Samsara Paradise: Dream Weaver of Connections.

After browsing the war channel for a while, Lin Yi found Bai Lan, the contractor who had infiltrated the intelligent Zerg.

As a leader among the fifth-level contractors, Bai Lan is quite famous in the contractor circle. However, his fame does not come from his powerful combat ability, but from his [Mimicry Symbiosis] talent.

This extremely rare camouflage ability allows him to accurately simulate the biological characteristics of the target, and even perfectly replicate the mental fluctuations unique to high-level Zerg.

Because of this, Bai Lan became one of the very few contractors who could penetrate deep into the Zerg nest without being discovered.

Doctor: "Do you have many 'residual individuals'?"

Bai Lan: "Duo, the Zerg here is different from the Zerg on the mainland. Here, the Life Stone has been carved into currency. Zerg buildings and remnants are clearly marked with prices and traded as commodities. What type of remnant do you need? I can help you keep an eye out."

Bai Lan is currently in a huge cave. Unlike the Zerg on the mainland, these overseas intelligent Zerg have developed a unique form of civilization.

They chose a completely different evolutionary path - digging deeper into the earth's core.

The land area of ​​the overseas archipelago is too limited to accommodate the large number of Zerg swarms.

Driven by the pressure of survival, intelligent Zerg began to expand their living space underground.

After hundreds of years of evolution, this digging behavior has gradually evolved into a unique social culture - the depth of residence directly reflects social status.

In this twisted underground kingdom, the powerful class lives in comfortable caves close to the ground, enjoying a relatively pleasant environment; while the lower-level Zerg are forced to live in the abyss near the magma layer at the center of the earth.

The environment there is harsh, with high temperatures and toxic gases constantly corroding the shells of low-level Zerg, but they have no choice - this is determined by the strict hierarchy of the intelligent Zerg society.

Bai Lan is now a trader who specializes in reselling rare materials and other goods - such as rare minerals from the mainland and some special herbs.

Among the intelligent Zerg, these are considered extremely precious materials that can be used to build Zerg buildings, refine potions, and even as decorations to show status.

Doctor: "Are there any 'remaining individuals' with particularly strong combat capabilities?"

Bai Lan: "It's a bit difficult. There are some 'relict individuals' with very strong combat power, but most of these 'relict individuals' cannot be used for various reasons. Otherwise, with the Zerg's character, they would have fought back to the mainland long ago. Why would they be trapped in this overseas archipelago?"

Bai Lan knew that Lin Yi must have a nest of insects in his hands. Otherwise, how could he and Su Xiao collect information related to the nest in such a high-profile manner? This level of attention is definitely not something that ordinary contractors would do.

Doctor: "First, send us the information of a few stronger 'remaining individuals'. If it doesn't work, we can think of another way."

Bai Lan: "Okay."

Bai Lan sent the information of several "remaining individuals" to Lin Yi. After reading the situation of these "remaining individuals", Lin Yi finally understood why Bai Lan said that.

[Shadow Blade]: A fourth-tier combat unit, skilled in space flickering and shell hardening.

Space Flash: Can instantly move within a radius of 300 meters.

The production of [Shadow Blade] requires Void Stone, otherwise the produced Zerg will not have the ability to flash in space, and will then be just an ordinary combat Zerg.

This kind of stone is a rare mineral even in the void, and is one of the important ores used to produce space equipment.

This is also the reason why [Shadow Blade] has been thrown in the warehouse and no one cares about it. There is no way, we can't afford it.

Among the intelligent Zerg, Void Stone is also a strategic material. How could they be willing to create a few ordinary combat Zerg? The worst that can happen is that they can produce a few more Zergs to make up for the gap between the two sides on the battlefield.

[Slayer]: A fourth-tier combat Zerg with a huge body and amazing strength. Its shell is as hard as alloy and it can easily tear apart the enemy formation when charging.

But its flaw is equally fatal - excessive energy consumption.

The daily maintenance energy of a [Slayer] is equivalent to that of a hundred ordinary combat Zergs.

Although the intelligent Zerg have mastered efficient energy collection technology, when faced with this "energy black hole", they can only selectively cultivate a small number of them and use them as ace units rather than conventional troops.

