A few days later, the mainland fleet arrived one after another and built a research station on the insect island.
Zhang Mu controlled the Scorpion Puppet and found a lot of useful information directly from the Scorpion clan's memory, making the research work smoother. The establishment of a scientific research station is beneficial and harmless to the human race. All major forces are paying attention to the island. Once the island is in danger, they will know it immediately. It will not be like last time. They were almost wiped out and the Green Alliance didn't know anything about it.
The Zerg base is an important thing that money cannot buy. The more the mainland pays attention to it, the more it will protect the island.
With the joint efforts of thousands of robots and humans, the fields in the desert in the middle of the island suddenly more than doubled. In addition to spiritual beast grass and cultivation grass, a large number of other spiritual grasses and spiritual fruits are also planted, which are mainly low-level plants that are edible and auxiliary. In the mountains near the island, there are large and simple breeding farms where different spiritual beasts are raised and multiplied.
The living area gradually took shape, and a square was planned and built nearby, which was said to be specially used as a dock for parking warships.
Warm air flow, fresh air, the fields are vibrant, spiritual animals are grazing leisurely in the pasture, and people are either practicing or helping to breed.
Everything is in perfect order on the island!
Inside the island, there is a secret place that most people don't know about. The space inside is not large, but the soil is very fertile.
A row of verdant green vines stretched out in the corner. Zhang Mu carefully poured the fertilizer mixed with fine crystals. These are the seedlings of the void gourd. The void gourd is a relatively precious spiritual object. The planting cycle is relatively long, and the cost is The difficulty is very high. As long as the void gourds grow, each one can be sold at a high price. This is a planting farm. There is a breeding farm not far away, and laser bats are also being cultivated.
Two things come from the virtual world, and they are key breeding and planting objects.
Zhang Mu walked to the corner of the wall, and the wall began to squirm, opening a passage out from the middle. This breeding room is inside the base and is part of the base. The soil layer is the active tissue of the base. The base can only simulate an environment suitable for growth, while delivering energy to the soil and even synthesizing special biological substances according to plant changes. Such as ripening drugs, aphrodisiac drugs, etc., can speed up growth and facilitate reproduction, thereby greatly shortening the growth cycle and greatly increasing the life rate.
Zhang Mu had just arrived on the island. When he saw the desolate appearance of the island, he thought that the Zerg were a group of low-level, incompetent intelligent creatures that did not know how to plant or breed.
Now it seems that the insect world is dominated by life technology.
The Zerg are better at tapping the potential of life.
Outside the breeding room is a long corridor, with squirming walls of flesh on the left, right, and up and down. The entire air is turbid and difficult to breathe. After all, the Zerg base belongs to the Scorpions, and the Scorpions don't need to breathe. The corridor is very long, connecting more than a hundred biological chambers for breeding and cultivation. This is an advanced biological cultivation base.
"Mumu, why did you come out?"
In a small hall, Lei Ming and Lin Caiyan had been waiting for a long time.
"I'm checking how the gourds are growing."
"The biological base will take care of them, so we don't have to worry about it. I found a few interesting places today. I'll take you to see them. It will definitely open your eyes!"
Zhang Mu was a little surprised, "Any new discoveries?"
The breeding area of the Zerg base is actually a functional area that was discovered recently. The structure of the Zerg base is more complex than imagined, and there are still many functions that have not yet been explored. After continuous exploration in the past few days, surprises appear from time to time.
Lin Caiyan showed a look of surprise, "This time is amazing! Several super important discoveries!"
Zhang Mu immediately became interested, "Really? Take me to see it quickly!"
The two walked around several passages in the Zerg base and finally entered a huge hall. This place had not been discovered before. At this moment, it was filled with people, including Keyan personnel from the mainland, as well as Long Hao, Leng Yun, and other humans present.
Zhang Mu glanced inside.
This hall is completely different from other halls. It gives people a... very uncomfortable feeling!
The entire hall is full of pits, with tumor-like things bulging out everywhere, and even worse, it is riddled with holes, like a honeycomb shape, constantly squirming. People with trypophobia will definitely faint on the spot when they see such a disgusting scene.
Lin Caiyan explained: "It's true that it's ugly, but it's just a good place!"
In the center of countless huge honeycomb tumors, there was something that looked like a crater. Zhang Mu saw several mainland scientific researchers pour more than one hundred boundless coins from the crater, and a controlled scorpion puppet began. Giving orders mentally, the whole room squirmed even more violently. Suddenly, an ugly worm as thick as a thigh squeezed out from a large tumor. After the worm appeared, it immediately expanded and began to change its shape.
"insect?"
Zhang Mu was slightly startled.
Lin Caiyan nodded and said: "That's right, the Scorpion Clan calls this place the Hall of Ten Thousand Insects, or the Hall of Mother Insects! A place dedicated to cultivating insect monsters!"
