Chapter 8: Meat! Beetle meat!
When the pool was filled with liquid methane mixture, the two teams of the expedition finally arrived at their destination, and the hive seeds took root in the chosen location, and only half a month was needed to wait for the two sub-hives to grow, the same size as the current main hive.
The functions of the three hives are basically the same, but there are more primary and secondary points, the main hive will be allocated more resources, and the corresponding hatching units will be more, but the extra resources are not one plus two equals three.
Since the first big hunt, there has been a non-stop methane rain, and after filling a pool of mixed solution, there is no sign of clearing.
Titan is such a fucking moon, and the harsh environment can make the creatures on it desperate.
"It looks like we'll have to wait, and we can't light a fire in this weather."
Since fire and heat are effective against beetles, Yukikaze doesn't plan to let these go, and it is best to lure out the hidden female worm if she doesn't know when it will pose a threat, and she also wants to get some rare genes to add new units to the swarm!
A brand new unit dedicated to these small beetles.
Without the company of Gouyi, Xuefeng could only sit at the mouth of the insect hive and watch the rain, and the methane rain fell to the ground, and then converged into the nearby methane lake, filling up the lake that had steamed a lot again.
It's not that Xuefeng is afraid of rain, her current physique, let alone a cold, all diseases that humans think can't appear on her.
It's just that I don't like the feeling of getting wet, and if the outer carapace is filled with methane between the skin and the skin, it will make the skin sensitive to the snow wind feel very uncomfortable.
This skin is modeled after a female human, and there are twice as many nerves under the skin as a man, so that Xuefeng, who is used to being a man, is very uncomfortable, so he will hide from the rain in the hive.
It should be said that Yukikaze, who used to be a human, doesn't like to be drenched in the rain outside.
In addition to eating and sleeping, Xue Feng sat in the cavity and watched the rain for seven days, during which the hive added two more teams of integrated insect swarms.
The entire swarm now has a total of four integrated squads in the main nest, except for the two squads of the expedition.
Nothing to do when the snow is windy and rainy, it doesn't mean that the other zergs don't work, the original two squads hunted without sleep, and the result was that the two new squads were added.
Now that the rain has stopped, Titan has just hidden in the back of Saturn, which means that the daytime that lasted for half a month is now beginning to go into darkness, and the duration of the night is also half a month.
"Start planning! One to two teams went hunting, three teams and four teams stayed behind, remembering that there was no need to erase the blood stains this time. ”
It's been a few days since Titan entered the night, and the heat on the surface continues to drop.
Xue Feng estimated that the current surface temperature was enough for those beetles to crawl out of the lake without worrying about the danger of high temperature explosions.
The first and second squads hunted very quickly, and dozens of lizards were transported, two of them alive.
The combat power and habits of the lizard are gradually mastered by the insect swarm, and it is becoming easier and easier to deal with it, and things like catching alive can also be done, easily.
"Let's bleed!"
As Xuefeng's order was given, the puppy's paws pierced into the lizard's body, and each lizard was pressed by four puppies by the edge of the pool, and the huge force of the puppies made the lizard even weaker in its dying struggle.
Their blood slowly flowed into the pool, diluted by the mixed liquid inside, and the blood floated in it like a flower, looking strangely beautiful.
Slowly, the lizards could no longer struggle, and the weakness after excessive blood loss began to appear, but as they were dying, a look of fear appeared in their eyes, and they also became agitated.
"It's coming!"
Such a manifestation is not a fear of death, but a fear of what you will see before certain deaths.
Large patches of black began to appear on the horizon, and there was a rustling sound, it was a huge black beetle marching, and they were coming this way.
With Xuefeng's orders one by one, the entire insect hive suddenly became busy, and a large number of tentacles with hard carapaces suddenly pierced the ground, densely forming a circle around the insect hive, and the top closed to form a semicircle like a cover, protecting the fragile insect hive inside.
Then a tentacle suddenly pulled up from the middle of the pool, and with the tip of the lizard, the dying lizard by the lake was held high in the middle of the pool like a skewer.
These lizards are bait, and it is necessary to let the endless stream of black beetles enter the trap that Yukikaze has built for them.
These beetles don't have eyes, they don't have brains to think big, and their simple behavior is to look for food.
Even with such an obvious trap, they didn't think about anything other than the food in front of them, and they didn't hesitate to step into the pool built by Yukikaze.
"Ignition!"
Seeing that countless insects began to climb, they were climbing up the tentacles in the center of the pool that towered like pillars, and these tentacles were exposed in some small holes outside the pool water, spewing out hot flames.
The flames ignited at once, liquid methane mixed with oxygen, and the fire began to burn in the pool.
These beetles that climbed the tentacle pillar exploded in the high temperature, and the beetles that had entered the lake and did not feel the temperature continued to climb the pillar.
Sent to death in batches, the fire in the pool has spread, and countless beetles crawling towards the mixing pool have also begun to burst open.
These beetles were indeed as Yukikaze had predicted, and their intelligence was so low that they were sent to death one after another.
This time there was no such thing, like the last time, the beetles worked together to extinguish the fire, and I don't know if the mother worm was asleep, or if she couldn't sense the situation here, and all the insects poured to the edge of the pool to die.
Eventually, the pool was filled with beetle corpses, and a circle of insect corpses grew higher and higher, even blocking the flames that were burning inside.
I don't know how many times the mixed liquid in the pool has been burned dry, and every time it is about to be burned, Yukikaze will order the hole in the tentacle to open and fill the pool with the mixed liquid again.
Let this fire burn endlessly, the air is full of burning exhaust fumes, but it has no effect on the body of the Zerg of Snow Wind.
The fire burned for three days, and the smoke could be seen even in the other two nests.
The fire was still burning, but the bugs were getting fewer and fewer, standing on top of the hive protected by carapace tentacles, taking advantage of the sight of the high-altitude host.
The original endless black wave on the ground began to shrink little by little, a circle with a diameter of two hundred meters, these insects were finally about to be burned out, and Xue Feng looked at the embankment of insect corpses piled high. The heart is on fire.
"How much protein can you get from this bunch of things?"
She's already starting to figure out what she's going to do with this pile of protein, and whether she's going to keep burning bugs like this in the future.
This harvest, even if it shields most of the feelings of the snow wind, I feel a little excited.
But just as this was about to end, the burning pool of mixed liquid suddenly exploded!
A large amount of liquid was spilled out, and it was ignited by Mars, and the entire black circle with a diameter of one hundred and fifty meters suddenly turned into a sea of fire.
Such a sudden situation made Xue Feng a little confused.
The entire area is now obscured by thick black smoke, so that the host's usual vision makes it impossible to see what is going on inside.
In the next second, the tentacle wall that protected the entire insect hive suddenly made a loud noise that shook the sky, and those incomparably hard carapaces even showed clear cracks.
Outside...... What's going on?