Chapter 3484: Vegetarianism Like a Lawn Mower

Inside the base camp valley, the Zerg nest towered high. Back on the Primordial Continent, a Tier 7 Zerg nest would be nearly 180 meters tall, but here in this world, it was only a little over 80 meters. The difference in world systems had a quite intuitive impact on an extreme race like the Demon Zerg.

Su Xiao didn't mind this. To obtain a higher upper limit, one naturally had to pay a price. Right now, the Zerg nest being only 80-plus meters tall was actually a good thing. Although the troop production speed was weakened, it was more conducive to concealment. As long as the nest didn't exceed the height of the valley and nothing flew over it, it wouldn't be easily discovered.

Regarding the troop production speed, Su Xiao wasn't worried. Currently, Zhila was only at the "Queen" level. Once she promoted to the "Mother Empress" level, the Zerg nest would reach Tier 8. By then, the production speed would definitely increase rather than decrease compared to her former peak.

As for reaching the "Dominator" level, that was a new height Zhila had never attained before.

The situation in the south now was that several "Mother Empress" level Zerg mothers were engaged in a continuous war with the Empire's Third Fleet.

The Zerg in this world developed by mining and were semi-vegetarian, but as Zerg, their combat capability shouldn't be poor.

Beni, who had gone out to scout, had already discovered two Tier 8 Zerg nests. Both were established by "Mother Empress" level Zerg mothers. Using their own base camp as a reference point, the two Tier 8 nests were located to the northwest and northeast, which was to the left and right in front of their base camp.

To the front left was the "Kara Zerg Nest." According to Beni's observations, the Zerg units here were larger in size. The nest and various Zerg structures occupied an area about half the size of a city. There were numerous Zerg structures, and they placed particular emphasis on air defense.

To the front right was the "Crimson Empress Zerg Nest." The nest there was very tall, but there weren't many Zerg structures around it. The combat Zerg there were mostly flying units. The Crimson Empress's side was more aggressive, unlike Kara, who preferred defense and development.

Su Xiao wasn't planning to go greet these two "friendly neighbors" yet, partly because he couldn't beat them, and partly because they were quite far away.

The area behind their base camp wasn't worth exploring; it was a continuous range of gray mountains, and the altitude kept rising. Once it exceeded ten thousand meters, it reached a gravity-chaotic zone where many rocks and dust floated in the sky. Even the Empire's warships wouldn't easily fly there.

This meant that as long as they built a perception tower, they wouldn't need to guard against sneak attacks from the rear. Such a geographical advantage naturally had to be utilized.

Su Xiao connected via mental power and issued instructions to Zhila inside the Zerg nest to begin cultivating Demon Beasts.

There were currently 42,150 points of biological energy in total. The incubation of Demon Beast eggs and the subsequent cultivation into mature forms consumed a total of 10 points of biological energy each. He decisively arranged for 4,215 Demon Beasts.

The Zerg nest began to work. A portion of the biological energy first entered the incubation tissue, which then used genetic templates to cultivate eggs. The eggs were sent through incubation tubes to the cultivation sacs.

The cultivation sacs, which maintained a constant temperature of 40°C, carried out cultivation in a warm, humid environment. Inside this Zerg nest organ, which was huge—about the size of half a soccer field—the biological energy was converted into liquid and supplied to each egg through umbilical tubes.

The eggs grew at a speed visible to the naked eye. Soon, juvenile Demon Beasts with slightly soft carapaces were cultivated and entered the final growth process.

Su Xiao didn't know how other Zerg were, but the Demon Beasts cultivated by his own Zerg nest had impeccable cultivation speed. As soon as they left the nest, they were combat units at their peak state, and they would only stop fighting when they died.

Of course, such fierce Demon Beasts weren't without flaws; their existence cycle was only 40 to 50 days. This was the price paid for pursuing combat power in an extreme way.

Compared to the peak state Demon Beasts had reached before, the ones cultivated this time were definitely stronger. The mission reward just now had granted three carapace enhancements.

Unfortunately, due to a mismatch in compatibility, the Demon Beasts couldn't accommodate "Biological Plasma." Or rather, if they could, the cultivation cost of a Demon Beast wouldn't be surprising even if it increased by several hundred times.