[Mind Eater]: A fourth-order special Zerg, a psychic unit that can release high-frequency mental shocks to interfere with or even directly destroy the enemy's consciousness.

The terrifying thing about it is that it can control low-level enemies for a short period of time and make them kill each other.

But the problem is equally tricky - the Heart Eater's mental fluctuations are extremely unstable.

The royal family of the intelligent Zerg once attempted mass breeding, which resulted in multiple incidents of mental pollution, and the Zerg in the entire hatchery fell into collective madness.

Eventually, the Heart Eater had to be classified as a restricted unit, and only high-level Zerg commanders were allowed to directly control it.

The combat effectiveness of these "remaining individuals" is indeed strong, but each of them has a nearly fatal flaw.

No wonder the intelligent Zerg would rather develop ordinary Zerg than invest in these special units on a large scale.

However, after looking through it, Lin Yi finally found a "remaining individual" that could be used.

[Star Guardian]: A fifth-tier combat Zerg. Hundreds of years ago, it was one of the hive guards of the fifth-tier Overlord. It needs another type of Zerg to cooperate with it in order to have combat effectiveness.

[Star Guardian] is more like a mount than a combat Zerg.

The fundamental reason why this "remaining individual" has been idle in the Zerg territory for a long time and no one cares about it is that it must be controlled by a humanoid creature.

However, in the unique Zerg ecosystem, except for the Queen Zerg, 99.9% of the combat Zerg and worker Zerg maintain the typical arthropod form.

As for capturing the warriors of the Totem Tribe to control them, it's not that the Insect Queen has not tried it, but the mental fluctuations of the warriors of the Totem Tribe and the [Star Guardians] cannot be in sync, and they are completely a drag.

This thing is like a nuclear bomb with the detonator removed. It looks very powerful, but no one can use it unless someone can make up for this major flaw.

For Lin Yi, the fatal flaw of [Star Guard] that has troubled the Zerg for many years has become his greatest advantage. After all, Lin Yi has hundreds of thousands of Shadow Legion soldiers at his disposal.

These warriors condensed by shadow energy not only have humanoid form, but more importantly - they are completely controlled by Lin Yi's mind.

In other words, as long as Lin Yi is willing, he can make any shadow soldier achieve 100% resonance with the [Star Guard].

Doctor: "I want [Star Guardian]."

Bai Lan: "Are you sure? This thing is a well-known 'junk', even the intelligent Zerg..."

Physician: "I have a way to activate it. What's the deal?"

Seeing that Lin Yi said so, Bai Lan stopped trying to dissuade him.

Bai Lan sent Lin Yi a coordinate, which was located on an island overseas. This was one of the trading places of the intelligent Zerg, so it was built on the ground.

After ending the communication, Lin Yi informed Lidya Su about the matter.

"Baha."

"What's the matter, boss?" Hearing the call, Baha spread his wings and dived down to land steadily on Su Xiao's shoulder.

If you ignore its chattering mouth and only look at its sharp beak and claws, it is indeed extremely powerful.

"You go with Lin Yi." Su Xiao took out a dark silver metal piece from the storage space and threw it to Baha, "Take this."

Baha caught it nimbly with his claws and lowered his head to examine it.

This is a mental interference device specially made by Su Xiao, which can cut off the mental connection between Zerg at the critical moment and avoid being trapped in the predicament of being besieged by Zerg tides.

"Hehe, I can finally stretch my muscles." Baha flapped his wings excitedly and turned to look at Lin Yi.

"Come on, get ready for takeoff." Baha lowered his body and motioned Lin Yi to get on his back.

Three hours later, overseas trading island.

The surface of this island, called the "Fluorescent Spine" by the Zerg, is covered with honeycomb-like crystal structures, and countless Zerg shuttle through the holes to trade.

Baha made a beautiful dive and landed steadily on the edge of the island.

Lin Yi turned over and immediately took out the camouflage props that he had prepared long ago from the storage space.

He skillfully installed two bionic tentacles on his head, put on a mask with insect-mother patterns engraved on it, and put on a special cloak that could change his body shape.

Finally, adjust the frequency of the voice changer to give your voice the unique vibration of the Zerg.

