Chapter 17: Start-up Capital
Thornra held a fist-sized life stone, and for a while she didn't know where to start, the life stone could only be absorbed by the mother, and the hive could not do it for her.
Thornra closed her eyes and pressed the life stone in her hand to her forehead, her brow furrowed, as if something was brewing.
"Absorb!"
The spines pulled the whole body hard, however, nothing happened.
Su Xiao grabbed the life stone, exerted force in his hand, and crushed the life stone with a click, he originally wanted to test whether there was a special absorption method for the next spiny pull, after all, he didn't know much about the life stone, if the creature in it was lost, it would be a big loss.
The fist-sized life stone shattered in Su Xiao's hand, and there was no bioenergy overflow.
Seeing this, Thornra began to eat the life stones one by one, a large piece of the fist, and she only ate about a third, and the biological energy of the hive was full.
Yesterday, it was still a stage of the mother's spiny pull, and the next afternoon it was eligible to be promoted to the third stage and reach the level of the 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 equivalent to about 10,000 points of bioenergy.
According to the images transmitted by Bu Buwang, the Mother Emperor of the Fourth-Stage Zerg had at least hundreds of life stones of this purity.
This kind of efficiency is faster than robbing other hives, but this kind of thing can't be done often, there are three four-stage hives, and this time it's good luck to know the location of one of them.
As for the other two fourth-stage hives, God knows where they are, this continent is quite vast, maybe even if he knows the location, it will take a few days or even longer for Bubuwang to steal it, not counting the time it takes to find the other two four-stage hives.
This time, Bu Bu Wang went to steal the Life Stone, and it was almost exposed, and the Zerg Mother Emperor had already noticed Bu Bu Wang, if it wasn't for Bu Bu Wang's ability to integrate into the environment strong enough, it would have been surrounded by overwhelming insect nests.
Moreover, the Zerg Mother Emperor would soon find that there were 11 Life Stones missing, which was the result of her accumulation for an unknown amount of time, and once she found out that they were stolen, the consequences could be imagined.
Su Xiao got a large amount of 'start-up capital', which can greatly reduce the development time of the hive.
As for how to obtain bioenergy in the future, the risk of stealing from the fourth-stage hive is too high, and looting the hive of the same level is the wisest thing to do.
The Zerg to which Thornra belongs has an advantage that other Zerg does not have, that is, she does not need to accumulate basic Zerg troops, which can save a lot of biological energy.
The so-called basic Zerg troops, that is, mantises, spore tanks and other non-combative Zerg, if a Zerg develops normally, these basic Zerg and non-offensive Zerg buildings are indispensable, which will occupy two-thirds of the hive's bioenergy expenditure, and the remaining one-third of the biological energy is used to cultivate combat Zerg.
The reason for this situation is that the three-stage insect hive already has a strong ability to explode, and it is not too late to cultivate combat Zerg after the war, you know, Zerg creatures are not perpetual motion machines, they need a long time to replenish biological energy.
Among them, the combat Zerg consumes the most biological energy, which is several times that of the basic Zerg troops, and if a large number of combat Zerg are cultivated, it won't take long for their daily consumption to drag down a three-stage worm nest.
Only the mother emperor of the Zerg will breed a large number of combat Zerg to avoid the attack of the totem tribe, and even take the initiative to attack the totem tribe, so as to ensure that the territory is not encroached upon.
Thornra is different, she has only one purpose for development, and that is to breed a large number of combat Zerg, and nothing else is considered.
Because of this, the Thorn Ra will have extremely amazing combat power in the Zerg at the same stage, she will not develop slowly, and the only way to obtain biological energy in the future is to grab it.
Inside the spacious hive, Acandra is wrapped in biological tissue, and white nerve fibers are linked to her, and she is trying to evolve to the third stage and become the queen of the Zerg.
Outside the hive, Su Xiao is looking at a holographic map, this map is provided by Beni, this beautiful meow is looking for the core of the world all over the world, before Beni leaves, Su Xiao asked Beni to map the location he has arrived, so that he can understand the situation of this world.
At this point, the virtual map is already large, but most of the area is blank, but this is enough.
