Chapter 4: The Golden Hive

It didn't take long for Zode to meet the second hatched adult, then the third, then the fourth, ....... As Zoder encounters more adults, the fewer eggs he can find: the first thing these adults do after birth is to attack nearby eggs. Most of the eggs that look intact have actually evolved most of the larvae inside. Some sensitive guys can even sense Zuode's malice, and break out of the cocoon in advance, leaving him with nothing.

Zode would often think about what kind of existence this insect, or insect-like species, is. Observing their adults, each one looks strange and bears no resemblance to each other. Moreover, as soon as adults are born, they will instinctively fight and devour each other.

However, they were born in the same place and hatched from the same eggs. Add to that terrifying ability to evolve and the deadly environment around you, and Zod is sure this isn't Earth anymore. Everything here is so weird and evil, maybe only the legendary Hades, hell and the like can live such evil creatures.

As more and more adults hatched, Zode harvested less and less. Unlike Zod, these newborn bugs destroy the walls of the cocoon, kill the larvae inside, and then devour them, not touching the eggs that Zod considers valuable. On the other hand, the number of these crazy bugs is increasing, and they are getting stronger and stronger, and some powerful individuals have reached level 3.

This made him secretly surprised, and a kind of doubt arose: Could it be that the method of finding egg fluid by himself was wrong?

Occasionally, Zode would consider whether he should also learn from these crazy bugs and devour his own kind according to his instincts. But when he thought of the disgusting appearance of those ugly bugs, Zode instinctively resisted this thought. Besides, using egg fluid this method feels safer. And although the larvae are getting harder and harder to find, it's not for nothing, and the speed of Zuode's evolution hasn't slowed down, and he has been upgraded to level 4. Or when you can't find the eggs in the future, in order to survive, you can't say that Zuode will also try the taste of insect meat.

As Zode's hunting increased, Zode discovered a wonderful pattern, that is, the closer to the sea, the faster the evolution of those strange insects, and the further up the mountain, the more unbroken larvae were. Therefore, Zuode, who is chasing the larvae, naturally keeps moving in the direction of the top of the mountain. Due to the ruggedness of the mountain road, Zuode also specially evolved a pair of insect hind legs with super jumping ability.

Somewhere near the top of the mountain, Zode, who had evolved to the size of an egg, could no longer burrow into the tiny crack, but he still tried to keep his body as close to the egg as possible to absorb the energy that would allow him to evolve.

At this moment, there was a chaotic scream from the direction of the top of the mountain, and then, dozens of adults rushed down in panic as if they were being chased by something. Zod immediately stopped his evolution and jumped to the top of a nearby cliff, avoiding the tumultuous swarm.

This is an unprecedented sight, and Zuode has never known that this kind of insect still has such an emotion of fear. Most of these monsters with an intelligence of 1 seem to have never seen anything other than fight and devour, and then evolve and grow. These adults don't even have the behavior of sleeping, courtship, let alone thinking and emotions. Perhaps, it's an instinct? Just like any other animal. At this time, curiosity, a human disease, flinched, and Zode decided to follow the direction of the insect swarm to see what kind of existence could make these evil insects behave so abnormally.

Of course, reason also told Zode that this was a dangerous act. However, considering that these insects did not look like they had been attacked, and that he was confident in his own agility, Zuode persuaded himself to go up and take a look.

Zuode's behavior is extremely agile, with a strong chela blade and explosive hind feet, Zuode moves briskly and quickly between rocks, and in recent times, Zuode has developed the direction of evolution in the direction of agility, considering that he is always facing a large number of crazy insect swarms, it should be a safe evolutionary direction to run if he can't beat it.

Along the way, Zode spotted several scattered swarms of panicked insects, which pointed him in the right direction, so he made it to the place of the incident without incident.

It was a high ground near the top of the mountain, and several huge rocks had been put together to form a huge stone platform the size of five or six football fields, and the stone platform was full of broken insect eggs, rancid cocoon walls, and those insect eggs that were shaking wildly, and new adults were constantly burrowing out of the cocoon walls and fleeing down the mountain in panic.

In the center of the stone platform, there stood a golden insect egg the size of a dozen ordinary insect eggs. No, it should be called a hive. Completely different from those ugly eggs, this dazzling giant hive is more like a glittering gem if you don't look at its roots, and even has large mysterious and intricate patterns on it.

However, at the base of this hive, there are countless slender tentacles growing strangely, and they continue to entangle the unhatched larvae around them and the adults who have not had time to escape, and drag them into the roots of the hive.

It's still a nest of strange insects.

"Such a large insect nest can prey on its own before it hatches! If it hatches, what kind of terrifying monster will appear!"

Reason told Zuode that he should leave here quickly, and it was the right choice to flee here quickly while this terrible hive had not yet fully hatched. However, instinct made Zuode stare at this hive, and a thought shouted, "Look! Such a huge hive is a hive! The guy inside is still a larva, how much egg fluid must be in it! It can make you stronger! You coward, in this strange world, what are you afraid of? How long can you escape!"

Reason and instinct collided wildly, and in the end instinct triumphed. Zuode decided to take a risk, he is not a timid person, the experience of his previous life taught him a truth, the opportunity must not be lost, and the loss will not come again!

Along the steep rock wall, Zuode jumped lightly onto the stone platform, and as soon as he landed, an idea suddenly came to him

"Dangerous! It's dangerous! It's going to kill me, I should stay out of here!"

Almost instantly, his body echoed this sense of fear, and he was about to jump off the stone platform. But he was held back by Zuo Desheng.

"What's wrong with me?" Zode asked himself, "I just decided to take a risk, this is a great opportunity, and when the guy inside comes out, I definitely won't be able to beat it." But why should I run away, where am I going to run away, and when will I have to run away? I have to get the egg juice in it, I feel that it is very important to me!"

Zuo De rushed towards the golden worm nest again, but the thought of warning became bigger and bigger, and that inexplicable sense of fear tugged at Zuo De's body, desperately trying to run behind him.

"Why do I feel fear? I'm sure those tentacles don't pose a threat to me, I have enough ability to kill the larvae inside, why should I be afraid? By the way, this is the special ability of this hive! My idea is right, if the hive has the ability to protect itself, why use such means!" This time reason told Zuode over and over again, forward, don't be afraid, keep going!