Chapter 1930

That night, Su Xiao arrived at the captured three-stage insect nest, whose mother body was named Mistlight.

The Mistlight insect swarm was over sixty meters high, indicating the nest had developed to mid-stage three.

Behind the nest was a cliff, with steep precipices on both sides; the terrain around the nest formed a U-shape, surrounded by mountains on three sides, with only one entrance.

This terrain favored early development, but later on, forest terrain was actually better due to sufficient groundwater.

Insects were not fantastical creatures; they were simply at a higher life stage and still needed to replenish biological energy and water—both essential—unless the nest had reached stage five, at which point it could break free from these basic resource constraints.

Around the Mistlight nest lay a white, fuzzy moss blanket that reduced biological energy consumption for lower-stage insects, a useful trait for normal nest development.

Near the Mistlight nest, at least several hundred basic-stage insects were present—mostly mantis-shelled types with little combat ability, few advanced basic types, and within them, 519 demon beasts, all on standby.

As Su Xiao approached the nest, the low-combat basic insects suddenly lunged at him.

Su Xiao kicked the large cloth bag in his hand, causing the lunging basic insects to become visibly confused.

"Dare to control them again, and I'll peel off your shell."

Su Xiao opened the mouth of the large cloth bag in his hand, and a muffled cold snort came from inside.

Su Xiao entered the nest; its interior differed from the main base nest's layout, nearly filled with various nest organs, leaving only a few dozen square meters of activity space.

The ceiling and walls were covered in slime; Su Xiao threw the large cloth bag to the ground, with Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Bubu Wang guarding the entrance.

Opening the large cloth bag revealed a five-flower-bound insect queen. Seeing her, Su Xiao slightly furrowed his brow, as her binding posture was somewhat...

No need to guess—it was Bahana's doing; Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Bubu Wang and Am lacked the neural capacity for such tactics.

An injection gun appeared in Su Xiao's hand; he stabbed it into the side neck of the insect queen named Mistlight, following the seam of her carapace.

Mistlight's body resembled that of an adult woman, her full-body carapace light black, with her head carapace intact.

Su Xiao pulled out the torn cloth from Mistlight's mouth; she tilted her head and bit toward his hand.

Bang!

Mistlight's head tilted, and combined with the drug effect, her vision began to blur.

Hehehe...

Mistlight actually began to laugh—this was the hallucinogenic effect of the drug; considering she was an insect queen, Su Xiao increased the dosage.

"I am willing... to submit to you."

The Mistlight lying on the ground felt her consciousness begin to blur; insect instincts warned her constantly—she was about to face something terrible.

Su Xiao said nothing, rolled up his sleeve, took out a spray iron can, and began disinfecting his hands.

Under the high-hanging moon, the basic insects near the Mistlight nest became abnormally agitated, sometimes suddenly circling the nest, sometimes even attacking the demon beasts.

When the sky turned fish-belly white at dawn, the lower-stage insects of the Mistlight nest quieted down, and even a three-stage combat insect emerged from within the nest.

At 6 a. m., the 519 demon beasts withdrew, having completed their guard duty; they now only needed to circle around, avoid the Sun Tribe's territory, and return to the main base, as their appearance must not be exposed.

At 7 a. m., Am and Bahana completed another hunting round, gaining 210,000 biological energy.

This biological energy was converted into 210 Life Stones (Medium), stored by Am in the adventuring team's storage space; Su Xiao retrieved them from there and controlled the Insect Queen Mistlight to absorb them.

Soon, a full-body dark blue-black carapaced combat insect, resembling a spider, was bred—this was Putus, with mid-to-high comprehensive quality, each costing 130 biological energy to breed, 70 less than a demon beast.

When breeding finished, 1,615 Putus were stationed near the nest—seemingly many, but still insufficient to meet Su Xiao's satisfaction.

The main base had 2,700 demon beasts; Su Xiao gave Jila a remote order to leave 700 demon beasts to guard the main base, while the remaining 2,000 were split into two teams to continue resource competition.

At 10:05 a. m., Am and Bahana from the main base completed a second hunt, deploying more demon beasts and gaining 250,000 biological energy.

Su Xiao still did not use this biological energy to develop demon beasts, but instead bred Putus for the Mistlight nest, adding 1,923 more, bringing the total to 3,538—already an astonishing number.

At noon, Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Bubu Wang left the Mistlight nest and moved toward the Sun Tribe's region.

At 1 p. m., the combat insects of the Mistlight nest—Putus—began going out to hunt, targeting second-stage insect nests around the Sun Tribe's area.

3,538 Putus, for second-stage insects, meant utter devastation; a third-stage nest breeding this many combat insects was simply reckless.

Looking at it, the Mistlight nest's development was the result of painstaking effort; in fact, without Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Bubu Wang stealing the pure Life Stones, in four days the Jila insect tribe would only have reached this level—that startup fund was truly crucial.

Though breeding 3,538 Putus seemed wasteful compared to demon beasts, in reality, even if used for demon beasts, it would only yield 2,300; adding the main base's 2,700, this was indeed a strong force—but insufficient to utterly crush the Three Joy Gardens Alliance, and would instead provoke them into a desperate counterattack.

Su Xiao's true goal was for his demon beasts to number over ten thousand—not even stopping there, but exceeding twenty or thirty thousand—to crush them with minimal risk, leaving the Three Joy Gardens Alliance no chance to counterattack.

Inside the nest, Su Xiao wore a massive mechanical arm armor on his right arm, with at least hundreds of wires connected, all leading to a consciousness transmission device.

Based on prior experiments, Su Xiao felt he no longer needed the consciousness transmission device, even if it was made at great material cost.

Jila's loyalty had already reached 98 points, and she demonstrated notable talent in controlling large numbers of insects.

Meanwhile, the consciousness transmission device was Su Xiao's backup, in case Jila refused control; given current conditions, it was hardly needed anymore, as demonic power had fully integrated into Jila's body—this was a more secure control method.

On this consciousness transmission device, three complete Soul Crystals were embedded, used to command the reorganized queen Mistlight's actions.

Mistlight lay with vacant eyes inside the device, thousands of hair-thin wires penetrating her torso, brain, and other locations.

Now, Su Xiao could forcibly control every move of the Insect Queen Mistlight, even direct her sub-individuals through her, but such forced control consumed greatly—even Su Xiao's physique could barely endure it, hence the need for three complete Soul Crystals to supply pure soul energy.

The 3,538 Putus would hunt in the surrounding area to recoup costs; this region was too far from the main base, so under normal circumstances, demon beast units would not come here to hunt.

Moreover, the 3,538 Putus were not cannon fodder; if the Three Joy Gardens Alliance wanted to destroy the Mistlight nest, they would have to pay a bloody price—any enemy losses would become our future advantage.

How could an easy "victory" make the Three Joy Gardens Alliance believe they had destroyed Su Xiao's insect army?

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