The sound of running came from inside the Zerg nest. Su Xiao looked over and saw Demon Beasts rushing out one by one. He temporarily controlled one of them, had it stop in front of him, and began to observe whether there were any changes compared to before.

At this time, the Demon Beast, excluding its tail, was about 3.5 meters long. Its two hind legs were arched, and the black carapace on its body had distinct lines. Although thinner than before, the carapace now had a metallic texture.

The Demon Beast's forelimbs were shorter than its hind legs, and its claws were like razor blades, with a slight arch at the tips. As long as they grabbed an enemy, they could tear off a chunk of flesh.

Overall, the Demon Beast looked somewhat similar to a Xenomorph, only the head was different. The Demon Beast's mouth could open very wide, and the structure of its teeth wasn't for eating, but purely for tearing and biting.

The most conspicuous part was the Demon Beast's carapace tail. The entire tail was nearly four meters long, exceeding its body length. Due to the unique carapace structure on it, this long tail could swing 360 degrees at will. At the tip of the tail, it looked like a blade-shaped spike at first glance, but it could open up. Once it pierced into prey and opened, the prey could never escape.

With the Demon Beast's form, if in a narrow terrain, it could run rapidly on walls and ceilings. Its agile body, hard carapace, sharp claws, and pointed tail—the bone tail longer than its body could sweep down, and the nearly 50-centimeter-long tail blade could easily sever an enemy's head. This creature called a Demon Beast was born for slaughter and war.

All the Demon Beasts stood on the creep, waiting for orders.

The biological energy stored in the Zerg nest had hit zero. It was time to get some biological energy back for development. Su Xiao looked at the map on the terminal. The nearest friendly neighbor was a Queen-level Zerg mother who possessed a Tier 5 Zerg nest.

Because the other party was a native Zerg, the nest characteristics were different from his own. That Tier 5 Zerg nest mainly affected the population upper limit and the construction of Zerg buildings, rather than the cultivated Zerg units also being Tier 5.

What was cultivated there weren't Tier 5 Zerg units, but Tier 8 Zerg units cultivated using a Tier 5 Zerg nest. The specific strength was currently unknown.

Of course, this was also limited by the number of Zerg units. The population upper limit of Zerg groups in this world was determined by the tier of the Zerg nest. For example, a Tier 5 Zerg nest could hold at most 7,000 to 10,000 Zerg units.

Once this number was exceeded, the balance of biological energy income and expenditure couldn't be achieved, eventually leading to the Zerg nest and Zerg buildings withering due to lack of biological energy supply.

Zhila was a different case; she could cultivate Zerg units of the corresponding tier to whatever tier the Zerg nest was, and the quantity could reach an exaggerated level.

The Zerg queen nearby had over 700 combat Zerg in her tribe. The remaining 3,000 worker-type Zerg units didn't need to be bothered with; these were all for mining or responsible for the maintenance of the Zerg nest.

Although those 700-plus combat Zerg were Tier 8 Zerg, because the Zerg nest and genetics were relatively poor, it was unknown whether their specific combat power could reach Tier 8.

Demon Beasts had once dominated the Primordial Continent. Now that they had arrived in a new land, they still had to respect their opponents. Su Xiao left Amu and 1,215 Demon Beasts to guard the home base.

To be safe, Su Xiao set off with 3,000 Demon Beasts. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Baja went along, one responsible for ground reconnaissance and the other for high-altitude reconnaissance.

Su Xiao leaped onto the back of a Demon Beast. The Demon Beast's long tail coiled up, and Su Xiao sat steadily on it. Under his mental command, the 3,000 Demon Beasts roared one after another and then ran out of the valley.

The Demon Beasts ran on four legs at a very fast speed. The Demon Beast Su Xiao used as a mount was slightly slower than the main force because it had to maintain stability while running, which just happened to be convenient for observing the situation from behind later.

The wind whistled in his ears. Su Xiao glanced at the map on the terminal. Their base camp was about 5 kilometers away from that Zerg queen, which was really too close.

A tree branch brushed dangerously past Su Xiao's face. The experience of using a Demon Beast as a mount wasn't good. It would be much more convenient after cultivating Demon Flame Dragons later.

