(This chapter is mainly an introduction to the functions of the base … So, if you don't like it, you can skip it … Hmm, it's a bit watery …)
Beneath the desert was a Zerg base!
This news was undoubtedly a pleasant surprise for Feng Luo.
What was a Zerg base?
Although it was not mentioned much in the galactic background, anyone who had played the game knew what it meant to the Zergs.
Simply put, it had two most important functions.
The first was to "incubate" the Zerg units, and the second was to "upgrade" the Zerg units.
These two functions could be directly compared to the beetle swarm.
The first was the "incubation" function. The incubation function of the beetle troops relied on 24K to consume psionic energy and then use the nutrients in the monster's body to incubate.
However, this method had a lot of limitations.
Regardless of whether it was the incubation process or the nurturing of the eggs, it required a lot of psionic energy. Moreover, there was a limit to the number of eggs that could be accumulated!
However, the incubation process of the Zergs was different.
From the research data of the "Zerg Nest Project," Feng Luo knew that in the real Zerg group, the Queen was responsible for laying the eggs, and the incubation process was completed by the Zerg base.
The Zerg base had incubation pools and breeding rooms prepared for different types of soldiers, which could incubate a large number of different types of soldiers at the same time!
This was clearly much more powerful than the beetle swarm.
Of course, compared to the beetle swarm, the Zergs also had their shortcomings.
The hatched Zerg units would start off at a very low level and would need time to grow.
However, this shortcoming could be made up for by the "upgrade" function.
In the Zerg base, it could produce a special nutrient fluid that would allow the hatched Zerg units to quickly grow. A newly born Zerg could even mature in just a few days!
This nutrient fluid was clearly more useful than the nutrient fluid produced by the NPCs.
In fact, the nutrient fluid used in the Zerg Nest Project was developed based on the nutrient fluid produced in the Zerg base.
In comparison, although the beetle swarm would obtain a certain level at the beginning, their subsequent growth would undoubtedly not be as fast as the Zergs with a base.
If it were not for the black female Master Kelly who developed the Zerg nutrient fluid in the past two days, this batch of Spray Beetles would definitely not have such combat power.
In this aspect, there was no doubt that the Zergs had a much greater advantage than the beetles.
However, the real advantage of the Zerg base was.
It was actually another function, which was the "assimilation" function!
According to the Interstellar background, the insectoid base should have another use.
It was to encode and modify the genes of the Zerg units, fusing them with the genes of different creatures, thus breeding a new type of combat unit with the characteristics of that creature.
After that, these new combat units would be chosen through battle, and the most suitable ones would be used for production and production.
For example, combat units such as "Ferocious Insects" or "Flying Dragons" were obtained by fusing with the genes of other creatures, and then through harsh battles, the survival of the fittest!
And the beetle swarm, to a certain extent, was undoubtedly a product of this.
Feng Luo actually felt that this was the true strength of the Zergs!
As for the functions of the Zerg base, Feng Luo had obtained them all from the information on the "Zerg Nest Project" in the A-2 underground laboratory.
However, according to the records.
The Sam Group's army finally locked onto the Zerg base after suffering heavy losses. Then, after capturing the Overmind, they destroyed the entire Zerg base with a nuclear bomb.
But now, there was actually another Zerg base here?
"Interesting!"
Feng Luo had more or less guessed the reason.
A cunning rabbit has three burrows, and the intelligence of the Overmind was indeed not inferior to that of humans!
"Hmm, wait … 24K, how did you know it was a Zerg base?"
Feng Luo suddenly thought of something and asked 24K curiously through the mental link.
"Squeak, squeak …"
As the little guy flew, it gestured with its six little claws.
"You mean, you don't know what's going on either … It's just that after seeing the scene under the shell, some information suddenly appeared in your brain … Then you understood that this is a Zerg base!"
Feng Luo's eyes widened when he heard that.
"Could it be that 24K also inherited part of the Overmind's memory, or that because it defeated the Overmind in the mental space, it obtained some memory fragments of the Overmind?"
