Chapter 53: Armament Expansion
Chapter 53: Armament Expansion
Da Huang nodded and said, "Yes, Queen, because this area is not very peaceful, our base camp is often attacked by other races. However, because the supplies are all underground, there is almost no loss. On the contrary, we will make a lot of money."
Leng Xiyao was very satisfied with Dahuang's arrangement. The whole tribe was well-arranged. After going down the underground passage that Dahuang had specially opened for her, she found that the "warehouses" above were actually a kind of small conveyor belts. The real warehouses were still underground. The most important main nest and splitting pool were here. Because the worker bees were very good at digging holes, this underground space was so large that it could easily accommodate ten times more with the current configuration.
That’s right, Leng Xiyao’s first hatchery is actually the main nest that unlocks the key to three technologies, but she doesn’t know why. It may be because this main building will only bring some production bonuses but will not provide any technology. If she wants to unlock more types, she still has to rely on upgrades.
The only unit that was very different from her impression was the Overlord. In the interstellar world, the Overlords were a group of cute creatures that could only float around like balloons, while her Overlords were like a group of fat men with wings, flying around in underground caves. Their main function was to convert the soul beast meat sent by the worker bees outside into an essence.
This essence is not used to breed new Zerg, but to help existing Zerg improve their combat effectiveness. Leng Xiyao can only use the Zerg nest points to upgrade the gene sequence of a certain unit, directly changing its level at the beginning of hatching, so the consumption is naturally very large.
This essence can be used to strengthen some elite Zergs in the future, giving them combat power that exceeds that of their own kind.
It's like a large springtail being "spitted" at by a group of king insects. Leng Xiyao thought its strength was originally equivalent to that of a thousand-year-old soul beast, but after being "spitted" at by this group of king insects, its strength actually leaped to about two thousand years. Both the hardness of its shell and the sharpness of its claws were much stronger than before.
There are quite a few of these large springtails in the main nest, almost several hundred. This proportion is already quite astonishing.
However, what was quite incongruous was that there was a small wooden house that looked extremely luxurious in this strange underground space. It was obviously prepared for Leng Xiyao. After all, she was not a Zerg and could not directly enter the main nest to rest.
The wooden house is not big, but it has everything you need. The overall style is like a conference room, and there is also a bed, so it has everything you need.
The most important thing is that there is no fungal mat in this conference room, which is not disgusting but sticky and annoying.
"Da Huang, please report on the current situation of the base." Leng Xiyao casually pulled a chair and sat down, then prepared to get down to business.
It's not that the system cannot check the strength of the Zerg under her command, but since Da Huang is here, it's better to listen to his report directly.
"Okay, Your Majesty. We currently have a total of 3,842 worker bees in our Zerg, and 158 of them were lost in battle. When the hive was first established, we had to rely on some worker bees to defend our territory."
"A total of 20,000 springtails have hatched, 5,823 of which were lost in the battle, leaving 14,177 remaining."
"In addition, there are two springtails that have evolved to the fourth stage, with a strength equivalent to a 10,000-year-old soul beast; there are 132 that have reached the third stage, which is almost equivalent to a 5,000-year-old soul beast; and 1,271 that have been upgraded to the second stage, which is equivalent to a 1,000-year-old soul beast. These are the real backbone of the current insect nest."
Hearing this, Leng Xiyao was a little surprised. This ten thousand year old soul beast was neither strong nor weak. Even if it was only ten thousand years old, it was almost equivalent to the level of a high-level soul king, right? What's more, there were more than a hundred 'high-level soul masters'!
The most terrifying thing is that in just less than two weeks, she managed to cultivate so many elites. But don’t forget that she only gave Dahuang one million insect nest points for development, and 70% to 80% of them were given to the worker bees!
Da Huang didn't seem to notice Leng Xiyao's shock, and continued to transmit his voice: "In addition, there are 500 king insects raised in the base, responsible for transforming spoils of war and the bodies of dead Zerg. This will recover a large amount of essence for us, which is also the prerequisite for cultivating elites."
Leng Xiyao then remembered that not only were the corpses of soul beasts valuable, but even the corpses of the Zerg themselves were valuable. Almost 50% to 70% of their essence could be recovered from their corpses, and these essences could be used directly to strengthen other insects. After this process, the battle losses were negligible.
"After this series of changes, I now have 350,000 Hive Points left, which should be enough to resolve most situations."
After listening to Da Huang's report, Leng Xiyao felt that it was extremely unreal—why after building such a large swarm, there were still 350,000 left?
But the panel about Da Huang in the system also clearly states that he currently has 350,000.
After thinking about it carefully, Leng Xiyao finally attributed it all to the fact that there were too many soul beasts coming here to die. Da Huang also said that this insect nest was often besieged, so it’s not too much to make tens of thousands at a time, right?
Well, it must be that Dahuang’s ability is too outstanding, that must be it.
Before coming to the base, she was most worried that the money she left for Da Huang was too little, and that the other party would not be able to build a large insect swarm while completing his tree-cutting target. However, it now seems that she was worrying too much.
After comforting herself, Leng Xiyao turned her attention to the Zerg technology tree of the system.
There are currently five units that can be selected, three of which are the cockroaches, poisonous explosives and spinal crawlers that she is most familiar with, and two are original units that she has never seen before - [Hallucinogenic Jet] and a centipede-like [Entangler].
There are no major changes to the Cockroaches and the Toxic Blast, but the Spine Crawlers have been transformed from a defensive structure into a unit, but the effect and impression are not much different.
The unlocking prices for these four old-brand gene sequences are 1.5 million for the other three except Poison Explosion which is 800,000. It may be that Poison Explosion has no recycling value, so the unlocking prices are lower.
In addition, there are two new units. The first one is a hallucinogenic sprayer that looks a bit like a butterfly. Its effect is as the name suggests. It can spray some unique secretions that can produce hallucinations at targets whose strength is not much higher than its own. At a low level, this secretion can only make the target lose some perception or fall into distress, but when the level is high, it can directly manipulate these controlled people to fight for them for a short time.
Leng Xiyao took a look and found that the biggest feature of this thing was that it could be spread to the human world to help her spy on some information or do something. However, after seeing the unlocking price of up to two million, Leng Xiyao backed off.
This thing has no value if it is of a low level, and is of no help for what comes next.
Isn’t the poison explosion delicious?
(End of this chapter)