Su Xiao took out a Soul Crystal (Complete). When he finished eating the Soul Crystal in his hand, the view in front suddenly opened up. This was a wasteland cleared in the dense forest with low weeds. A dirt-gray Zerg nest towered in front, about 50 meters high. Overall, it looked like a somewhat bloated mountain peak.

Located near this Zerg nest were several Zerg buildings. A high tower among them emitted alert fluctuations, representing that an enemy was approaching. This should be a Zerg building similar to a sensor tower.

Near the enemy Zerg nest, six-legged crustacean Zerg ran into the nest. Their short, thick carapace legs and sturdy tail structure represented that they weren't combat Zerg. Some were responsible for digging and mining, while others were responsible for carrying.

Compared to these panicked worker Zerg, the hundreds of spider-like combat Zerg on the outer perimeter had already formed a defensive array. These combat Zerg were called "Sting-Poison." They were about 3.2 meters long, with most of their bodies protected by carapaces. Their eight carapace legs were like eight sharp blades. What was even more terrifying was the acidic poison they possessed.

This was a type of combat Zerg that combined speed, ferocity, and one-hit lethality. It couldn't be underestimated.

The enemy's defense line had been set up, and a defensive Zerg building began to charge energy. The single eye on it kept staring at Su Xiao.

A mental fluctuation spread over, the meaning of which was to drive away, expel, etc. Seeing this, Su Xiao ordered the start of the battle.

"Roar!"

The surrounding Demon Beasts roared and rushed out. They didn't care what tier of Zerg the enemy was. Receiving the order and then killing the enemy was the only thing they had to do.

Right now, their soldier-type units exceeded 3,000, which meant one thing: the War Lord title in the equipped state had already brought bonuses.

"1. Morale +80 points (500 soldiers can trigger this bonus)."

"2. Maximum health increased by 50%, physical defense +30 points (3,000 soldiers can trigger this bonus)."

The originally particularly useful Morale +80 points had become useless at this time. Su Xiao didn't know what the situation was with other Zerg, but as far as his own Zerg were concerned, there was no concept of morale at all. Before the last Zerg unit died, the battle wouldn't stop.

With the maximum health increased by 50% and physical defense +30 points, his Demon Beasts had just received carapace enhancements. Now, adding this bonus, the survival ability of the Demon Beasts rose by a large margin.

Originally, Demon Beasts were biased towards speed and attack characteristics, belonging to fragile, high-attack warriors. Now, after the stacking of these survival bonuses, their weakness of poor defense was compensated for.

Thousands of Demon Beasts swarmed up. During the run, their sharp claws grabbed mud and grass debris, making them fly everywhere. The Sting-Poison on the opposite side were fearless. The leading Sting-Poison rushed towards the Demon Beasts.

A Demon Beast and a Sting-Poison charged at each other. When the distance between the two closed, the Demon Beast leaped up, claws spread, and its mouth full of sharp teeth opened, like a beast pouncing on food.

The Sting-Poison on the opposite side raised its carapace legs, looking like it was prepared to pierce the Demon Beast with its blade-like carapace legs before being pounced on and killed. In the compound eyes of the Sting-Poison, there seemed to be some ferocity. This was a characteristic of the Zerg in this world; they had a certain degree of individual consciousness.

Just as this Demon Beast leaped into mid-air, its long tail lashed out, and the tail tip nailed into the ground. This caused the Demon Beast's pouncing motion to pause, suddenly stopping its advance.

The Sting-Poison on the opposite side stabbed with four carapace legs. Because the Demon Beast stopped suddenly, the Sting-Poison's carapace legs stabbed into empty air, digging into the ground in front of the Demon Beast.

Only to see the Demon Beast perform an emergency brake, completely stabilizing its form, lashing its long tail, and the tail blade cutting one of the Sting-Poison's carapace legs.

With a swish, the carapace leg broke on cue, and fluorescent green acidic Zerg blood splashed up. The Demon Beast seemed to have had a premonition, flashing to the side of the Sting-Poison.

"Hiss!"

The Sting-Poison let out a miserable hiss and pounced towards the Demon Beast at its side. The Demon Beast displayed extraordinary agility. While dodging, its tail blade flashed repeatedly, successively severing three of the Sting-Poison's carapace legs.

