Chapter 1938: Visitor

Beside the base camp Zerg nest, 15,000 Demon Beasts were on standby. This was already a very strong force. An ordinary third-stage Zerg nest could hold out for at most a few minutes, provided that those Zerg Queens didn't breed troops.

The development of Jila's Zerg nest to this extent had already hit a bottleneck. To continue developing, it could only go deep into the base camp forest.

Su Xiao had only explored about one-third of this forest. The inner side was basically unexplored. There was a large river at least a hundred meters wide that cut the entire forest into two halves.

The swamp area in the south had already been explored. Crossing the swamp was a poisonous fog area. Even with the tolerance of the Demon Beasts, they would be eroded by the poisonous fog within a few minutes.

It wasn't that it couldn't be explored, but there was no need. According to Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's observation, there was a huge red frog deep in the poisonous fog. With that poisonous frog there, it was impossible for other Zerg nests to exist in the nearby area.

The north was the vast grassland where the God-Sacrifice Cow was. That side wasn't considered for the time being. The east was the territory of the Sun Tribe. With the current scale of Jila's Zerg nest, it clearly couldn't beat the Sun Tribe.

In other words, to continue developing, it could only go deep into the base camp forest and cross the river.

Just as Su Xiao was planning the route, the Demon Beasts guarding two kilometers away sent a warning signal. With the Zerg nest as the center, the area with a diameter of ten kilometers was the territory of Jila's Zerg.

The signal conveyed by the Demon Beasts was strange: the signal was that Zerg were attacking, but there was only one.

Surrounded by a large group of Demon Beasts, that foreign Zerg arrived near the Mother Nest. This was a combat-type Zerg. Its appearance resembled a huge butterfly, but its whole body was full of carapaces, and its wings had a metallic texture. After spreading its wings, the body width of this combat Zerg was at least seven meters or more.

Such a behemoth was very conspicuous in the Demon Beast group. Its pale red compound eyes looked around, seemingly looking for something.

"Hiss~"

The giant butterfly Zerg hissed. Jila, who was a homebody, very rarely took the initiative to walk out of the Zerg nest and came to Su Xiao's side.

"This is a fourth-stage Zerg, Egui. It represents a Zerg Mother Emperor."

Jila stretched her hand forward horizontally, and that Egui butterfly immediately turned its gaze to look at Jila.

"Hiss~"

A pustule bulged on the spine of the Egui butterfly. The pustule shattered with a plop, and green body fluid splattered everywhere. A woman with a bare upper body appeared on the back of the Egui butterfly. There were patches of carapaces on both sides of her cheeks, and she had no hair, but was replaced by sharp blades resembling blades.

"Submit to me, my lower-level individual."

The woman on the back of the Egui butterfly spoke. This was a fourth-stage Zerg Mother Emperor. Of course, the one appearing now was not her Mother Body.

Su Xiao looked at Jila. Jila nodded. She wasn't going to submit to this fourth-stage Mother Emperor, but she was indeed a lower-level individual of the other party.

Or rather, it was this fourth-stage Mother Emperor who cultivated the Zerg Queen that Jila once had, and that Zerg Queen then cultivated Jila.

Although there was a direct genetic relationship, there was no innate control right between Zerg Mother Bodies, unless it was a fifth-tier Mother Body. Not to mention a Zerg Mother Emperor separated by a generation, even if the Zerg Queen who cultivated Jila came, she couldn't affect Jila in the slightest.

"I refuse."

Jila's mental fluctuations spread, and the Demon Beasts around the Egui butterfly swarmed forward, preparing to tear this fourth-stage combat Zerg to pieces.

"What a pity, you chose to refuse."

The Zerg Mother Emperor didn't seem angry, because among the Zerg, strong Mother Bodies were very willing to accept other Zerg nests, provided that the other party was willing to offer resources, which were Life Stones.

"Your method is wrong. Mage will attack you soon."

The Zerg Mother Emperor seemed to have rarely interacted with other intelligent creatures, and her tone was very stiff. However, after a brief interaction, she became much more natural.

"Mage?"

Jila looked at the Zerg Mother Emperor with doubt. She was interacting according to Su Xiao's instructions; otherwise, this homebody Zerg Queen wouldn't speak so fluently.