Beni marked the locations of the Sun Tribe (Fire), the Hazaro Tribe (Predator), and the Frog Tribe (Poison).
Su Xiao is the closest to the Sun Tribe, the Sun Tribe's territory is the widest, the center of the territory is the main tribe, and there are branch tribes in the surrounding area, the scale is about the same as a small country, and the population base can also be imagined.
Compared to the territorial differentiation of these totemic tribes, the hundreds of hives marked by Beni were more valuable, and Beni was initially unable to clearly determine the stages of these hives, so she marked how many meters high these hives were.
According to Su Xiao's judgment, within the surrounding 800,000 square kilometers, there are 39 first-stage worm nests, 89 second-stage worm nests, and 15 third-stage worm nests.
It seems like a lot, but in fact, these hives are very sparse, 800,000 square kilometers is equivalent to the area of two medium-sized provinces and cities, and if modernized, it is enough for tens of millions of people to live.
With such a vast area, the hundreds of insect hives in the branch are already few, after all, there is a sun tribe near this area, of course, this is the number of insect nests that Su Xiao knows, and there may be many more that Beni did not find.
Su Xiao has no shortage of biological energy for the time being, eleven high-purity life stones are about 110,000 biological energy, and what he lacks now is the Zerg class.
Even if Thornra is successfully promoted to the third stage, it is not clear what genetic memory she will awaken, among which there will definitely be a three-stage combat Zerg, but even if it is a battle Zerg of the same level, there are strong and weak, if she is unlucky, Thornra may awaken a combat Zerg with average combat power.
If that happens, it is obvious that you can't force the explosion of troops, otherwise the pay and return will not be equal, and a lot of biological energy will be wasted.
In order for the hive to obtain new Zerg troops, one is to awaken the genetic memory through Thorn La, and the other is to exchange or purchase the specified type of 'legacy individual' from other Zerg mothers or with life stones.
The so-called 'Legacy Individual', which is simply analogous, is equivalent to a skill scroll in the Reincarnation Paradise, where the spiny hive will obtain the genetic memory of the 'Legacy Individual' after devouring the Legacy Individual, thus having the ability to breed new fighting Zerg.
As for where to get the 'Legacy Individual', it is obviously impossible to grab it, the birth of this thing is demanding, and it can only be obtained by trading with other Zerg mothers.
After thinking for a moment, Su Xiao opened the war channel, he had to know one thing first, that is, among the three-stage battle zergs, which ones had strong combat power, as well as their respective advantages and disadvantages, it was the fastest choice to buy information from their own contractors.
At this time, the War Channel is very deserted, after all, there is a limit to the number of speeches, unless it is a representative figure of your own side like Twilight, you can post unlimited text messages in the War Channel.
White Night (Daybreak Adventure Party): "Purchase the information of the Zerg class in the third to fourth stages (you need to indicate the location of the hive you belong to), and if the information is complete enough, you will be rewarded with [Soul Crystallization (Complete) ×1].
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Su Xiao made a lot of money, and there were a total of 11 soul crystals (complete) in his storage space. If you want a large number of fifth-order contractors to help him run errands and scout, then you need to come up with a reward that is more eye-catching.
As for developing the worm nest with other contractors in the Reincarnation Paradise, Su Xiao had considered it before, but quickly rejected this plan, the development speed of doing so is indeed fast, but the human heart is a thing that can be calmed down by not sharing tribulations, besides, the Reincarnation Paradise is full of all kinds of crazy people, and some extremely crazy guys have very strange thinking, they may not care about whether they will die in the war world, but care more about whether something is interesting.
As soon as Su Xiao sent a message in the war channel, he got a reply.
Musketeers (Symbiosis Alliance): "Sign the contract? If yes, for the last three days, I've focused on this matter. ”
Witch (Phantom Brigade): "The information, I sent it to you, Mr. White Night, the whole soul, I really want it, if you are satisfied, remember to pay~"
Death Knell (Sanren): ", the lunatic of the brigade." ”
Twilight (head of the Symbiosis Alliance): "The information has been sent, pay for it." ”
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