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Chapter 1426 1423. Dragons are also reptiles, so there is nothing wrong with classifying them as insects, my friend
"What? The result from the questionnaire for newbies is 'very easy'? No way! I see they have already lost two-thirds of their members, and you still say it's easy? Are all newbies nowadays monsters?"

In the headquarters of the Locust Wall Defense Line, Murphy's eyes widened when he saw the results of the questionnaire submitted by Ms. Rose. He complained:

"This must be the rookies who logged off early. Although I didn't go to the front line of Abyss City, I still know what the situation is like there. If it weren't for the veteran players at the front and Maxim and the Holy Blood Legion supporting them, the newbies alone would not be able to break through the first level."

"This is on the Internet! How fresh."

Tracey, who was sorting out the spell materials nearby, complained:

"Even if they were killed by bugs in one encounter, even if they didn't survive more than ten minutes in the first battle, even if their personal kill count was zero, it wouldn't affect their evaluation of 'nothing special'. After all, no matter what you lose, you can't lose face.

But I think these guys might be about to suffer the consequences soon.
If Mark found dragon bones in one layer of the insect nest, then there is a high probability that the insect nests on the lower layers are already hatching dragon insect species.

Judging from the evolutionary routes of insects collected so far, the hive may incubate all available combat branches at once, and then conduct survival of the fittest in battle.

There is no doubt that the dragon's genes strengthen the Zerg. Just the thicker and more resistant chitinous shell and the sharper dragon claws and breath ability are enough to amaze the players.

Not to mention those giant species that are likely to appear. Even if they are only one-third the size of a dragon, they can definitely kill people in the terrain of Abyss City. So in order to ensure that the Holy Blood Corps does not suffer too many casualties, I think you should go there in person?
Or maybe transfer some power armor knights over there?"

"To speed up the swarm's combat specialization?"

Murphy pouted and said:
“No, no, just let the players fight!
The bugs have almost collected all of their fighting styles. Facing old opponents, it is impossible for them to extract more combat gene specializations. At this extreme, the fewer times the power armor knights are dispatched, the better.

Although I can't imagine what kind of specialization the bugs will use to deal with power armor knights, this kind of key information is always leaked as late as possible.

Moreover, even if the giant dragon worm really appears, it will need to go through a selection period. After the Gray Expedition begins, Lao Qin will also need more combat information before arranging the defense of the giant wall.

It's not just the Swarm that's looking for intelligence on us, we're also gathering intelligence on them.

Abyss City is a good battlefield, so I won’t join in the fun.

However, the ‘landless king’.”

He stretched out his hand and projected the psychic image of the Landless King that Maxim had sent back earlier. Tris caressed the little dragon Lorraine, who was drowsy after drinking enough blood, in her arms. She carefully distinguished the psychic image that Murphy had opened.

After a moment, she shook her head and said:
“Not Lord Hadland!

There is no similarity in either appearance or aura, but if we consider that Lord Hadland had been completely destroyed in the collapse of the Brass Fortress, it is not surprising that such a 'makeover' occurred if divine power intervened to reshape his body.

I heard that he has forgotten the past? "

"Yes, Mark talked to him. King Wudi has no memories of the past in his mind, and he himself doesn't seem to care much."

Murphy said:
"Mark told me that he felt that King Wudi was more like a fanatic or the most fanatical madman than a leader. Although he did not have the blessing from Mother Goddess Gaia, he had dedicated his existence and everything to her.

That guy doesn't care about power, life or death, or even the future.

His only purpose in bringing the Brass Exiles here was to find a new home for the Brass Dwarves and to dedicate everything to their Mother Goddess in this battle. That guy even had an undisguised tendency to self-destruct.

It seemed as if his only purpose in coming to the world was to serve the gods.
I guess the Mother Goddess must be watching here. The performance of the Bronze Exiles in the upcoming Abyss City Defense Battle will directly determine whether the Mother Goddess is willing to accept them again.

To be honest, this job is difficult.

After all, they were the ones who betrayed the Mother Goddess first, indulged in the illusion of wealth and helped another god to be born. If I were the Mother Goddess, I would have immediately sent down world-destroying fire and thunder to vent my anger. "

"Murphy, that's between believers and God, we shouldn't interfere."

Tris shook her head and said:
“What’s more, Mother Goddess Gaia has decided not to use the method of faith to ascend to godhood.

After the astral realm is revived, she will definitely take back the artificial godhood from you and return to the constraints of the frontier contract, and follow Old Aotou's path step by step. Mundane beliefs are no longer useful to her, and her only destination is to reinforce the giant astral realm.