This wasn't all. The Demon Beast lashed its long tail, rolled up the enemy's severed carapace leg, and then the Demon Beast held a severed carapace leg, making a gesture to throw it.

At the same time, inside the enemy Zerg nest, the Zerg queen wrapped in biological tissue had a look of obvious surprise on her face after sensing the series of actions of that Demon Beast.

The appearance of this Zerg queen was very similar to humans. Most Zerg mothers in this world were like this. This was one of their self-protection means. At critical moments, they could disguise themselves as Owa people to avoid being captured alive by the Empire's soldiers and taken away for research.

The surprise for this Zerg queen had only just begun. In the chaotic battle zone, the Demon Beast holding the severed carapace leg in its foreclaws, after making a throwing motion, actually feinted. It lashed its long tail, which was also rolling up a severed carapace leg. A cold light flashed, and a carapace leg was already nailed beside the Sting-Poison's head.

Having succeeded in one strike, the Demon Beast pounced forward, making a gesture to slap and grab the enemy with its foreclaws, but the real attack came from below. The long tail stabbed out from bottom to top in an arc.

Puchi.

The tail blade pierced through the Sting-Poison's head. The Demon Beast lashed its long tail, swung the Sting-Poison up, and then the tail blade slashed repeatedly, cutting the Sting-Poison into more than ten segments, along with various organs scattered on the ground. The acidic blood corroded the ground, making a hissing sound, and an unpleasant smell spread out.

The Demon Beast shook the Zerg blood off its tail blade and turned to rush towards another Sting-Poison. This Sting-Poison, which claimed to be a Tier 8 Zerg unit, seemed to be unworthy of its name.

The situation appearing now was actually very normal. Everything about the Demon Beast was for fighting and war. Looking at the Sting-Poison, although they were Zerg, they were naturally bred; it was just that the birth process was different from other creatures. Using talent points as a metaphor, if there were 10 points in total, they were 6 points for combat, 3 points for reconnaissance and guarding, and 1 point for hunting and evolution.

And for the Demon Beast, one of their abilities had greatly improved their comprehensive combat power.

"Combat Intuition (Passive: A killing creature born for battle, combat ability has been engraved in their genes)."

Simply put, the Demon Beast's genetic memory was like a "shared cloud drive." When all Demon Beasts fought, they would upload combat fragments to the shared cloud drive. This cloud drive was useless in the beginning, but as the number of battles the Demon Beasts fought increased, the combat memories stored inside were a huge gain.

After every Demon Beast was cultivated to an adult in the Zerg nest, it could "download" the combat memories inside the "Demon Shared Cloud Drive," allowing them to possess powerful practical combat capabilities shortly after birth.

How many battles had the Demon Beasts participated in? To put it another way, how many wars had the Demon Beasts participated in? The answer was, so many that it was already hard to remember. They had slaughtered their way through two worlds.

And at this time, the Sting-Poison, which were equivalent to the Zerg nest's security guards, were completely abused after encountering the Demon Beasts, who were all veteran cold-blooded warriors.

Boom!

The sound of an explosion came, and broken carapaces splashed everywhere. It was a Sting-Poison exploding. It compressed the concentrated acid sac in its body, causing an astonishingly powerful acid-blood explosion.

When the battle subsided, the ground was full of fluorescent blue acidic Zerg blood, and white smoke curled from the corroded ground. In this battle, 715 enemies were annihilated, and 85 of their own Demon Beasts were damaged, most of which were blown up by acid-blood explosions, and a small part were surrounded and killed.

The Sting-Poison were said to be Tier 8 Zerg units, but Su Xiao suspected that this should be the bottom of Tier 8, or even pseudo-Tier 8. That is, only the self-detonation means posed a threat to the Demon Beasts.

This allowed Su Xiao to estimate the approximate strength of the Zerg queen. Before being able to build a Tier 7 Zerg nest, the Zerg queens in this world were all mediocre.

Su Xiao leaped down from the back of the Demon Beast and walked towards the Zerg nest. Baja, who was behind, said:

"Xiang Bubu found the Zerg queen's location. She wants to run away."

