In a vast underground space under the distant Barrier Mountains, dark purple fungus blankets cover the surrounding mountain walls.
In the middle of this huge space, a large number of egg-shaped cocoons are arranged in a certain order. These cocoons range from large to small. The large ones have a diameter of more than a hundred meters, while the small ones are only as big as a wine glass.
Without exception, they are beating slowly, just like a heart beating regularly.
There is also a smaller cocoon suspended in the air at the top of the largest cocoon. This cocoon is almost as big as an adult. Countless small meridian-like things spread out from the cocoon and pierce into the giant cocoon below.
.
From time to time, some green luminous substance is transferred from the inside of the giant cocoon along the small meridians into the smaller cocoon. Every time such a thing is input, the smaller cocoon will pulsate violently.
There was silence all around. Outside a wide passage not far away, over a closed valley that was also covered with dark purple fungi, countless cocoons floating in the air completely covered the entire valley.
They pulsed slowly with the same rhythm, and traces of lavender mist slowly floated upward from some giant cocoons in the valley below. The whole scene looked extremely hazy and strange. If an ordinary person accidentally broke in at this time,
, I’m afraid I might be frightened to death directly.
This scene has been going on for almost half a month, and it seems like it will continue forever.
Suddenly, in the huge space under the mountains, a bright purple light glowed from the inside of the small cocoon floating above the largest giant cocoon, and the pulsing speed of the entire cocoon suddenly accelerated dozens of times.
At the same time, dense spider web-like cracks quickly spread on the outer shell of this small cocoon, with traces of purple mist leaking out from the cracks.
The beating speed of the small cocoon is still accelerating, like a heart that is beating too fast and is about to break!
After a few minutes, the fine cracks on the small cocoon had completely wrapped the entire cocoon, and the purple haze in the cracks quickly became richer.
After more than ten seconds passed, the shell of the cocoon suddenly expanded to the limit, and then exploded with a crisp "bang" sound.
A naked human figure emerged from the purple mist. The faint light mist quickly shrank inward, and was all sucked into the body by the human figure.
The face of the figure in the purple mist appeared, it was Xue Hua who had disappeared for half a month!
At this moment, Xue Hua's eyes were closed tightly, and his short black hair was slowly fluttering in the air.
His whole body seemed to be soaked in a pool of invisible liquid, surrounded by almost solidified spiritual energy.
After a while, Xue Hua, who was floating in the air, suddenly opened his closed eyes, and a sharp purple light suddenly shot out of his eyes like a ray.
Circles of purple ripples appeared in the pupils of his eyes, and a terrifying torrent of psychic energy radiated out in all directions with him as the center.
Xue Hua's eyes first flashed with confusion, as if he had just woken up from a deep sleep.
But then, he quickly regained awareness of his surroundings and realized that he was wearing nothing...
"Fuck!"
This guy let out a strange scream, covered his lower body with an awkward expression, and was drifting in the torrent of psychic energy...
"Nima! Fortunately, no one saw it, otherwise I would have suffered a huge loss..."
He quickly took out the equipment and clothes from the inventory, put them on, and controlled the torrent of spiritual energy around his body as if controlling his own body to slowly send him down.
At this moment, all the large and small cocoons below him began to pulsate at the same time, and exploded as he landed.
These cocoons are filled with various buildings from the previous insect nests, and those cocoons the size of wine glasses are all larvae in the hatchery.
In the mind of the main hive, the originally unusually quiet and empty scene was immediately broken, and the roars of countless Zerg units resounded through Xue Hua's spiritual sea.
"The familiar feeling... is not bad~"
Hearing this movement, Xue Hua curled his lips and a comfortable smile appeared on his face.
"Abathur, are you awake? Report the changes when you wake up!"
He turned back and glanced at the various insect swarm buildings that were completely different from before, as well as the larvae with a pair of wing elytra behind them, and the cheerful smile on his lips suddenly widened even more.
"The upgrade of the insect nest has been completed. All upgrade goals have been achieved. The current status of the insect swarm is: good.
Change report creating..."
Abathur's voice sounded in the main hive mind, followed by greetings from the other three commanders.
The change report was quickly handed over to the main hive mind. Through this report, Xue Hua could clearly see the overall evolutionary results of the insect swarm from bottom to top.
The first thing to be changed is the creep of the insect swarm. Not only does the current creep expand faster than before, but when there are insect swarm units fighting on the creep, the reinforcement they receive is much greater than before.
The most important change comes from a new ability added to the creep. Now, after the creep spreads to a certain range, it can form some creep glands with a limited life of about three days. These glands can be carried by the insect swarm.
, and sow it to other surfaces not covered by carpet when necessary.
These carpet glands will spread out a temporary carpet with a diameter of about ten meters in all directions the moment they are sown. This temporary carpet can be solidified by the carpet tumors hatched by the insect mother.
After creep, there are also new changes to the larvae in the hatchery. These larvae can now hatch Zerg units in a shorter time, and the cocoons they form are more difficult to destroy.
A pair of small elytra appeared on their backs, which allowed these larvae to fly in mid-air near the hatchery.
The biggest use of this evolution is that the maximum number of larvae reserves in the hatchery has almost tripled, and if there are multiple hatcheries on the same carpet, this effect will be increased by 50%.
In addition to the two basic units of the swarm, the zerg buildings have now all been improved.
The tertiary bases of hatchery, nest and main nest are now more efficient, they can convert more minerals collected by worker bees into resources, and now when the hatchery is attacked, these biological buildings can also
Important parts of the body move underground to avoid enemy attacks.
To put it simply, the current hatchery can burrow into the ground like other Zerg units when attacked. Although it is still unable to move after burrowing into the ground, for some enemies who cannot attack underground units, this move is tantamount to
A very good life-saving move.
Moreover, the hatchery can still produce larvae even after drilling underground, but the production efficiency will become lower.
In addition to the hatchery, other buildings in the swarm have also been changed to varying degrees, and these changes will directly affect the zerg units corresponding to their functions.
There is now an upgrade related to springtails (stress self-healing) in the split pool. This upgrade can further strengthen the nutrient synthesis system of springtails.
When this upgrade is developed, the springtails will have a new internal hormone reserve system, which will automatically activate when the springtails are fatally injured, giving the springtails a very powerful self-healing ability in a short period of time.
The self-healing ability can usually directly bring springtails back from serious injuries, allowing them to regain considerable combat effectiveness.
It should be noted that this self-healing system has a reserve limit, and each springtail can only activate this self-healing ability once every three days.