Chapter 1923

Jila held the fist-sized Life Stone, not knowing where to start for a while. The Life Stone could only be absorbed by the mother body, and the Zerg Nest couldn't do it for her.

Jila closed her eyes and pressed the Life Stone in her hand against her forehead. Her brows were tightly locked, seemingly brewing something.

"Absorb!"

Jila exerted force all over her body, however, nothing happened.

Su Xiao grabbed the Life Stone, exerted force in his hand, and crushed the Life Stone with a snap. He had originally wanted to test whether Jila had any special absorption method. After all, he didn't know much about the Life Stone. If the biological energy inside leaked after crushing it, it would be a huge loss.

The fist-sized Life Stone shattered in Su Xiao's hand, and there was no situation of biological energy overflowing.

Seeing this, Jila began to eat the Life Stone piece by piece. There was a fist-sized piece in total, and she only ate about one-third of it, and the biological energy of the Zerg Nest was full.

Jila, who was a first-stage mother body yesterday, was qualified to promote to the third stage by the next afternoon, reaching the level of a Zerg Queen.

Su Xiao glanced at the remaining two-thirds of the Life Stone fragments in his hand and roughly estimated that a high-purity Life Stone was equal to about 10,000 points of biological energy.

According to the images transmitted by Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, that fourth-stage Zerg Mother Emperor had at least a hundred Life Stones of this purity.

This efficiency was faster than robbing other Zerg Nests, but this kind of thing couldn't be done often. There were three fourth-stage Zerg Nests in total. This time it was good luck that he happened to know the location of one of them.

As for the other two fourth-stage Zerg Nests, heaven knows where they were. The area of this continent was quite vast. Maybe even if he knew the location, it would take several days or even longer for Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang to go steal, not to mention the time consumed looking for the other two fourth-stage Zerg Nests.

This time Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang went to steal the Life Stones and was almost exposed. That Zerg Mother Emperor had already sensed Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang. If it weren't for Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's ability to blend into the environment being strong enough, it would have been surrounded by overwhelming Zerg Nests.

Moreover, that Zerg Mother Emperor would soon discover that 11 Life Stones were missing. This was the result of how long she had accumulated. Once she discovered the theft, the consequences could be imagined.

Su Xiao obtained a large sum of "start-up capital," which could significantly reduce the development time of the Zerg Nest.

As for how to obtain biological energy in the future, the risk of going to the fourth-stage Zerg Nest to steal was too high. Plundering Zerg Nests of the same tier was the wisest approach.

The Zerg race that Jila belonged to had an advantage that other Zerg didn't have, which was that she didn't need to accumulate basic Zerg troop types, which could save a large amount of biological energy.

The so-called basic Zerg troop types were non-combat Zerg like Mantis Shells and Spore Tanks. If a Zerg developed normally, these basic Zerg and non-aggressive Zerg buildings were essential, occupying two-thirds of the Zerg Nest's biological energy expenditure. The remaining one-third of biological energy was used to cultivate combat-type Zerg.

The reason for this situation was because the third-stage Zerg Nest already had a very strong troop-spawning ability. It was not too late to cultivate combat-type Zerg after the war started. One had to know that Zerg biological creatures were not perpetual motion machines; they needed time to replenish biological energy.

Among them, combat-type Zerg consumed the most biological energy, several times more than basic Zerg troop types. If a large number of combat-type Zerg were cultivated, it wouldn't take long for their daily consumption to crush a third-stage Zerg Nest.

Only the rich Zerg mother bodies among the Zerg would cultivate a large number of combat-type Zerg to avoid the attacks of the Totem Tribe, and even take the initiative to attack the Totem Tribe to ensure that the territory would not be swallowed.

Jila was different. She had only one purpose for development, and that was to cultivate a large number of combat-type Zerg, without considering anything else.

Precisely because of this, Jila would have extremely amazing combat power among Zerg of the same stage. She wouldn't develop slowly. The only way to obtain biological energy in the future was to rob.

Inside the spacious Zerg Nest, Jila was wrapped in biological tissue, and white nerve fibers were linked to her body. She was trying to evolve to the third stage and become a Zerg Queen.

Outside the Zerg Nest, Su Xiao was checking a holographic map. This map was provided by Benny. This beautiful cat was searching for the World Core all over the world. Before Benny left, Su Xiao asked Benny to map out the locations she had reached so that he could understand the situation of this world.

