At about seven o'clock in the evening, the roars of all kinds of wild beasts rise and fall in the forest, and the symphony in the jungle at night changes to the sound of frogs compared to the birdsong during the day.

The hive emits a green glow, which is not too strong, but enough to illuminate the surrounding area.

Two mantis shells ran out from among the trees, their tail hooked blades sinking into the flesh of their prey, dragging them swiftly through the forest.

Bubuwang, Baha, and Eminem are responsible for finding the beast and beating it to half death, after which the transportation is left to the mantis, and while there is a risk of losing the mantis, it is more efficient and worth the risk.

Two mantis armors dragged two beasts weighing at least four tons or more, and this was already the tenth batch.

The mantis used the claw knife in front of him to disassemble the carcass of the beast, took out pieces of fresh meat, and transported them to the vicinity of the insect nest, where the five-meter-high insect nest cracked a huge gap, and the mantis carapace threw the fresh meat into it, and the crack closed.

The hive can be converted into bioenergy after devouring flesh and blood, but the problem now is that the hive does not transform quickly, after all, the height of the hive is only five meters.

The larger the hive, the faster it can devour flesh, and increasing the hive's size requires the consumption of bioenergy.

Su Xiao glanced at the dozens of beast corpses piled up nearby, this was the result of Bubuwang, Eminem, and Baha's efforts for three hours, but the devouring speed of the worm nest was too slow.

Su Xiao checked the information of the hive.

[Hive (to which the spines belong). 】

[Rank: First Order (a total of five levels, this rank is determined according to the power system of the world). 】

[Bioenergy Reserve: 215/2000 points.] 】

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It took three hours of continuous devouring to obtain 215 points of bioenergy, which made Su Xiao frown.

"Acantha."

"Hmm."

The sound of the thorn came from inside the hive, and she was now lying lazily on the biological tissue, the feeling of fullness made her a little drowsy.

Su Xiao gave an order to let Thornra expand the size of the hive, and under the influence of the demon's power, Thornra's loyalty had broken through the 50-point mark, so he immediately began to expand the size of the hive.

The emerald green light surged inside the hive, the meridians on the surface surged, and the entire hive beat and expanded like a heart.

In just half an hour or so, the hive was raised from five meters to eight meters high, and the stored creatures could be consumed, but at this time, the meridians on the hive were much denser and the whole was much stronger.

The four mantis beetles located near the hive immediately grabbed the fresh meat with their tail hooks and threw it into the cracked gap on the hive.

After the height of the insect nest was increased from five meters to eight meters, the efficiency of transforming biological energy was increased by at least three times, and when he found this, Su Xiao gave another order to Thorn La, from now on, the obtained biological energy will be used to increase the volume of the insect nest.

The four mantis armors were busy, and the corpses of the beasts in the nearby clearing were rapidly reduced, as for the discarded bones, furs, etc., they were all buried by the mantis armor in the distance, the zerg looked scary, in fact, they were very clean creatures, this is not a cleanliness fetish, but to avoid the breeding and infection of bacteria, and reduce the risk of evolution.

When there are two beast carcasses left in the clearing, the hive no longer absorbs bioenergy, but instead stores the resulting bioenergy.

At this time, the hive is ten meters high, the surface is dark green, and some places appear shiny hard shells, perhaps after being promoted to the high level, the hive can evolve biological armor to protect itself.

Ten meters high is the limit of the first stage of the worm nest, the speed at which it devours flesh and blood has increased at least ten times, the beasts hunted by the Bubuwang and Baha teams can no longer be used for the devouring of the worm nest, the appetite of this thing is getting bigger and bigger, due to the increase in volume, the flesh and blood that is swallowed at a single time has also increased significantly, and the transformation speed has increased by more than ten times.

After some observation, Su Xiao figured out the law, if the worm nest devours ordinary beasts, 10 biological energy can be obtained per ton of flesh and blood, if it is not for the larger size of the beasts in this world, Su Xiao really can't find so much flesh and blood for the worm nest to devour, but the stronger the beast that is devoured, the more biological energy will be obtained, not all of them are calculated according to tonnage.

