Chapter 21: Hive Branching
After the bodies of these three people were completely burned, Lin Han returned to Lin Ying and sat down again. Suddenly, the two fell silent.
"Brother...... You killed someone......" After a long time, it was Lin Ying who broke the silence.
"Well, yes." Lin Han replied without a trace of emotion.
After a simple conversation, the two fell silent again. In the end, it was Lin Han who couldn't hold back and asked Lin Ying again:
"Don't you have anything else to say?"
Lin Ying was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile:
"I know what you're worried about, brother. Don't worry, I'm not as fragile as you think, anyway, I've seen a lot of things with you in the past few days, and I can still hold up on this scene. Even though it's the first time I've seen you kill someone, I'm still a little uncomfortable. But like you said, if I want to survive, sooner or later I'm going to have to face this alone. In that case, I might as well start adapting to it now. ”
Hearing this, the corners of Lin Han's mouth couldn't help but show a smile of relief. Yes, Lin Ying can't live under her own shelter forever, and the sooner she can adapt to such an environment, it would be better.
"That's right, it seems that I'm too worried about being a brother. Xiaoying, you are now able to take charge on your own, keep up the good work, I believe we will be able to survive in the last days! ”
"Uh-huh! By the way, brother, give me a little more food, I haven't eaten enough just now! ”
Hearing this, Lin Han smiled and took out some of the food from the space ring and gave it to Lin Ying.
"Hmmm! This voice is ......" Lin Han, who had been sitting next to him to rest, suddenly changed his expression, and muttered very quietly, "Xiao Ying, have you heard any sounds around here?" ”
Lin Ying's mental power and perception are very strong, in order to make sure that he heard correctly, Lin Han asked Lin Ying to feel the sounds around her.
"What's the sound...... Wait a minute! There are voices coming from around here, but it's a bit far, at least a thousand kilometers away...... And the sound sounds choppy, like, like ......"
"It's gunshots!" After getting Lin Ying's confirmation, the two of them said the word buried in their hearts in unison!
"Brother, is there an army fighting there?"
"It should be, this place has left the city center of Jingtong City, and the strength of the permanent garrison in Jingtong City should not even be able to break through the outer part of the city."
But what really made Lin Han curious was, who is the target of this army? The gunfire has been going on for more than ten minutes now. And looking at this posture, this squad definitely has a scale of hundreds of people, and it will definitely not take so long to fight with ordinary zombies, either the army will annihilate the zombies, or the army will be wiped out by the zombies, and the stalemate between the two sides is almost impossible to appear in the early days of the apocalypse.
Because the zombies in the early days of the apocalypse have no wisdom at all, their method of attacking humans is nothing more than relying on their strong physique and overwhelming numbers to engage in hand-to-hand combat through close quarters. So if it's a head-to-head encounter, you should be able to decide the winner within a few minutes. But it's a bit unusual to have lasted so long now!
"Let's go! Something is wrong with this army, let's go over and see! Due to the long distance, Lin Han couldn't detect the specific situation there, so he decided to take Lin Ying to see it in person.
Although there may be unknown dangers there, curiosity prompts him to investigate. And he is also extremely confident in his own strength, even if he encounters danger at that time, he is confident to retreat with Lin Ying.
The distance of a few kilometers is not far for Lin Ying, who already has second-order strength, and Lin Han, who is at the peak of the third order, if it weren't for Lin Han and Lin Ying, Lin Han would still be able to walk faster.
A few minutes later, Lin Han and Lin Ying came to the vicinity of their destination, and it should be seen from the road signs on the road before that this should be a square for entertainment. However, when they saw what was in front of them, they were both stunned.
Somehow, a large red semi-ellipsoid appeared in the square that should have been empty in front of it, and it was buckled upside down on the ground like a pot lid, occupying almost the entire area of the square.
The surface of the sphere was covered with cracks and many protrusions like blood-colored tumors, and the surface was still creeping regularly as if it were alive, and there was a hole four or five meters high in the front of it, which could be seen from the outside and hollow inside. The whole thing looked like a mess of rotten meat, and even if Lin Han and Lin Ying were still some distance away from this disgusting thing, they could still smell a rancid smell.
Next to this giant thing were shocking pools of red and blue blood and corpses that had been corroded to the point of being shaped! It is no longer possible to tell whether these corpses are living or zombie corpses.
It is no exaggeration to say that the surroundings of this giant land are simply a living purgatory Shura field!
It was in such a hellish place that a well-armed squad of 100 men was pouring bullets from their guns. According to Lin Han's observations, there were actually a few evolutionaries in this team! The targets that were hit were all too familiar to Lin Han, and even Lin Ying learned a lot of information about them in Lin Han's usual chats - Zerg! This is a foreign race that has a very bad relationship with Lin Han!
It was because of a king-level fire-eating insect king that Lin Han was reborn until now, saving the regrets of his life. And the first alien race he encountered in this life was also a Zerg burrowing centipede. His relationship with the Zerg can be said to be very delicate.
But in essence, the Zerg are Lin Han's enemies, and this will not change no matter what!
At this time, there are dozens of Zerg fighting against this human army here, and there are already many corpses of Zerg Bug soldiers on the ground. Most of them were basically killed by bullets, and some of them seemed to have died in hand-to-hand combat, and the preliminary judgment should have been done by the evolutionaries in the squad, and it can be seen that there are definitely evolutionaries who have evolved in combat ability.