"..."

Su Xiao quickened his pace. After entering the entrance of the Zerg nest, he arrived in a passage about 5 meters high and covered in mucus. On the inside of the passage, there was a spiderweb-like structure.

According to the path provided by Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Su Xiao arrived at the deepest part of the Zerg nest. Just as he arrived at the Zerg queen's dwelling, he saw several elite Sting-Poison guarding inside.

Seeing this, Su Xiao exited the passage and issued a mental command for the Demon Beasts to go up. He lit a cigarette and began to wait.

A few minutes later, a carapace leg flew out spiraling. Su Xiao glanced at the carapace leg, extinguished the cigarette butt in his hand, and walked into the Queen's room.

Compared to the Queen's room Zhila made, this one was much smaller, and the environment was much worse. Presumably, not all Zerg queens were as homebody as Zhila, walking a few steps out of the Zerg nest to sunbathe, which counted as an outing. If she left the valley where the base camp was located, that would probably be at the level of an international trip for Zhila.

A girl who seemed to have spider genes sat there. Su Xiao knew that this creature was very different from humans. This should be some kind of adaptive morphological change ability.

Zerg Queen Spider-Girl sat there quietly, looking at Su Xiao with indifferent eyes.

"Boss, how to deal with this one?"

"Capture alive, take back to feed the Zerg nest."

"Human, I can temporarily submit to..."

Spider-Girl spoke in an indifferent tone.

"No need, you're of no use."

While Su Xiao was speaking, he signaled to tie her up and take her back. He didn't think that with his charm attribute, he could make Spider-Girl submit or follow him. The other party saying this was more because she wanted to stabilize the situation and then find an opportunity to escape or retaliate.

Taking her back and throwing her into the Zerg nest to let the nest take her genes was the best choice. This was the law of the Zerg: survival of the fittest.

Spider-Girl tilted her head and looked at Su Xiao, seemingly pondering why this human understood their Zerg's code of conduct.

After some looting, Su Xiao obtained quite a few rough soul stones, as well as 596 units of life ore. After obtaining them, there were about 6,000 points of biological energy.

Su Xiao didn't destroy this Zerg nest. The reason was that there was a life mineral vein underground here. When they had the ability to mine, coming here to mine was a good choice.

Su Xiao had already discovered the difference between Zhila and the native Zerg. The native Zerg, because Zerg units had a certain degree of individual consciousness, naturally made it harder for the Zerg mother to control them.

Conversely, the Zerg of Zhila's group had no self-consciousness at all, making them easier to control.

This led to a situation where even if they produced troops crazily, Zhila could control them with ease.

This situation represented one thing: as long as they had Zerg individuals capable of mining, they could completely cultivate these individuals crazily and then go mine.

Once the number of mining-type Zerg units piled up, the mineral veins that other Zerg queens would take months to empty, they might empty in a day or two.

Afterwards, they had to keep a low profile. Don't cultivate Zerg units like Demon Flame Dragons that easily made enemies collapse, to avoid being besieged by the Zerg nests of other contractors and wild Zerg nest forces.

At the current stage, the most low-profile development method was to only cultivate worker Zerg and Demon Beasts. Demon Beasts would occupy the Zerg nests of other Zerg queens in the front. After occupying them, their own worker Zerg army would go up and start mining. After mining, they would go harm... cough, go visit the next friendly neighbor.

In this way, accumulating biological energy would be much simpler. Once Zhila promoted to the Mother Empress level, their Zerg nest would also promote to Tier 8. By then, various Zerg units would definitely undergo a qualitative change.

Thinking about it this way, the most troublesome problem now was that they didn't have mining-type troops. Su Xiao's gaze turned to Spider-Girl; it all depended on this Zerg mother.

Leaving 400 Demon Beasts to guard this place, Su Xiao took the remaining Demon Beasts, as well as more than 3,000 worker-type Zerg units, "Dig-Walkers," and Zerg Queen Spider-Girl, and returned to the valley base camp.

When the noon sun was at its most poisonous, Su Xiao returned to the valley. He saw Amu sitting in a newly built wooden shed to escape the heat.

