The Monster is Coming

Chapter 89: Fighting Zerg
The Imperial Mountains.

The ground-cracked cliff where the Evil Eye Tower is located is heading north.

The huge army composed of countless insects was as dense as locusts, covering the entire earth and advancing towards the Evil Eye Tower at an extremely fast speed.

Upon discovering the anomaly, the evil spirits decisively withdrew the black tide power that was still raging in the Emperor's Tomb Mountains area, and built a high wall of black fog with the Evil Eye Tower as the center, ready to meet the sudden war.

On top of the tower, the expression of the evil spirit of the earth looked extremely solemn.

From his perspective, the main body of the Zerg warrior is made of translucent crystals, which appear colorful under the evil moon. Three pairs of wings as thin as cicada wings extend from both sides of the back, covered with energy patterns. The eyes are like a pair of rubies that can change color according to the environment. Through the translucent shell, one can see an organ in the middle of the body that beats like a heart, and the patterns on its body will light up with every contraction.

The lower limbs are four slender limbs, and the mouthparts full of sharp teeth have a pair of tall, sickle-shaped upper jaws on both sides.

The Zerg moved extremely fast and in huge numbers, and every Zerg warrior exuded a cold and murderous aura.

After coming into contact with the terrifying black tide controlled by the evil spirit of the earth, the spiritual patterns on the insect's body light up, and elongated energy threads spew out of its mouth. The evil black tide that comes into contact with it will be cut off instantly, and then reintegrate into the black tide.

The war between the insect swarm and the black tide became intense the moment they came into contact.

It was like two waves of different colors meeting in the center, and a bloody fight broke out.

This scene also happened under Qi Sheng's conscious surveillance.

The guide who had been observing the movements of the Evil Eye Tower conveyed the news to him as soon as he discovered the situation.

Through the analytical information provided by the guide, Qi Sheng obtained detailed information about the Zerg warriors:

[Crystal Wings (Fighting Zerg)]

Hunting Level: 15
Analysis: A low-level combat unit of the combat Zerg, with the racial talent of rapidly evolving by devouring matter, controlled by the "low-level mastermind" unit of the race, which can obtain pheromones by devouring targets in each battle (the mastermind can obtain pheromones from the combat Zerg swarm, thereby adjusting the growth direction of the new Zerg swarm and evolving combat organs that restrain hostile forces.)
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"A new force has appeared. It's quite interesting that they dare to take the initiative to attack the terrifying black tide."

On the Origin Altar, Qi Sheng's mind flashed with the scene of the fierce battle between the Zerg and the Black Tide, and he was amazed.

Hearing this, a thoughtful expression appeared on the surface of the guiding water ball:

[It is indeed very strong. I suspect that this force called "Zerg" is likely to come to the Monster World to chase the Black Tide, rather than being forced to come to the Monster World after the world collapsed like most races, or coming for revenge after the world collapsed.]

"What new discovery have you made?" Qi Sheng looked at the guide and asked curiously.

In response to the question, Guidance's thoughts flashed, and the picture in Qi Sheng's mind zoomed in on the swarm of fighting insects that were fighting the Black Tide Evil. Then Guidance transformed an arm and pointed at a Crystal Winged Eye that was torn into pieces by the Evil, and explained:

[Boss, have you noticed that the insects are in a somewhat abnormal state after they die?]

After hearing this, Qi Sheng looked at the broken pieces of Crystal Winged Creature, and then realized the problem:
"It seems that the black tide cannot completely devour the fragments of Crystal Wing's flesh and blood. It can only devour part of the body."

This discovery seemed incredible to Qi Sheng.

The most terrifying characteristic of the Black Tide is its devouring growth. This is not reflected when fighting with players, but it is unsolvable when fighting with other life forms.

However, the strongest characteristic of the Black Tide was not fully demonstrated in the confrontation with the Zerg.

Based on Qi Sheng's understanding of the Black Tide, the normal development should be that the Black Tide evil spirits die and reintegrate into the black fog. Only very little energy loss is required to generate new Black Tide evil spirits and re-enter the battle. During this period, the Zerg warriors fighting with the evil spirits die, and their flesh and blood will be absorbed and digested by the black fog.

Eventually, the Kuroshio grew rapidly like a snowball with low losses.

But in the battle, when the Black Tide Evil killed Zerg warriors, it could only absorb part of their flesh and blood and was unable to devour them perfectly.

