Chapter 7 Incubation
Xia Jieren was silent for a while, then resigned himself to his fate and went to the back of the house.
Resisting the discomfort, he touched the worker bee's shell with his right hand.
Smooth! Ice cold!
You know what, it felt really good to touch it, and Xia Jieren couldn't help but rub it a few more times.
"That's it!"
Kerrigan's voice sounded again, and Xia Jieren withdrew his hand reluctantly.
"By the way, how much energy does the smallest mother nest require?" Xia Jieren asked.
"Expected 100 energy."
"Uh... looks like we'll have to wait a little longer."
So Xia Jieren shouted, "Chong Er, I want to eat!"
After hearing the order from the Lord, Chong Er acted quickly.
The prey captured yesterday afternoon and this morning were quickly turned into food by Chong Er and others.
It’s not really a delicious meal, but it does provide a lot of energy.
Just looking at the amount of meat, it is enough to meet the meal needs of more than ten people.
If it were on Blue Star, this meal would cost at least 1,800 yuan.
Logically speaking, Xia Jieren should be happy. After all, he has never shown off his body so extravagantly before.
Unfortunately, he couldn't taste the meat and could only feel good mentally.
Ten minutes later, the first batch of barbecue came out fresh from the oven.
Xia Jieren sat on the ground, eating meat with big mouthfuls, while looking at his energy reserves from time to time.
Half an hour later, Xia Jieren burped and stopped eating.
"Enough energy."
He stood up, walked out and stood beside the cabin.
At this moment, the worker bees have already been waiting here.
"Start hatching!"
Xia Jieren instructed calmly.
Suddenly, the worker bee began to decompose itself.
After just a few seconds, it turned into a pile of mud-like stuff.
Then, it gradually turned into a ball of meat with a hard shell.
"Master, please place your hand on the nest."
Xia Jieren was stunned for a moment, but still put his right hand on it as instructed.
The mother nest began to grow larger. In less than a minute, its height reached about four meters, which was about twice as high as the wooden house.
Xia Jieren looked at the mother nest in front of him in amazement. The shell was very hard and had a metallic luster under the sunlight, which looked very beautiful.
The wall of the ball is relatively thick, about thirty to forty centimeters.
Xia Jieren walked around the mother nest.
To be honest, the optimized appearance of the mother nest is not very beautiful.
But Xia Jieren was also content. One can imagine how terrible the mother nest was before the optimization.
Walking into the mother nest, the internal space is about ten square meters. The Zerg hatching area occupies about half of the space, and the rest is the extraction room and nutrient embryo.
The extraction room is used to decompose resources and convert energy.
The nutrient embryos are used to replenish energy for various Zerg units.
In the past, insects needed to consume a lot of food every day to maintain high-intensity exercise.
Now that they have nutritional embryos, they can save a lot of food.
Nutritional embryos can perfectly convert animals, plants, and even inorganic matter into the energy needed by the Zerg.
With the mother nest, Xia Jieren no longer needs to hatch the Zerg or replenish energy for the Zerg himself.
At this moment, the smile on Xia Jieren's mouth had already spread to his entire face.
"The mother nest is indeed the most important building of the Zerg!"
Looking at the mother nest with quite complete functions, Xia Jieren couldn't help but sigh.
As he walked, Xia Jieren stopped in front of the incubation chamber.
He frowned, not very satisfied with the hatching cavity.
Then, he shared his ideas with Kerrigan in the mind network, asking her to optimize them later.
Xia Jieren wanted to build the incubator to look similar to the clone breeding rooms in science fiction movies, so that it would have a more technological feel.
After taking a quick look at the functions inside the mother nest, Xia Jieren walked out of the mother nest and asked Chong Er and others to throw all the trees, weeds, animal bones, etc. piled next to the wooden house into the extraction room of the mother nest.
[Energy +0.1]
[Energy +0.3]
[Energy +1.7]
【...】
Hearing this wonderful prompt sound, Xia Jieren's heart was filled with joy.
noon.
[Master: Xia Jieren]
【Energy: 112.6】
[Army type template: Worker Bee (100), Bugman (Intelligent, Powerful) (60)]
[Unit: Bug Man (Power Type x4, Intelligence Type x1)]
[Building Template: Hive (u)]
[Building: Mother Nest x1]
"Yes! The energy is sufficient to hatch a worker bee."
Xia Jieren stroked his chin, muttered a few words, and then gave the order directly in his mind.
"Kerrigan, hatch a worker bee."
Driven by curiosity, Xia Jieren watched the entire process of worker bee hatching in the mother nest.
I saw that the incubation chamber was first filled with an unknown transparent solution.
Immediately afterwards, in the center of the solution, a black spot grew from small to large at a speed visible to the naked eye.
When it grows to a certain size, it begins to differentiate into different organs.
After a dozen seconds, the worker bee took shape.
Snapped!
The membrane of the hatching chamber broke, and the worker bees slowly crawled out, prostrating themselves respectfully at Xia Jieren's feet.
Looking at the worker bee with sharp edges and shiny body in front of him, Xia Jieren was both happy and speechless: "Uh~, the worker bee is actually wearing a layer of armor."
"By the way, Kerrigan, your solution is really simple and crude."
Kerrigan remained silent...
Xia Jieren just complained a few words, and he didn't feel any dissatisfaction in his heart.
It is impractical to drastically change the Zerg's appearance without reducing its capabilities.
After all, it is because they are poor and do not have enough energy to support the Zerg's transformation.
After thinking for a few seconds, Xia Jieren asked the worker bees to cut down the trees.
At this stage, the most cost-effective source of energy is the jungle in front of us.
There are many trees, and each tree provides a lot of energy, making it the best source of energy.
Xia Jieren followed closely behind the worker bee, intending to see how it worked.
Soon, he was shocked by the behavior of the worker bees.
The worker bee pushed aside the bushes and came under a big tree.
Faced with a tree so big that one person couldn't hug it, it clamped its pincers tightly around the base of the tree and squeezed hard.
The tree fell slowly, and the cross-section of the stump was very smooth, from which we can see how sharp the worker bee's pincers are.
That’s not all. The worker bees easily lifted a tree about ten meters high, brought the tree to the mother nest, cut it into several pieces, and sent them into the extraction room in batches.
"Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!"
Xia Jieren was stunned by its operation. For a moment, he lost the ability to express himself and started swearing.
After realizing it, he was overjoyed.
"With such a powerful worker bee, nothing can stop me."
It turns out that worker bees are incredibly efficient at gathering resources.
In just less than two hours, Xia Jieren hatched two more worker bees.