"How is it?" Baha tilted his head and looked around: "Not bad, it shouldn't be a problem to scare those bugs."

After the disguise was completed, the man and the bird swaggered towards the core area of ​​the market.

Passing through the honeycomb-shaped tunnel, the sight before you is shocking.

Tens of thousands of Zergs shuttled between the crystallized nests. The worker Zergs carried goods secreted by special glands, high-level combat Zergs transmitted transaction information with their tentacles, and there were even a few soldier Zergs at loggerheads over a piece of Life Stone.

If it weren't for the fact that this place was so quiet, the scene would be no different from a human market.

Suddenly, a bloated merchant insect crawled over from the side: "My dear mother, would you like to see the new goods? Fresh goods just dug out of the ground!"

Lin Yi imitated the arrogant posture of the Zerg Queen and used the voice changer to speak in Zerg language: "Lead the way."

"Yes! Yes! Please follow me." Its bloated body made way with incredible flexibility, maintaining just the right humble distance with every step.

Baha said on Lin Yi's shoulder: "Tsk tsk, this flattery is so good that I want to give it the Best Licker Award."

In the strict hierarchy of the Zerg, although merchant Zergs have a slightly higher status than ordinary worker Zergs, they have to be careful even when breathing in front of the real Zerg Queen.

Even if Lin Yi was only disguised as a first-level insect queen, she was still an existence that the merchant insects needed to look up to - after all, the insect queen held the lifeline of the reproduction and evolution of the entire clan, and one displeasure could cause the entire bloodline of the merchant insects to disappear in the clan.

This seemingly fawning merchant insect actually harbors evil intentions. It noticed that this "insect queen" lacked the pheromone imprint unique to the Zerg society, and was most likely a newborn insect queen who had just completed metamorphosis.

The glands of the merchant worm were slightly hot due to excitement. It knew too well how fanatical those powerful people were about raising queen insect slaves.

As long as it can lure this "newborn insect queen" into a trap and sell it to an underground auction, it will be enough for it to squander for several lifetimes.

The merchant insect hunched its bloated body and deliberately slowed down its pace, both to appear respectful and to buy time for its accomplices lying in wait in the dark to prepare.

It took Lin Yi through several winding crystal tunnels and finally stopped in front of a hidden nest.

"My dear mother, this is it." The merchant insect gently tapped the biological membrane at the entrance of the nest with its forelimbs, and authentication patterns immediately appeared on the membrane.

"This is Xiao Chong's private warehouse. It is absolutely safe." There was a hint of complacency in Shang Chong's voice, but upon closer listening, there was also a hint of subtle nervousness.

It introduced it in a flattering manner while secretly observing Lin Yi's reaction from the corner of its eye: "We recently received a batch of complete glands of brain-eating worms, all of which are top-quality goods, and there are also three well-preserved third-level 'remaining individuals'."

Lin Yi noticed that the antennae of the merchant insect were vibrating slightly at a certain frequency, and there was a faint sweet and fishy smell in the air.

"Mother, please come this way." The merchant insect led the way diligently, but its six limbs intentionally or unintentionally blocked the retreat.

Baha's feathers stood up slightly, and he whispered in Lin Yi's ear: "This grandson is not honest, should we strike first?"

Lin Yi shook his head calmly. He wanted to see what tricks this business bug could come up with.

The moment the biofilm was fully opened, the merchant insects suddenly attacked!
A sticky spider web suddenly spurted out from its fat abdomen, and it let out a sharp hiss: "Go! Capture it alive!"

In an instant, five black shadows shot out from every corner of the nest like lightning.

The shells of these fully-armed combat insects were covered with hideous scars, and their sharp claws glowed coldly in the darkness.

They are all fighting Zergs who have lost the protection of the Zerg Queen. They were bribed by the Merchant Zerg with Life Stones and were made to do shameful things for it.

"Hahaha, we caught this wild insect queen!" The merchant insect hissed triumphantly, "It can be sold for at least three high-level life stones on the black market!"

The next second, its laughter stopped abruptly.

Following a series of muffled sounds, these fighting Zergs were scattered all over the nest like rag dolls.

