Chapter 469 Absorbing the Essence of the Insect King, Irina Levels Up

"what!"

The Zerg Queen's screams echoed in the Death Swamp. Its body quickly disintegrated under Irina's energy attack, turning into countless tiny points of light and dissipating into the air.

However, just as it was about to disappear completely, a gleam of light flashed in Irina's eyes.

"etc."

She whispered to herself, curling her fingers slightly.

A fine thread of energy shot out from her fingertips, accurately capturing a glimmer of light at the core of the Zerg Queen.

That is the most core gene sequence of the Zerg Queen, containing all its evolutionary information and racial characteristics.

Irina took the genetic core into her palm, a hint of satisfaction flashing in her eyes.

"Although you lowly Zerg are disgusting, your genes do have some redeeming qualities."

She whispered, and then integrated the genetic core into her body.

Instantly, Irina felt a new power surging through her body.

Her insect wings trembled slightly, and the patterns on the surface became more complex and profound.

The light flickering at the tips of her tentacles grew brighter, and her perception abilities were further heightened.

"good."

Irina felt the changes in her body, and the corners of her mouth rose slightly. "This way, my gene sequence will be more perfect."

She closed her eyes and carefully felt the changes brought about by the newly integrated genes.

The Zerg Queen's core gene not only enhances her physical abilities, but also gives her some new characteristics.

For example, she can now absorb cosmic energy more efficiently and can even control lower-level Zerg to a certain extent.

"interesting."

Irina said softly, "It seems that this operation has yielded a lot of results."

She spread her insect wings and flew into the air with a slight flap.

The thick fog of the Death Swamp swirled around her, but it could not block her sight.

Irina glanced at the swamp below, and after confirming that no fish had escaped, she prepared to return to the battleship.

However, just as she was about to leave, she suddenly felt a weak energy fluctuation coming from the depths of the swamp.

Irina frowned slightly and quickly flew towards the source of the energy fluctuations.

When she came to the depths of the swamp, she discovered that there was a huge underground cave hidden there.

The entrance to the cave was covered by dense vegetation, and if it weren't for her keen perception, she would not have been able to find it at all.

Irina landed at the entrance of the cave and walked in cautiously.

The interior of the cave is very spacious, and the walls are covered with luminous moss, providing a faint light in the dark space.

As she went deeper into the cave, the energy fluctuations became stronger and stronger.

Finally, at the deepest part of the cave, Irina saw a shocking scene.

There stands a huge Zerg hive. Although it looks like it has been abandoned for a long time, it still emits powerful energy fluctuations.

What is even more surprising is that there are countless insect eggs scattered around the mother nest, some of which are still trembling slightly, as if they may hatch at any time.

A cold light flashed in Irina's eyes: "It seems that this is the real nest of the Zerg."

She quickly contacted Lei Dong and Luo Feng and informed them of the situation here.

She then began to carefully examine the abandoned nest, hoping to find more valuable information.

At this moment, Irina suddenly felt a powerful mental wave coming from deep within the mother nest.

Her body tensed up instantly and she looked vigilantly in the direction where the wave came from.

"Who's there?"

she asked coldly.

A deep and ancient voice echoed in the cave: "Finally. Someone is coming."

Irina's pupils shrank slightly, and she felt an unprecedented sense of oppression.

The owner of this voice is definitely not simple.

"who are you?"

she asked again, readying herself for a fight.

The voice chuckled.

"Who am I? This is an interesting question. Perhaps you can call me 'Empress Mother of Yuanchu'."

Irina's heart was shocked. She didn't expect to meet the legendary existence here.

But she quickly calmed down, and a glimmer of excitement flashed in her eyes.

"The original Queen Mother? Interesting. It seems that my gains today are much greater than I imagined."

She clenched the energy sword in her hand, ready to meet this unexpected challenge.

No matter who the opponent is, she is confident that she can defeat him and gain more valuable things from it.

"This"

Irina's breathing hitched slightly.

