Samsara Paradise: Dream Weaver of Connections.

Three hours later, one abyss demon beast after another pounced on the enemy's insect nest, green liquid splashed everywhere, and the shell on the outside of the insect nest was already bumpy. This was a third-stage insect nest.

It has to be said that the combat effectiveness of the insect nests inside the forest and those outside are completely at two levels. The density of insect nests in this area is astonishingly high.

Just by advancing along the way, the army of abyss demon beasts had destroyed 56 first-stage insect nests, 26 second-stage insect nests, and even 4 third-stage insect nests.

In comparison, in the same area near the base camp, there are only a dozen insect nests, but there are at least forty of them inside the forest.

In comparison, in the same area near the base camp, there are only a dozen insect nests, but there are at least forty of them inside the forest.

Such an exaggerated density of insect nests naturally leads to extremely cruel competition for survival among them.

Except for the newly hatched first-stage hives, the second-stage and third-stage hives will almost always erupt into fierce conflicts due to disputes over territory.

In this forest, except for the warriors of the Totem Tribe, the insect nest has almost no natural enemies.

As long as they don't actively provoke those powerful supernatural creatures, they can grow and develop at a steady pace.

You know, even in a first-level hive built by a home-bound queen like Jira, its worker insects already have hunting capabilities and can continuously supply bioenergy to the hive.

Just producing a small number of combat Zerg is enough to ensure that the hive enters a virtuous development cycle.

Although there are indeed certain problems with the location of the base camp, blessings often come before disasters.

Thanks to the deterrent power of the Mag Hive, Lin Yi and Su Xiao did not have to worry too much about Jila's safety during the early stages of development.

Otherwise, based on the terrifying density of insect nests inside the forest, when Jila evolves to the second stage, it will immediately be besieged by several surrounding insect nests.

Under the suppression of the Mag Hive, the nearby hives maintain a delicate balance.

They will not engage in large-scale wars to compete for limited resources because the Magog deliberately retains sufficient wild animals as their rations.

This kind of regulation not only ensures the stable development of the insect nest community, but also avoids excessive internal friction.

Although these wild Zerg nests may attack each other due to territorial disputes, they always adhere to the most primitive instincts of the Zerg - they will never actively destroy their own kind in order to plunder bio-energy.

This law of survival engraved in genes forms a sharp contrast to the hives of Jira and Mag.

The Hive of Jira has had a clear mission of war since its birth, and every direction of evolution is optimized for killing.

The existence of the Mag Hive is to seek a glimmer of hope for survival under the attack of the Sun Tribe.

If Mag had not chosen to become a predatory hive, it would have been wiped out in the tribe's encirclement and suppression.

Don't be fooled by the superficial civilization of the Totem Tribe. As a strategic buffer zone between the Red Evil and Sun Tribes, Mag is under pressure that ordinary people can hardly imagine.

Her Zerg warriors were being reduced in number every moment. In order to maintain the defense line, Mag had to adopt this strategy of letting the Zerg run wild, which was like drinking poison to quench thirst.

Compared with the domesticated insect nests encountered before, these wild insect nests are completely not on the same level.

If the army of demon beasts had previously dealt with docile goats, now they are facing groups of predators.

These wild insect nests not only have amazing combat power, but what is more terrifying is that they have formed a complete military system: long-range strikes combined with melee raids, venom sprays coordinated with ground spike ambushes, and various tactical combinations emerge in an endless stream.

After a whole day of fierce hunting, the Abyss Demon Beast Legion eventually lost about 120 of them, and most of the soldiers suffered injuries of varying degrees.

Although the attributes of the Abyss Demon Beast are very exaggerated, it does not mean that other insect nests will sit and wait for death, especially when encircling a third-level insect nest.

The trump card of one of the Zerg nests was actually the Royal Guard series of combat Zergs. At that time, the Abyss Demon Beast had no time to react and was chopped down by dozens of Royal Guards after being approached.

At that time, Bahamut was sitting on the Abyss Demon Beast in front of him and giving orders, but he was almost killed instantly by the opponent.

Another enemy third-stage Zerg nest actually had the ability to self-destruct. If Su Xiao hadn't been quick to interrupt the self-destruction with a few cuts, he might have been seriously injured, and no Zerg within half a kilometer would have survived.

It is also thanks to the strong foundation of Abyss Demon Beast itself, coupled with the charging buff of Star Guardian, otherwise it would be impossible to chew so many hard bones without paying a price.

This time, the Demon Beast army destroyed a total of 153 first-stage insect nests, 62 second-stage insect nests, and 14 third-stage insect nests.