It was not until the second half of the night that Bubuwang and Baha returned, and the beasts in the nearby area had been emptied by them, and if they wanted to hunt the beasts, they had to go to a farther area.

Su Xiao checked the information of the hive, and the living energy stored in the hive reached 670/2000 points.

Successfully get through the initial stage, you need to start thinking about the explosion of troops, mantis armor is coolies, they are needed to carry prey, handle prey, and maintain insect nests.

As for the Battle Zerg Stinger, Su Xiao didn't know the ability of this thing for the time being, but one thing was certain, that is, the Stinger definitely had the ability to hunt and eat, and this was probably the hunter in the early stage of the Worm Hive.

Su Xiao ordered Thorn to cultivate 4 Mantis Armor (consumes 48 bioenergy) and 15 Stingers (consumes 600 bioenergy).

As soon as Su Xiaogang ordered, the 'eggification tissue' in the hive began to work, that is, within a few minutes, the eggification tissue successfully cultivated 19 eggs, of which 4 were translucent and 15 were light green.

The mantis in the hive puts 19 eggs into a 'culture sac', and hatching and incubation begin.

The Zerg has a strong explosive ability, but there is a fatal weakness, that is, the lower Zerg has a short lifespan, the mantis is only 1 month long, and the Stinger is better, with 3 months.

In Su Xiao's opinion, this is completely sufficient, the war mission is only one month, and no matter what, the winner can be determined within a month.

Time is precious, so Su Xiao must let the hive develop at the fastest speed, if you want to develop quickly, it is not wise to blindly store biological energy, the more inferior Zerg, the more wild animals you can hunt, and the speed of obtaining biological energy will be doubled.

The first-order insect hive did not disappoint Su Xiao, that is, in five minutes, 19 Zerg crawled out of the 'cultivation sac', and after 4 of them shook off the transparent body fluids on their bodies, they ran outside the insect hive to get busy, and began to complete their mission at birth, which is also a frightening point of the Zerg.

The remaining 15 stingers, all of them standing in place, are larger than mantises, they have four armor legs, a huge abdomen, like a spider with a full carapace, they have no sharp claws and teeth, their mouths are cylindrical, and their backs are like porcupines with sharp spines.

Name: Stinger

Health: 100%

Bioenergy: 5/5

Strength: 47

Dexterity: 56

Stamina: 41

Intelligence: 10

Charisma: The lower Zerg have no charisma attribute.

Skill 1, Bio Poison (Passive, LV.15): The attack comes with 30 points of poison attribute damage, 15% causes paralysis of the biological organism, this toxin effect can be stacked 5 layers, and the paralysis effect will be triggered after 5 stacks (except that the target is immune to this effect).

Skill 2, Thorn Spray (Active, Lv.18): The stinger can transfer the bone spurs on the back to the cylindrical cavity, and accumulate high pressure in the abdominal cavity, so as to eject the bone spurs from the mouth, which can attack enemies 0.5~150 meters away, with a piercing effect.

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Similar to Su Xiao's conjecture, the stinger is indeed a hunter, its melee ability is average, but it is good at concealment and searching.

Su Xiao divided the 15 stingers into five teams, each team of three, and assigned each team a mantis armor to carry the prey.

Whether it's a stinger or a mantis, they are not perpetual motion machines and need to eat as well, but because they are not cultivated with too strong digestive organs, if they eat flesh directly, the energy conversion rate is very low.

However, when they are near the hive, the spiny can help them inject biological energy through the hive, and 1 point of biological energy is enough for them to act for a long time, Su Xiao feels that this way of replenishment is similar to charging.

The Zerg team set off, and after Bubuwang, Baha, and Eminem rested for a while, they also went out to look for prey.

The initial size of the Zerg army is here, and all that needs to be done is to accumulate biological energy and let Thornra move up the ranks.

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