"These bugs have evolved a body structure that can resist being swallowed by the black tide."

[That’s right. These Zerg warriors, or the masterminds behind them, are obviously not fighting the Black Tide for the first time. They must have collected enough pheromones in the frequent battles and evolved a resistance organization for the purpose of restraining the Black Tide. That is, the crystal-like body structure of the Crystal Wings. This substance is difficult for at least low-level Black Tide to digest, so it can only devour a part of its energy.]

[One more thing, boss, have you noticed that the Zerg warriors will spit out atomized energy particles during battle, which can prevent the black fog from absorbing the energy dissipated by the death of the evil spirits, and slow down the speed at which the black tide regenerates the evil spirits. Therefore, this group of Zerg warriors have evolved two restraining organs against the black tide. ]

"Interesting. Let's look at the back."

As soon as Qi Sheng finished speaking, the guidance began to lead his consciousness through the swarms of insects all over the mountains and into the new area to the north of the Dizhong Mountains.

This area is named: Phantom Swamp in the analysis information.

The speed of the sight continued to increase, and finally stopped in front of a creature as huge as a hill.

The analytical information then emerged.

[Zerg Mastermind (Low-level Mastermind)]:
Hunting Level: Level 103

Target introduction: A commanding unit in the Zerg social ecosystem, with four major talents: devouring matter, rapid reproduction, pheromone analysis, and reconstruction of life organizations.

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Above the Zerg mainframe, Qi Sheng also discovered a tiny gap, which was a space rift that was about to close.

What is certain is that the Zerg mastermind has just been airdropped here.

It is impossible to tell whether this low-level Zerg mastermind came specifically for the Black Tide or for resources, but after landing in this area, it coincidentally sensed the Black Tide's aura and took the initiative to attack the Black Tide.

He didn't think about this question too much; the reason didn't matter.

Both the Zerg and the Dark Tide will be enemies of the player's army.

You can see the Zerg near the Mastermind chopping down nearby green plants and stones almost frantically, and moving all the materials to the Mastermind for smelting and digestion.

The degree of destruction this force causes to the environment and resources is no less than that of the Mechanical Overlord. In fact, the ultimate mastermind that controls the Zerg may even have power that surpasses that of the Mechanical Overlord.

[Fortunately, the hunting level of the Zerg Mastermind that arrived is not particularly high, otherwise it would be very difficult for the player legion to deal with it at this stage. ]

Qi Sheng nodded after hearing this.

The arrival of the Zerg was a good thing in his opinion.

It is adapted to the player's strength and can be used to improve the player's combat power.

In terms of the ability to devour and evolve, players are only stronger than Zerg and Dark Tide.

The perspective pulls back at this time. The fierce war between the Black Tide and the Zerg is still going on. During the process, the Black Tide continues to increase in intensity by devouring parts of the Zerg warriors' bodies.

Through analysis, it can be found that the Zerg is like an experience pack for the growth of the Black Tide, which makes the Black Tide's strength continue to rise.

But that's not important.

The point is that the Zerg's front line is moving forward, and the resistance of the Black Tide evil is simply unable to stop the steady advance of the Zerg warriors.

This made Qi Sheng realize the true purpose of the Zerg intelligent brain.

The mastermind with high intelligence must know that the terrifying black tide will continue to strengthen itself through devouring during the war, so it has no intention of engaging in a long and tense protracted war with the black tide. The core target has always been the core "Evil Eye Tower" of the black tide.

It can be understood that this is a quick push tactic used by the Zerg intelligent brain.

As long as the Evil Eye Tower is demolished, the influence of the Black Tide will be greatly weakened.

This is also the reason why the Zerg AI allowed the Black Tide to continue to gain devouring enhancements during the war.

At this time, on the Evil Eye Tower, the evil spirit on the ground had a gloomy expression.

The terrifying black tide he controlled grew in intensity as he fought with the Zerg warriors, but he also saw the Zerg's true purpose.

Faced with the battle line that was constantly moving backwards, he controlled the Black Tide to try to counterattack several times, but was pushed back by the crazy Zerg tide. If this trend continued, the Zerg army would advance to the Evil Eye Tower.

If the tower is cleared, he will lose the domain node below and his control over the black tide will be greatly weakened.

It will be difficult to take it back then.

"Evil Eye, what are the origins of these things?"

