. The area of ​​this continent is quite vast. Even if Bubuwang knows the location, it will take several days or even longer for Bubuwang to steal them, not to mention the time spent searching for the other two fourth-stage insect nests.

In the short term, it was obvious that Su Xiao's team could no longer obtain the Life Stone from the furious Queen Mother.

Although the operation was successful, the process was thrilling - Bubu Wangwang almost exposed his whereabouts, and the Zerg Queen had vaguely sensed the presence of the invaders.

If it weren't for Bubuwang's ultimate hiding ability, he would have been surrounded and wiped out by the overwhelming swarm of insects.

The risk of stealing from a fourth-stage insect nest is too high, so looting an insect nest of the same stage is the wisest approach.

When Jila reaches the third level, the Zerg's ability to explode troops is fully unleashed.

Jira has an advantage that other Zergs do not have, which is that she does not need to accumulate basic Zerg troops, which can save a lot of biological energy.

In the traditional Zerg development model, the accumulation of bioenergy often requires a gradual process.

During this period, the hive had to maintain a large engineering corps and logistics units. Although these basic arms had limited combat effectiveness, they were necessary guarantees for maintaining the normal operation of the hive.

Jira skipped this stage of development entirely, and the only thing she needed to focus on was absorbing bioenergy and completing her evolutionary leap.

In order to maintain the stable operation of the hive, most hive queens will carefully plan the proportion of troops to ensure the balance of biological energy income and expenditure.

If too many combat units are cultivated rashly, the daily consumption of these high-energy-consuming troops will soon overwhelm a third-level Zerg nest and even cause the collapse of the entire Zerg system.

Take the fourth-level Zerg nest that Bubuwang had explored as an example. Although its Zerg army is as large as one million, the proportion of combat arms is always controlled between 30% and 40%. The remaining more than 60% are engineers and logistics units responsible for resource collection and building maintenance.

This configuration is a survival strategy formed by the Zerg's long-term evolution - maintaining a stable supply of resources while ensuring sufficient defensive power.

Of course, there are also some wealthy queens among the Zerg who will cultivate a large number of combat units at any cost.

These queens are not only able to resist the attacks of totem tribes, they will even take the initiative to attack and plunder surrounding resources to expand their territory.

It is extremely rare for a worm queen to adopt such a radical development strategy, and there may not be one in ten.

The reason is simple - this model is like dancing on the edge of a knife, and if you are not careful, you will lose everything.

Once a battle fails to plunder the expected bio-energy, the energy supply of the entire hive will be in crisis.

The consumption of combat troops cannot be replenished, and the defense force is weakened, which in turn leads to more serious resource shortages and ultimately forms an irreversible vicious cycle.

Therefore, for the vast majority of worm queens, steady development is the way to survive, and radical expansion often means self-destruction.

On the surface of Jila's insect nest, the light of the bioenergy patterns gradually turned from bright to dark, and finally converged completely.

There was a slight vibration coming from inside the hive. In the core breeding chamber of the hive, Jila was completely wrapped in thick biological tissue.

Countless milky white nerve fibers were wrapped around her body like living things, trembling slightly with the rhythm of her breathing.

These neural conduits are transporting massive amounts of bioenergy into her body, pushing her to transform into a higher level of life form - evolving from an ordinary Zerg queen to a true Zerg queen.

Outside the insect nest, Su Xiao was looking at a holographic map.

This map was provided by Benny. The cat is currently searching the world for the core of the world.

In addition to Benny, other contractors in the war channel are also filling in the map of this continent.

In just a few days, the blank area on the virtual map disappeared as quickly as a beach washed by the tide.

The topography and resource distribution of half of the entire continent have been clearly marked.

The most exaggerated thing is that some of the contractors have come overseas and successfully joined the overseas Zerg society.

According to the information sent back by this contractor, the overseas Zerg society has completed the civilization leap from primitive tribes to feudal kingdoms.

The inheritance of power there follows a strict hereditary system, and the throne of the Insect King will always flow in the royal bloodline.

