The trip back to the mountain belly insect nest went smoothly. Although the two girls who were traveling on the king insect for the first time were still a little afraid of this big guy who would stuff them into their stomachs, the warm and stable belly bag made them adapt quickly.
Come down.
Due to the battle that just broke out at Rogge Camp, many professionals were injured to varying degrees. They were not ready for the next experience, so there were not many people in the entire stone wilderness.
Therefore, Xue Hua confidently and boldly used the King Insect to travel quickly.
It was the tunnel that Zagara had drilled through the mountain wall before. Xue Hua and his two sisters quickly arrived at the insect nest in the heart of the mountain under the guidance of Zagara.
Although he has been shocked many times by the ability of the insect swarm to expand once it has sufficient resources, Xue Hua is still shocked every time he looks at the development of the base through the eyes of the king insect.
And when he visited the scene in person, this feeling became even stronger.
The insect swarm has completely hollowed out the belly of a huge mountain, so the place is dozens of times larger than when he left. The entire space inside the mountain is filled with fungi and fungus tumors, and dozens of poisonous bugs are growing on the fungus.
Release the bacterial mist, and the entire space becomes hazy with purple mist.
The worker bees are no longer visible. According to Zagara, this is because the edge of the insect nest has begun to extend deeper into the ground.
The worker bees are carrying out prospecting and mining work there. The insect nest here has become the main nest group in the heart of the mountain, and the future third-level base, the main nest, will also be born here.
Even the master Xue Hua was shocked, and the two little girls who saw this scene for the first time were stunned and almost thought they were in a dream.
They stared blankly at the huge Zerg buildings that were pulsating like living creatures and the larvae crawling on the ground. They didn't know how to describe their feelings at all.
Xue Hua once told them that the insect swarm has a huge base hidden in the mountains of the Barrier Mountains.
But in their minds, the concept of "huge" is equivalent to the size of Camp Rogge.
However, at this time, the space they saw was already as big as two Rogge camps, not counting those strange "buildings" (the sisters were highly suspicious of this term).
caves and deeper underground grottos.
The two girls followed Xue Hua in a daze, letting him lead them forward. Everything that appeared in front of them was so bizarre that it was difficult for them to fully accept it for a while.
Xue Hua understood their feelings, and no one could calm down when they suddenly saw something that impacted their three views, so he did not disturb them.
At this time, letting them digest it all on their own is the best way.
"Zagara, where are the human architectural ruins you mentioned?" After visiting the insect nest that had become extremely large, Xue Hua remembered the main purpose of his visit.
"Here, follow me, Lord." Zagara led the way, leading Xue Hua and the two girls who had not yet recovered from their emotions to a slightly bright tunnel.
"Our worker bees were looking for more mineral veins, and they discovered a small closed canyon. When the worker bees dug through the walls of the canyon, they found some building remains made of stone inside. The remains exuded a faint
Psionic energy disturbance, I have followed your order and sent a worker bee to explore the wreckage, but so far, the worker bee has not sent back any valuable information."
Zagara led Xue Hua and others through the tunnel while explaining the current situation to him.
"Can't connect to the view of the worker bee? What's going on?" Xue Hua tried to share the view of the worker bee who was doing the investigation, but there was no response from the main hive mind.
"Although the psychic disturbance in the wreckage is weak, its wavelength is very strange, and it seems to be able to isolate all psychic exploration of its interior." Isa explained in the mind of the main nest.
"Is there still such an operation? But this time is too long, right? Why haven't the worker bees come back yet? Are the ruins big?" Xue Hua led two small mercenaries and climbed up the mountain with the help of Zagara.
At the tunnel exit on the wall, the slightly dazzling skylight woke the two girls up from their trance.
"Hey~ are you awake?" He rubbed the heads of the two girls teasingly, and with the cute and angry expressions of the two girls pouting, he turned around and looked far away in the direction indicated by Zagara.
The location they were in was a small canyon surrounded and enclosed by mountains. It was not big, but had beautiful mountains and clear waters, and was very quiet.
Apart from the chirping of birds and insects, there were no familiar howling sounds from monsters.
This place is obviously a paradise untouched by the forces of hell.
In the middle area of this paradise, Xue Hua saw a tall stone castle-shaped building.
