There is the most desert in the desert, and naturally there is the most sand.

It has been seven days since he left the Sweetwater Oasis and he has not encountered jumping insects again, although the caravan owner Lei Hammer Copperbeard said on the surface that he was not worried about the attack of the monster, but from his behavior, Zhu Ba could not find his so-called confidence at all.

For seven days, Thunderhammer Copperbeard did not lead the caravan on the Black Road, but followed an early shortcut to cross the central part of the Anook Desert, which is why he filled everyone with water before setting out.

Zhu Ba didn't need to drink water, he just needed to keep his joints smooth, and under the seemingly inexhaustible energy supply of the divine fire, even if he went all the way to the end of the Ainook Desert, it would be no problem.

It was getting dark, and only a shallow gray shadow could be seen when I stretched out my palm, and a thin white mist drifted from the sand dunes in the distance, the temperature left by the daytime sun was still distorting the air on the dunes.

"Jingle bell, jingle bell, poof!"

The crisp camel bell stopped shaking, and then the ringing of the encampment sounded, and everyone began to get busy. Thunderhammer Copperbeard was a little cautious, but he was a good hand at desert travel, and the camping site he found was behind a tall sand dune that could slightly block the cold wind of the desert night, and there was a bush of sour dates growing next to the dune, indicating that the dune had not moved for a long time.

After setting up the tent, a small pot is hung up, and a pot of boiling water is turned into a heart-warming hot soup after adding sausages, fresh meat, and dried mushrooms, so that people can relieve their fatigue after a tiring day.

As usual, Zhu Ba didn't join their conversation, and sat silently alone like a normal machine person, thinking about his thoughts.

Having achieved demigodishness, and the godhead is already being cracked, Zhu Ba now needs to focus on a more long-term direction, where are his believers?

Perhaps Draenor's high-IQ beasts could be considered some of his followers, but to go further down the path of the gods, he must form his own church on the physical plane of the Lord, proclaim his own teachings, and bestow divine magic on the pious.

"Maybe the god of beasts is going in a good direction. Zhu Ba thought so.

In the world of Ferron, all gods are not unique, just like the god of war, there are Anion, the god of war, Tampas, the god of war, Virkor, and so on, but only the strongest can be the patron of the force of war.

In the same way, the priesthood of the beast is not unique to one god, in Zhu Ba's impression there are the god of hunting, Marat, the goddess of unicorns, Nubien, the god of lions, the god of art and reptiles, Vander Wynfospe, the goddess of cats and dances, and the god of dinosaurs, Utao.

The strongest of these gods is the dinosaur god Utao, who is the highest god among all the gods related to beasts, and the other gods are weak except for the god of hunting, Mara, who is weak, and is only slightly stronger than the demigods.

As if he had claimed to be Draenor, Juba wanted to be a true god of beasts and machines, which came from the two faces of his soul, a biologist who fused the soul of a bobcat on the one hand, and a fat man who fused the surname of Edman metal skeleton spirit with the name of the mechanical god Anaxim.

There has never been a god of machines in the world of Faeron, after the battle of the end of Mo, self-aware machine talents officially appeared on this plane, and now in addition to Zhu Ba, who is working in the direction of the god of machines, there is also the blade lord of the Sail region, this powerful demigod machine man is further than Zhu Ba, and has formed the prototype of his own church, although he has not yet been canonized as a god, but he has begun to let his subordinates believe in himself with reverence for God.

"Maybe it's time to prepare your own doctrine. ”

Thinking of the doctrine, Zhu Ba's thinking naturally shifted to the various religions on the earth, but he shook his head slightly and put aside this thought. Applying the teachings of Christianity or Buddhism on Earth is not appropriate for a beast god, and Zhu Ba needs to think more deeply.

"Oooo~"

When the time for the vigil came, everyone except Zhu Ba quickly got into the tent and handed over the task of the vigil to his silent and reliable companions, while Zhu Ba moved from the place where the bonfire could not be lit to the campfire, and continued to think about his own thoughts while wrapping the entire camp with his thoughts.

"Help, help!"

The desert night was so silent that even the slightest hint of wind and grass could be heard, let alone the exerted cries of a human.

There is no external auricle that can be moved, and Zhu Ba said that he is quite unaccustomed. Twisting his neck to turn his gaze in the direction from which the voice came, he stood up and walked into Thunderhammer Copperbeard's tent, dragging the sleeping old dwarf out of his sleeping bag.

"Are you crazy?"

The annoyed old dwarf struggled to break free of Zhu Ba's arm, but the organist's arm didn't move.

"There is a shouting not far away, I will go out to save someone, you keep watch for the night first. ”

After finishing what he was going to say, the expressionless Zhu Ba protruded two pieces of armor from his jaw to cover his mouth, and then strode out of the old dwarf's tent and ran quickly in the direction where the shout came.