In response to the question, the evil eye behind the evil spirit floating on the ground cracked a crack, and after a long silence, it spoke:

"According to the intelligence shared with me by other nodes, this force is called the Combat Zerg. It is one of the most difficult forces that our race has ever fought. It has fought wars with our warriors on multiple worlds, which has seriously hindered the speed at which our race can devour the world."

"Multiple worlds?" The evil spirit of Earth Nian was a little surprised.

"Yes, there are multiple worlds. The strength of the combat Zerg is far more terrifying than you think. They have the talent to collect pheromones to obtain information about the target's ability. They can also evolve organs that restrain the opponent's race's ability by reconstructing the life structure of their offspring. This is a destructive force very similar to ours. When our race invaded other worlds, we found many times that the combat Zerg had begun to devour that world."

The explanation of the evil eye made the evil spirit realize the seriousness of the situation:
"So the speed of the black fog's backlash has been significantly slowed down, and it is also because of the Zerg's ability characteristics that it cannot completely devour the bodies of the dead Zerg units."

"That's right. The Zerg in some worlds have evolved body structures to cope with our devouring and counterattack. Although they cannot completely offset the black tide's characteristics, they can effectively reduce the pressure it brings to them."

Having said that, the Evil Eye shifted the macro perspective in the mind of the Earth Evil Spirit to a Crystal Winged Eye that was fighting.

"The crystal structure of the body and the slow energy it spews out... these are all combat capabilities created to restrain the black tide characteristics of our race. If I'm not mistaken, this group of Zerg followed the footsteps of our warriors and took the initiative to enter the monster world. They may even have entered the monster world to hunt us down."

"Hunting?" The evil spirit was stunned, looking a little unbelievable.

"That's right. Our race's process of devouring the world ends with the annihilation of the world. Then the warriors who participated in this war of devouring are redistributed to different worlds. But the Zerg are completely different. They have an extremely high desire to fight. The end in their eyes means that there is no life left."

"Is there any difference?" asked the evil spirit of Earth Nian doubtfully.

"Completely different. For example, after the black tide released by our race completely devoured the Purple Rain World, many powerful lives in the Purple Rain World fled to other worlds by tearing space apart. Our race ignored this and did not want to waste time on meaningless hunts. Devouring the world is our ultimate goal. Wasting extra energy on hunts is extremely stupid in our eyes."

"But the combat Zerg are different. They will devour all life. If they find that life in the devoured world has escaped to another world, they will not hesitate to launch a cross-world hunt to kill it."

"A similar incident happened in another world when our race was fighting against the fighting Zerg. The black tide released by our race completely devoured that world and was unwilling to care about the fighting Zerg anymore. However, the fighting Zerg did not want our warriors to leave and continued to hunt them down. In the end, they were all wiped out by our race in another world."

"It is certain that the queen behind the fighting Zerg is very smart and possesses a very high level of intelligence, but their bloodthirsty instincts often make them do stupid things."

"Now, the Zerg have followed our footsteps and descended upon the Monster World. We are now facing a new challenge in our attempt to completely devour the Monster World. I hope that the Supreme Being behind the Zerg has not descended, otherwise our progress in devouring the Monster World will be severely hampered."

The explanation of the evil eye made the evil spirit's scalp tingle.

The existence of "Emperor's Omen", the creator of the monster world who could compete with "my Lord", already made him feel incredible.

Unexpectedly, there is now a new force called "Fighting Zerg" that is at war with the terrifying black tide in multiple worlds.

"This world... is so scary."

"I was born in the Monster World and have never been to other worlds conquered by my race. But according to the information shared with me by other nodes, this world is much more difficult to conquer than the worlds that the Evil Eye of other nodes has been to. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the strongest. All forces are extremely difficult to deal with. This is also the reason why my race has never been able to swallow the Monster World."

At this point, the evil eye paused:
"Based on the current situation, our race's progress in devouring the monster world has been severely restricted and is progressing more and more slowly. Perhaps we need to allocate new forces from the main world and other worlds to enter the monster world."

After hearing the explanation of the evil eye, the doubts in the evil spirit's heart deepened:
"Since this world is so important, why didn't you send warriors from the main world to join the battle when you first discovered this world?"

Faced with the question, the Evil Eye fell silent and began to read the information transmitted by other nodes.

After a long time, the Evil Eye spoke:

"In fact, when my clan first entered this world, we realized that this world could not be easily swallowed up, so we dispatched the demon god-level forces of the main world to participate in the war."

