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

Chapter 276: Cleaning up the battlefield and advancing to the next level

Lin Feng stayed in the mother nest where Qin Hu and others were, waiting for the nearest western middle-stage queen to come and investigate the situation here.

However, what surprised him a little was that after losing so many warrior hunting insects and the signals from two early queen mothers...

No one came to check. Even if they sent one or two warrior insect-hunting scouts, or the green-winged insects or wind-winged insects hovering in the sky for reconnaissance, it would have been fine.

But nothing.

This guy seemed to have sensed something and decisively curled up to avoid exposing his whereabouts.

Soon after, the genetic warriors in the other three hive entrances, after noticing something strange in the hive, realized that the queen here might have died.

So after killing the second-level Zerg in front of them, they left the hive and gathered at the entrance in the middle.

Join up with everyone underground.

But what surprised Lin Feng was that only five people out of the twenty-man genetic regiment led by Shen Jie came.

The remaining fifteen people, including Shen Jie himself, actually discovered a hidden wormhole tunnel after exploring the southernmost insect nest.

It is only about five or six meters wide, and even an ordinary first-order black-backed worm would find it difficult to pass through it.

In addition, this bottomless tunnel goes deep into the ground for thousands of meters, unlike the ventilation duct of the insect nest where the red beetles lie down to rest.

Therefore, the appearance of this tunnel deep underground seems very suspicious.

Shen Jie and others, after discovering the residual scent of the warrior hunting insect inside, decided to sneak in and explore.

I want to find out where these warrior insect hunters come from and where they go.

They believe that this secret passage is likely connected to the underground nest where the Queen Mother is.

So Shen Jie led fourteen people into the group, and the remaining five went to inform the leader Lin Feng.

After listening to the report, Lin Feng quickly realized that the abyss tunnel that Shen Jie and others walked into might be the one leading to the rear area, the territory of the middle-stage mother queen west of the capital city.

This also means that Shen Jie and his fifteen companions have now entered the spiritual detection range of the mid-stage Queen Mother, and can then deduce that the two early-stage Queen Mothers on the front line and the Zerg under their command were attacked.

This also explains why, more than an hour had passed since the surprise decapitation operation, but the Queen Mother in the rear had not implemented any reconnaissance measures.

Fortunately, Shen Jie has entered the early stage of the third stage, and the fourteen genetic warriors under his command have also begun to master the power of the spinal insect clan's artistic conception.

With all members equipped with replicas of the electromagnetic cannon, it is no problem to kill an early queen. As long as they don't go deep into the heart of the hive and face the mid-stage queen directly, they can stay on the periphery and be less affected mentally, and then they can escape unscathed.

"The five of you go and inform them that this decapitation operation has ended. The two early queen mothers have been successfully killed."

"With our current state and strength, we can't fight against the mid-stage Queen Mother. Let them return as soon as possible to avoid exposing our strength and intelligence and alerting the enemy."

Even though the five gene warriors had seen the corpse of the slain queen lying like a hill deep in the nest when they first arrived...

At this moment, after hearing the leader confirm that the mission was completed and the other queen had been killed, he couldn't help but reveal a look of great regret, and the excitement in his eyes suddenly disappeared by more than half.

Lin Feng saw this and added with a smile:
"Don't worry. Today I am only here to give the Multi-Emperor Alliance a small warning. Don't forget that there are three early-stage mother queens outside Yunxia Ridge."

"Since we can't touch the middle-stage queen right now, let's continue to use them to increase our strength!"

"Be prepared, there will be a fierce battle tomorrow!"

After listening to Lin Feng's guidance and encouragement, the lost people instantly cheered up, saluted and left with high morale, going to recall their leader and teammates.

After seeing these people off, the support troops that Lin Feng was waiting for arrived at the surface entrance of the insect nest half an hour after Jiang Yuner returned to Yunxialing. They drove the upgraded armored personnel carrier across the tragic battlefield strewn with corpses, and arrived at the surface entrance of the insect nest.

Those who came were the idle logistics soldiers in the team.

There are about fifty people in total, responsible for cleaning the battlefield and collecting Zerg biological materials.

The remaining forty members of the Yunxialing regiment and one hundred and fifty newly promoted second-level members all stayed at the front line and continued to hold their ground.

Although Lin Feng and Long Yi had revealed the matter of the hydrogen bomb to the Multi-Emperor Alliance through Jiang Yuner, there was no guarantee that they would not take risks and launch a surprise attack.

The situation on the battlefield changes rapidly.

Especially now that it has come to the critical period of confrontation, Lin Feng will not expose such a flaw that could determine victory or defeat.