As a result, Jila also harvested a large amount of bioenergy. After returning, Lin Yi planned to let Jila expand the fungal blanket and the abyss amplification tower to the vicinity of the river. In this way, even if Mag wanted to attack Jila, it would not be able to break through the defense line near the base camp due to the loss of strength.

When the hive has devoured the spoils, including the converted life stones, the total amount of bioenergy reaches 3625000 points.

The amount of bioenergy obtained this time reached a record high.

Next, under Lin Yi's command, Jila expanded its territory while increasing its troops.

Supported by huge biological energy, Jila began to expand according to Lin Yi's instructions.

The number of Abyss Demon Beasts soared like a rocket, breaking through the 50,000 mark in just one hour.

At the same time, the coverage of the fungal mat expanded outward at an unprecedented speed and soon reached the edge of the river.

However, Jila did not hastily expand his sphere of influence to the other side of the river. The river is incredibly wide and currently only accessible by Amu's ability to freeze it.

Once the ice melts, it will be difficult for Jila to cross this chasm with his current abilities.

This also explains why the Mag Zerg chose to stop near the river during their previous raid - in the absence of sufficient means to cross the river, this natural barrier is indeed difficult to overcome easily.

Simply snowballing is no longer a good thing now, and the crushing tactics are no longer effective. We must fight to support ourselves in order to achieve sustainable development.

In order to reduce combat losses, it is necessary to build a more complete military system.

Lin Yi immediately made a strategic adjustment. He ordered Jila to start mass production of a special type of soldier - Blood Card.

This so-called blood card is the Zerg with recovery ability that Lin Yi encountered when he was sweeping the third-stage Zerg nest near the base camp.

From a cost-effectiveness perspective, the Blood Card is a highly cost-effective auxiliary unit. Each Blood Card only requires 50 Bio-Energy points. Based on the current scale of 500 Abyssal Devil Beasts, only 100 Blood Cards (i.e. a ratio of 1:) are needed to form an effective battlefield medical support system.

This amount ensures therapeutic effectiveness without over-consuming precious bioenergy reserves.

Su Xiao got a very good "remaining individual" named [Rotten Wing], which is a long-range Zerg soldier. It was created by the Zerg queen through the combination of dragon genes and Zerg genes.

It is worth noting that the dragon species in this world are not the void dragons, but a species that is closer to the ancient pterosaurs.

Surprisingly, land overlords like Tyrannosaurus Rex are completely extinct, and even similar subspecies have never been found.

All dragon species that can be observed so far are flying pterosaurs that evolved from birds.

According to Hong'e, the super-biological crystal core is related to this species of pterosaur.

If you want to obtain the super biological crystal core, you must hunt down the leader in the pterosaur species' nest.

Never underestimate the pterosaurs. Even the totem tribe is unwilling to mess with them.

High hit low, hit idiots.

When facing a large flying creature that has absolute control of the air, unless you are sure you can kill it with one strike, the wisest choice is to avoid its attack.

With their flying advantage, pterosaurs can launch deadly attacks from any angle, and ground units often don't even have a chance to fight back.

This natural tactical advantage makes pterosaurs an existence that even totem tribes are unwilling to provoke easily.

Previously, the people of the Hasaro tribe provoked pterosaurs while hunting, and ended up being besieged by this group of petty pterosaurs for a whole month.

These winged predators displayed an amazing degree of revenge, and whenever members of the Hasaro tribe went out hunting, groups of pterosaurs would swoop down from high above and either snatch their prey or simply disperse the herd.

Due to such interference, the hunting harvest of the Hasaro tribe dropped sharply, and the food they could bring back to the camp was less than one-tenth of the original amount.

Faced with the desperate situation of being on the verge of running out of food, the Hasaro tribe had no choice but to bow to these sky overlords and offer a large number of precious sacrifices before they finally quelled this unprovoked disaster.

From then on, all forces on the mainland tried their best not to provoke pterosaurs. After all, no one wanted these guys to block their doorstep.

Right now the Zerg Nest lacks a powerful ranged troop, so Su Xiao hopes to make up for this shortcoming by modifying the [Corrupted Wings].

Shortly after Lin Yi returned from hunting, the Zerg sent by Hong'e for trade also arrived at the Zerg nest.

More than a dozen huge Ergweeds fell from the sky. It has to be said that Hong'e is not exaggerating as the oldest insect king on the continent. So far, Ergweeds are the only Zerg soldiers that Lin Yi has seen with the ability to fly freely.

The transaction process itself went very smoothly, but when Hong'e received the goods, there was obvious confusion in her eyes.

What Su Xiao provided was not the living sample she expected, but several reagents packaged in transparent containers.

Upon seeing this, Baha immediately stepped forward to explain, but this conversation across the technological generation gap was quite difficult.

