Chapter 155: Sneaking underground, a strange journey into the insect nest!

After saying that, the second-order legion team behind Lin Feng raised the shotguns in their hands. At the same time, Lin Feng also raised the tiger-tooth chain sword, ready to go.

Once the tiger spine insects pass by, kill them all with the force of thunder!

However, at this moment, Zhi Yi, who had been interrupted from the introduction, suddenly spoke in a low voice with a quick tone:

"Wait, don't do it yet!"

Lin Feng turned his head and frowned slightly.

From his telepathy skills, there were several second-order tiger spine insects two hundred meters away on the left, and they were about to pass by the wide wormhole in front of them.

Be prepared in advance and you may be able to win it in one fell swoop.

But Chiyi continued to explain:

"You are contaminated with the smell of a lot of black spine worms, and this ventilation duct circulates upward, so your whereabouts have not been revealed yet!"

"That group of tiger spine insects is just patrolling as usual. There is no need to expose our existence just for a few tiger spine insects!"

Lin Feng frowned slightly:

"Patrol? If there is a certain route, will it pass by an important secondary insect nest?"

Xie nodded and saw that Lin Feng had put down the tiger-tooth chain sword in his hand. Then he breathed a sigh of relief and continued:

"That's right. As long as we follow them, we can figure out the general distribution of the underground insect nests. It will be much easier to find them when the time comes."

"And with me here, I can also help you cover up, especially your mental fluctuations, making it difficult for the Queen Mother to detect."

"But after discovering the second-order insect eggs, once they are destroyed, the Queen Mother will definitely be alerted, so it will be time to break out of the insect siege."

"We are launching an attack now. As the opponent has been warned by the Queen of Haicheng, all the second-order eggs will definitely be moved to the deepest mother nest..."

"With our current personnel strength, we cannot face the fate of the Queen Mother underground."

Lin Feng took a deep breath, nodded, and signaled his team members to put away the shotguns and sneak against the cave wall.

After slowing down, Lin Feng asked curiously:

"Isn't the Mother Queen moving very slowly underground?"

As soon as the cockroach walked forward and led the way, he said as he walked:

"To control tens of thousands of low-level Zerg, it takes a lot of energy to control the second-order Zerg. Most of the spiritual power of the Mother Queen is sinking into the entire Zerg, so it grows such a bloated and huge body, and every day A large amount of nutritional energy must be consumed every moment to replenish the brain’s state.”

"The slow movement speed is completely hindered, and every time it moves forward, the mother nest of large creatures in the insect nest must be cut up and relocated."

"Tens of thousands of red beetles need to be mobilized."

"So the Zerg invasion and expansion rate is only three or four kilometers per day at the fastest."

"Unless the Mother Queen feels that her life is threatened, she will release the mental control of the entire insect swarm at all costs and move forward with all her strength..."

"In that case, it can probably reach ten meters per second. If you come from the deepest underground, the distance will be seven or eight kilometers."

"After we plunder the second-level insect eggs, the deepest mother nest where the queen is located will probably have a minimum of fifteen minutes to escape. However, if the queen does not leave in person out of caution, then we will harvest normally. That’s it.”

"Generally, as long as all the second-order insect eggs are not destroyed, it will not risk its life. After all, the cost of doing so is that it will take at least four or five days to recover, reintegrate into the insect swarm, and sort out the organizational structure."

Lin Feng nodded secretly. It seemed that outside Jiacheng, the cost of Zhiyi's forcible break out of the ground in order to avoid further deterioration of the situation was far more than just the release of the domain and the reduction of his own level.

Similarly, if it were not for a life-and-death crisis, the Mother Queen would never give up controlling the insect swarm and go out to kill the enemy herself.

An extremely cunning being like the Queen of Haicheng would not reveal her specific coordinates just because of a few second-order Zerg.

After all, although human nuclear bombs pose no threat to the mother nest five hundred meters underground, ground-penetrating missiles have been put into actual combat in spaces one to two hundred meters deep.

While the two were discussing in a low voice, Zhiyi in front suddenly closed his mouth, stopped at the same time, and then waved his hand to signal the fully armed second-order legion team behind to hide.