In fact, the team members did not have much work to do. In addition to dissecting the two huge queen corpses under the guidance and arrangements of Longyi before he left, cutting and removing the breeding mechas and the required biological tissues, they also had to detect and search the insect nest.

Find the main hatching nest in the two Zerg underground nests that is used to store and feed the second-stage Zerg eggs, and dig out the second-stage Zerg eggs inside.

There are now more than two hundred early and middle stage second-level fighters in the Salvation Army. Their daily energy consumption has squeezed a lot of biomass energy that should have been used for the development and cultivation of colonization mechas.

There are also new types of electric-driven cells prepared for Lin Feng.

All these things have long been too much for the Yunxialing main nest, which only has tens of thousands of insect swarms, an insect nest, and a hatching meat tower.

Due to the lack of the ability to hatch and cultivate larvae, half of the Yunxialing insect swarm that was originally recruited and controlled by Lingyi has lost more than half in the daily overload of labor and collection.

Especially the red beetles at the bottom level, as the cheapest and most useful logistics worker insects, their lifespan is linked to the working time. Generally speaking, with reasonable rest and rotation, they can barely survive for several months.

But due to the urgent need for nutrient solution by the Savior Army, they collected biomass almost day and night, sent it to the biological meat nest, and decomposed it to condense the initial nutrient solution.

Therefore, more than half of the original swarm of 20,000 to 30,000 insects had died from overwork within just a few days.

The two early queens chose to raid the north this time, not only to resolve the crisis in Beihe Town and Qinhu Corps, but also to recruit more ownerless insect swarms.

At this moment, Lin Feng asked the soldiers to distribute the organic nutrient solution carried in the armored vehicle to everyone present, especially Qin Hu, who had absorbed the tremendous life energy and was about to evolve.

He needs to drink at least half a ton of organic nutrient solution to ensure the third-level transformation of a genetic warrior like him.

When Qin Hu and others were about to leave, Lin Feng stepped forward and said earnestly:

"Promoting your rank will activate your artistic conception power, allowing you to receive a more complete artistic conception inheritance."

"Perhaps you will return to the Land of the End and even meet the legendary fourth-order Spine King there. However, the power of your state of mind is fearlessness, not killing, so the Spine King will not have a profound impact on you."

"Remember to maintain your self-awareness, so that you can break free from the constraints of the spiritual world after receiving the inheritance of the artistic conception."

"If you're worried, you can come with me."

Qin Hu hesitated for a moment and chose to put himself first:
"Okay, I'll stay and go with you."

As he said this, he turned to his thirty-five second-level peak gene warriors and said:
"Everyone, please go back first. Leave everything here to the Savior Army. We have completed our mission."

Qin Hu knew very well that this time, not only did they break the siege of the Zerg Nest army with the help of the Salvation Army, but he also, with Lin Feng's deliberate assistance and humility, reaped the life of the dying Queen Mother and completed the final kill.

This is the only chance to get promoted to the third stage. This is the most valuable treasure in the entire Zerg and all the Zerg nests.

Even hundreds of tiger-spine worms and hundreds of second-level insect eggs are no match for killing the Zerg Queen and getting the chance to be promoted to the third level.

But he knew even more clearly that the reason why Lin Feng was so generous in making the gift was obviously because he had something more important to entrust to him.

So at the most critical stage of promotion, he chose to believe Lin Feng and follow him back to Yunxialing.

Along with the materials of the queen's corpses from the two places and some second-level insect eggs, they were loaded into armored personnel carriers.

Lin Feng brought Liu Yueqi and Qin Hu, who had completed the mission of killing the Queen Mother, back to the main hatching nest in Yunxialing.

The rest of the Guards Regiments, under the command of Liu Yi, continued to clear out the remaining second-order Zerg.

The Savior Army does not need second-order Zerg as slaves. These large soldier insects, which are over 20 meters in size, are only suitable for combat and have no way of providing logistical support, making them seem out of place.

Their best destination is to become the upgrade energy in the hands of soldiers, or the raw materials for various weapons and equipment.

As for other low-level black-backed insects and even lower-level red beetles, they will become the army of hardworking worker insects under the command of the dragonfly.

When Lin Feng and others arrived at Yunxia's main nest in an armored vehicle, the cicadas inside had been waiting for a long time.

"Want to stay and observe their promotion process?"

Lin Feng walked to the side of Long Yi.

Looking at the two people lying in the incubation pyramid not far away, who are about to start upgrading to a higher level.

The second-level insect eggs serve as biological cabins for hibernation and promotion, which can ensure a stable supply of the nutrients they need.

Ling Yi shook his head:
"It's OK as long as you're here, and Jiang Yuner is back too, so she can keep an eye on things. We can talk about some things later."

"I'm leaving first. Remember to send the Queen Mother's biological tissue and the two golden Queen Mother's brains into the incubation tower. Give the rest of the eggs to Jiang Yuner and reconnect them."