At this moment, the virtual map already had a large area, but most of the areas were blank, but this was enough.

Benny specially marked the locations of the three forces: Sun Tribe (Fire), Hasaro Tribe (Predation), and Ya-Frog Tribe (Poison).

Su Xiao was closest to the Sun Tribe. The Sun Tribe had the widest territory. In the center of the territory was the main tribe, and there were branch tribes in the surrounding areas. The scale was already about the same as a small country, and the population base could be imagined.

Compared with the territorial differentiation of these Totem Tribes, the hundreds of Zerg Nests marked by Benny were more valuable. Benny couldn't clearly judge which stage these Zerg Nests were at the beginning, so she marked how many meters high these Zerg Nests were.

According to Su Xiao's judgment, in the range of 800,000 square kilometers around, there were 39 first-stage Zerg Nests, 89 second-stage Zerg Nests, and 15 third-stage Zerg Nests.

It seemed like a lot, but in reality, these Zerg Nests were distributed very sparsely. 800,000 square kilometers was equivalent to the area of two medium-sized provinces. If developed with modernization, it would be enough for tens of millions of people to live.

In such a vast area, distributing hundreds of Zerg Nests was already considered few. After all, there was the Sun Tribe near this area. Of course, this was the number of Zerg Nests Su Xiao knew about. There might be many more Zerg Nests that Benny hadn't discovered.

Su Xiao was temporarily not short of biological energy. Eleven high-purity Life Stones were about 110,000 biological energy. What he was short of now was Zerg troop types.

Even if Jila successfully promoted to the third stage, it was not clear what genetic memory she would awaken. Among them, there would definitely be third-stage combat-type Zerg, but even combat-type Zerg of the same tier had strong and weak ones. If he was unlucky, Jila might awaken combat-type Zerg with average combat power.

If that situation occurred, obviously he couldn't force troop spawning; otherwise, the input and output would not be proportional, wasting a lot of biological energy in vain.

If he wanted the Zerg Nest to obtain new Zerg troop types, one was through Jila awakening genetic memory, and the other was to exchange or purchase designated types of 'Legacy Individuals' from other Zerg mother bodies using Life Stones.

The so-called 'Legacy Individuals', to put it simply, were equivalent to skill scrolls in the Reincarnation Paradise. After Jila's Zerg Nest devoured 'Legacy Individuals', it would obtain the genetic memory within the 'Legacy Individuals', thereby possessing the ability to cultivate new combat-type Zerg.

As for where to get 'Legacy Individuals', robbing was obviously impossible. The requirements for the birth of this thing were harsh and could only be obtained through trading with other Zerg mother bodies.

After thinking for a moment, Su Xiao opened the war channel. He wanted to know one thing first, which was which combat-type Zerg in the third to fourth stage had strong combat power, as well as their respective advantages and disadvantages. Purchasing information from his own contractors was the fastest choice.

At this moment, the war channel was very deserted. After all, there was a limit to the number of times one could speak. Unless it was a representative figure like Twilight, one could not post text messages in the war channel without limit.

Bai Ye (Dawn Adventure Group): "Purchasing information on third-stage to fourth-stage Zerg troop types (must mark the location of the Zerg Nest). If the information is complete enough, reward 【Soul Crystal (Complete) x1】."

Su Xiao spent a lot of money. There were 11 Soul Crystals (Complete) in his storage space. If he wanted a large number of fifth-stage contractors to run errands for him and scout, he needed to provide a reward that would make people jealous.

As for developing the Zerg Nest together with other contractors of the Reincarnation Paradise, Su Xiao had considered it before, but soon rejected this plan. Doing so would indeed speed up development, but human hearts were not something that could be calmed down by sharing adversity. Moreover, the Reincarnation Paradise produced all kinds of lunatics, and some extremely crazy guys had very strange thinking. They might not care whether they would die in the war world, but rather cared more about whether something was interesting.

Su Xiao had just sent the message in the war channel when he received a reply.

Musketeer (Symbiosis Alliance): "Sign a contract? If so, for the next three days, I will focus on this matter."

Witch (Phantom Brigade): "Information, sent to you, Mr. Bai Ye. A complete soul, really want it. If satisfied, remember to pay~"

Death Bell (Freelancer): "Damn, a lunatic from the Brigade."

Twilight (Leader of Symbiosis Alliance): "Information sent, pay up."