Lin Feng squinted his eyes, and through the dark lenses on his front armor, he saw a fork in the road about ten meters away from the crowd.

After walking down for more than a hundred meters, we finally entered a wide wormhole with a diameter of twenty meters. This is a passage for the high-speed migration of the Zerg army, and it is also the area where the second-order Zerg usually patrols.

And it leads all the way down to the second-level insect nest deeper underground!

When everyone clung to the cave wall...

Not long after, there was a thumping sound from the wall that was reinforced with red beetle mucus!

Boom! Boom! Boom, boom, boom!

With the messy knocking sound, they got closer and closer, and a group of second-order tiger spine insects suddenly appeared at the entrance of the cave in front of everyone.

Lin Feng and others randomly held their breath and concentrated.

Try to tighten your breath as much as possible and stay stunned.

These tiger spine insects walk very slowly and will explore around to make sure that there are no other unknown creatures hidden in the corners and cracks of the wall.

Obviously, the invasion of Awakeners on the surface has made the Mother Queen underground become more cautious.

Control the tiger spine insect patrol team and investigate carefully.

After they left one after another, Xie looked back at Lin Feng, nodded and then took steps, leading the people behind him into the widened wormhole one by one.

The second-level legion team continued to hide their aura, ignoring the red beetles that were transporting supplies around them, and shuttled between the insect swarms under their feet...

They sneaked up to the tiger-backed insect swarms dozens of meters away.

As their patrol route began to extend deeper into the ground, Lin Feng and Ling Yi became more and more excited.

Soon, when everyone had dived to a depth of 200 meters underground, they finally saw a second-level insect nest in front of them.

As the second-level tiger-backed insect patrol team suddenly stopped, everyone also crawled on the ground, hiding among the red beetles, carefully observing the scene in the distance.

Some kind of luminous slime mold grew on the nearby cave wall, and the green light was like the white phosphorus ghost fire burning in the graveyard, illuminating a dark underground tunnel.

Although the vision was dim, the ten people present were all second-level awakeners, so they could see clearly.

And at the entrance of the insect nest not far away, two pairs of giant jaws poked their heads out and touched the patrolling tiger-backed insect swarms.

It seems like they are greeting each other intimately.

This is the two of them exchanging information through the pheromone release organ under the giant jaw to confirm the safety of the vicinity.

And each second-level insect nest has a special guard.

The lower you go, the stricter the Zerg's vigilance.

After the two sides exchanged information and the patrolling second-level tiger-backed insect group left, everyone, led by Lingyi, continued to lean forward with their heads down to avoid being discovered by the hidden tiger-backed insect guards on both sides of the cave entrance.

Half-crouching and hiding in the red beetle group, after passing this cave entrance, Lin Feng stretched out his hand and pressed Lingyi's shoulder.

The other party turned around and saw Lin Feng gesturing with his hands, asking if the target of their trip was inside.

Because Lin Feng detected a huge light source in this second-level insect nest through telepathy.

Just like the last time he entered a insect nest through the biological furnace of the shipyard by the river.

There is also a large biological factory in the second-level insect nest behind him. Through telepathy, it is fed back in Lin Feng's mind as a large bright light source.

This shows that it contains extremely high life energy.

However, Ling Yi just shook her head gently.

Then she continued to move forward.

When she was nearly a hundred meters away from the entrance of the insect nest, she whispered to everyone:

"There are no second-level insect eggs there, but a centralized hatching place for first-level insect eggs."

"The basketball-sized insect eggs bred from the queen's body are sent to the hatching biological nest. If there is enough food, it will take only three or four days to give birth to a first-level early black-spine insect."

"Because it is catalytic accelerated growth, the biological nest needs a high temperature and high heat environment to complete the transformation from eggs to adults so quickly."

"A hatching biological nest is hatching nearly 10,000 black-spine insects at the same time, and one-third of them can be hatched to maturity every day. And in an ordinary insect swarm, there are more than ten such second-level insect nests."

Lin Feng's face was solemn, and the people behind him showed a look of horror. Such a fast hatching speed, plus the total amount of hatching every moment...

