Chapter 107: Taren? Go cook me two dishes!

Zhou Yun clenched his fist, controlling his strength, and stared at the gunworm before him.

The gunworm’s movements were painfully slow compared to his, like a stuck film reel.

Only after using the item named Accelerator Spring did Zhou Yun truly understand what “accelerating any action” meant.

Now, his movements, thoughts, and reactions were all accelerated.

To the world, he felt as if he were in fast-forward.

Clench your fist, hold back your power, don’t turn it into pulp.

Zhou Yun steadied his breath and thought.

The Superman Glove grants up to a hundred tons of force, but the drawback is poor control.

After the Accelerator Spring enhanced his speed, controlling his strength became even harder.

He had previously accidentally turned Tyranid creatures into pulp.

Future Department stores inspect condition upon buyback—Tyranid creatures turned to pulp are practically worthless.

Zhou Yun took a deep breath and lightly swung a punch at the gunworm before him—

Thud!

His hand, clad in the Superman Glove, struck the gunworm’s head, leaving a dent as flesh and gore sprayed outward.

The gunworm crashed to the ground, kicked its legs once, and died.

Zhou Yun exhaled in relief—he had finally hunted a complete gunworm.

About this much force.

Thinking this, Zhou Yun reached out to shove the nearly intact gunworm into his fourth-dimensional pocket.

Several ripperworms suddenly lunged from the ground, attacking the dead Tyranid, ready to feast.

Zhou Yun’s temple twitched—he had just killed that gunworm!

“Mine! All of it’s mine!”

Zhou Yun kicked the lunging ripperworms away:

“What trash dares compete with me for biomass?”

As he spoke, Zhou Yun snatched the gunworm and shoved it into his fourth-dimensional pocket with lightning speed.

[Item Name: Gunworm]

[Origin: Acheron Shield System—Asford Star—Tyranid Hatchery]

[Evaluation: A low-tier Tyranid organism, one of the cheapest units in the Hive Fleet. The firearm in its grasp is a symbiotic biological organ. It has aphrodisiac and kidney-strengthening effects, enhances virility, but is unfit for consumption.]

[Production Time: 998.M41]

[Status: Slight Damage]

[Value: 3000 Yuan]

Zhou Yun immediately clicked to sell, then strode forward, his body dissolving into a blur as he vanished from sight.

The gunworm was just a side target—his real goal was still...

As Zhou Yun swung his fists to kill Tyranids blocking his path, he searched the swarm for signs of node organisms.

Where was the node organism leading this swarm?

Node organisms functioned as mobile hotspots—just as electronic devices needed Wi-Fi, low-tier Tyranids relied on node organisms to connect to the Hive Mind.

Kill the node organism leading this swarm, and the lower Tyranids would descend into chaos, even turning on each other, behaving like ordinary beasts.

The Cadian Shock Troopers could then exploit this chaos to annihilate the disoriented swarm.

Since entering the front line, Zhou Yun had been hunting node organisms within the swarm.

It was both to create opportunities for the Cadians and because node organisms were generally valuable, durable, and retained good condition when sold.

Zhou Yun casually killed two more gunworms and stuffed them into his fourth-dimensional pocket.

He had swept through this swarm multiple times—how could he still not find the node organism?

“Above!” came the voice of the winged figure from Bai Guang.

Zhou Yun snapped his head upward—suddenly, a gale of wind slashed toward his face.

A beast unfurled its wings and let out a piercing screech, its two slender claws lunging for Zhou Yun’s face.

Zhou Yun’s body shifted slightly, becoming a blur as he dodged aside.

Only then did he see who had attacked him.

Tyranid Winged Wyrms!

It was a Tyranid creature, covered in deep purple chitin, standing two to three meters tall, slender with two sharp claws.

Its posture exuded lightness, elegance, and danger—as if it were a precisely tuned killing machine.

Unlike other Tyranids, it had only two claws; its other two limbs had been replaced by massive wings.

The most powerful subspecies among Tyranid Warriors were called Tyranid Wyrms.

They were typically stronger, faster, and more dangerous.

The Tyranid Winged Wyrms were further specialized for flight and speed—more dangerous and terrifying hunters.

Zhou Yun lunged forward and swung a punch at the Tyranid Winged Wyrm.

With the Accelerator Spring’s boost, his speed had reached the point where the naked eye could barely track him.

Yet the Tyranid Winged Wyrm, at the last instant, violently flapped its wings and shot straight into the sky.

It hovered like a hawk circling above, patiently waiting to strike Zhou Yun.

Zhou Yun instantly understood—it was a unit deliberately bred by the Hive Mind to target him.

This was what the Leviathan Hive Fleet excelled at: producing units tailored to battlefield conditions.

Zhou Yun’s lips curled into a smile—he had taken the bait.

The Tyranid Winged Wyrm soared high above, fixedly watching Zhou Yun on the ground.

Its flight altitude hovered roughly ten meters above the ground.