He guessed in his heart.
Obviously, there was no way to get a definite answer to this guess.
After all, mental, consciousness … these kinds of settings were already beyond the scope of normal science.
However, Feng Luo had a vague feeling that after 24K was attacked by the Overmind, the great battle in its consciousness.
Perhaps it was not a random coincidence in the game, but could have been designed by the system.
Because all kinds of signs and a series of missions had pushed 24K to the position of the "King Zerg" of the Zerg race!
Perhaps this was part of an important Zerg mission that the system had opened?
"Squeak, squeak …"
Feng Luo was in a slightly dazed situation.
24K did not receive a response from him. The little guy seemed to be a little anxious, so after calling out a few times …
[Your pet is sharing a consciousness image with you through the mental link. Do you accept?]
Then, a prompt suddenly appeared in the mental link of the system.
"Consciousness image? It can even transmit this?"
Feng Luo came back to his senses and was stunned when he saw the prompt.
Could this be the function of the mental link that had been added after the last evolution?
Feng Luo naturally accepted it. Then, he felt the view in front of him change.
After that, he seemed to be substituted into a certain perspective.
What he saw in front of him was the background of an unknown part of the universe.
A series of balls that looked slightly flat and seemed to have grown some additional structures and tentacles were slowly floating in the universe.
And among these balls, there were some black dots going in and out!
No, they were not black dots!
When Feng Luo looked closely at these black dots, he realized that they were actually Zerg combat units. Ferocious Zergs, Hydralisks, Wyverns …
These units, which were much larger than the beetles, were like tiny black dots in front of this ball. Even large units like the Thunder Beasts and Nest Lords were unable to move at all.
Compared to this ball, it was only equivalent to a slightly larger black spot.
These balls were each the size of a small planet, and their diameters were definitely more than 200 kilometers!
"These are … the Zerg base?"
With this comparison, Feng Luo, who had noticed the situation, was undoubtedly surprised.
The Zerg base was actually so big. This was completely beyond his expectations, and it was quite visually shocking.
"But the Zerg base looks more like some kind of creature. There are some structures like tentacles and sharp horns growing on it?"
At that moment, Feng Luo discovered another interesting place.
"Squeak, squeak …"
24K nodded its little head fiercely, indicating that Feng Luo's statement was correct.
Then, through the mental link, it sent another message to Feng Luo.
The reason the Zerg had the ability to travel in the universe was because they had captured and assimilated a huge Galaxy Giant Beast that could survive and travel in the universe.
After the gene of this Galaxy Giant Beast was encoded into the Zerg unit, it formed a base that could travel in the universe. Thus, the Zerg originated from the mother planet and spread step by step into the universe.
This kind of base, apart from providing the Zerg with a living environment in the universe and transporting Zerg units, was also the largest combat unit of the Zerg race.
At the same time, they were also the insectoid race's largest combat unit, possessing extremely powerful defense and combat strength. They could even fight head-on against the Galactic Empire's space warships.
"Galaxy Giant Beast? Zerg base? Space warships … "
This continuous string of information was accompanied by an image.
Without a doubt, this made Feng Luo even more surprised.
He now knew why he had not guessed that there was a Zerg base below.
In the interstellar game background, there was a saying that the Zerg captured the Galaxy Giant Beast, but there was no saying that the base was a living thing.
Moreover, the direction of his thinking did not rely on that at all. He only concentrated on the conventional units in the game, so he could not think of it.
Apart from that, Feng Luo finally understood.
Why was it that even the Destruction Psionic Energy could not damage this carapace?
Because the defensive power of this Zerg base was so strong that it could even withstand the shots of the Galaxy Empire's advanced space warships' secondary cannons.
With this level of defensive power, even if the base in front of him was in hibernation, it was clearly not something that the current players, who were still at the planet stage, could easily destroy.
Yes, it was only in hibernation!
According to the information in 24K's head.