In the course of the confrontation, the insect soldiers crawled out of the ball of meat in the square one after another to join the battle, which also increased the pressure on the human side, and casualties in the army had already begun. Many people died under the hard carapace weapons of the insect soldiers, and almost every human soldier's corpse was missing arms and legs, and the scene was extremely bloody!
The Zerg are different from the current zombies, they have a certain amount of intelligence, and they have a strong obedience, and they will not rush forward with a single tendon. Under the command of some high-level zergs, they can even use simple tactics and stratagems, which can be said to be very difficult.
However, it is precisely because of this that although this team in Jingtong City has suffered casualties, it has been able to deal with them until now. These evolutionaries can also be said to have contributed a lot, and without the help of evolutionaries, the casualties of this team may be even greater! Maybe before Lin Han and the others arrived, they would collapse early due to heavy casualties.
But for now, in the face of the continuous replenishment of Zerg's troops, the chances of the human side winning are slim!
"Brother, what the hell is this disgusting thing? There are so many bugs in there. Lin Ying just glanced at the meat ball a few times and said very disgustedly.
"If I'm guessing correctly, this is supposed to be a hive branch under the mother's hive. Although I don't know how bad it is compared to the mother hive, it is definitely not something that they can clean up! ”
In his previous life, when Lin Han returned to Jingtong City to find Lin Ying's traces, he also encountered this kind of hive branch. A hive branch is guarded by at least a few hundred insect soldiers, including two particularly powerful guards. According to the calculation of time, these two guards should have reached the level of at least second-order lifeforms, and their actual combat strength should have almost reached the third-order. After all, the second order is the limit of what the female nest can send out.
But this hive branch is very important to the mother worm, and each hive branch has a special kind of zerg called the Blood Refining Worm. They have almost no combat power, and their only use is that they can extract a blood spirit spar from their flesh and blood that is rich in strengthening the strength of their physical body, which is a great tonic that can only be used by third-order peak powerhouses whose strength has reached the fourth order or is about to evolve to the fourth order!
The third order to the fourth order is a big hurdle, because once it enters the fourth order, the life form will undergo a qualitative change, and it can absorb the radiation in the universe to refine the body, and in later generations, these cosmic radiation that can refine the body is called the power of the star spirit. And if you want to become a king, the source energy, spiritual power, and star spirit power in a life body must meet certain standards.
And the only measure of the power of the star spirit in later generations is the strength of refining one's physical body into the body of the starry sky with the power of the star spirit. Once a person's physical body reaches the level of a starry sky body, they can even enter the vacuum environment of the universe with the power of their physical body alone!
Lin Han had reached this realm in his previous life, but his spiritual power was really too indisputable, even if the source energy and physical body had reached the standard of becoming a king, and even the strength of the starry sky body he had condensed had surpassed the strength of an ordinary king-level, but there was still a very powerful gap between him and the true king-level, which was already the essential gap of the life form! Evolvers who have reached the king level can be said to have been out of the realm of human beings, after all, they are existences that can survive in the vacuum of the universe!
And the Blood Spirit Crystal is of great help in tempering the physical body, and can even help humans cultivate the body of the starry sky. However, the production method of the Blood Spirit Crystal is too inhuman, and it needs to be accumulated with a large number of evolutionary lifeforms, and it can only be refined if it has a special refining ability similar to that of the Blood Refining Worm. Therefore, the blood spirit spars used in the cultivation of later generations are pitifully few, they are all snatched from the hands of foreign races, and human beings will not and do not have the ability to make blood spirit spars.
At this stage, the insect mother urgently needs the blood spirit spar, which has a huge flesh and blood power, to restore its own strength, the blood spirit spar is a treasure for it now, and it will definitely not send some miscellaneous soldiers to guard the hive branch that produces the blood spirit spar!
Lin Han could imagine that even if this army could successfully eliminate the first-order zergs on the periphery of the hive branches, or even some weaker second-order zergs. But if the two guards in the depths of the hive branch were alarmed, even if there were a few evolutionaries in this team, there would be no chance of resistance at all under the opponent's infinitely close to the third-order strong strength!
Not to mention that they may not even be able to clean up these zergs in front of them now! This can be seen from their increasing casualties and the steady stream of Zerg soldiers pressing on them behind them.
"Let's go! We're going to meet the zergs and help them clean them up. Otherwise, they won't last long! After speaking, Lin Han took Lin Ying and swept towards the center of the square.
Of course, Lin Han didn't suddenly have a great kindness, although it didn't take much effort for him to save this army, but it would also take some time, and now time was very precious to him. And if he kills such a large hive branch, the mother will notice his presence. Once the worm mother wakes up from her slumber, if she doesn't have the strength to match it, she will not be far from death!
The reason why he would help was mainly because he fell in love with the insect crystals in the bodies of these zergs, and the most important thing was the two insect crystals that guarded the bodies. Once those two insect crystals are in hand, Lin Ying's evolution to the second order is definitely a matter of the nail board!
If he was lucky, Lin Han would also be able to get a Blood Spirit Spar from the Blood Refining Worm inside! This is also the only thing that will help him improve his strength at the moment, and it is a big supplement! A few more can even make his physical strength reach the standard of a fourth-order lifeform first!
Although there is a possibility of being targeted by the mother worm, the relative gain is also greater. Lin Han won't do something dangerous and unrewarding for no reason!