Chapter 262 - 159: Undying Skull Shattering, An Unexpected Gain from Annihilating the Nest
Chapter 262: Chapter 159: Undying Skull Shattering, An Unexpected Gain from Annihilating the Nest
"Sometimes, advancing too quickly isn’t necessarily a good thing."
Lin Feng’s brow furrowed. He carefully lifted Shen Jie and placed him beside the Hatching Meat Tower.
"You can control this Hatching Nest now?"
Ling Yi admitted without hesitation,
"In order to control the Tier Two Peak Tiger Spine Zerg, the Node Mother’s hold on this symbiotic Nest weakened significantly. I took that opportunity to seize control of this Hatching Nest. But it can still parasitize other Biological Nests, so don’t let your guard down."
"So, how do you plan to save Shen Jie? By using your Spiritual Realm?" Lin Feng’s eyes narrowed as he looked at the fleshy wall.
Then, under Ling Yi’s control, a two-meter-long fissure formed in the fleshy wall. The opening puckered with layer upon layer of folds, and then dozens of tentacles extended from within, slowly pulling Shen Jie into the fissure...
He was finally sucked into the Hatching Meat Tower, where he began to float slowly.
Ling Yi continued to wave her hands, her eyes flashing with golden light. One of the Zerg Eggs embedded in the fleshy wall was sliced open from the inside, and Shen Jie, now stripped of his Broken Armor, was tucked into it.
At this moment, illuminated by the surrounding fluorescence, he was like a developing fetus in a womb. He was curled up, his hands holding his legs, allowing the tendril-like tubes growing from the egg’s membrane to connect to his body’s surface.
At the same time, the permanent Assimilation Zerg Armor on Shen Jie’s body, which was originally beyond repair, began to fall away.
It was as if his entire being was undergoing a rebirth.
Seeing this, Lin Feng smiled. If this was a viable method, it meant that another flaw of the Genetic Warriors was about to be perfectly solved.
Ling Yi saw through Lin Feng’s thoughts and said flatly,
"Don’t even think about it. Unless you’re willing to risk your own skin, become a Genetic Warrior, master a Realm Ability, and then spend several hundred years digesting the Zerg Race’s advanced biotechnology, this function will be impossible to replicate."
"Besides, the cost isn’t low either..."
As she spoke, four or five Tier Two Zerg Eggs, one by one under her control, were drained of all their Life Energy, which was then injected into the "reforged" Shen Jie.
Lin Feng’s mouth twitched. The price was indeed a bit steep, but as long as Shen Jie could make a full recovery, it was all worth it.
He then asked,
"How much longer will this take? The Jiangbei Mother Empress and Hai City’s Unit 76 will probably send reinforcements to attack soon."
Ling Yi shook her head helplessly.
"Shen Jie’s condition is more complicated than just external injuries. His brain was damaged. His consciousness is trapped in the Zerg Race’s Spirit World due to the nature of Genetic Assimilation..."
"If he can pull through, he might even master his own Mental Realm and path to advancement. If not, his consciousness will be eternally lost, and he’ll never wake up again."
"All I can do is try to reduce his burden from the outside and lower the complexity of the Spirit World."
Lin Feng’s brow furrowed.
"If he can’t wake up in a short amount of time..."
Ling Yi waved her hand dismissively.
"What’s there to worry about? We’ll just take him and the Zerg Egg with us. Problem solved."
"But before we go, I’ll leave this stuff to you."
Seeing Ling Yi jut her chin toward the entire Hatching Meat Tower before them, Lin Feng instantly understood her meaning.
’She wants to wipe them out completely and destroy the entire Hive.’
"Quick, deal with all the hatched Zerg Eggs up there, then protect these Red-Armored Beetles and transport the Tier Two Zerg Eggs!"
Lin Feng immediately gave the order, and the Tier Two Corps squad, which had just been catching its breath, sprang into action again.
It was just that having to cooperate with the Red-Armored Beetles felt indescribably strange.
But with so many Tier Two Zerg Eggs, the group couldn’t possibly carry them all. They had to rely on Ling Yi controlling the Red-Armored Beetle Swarm to solve the team’s logistical problem.
Before long, the remaining three hundred and eighty Tier Two Zerg Eggs were all carried away on the backs of the Giant Red Beetles controlled by Ling Yi. This included the one nurturing Shen Jie.
In the end, only the solitary Hatching Meat Tower was left, riddled with deep, sunken pits, looking even more eerie in the darkness.
After the Red-Armored Beetle Swarm, protected by the Tier Two Corps squad, had crawled into the depths of the darkness, Lin Feng and Ling Yi were left to bring up the rear.
Lin Feng raised the Level 29 Electromagnetic Cannon in his hand, aimed it at the Hatching Meat Tower, and asked over his shoulder,
"Did you get the Node Mother under control? I haven’t seen any sign of it this whole time."
Ling Yi shook her head and pursed her lips.
"I don’t know. I can’t sense it."
"After the Tier Two Peak Tiger Spine Zerg was killed, it also vanished completely from my Spiritual Perception. It’s probably hiding in some Biological Nest, but it definitely can’t have gone far."
"Once we destroy this Hive, it will have nowhere to run."
Lin Feng nodded. He waited until the Red-Armored Beetle Swarm was far away before pulling the trigger.
First, he used a Magnetic Storm Bomb for wide-area coverage, electrocuting the Biological Nest to death. Then he switched to the Armor-Piercing Cannon and blasted the Hatching Meat Tower and the entire cavern to smithereens.
When the ceiling collapsed, everything turned to nothing.
Lin Feng retreated as he fired, remembering something he’d meant to ask earlier. He called out to Ling Yi behind him,
"By the way, why are Tier Two Peak Tiger Spine Zergs so rare? I’ve killed so many Tier Two Tiger Spine Zergs, but this is the first time I’ve ever run into a Peak one."
Ling Yi had walked over to the massive Tiger Spine Zerg corpse and was now probing and observing its structure. Hearing Lin Feng’s question, she wore an expression that said it was completely obvious.
"No kidding. This is a terrifying creature that only a Tier Three Mid-stage Mother Empress can produce..."
"It’s like with the Low Tier Black Spine Zergs, but the probability is a bit higher. Out of every three or four thousand Tier Two Tiger Spine Zergs, one Tier Two Peak Tiger Spine Zerg will be born."
"And once a Tiger Spine Zerg reaches this stage, it will no longer submit to the Mother Empress’s control. Instead, it follows the biological instincts in its genes, leaves its Swarm, and travels thousands of meters deep Underground to the Land of the End to participate in a life-or-death battle—a gamble with fate."