Chapter XVII: Transitional Chapter
Mo Lan sat on the back of the transport insect, and Xiao Jiang stood next to him, looking a little like the king of the royal conquest sitting on the frame of the royal car, and the tentacle insects and spider insects were lined up on both sides, which was even more like escorting the soldiers.
In fact, it's not wrong to think about it this way, Mo Lan is indeed preparing to go deep into the forest to fight well, expanding the number of her Zerg is inevitable, and the queen of the Zerg who only has a dozen or twenty Zerg under her hands is too cold no matter what.
For this reason, Mo Lan even hatched an extra transport worm, which followed behind, carrying two hatching nests on his back, fully prepared for fighting all the way and exploding troops all the way.
The actual appearance of the transport insects is somewhat like a buttoned bowl, with a body length of more than five meters, a circle of dozens of pairs of feet under the soles of the feet, and huge tentacles flying around on both sides.
In addition to carrying its prey on its back, the transporter can also open its large body several meters tall and place important things inside the body to protect it, and its hard shell is enough to withstand most of the damage caused by attacks.
Mo Lan can even transform the inside of the transport insect into a small room, but there is no need, as soon as she thinks that it is actually a place equivalent to her abdomen, Mo Lan has no idea about entering one thing.
The Kahur trees grow tall, and the distance between them is large enough, so that the behemoth of the transport insect can walk freely in it, after all, the six-eyed bear Hapa, which is more than four meters tall, is the permanent resident of this forest, and they can move freely, and they will not be embarrassed by the zerg under Mo Lan's hand, which is smaller than the six-eyed bear.
In order to avoid startling the snake, Mo Lan did not use his mental power to investigate, but just ordered the Zerg to move straight in one direction, and on the way, no matter what creatures he encountered, he would kill and eat them.
So there is such a scene in the forest, there are several or a dozen tentacle insects in front of them quietly swooping out, tearing apart those creatures that are either resting or vigilant, the corpses scattered with blood are brought to the rear, the hatching nests as pale as eggs are swallowed all, and the new tentacle insects at the other end tear the egg bag, fall to the ground with a body full of transparent mucus, and slowly chase into the team in front of them, mixed in a certain sortie, and wash off the mucus on their bodies with blood.
There were many tentacle insects that died at the hands of powerful prey, but Mo Lan didn't even feel the slightest distress, and indifferently watched as those hatching nests devoured the corpses without distinguishing between the enemy and me, and hatched more zergs.
Originally, the humus membrane and the hatching nest were two separate organs, but Mo Lan was troublesome, so he fused them together, and now the hatching nest has its own digestive function, but it is larger in size.
This is really an excessively boring trip, the blood is soaked in the whole road that the Zerg has walked, like a red carpet paved in the forest, the sky is dark and bright, Mo Lan waved his hand and stopped the pace of the Zerg moving forward.
"Are you going back? I've analyzed several gene ratios, and you can try them later. There seemed to be no sympathy in Shiqi's emotions, it ignored the fact that so many lives were lost under the claws of the Zerg, and instead recorded the genes they left in the belly of the Zerg, exploring the right proportion of the new Zerg for Mo Lan.
Or maybe it's because those beings are not human.
"It should be enough." It's only been more than forty days, Mo Lan looked at the hundreds of Zerg next to him, and sighed faintly, "If you don't go back, you may not be able to raise it." ”
The Zerg are not able to act without eating or drinking, and one piece of energy is only enough for one tentacle insect to consume for three days, in other words, these hundreds of tentacle insects need to consume hundreds of energy a day, and they have to hunt more than 20 six-eyed bears a day.
There are also the ten transport insects behind him and the hatching nest above, which also consumes more than ten parts of energy a day.
"The family is big, the business is big, and the expenses are also big." Mo Lan sighed, in fact, the reason why she chose to stop was that she found that the current tentacle insects entered this depth, and it was a little difficult to hunt, and it usually took several sacrifices to capture a huge beast similar to a tiger, but the energy obtained was not much.
In other words, Mo Lan is stuck, her attack power is not enough, and she can't get through.
If you continue to fight hard, the gains will outweigh the losses, and when the harvest is about to equal the pay, Mo Lan knows that her move forward this time will probably end here.
It's not a pity, the planet Tannon is a planet several times larger than the earth, and this huge forest called Yegu occupies one-fifth of the entire planet's area, Yegu Forest is not a perfect circle, it is roughly the shape of a crescent moon, Mo Lan began to land on one of the corners of the crescent moon, and now goes deep into the forest, traveling for more than forty days in a row, in the end, it may be one-thousandth of the length of the entire forest.