The war potential of each queen in the Zerg is stronger than that of a medium-sized country on Blue Star.

No wonder I always feel that low-level Zergs are endless.

Seeing this, Long Yi shrugged and continued to explain:

"Although the Zerg queen of the early stage of the third stage can lay a first-level egg every second, not every egg will successfully develop into the adult stage."

"Excluding the weak ones with insufficient innate abilities and some defective products with mutations and deformities, only about 60% of the eggs can grow into the first-level black-spine insects."

"So in fact, as early as the beginning of the breeding, the active screening and elimination of the Zerg began. Although the low-level Zerg lacks intelligence, they absolutely obey orders."

"Such qualities are several times stronger than ordinary human armies. Unless the queen is dead, there will be no large-scale collapse."

During the narration, the red beetle swarm around the crowd was still moving, making a creaking and chaotic sound of footsteps, covering Long Yi's low-voiced explanation.

After hearing the first few sentences, Lin Feng fell into deep thought.

He was estimating the overall strength of the Zerg under the command of the third-stage early queen.

As the queen's clone, the information provided by Longyi must be the most accurate.

Based on this, one egg per second, about 86,000 eggs a day, even if the final yield is only 60%, more than 50,000 first-stage black-spine insects will be born in three or four days.

This is the maximum output of an ordinary Zerg swarm.

The Zerg queen generally does not put all resources on hatching larvae, so most low-level eggs are not in a hurry to hatch completely.

Longyi has previously introduced that the perfect third-stage early queen, that is, lv33, can control about 200,000 low-level Zerg.

Considering that the second-stage tiger-spine swarm will disperse a large part of the energy, the scale of the low-level Zerg swarm is usually maintained at just over 100,000.

The Zerg queen is like a large computer. While maintaining the expansion of the swarm, it must also allocate reasonable computing power to each part of the tribe.

In this way, each biological hatching nest can hatch about 3,000 to 4,000 black-spine insects every day, and the total is about 40,000 to 50,000.

So within a short period of time, within a day, the Zerg can increase the number of Zerg swarms by 50% in an instant.

As introduced by Ling Yi before.

The lv36 queen mother who is perfect in the middle stage of the third stage has a low-level Zerg swarm of 600,000 to 700,000 under her command, and after the explosion, it can expand to one million within a day!

As long as you successfully defeat the enemy and plunder the opponent's biological resources, this kind of explosion of troops in a short period of time can continue.

And if you postpone it to the next day, it will be 100% from the beginning!

The Zerg will continue to expand until they kill every individual of the enemy race!

If I want to hold on to a certain territory in the future and start a decisive battle with the Zerg, I will have to have at least about 100,000 awakened ones to completely suppress the third-order mid-level mother queen in one day.

Destroy their underground insect nests.

Give it no chance to breathe and explode the troops!

Human beings who fight a war of attrition and cannot mass-produce will always end in failure.

With only 5,000 soldiers and hundreds of awakened people in hand, Lin Feng could only use the high mobility of the fleet to carry out guerrilla attacks on the periphery.

In other words, before all five thousand warriors were trained into first-level awakeners, Lin Feng did not have the ability to fight a decisive battle with a certain third-level early-stage queen.

At the same time, at least a well-equipped second-level legion must be formed to follow and assist him in fighting into the underground of the insect nest.

The last condition is that Lin Feng himself must have the ability to kill a high-level Queen Mother with tens of thousands of health points within ten seconds!

These three need to be carried out simultaneously...

Both are indispensable.

Thinking of this, Lin Feng looked at the second-order tiger spine insect swarm not far ahead, his eyes became more and more fierce.

As soon as he noticed something, he immediately turned around, put his fingers in front of his lips, shushed, and shook his head:

"Don't release the murderous aura. You have already scared the red beetles nearby. The insect swarms in the nest are very sensitive to this aura."

Lin Feng nodded, took a deep breath, and calmed himself down.

The nearby red beetle swarm as worker insects is the best disguise for everyone, but they cannot be scared away.

And soon, the tiger spine insect swarm in front stopped again, which meant that it passed another second-level insect nest.