The spiritual pressure from deep within the cave enveloped her entire body as if it were a substance. The knuckles of her fingers, which were tightly gripping the energy sword, turned white, while beads of sweat oozed from her palms.

This is the body's most honest reaction when faced with extreme danger.

The ancient queen's voice reflected off the rock wall with an eerie echo, and the entire abandoned nest suddenly began to pulsate.

Dark red veins spread along the wall, engulfing the glowing moss.

"Three hundred and sixty million sidereal periods."

Twelve pairs of scarlet compound eyes lit up in the depths of the mother nest, and each pupil reflected the starry sky of different dimensions. "You are the third queen who dares to look directly at the origin."

The ground suddenly cracked, and countless tentacles wrapped in mucus broke out of the ground.

Irina flapped her wings and retreated quickly. The energy sword drew a dazzling arc in the air, and the severed tentacle section gushed out silver-blue liquid metal.

As soon as the metals hit the ground, they turned into micro-mechanical insects, flapping their wings and making high-frequency buzzing sounds.

"A body made of star core?"

Irina's pupils shrank into needle-like shapes, and the newly fused gene chain suddenly exploded a torrent of information in her sea of ​​consciousness.

This was the form of warfare used by the ancient Zerg to colonize neutron stars.

She suddenly flipped her wrist, and the energy sword split into three hundred and sixty diamond-shaped chips, forming a honeycomb defense matrix in front of her.

The moment tens of thousands of mechanical insects crashed into the matrix, Irina suddenly felt a stabbing pain in the back of her neck.

Three transparent threads had penetrated her defense at some point and were trying to pierce her nerve center.

The newly acquired control gene activated spontaneously, and her tentacles suddenly burst into purple light, invading the other party's consciousness along the silk thread in the opposite direction.

The wills of the two queens collided violently at the quantum level.

Irina's consciousness was dragged into the abyss of memory, and she saw billions of Zerg nests floating in the boiling nebula.

Some being beyond cognition is plucking the galaxy with gravitational strings, transforming the entire Milky Way into a hive matrix.

And the ancient queen in front of him was actually the seed thrown out by that existence.

“Did you see that?”

The ancient queen's voice carried the gravity of a collapsing star. "What you call perfect evolution is nothing more than a castle built by ants on the beach."

Irina's insect wings suddenly spread to the extreme, and projections of genetic spirals emerged on each wing membrane.

She materialized the genetic chain obtained from the Zerg Queen into a golden chain and stabbed it into the opponent's consciousness.

"Then let me see how much of the sea of ​​stars the castle on the beach can swallow!"

The mother nest in reality suddenly trembled violently.

Irina opened her eyes and found that her scales were becoming quantized, and every cell was frantically analyzing the structure of the ancient queen.

The severed tentacles suddenly changed direction and wrapped around the ancient queen's body layer by layer.

"Impossible! You can rewrite the star core code"

Twelve pairs of compound eyes burst at the same time, revealing the beating black singularity inside.

The moment Irina's tentacles pierced the singularity, a vast torrent of interstellar coordinates flooded into her mind - that was the star map that the ancient mother queen had colonized for millions of years.

The moment the energy sword regrouped, Irina heard Lei Dong's communication: "Quasar-level energy reaction detected! Retreat immediately!"

The sword tip has already pierced into the core of the singularity.

The entire Death Swamp began to upgrade in absolute silence, and the mud in the swamp turned into flowing light particles.

Irina saw her own reflection raising swords at the same time in countless parallel time and space, and each figure was performing a different killing trajectory.

When the sword finally fell, she chose to converge all possibilities into a single reality - an algorithm that returns the entropy value to zero while preserving the core singularity.

"I accept your sea of ​​stars."

Irina embedded the core that had collapsed into a crystal shape between her eyebrows, and the insect wings spread out behind her had turned into a nebula vortex.

In the ruins of the mother nest, thousands of mechanical insects suddenly changed direction and formed a staircase of light leading to the starry sky under her feet.