Lin Feng nodded, accompanied Lingyi out of the main nest, walked to the foot of the Yunxialing Mountains, and sat on a green-winged insect.

With a pair of flapping membranous wings on its back vibrating at a high frequency, after taking off, Lingyi controlled the green-winged insect, maintaining a low-altitude flight, and soon disappeared under the moonlight.

After returning to the main nest, Lin Feng noticed that Jiang Yuner seemed to have become a little depressed after meeting the Eastern Mid-Term Perfect Queen Mother.

He also became weak and listless when operating the hatching pyramid and storing the Queen Mother's tissue materials.

Could it be that this contact and surrender was not pleasant?
Lin Feng wanted to ask, but after thinking it over, he decided to wait for Long Yi to come back and then listen to the whole story.

Four hours later, when it was almost dawn outside, Long Yi controlled the swarm of up to 100,000 low-level insects, including more than 60,000 red beetles, and successfully returned to Yunxialing.

In the egg chamber of the hatching meat tower, the two people who were undergoing cross-level upgrades also entered the most critical stage.

Liu Yueqi has completed the metamorphosis. Through the fleshy outer shell of the insect egg, one can feel the powerful third-level aura being slowly released.

Long Yi walked to Lin Feng's side, looked at the two people in front of him, and then focused his attention on Liu Yueqi.

She was also quite concerned about this human girl.

Although the awakened superpowers are not as amazing as Lin Feng's, they are also very rare and full of potential.

"Liu Yueqi's current state is probably that she is experiencing the process of condensing her own artistic conception power..."

Lin Feng frowned slightly. Liu Yueqi was an important part of his future plan, and he couldn't let anything go wrong here:

"Will there be any danger? What will happen if the cohesion fails?"

Ling Yi shook his head:
"There is no danger to life. Even if it fails, the most it will suffer is a loss of mental strength, which will not affect the overall combat effectiveness."

"But there aren't many such opportunities. There have always been geniuses who have evolved to the peak of the third stage and have the potential to reach the fourth stage..."

"Everyone will find their own unique artistic conception when they enter the third stage. Only in this way can they master the basic and complete artistic conception power when they grow to the late third stage."

"So for the indigenous civilizations on a planet, those with outstanding talents are lucky. Although the road ahead is uncertain, at least they can write their own legends."

"And most of the races in the universe, especially the descendants of the god-level civilization, have been locked in the cage of artistic conception in their blood genes since the moment they were born. They have to live in the shadow of the superiors for their entire lives, and return to dust after just ten thousand years."

"Wish Liu Yueqi good luck."

After saying that, Longyi turned his head and looked at the egg chamber on the other side:

"Qin Hu's fearless state of mind should not be affected too much by the Spine King. This mad king has been completely engulfed by the killing state of mind. As long as Qin Hu can hold on until the absorption of the fearless state of mind is completed, he will be able to return safely."

After listening to what Long Yi said, Lin Feng breathed a sigh of relief.

Just about to ask about Jiang Yuner.

At this time, the insect egg cabin where Qin Hu was located first began to move.

Qin Hu, who suddenly woke up from the inheritance of artistic conception, stretched out his hand and tore the fleshy shell of the insect eggs into pieces.

He raised his head and gasped for breath.

The body has been deformed and multiplied with a large number of spiny worm-like appearances, and a hard orange-yellow and golden shell, which is spread all over the limbs and torso, and has even spread to the half-transformed head and face.

It was as if it had transformed into a third-level king hunting insect!
As he woke up, a powerful artistic conception was released from his body and gradually began to spread throughout the entire hatching nest.

Fortunately, Longyi was quick to act and immediately used his infinite reproduction state of mind, mobilized his spiritual energy, and began to limit and encircle Qin Hu, who unconsciously exuded a fearless state of mind.

The fearless state of mind is very effective against low-level swarms of the spinal insect race. Even second-level tiger-spine insects will become brave and crazy and fearless of death under the call of fearlessness.

This is also the reason why the Queen Mother does not like the other two types of King Spinosaurus except the Unyielding. Their existence itself is a threat to the Zerg under the Queen Mother's rule.

Fortunately, Qin Hu's awakening and unconsciousness did not last long.

Ten seconds later, he regained his self-consciousness, began to recall what had happened in the past, and restrained the release of his fearless mood.

At this time, the result of the other party's attribute identification also appeared in Lin Feng's eyes:

"Qin Hu, lv30/39"

"HP 1.4k, PH 1.4k, SP 1.2k"

"Super Power Awakening: Physical Fitness Enhanced by 100%"

"The power of artistic conception: fearlessness..."

(End of this chapter)