Therefore, as to whether the Bronze Dwarf can return to the embrace of the Mother Goddess, all we can do is give our blessings.

As for King Wudi, the fact that he was portrayed like this indicates his ending. Perhaps it was his own choice. We should not waste our time on a fanatic who is destined to die in his faith.

Let’s talk about the God that is most closely related to us.

Chixuan Tianzun, Midnight Twins, when do you plan to help them complete the ascension ceremony?"

"Vampire civilization is incomplete without mad blood, Tris."

Murphy rubbed Trish's head, helped her tie her hair behind her ears, then bit his wife's smooth and charming face and said:
"Of course, it will be after we have dealt with the Mad Blood Clan. When we have enough source blood to create more members of our clan, and when we have completed the reshaping of the slate of vampire civilization, the Midnight Twins will be able to cross the boundary between humans and gods.

As for whether they will use artificial godhood in the future or follow the path of Lao Aotou, it depends on their choice.

Before that, let's first think about how to help Rose solve the problem of the shadow elves, provided that the shadow elves in the Eternal Rift can really hold out against the ratmen and insects until we get past.

Ok?
Shani sent back the message!
As expected of our number one vampire assassin, she filmed the birth of the first dragon worm. Damn it! This thing is so ugly. This already ugly world has one more ugly thing. "

"Murphy, you should learn to speak in a tone that is more in line with your status. For example, in this sentence, you should say, 'Well, this world is filthy again.'"

"Stop it! I don't need to tell you what will happen to the person who said that. It's too unlucky."
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In the main insect nest on the fourth layer of the abyss, in the hatchery covered with green fungal carpet, some strange-looking insect eggs were placed in the center of the fungal carpet.

Like transparent eggs, they emit strange vibrations from time to time, and at the edge of this "pure" fungal carpet, there is a steady stream of industrious worker insects throwing the most fertile biomass into it.

Compared with the elite bugs in the surrounding hatcheries that use the remains of goat men as biomass for hatching, the treatment here is like a VIP suite, not to mention the soldier bugs further out that can only use a variety of messy and inferior biomass for hatching.

Compared to these unique eggs, ordinary soldier bugs are just muck dogs that grew up eating garbage.

But the problem is that the Zerg is a very realistic and cruel race.

The combat effectiveness of the new insects bred by consuming so many resources would definitely be more exaggerated and stronger than the elite insects that are currently the main force of the attack, and they must be overwhelmingly powerful to be worthy of such generous giving from the nest master insect.

The Swarm is evolving.

In the repeated wars between the locust giant walls that lasted for many days, the insect swarm has gotten rid of its initial weakness, and the soldier insects born in these nests are now much more dangerous than their original form.

Their carapaces are more solid, and the chitinous shells are covered with bone spurs for breaking through and piercing. Their claws are also sharper and more ferocious. Perhaps because they have absorbed the powerful psychic talents of the goat men, the claws of the elite soldier insects are equipped with more dangerous psychic wave blades, and the best among the elite insects have even learned to actively use psychic powers to strengthen themselves.

New abilities such as stealth, shield, blast slash, and rapid flash are constantly being discovered and assimilated.

Unfortunately, no matter how they evolve, they cannot get rid of the shackles of organic matter. When facing the flamethrower, even the toughest insects will be burned to death in the flames. For this reason, the hive has begun to evolve towards psychic testing. Perhaps soon there will be insects that are immune to flames.

But being immune to fire alone won't win this war!

Especially when facing the damn "Big Bomb" Transians, no matter how hard the nest master worm tried, its worms always returned empty-handed again and again.

The enemy's firepower seemed endless, and no matter how they evolved, they could not scare the Transian warriors. More importantly, because the players were disconnected when they died, the bugs could not obtain their genes and analyze their weaknesses.

The collection of fighting styles alone is not enough to complete the rapid evolution of iterations.

Therefore, if the nest masters could speak, they would definitely scold the foreigners from Transia as a bunch of shameless hangers-on!
After working so hard to kill them, they are unable to recover even a single bit of biomass. This is the most shameful no-cost deal for the efficiency-oriented insect swarm, and they are the ones who suffer the loss.

But those damn bastards from Transia are the type that can be easily beaten to a pulp, and you have to fight them.

You can try to get around them, but they will come and beat you up, and will even get super excited and call their friends to come and beat you up. They are just like the most hateful bully neighbors. Not only can you not afford to provoke them, you can't even avoid them.

However, the Swarm will not be defeated by any difficulties.

They will only sum up their experience and try more combat specializations after repeated failures. They firmly believe in the power of genes and evolution. For example, now, this batch of unique insect eggs are about to hatch, and they represent the Zerg's truly invincible future.