Although Hong'e had accumulated rich biological knowledge over the long years, the ancient insect king was still at a loss when Baha mentioned terms such as "DNA sequence" and "amino acid chain".

In the end, she only barely understood one key piece of information: these test tubes contained the genetic origins of the Abyss Demon Beast, and they could obtain the corresponding characteristics by simply using them directly.

After five hours of precise operation, Su Xiao successfully completed the genetic modification of [Rotten Wing].

Su Xiao's knowledge of biology is not comparable to that of a rookie like Jila. You should know that Am and Baha were both created by Su Xiao through alchemical biology.

However, this transformation was only 80% successful. As the price of genetic enhancement, some of the secondary abilities of the Corrupted Wings were significantly degraded. But this is exactly in line with the basic law of biological transformation - if you want to achieve a breakthrough in one aspect, you must make sacrifices in other aspects.

Unless one is willing to invest vast amounts of biological energy into perfect optimization, this defect is unavoidable.

Su Xiao didn't care about this. His original intention of modifying the Corrupted Wings was to make up for the shortcoming of the Zerg's long-range firepower. As long as the core shooting ability was strengthened, weakening other aspects was completely acceptable.

After throwing the modified [Corrupted Wing] gene to Jila, after a while, Lin Yi heard the prompt sound of the Reincarnation Paradise in his ears.

[The Hive has acquired new genetic memory: Son of Titan.]

"Huh? Son of Titan? Isn't it a ranged unit?" Lin Yi clicked on Jila's panel in confusion and began to check the properties of the Son of Titan. This oppressive name had nothing to do with ranged units.

The panel data shows that the cost of breeding each Son of Titan is as high as 1200 points of bio-energy - this price is enough to breed four Abyss Demon Beasts.

But soon, Lin Yi understood why this unit was so expensive.

Son of Titan

Speed:★
Destructive power: ★★★★★

Defense: ★★★★
……

In short, this is a living fortress cannon.

Its destructive power has far exceeded the level of the fourth-order Zerg. Even Su Xiao himself would feel uncomfortable if he was hit by the attack of the Son of Titan.

As a price, the movement speed of the Son of Titan is very slow. Not to mention comparable to the Abyss Demon Beast, even most of the second-level Zergs are difficult to compare with it.

More importantly, the cultivation method of Titan's Son is similar to that of Spore Tanks, and must be specially hatched outside the hive.

Due to the limitation of the number of breeding slots, a maximum of 20 can be bred at a time.

This limitation means that the Son of Titan is destined to not become the main force on the battlefield, but to exist as a strategic weapon.

Although their mobility is questionable, if these living turrets are deployed in key locations and combined with the range gain of the fungal blanket, they can create a death zone that will terrify the enemy.

Soon, a Titan was cultivated. It was six meters tall and over eighteen meters long, with eight elephant-like round legs covered with thick carapaces, a huge torso and wings, but those wings did not seem to be able to fly. They were completely skeletal structures and looked more like stabilizers.

On the back of the Titan, there is a biological cannon that is nearly two meters thick and fifteen meters long. The barrel of the cannon is against the Titan's head, and it can adjust its direction by moving its head.

Looking at the somewhat exaggerated biological cannon, Lin Yi ordered the Titan to fire a shot into the forest.

The Titan's two bony wings pierced deeply into the soil, its head raised, and its abdomen expanded rapidly.

Boom!
A gust of air spread out with Titan as the center point, and a blue fireball with a diameter of two meters flew out. This fireball not only had strong kinetic energy, but also had powerful armor-piercing ability.

When the smoke and dust cleared, what appeared before everyone's eyes was a giant crater with a diameter of more than 50 meters and a depth of 10 meters.

The soil at the bottom of the pit was in a strange crystallized state, and all the surrounding trees were broken in half by the shock wave.

Seeing this scene, Lin Yi silently cancelled the training sequence of Abyss Devil Beast and started training Son of Titan instead.

Mag's reaction speed was faster than Lin Yi had imagined, three hours after cultivating the Son of Titan.

Magg's mopping-up army had already entered the forest, but what puzzled Magg was that the entire forest was eerily silent and he had not encountered any resistance along the way.

Just as Mag was searching for the enemy, the horn of destruction sounded.

Three blue-green fireballs tore through the clouds and landed precisely in the most densely populated area of ​​the swarm with a piercing scream.

The first shelling caused a flower of death to bloom in the center of the Zerg swarm. The shock wave spread in a spherical shape, and hundreds of fighting Zerg were vaporized in an instant.

Those fighting Zergs carefully cultivated by Mag were reduced to ashes under this devastating blow, without even a limb left.

boom--

The aftermath of the explosion had not yet dissipated when the second and third artillery shells followed.