Su Xiao issued a mental command, letting the Demon Beasts escort all the Dig-Walkers onto the creep. He activated the creep's decomposition ability and began to decompose these Dig-Walkers.

When the last Dig-Walker melted, the Zerg nest obtained a total of 4,150 points of biological energy. Looking at it this way, the consumption of cultivating mining-type Zerg units wasn't low.

As for why he didn't let Zhila take control of these Dig-Walkers to better exert the value of these Zerg miners, if it were feasible, Su Xiao would have done so long ago. Each Zerg mother and the Zerg individuals of her group had their own mental fluctuation frequencies. If the mental fluctuation frequencies were different, no matter how strong the Zerg mother was, she couldn't control the Zerg individuals of other groups.

The Zerg nest cracked open, and Demon Beasts sent the life ore looted this time into it. 1 unit of life ore could probably be converted into 10 points of biological energy.

A total of 596 units of life ore were put into the Zerg nest crack. As these green-colored ores clattered and collided, the Zerg nest crack closed. A moment later, the biological energy stored in the Zerg nest stopped increasing, and the storage reached 10,168 points.

With a biological energy income of over ten thousand points from one trip out, Su Xiao had confidence in subsequent development. Although Zhila's group was strong, the resource consumption was also too fierce.

While Su Xiao was pondering, Zhila rarely came to the entrance to observe Spider-Girl.

"Zhila, do you want to devour her?"

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Baja tentatively spoke.

"I don't eat spiders, she's poisonous."

While Zhila was speaking, she was eating the fries Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang gave her. Compared to the poisonous Spider-Girl, Zhila was clearly more fond of fries.

"The Zerg nest can't get her genetic fragments?"

Su Xiao frowned while speaking. If this were true, the plan just now would be in vain.

"Can't devour, she and I are not the same species. I am a Zhixing Zerg, she is... I don't know what she is."

Zhila popped open a cola with a puchi sound and drank it gulp by gulp. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang gave Zhila everything to eat, and this Zerg girl was raised more and more off-track. Other people's Zerg girls were cold and queen-like, while her own was a super homebody who read comics, ate junk food, and drank fat-boy happy water when not in wartime.

"Although you can't devour her, you can use her as a plug-in, plugged into the Zerg nest's genome library area."

Hearing Zhila's words, Su Xiao's brows furrowed deeper, and he asked: "Plug-in, temporarily borrow genes?"

"No, it's to replicate genes. After replicating, I can get them forever, no need to worry about the plug-in breaking."

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak, signaling Amu and Baja to cooperate with Zhila to send the plug-in queen Spider-Girl to the designated location.

Zhila led the way in front. Su Xiao walked in the main passage of the Zerg nest, went up to the second floor, and after arriving at a corner, a prison composed of biological tissue appeared in his eyes.

Seeming to worry that there would be other "guests" in the future, Zhila raised her hand, and several more prison cells composed of biological tissue appeared.

The prison door opened by itself. After Amu threw Spider-Girl in, this counted as completing the installation of the plug-in, without needing to shove Spider-Girl into the wall.

According to Zhila, the more of this kind of plug-in, the better. The more worker-type Zerg genes the Zerg nest collected, the stronger the worker-type Zerg unit template combined would be.

Zhila chose "Zerg Unit: Worker Scorpion" as the initial template. With the endurance and form of the Worker Scorpion, it was very suitable for mining or carrying. In terms of medium-to-long-range transportation, it was to manufacture "Spore Tanks." Su Xiao had used this Zerg unit to transport supplies quite a few times before.

Su Xiao exited the Zerg nest and arrived at the wooden shed, sitting cross-legged on the bed. This wooden shed only had a roof to shade from the sun, and there were four wooden pillars around it, with an open view. On the bed base built of logs below, several animal skins were spread.

Time passed in waiting. Su Xiao didn't go out hunting again. Right now, there was still a "Zerg nest with mines" waiting to be mined. Without mining-type troops, conquering too many "Zerg nests with mines" was instead a burden.

At 3:30 in the afternoon, Su Xiao received a prompt.