This base was indeed secretly hidden by the captured Cerebrate.
This was a secondary base that was separated from the main base, and it was hidden deep underground in a hibernation state to avoid all kinds of detection.
However, it clearly did not expect that.
It would be captured and locked up, and its command over the Zerg would be cut off.
Moreover, the newly produced Zerg Overlord and the remaining Zergs would also be trapped and killed in the space warship!
In the end, on the entire planet, only this hibernating Zerg base was left.
This was undoubtedly a tragedy for this aggressive race.
However, in Feng Luo's heart, he felt that this base was clearly prepared by the system for 24K's mission.
"Can you awaken this base?"
Feng Luo asked 24K.
"Squeak, squeak …"
"You don't know if you can, but it should be possible … However, you have to see the hibernation egg of this Zerg Base!"
"Hibernation egg?"
"Squeak squeak …"
24K transmitted another image to Feng Luo.
This image was seen by the Scout Beetle, who was currently underground.
The situation under the carapace was not as Feng Luo had imagined, which was filled with all kinds of Zerg "buildings." At this time, it was more like an empty shell supported by some pillars.
"During the hibernation process, in order to prevent consuming too much energy, the Zerg Base hidden underground will enter an egg-like state.
Only after finding the hibernation egg can it be awakened.
Apart from that, even if it is awakened, it still needs to provide a large amount of energy and nutrients to allow the Zerg Base to grow again and cover the entire base. Only then will it be able to control this base! "
Feng Luo heard the message from 24K.
He saw something called "system restriction."
"Requires a large amount of energy and nutrients …"
Apart from that, he also smelled something called "credits."
"Squeak squeak …"
As expected, the message sent by 24K made Feng Luo feel that credits were flying out.
24K was unable to determine how many Energy Crystals were needed to recover.
However, it said that in theory, the digestive energy of the Zerg Base Zerg was very strong. Moreover, if it wanted to hatch, it still needed to provide a large amount of energy and nutrients.
As such, based on the nutrients provided by the scorpion just now, it would probably need to fill up the entire base to allow the hibernation egg to fully recover.
"… As expected, this is burning money!"
Feng Luo was shocked by the number.
A Zerg base with a diameter of more than three kilometers. How many monster corpses would it take to completely fill it up?
Of course, the Zerg had a wide range of food. They did not necessarily need monster corpses. Plants and even minerals could also be used to supplement a portion.
However, this was a desert, not a resource-rich Death Jungle.
In this area, Feng Luo had only encountered five monsters along the way.
Part of the reason was that it was daytime, so most of the monsters in the Withered Desert were hidden under the sand and would not come out.
However, if he wanted to fill up the Zerg base, it would definitely take an unknown amount of time.
There was only one way.
Obviously, it could only be done by transporting things like nutrient fluids from other places to replenish the nutrients it needed.
This was obviously a super money-burning matter.
Feng Luo had a premonition that his credit account was going to decrease very quickly.
Moreover, with the consumption rate of War's system, Feng Luo wondered if the remaining credits in his account would be enough after giving most of them to Nightless City.
However, he definitely had to nurture this Zerg base.
The importance of the Zerg base to the Zerg aside.
Just one point was the carapace of the base insect and the material of the "pillar."
If it was made into a power armor or shield, then even normal Legendary equipment would not be able to penetrate it. Perhaps it could even be made into something even more advanced than Legendary equipment.
Moreover, it should not be forgotten.
The Zerg base was something on the same level as a space battleship.
That space battleship belonged to NPCs. Players could not even think about getting a share of it.
However, this Zerg base was something that belonged to him.
A private biological space battleship?
In the universe era that was destined to come, this would be a great opportunity.
Therefore, no matter the cost, he had to nurture this base.
"Squeak, squeak …"
Just as Feng Luo was smiling bitterly and feeling tempted, 24K suddenly squeaked again.
"Yes!"
Feng Luo's expression changed slightly.
At that moment, a Scout Beetle flying in the sky sent an unexpected message.
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