End of the World: My Items Can Be Upgraded Infinitely.

Chapter 120: Insect City, a gathering place under the control of the Matrix
Lin Feng slowed down his movement speed and turned into a bright yellow light, shuttling through the streets and alleys.

In some road corners, he saw opened sewer entrances with signs of insects.

Just as Lin Feng expected, the Zerg did not destroy the city, but directly integrated into it, using the existing sewer system to build nests and survive.

However, this does not make sense.

Just as humans cannot return to living in caves, the city's system is incompatible with the habits of the Zerg.

If it weren't for the purpose of destroying and devouring the humans in the city, the Zerg probably would have no interest in the iron jungle.

With doubts, Lin Feng groped forward cautiously.

He walked past the edge of where the fighting had previously broken out.

At this time, the insect corpses and body parts scattered all over the ground have been cleaned up. Apart from the traces of damage left by the shotgun, it is difficult to tell that a fierce urban street battle had just broken out here three or four hours ago.

It is estimated that the red beetles came out to clean up after Lin Feng and others evacuated.

The Land Cruiser could only travel along the main roads, so there was no time to collect the black-backed insect corpses in other corners and alleys. The situation at the time did not allow everyone to stay for long.

Who knows when the next wave of Zerg attacks will come? If there are twice as many second-level tiger-spine worms next time, it will be difficult for Lin Feng to escape and provide support. The more than one hundred awakened people he has worked so hard to gather may be directly wiped out by a tiger-spine worm that escapes the net.

The retreat was so hasty that the battlefield was not even cleaned up.

Lin Feng was not surprised to see the clean streets and shopping malls at this moment.

But after walking a few steps, he suddenly stopped.

Because the glass at the entrance of a shopping mall was shattered by a shotgun, the broken glass on the ground was swept up and piled in the corner.

The strange-smelling insect blood splashed on the ground was not licked clean by the red beetles. There was a layer of slippery water film of detergent left on it, which gave off a faint fragrance.

How could low-level Zerg have such awareness, and it is impossible for them to clean up construction waste and use detergents.

There is only one possibility, that is, there are still surviving humans in this city that has been occupied by the Zerg.

It was they who used the tools and cleaned up the battlefield.

Thinking of this, Lin Feng became even more confused.

How did this group of people avoid Zerg patrols and survive in the city with food shortage?

Unfortunately, telepathy cannot detect life forms below level 7, and ordinary people are not within the sensing range.

With doubts, Lin Feng slowly stepped into the mall.

After spending more than ten minutes searching the place thoroughly inside and out, we didn't find a single person except for some signs of human activity.

But some traces were obviously newly left, such as the soil where the footprints fell, which was still moist.

Following the footprints, these people left the mall and walked deeper into Jiacheng.

Lin Feng hid in the shadow of the corner and continued moving forward.

He had to find this group of people in order to understand the strange situation in Jiacheng.

Why can human survivors coexist with the Zerg.

Insects can't talk, but humans can.

As Lin Feng went deeper and deeper into the city center, he passed by a city park. The forest in midsummer was full of lush green leaves, just like the sides of the road...

The red beetles did not devour these low-fat foods.

The situation in the suburbs of Haicheng is completely different.

The Zerg seemed to treat this city as their own home, and tried their best to preserve its original appearance.

Soon, Lin Feng, who was hiding in the corner, saw several figures emerging from the park and forest in the distance.

There are survivors indeed!
Lin Feng's eyes narrowed, and he did not immediately walk out to shout, but hid aside and observed the behavior of these people.

Surprisingly, these survivors actually planted some crops on the park’s land.

They used shovels, hoes and other farm tools to loosen the soil, and looked like normal humans working.

If Jiacheng had not been conquered by the Zerg, Lin Feng would have almost believed it.

Without the Zerg's tacit approval, they would be a group of lambs to be slaughtered for such blatant planting behavior.

Lin Feng thought of a possibility.

Simply relying on force to advance and capture cities is definitely not enough to support such a large number of Zerg. There must be other stable ways to obtain energy.

It has been nearly a month since the Zerg invasion, but humans still have not understood the social ecological structure of this alien Zerg race.

The organizational order within the group, the social form, and most importantly...

Their basic way of obtaining energy!

Water is only the base material for obtaining energy, just like humans living on the blue planet rely on photosynthesis of autotrophic organisms such as plants to accumulate solar energy into chemical energy such as sugar, starch, and protein.

However, photosynthesis can only occur on the surface of a planet that can be exposed to sunlight, and the Zerg mother nest is always hundreds of meters underground, or even deeper.

In the airtight underground, not to mention sunlight, even the existence of life is only some ancient bacteria and primitive low-level cells that can survive with difficulty.

