super predator system

Chapter 299 Caves
"Is Leviathan injured?"

Bai Mengmeng's mind turned for a moment, and she straightened out the idea, and asked, "Before, Bai and I also consumed a lot of that insect honey, which means that the insect queen has nothing to eat now?"

"almost."

Ye Ren scratched his head: "So the current situation is more difficult. I decided not to train you from tomorrow. You can help catch some food for the worms in the forest at will, and wait until the first few days pass. Alright, I guess Leviathan will be here soon."

"Isn't Leviathan injured?"

Bai Mengmeng was stunned for a moment, just now Ye Ren said that Leviathan couldn't make it through, how could he come over now.

"It was injured, and it was a serious injury that almost died." Ye Ren nodded: "However, Leviathan's vitality is comparable to that of a cockroach, so there is no serious problem now, but some things have delayed some time, as long as If you persist for a few days, it is estimated that Leviathan will come over."

"I see…"

Bai Mengmeng nodded. She had never seen the battle between Leviathan and the Giant Squid, so she didn't know how brutal it was and didn't have much of a reaction.

"Then what are we going to do now?" Bai Mengmeng asked after thinking about it.

"right now…"

Ye Ren took a look at the sky, it was already dark when he was on his way, and now it is even more pitch black with countless stars on the sky, so he said: "Eat something today and rest, if there is anything else, we can talk about it tomorrow."

"Then don't you have to catch your own food?"

Bai Mengmeng thought about it, and sure enough, she had to do everything in the forest by herself.

"No, I brought some fruits back." Ye Ren directly took out a large pile of fruits wrapped in leaves. There were many kinds of fruits inside, and even Ye Ren didn't even know the names of many of them. A bunch of colorful berries and tropical fruits, as well as some white crispy palm cores. Although the taste is not particularly good to chew, it is better than chewing bark, and it is rich in carbohydrates and fiber.

"Let's eat fruit tonight. I always eat barbecue or something these days. Eat some fruit to clear the stomach."

Ye Ren explained casually.

But in fact, it's just that I'm a little lazy and don't want to cook food.

"Hmm...that's fine." Naturally, Bai Mengmeng didn't think about it so much, and nodded after seeing the fruit: "I'm really a little tired these days, and the color of these fruits looks pretty good."

"That's good."

Ye Ren nodded, picked up a palm core and gnawed it. The taste was really not very good, like chewing cardboard, but the nutrition was not bad, so he ate it in big mouthfuls.

Soon, a small bag of wild fruits was eaten by the two of them. Ye Ren stretched out and said to Bai Mengmeng: "How about you, do you want to go to the Insect Queen to have a look? The scale of the Insect Nest should be established now." It’s almost done, I want to go down and have a look, if you want to take a look, I’ll take you down.”

"Ok?"

Bai Mengmeng ate the blueberry-like fruit, and said, "Okay, then I'll go down and have a look, yesterday... I didn't see it very clearly..."

After talking, the voice became smaller and smaller, and finally there was no movement at all.

"Okay, let's go." Ye Ren nodded, and didn't notice Bai Mengmeng's shy tone. He stood up directly from the ground, and then pulled Bai Mengmeng up from the ground with one hand. Walked towards the entrance of the insect nest not far away.

"In the future, we should find a way to cover the entrance of this lair."

Ye Ren pays great attention to concealment here, so he started talking to himself as soon as he got out of the cave, and this is not just talking to himself. While saying these words, Ye Ren is also using the soul link to communicate with himself. The queen communicated again, so the queen will remember these words.

"This cave... feels so deep..."

Bai Mengmeng sighed when he saw the deep caves around which he could barely reach his fingers.

"Yeah, the worm queen doesn't know how deep to dig." Ye Ren explained casually: "I plan to start digging the prototype of the base under the worm nest. I looked at the surrounding terrain and geological structure before. Most of them are rock structures, which are solid."

"Is it under the worm's nest?"

Bai Mengmeng nodded knowingly: "That is to say, the Zerg in the nest is the best guard of the base?"

"Yes."

Ye Ren smiled: "And haven't you noticed, even if we come to such a deep underground, we don't have difficulty breathing, which means that the Zerg has built a large number of vents in very hidden places, although the entire crypt structure looks disorganized. , but in fact the layout is very reasonable, like this one.”