[Ten Thousand Insects Hall] is the name of the Scorpion Clan. It is an integral part of the base and is a division of the biological arsenal.
There are countless honeycomb-like things inside. In fact, they are artificial insect mother nests, from which more than a thousand different types of insect eggs can be cultivated. This is much more powerful than the insect nest on the mainland. All bugs with various functions can be cultivated. You can even combine several bugs to directly cultivate synthetic life forms!
The bugs that emerge from the nest are called protozoa.
The protozoa itself has no combat effectiveness, but it is a product of cutting-edge biotechnology. It is a carrier for the research on the Scorpion civilization.
Protozoa are equivalent to larvae.
A multipotential magical life that contains huge potential. They are like stem cells, which differentiate into a variety of functional cells under certain conditions. When the protozoa are input with different developmental information, they will transform into various mature bodies.
These biological information are actually the Zerg templates stored in the Palace of All Insects.
In some ways, the protozoa are similar to the small bugs that roam next to the main base of the Zerg in the computer game "StarCraft"!
Zhang Mu was so shocked that he couldn't open his mouth from ear to ear, "Is it really that powerful?"
Long Hao came over and introduced: "There are thousands of insect monster templates hidden here. Using protozoa as a carrier, you can directly develop into corresponding insects. If you are not satisfied with the existing templates, there is a life synthesis room opposite, and we can Using several templates to combine, a new type of synthetic life can be synthesized immediately, which theoretically provides enough energy. The types of bugs we can make are endless. The Zerg monsters outside the territory are by no means comparable to the Zerg monsters on the mainland. That insect nest of yours , compared to it, it’s really shabby!”
Leng Yun saw with her own eyes that mainland researchers combined several bugs like plasticine to finally generate a new type of bug. However, creating a new bug was very expensive. If we want to develop new types of bugs, the financial resources of the mainland are not enough, let alone the human race.
Because synthesis is not directional, there is a chance of failure and mutation.
Most of them become weaker after synthesis. However, once a new type of bug or a mutated bug appears, the relevant information will be memorized by the base and become a brand new template, which can be directly produced in the future.
The Scorpions have enough templates to build any kind of Zerg army.
"sharp!"
"sharp!"
Zhang Mu greatly appreciated this.
Lei Ming said: "The production cost of bugs is not low. The stronger they are, the higher the cost. Especially powerful bugs require special materials to produce. We can first produce bugs with the ability to collect and plant, go to other areas to collect relevant materials, and then make more powerful bugs. of fighting bugs.”
Zhang Mu has 290,000 world coins, which sounds like a lot. However, after the Zerg base is awakened, it is far from enough to absorb energy from the island.
Although not all are currently activated, and the awakening part is less than one-fifth, it still requires a lot of energy. Ordinary energy can be replaced by other energy substances. However, for the base to operate normally, ordinary energy is not enough, and fine crystals are also needed. The bottom line of daily consumption of the life essence provided in is about 1,000 realm coins. If you use it normally, you will consume more.
Zhang Mu must leave no less than 100,000 realm coins to be used as the energy supply for the base.
Another 50,000 yuan is reserved for daily expenses, other people's cultivation, breakthroughs, and planting and breeding needs. The current population is not large, and the scale of planting and breeding is not large, but it is enough for the current situation. As for the rest of the money, Zhang Mu planned to spend it in the virtual world to buy another undead temple or other useful things. Zhang Mu can also buy some precious spiritual grass and spiritual beasts from the mysterious store, breed them in large quantities, and use them to make money.
"After the battle in the past few days, the Zerg base basically has no extra strength. Now the island's defense is almost zero."
"Our resources are severely lacking. It is best to collect void matter from the outside and collect useful resources to build defenses."
It's not that Zhang Mu has never thought about it. Although the alliance gave some resources and picked up some from the Zerg, most of them are low-level resources. They can be used to build houses, make low-level items, ordinary alchemy, refining medicine, and cooking. It is not a problem. , but cannot be used to develop islands.
Lei Ming suddenly had a good idea and said: "There is a kind of gathering insect in the Temple of All Insects called the Skynet Insect. It is a very good resource-gathering insect monster. If an extraterritorial mine is found, the Skynet Insect can mine directly. If no mine is found, the Skynet Insect can mine directly. , the Skynet Worm can also condense a large amount of trace matter and energy from the void to condense high-quality energy crystal blocks and void materials. Not only can these things be used by themselves, but they are also easy to sell!"
Zhang Mu checked and found that it would cost at least 5,000 world coins to breed a Skynet Worm, and said: "Then let's produce a few Skynet Worms first. You can drive out the mothership and use laser radar to search for any void mines nearby. field."
"good!"
Zhang Mu asked again: "Didn't you say there are several areas with special functions? Where else?"
"There are indeed a few more." Lin Caiyan said with playful eyes: "There is one place among them that I would never have imagined. It is no less than the Ten Thousand Insect Breeding Room, and is even more powerful!"