"Master, what should we do now?" Zagara led the swarm of insects to surround the castle tightly, but for the moment he didn't know what to do.
After Xue Hua roughly knew what was in the castle, he banned Zagara from sending swarms in again to explore.
That's just giving away people's heads.
"Isa, Abathur, come out and come up with an idea. I can't leave this place like this. I'm not worried." There is strength in numbers, so Xue Hua decided to use collective wisdom to solve the problem.
"The insect swarm unit is evolving and is at a critical moment. It cannot be interrupted, otherwise all previous efforts will be wasted." Abathur's unwavering voice sounded in the mind of the main hive.
"Okay, then you should focus on your mission first." Xue Hua nodded and asked Abathur to continue his evolutionary experiments.
"Master, I have detected something unusual in the psychic readings of this building. Its underground part seems to be much larger than the above-ground part, and there are more active psychic networks operating in the underground part. Those psychic networks seem to be
We are supplying energy to a powerful psychic unit to prevent it from exhaustion."
Isa submitted a psychic detection report to the main hive mind. The report showed that there are pipe-like psychic networks underneath the abandoned castle. These psychic networks have been providing energy to the castle. These small energy sources
Part of it is absorbed by the psychic matrix of the castle itself that maintains the shielding effect.
Most are picked up by an active psionic unit.
The specific situation of this unit cannot be determined, but it is known that it is constantly depleting while receiving supplies. The psychic energy provided by these psychic nets allows it to maintain this balanced state-neither increasing nor decreasing.
"Okay, I probably know what's going on..." Xue Hua looked at the description in the report and roughly understood why a monster with a level of up to 60 appeared here.
This should be a clone.
The clones of monsters, like the original ones, cannot come to the first world because there is not a large amount of spiritual energy required to maintain their overly powerful power.
If the monsters' true form forcibly descends to the first world, they will quickly decline in a short period of time. Finally, they will be counterattacked by the will of the world and be forcibly sent back to hell, or they will be defeated and imprisoned by humans.
The level dropped to level 60, reaching the critical point of being forcibly expelled by the will of the world.
So this can't be the real person.
"Isa, can we cut off these psychic networks?" After understanding what was going on, Xue Hua knew how to deal with this guy.
The clone will quickly deplete without sufficient spiritual energy supply, but in the end, it will not be expelled by the will of the world, but will degenerate into a projection and remain.
As long as these psychic channels can be cut off, this guy's level will continue to decrease until it reaches the level of the monster in Rogge's camp area.
And when that time comes, it will degenerate into a pitiful projection.
"I'm afraid not, Master. These psychic nets look like pipes, but they actually exist invisible. Unless we can build a permanent psychic barrier, even the suppressive spores of the toadstools can't.
Completely cut off these psychic channels that can change the transmission location at any time." Isa's explanation rejected the simplest solution, which made Xue Hua a little annoyed.
"Then what should we do? I can't ignore the existence of such a terrifying thing in my backyard." Xue Hua frowned, looking at Castle with a painful expression on his face.
"In response to this matter, Isa has two solutions for the master to choose. Option one is to send a large number of insect swarm troops to forcibly attack the building, forcing the high-psionic unit to continuously consume psychic energy to fight against the insect swarm. The transmission volume of these psychic energy pipes
It is limited, and it is impossible for it to maintain its maximum psychic level in battle. When its psychic level drops to a certain level, the insect swarm will kill it."
"The losses from this plan will probably not be small..." Xue Hua twitched the corner of his mouth.
"It is estimated that the loss will reach 1500-2000 Zerg units." Isa's cold voice was without any emotion.
"...Isn't this loss too great?" Xue Hua wailed, unable to accept such a heavy unit loss.
Although the swarm now has a real base and stable resource income, it can't be so wasteful?
"The terrain inside the building is narrow, which is not conducive to the spread of the insect swarm, and the opponent may hide in the underground fortifications of the building, making it difficult for the insect swarm to exert its numerical advantage."