"Demon God level?" The evil spirit of earth mind was startled and asked quickly:
"So what about the demons? Where did they go?" When mentioning the word "demon", Di Nian Xie Ling spoke with a respectful tone, which was a respect that came from the heart.

"Without exception, all died in battle."

At this moment, the evil spirit's eyes were dull, and his consciousness that was still controlling the black tide to fight relaxed for a few seconds.

Fortunately, he woke up in time and continued to control the black tide to fight, then turned his head to look at the evil eye:

"All dead?"

"I can answer you with certainty that all of them died in battle, without exception."

The eyes of the Earthly Evil Spirit flashed red, and he suppressed his surging emotions and continued to ask in a deep voice:
"I want to know the details of the war."

"I did not participate in the battle, and the other nodes I can connect to did not participate in this catastrophic war either, so I cannot provide detailed information about the direction of the war. I only know that all the node assistants and warriors of my tribe who participated in that war were killed... and the opponent in this battle was the Rule-level God of the Monster World. In the end, we were defeated, and no warriors were able to return. The Rule-level God of the Monster World also disappeared, and has not appeared in thousands of years."

The information provided by the evil eye frightened the evil spirits on earth.

As a commander-level warrior, he had participated in two small-world battles and believed that he had seen many powerful lives.

But in the monster world, his view of power can be described as childish and ridiculous.

With his commander-level combat power, plus the Black Tide assisted by the Evil Eye, he was unable to take over even one area. He was suppressed by the Wan Clan and could not be killed.

I thought it was just bad luck because the place where I landed happened to be blocked by an invading force, which restricted my expansion.

But I didn't expect that there would be more unimaginable opponents in the wider world of monsters.

The Wan Clan he met was not even a threat. At least the evil eyes from other nodes had never fought against this force, proving that the Wan Clan was a small force that only invaded this area and had never appeared on the larger war stage.

Recalling what the Evil Eye said, all the "Demons", the core combat force of the Black Tide, who came to the monster world, were killed in battle.

He couldn't imagine the intensity of that battle.

Perhaps the aftermath of the battle could easily crush a large number of small worlds.

"Focus on fighting, don't think too much, your growth has just begun, don't fall here."

Hearing the reminder from the Evil Eye, the Evil Spirit of Earth Mind forced himself into a state of concentration and began to control the black tide to counterattack the Zerg's still advancing front.

The brutal fight continues, and the Zerg warriors are clearing a path forward by piling up their lives.

In order to stop the Zerg warriors from advancing, the Earth Evil Spirits could only be forced to retreat to the black tide forces in other directions and concentrate all their combat power on the main battle line in front of the Evil Eye Tower.

Faced with the threat of the Evil Eye Tower being dismantled, the commander, the Earth-Mind Evil Spirit, even considered joining the battle himself.

But his idea was blocked by the Evil Eye, which said that command-type warriors should not participate in the battle unless absolutely necessary, as this would seriously affect the combat effectiveness of the Black Tide and make the Black Tide's attack chaotic and disorderly.

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the other side.

After monitoring the conversation between the Earthly Evil Spirit and the Evil Eye, Qi Sheng turned his head and looked at the guidance floating beside him:

"Fighting the Devil? Is that true?"

[Of course, I remember telling you about the situation when you just inherited the Emperor's Omen to consolidate my origin.]

"I had just arrived in the Monster World at that time. I was young and didn't like attending classes. I didn't listen carefully and forgot about it... Now I will tell you in detail."

【This is the situation. In the black tide of terror, a bunch of big men who control the world-class rules are carrying big machetes and threatening to kill us four brothers. Can we tolerate this? Hearing this news, the four of us were so angry that we picked up axes and prepared to fight back. I rushed forward and chopped down with my knife. Guess what? I killed two demons with one blow. Turning my head, I saw my brother Yan Ming kill two more with the move of "Looking at the Moon in the Well". Then I looked at my sister Chao Wei, who was holding two big hammers and dancing vigorously. The big men of demons couldn't get close to her. The battle was so fierce that the sky was dark and the sun and moon were dim. I was almost exhausted from chopping. I have never been so tired in my life... But we have to fight. These grandsons are fighting with us and threatening to tear down our house. Then we must not be timid, right? We must fight them to the end...】

As the guide spoke in a simplified and easy-to-understand narration of the plot, Qi Sheng felt veins throbbing on his forehead.

(End of this chapter)