【Prompt: The Zerg nest has unlocked the advanced Zerg unit: Elite Worker Scorpion.】

Elite Worker Scorpion (Tier 5 worker-type race)

Endurance: ★★★★★

Digging: ★★★★

Mining: ★★★★★

【Because the life tier of the Elite Worker Scorpion has been greatly improved, you can choose one of the following characteristics for it.】

1. Digging speed increased by 35%.

2. Endurance increased by a medium margin.

3. Mining efficiency increased by 20%.

Su Xiao didn't consider it and directly chose "Mining efficiency increased by 20%."

The cultivation cost of an Elite Worker Scorpion was 0.5 points each. The current Elite Worker Scorpion wasn't a particularly strong mining-type Zerg unit, so the cost naturally wouldn't be too high. However, as the Worker Scorpion's mining ability gradually improved, its cultivation price would definitely rise with the tide.

Su Xiao left 168 points of biological energy, and the other 10,000 points were all used to cultivate Elite Worker Scorpions.

Cultivating Elite Worker Scorpions was much simpler than cultivating Demon Beasts. Before long, the first batch of Worker Scorpions crawled out of the Zerg nest. They had six short, thick carapace legs, and the pincer structure used for digging was peculiar.

The most eye-catching were the three long tails of the Worker Scorpion. These three long tails were cylindrical, sacrificing combat ability in exchange for flexibility and strength. The tips were shaped like pickaxes, one end could be used for digging, and the other end looked like a hammer.

The three round tails of the Worker Scorpion were all different. One was used for drilling, one for chiseling, and the last one was used for collecting. The bone structure at the end of the long tail could be unfolded, just like a mechanical hand.

Biological evolution was just like this. After reaching a high tier, it was very incredible.

There were more and more Elite Worker Scorpions on the surrounding creep. Su Xiao again spent 2 points of biological energy each to cultivate 30 Spore Tanks. This quantity was enough in the beginning.

The prototype of the mining army was gradually perfected. 1,000 Demon Beasts served as guards, 20,000 Elite Worker Bees were the main force, and 30 Spore Tanks were responsible for transporting the life ore mined from the mine back in batches. With Demon Beasts escorting along the way, the risk wasn't high.

After forming this scale, subsequent things were much simpler. The biological energy obtained was all used to cultivate Elite Worker Bees, thereby improving the mining speed. When the number of Worker Scorpions reached hundreds of thousands, or even the million level, it was possible that they would arrive at the mine in the morning and the mine would be emptied in the afternoon.

Development was on the right track, but Su Xiao didn't notice that a mechanical eye was floating in the sky, watching the Zerg nest below.

15 kilometers away from the base camp Zerg nest, beside a Tier 3 Zerg nest, Morey, Moon Apostle, and Hao Mei were all looking at the screen in Morey's hand. On it was a scene of Demon Beasts and tens of thousands of worker bees. That 80-plus-meter-high Zerg nest was conservatively estimated to be a Tier 7 Zerg nest.

After Morey, Moon Apostle, and Hao Mei developed the Zerg, they could be said to have fully exerted their own advantages. In order to prevent the worker Zerg from mining not fast enough, the three of them and their summoned creatures all went into the field.

Not long after entering this world this time, the three of them cultivated the Zerg nest to Tier 3. At most tomorrow, they could reach Tier 5. No matter how you looked at it, this was a result worth being proud of.

Originally, the three of Morey were in a very good mood, as if they had already seen the scene of thousands of Zerg swarming up after an order was issued. But this morning, they discovered that a neighbor 20 kilometers away had been wiped out. Following the clues, they saw the scene before them.

"This isn't real."

Moon Apostle seemed unable to accept reality.

"I've been robbed by this guy."

Hao Mei's expression was indignant. Not only had she been robbed, but she had also been used as a blood-drawing girl.

"Revenge!"

Morey suddenly "stood up."

"Yes, revenge! Once we develop, we'll rob him too."

Moon Apostle deeply agreed. One of her lifelong dark histories was being caught -> released -> caught again in the Painting World.

The tones of the three of Morey were exceptionally firm, but looking at the Tier 7 Zerg nest on the screen and Su Xiao's close-up, Morey, Moon Apostle, and Hao Mei gradually put on pain masks and felt that the Zerg development on the opposite side was probably a bit fast. ===== CHAPTER 3485 =====