Devouring Stars: Master of Evolution

Chapter 89 The Queen's Nest About to be Cracked

"Has Babata made contact with Luo Feng yet?"

Qin Mu, whose consciousness was immersed in the hive and manipulating the evolution of human genes, received a message from the insect swarm.

More than half of the monsters in the lake where Kirishima is located are insectoid units.

Luo Feng was discovered by the insect swarm immediately after entering the lake. It was not Luo Feng who first discovered the presence of the Wood Crystal in the lake, but the insect swarm.

Qin Mu didn't do anything special; he just let things take their natural course.

Qin Mu could roughly guess what Babata would say after Luo Feng received the inheritance.

Qin Mu didn't care much. Luo Feng would make his own judgment. He hadn't done anything to harm humanity or China, so what was there to be afraid of?

Qin Mu also coveted the inheritance of Meteorite Star, but now was not the time to plan for it.

Qin Mu had a complete plan for this, a plan that would benefit Luo Feng, himself, and even the entire Earth.

There's no need to rush to find Luo Feng now. Once Luo Feng truly receives the inheritance, he will observe for himself.

In fact, Qin Mu is no longer afraid that Luo Feng, Hong, Thor, Jia Yi and others will find out about his acquisition of the Zerg clone.

What he feared was that he hadn't grown up yet, and that he would be discovered by other powerful beings in the universe before the Cosmic Genius Battle.

That would be a disaster.

Even without any inheritance, the Swarm Overlord's naturally powerful soul alone would make it not too difficult for him to achieve a ranking in the Genius Battle.

Once they enter the primordial universe, the Chaos City Lord will definitely discover that he possesses an insectoid clone.

This cannot be hidden, nor is it necessary to hide it.

Babata, on the other hand, seems to possess wisdom, but in reality, it acts in a very rigid manner.

It is merely an intelligent life form. Although it possesses human emotions, it is essentially an intelligent program that needs to execute the will of its master. Its mission is to find a successor for Meteorite Star.

Otherwise, it is hard to imagine that a truly intelligent life form would only passively monitor the world from a spaceship deep underground, and then repeatedly guide people to Kirishima for such an inefficient screening process.

A full 50,000 years!

Babata was so emotionally distraught from being underground for 50,000 years that it almost lost control of its emotions, yet it never considered going out on its own initiative.

With the repair equipment on the spaceship, plus the technology controlled by Babata, it would definitely be no problem to create some robots. In 50,000 years, even if they used a hammer, they could build a spaceship.

In Earth's primitive times, it was incredibly easy to create an invincible power on the planet.

Moreover, given that the Meteorite Starship can guide War God level experts underground, it would be too easy for them to give some mental suggestions. There's no way they would have to wait underground for 50,000 years!

Not only that, but later, after Luo Feng arrived on Mars in his spaceship, he discovered nine pyramid-shaped energy towers that had been operating for countless millennia.

This is an energy tower that has been running normally for countless millions of years!

As a result, under Babata's guidance, they were dismantled and sold as scrap metal, just to raise the first batch of start-up capital for Luo Feng!

This is something that could instantly usher in an era of unlimited energy and interstellar space for all of humanity on Earth! And yet it was sold as scrap metal!

In fact, the money didn't make much of a difference; it wasn't until Luo Feng sold the curved cutter head that he truly became wealthy.

In other words, the demolition of these nine energy towers was essentially a waste of time.

"Once we can crack the Black Dragon Mountain—X81 model spaceship in Ruins No. 12, we'll make a trip to Mars, bring some technicians there, and take control of those nine energy towers."

Thinking of this, Qin Mu's thoughts inevitably drifted to the No. 12 ruins.

There are many wonderful things on Earth waiting to be discovered, and there is a well-maintained spaceship among the ruins of No. 12.

Unfortunately, Qin Mu's strength was still insufficient. After obtaining the Moyun Vine, he tried to enter the No. 12 ruins to see if he could enter the spaceship.

Unfortunately, getting into Black Dragon Mountain—the X81 model spaceship—is not easy.

Before this, countless people from various countries on Earth had died trying to get into the X81 adventure spaceship, but they couldn't even get through the ship's gates.

There are two main challenges. First, once inside, there is a laser tunnel from which lasers can easily kill fifth and sixth-tier planetary-level warriors.

With his current strength, Qin Mu could barely withstand the attack after donning the Cloud Vine Armor.

The second problem is that there is a gate after entering the passage, and Hong and Thor were blocked by this gate.

To lift the gate by brute force, one needs the level of a third or fourth-tier martial artist at the Hengxing level.

Qin Mu couldn't do that either.

Destroying the spaceship is even more unrealistic; even a Cosmic-level powerhouse would have to expend a great deal of effort to do it.

Luo Feng was able to enter because Babata gave him a strange tool that resembled an axe, which he used to pry open the gate.

Once inside, there will be three robots guarding the spaceship. If you try to forcibly invade the spaceship, it will self-destruct within 30 seconds.

Originally, Qin Mu planned to wait until he was stronger and then use his powerful mental energy to push open the gate.

Then, Huaxia, Hong, and others excavated intelligence from the ruins and simultaneously invaded the Black Dragon Mountain X81 spaceship, attempting to control the spaceship within 30 seconds without damaging it.

