The mother star secretly transformed itself from us

Chapter 2214 Fast and Slow

Lao Wang had an abstract look on his face. Damn, this is really weird. It’s okay to be ignored by Americans, but now even you, a mere local insect, are ignoring me?

What the hell is going on in this fucking world?

Can it still get better?

The swarms of insects are like tides. The freezing cold and sharp, razor-sharp winds cannot stop them at all. In such a harsh environment and surrounded by packs of man-made natural enemies, countless kinds of insects gather to form the plainest background under the morning sun. The huge mass grave composed of the ruins of six American Confederation upper councils is changing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Independent or symbiotic nests of various shapes and sizes took shape quickly as if the fast-forward button was pressed, using their tiny bodies to perform incredible power. Some sky islands used as building materials were completely eaten up and wiped off the map, some floating land soils liquefied rapidly, and countless island chains were outlined into huge gridded aggregates with sticky webs or secretions, fermentations, and even insect corpses.

one day one Night.

Lao Wang sat down at the dining table holding a bunch of tender white mycelium. "Here, look, the mushrooms have been grown. I now have every reason to suspect that the time trajectory of those things does not overlap with mine at all. Damn, they are sneaking in!"

Yes, the mycelium that sensed the warm environment of the stilt house directly produced fruiting bodies that looked like enlarged versions of Staphylococcus aureus in Lao Wang's palm, and entered the mushroom bud stage in the blink of an eye.

"Isn't it enough to store food for them?" Li Cang poked at the mushrooms that were not even as big as beans and said, "What are these things made of? I bet you fifty cents, it's the corpses of insects!"

"That's about right. It's the kind that's been chewed up. The higher you go, the more broken it becomes. There's also some soil and other things mixed in. I think I've discovered that these bugs are much better at utilizing island-based materials than we are. Even if we give them nutrient-rich soil and sufficient alienated substrate, who can grow such high-quality food in one day?"

"Strong people never complain about the environment. It's fine for you, an old-fashioned guy, to complain about the environment, but why are you complaining about the strong people?"

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At this moment, the mother bugs under the nest have gone crazy.

The fist-sized specialized picky fangs are inconspicuous in body, but each one can bring back hundreds or thousands of times its body weight in mixed insect feed. It seems that it eats and excretes at the same time, but in fact it uses its body as a container and reactor to complete the purification and transformation with amazing efficiency. The nests used to store this cheap mixed insect feed are packaged one after another, and then the specialized picky fangs swarm out of the nests in exponentially increasing numbers.

The high efficiency and low consumption of the Bug Mother even made Li Cang frown slightly. The complete Nest Master regarded the conversion of matter into energy as like eating and drinking water, and the Bug Mother gave up this outrageous skill and chose a nearly primitive method of committing crimes, which was obviously the best option that was more in line with its current level.

but

There are obviously some traitors in the hive.

In line with the spirit of "a rebellious son is a traditional one", after Miss Qiu and Lilith, another traitor has emerged on Sky Island. As another system derived from the Insect Mother, the Queen Bee obviously has some ideas of her own about these mixed insect materials.

The worker bees quickly opened the airtight encapsulated insect nests, and continuously transported the mixed insect materials to various parts of the nests to cultivate vegetation, feed bee colonies, etc., feeling at ease and not caring about the opinions of the insect mother. The bee colony system is indeed a secondary derivative of the insect mother, but it is not classified as a Zerg swarm system. After all, in the logical chain of the Miwei Zerg race, in terms of their adaptability and survival ability, they really lack the concept of a nest in the true sense. For a race that regards drifting in the subspace as a spring outing, the reliability and comfort of the so-called nest is really better than nothing.

In a word, the bug mother disdains to take this skill as collective property, so there is no one-way channel to surrender free will. The bee colony, at least in a relative sense, still operates independently and freely.

The mixed insect feed that the insect mother disdains is considered top-quality firewood in the eyes of the queen bee. The marginal effect it produces is enough to warm the entire insect nest. The ecology of the insect nest, which has experienced multiple semi-extinction-level destruction, is now radiating a new year with the efficiency of nitrogen acceleration.

Little Miss was eager to share the joy: "The temperature in the nest below is starting to warm up!"

Qin Zhenzhen's mind raced: "How long will it take to add more food?"

"soon!"

Ever since the queen bee went offline and the hive entered the ice age, the quality of life on Sky Island has declined. Well, in fact, it has fallen drastically. But it is getting better now, and it is visible to the naked eye.

Huo Wen was a little slow: "Although these insects are caused by the insect-like infection of the Miwei Zerg, they do not seem to be controlled by the Nest Master, at least, they are not directly affected by the Nest Master. Their behavior is based only on survival. There may be cooperation, mutual benefit and symbiosis between them, but it is not a holistic phenomenon. This does not conform to the logical chain of the Miwei Zerg. The deeper things cannot be concluded through a short observation, but perhaps we already have sufficient reason to regard them as an independent large alienated category."

“An independent, native, alienated species that is not controlled by the nest master?” Li Cang smacked his lips. “It’s similar to the three-phase anchoring result. I really didn’t find any obvious life characteristics of the Miwei insect race in them. Of course, it is not ruled out that the target is too weak and has hidden characteristics. However, it’s our local species that is at fault. It’s so tenacious!”

Lao Wang muttered, "These things, this base number, damn, do you think that the mass will is shooting itself in the foot?"

The magician spread his hands. He never had any hope for such things.

The few grams of dog Kun's flesh and blood that were given away before were enough to set a trap for Monroe. Now he was forced to believe that the things in front of him were the Zenith Star existences that the masters of the large group of will nests wanted to raise as a threat and could not covet. This was all he could say.

"In short, it's a good thing!" The happiest person is the young lady. As the saying goes, a good cook cannot cook without rice. She is unwilling to live any longer without the two hard indicators. In the past few days, she was hesitant and cautious about doing anything under that condition, for fear of eating up all the resources and getting into trouble. Now, it won't be long before she can continue to prepare and develop new recipes: "I have stored some seeds and seedlings in the Li Cang underground shelter. Almost all the species that have existed on the island before have been recorded. I will go and find them and give them to the queen bee. Zhong, don't steal the queen bee's honey anymore. Leave it for her to give birth to babies!"

Lao Wang cried out in injustice: "That was clearly what your mother, my mother-in-law, wanted, and it was only about 180 liters. I didn't steal as much as Li Cang did. I don't even know how many tons I gave to Jin Yujing as a favor!"

Li Cang: “?!”