The entire forest trembled in the continuous explosions. The shock wave created a wave of earth as high as thirty meters. Thousand-year-old trees were uprooted, and the Zerg shells melted into glass-like crystals in the high temperature.

When the smoke dissipated, the originally lush forest had turned into a scorched earth basin with a diameter of 300 meters, and the exposed rock layers glowed dark red under the high temperature.

Standing on the high ground at the back, Lin Yi narrowed his eyes. The destructive power of the Son of Titan far exceeded his expectations.

The swarm of insects in the distance suddenly parted like a tide. With a puff, the abdominal sac of a spider insect burst open, and an arm wrapped in an emerald green shell stretched out from it.

A Zerg queen walked out of the belly of the insect. She was Mag. Unlike Jira, her whole body was covered with emerald green shell, with six curled up clawed legs behind her. Her body shape was almost the same as that of a human. Her eyes were blue and her pupils were light red.

"Come out." Her eyes penetrated the battlefield and accurately locked onto the location of Lin Yi and Su Xiao in the distance.

Like Hong'e, she also came here as a clone this time, but even so, the powerful sense of oppression still made the air around her become heavy.

Seeing Mag appear, the two of them, surrounded by the Abyss Demon Beasts, crossed the battlefield and came to Mag.

Mag watched the scene in front of her, her emerald green brows slightly frowned, and a hint of confusion flashed in her light red pupils.

She obviously couldn't understand why mere humans could control the Zerg so easily.

"Sorry, this area is already our territory." Lin Yi stood on the head of an abyss demon beast, looking down at Mag.

The muzzle of the Son of Titan's gun was looming in the rear, ready to launch a second salvo at any time.

"Territory?" Mag sneered, and his six clawed legs slowly stretched out, shining like metal in the sun. "Just relying on the small number of troops you have?"

"You can try."

The abyss amplifier was turned on, and as the power of the abyss spread, the Zerg under Magg felt uncomfortable all over.

Mag's instinct drove her to flee the area immediately, but her pride as a queen made her suppress this impulse.

In sharp contrast, the group of demon beasts amplified by the power of the abyss are all in high spirits, with even more ferocious light in their eyes.

They growled excitedly and pawed the ground restlessly with their sharp claws, ready to pounce on their enemies at any time.

What frightened Magg even more was the huge figures that appeared one after another on the distant mountains - one Son of Titan after another appeared from the bunker, their huge bodies almost covered half of the sky, and their guns were all aimed at the Zerg army.

She had seen clearly the terrifying firepower of the Sons of Titan just now. Now facing such a large number of Sons of Titan, even she had to reassess the situation.

After a brief silence, Mag raised her hand imperceptibly.

The Zerg army behind her took a step back in unison. Although the movement was subtle, it was of great significance.

This step means that the Queen Mother acknowledges that this area does belong to Jila.

"In the thirty-eight regions, a useful fellow tribesman has finally appeared."

The amount of information behind this sentence goes far beyond its superficial meaning. Simply put, she controls as many as thirty-eight poisonous insect farms like this forest.

Originally, Lin Yi and Su Xiao thought that these territories were all private reserves for Magg's creatures, but now it seems that Magg's purpose is far from that simple.

"Human, can you represent her?" Mag's voice was emotionless, and strangers were kept away.

"Please speak." Lin Yi raised his hand, and all the abyss demon beasts behind him crawled on the ground.

This scene made a trace of displeasure flash across Magg's emerald face - she could never understand why humans could control Zerg units.

But in the end, she nodded imperceptibly, acknowledging Lin Yi's right to speak.

"Let's join forces." Marg proposed directly.

"Who is the target?"

"The Sun Tribe."

This answer did not surprise either of them.

In fact, when Mag proposed the alliance, they had already guessed 70% of it.

The settlement of the Sun Tribe is too close to the Mag Hive, and the friction between the two forces has never stopped.

According to intelligence, the two sides fought a small battle almost every three days and a big battle almost every ten days, and the bloody conflict never stopped.

If it weren't for the constraints of the Sun Tribe, with the resources and territories controlled by Magg, her hive power would probably be several times stronger than it is now.

This also explains why she left large tracts of territory idle - on the one hand, it was to mop up biological energy, and on the other hand, she probably hoped to give birth to new fourth-order Zerg through a high-pressure environment to share the military pressure from the Sun Tribe.

Although the birth of Jila was mainly due to the intervention of the two of them, it must be admitted that the Gu-breeding ecological environment carefully designed by Mag did provide Jila with a vital living space and evolutionary pressure for its early growth. (End of this chapter)