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Chapter 24 Battle of the Mother Nest
Having heard Lieutenant Colonel Dundee's detailed account, Fang Senyan and Mogansha suddenly understood why the situation on this entire P-star was so bizarre. Clearly, when humans encountered Zergs, they would mostly fight. However, in the absence of other races, both humans and Zergs appeared to be at odds with each other, fighting their own battles, hoping the other would fall.
Mogansha suddenly said,
"So, all the human bases are built on Pandora's mines?"
Lieutenant Colonel Dundee nodded.
"All the Zerg bases are the same."
Fang Senyan suddenly interjected,
"What do the Zergs need these minerals for?"
Lieutenant Colonel Dundee coughed violently before saying,
"They can only survive and reproduce with the energy inside the minerals. To put it simply, Pandora superconducting crystal ore is like the bread we have to eat every day, while the food Zergs get from hunting is more like salad dressing or cream."
"Wow, so these bugs think we salad dressings can help them find more bread?" Mogansha said.
"No." Lieutenant Colonel Dundee said seriously, "This swarm called Blackthorn is very lucky. They've found their Christmas dinner – a Pandora mine with an incredible amount of reserves. To put it simply, the reserves of this mine alone are one-tenth of the known reserves of this entire P-star, enough for this swarm to mine for ten years while their Overmind is frantically absorbing power to grow and develop the entire tribe. Unfortunately, three nearby swarms sensed the threat and, green with envy, launched an attack on the Blackthorn tribe! In the Zerg world, which advocates the survival of the fittest, this kind of behavior is quite common."
"The outcome of this attack was that although the Blackthorn swarm was once attacked to its core hive and suffered heavy casualties, it relied on the powerful recovery ability brought by a large amount of Pandora energy crystal reserves and continuously hatched new units, dragging down and exhausting the two attacking swarms! And the Overminds of those two swarms were directly plundered and devoured by the Blackthorn tribe's Overmind."
"Overmind?" Mogansha asked curiously, "What's that?"
Lieutenant Colonel Dundee said seriously,
"It's like the queen bee or queen ant in an ant or bee colony. Its ability is completely focused on controlling the development and evolution direction of the entire swarm. It has a very powerful mental ability. Simply put, it's the brain of the entire swarm. And the Blackthorn Mother who hijacked us is in charge of reproduction and some basic functions. Of course, there is only one Overmind in a swarm. If a second one appears, the two Overminds will either devour each other, or the entire swarm will split into two parts."
Fang Senyan pondered the information Lieutenant Colonel Dundee had given him, but then he heard Lieutenant Colonel Dundee continue,
"When the Blackthorn swarm's Overmind absorbed the other Overminds, ate its fill, and fell into an advanced dormancy, the remaining Viscosity tribe gathered all their remaining strength and launched a suicidal raid from all directions! Because the Blackthorn swarm's defenses were still being repaired at this time, the Viscosity tribe successfully broke through the center with an elite force and hijacked the dormant Overmind Blackthorn, leaving the tribe leaderless and only able to rely on its instinctive defenses."
(Some people may not understand the function of the Overmind above. To give an example, the Blackthorn Mother is like your main base hive when you play Zerg in Starcraft. And the Overmind is like you sitting in front of the computer controlling it. If you are captured, the various defense facilities in the base will still work, and the patrol and attack units you set up before will also defend and attack according to the previous instructions and instincts. But the rigidity of that is conceivable.)
"Now, every day the Viscosity tribe mobilizes newly hatched units to frantically attack one place in this base, trying to find a breakthrough to occupy this Pandora crystal-rich mine as soon as possible. The main function of the Blackthorn Mother is reproduction rather than combat and decision-making, and its mental power can only command less than one-third of the newly produced units in the base to fight at the same time, and its tactics are also relatively rigid. So after discovering that we were fighting with the Viscosity tribe, she didn't kill us, but hoped to use our strength to fight against the Viscosity tribe! And once the Blackthorn Mother is killed, the Viscosity tribe can easily control all the facilities and buildings here, and we will also be dead."
"Wait!" Fang Senyan suddenly said, "There's a very important question, where is the Blackthorn tribe's Overmind? I noticed that it was hijacked, not killed."
Lieutenant Colonel Dundee was stunned and said, "I don't know about that, but it was indeed hijacked."