Of course, Mo Lan's destination is the center of the forest, and this distance should be half a half, a distance of one in five hundred.
This forest didn't make her desperate, but it filled her with anticipation, after all, there was only one big enough stage for her to accumulate strength to catch up with other Zerg queens.
Xiao Jiang basically didn't make a move, just like it only used to operate those complicated machines on the Zerg starship, and by Mo Lan's side, it only needed to act as a guard who didn't need to make a move.
Most of the first dozen tentacle insects have died, and the reason why I say most of them is because Mo Lan found that there is still one tentacle insect alive, and it has persevered from the first battle to the present, and the scars and mutilations of its limbs make it look as pitiful as a beggar under the background of the Zerg next to it.
But in fact, it stands proudly in front of the other Zerg, and no Zerg dares to stand side by side with it, and under its scent, other Zerg will even show instinctive panic.
Humans have generals, and so do the Zerg.
Even if it is the same Zerg, there will be differences in subtleties, some Zerg are better at finding prey, some Zerg are better at fighting, some Worker Worms can fight, and Soldier Worms can also mine.
It's just that compared to humans who can freely express their thoughts and consciousness, the zerg don't have so much self to express, and they will only show their differences from countless behaviors, just like the proudly independent tentacle worm.
"Your name is Jiangjia." Mo Lan gave it a name, even if it didn't understand what it meant.
The nearest hatching nest opened the mouth of the nest, but it was just a consciousness transmission, and Jiang A obeyed the orders in his consciousness without hesitation, and walked in, and the hatching nest slowly closed.
The hatching nest can reconvert the Zerg into energy to hatch new Zerg, and it can also use the energy stored in it to heal the injured Zerg.
The Zerg's generals are actually very rare, because of the lack of fear of death, so every expedition of the Zerg is a bet on life and death, and those who can survive countless wars are really rare, because they are fearless of death, it is easier to touch death.
It didn't take long for Jiang Jia to tear the hatching membrane with the old scars of a scar, and in a posture that was stronger and healthier than other tentacle insects, and walked out.
The hatching nest can transform other races into zergs, and it can also repair and heal the original zerg, and even strengthen this zerg, but most of the time, Mo Lan doesn't need this function.
Rather than treating a dying Zerg, it is better to directly convert it into energy and hatch new Zerg out, but it is obviously worth it, in countless battles, it has obtained an indescribable metamorphosis, and this has become the biggest difference between it and other Zerg, and it has also been treated differently by Mo Lan.
Jiang Jia became the second Zerg to stand beside Mo Lan.
Mo Lan considered the route of the return trip, it was absolutely impossible to return the same way, she took hundreds of Zerg all the way over, and all the energy gained, except for daily consumption, was all used to hatch new Zerg, without any reservations, otherwise how could she support the team of hundreds of Zerg.
The route she came to had been killed all the way through, leaving no living creatures behind, and returning the same way at this time was to make it clear that she wanted her hundreds of Zerg to starve.
She didn't want a dozen Zerg to come out, and finally raised a few hundred, because there was not enough food and they killed each other, so there were only a dozen of them back - without food, she could only sacrifice some Zerg to feed the others.
"Let's go this way." The way back was bound to take a big circle, and Mo Lan knew that one side was close to the mine, and he was worried about going around and going around the forest again, exposing himself to humans and causing unnecessary trouble, so he chose the other side after thinking for a while.
Walking back, the difficulty of hunting was lowered again, and he returned to the field that tentacle insects were good at, and there was no longer any extra sacrifice, Mo Lan felt that the number of Zerg at this time was enough for the time being, so he did not hatch new Zerg, and accumulated all the excess energy to experiment and hatch new Zerg species.
It took longer to detour back than the straight line she had taken, and it was night after night before Mo Lan returned to her cave covered with cobwebs, and this sentence was not an exaggeration.
A few spider insects that were left to guard the house were obviously very dedicated, and a thick layer of spider webs covered the cave tightly, and no one could get in, Mo Lan, who was already half a spider, didn't feel at home when he saw this, and even wanted to rebuild a few spider insects.
And she did.
The new spider insect is even smaller in size, but the belly is twice as large, which is very exaggerated, this spider insect has no combat effectiveness, and the toxicity is average, the only advantage is that the spider silk spit out is quite tough - this is the Zerg gene that best meets the requirements of Mo Lan to make clothes after being calculated by Shi Qi.
Not all Zerg are hatched with the goal of fighting, such as the current Zerg Empress, doesn't she also raise a group of Zerg with human genes to control the Zerg starship, and it is normal for Mo Lan to try to get some daily bugs.
Until Mo Lan suddenly found out that she couldn't spin and weave......
She needs "players" now!