The sound can be transmitted far in the desert, and Zhu Ba ran out for three kilometers to find the survivor on a sand dune, obviously the person who shouted loudly had a certain combat ability, and he waved the long sword in his hand quite methodically, blocking a group of about six or seven jumping insects on the periphery of his body.

"Need help?"

Zhu Ba slowly walked out of the dark night and said to the survivors.

The survivor who was bowing his head and brandishing a long sword suddenly heard Zhu Ba's voice, and was frightened and suddenly lost his discipline, letting a jumping insect trick into his side, but he reacted immediately, picked up a kick, and kicked the jumping insect out, at the cost of a shoe being taken away, and then he said eagerly.

"Yes, of course, these damn little monsters have already torn my three camels and two servants apart. ””

With the permission of his master, Zhu Ba was no longer polite, took off his weapon from his back, jumped into the swarm of jumping insects, and the sharp blade storm swept up, instantly destroying a small group of jumping insects.

"Let's go, our camp is not far away, maybe you need a good rest."

Zhu Ba said as he plunged a large knife full of the strange blood of jumping insects into the sand, and it took several times to clean the weapon.

"Thank you very much, my name is Chavez, what about you?"

"Efeld. ”

Zhu Ba turned to lead the way, and the survivor named Chavez followed behind him, and when his lowered head finally lifted up to reveal his true face, the blue tendons and scarlet eyes on his face indicated that he was a parasite infected by the Zerg.

"That's not right!"

Zhu Ba walked briskly in front, and the rescued Chavez followed closely behind, and when he was about to approach the camp, Zhu Ba suddenly realized that something had happened.

The camp was pitch black, and the bonfire that was still burning slightly when Zhu Ba came out had been completely extinguished, and Zhu Ba's keen sonic receiver did not collect even the slightest familiar breathing sound, instead it was replaced by a series of faint and rapid breathing sounds, which Zhu Ba had heard twice, the most recent one was ten minutes ago.

"Zerg!"

The name immediately flashed through Zhu Ba's mind, and he didn't care about Chavez, who was saved behind him, and he rushed down the sand dunes quickly.

With Zhu Ba's charge, the jumping insects that were originally in ambush in the camp immediately jumped out and surrounded Zhu Ba.

"Copperbeard, Marcos, Rose, Jasmine, Rose, Cromy!"

Zhu Ba continuously called the names of his companions, and in response to Zhu Ba was the huge claws of the alienation of the jumping insects. However, just like the first time, these biological weapons that can tear ordinary people to pieces have no effect on Zhu Ba at all, as if chopping melons and vegetables, Zhu Ba killed all the jumping insects that surrounded him.

After carefully searching the camp, Zhu Ba did not find any clues, as if the bronze whiskers had put on their wings and flew away. "Chavez!"

When Zhu Ba remembered that he had saved another person, the parasite who had been rescued had already disappeared without a trace.

Where has he gone?

Chavez is now with Zhu Ba's companion who was captured by the Zerg, but he does not appear as a prisoner, but as the commander of the Zerg, in the hollow shell of this king worm. This is the first king worm produced by Kerrigan's hive in this world.

As one of the few units that can fly in the reorganization, the king worm is evolved from a creature with a high intelligence called the Poxi Behemoth, and they play a variety of support roles in the reorganized army, such as a high-level scout, and another example of an order messenger, this time its mission is to transport, transport those humans captured by the Zerg, which also explains why Zhu Ba did not find footprints.

"Chavez, you have done a good job, and the queen will reward you. ”

The nerve fluctuations of the king worm turned into a deep voice in his body and talked to the Zerg parasite Chavez, and from his tone, Chavez clearly found a trace of excitement, and he cautiously probed.

"Thank you, sir, how was the harvest this time?"

"There are three legal professionals of the human race in this harvest, which is enough for three hundred ordinary people. ”

Wang Worm doesn't know how to hide his emotions for the time being, and he doesn't need to hide it, the queen is his highest faith, and all orders from the queen are correct.

Quietly crossing the sky, the king worm flew to the hive with dozens of trophies in his body, the queen's throne located in the body of the storm battleship Helamut, and dozens of ground troops in the same destination as him, but without exception, the ranks of the zerg were mixed with a large number of unconscious humans.

Within the storm battleship Heramuten, Kairigan continued to feel the changes in the battleship's body. Dozens of days have passed since the memories of the world of Faerun have been obtained, and the fungus blanket of the Zerg has spread hundreds of kilometers underground. At the same time, the painstaking digging of the worker bees has dragged Helammut deeper underground in the Anook Desert. The huge sand dunes on the ground, which had been covered with the Storm Battleship, had completely disappeared and turned into a terrifying cloud of quicksand.

Since receiving the first trace of faith, Kerrigan has never reduced her pursuit of this power, although her original power is strong, but it is more from the collective power of the Zerg, and now a passage to make herself immortal is in front of her, which makes him excited.