Most parts of the building have collapsed, leaving only a few ruined walls and half-seated towers still looming among the low trees.
Looking from Xue Hua's position, one can also see green ivy crawling along the collapsed columns and broken castle arches covering most of the ruins of the building, rendering the entire castle ruins with a sense of history.
"How come there is a castle in this place? How did the builders get in?" Xue Hua frowned, looked back, squinted his eyes and muttered to himself in confusion.
"Master! Our worker bees have lost contact!" Zagara suddenly hissed, and the jet cavity above his head suddenly opened.
"Indeed!" Xue Hua himself also felt that the worker bee that had received attention had disappeared from the main hive mind.
"Zagara! Gather the swarm! Let's go find out!" He immediately turned his head and ordered to the Mother of the Insect Hive.
Zagara suddenly screamed loudly, and the surrounding mountain walls collapsed. Countless Zerg units poured out of the caves on the mountain wall and gathered in the direction of the castle.
Xue Hua nodded, and a huge king insect descended from a high altitude, stretched out its tentacles, put the three people into its belly bag, and then flew towards the direction where the insect swarm gathered.
At the ruins of the castle, the insect swarm army has completely surrounded the place, everything around it has been leveled, and the entire building ruins are no longer exposed to Xue Hua.
"Master, do you need the swarm to destroy these ruins?" Zagara asked neighing in the mind of the main hive.
"No for now, send your insect mother and let her lead the insect swarm troops to go in and take a look. All other insect swarms will stay outside for the time being."
"Understood, Master." Zagara stretched out its arthropods and pointed, and the insect mother Nakotur walked out from behind it, leading more than a hundred insect swarms into the broken arch of the castle.
Xue Hua, who was on the king insect, opened the observation platform in the abdominal sac so that the two girls could see clearly the exploration activities below.
"Huh? That coat of arms..." Suddenly, sister Anne frowned and focused her gaze on the broken tower inside the castle. There was half a huge coat of arms. On the coat of arms,
The seal is engraved with a rose and the hilt of a long sword. The blade part of the long sword apparently broke off along with the tower.
"What's wrong?" Xue Hua looked at Annie and asked in confusion.
"Hmm... I seem to have seen it somewhere... It seems to be in a certain book..." Annie frowned with some uncertainty.
At this moment, Xue Hua's main hive mind suddenly heard a mix of indistinct neighing and the scream of the insect mother Naktur.
"The Swarm is under attack! The Swarm is under attack! The attackers are very powerful! We suffered heavy casualties!"
"Quickly exit!" Xue Hua hurriedly ordered a retreat.
"It's retreating! But it's going very fast! We're too late! Long live the Lord!" Naktur screamed loudly at the end, and then there was no more life in the main hive mind.
A few minutes later, the psychic mark of the insect mother Naktur and the psychic marks of more than a hundred Zerg units disappeared in the main hive mind.
This is the first mid-level commander Xue Hua has died in battle since he acquired the Zerg.
"Damn it! What the hell is this?!" Xue Hua cursed. This thing actually killed more than a hundred insects in less than ten minutes, with a reasonable mix of troops and an insect swarm commanded by an insect mother?
"Zagara, is there any record of the battle before the Naktur psychic beacon disappeared?" Xue Hua asked Zagara in the main hive mind.
"Only very messy psychic information records were sent back, Master." Zagara's tone sounded very dangerous, and it was obvious that the Hive Mother had been angered.
"What's in it?" Xue Hua frowned. He was not very satisfied with this answer. Psychic information records were equivalent to written records and were useless in most cases, but he still asked.
However, Zagara's answer surprised him.
"Our insect swarm troops were all burned to death. The Overlord is a very powerful flame."
"Even the cockroaches were burned to death? Cockroaches are a unit that is almost immune to fire!" Xue Hua asked in disbelief.
"Yes, Lord." Zagara sent back an affirmative reply.
"Damn it! What's in it? Is there a real demon?" Xue Hua frowned. The barrier mountain range was the back garden he personally selected. How could he feel comfortable that there was such a thing in his own back garden?
determination?
"Ah! I remembered!" Just when Xue Hua was getting a little irritable, Anne suddenly shouted, then pointed at the half of the badge on the castle and shouted to Xue Hua.
"Master! I remembered what this badge represents!"