As a result, the Zerg must rely on other methods unknown to humans to obtain additional biomass.

So when Lin Feng saw the survivors farming in the Zerg-occupied area, he thought of...

Could it be the Zerg, enslaving humans?

Forcing them to grow food for the Zerg.

Just like the parasitic mother body that controlled Cheng Zhan revealed before it died, this alien Zerg race had already invaded multiple planets, and the red beetles at the bottom were the alien life forms they captured and enslaved.

Perhaps in the future, when humans are truly defeated, they will also become the objects of Zerg slavery, helping them complete logistical supplies or take care of high-level Zerg offspring...

Thinking of this, Lin Feng, who was about to step forward to ask, bent down and quietly retreated.

After leaving the park, continue into the city center.

Not long after, after crossing two districts, Lin Feng used telepathy to detect a group of dense light spots within five kilometers from the city center.

Judging from the size and brightness of the light source, its health value is around 100.

It should be a group of first-stage early black-backed insects.

But the problem is that they are gathered too densely, there is even one per square meter, which is much denser than the swarms Lin Feng had previously detected.

As he continued to go deeper, another possibility soon emerged in his mind.

Could it be that the light spots in the sensor are not Zerg, but a group of awakened humans?
This thought has been lingering in Lin Feng's mind since it appeared...

Ten minutes later, Lin Feng arrived a hundred meters away from where the light spots gathered, and then squatted on the top of a tall building.

The target location is a large chain shopping mall, Wanya Shopping Center.

Seeing this scene, Lin Feng became more certain of his inner guess.

Because this shopping mall cannot accommodate hundreds or thousands of black-backed worms, only small-bodied human awakeners can survive in it.

Soon, a humanoid creature walked out of the mall gate, confirming Lin Feng’s inner guess.

A group of human survivors left the mall and headed for the nearby green belt.

There, they also grow many crops.

Seeing that there were only five people, Lin Feng quietly moved over and came behind them.

He controlled the strength and knocked out three of them with his knife. Then he pointed the gun at the last man and woman who had not yet reacted.

Their strength is stronger than the other three, all of them are mid-level first-stage above lv13, and they are considered small leaders in this gathering place.

"Hands up, don't move!"

Lin Feng shouted in a low voice, and at the same time released the aura of a second-stage mid-stage awakener, scaring the two of them so much that they turned around and quickly knelt on the ground.

When they saw the survivors from outside, the two men looked hesitant and shocked.

It seems that it is difficult to have other outsiders here.

After all, in the outer circle of the city, a large number of insect swarms can be gathered and guarded to block the "invaders".

"You...you came from outside?!"

The man kneeling on the ground with his hands raised was the first to react. He knew every face in the gathering place, but the young man in front of him, both in appearance and in his aura, was not in his memory. Lin Feng nodded slightly and asked:

"Jiacheng has been captured by the Zerg, why are you still alive? Why didn't the Zerg swarms outside the city attack you?"

The man swallowed and looked slightly excited, while the woman with a numb expression on the side flashed a little brightly after hearing Lin Feng's admission.

"We...we are kept in captivity by them."

"The managers of the gathering place are a group of..."

A trace of fear appeared on the man's face. The woman beside him came to her senses and added with gritted teeth:

"A bunch of insect-like people who are neither human nor ghost!"

"There is a parasite on their backs that can control their speech and thoughts, ruling and enslaving these survivors."

Lin Feng nodded, not surprised at all.

Since the Queen Mother in Haicheng can use her parasitic body to infiltrate the top leaders of the Thirteenth Division and steal intelligence, then the Zerg Queen Mothers in other places can definitely rely on their parasitic abilities to control and enslave local humans.

But the man and woman in front of them seemed a little surprised by Lin Feng's matter-of-fact expression.

They believed that if this news were to be spread to the outside world, it would definitely cause an uproar.

After all, the Zerg, who are usually stupid and low-intelligence, actually possess advanced intelligence and can even communicate directly with humans through parasitism...

"Go on, tell me the purpose of the Zerg keeping you captive."

Lin Feng raised the muzzle of his gun and spoke in a stern tone. He did not trust the other party yet, even though they were not infested by insects.

The man was startled and said quickly:

"My name is Huang Qixin, and she is Lin Ping."

"The Zerg arrived here half a month ago."

"There were still tens of thousands of Jiacheng locals who stayed in the city. Unfortunately, the Federation did not send garrison troops. We were surrounded by a large swarm of insects on the way to evacuate. A large number of survivors had to retreat back into the city..."

"The last few thousand people are hiding in the center of Jiacheng."

"But that day, the Zerg did not launch an attack. Instead, a few people walked out from the Zerg tide... Zerg people."

"They announced that we could survive. As long as we obeyed their orders and did not leave the center of Jiacheng, we would have the resources of the entire city."