"With a thousand more people praying, I can gain enough faith in a year to light the fire. Kerrigan thought so, watching with satisfaction as the infected under the throne of the palace busily busied, injecting nerve parasites into one body after another, creating more sources of faith for her. "Your Majesty, the worker bees have found something underground, and we need you to take a look. ”

At the heart of the hive, the neural fluctuations of the brain worm were transmitted to her mind through the ends of Kerrigan's hair connected to her Flesh Throne, and Kerrigan received the image transmitted back from the vision of the worker bees.

At that time, a deep, thick wall-like object, the surface of which took on a hexagonal shape like a beehive, and the worker bees had cleared a huge area, but still did not find the edge of the object.

"Let the worker bees continue to clean up, and I'll be down right away. ”

Kerrigan rose from his throne and stepped onto her mount in the hive, a particularly large worker bee, and headed for the place where the worker bees were working so hard.

It wasn't until he actually came to this wall that Kerrigan realized his enormity. The walls that have been cleared out are close to 100 meters in length, width and height, but they are not the end of it. In order to expose the wall, the worker bees used their secretions to solidify the sand in the space, forming a space similar to the vault of the Dark Realm.

Kerrigan drove his mount to the city wall, which seemed to have been eroded over the years, and the surface had begun to peel off slightly, but the worker bees under Kerrigan spat out their corrosive saliva without causing the slightest damage.

"I didn't expect to have such a thing under me. ”

Kerrigan touched the wall, not as hard as he had imagined, but with a slight hint of flicking, it was neither metal nor rock, as if it were the carapace of some creature.

"Come on, open me, release me, and I'll give you everything you want. ”

Kerrigan caressed the wall obsessively as a voice seduced and guided her in her head. But Kerrigan had already felt such a method, and this was how the previous ruler of the Zerg seduced her as a Terran ghost special forces, and then transformed her into what she is now.

A blade-like psionic energy banished the thought from Kerrigan's mind, turning into an unidentified purple projection on the wall, and Kerrigan stared at it, a smile curling into his plump lips.

"You can talk less nonsense, I let you out, what benefit do you give me?"

The unidentified projection didn't expect Kerrigan to have such an ability, and suddenly lost his voice, and his part of the tentacles waved wildly for a moment, and then he let out a thought.

"What about eternal life?" "I have found the path to immortality, and I don't need your blessing. “

Kerrigan did not hesitate to refuse the other party's offer, and what others gave was not her own after all, which was very evident in Kerrigan's career, and it was for this reason that she finally betrayed the Zerg master and killed him, becoming the ruler of the Zerg herself.

The unidentified shadow fell silent again, this time for a very long time, and just as Kerrigan thought he was gone, the shadow on the wall suddenly creeped again, and a slightly tired thought came out again. "I see, I already feel your uneasiness and the threat of the gods, let me out, and I will help you defend against the threat of the gods. “

This time, his proposal hits Kerrigan right in the underbelly. The powerful presence with thick walls seems to have wielded some special abilities to understand Kerrigan's worries and threats to the fullest. And Kerrigan, who knew his situation very well, immediately agreed without hesitation, and then asked. "Deal, how am I going to let you out. ？”

The shadow on the wall shifted slightly, stopping in the middle of a hexagonal wall, which was noticeably darker than the hexagons on the other walls, and even the touch was devoid of the slight flick of a creature. "All it takes is a blow of enough power, and in this position, I can come out. ”

Kerrigan stretched out his hard cuticle arm, gestured in the middle of the hexagon, and then swung his fist at the wall in anticipation of the unknown shadow.

But, just a centimeter from the wall, Kerrigan's fist stopped.

"I want to forget something, by the way, please swear to the River Styx. ”

Styx Oath, this is the message that Kerrigan got from the minds of the captured human law professionals, although most of these law professionals captured by the Zerg are low-level mages, low-level priests and the like, but it does not prevent them from possessing certain knowledge beyond the scope of their use.

There are many rumors about the Styx Oath, but most of them clearly point out that the Styx Oath is an oath that is extremely binding on super creatures such as gods and demon lords, and although Kerrigan does not know what the creature behind the walls is, it may be useful for this kind of monster that can forcibly put his mind into the mind of a strong man like the Queen of Blades.

The existence behind the wall was silent for the third time, much longer than the previous two silences combined, and Kerrigan did not lose patience, she knew that the strong man who was separated from him by the wall was thinking, weighing, comparing gains and losses.

Time passed little by little, and after hours, an oath was issued from behind the walls in a strange language, which, although Kerrigan did not understand, did not prevent her from knowing the contents of the oath. "I, the god of the Felin Demon Sunflower, Cthun, swear to the River Styx that after being freed from the shackles of the wall of beetles, I will protect her from the gods until she becomes a god. ”

Kerrigan listened carefully to the oath, and when it ended, her iron fist slammed into the wall of beetles. (To be continued.) )