Just as he was talking, Ye Ren suddenly reached out and dug from the side of the soil wall, and dug out a taupe clod, but this clod was a bit strange, with some shiny luster flowing on it.

"Look at this."

Ye Ren handed over the clod in his hand.

"Huh?" Bai Mengmeng took the clod curiously, took a rechargeable portable lamp (prepared by Bai Mengmeng earlier, charged with Ye Ren's electric muscles), and checked carefully with the light source of the portable lamp, and then Frowning, he asked, "Is this... amber? Or something else?"

"Sum fat, a special fatty substance secreted by the zerg, can solidify and harden into hard fat with good strength."

Ye Ren smiled and explained: "It seems that the Zerg use it is similar to what I thought. Most of them mix the soil with amber, then stir it evenly and re-apply it on the cave to strengthen the cave. stability."

"This bug is a born architect..."

Bai Mengmeng looked at the amber clod in his hand in surprise: "I remember that termites seem to have similar means to build their nests. I saw them build nests on the African grasslands on TV before, but The bodies of these zerg are almost a thousand times the size of termites, so the nests they build are simply amazing."

"When I was a child, I had a dream, that is to go into the nest of ants to see how they dig tunnels, but now I want to see my dream come true."

Ye Ren casually stroked the little zerg that had been crawling over, and said, "So don't give up on your dreams sometimes, even though it's incredible, but then again, digging tunnels or secret bases is just like a little boy. What a romance!"

"How can there be such a form of romance..."

Bai Mengmeng now complained casually: "How come I heard that a little boy's romance is a drill?"

"That's a man's romance, it's different."

Ye Ren made an excuse casually, and then led Bai Mengmeng towards a small cave, turning left and right. The complexity of this cave was simply beyond Ye Ren's calculations, even if it was Ye Ren's own memory. Very good, even to the point of having a photographic memory. At this moment, I almost lost my way in the cave.

In the end, thanks to the telepathy between him and the queen, he found the location of the other party.

It's just that Ye Ren was a little surprised that the queen moved again.

But this time, the place was somewhat magical. It turned out to be an extremely large-scale natural cave structure. The scale of this cave was so huge that even Ye Ren was a little surprised.

It's a coincidence that the queen herself didn't know that there was a natural cave structure in the ground, but the queen thought that the area of ​​the previous insect nest was not big enough, so she led a large group of insects to continue digging down to fight for it. Let the entire insect nest structure be hundreds of meters deep underground, so something went wrong when we kept digging down. After digging more than 700 meters as expected, the insect queen dug a hole directly. Only then did this natural cave structure be discovered.

Although it is quite puzzling to say that there are caves 700 meters underground, the insect queen does not care about this. Although it is smarter than Leviathan, it cannot reach the level of humans after all, so it will not think about this. What was puzzling was that he directly sent the zerg to investigate.

The environment of this underground cave is good, with several underground water veins running through it. A large number of bats and bugs grow well here, and the number is also large, which can be used as a food source for some insects.

But the area of ​​this cave is a bit surprising. Even though the queen has sent more than half of the zerg in the nest to explore it, until now, it is still not clear how big the cave is. Because the entire cave structure itself is as weird and unpredictable as a maze.

Fortunately, because these zergs can sense the location of the queen and can dig roads directly in the rocks, even if they get lost, they can forcibly dig a way back to the queen.

But in this way, the entire cave structure becomes more complex and changeable.

"Damn it, queen, your character is going against the sky." After Ye Ren and Bai Mengmeng came to the cave, Ye Ren immediately began to praise the queen: "Such a big environment, it's so overwhelming." All the zerg in the nest can migrate here."

"Squeak~"

The worm queen screamed, and then a burst of information was transmitted to Ye Ren along with the mind link.

"Huh? You haven't explored the entire area of ​​​​this place yet?" Ye Ren nodded after hearing the message conveyed by the insect queen: "It's okay, don't worry, there is no need to expand the underground space now, you can explore all around here. Just be clear, this cave looks good, you can develop here."

"The ecology here is a bit weird. Why is there an underground river so far from the ground?"

Bai Mengmeng has learned a lot during this time, and immediately frowned after seeing the surrounding environment: "It feels a little strange."

"It may be that nature is more magical."

Ye Ren shrugged and said.

(End of this chapter)