"After that...our nightmare began."

"The survivors were taken to the center of the mall, where the insects created a living flesh-and-blood incubator. We were forced to enter it and were forced to reproduce..."

"Two weeks after conception, they will remove the placenta from the woman's belly."

"Put it into that flesh and blood object and provide nourishment."

As he spoke, Huang Qixin glanced at the woman beside him.

Lin Ping's haggard and numb expression, as well as her shriveled belly, confirmed what he said.

After Huang Qixin finished speaking with lingering fear, Lin Ping added:
"You...the explosion that came from the east of the city this morning, is it the federal army coming to rescue us?"

Lin Feng did not answer, but just shook his head slightly, and his eyes became colder.

It seems that the ambition of this queen is no less than that of the one in Haicheng.

The combat strength of his subordinates is not as good as the one in Shanghai City, but they are already planning to seize the reproductive capacity of humans and want to completely control humans for their own use.

Children raised by the Zerg have sneaked into the human safe zone. Unless they are physically parasitized, any scanning methods will be useless.

Subtle mental control and brainwashing are more terrifying than any other means.

At this moment, Lin Feng even had the idea of ​​destroying this gathering place controlled by the Zerg.

After all, if we let them continue to develop like this, who knows what strange things they might come up with.

Compared with the human Zerg genetic warriors, will the Zerg also mass-produce highly intelligent, combat-type second-order Zerg people in the future? !
To speed up the disintegration of human resistance.

Thinking of this, Lin Feng looked at the survivor in front of him with an increasingly gloomy gaze.

Although he tried his best and was able to rescue some people, he couldn't rescue all the thousands of people in the gathering place.

This means going to war with the Zerg all over the city.

Instead of just breaking through from one side.

In comparison, killing is always easier than saving.

If they stay here, they will always be a hidden danger...

Just when Lin Feng decided to pull the trigger, suddenly, a group of humans came from behind him.

Most of them were just enhanced humans, but behind these people, stood a strange man in a cloak, whose back bulged high under the cloak, like a hunchbacked old woman.

The strength of this monster has reached the early stage of the second level.

Its identification data quickly appeared in Lin Feng's eyes:
"Zerg Matrix, lv21/29"

"HP 250, Vt 210, SPR 290"

While confirming the other party's identity, Lin Feng had already pointed the gun at it.

Then, among the numb crowd, the hoarse voice of the parasitic mother was heard:
"Hello, brave human warrior..."

Lin Feng's mouth corners slightly raised:

"Disperse these people. You should know that they have no influence on me."

The old woman chuckled and said indifferently:

“The weakest point of human beings is kindness, whether it is towards their own kind or other lives.”

"So only a few strong people can overcome this nature and become the true rulers of your people."

"Then they continue to sing praises to the greatness of this emotion, attempting to turn all living beings into lambs to be slaughtered at will, in order to facilitate their long-term rule..."

Lin Feng frowned slightly, suddenly turned the gun around, and fired two shots behind him! !
A man and a woman were seen kneeling behind Lin Feng, with deep holes between their brows, and they slowly fell to the ground.

In Lin Ping's hand, she was holding a sharp cone, which was covered with purple-black smelly pus, and looked extremely poisonous.

Lin Feng turned around and switched the god-level pistol in his hand back to the level 25 armor-piercing magnetic cannon. Then he looked at the parasitic mother body behind the crowd with interest:

"What conditions did you promise them to be willing to die?"

The old woman waved her shriveled fingers, dispelling the humans in front of her, and replied:
"Her unborn child, and freedom."

"You have an almost morbid obsession with sacrificing your relatives and descendants, and this can be easily utilized..."

"And you humans have a famous saying,"

"As long as the benefits are sufficient, everything can be traded."

Lin Feng smiled and nodded, and turned the gun pointed at the mother body to the Wanya Shopping Mall not far away:
"you're right."

"So if the people inside take one more step, you will have to stay here forever."

The parasitic mother then looked embarrassed and waved her hand to stop her subordinates from continuing to evacuate.

Then he seemed to sense something, bowed and said respectfully:
"His Majesty wants to talk to you in person..."

Lin Feng frowned slightly:

"I have nothing to discuss with you."

"I am more interested in you than meeting the Queen Mother."

However, just as he finished his words, he saw the parasitic mother in front of him fall to her knees, and then her whole body trembled and twitched, and the tumor on her back swelled several times.

The next moment, a gentle female voice came from the mouth of the old insect woman who was lying on the ground with four legs:
"So how much benefit do I need to impress you..."

"For example, one hundred second-level tiger spine insects?"

Some people say that Zerg are not smart, but that is not necessarily true.

The following plot is like a train, charge!

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(End of this chapter)