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"click"

A barely audible sound was heard in the incubator, and the eggs that seemed to be filled with pus burst open.

Among them, the black creature fell on the fungal carpet with a squeak. It did not make noise like a baby, but quickly adapted to the external environment and instinctively lay on the fungal carpet to absorb these rich and nutritious substances with its mouthparts.

As it greedily absorbed the energy, the thing grew larger almost by the minute, until after a few minutes it broke free of its weak posture and began to try to move using its six legs.

It looks round and not intimidating at all.

But that is just a larva. It will molt at least twice in the next few hours before it transforms into an adult.

However, even though it is just a larva, every breath of this little creature will cause hot sparks to burst out in the nostrils and airways of the head. This is obviously its unique ability.

The power to harness dragon fire comes from the dragon's genes.

The eggs exploded one after another, and unique bugs of strange shapes jumped out and fell onto the pure fungal carpet. They all had their own abilities, belonging to completely different combat specializations in the dragon's genes, just like a batch of "experimental products" that the hive had invested "huge amounts of money" to produce.

They will soon be sent to the battlefield to test the most valuable and most suitable combat specializations for large-scale breeding and assimilation by the Zerg through actual combat, and use them as a blueprint for group improvements for the next generation of elite Zerg and soldier Zerg.

Just as these insects were lying on the fungal mat and carrying out their initial devouring, the main insect nest's master insect also quietly came to the outside of the hatchery.

Its body is very huge but not bloated. Its appearance is the humanoid form of an elite insect but it looks more ferocious and domineering. Its compound eyes under the full-covering armor look coldly at the dragon insects in the hatchery.

In the deepest part of those emotionless eyes, strange thoughts were beating.

The nest master knows that after the birth of these dragon insects, the structure of the insect swarm will undergo a major transformation.

From now on, every hive will have an additional being called "Swarm Lord" between the nest master and the elite hive. Only those hives that can breed Swarm Lords will be qualified to be noticed by the Scale Father of Hive Zero.

These Swarm Lords will become ScaleFather's most deadly minions!
Every attack they make, every victory they win, and every plunder they take will help Scale Father be born more smoothly.

He will be born as a "God" that contains the genes and power of all living things in this world, knows the weaknesses of all things and possesses the power of all living things!
Well, the age of the swarm is on its way, and nothing can stop it.

With such complicated thoughts that seemed not to belong to the insect swarm, the nest master swung its huge black and red tail and left here. From beginning to end, it did not notice the "ghost" hiding deep in the hatchery.

Although the Blood Eagle Clan's talents are not suitable for reconnaissance and infiltration, Mrs. Shani is a person who can resist even the strengthening of the Blood of Thorns. Her talent as an assassin cannot be weakened. She stays quietly in the corner of the incubator, staring at the dangerous but weak insects in front of her.

She was waiting for the command to be issued on the "Star Army Combat Interface" in front of her. As long as Murphy sent the order, Shani could kill all these dangerous insects here.

However.
"Don't take risks! Ignore them, withdraw and go underground to inform the Bafolk. Tell them to prepare for the dragon bugs' attack. Our army will soon attack the fourth floor."

"Are you sure?"

Shani responded with a mental interaction:

"These bugs are only weak now. It will be troublesome if we don't kill them now."

"Hey, Shani, you didn't even read the Zerg information I gave you."

Murphy said helplessly:

"The appearance of dragon worms here means that the dragon genes have spread to various insect nests. Killing these larvae will not affect the insect swarm's combat-specific testing and screening in other places.

So leave them to the players as battle bosses. Remember! Your mission is only to be the genetic messenger! When the nest master senses danger, it will definitely send out the messenger full of genetic information of the entire hive. That's when you take action.

Catch it alive!
The more gene messengers you capture, the more powerful the "final decisive weapon" we design against the Zerg will be.

Don't be impulsive, Shani.

You are the most insane knife in our hands, but you have to be stabbed at the right target to kill with blood."

"Roger that!"

Shani responded.

She took a last look at the larvae in the hatchery that were still drinking their fill of nutrients, and disappeared into the nest as silently as she had come.

Maybe one day, these bugs will evolve to the point where they can capture Shani's scent.

But now, this dangerous place is like her own home to Shani. She can come and go as she pleases. As for becoming the most deadly knife in Murphy's hand, Shani does not want to express too much opinion.

Not only because the bloodline cannot judge the elders at will, but also because she seems to have nowhere else to go except Murphy. Considering that her life here is quite pleasant, she doesn't need to think about the future for the time being.

Going with the flow is also a wise attitude towards life.

(End of this chapter)