Of course, if there are wild insect queens outside, they can also participate in the competition for the position of insect king, but it is rare for a wild insect queen to win.

The royal heirs have inexhaustible resources at their disposal, and the wild insect queens are simply unable to compete with these rich second generations unless they have an unexpected encounter like Jila, or discover an undeveloped life forbidden zone.

In the Zerg world, war has always been a competition of resources and logistics. The so-called desperate situation outbreak, changing one's destiny against all odds is totally inapplicable to this race.

In the eyes of overseas intelligent Zerg, the Zerg on the mainland are nothing more than a group of uncivilized and barbaric tribes.

This condescending attitude is more of a pathetic self-consolation than an objective evaluation.

Are these self-proclaimed civilized Zergs really willing to live in seclusion overseas? Is the continent so barren that it cannot support their survival? The answer is obviously no.

The truth behind their drifting overseas is simple and cruel - in the brutal competition for survival, they are the expelled losers, and now they can only use this method of spiritual victory to maintain their shaky sense of superiority.

According to the video footage sent by this contractor, the Zerg's royal city overseas is a towering bone palace. The Zerg walking on the streets are wearing biological armor, and one can even see a market-like trading area. The medium of transaction is the concentrated bioenergy crystal, or life stone.

On the holographic map, in addition to the overseas Zerg sphere of influence, the territories of the five major totem tribes are also clearly marked.

However, only one fourth-stage insect nest is marked, which is the fourth-stage insect nest that Bubuwang encountered before.

As for where the other two insect nests are, the contractors of the Samsara Paradise have not encountered them either.

In sharp contrast to the scarcity of high-level Zerg nests are the third-level Zerg nest marks scattered all over the map - there are as many as hundreds of them, like a dense spider web covering the entire continent.

In an area of ​​80 square kilometers centered on Jila, there are 39 first-stage insect nests, 89 second-stage insect nests, and 15 third-stage insect nests.

It seems like a lot, but in fact these insect nests are very sparsely distributed. 80 square kilometers is equivalent to the area of ​​two medium-sized provinces and cities. If it is developed through modern means, it will be enough for tens of millions of people to live in.

At this spatial scale, the distribution density of just over a hundred insect nests can be considered sparse.

The main reason for this phenomenon is the deterrent power of the Sun Tribe - many Zergs will choose to migrate to safer areas after sensing the existence of this powerful totem tribe.

Over the years, the number of Zerg on this land continued to decline, and eventually only these slow-witted or brave ones remained.

Jila is not short of bioenergy for the time being. Eleven high-purity life stones are equivalent to about 11 bioenergy.

What bothers Lin Yi now is the lack of powerful Zerg combat units.

Even if Jila successfully advances to the third level, it remains unknown what kind of genetic memory she will awaken.

Although they will inevitably gain the ability to train third-tier combat units, there are significant differences in combat power between arms of the same tier.

The worst case scenario is awakening a mediocre battle sequence - if this is the case, blindly expanding the army will only result in a serious waste of resources, and the input and output will be completely disproportionate.

If you want the hive to obtain new Zerg troops, one way is to awaken the genetic memory through Jila, and the other is to exchange or purchase the "remaining individuals" of a specified type from other Zerg mothers with life stones.

The so-called "leftover individuals" can be simply described as being equivalent to the skill scrolls in the Samsara Paradise. After devouring the "leftover individuals", the Jera's Zerg nest will obtain the genetic memory of the "leftover individuals", thereby gaining the ability to cultivate new combat Zerg.

As for where to get the "remaining individuals", it is obviously impossible to rob them, as the creation of this thing requires very strict requirements.

However, as many contractors infiltrated different Zerg forces, obtaining it through transactions became a feasible solution.

Lin Yi particularly coveted the "remaining individuals" of the intelligent Zerg. After all, compared to the belligerent Zerg, it was obviously more realistic to establish trade channels with the intelligent Zerg. (End of this chapter)