Everyone stopped and waited patiently.

This time, after they finished their exchange and left, Chrysalis Yi also did not stop and continued to lead everyone in a half-crouched position, carefully passing by the entrance of the insect nest.

However, most of the red beetle swarms near the team began to crawl into the insect nest entrance behind them.

Lin Feng frowned slightly. The large number of red beetles leaving was not a good sign.

Zhiyi immediately explained in a low voice:

"Inside that is a scrapped biomass recycling mother nest, which is where the Zerg drags back the bodies of their dead companions and finally sends them in."

"Things that are still valuable will be repaired again, and those that are worthless will be decomposed into nutrients and supplied to the entire insect colony."

"Recycle to reduce waste."

Having said this, Xie Yi stopped and looked at the scattered large red beetles around him. He raised his head again in the air, smelled it, and his expression gradually became solemn:

"It seems that the wormhole diagonally downward in front is probably the road leading to the second-order hatching mother nest."

"These red beetles are all transporting food, and each one has the aura of the underlying mother nest. We will easily be discovered if we go forward."

Lin Feng stood behind her, waiting for the next words.

At this moment, we are already three hundred meters underground, and the target is about to appear in front of us. There is absolutely no reason to retreat.

In these last few dozen meters, even if you are exposed, you have to kill them!

However, Chiyi quickly came up with a solution.

She took a deep breath, then stretched out her hand to hold the nearby lv9 red beetle.

Under her mental control, these large red beetles walked obediently, and then spit out part of the gelatinous substance in their tail abdomen.

The cockroach stretched out his hand and smeared the viscous fluid on the ground gently on his arms and neck.

While doing it, he explained:

"These are the biological populations on the surface. The extracted nutrient solution is similar to that in the second-order insect eggs."

"They are used to feed the queen mother, and tiger spine worms usually eat these secretly."

"And because the biological populations living in each region are different, the final concentrated high-grade nutrient solution has subtle differences in taste and smell."

"This has also become a characteristic that distinguishes different insect groups and prevents foreign second-order insect species from sneaking in and parasitizing."

"Further down in the insect nest, the number of red beetles is scarce, and it is filled with the smell of this food."

"Although it's disgusting, this thing can help us and is easy to hide."

"What are you still looking at there? Come here and apply more, you guys are tired..."

"Well, your men's sweat glands smell very strong, so you especially need to apply more."

The scene in front of them was beyond everyone's understanding, and they all looked at their leader Lin Feng.

Lin Feng opened his visor and took a sniff, confirming that there was a faint scent of rice, which probably had something to do with the large farmland area in Jiangbei...

Then he walked over to Chiyi and applied the nutrient solution on the armor.

Shen Jie was the second to come forward, but he didn't mind it so much and couldn't wait to taste it.

He smacked his lips, nodded and said:

"Yes, this thing is similar to organic nutrient solution."

"But it also contains trace amounts of toxins from the Zerg. Ordinary people can't eat much of it, and awakened people can't eat too much, as it can easily cause stomach upset."

After hearing the previous words, the other team members immediately became happy. However, Shen Jie's addition quickly extinguished their excitement and anticipation.

I thought I found a treasure, but I didn't expect it to be poisonous.

Lin Feng coughed lightly:

"Okay, don't be greedy for this stuff."

"When we find the hatching nest where the second-order insect eggs are located, we will let you drink enough in one go!"

"Cheer up now, there is no room for carelessness in the last stretch of the journey!"

Everyone nodded and accepted the order.

Then they smeared the fluid mucus spit out by the red beetle on their full armor.

Soon, under the leadership of Ling Yi, a group of people followed the red beetle's tail, lay on the downward slope, and carefully groped their way over.

Not long after, the slope under their feet gradually flattened, and now they had descended to a depth of 350 meters.

And here, the long-awaited second-level insect nest finally appeared.

Because not far away...

Next to the second-level tiger spine insect group, there are several red beetles, carrying huge insect eggs into the second-level insect nest entrance on the left side of the cave wall!

And inside there must be an important place for hatching second-level insect eggs!

Lin Feng made a fist and gestured.

Tell everyone to get ready for action!