"Can't we just destroy this castle and then dig three feet into the ground to dig out that guy?"
"This building is both the opponent's shelter and the opponent's prison. If we directly destroy the building, the situation will be completely out of control. Since we cannot destroy the psychic transmission pipeline, it will only give the opponent a chance to move freely. By then
, the loss of the insect swarm will be difficult to estimate.”
"Okay, I understand, what is option two?" Xue Hua sighed dejectedly and asked Isa.
"Option two, our monitoring king insects can monitor the direction of psychic energy pipelines. They found that these pipelines draw psychic energy from unknown places outside the valley. Based on the observation of the king insects and the map you gave, we verified each other and confirmed
Psychic energy comes from an area on the map called the 'Black Wasteland'. You can go to this area and use the guidance of the king insect to destroy the source of the psionic network, and the high psionic targets in the building will weaken on their own."
"Black wasteland?!" After hearing this, Xue Hua turned around and looked at each other with the two sisters. The conversation between Xue Hua and Isha was not hidden from them, and they also heard Isha's two plans from the spiritual link.
At this time, the eyes of the two girls were also full of surprise.
"It can't be such a coincidence, right?" Xue Hua said to himself.
"The countess's tower is on the black wasteland?!" Anne and her sister looked at each other, feeling a little strange.
"Forget it, never mind, let's go find out!"
He snorted and finally decided to go to the countess's tower to see what kind of trouble there was.
Even if nothing is gained in the end...
You must know that the Countess produces runes in the game!
He also wanted to try if he could come up with a magical talisman.
So even if this doesn't happen, before he goes to trouble Sister An, he will drop by the tower to see if the countess can give him some good goods.
Now that it is related to the safety of the insect swarm base, it is even more of a responsibility.
So, he called Zagara and asked him to send swarms of insects to guard the castle 24 hours a day, but they were not allowed to enter. If there was any movement, they would report to him immediately.
Then he took the two sisters directly out of the mountain, found the road signs left by their predecessors, and walked towards the underground passage.
If you want to reach the black wasteland, you must first go through the underground passage to the dark forest, and then pass through the dark forest before finally reaching your destination.
This journey is quite long, and the time spent on the road alone will take at least a month or two.
Fortunately, Xue Hua brought a lot of supplies, which was more than enough for even a round trip.
Therefore, they did not return to Rogge Camp for supplies, but planned to go directly to the Dark Forest.
However, at the entrance of the underground passage, they met a team of professionals who were also preparing to go to the dark forest.
The average level of this team is around level 10. The leader is a barbarian, and the other members are an assassin, a paladin, and a shape-shifting druid.
It can be said that the professional composition is quite unbalanced, and there is an extreme lack of long-range attackers.
Seeing Xue Hua alone with two mercenaries, the barbarian captain felt strange for a moment, then said a friendly hello and tried to invite Xue Hua to join their team.
But Xue Hua declined his invitation and showed his level, telling them that he was just here for a visit and had no intention of going to the dark forest.
Although he was a little surprised that Xue Hua, a seventh-level necromancer, dared to lead two mercenaries of the same low level to practice in the stone wilderness alone, the barbarian did not force anything and just reminded the two of them in a friendly way.
After saying a few words, he and his teammates entered the underground passage.
"It seems that the professionals have also recovered and have begun to continue their training." Xue Hua watched the team of professionals disappear at the entrance of the underground passage, then nodded and said.
"Let's wait for a while before going down, otherwise it will be embarrassing if we bump into each other at the bottom..."
The reason why Xue Hua declined their invitation was simple. Without the help of the insect swarm, his own strength was not much different from that of an ordinary level 7 necromancer.
It is not appropriate yet for more people to know the secrets of the insect swarm, especially professionals who do not know the ins and outs.
The two sisters nodded and understood what their master meant, so the three of them waited in front of the underground passage for about half an hour. After the supervisory king insect could no longer see the professional in his field of vision, they entered the passage.