I was reborn after playing a good hand badly

Su Mo, who had countless lives on his hands, was trying to cut open the main body of the mother nest for the first time. In the past, he had just burned it to ashes.

But then I encountered such thick leather.

Seeing that Su Mo had started cutting and then stopped, with a strange expression on his face, Bai Bai asked, "Mo Mo, why did you stop cutting?"

She wasn't particularly interested in the mother nest; she just wanted to know an answer. Although she now felt that her guess was probably wrong and that Fatty's guess was correct, what if it was true?

Su Mo shook his head.

"It's not easy to cut it now. Such a thick skin is likely to protect the internal energy storage cavity. If we're not careful, we might lose this mother nest as well."

Bai Bai said indifferently, "Then let's catch another one. If it explodes, so be it. Anyway, it can replenish the space's supplies, so it's not a waste."

Su Mo: "..."

"I want to keep it and see if it can be used for other purposes. I don't plan to use it as a supplement."

"Can't Mo Mo's divine sense penetrate in and take a look?" Bai Bai asked.

If the other party has a demon core or something similar inside their body, their divine sense will definitely be able to detect it.

This time, Su Mo gave a precise answer.

"The skin of this mother nest is the same as part of the sand in the secret desert of J country back then. It has an insulating effect. I have tried both mental power and divine sense, but I cannot see it in depth."

"As for whether a demon core exists, it should not. If it did, my divine sense would be able to detect it without needing to investigate deeply."

"Okay, Little Fatty won this round."

Bai Bai pouted slightly in disappointment, while Pang Pang perked up.

Just as he was about to say something with his head held high in pride, he first sensed that the faint aura below had stopped.

"Oh no! It's dead, master."

"It shouldn't self-destruct, right?" The large black ball hid behind Su Mo.

Fatty "..."

Now it can't show off anymore.

"If you don't touch it, it won't explode, especially the reptiles. Don't be tempted to eat the corpses of the reptiles," Su Mo said.

"Let's leave it at that for now, we'll deal with it when we get back."

"Master, shall we just leave this insect corpse here?" the big black ball asked tentatively.

It wasn't because he was worried that the reptiles would disobey his commands and secretly eat the corpses; the big black ball just thought that since the mother nest was already dead, it should be harmless, right?

This mother nest has already filled the entire hilltop, with even the edges extending onto the slope. Should the owner put any more mother nests they capture on the adjacent hillside? Or perhaps they should move the insect corpses to make room for the next one?

It and the reptiles will have to help their master fight the Zerg later, so they need to be given some space.

The big black ball stared longingly at Su Mo.

"The ones we caught later are piled up with this one..." Su Mo said, looking up at the sky. Well, that didn't seem quite right.

It's not that I'm worried about it being crushed by the people below, but the thickness of the stacked material might exceed the barrier's range, thus rendering it ineffective as a protective barrier.

Let's move this one out. Like the big black ball said, it's already dead and won't cause any more trouble.

"Let's leave the mother hive's body down the mountain; it'll make things easier for you later."

Su Mo moved the enormous insect corpse aside, clearing the mountaintop.

The big black ball then emerged, calling out to the reptiles to form a battle array on the mountaintop once more.

"Master, we've prepared the food for what's to come!"

"I will absorb as much energy as possible," the big black ball thought to itself.

"Mm." Su Mo nodded.

After letting Bai Bai and Pang Pang go and stop guarding the place, Su Mo left the space, intending to record the situation outside, pack it up and send it back to the command center before heading to the next mother nest.

The situation of these four secret realm passages is already quite bad. Su Mo felt that compared to the previous three secret realms, there might still be something worth exploring. It would be better to give up on these four secret realms.

Judging from the state of this secret passage, the situation on the other side is probably such that there's not even a place to stand, so it's really not worth the risk.

The water sphere circled around several secret realms, and after Su Mo had taken enough footage, she let the airship float up. She prepared the report for this place, and when the airship reached a location with a signal, she sent the report out directly.

This time, she didn't go to the surface to rest. After sending out her report, she dived back down to find the third mother nest.

The location of the third mother nest is already close to the west coast of country A.

Su Mo traveled from the eastern province of Xia State into the sea, and arrived at this third marked location, following a checkmark on the map.

Now we've arrived at the location of the third and final mother nest detected by the association.

The situation was similar; the insect swarm attacked several kilometers away from the target location.

Judging from the number of insects leading the charge at the front of the swarm, it was less than that at the second mother nest, but about the same size as the swarm encountered at the first nest.

Su Mo already had experience in naval warfare, especially in how to quickly deplete insect swarms when encountering them, until the problem was solved. He was very skilled at it.

The water sphere collided with the insect swarm for the third time, and Su Mo methodically dealt with wave after wave of insect soldiers rushing towards the water sphere.

During this process, her affinity for water elements slowly and steadily increased, and she became more and more skilled at using water arrows.

When I first started practicing, it took me three or four water arrows to take down a mantis. Now, I never miss, and every water arrow can take the life of a mantis.

During battles, Su Mo would try to collect these intact Zerg corpses back into his spatial storage as provisions for the reptile larvae that would be born later.

As the number of Zerg soldiers dwindled, Su Mo's thoughts began to wander amidst the repetitive actions.

Both terrestrial and underwater mother nests are mother nests in theory, but their behaviors are different.

The terrestrial hives are also very active in absorbing the energy of the secret realm, but their behavior seems more reasonable: they absorb the energy, breed the Zerg, and then use the large number of Zerg soldiers to attack humans.

The underwater mother hive only reproduced a certain number of Zerg soldiers and then stopped. Is it really because there is no war on the seabed and therefore no need for more soldiers, so the mother hive stores the large amount of energy it absorbs?

Perhaps that's not the case?

The underwater mother nest does not reproduce or evolve; it only focuses on collecting and storing energy, as if it wants to take away the psionic energy from Earth.

Where should we take it? To the place of origin of the insect-egg meteorite observed in Xia Kingdom?

But that place is very, very far away from Earth. How are they going to bring them back?

Surely they can't possibly cross the universe and go back on their own, right? Or will they send a spaceship to pick them up? Or some other method?

Even after dealing with this swarm of insects, Su Mo still couldn't figure it out.

The water sphere is already close to the seabed.

Like the previous two locations, only one mother nest is located here.

As Su Mo approached the mother nest, she decided not to kill this one for now. She had an idea: to try and communicate with it.