If it flew higher, it would be targeted by the Icarus anti-air cannons and Hydra anti-air tanks.

As a high-tier Tyranid node organism, the Winged Wyrm possessed exceptional intelligence—it understood its purpose and knew how to act.

Hunt the bipedal, hairless, mammalian Ma Lei on the ground.

That creature disrupted the Hive Fleet’s feeding.

His speed was great, his punch strength reached a hundred tons, and he precisely hunted node organisms within the swarm. Most troublingly, this creature seemed to be stealing biomass that rightfully belonged to the Hive.

This was bad—it meant the opponent was not merely prey.

He was also a hunter, a predator, a competitor to the Hive.

Competitors differed from prey.

No matter how fiercely prey resisted, the Hive could manipulate and recover corpses to ensure its final biomass gain exceeded its losses.

In any case, the Hive always profited.

But competitors were different.

Whether it was the incorporeal beings from the Warp or the fully metallic mechanical entities,

Whenever the Hive fought them, it usually lost.

This creature was no different—he had some method of making biomass vanish.

Even if the Hive eventually killed him, the lost biomass could never be recovered.

He must be eliminated quickly to prevent further biomass loss.

To eliminate him, the Hive had hatched the Tyranid Winged Wyrm.

Fast? The Tyranid Winged Wyrm was fast too.

Strong? The Tyranid Winged Wyrm flew beyond his reach, in the sky.

Moreover, based on prior observation, the Hive Mind had confirmed: his physical strength was low.

If it seized just one opening, the Tyranid Winged Wyrm could pounce and kill him—

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Wind whistled past the Tyranid Winged Wyrm’s ears.

The Wyrm frantically dodged.

Yet Zhou Yun reached its position in less than half a second.

The Wyrm, unprepared, had no time to evade.

In its final moment, it only caught sight of a small yellow propeller on Zhou Yun’s head.

Its intelligence and knowledge, granted by the Hive, could not comprehend:

How could such a tiny device provide this creature with enough lift to ascend ten meters in under half a second?

He could fly—he had deliberately concealed this ability, tricking the Hive Mind into producing the wrong unit.

The moment the Tyranid Winged Wyrm realized this, Zhou Yun’s fist was already before it.

Must be utilized next time!

The Tyranid Winged Wyrm thought.

Then its head was struck by Zhou Yun’s fist and exploded into a mist of blood.

Zhou Yun grabbed the headless corpse of the Tyranid Winged Wyrm and shoved it into his fourth-dimensional pocket.

[Item Name: Tyranid Winged Wyrm]

[Origin: Acheron Shield System—Asford Star—Tyranid Hatchery]

[Evaluation: A Tyranid node organism, a specialized variant of the Tyranid Wyrm with enhanced flight and speed. One of the most dangerous hunters on the battlefield. Sweet, neutral taste, tonifies liver and kidneys, replenishes qi and blood, nourishes yin and reduces false heat. Not for consumption. Recommended formula: Wyrm White Phoenix Pills.]

[Production time: 998.m41]

[Status: Slow down, slow down, if you go further, you’ll lose your head.]

[Value: 450,000 yuan]

Zhou Yun’s lips twitched slightly,

The Tyranid hive fleets, especially the Leviathan hive fleet, excel at hatching Tyranid organisms tailored to battlefield demands,

which is usually an advantage,

but the problem is that in urgent combat, the Leviathan hive fleet cannot redesign a new Tyranid organism to hatch,

it must choose from previously designed units the one most suited to the situation.

This means that if someone has sufficient knowledge of Tyranid organisms—and even knows the units the hive fleet commonly uses—

they can predict which unit the swarm will hatch based on their own displayed abilities, battlefield conditions, and the hive’s objectives.

They can even guide the Hive Mind to hatch specific units,

in other words, Zhou Yun can order dishes, and have the Hive Mind cook him two fresh ones on the spot.

He deliberately lured the Tyranid Hive Mind into hatching a flying node biological unit, waiting precisely to trap it with the bamboo dragonfly.

The bamboo dragonfly’s top speed is eighty kilometers per hour—not especially fast. But it reaches this speed without needing to accelerate.

Zhou Yun can instantly fly at eighty kilometers per hour,

and with anti-air fire suppressing the Tyranid organisms, they cannot fly too high,

unless the Hive Mind sacrifices heavily and directly deploys a winged Hive Tyrant to deal with Zhou Yun,

a bamboo dragonfly that can climb over twenty meters in one second is sufficient to instantly kill most Tyranid flying units.

Of course, after pulling this off once, the Hive Mind will certainly be more cautious next time.

Zhou Yun’s lips curled slightly—he had several other ideas already implemented, each tailored to specific Tyranid units, and he wondered if he could trick the Hive Mind again.

At that moment, Zhou Yun noticed a flare slowly rising from the Cadia Shock Troops’ position.

Gratitude to the patron who tipped ten thousand starting coins—this was the largest tip he’d ever received in his life.

(End of chapter)