"How...how is this possible!" Bahasen's cold sharp claws were reflected in the merchant insect's compound eyes, and its fat body began to tremble uncontrollably.

The merchant insect retreated in horror, its six limbs scratching the ground in panic.

It realized that it had hit a wall this time.

Baha approached with a sneer on his face, his claws still dripping with the Zerg's body fluids: "Weren't you very arrogant just now? Keep yelling?"

"Okay, stop playing, there's still work to do."

Hearing Lin Yi's words, Baha pursed his lips, then took off the head of the merchant insect with one claw.

The greedy insect didn't even have time to utter a final scream before its fat body collapsed to the ground, the light in its compound eyes gradually dimming.

Lin Yi kicked away several Zerg corpses and found a dozen low-level life stones emitting faint fluorescence in the secret compartment in the corner.

Although the quality is average, it's better than going home empty-handed.

After leaving the warehouse, Lin Yi sent a message to Bai Lan.

Not long after, Bai Lan found the location.

Bai Lan used the tip of her boot to gently kick the corpse of the merchant insect at her feet: "Why disguise yourself as a worm mother when there are so many other things to do? Although the worm mother has a high status in the intelligent worm race, there are always some fearless people who want to make a fortune from this."

Lin Yi came to Bai Lan and asked directly: "Where is the [Star Guardian]?"

"Don't worry. The situation has changed. The Royal Court has suddenly implemented control over all high-level 'remaining individuals'."

"control?"

"Yes, the high-level 'relic individuals' like the [Star Guardian] were originally stored in the core warehouse of the royal court, but the royal court suddenly declared martial law an hour ago, and all entrances and exits were heavily guarded."

Baha flapped his wings impatiently: "So? We came all this way for nothing?"

Bai Lan waved her hand: "Not really, it just takes a little more effort."

"I bribed a warehouse manager of the Royal Court before, but he is on duty at night. When the shift changes, we can take action."

After hearing Bai Lan's words, Lin Yi naturally did not refuse. The purpose of his trip was to obtain the [Star Guardian]. Waiting for a while was nothing to Lin Yi.

"Here, this is for you."

As she spoke, Bai Lan handed Lin Yi a mask.

"Your disguise is too crude. It's only because you met a business bug like this who has never seen the world that you haven't been discovered. If you run into an inspector from the royal court, I'm afraid you will be exposed as soon as you meet him."

When Lin Yi picked up the mask and put it on his face, he felt a slight tingling sensation where the mask touched his skin. Lin Yi could feel countless biological fibers establishing connections with his nerve endings.

What's even more amazing is that a strange mental wave began to emanate from inside the mask, and the frequency was completely consistent with the insect queen's unique mental waves.

"This mask is made of the shed skin of a real Zerg Queen, and a mental simulator is embedded inside. Not to mention ordinary Zerg, even the Royal Court Guards can't tell it apart."

Lin Yi moved his facial muscles and found that the mask fit him like a second layer of skin.

He tried to mobilize his mental strength, and the mask immediately responded perfectly, emitting an even stronger pressure from the Insect Queen.

Several worker insects passing by suddenly froze in place, their antennae trembling violently, and they instinctively assumed a gesture of submission.

"Good stuff." Lin Yi nodded, "It seems you have put a lot of effort into the Zerg."

Bai Lan grinned complacently: "It's just to make a living. My shop is over there. Remember to always maintain pressure, which can save you a lot of trouble. Those low-level Zerg are most susceptible to this."

The two of them walked through the bustling Zerg market. With the help of this new mask, the surrounding Zergs retreated.

Several high-level combat individuals were originally patrolling, but after sensing the breath of the "Insect Queen", they immediately knelt on one knee, and the collision of their shells made a crisp sound.

Baha squatted on Lin Yi's shoulder and looked around curiously: "By the way, what do you sell in this shop? It can't be Zerg specialties, right?"

"I just make a little money by reselling some contraband."

The interior of the store is much more spacious than it appears from the outside. All kinds of strange and exotic goods are classified and displayed on stands made of biological materials. A dozen worker insects of different races are busy counting the goods.

The most eye-catching thing is the central exhibition stand, where several well-preserved "remaining individuals" are displayed. (End of this chapter)