At this time, everyone present felt a tremor in their hearts, and then the voice of the Blackthorn Mother sounded:
"The Magic Juice is still alive. After devouring two Overminds, it has reached the basic conditions for successfully advancing to a Black Iron-level lord! Even if it fails to advance successfully, its strength is at least two or three times that of the Viscosity Overmind. The devouring between Overminds is not the kind of plundering of the physical body that you imagine, but a plundering of the level of mental power. The Viscosity tribe's Overmind will not only not kill it, but will try its best to protect its body's safety and integrity. That weak bug will definitely imprison the Magic Juice and slowly drain its mental power, and then wait until it is exhausted before starting to attack with its own brainwaves, slowly trying to devour it, because the huge gap in strength between the two sides, so this process will last for more than 120 hours."
Fang Senyan converted the time, so that Overmind Magic Juice can survive for at least two to three days... His thoughts began to turn rapidly.
Suddenly, an indescribable low sound came from the entire base, the sound was like the "rumbling" of an airplane passing through the clouds at high altitude. The dozen or so survivors suddenly jumped up together, quickly rushed to the weapons, and then began to put on combat armor, obviously preparing for battle. Although they were all injured, their movements were still quite agile. Mogansha was stunned and said,
"What, there's a battle?"
"gogogo!" Lieutenant Colonel Dundee and those soldiers were already shouting, he also put on his combat armor, picked up a standard C-14 "penetrator" electromagnetic rifle and turned his head and said, "Guys, you rest for a while, we'll go kick the asses of those incoming bug cubs."
Mogansha was about to speak, but several elite raptors, which looked particularly sturdy and huge, had already rushed out from the side, mixed in with this group of humans, and rushed up very violently. Mogansha wanted to ask but couldn't. He looked at Fang Senyan:
"What should we do now?"
Fang Senyan said decisively,
"Of course, follow them, at least make sure Lieutenant Colonel Dundee doesn't die. If we can get a mission from him, then at least we don't have to worry about being forced out of this world if that side is wiped out."
The two quickly followed the route they were taking, and along the way they saw a large number of purplish-red organic buildings, or rather, organs, the lowest of which were two or three stories high,狰狞怪异(zheng ning guai yi - hideous and strange), covered with arm-thick blue veins and blood vessels, and also secreting various viscous liquids, making gurgling sounds, and a strange smell floated in the air.
The largest core building was the place called "Hive" by humans. Its appearance was like a majestic hill of flesh and blood, but it was five or six stories high and covered an area of more than one kilometer. Its surface was covered with extremely thick purplish-red pulse tubes, and hundreds of purplish-red six-legged beetles the size of millstones were撅着口器(jue zhe kou qi - sticking out their mouthparts) digging on the nearby rocky mountains, and then衔下(xian xia - picking up) the crystals contained in them, and constantly穿行(chuan xing - traveling) between the hive and the rocky mountain.
These beetles had peculiar mouthparts. They first sprayed acid to melt the hard rock, then crushed the rock with two developed mouthparts, excavated the crystals in it, and piled them up in one place. In addition, a rare gas called gas, a yellow-green associated mineral, was also collected by them. This thing was not a necessity for the Zergs like crystals, without which they could not survive, but it was a key factor for them to improve, transform, and advance. According to the information obtained by Fang Senyan, this was the Zerg production unit called "Drone." These guys were very weak in combat, but their importance had to be placed above all arms.
Around the hive were seven or eight huge "lairs". The shape of the lairs was exactly the same as that of the hive, but they were much smaller in size. Their only function was to breed primal larvae. This thing was similar to an embryo, which could be hatched into various Zerg arms according to the hormones and energy injected by the hive. After the hive was destroyed, one of the other lairs might also take over the function of the hive after a long period of development. Usually, the hive could produce more than fifteen primal larvae per hour, while ordinary lairs could only produce about five.
The fierce fighting sound came from a place not far from the hive. Fang Senyan and the others immediately jogged forward, and along the way they saw a large number of Zerg units standing呆滞(dai zhi - sluggishly) in place, completely unaware of the fierce fighting that was only five hundred meters away at most. This was obviously the drawback of losing the Overmind.
Chapter 1 The Beginning
He smiled gently and said, 'The martial world is full of dangers.'
Hu Die Lan