"Over there."

The Zerg Mother Emperor pointed to the north. Who Mage was was already very clear. There was a fourth-stage Zerg nest near the grassland. Mage should be the Mother Emperor of that Zerg nest. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang had also stolen 11 Life Stones over there.

"Mage is an alien. Her evolution method is the same as yours: hunting other Zerg nests to strengthen herself. The Zerg nests you hunted are her prey."

The Zerg Mother Emperor's gaze turned to Su Xiao, somewhat puzzled.

"Since that's the case, why doesn't she stop us from hunting?"

Jila opened her mouth according to Su Xiao's instructions. Su Xiao temporarily couldn't figure out the purpose of this Zerg Mother Emperor coming here.

"She is waiting, waiting for other Mother Nests to grow. Every 300 star-months (days), she will hunt once, and after hunting, she will continue to wait. She has repeated this for 25 rounds. When she discovers you, she won't be too friendly."

The Zerg Mother Emperor pressed her hand on the back of the Egui butterfly. Her lower body detached from the Egui butterfly's body, and red carapaces grew rapidly on her body.

"I am Tasui... Hong'e, the oldest Zerg on this continent."

When the Zerg Mother Emperor said her name, Su Xiao couldn't understand the first half at all, only hearing the last two words clearly: Hong'e.

From Hong'e's fragmented words, it could be heard that she came here neither with malice nor with much kindness. First, she asked if Jila was willing to follow her, and after Jila refused, she used the fourth-stage Zerg Mother Emperor, Mage, nearby to scare her.

"Hong'e, your tribe, is it very far from here?"

Su Xiao spoke. Although interacting through Jila was a good way, this homebody Zerg Queen's momentum was too weak.

"Human..." Hong'e looked at Jila, then looked at Su Xiao: "Truly wonderful."

Hong'e didn't answer Su Xiao's question directly, but it could be considered as tacitly agreeing.

"If I'm not mistaken, your tribe is over there."

Su Xiao pointed to the northwest. According to his deduction, Hong'e's Zerg nest should be over there.

If the Sun Tribe, Mage Zerg nest, and Hong'e Zerg nest were arranged in a line, then the Mage Zerg nest was in the middle, blocking the way between the Sun Tribe and the Hong'e Zerg nest.

The Mage Zerg nest and Hong'e Zerg nest should be hostile to each other in normal times. Although their distance was very far, once the Sun Tribe attacked the Mage Zerg nest, Hong'e would definitely reinforce. The Zerg Mother Emperors still understood the truth that if the lips are gone, the teeth are cold.

As for the other fourth-stage Zerg nest, it should be very far from both, on the other side of the continent.

If the base camp forest was taken as the radiation range, the surrounding major forces were: Mage Zerg nest, Hong'e Zerg nest, Sun Tribe (Fire), Hasalo Tribe (Predatory), Yawa Tribe (Poison).

As for the remaining two Totem tribes and one fourth-stage Mother Nest, they were all on the other side of the continent. Just the journey alone would take more than ten days, and this was still under the condition that the Zerg army didn't sleep or rest.

Su Xiao basically figured out the distribution of the surrounding forces. In other words, what could threaten him were actually only two major Zerg and three major tribes. As for the other three major forces, they were too far away, and the possibility of war was very low.

"I came with kindness, hoping to reach an exchange with you."

Hong'e finally stated her purpose. As for what thing she took a fancy to, there was no need to think to know that besides the "residual individuals" of the Demon Beasts, Jila's Zerg nest had nothing that this Zerg Mother Emperor could take a fancy to.

As for whether to exchange, of course, he would exchange, because Hong'e couldn't cultivate complete Demon Beasts by relying on the "residual individuals" of the Demon Beasts at all. ===== CHAPTER 1939 =====

To cultivate Demon Beasts, one first needs their "remnant individuals," followed by Demon Power of ultra-high purity. If the Zerg brood mother does not fuse with the Demon Power, even if a Demon Beast is cultivated, it will be a defective product, with combat power only at a mid-tier level among third-stage Zerg. Su Xiao has already tested this through the Fog Light Brood.