Chapter 22 Expansion
Seeing this, Xia Jieren smiled happily, "My idea really works!"
There are two general types of surface creep.
Plant-type creep absorbs sunlight and converts it into energy.
As for the other type of fungal blanket, it can be eaten by Zerg units. Its effect is the same as the energy liquid produced in the nutrient embryo, which can quickly replenish energy for Zerg troops.
At this time, Xia Jieren was already standing in front of the nest, looking expectantly at the bottom of the nest.
As he watched, a green film began to appear at the bottom of the hive. This was the fungal mat that specifically transmitted energy to the Zerg buildings.
"That's great, finally there's no more purple and sticky stuff."
Xia Jieren said happily.
Then, he lowered his eyes again, as if he wanted to see through the situation underground. He stared attentively for a while, imagining what the fungal mat looked like underground in his mind.
A few minutes later.
Xia Jieren came back to his senses and ordered Kerrigan to hatch production and edible fungal mats.
There is nothing much to say about the production fungus blanket. Its appearance is similar to the green plants commonly used on the roadside.
As Kerrigan introduced, the edible fungus is emerald green all over and sparkles under the sunlight, looking very beautiful.
"It's like the ozone weed from 'The xx of Gourmet'."
Xia Jieren looked at the fungal mat and felt that his saliva secretion increased a lot.
Resisting the urge to take a bite, Xia Jieren attracted a springtail.
After the springtail took a bite, the broken fungal carpet quickly recovered without a drop of juice leaking out.
Xia Jieren was very satisfied, so he discussed it with Kerrigan and developed a plan for fungal blanket expansion.
Currently, the cost of creating fungal blanket per square meter is about 1.8 energy points, which is a lot.
If you want to expand an area of 1km2, you will need 180w of energy.
Not every inch of ground needs to be occupied by fungal blanket, which will undoubtedly reduce the difficulty of fungal blanket expansion.
Every square meter of productive fungal mat on land can convert energy, with an efficiency of about 1p/h.
After a brief calculation of the cost of mycelial blanket expansion, the mycelial blanket expansion plan was freshly prepared.
First, let the fungal blanket expand towards eight directions, including due north, northeast, and east, with the mother nest as the center, and set up a node every five kilometers.
Nodes in different directions are interconnected again. If the distance exceeds 5 kilometers, nodes are set up again and connected to each other again. This process repeats itself and eventually forms a dense mesh structure.
Xia Jieren hopes that the fungal blanket will eventually cover the entire planet.
This will undoubtedly be a long process.
Ten minutes later, the fungal blanket began to expand under Kerrigan's precise manipulation.
However, due to limited resources, the fungal blanket can only expand in one direction.
After a brief discussion, it was decided to expand along Highway 1 first.
Currently, armies of worker bees are clearing away jungle along Highway 1.
three days later.
During these three days, the fungal mat consumed tens of thousands of energies and finally expanded to the original beach base.
At this time, the fungal blanket stopped expanding in this direction and fell into silence temporarily.
In addition, various plants have regrown in the areas ravaged by the worker bees.
The plants are distributed extremely neatly and evenly, and you can tell at a glance that they have been rationally planned.
They can fully absorb the sunlight that shines on the surface. Even if some sunlight shines through the gaps between the leaves and reaches the ground, it is received by small plants such as weeds and shrubs.
This method will undoubtedly greatly improve energy acquisition and is very beautiful.
Looking down from the sky, Xia Jieren felt relaxed and happy.
At this time, thirty kilometers away from Jinghu Base, large tracts of jungle fell one after another, and the same type of trees began to grow again on the bare ground behind them.
Looking at the worker bees' logging point again, the 1 transporters seemed a bit redundant at this moment.
Because now, as long as there is a fungal blanket, the worker bees can directly hatch into an extraction chamber on it.
The energy converted by the extraction room can be transferred back to the warehouse through the fungal creep, or it can be used directly by it.
This eliminates the need for transporters to transport trees back and forth, greatly improving the efficiency of energy acquisition.
Based on the current scale, it has increased by at least one third.
Currently, worker bees can obtain at least 20w energy points per hour.
It is worth mentioning that based on the current size of the fungal blanket, it is estimated that 1.2w of energy can be obtained per hour.
However, the way it obtains energy has a great disadvantage. At night, it does not obtain any energy at all.
After dinner, Xia Jieren thought for a while and decided to expand the number of worker bees to 1.
There will be more and more places where energy will be needed in the future, so it’s always a good idea to prepare early.
After planning his work for the next few days, Xia Jieren fell asleep.
That night, Xia Jieren had a beautiful dream after a long time.
In his dream, he led the Zerg army to flatten the entire planet, and all the beasts and intelligent races submitted to him.
He used the resources of the entire planet to begin expanding into space.
First it swallowed the moon, then used the Dyson sphere to wrap the sun, obtaining a steady supply of energy.
Then he built a huge fleet and expanded into nearby galaxies.
Just as Xia Jieren was having a sweet dream, the sky gradually brightened.
A beam of sunlight shone on Xia Jieren's face, waking him up from his sweet dream.
"Grass, why did you wake me up when I was about to enjoy my good life?"
Xia Jieren woke up in a daze, blocked the dazzling sunlight, and cursed in his heart, "This is too torturous."
After his sweet dream was disturbed, he was in no mood to continue sleeping because he could never return to that beautiful dream.
Get up, wash, eat. After completing the daily tasks smoothly, Xia Jieren opened the data panel:
[Master: Xia Jieren]
【Energy: 7.1】
[Soldier template: Springtail (60), Larva (20), Scout (u)......]
[Unit: Zergling x1, Scout x200, Transporter x1k......]
[Building template: Fungal blanket (100), evolution chamber (100), nutrient embryo (100)......]
[Buildings: Fungal blanket, Evolution chamber x1, Nutritional embryo x1...]
[Progress: Symbiotic Virus (31%)]
Currently, there are only about 5.3k worker bees, and it will take a few days to break through 1.
“Still lacking energy!”
Xia Jieren sighed.
However, he couldn't think of any good way to obtain energy, so he could only rely on worker bees.
Later, Xia Jieren started his daily inspection of Jinghu Base.
He first came to the breeding area in Jinghu Base.
Here are chicken coops and rabbit coops built by the insect people. They are not large, only about 100 square meters, and can raise about 300 to chickens or rabbits.
These animals are mainly for satisfying Xia Jieren's appetite.