The spaceship would self-destruct within 30 seconds of being hacked.

However, the Zerg swarm made a significant breakthrough in breaking through the Zerg Queen's hive, which gave Qin Mu a different idea.

Given the legacy of a Zerg hive at the peak of the World Lord level, it is highly likely that it contains methods for cracking spaceships.

As a race that devours the universe, the Zerg, along with the Machine Race and the Human Race, are among the six most powerful races. It is impossible that they have no research into technological means.

The six dominant races are already at war. If any one race becomes powerful, it will be suppressed by the other races.

The Zerg must have fought against the Mechs, so they will most likely research how to counter the Mechs' tactics.

The consciousness shifted to the mother hive deep within Shennongjia, where a flying Zerg looked down at the scene below.

Around the Zerg Queen's hive, which is 800 meters in diameter, swarms of various venomous insect-like monsters crawled densely, rushing one after another into the poisonous gas.

After absorbing the poisonous gas, these insects will quickly die from the poison.

Their corpses piled up into a mountain, enveloping the Zerg Queen's nest. Beside the mountain formed by the corpses, a dozen or so cloud vines swayed, occasionally probing into the poisonous gas.

On the ground, clumps of fungal carpet spread, entangling and absorbing the corpses of dead poisonous insects, but they were quickly poisoned to death by the residual toxic gas in the insect corpses.

Large areas of the fungal carpet were poisoned and killed, but then a continuous stream of fungal carpets spread over.

Repeatedly.

After this period of research, it has been found that the naturally produced poison gas in this Zerg Queen's hive is also limited.

After poisoning millions of highly resistant insects, the toxic gas that had accumulated in the Zerg Queen's hive was gradually depleted.

The concentration of toxic gas has decreased somewhat compared to the beginning.

After discovering this change, Qin Mu incubated more than a dozen mother nests around the area, specifically to hatch monsters with high poison resistance to consume the poison gas.

During this process, the corpses of some poisonous insects that died from the poison were brought back to the mother nest for research, but the poison was so potent that more than one mother nest was poisoned to death.

Even though the poisonous insects evolved and mutated in the poisonous gas, they still died from the poison.

But the insect swarm did not come away empty-handed.

After obtaining the Moyun Vine, Qin Mu devoted himself to analyzing it in the mother nest, consuming a great deal of resources and time, and finally succeeded in analyzing it.

The insect swarm now has the ability to produce Moyun Vine on a large scale.

When Qin Mu had previously communicated with Hong and Lei Shen, he had given each of them a seedling of Moyun Vine.

Around the Queen's nest, a dozen or so Cloud Vine plants, which had devoured a large number of poisonous insects and evolved to develop poison resistance, attempted to devour some of the poisonous insects that had been killed by the poisonous gas. Surprisingly, some of them survived.

These mutated cloud vines have managed to probe their long vines into the poisonous gas without being poisoned for a short period of time.

This is a major breakthrough.

If the poison gas is consumed further and reduced to a certain level, the mutated Moyun Vine may be able to truly penetrate deep into the Queen's nest.

If enough poisonous insects are consumed, the poisonous gas will eventually dissipate completely.

The Queen's Nest is ultimately just a rootless duckweed; its stored energy will eventually run out.

At that time, the Zerg swarm will be able to truly control the entire Queen's Hive and obtain the Zerg heritage in this universe.

"The brood swarm evolved to level four very quickly, and during the war, the swarm harvested a large amount of genes from Lord-level and even King-level monsters."

The question now is whether the Queen's Hive will advance to level four first, or whether the Zerg swarm will break through the Queen's Hive's gas defenses first.

Qin Mu looked cheerful, as almost everything had been going according to plan during this period.

The slight unpleasantness in the middle was quickly dismantled by the military's swift and decisive actions.

"It'll be soon. In just a few months, the hive will be upgraded to level four and will also gain access to the Zerg heritage in this universe. Then we can enter the real universe."

Qin Mu's thoughts resonated throughout the swarm, exciting the entire group.

"Now, there's still one question: will that golden-horned behemoth still come?"

Qin Mu remembered that in the original timeline, the Golden Horned Beast descended in August 2057, when Luo Feng bought the Water of Life, enabling his younger brother Luo Hua to stand up and successfully confess his love to Xu Xin.

The place of their arrival was the Hawaiian Islands.

It's already April, and there are still four months until the Golden Horned Beast arrives.

When the Golden Horned Beast descended, satellites from various countries on Earth, and even special monitoring equipment at ancient civilization ruins, all functioned normally as before, and none of them detected its arrival.

This shows that the Golden Horned Beast already knew how to actively conceal its aura while it was still in its egg.

They might even have some awareness of the external environment, but this awareness is unlikely to be very strong.

If its perception could reach the entire globe, it would discover the sleeping Queen's nest.

Based on the knowledge of the Zerg inherited by the Golden Horned Beast, how could a Golden Horned Beast that was still an egg dare to enter Earth?

Based on this, Qin Mu has already started a war between the marine insectoids and the sea monsters in the Hawaiian region. It won't be long before they can completely occupy the entire Hawaiian Islands.

They were just waiting for the golden-horned behemoth, still an egg, to descend.

There will be another chapter later.

(End of this chapter)