Chapter 73 Main Nest Upgrade
Chapter 73 Main Nest Upgrade
Leng Xiyao expressed her understanding of this. Although this skill has many disadvantages now, once the insect swarm reaches a certain scale, it will become a well-deserved magical skill.
However, at present, apart from letting Poison Explosion use this skill to cause trouble, Leng Xiyao doesn't know what other uses it has. After all, endurance is the most important thing in a battle. High attack and low health are like a glass cannon. If you don't have the belief of fighting to the death, it is better not to use this skill.
Overall, Leng Xiyao was still very satisfied. After dealing with the road choice, she prepared to upgrade the main nest to see if she could unlock some powerful new units.
The upgrade of the second-level main nest is very expensive, requiring a full eight million nest points. This money can be used to build thousands of level five jumping insects.
But thinking that the current types of troops were too scarce, Leng Xiyao gritted her teeth and clicked on the upgrade. You know, this expenditure would not bring any return.
"Ding! Congratulations to the host for successfully upgrading! Unlocked seven purchasable Zerg gene sequences, two Zerg-exclusive tools, and a virus production method."
Leng Xiyao was a little surprised after hearing Baoer's report. The last two terms were really new terms. She could understand the virus, but she had never heard of this alien insect-specific tool.
Leng Xiyao clicked on the upgraded Zerg nest with doubts. She first saw several unlocked gene sequences. Among these seven items, four were the Hydralisk, Queen Zerg, Spore Crawler and Eye Worm that she was very familiar with. The other three were also units she had never seen before, namely the Thrower, Reflector and Light Eater.
The three new units are as their names suggest, the first is a ranged unit similar to a catapult, and the second is a defensive type Zerg that can reflect enemy magic attacks.
The third one is like a production crop that can absorb solar energy and cooperate with the queen insect to produce the biomass needed to revive or upgrade the alien insect minions.
As a farming enthusiast, Leng Xiyao has always been distressed because she has no land to farm. Although worker bees are good, they can only serve as porters. When there are no resources nearby, they can only watch or dig holes.
Although there are relatively rich mineral veins underground, most of them are just copper and iron for humans to make tools. There is no "crystal veins" or "gas springs" that are common in the interstellar space.
And now, with the unlocking of the Queen and the Light Eater, the Zerg finally has a self-circulating system.
The original main nest does not have the ability to lay eggs independently. All insect eggs are exchanged from the insect nest points. If they die, they are really gone.
But with the queen, the hive has the ability to lay eggs autonomously. These eggs only need biomass to produce corresponding units. Although the units laid in this way are only one level, the number is huge!
A first-level queen insect can produce about 20 eggs a day. If there are 1,000 queen insects, they can produce 20,000 eggs a day.
Of course, if the production continues at this quantity, then her current logistics will definitely not be able to keep up with the hatching rhythm. Therefore, the Queen can also stop producing eggs and send them to weave fungal mat tumors.
Creep tumors can enhance the effects of the creep, which in turn can provide the swarm with the necessary substances for survival. If biomass is equivalent to money for humans and provides upgrades for the Zerg, then the creep is equivalent to food for humans.
If the solar energy absorbed by the light-eaters can provide enough biomass to enable the queen insect to exert its maximum production capacity every day, these eggs can be transformed into combat units. Even if they are just the most basic springtails, this is a very terrifying force!
And what if they could supply the production of poisonous explosives? Wouldn't that mean that this "assembly line" could produce a huge amount of poisonous explosives every day and put them into battle? This prospect was so broad that Leng Xiyao could hardly imagine it.
Thinking of this, Leng Xiyao spent six million without hesitation to unlock the genetic sequences of the Queen Worm and the Light Eater, and spent another five million to upgrade the levels of these two units to the third level. Finally, she spent another five million to add one thousand Queen Worm and two thousand Light Eaters to the production queue. After they are hatched, Dahuang will arrange which of the Queen Worm will engage in production and which will hatch the fungal tumors. She doesn't need to do anything at all.
Each Queen Worm at the third level costs up to three thousand Hive Points. In comparison, the Light Eater is much cheaper, costing only one thousand.
After all, it is a production capacity unit, so it doesn’t matter if it’s a bit more expensive!
At this point, there were only more than two million resources left from her previous hunt for the human-faced demon spider. Leng Xiyao thought about it and decided to transfer them all to Da Huang. After all, she was in the human world and there was nothing she could do with them.
In addition, Leng Xiyao took a look at the three special props obtained with the upgrade of the main nest: two tools were called bone needles and poisonous nests, both of which were very obvious trap props and would probably be of no use in the short term.
That virus is specifically targeted at humans. It is called "Infectious Fungus" and can infect ordinary people and turn them into zombies, but it has no effect on soul masters.
Leng Xiyao had no interest in this thing. She was not a bloodthirsty person. If she wanted to fight, she would fight those high-level soul masters. Why would she make a thing to torture ordinary people?
Seeing that the arrangements were almost complete, she stood up, packed up, and prepared to go out to see how Qin Menglan was absorbing.
Before she could leave, Xiaobao's voice rang out: "Host, your item [Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm Head Soul Bone] has activated a new way of use."
Leng Xiyao was stunned for a moment, then looked at the Tianmeng skull that she had put aside for a long time.
This Tianmeng skull has three ways to be used. The first one is to make her gain a lot of attribute points and Sister Kai's ultimate skill, the immobilization wave, and the newly activated method is.
"Randomly evolve an immortal-level skill? Isn't this a bit outrageous?" Leng Xiyao was a little stunned. She wanted to use this thing directly, but she held back when she remembered that there was another way to use it that had not been unlocked.
Immortal-level skills require extremely harsh conditions to evolve, so harsh that there is almost no way out. Now this thing can allow her to evolve directly. Whether it is evolving [Heart of the Swarm] or the [Fearless Charge] that she just acquired, its effect will probably be enhanced to a huge advantage.
This is more valuable than the first way of using it, but because of this, Leng Xiyao is more looking forward to whether the remaining third way of using it can bring her any surprises.
Forcing herself to suppress the impulse in her heart, Leng Xiyao exited the system, put on a coat, and went to look for Qin Menglan.
(End of this chapter)