King from scratch

Top of the mountains.

With the arrival of the two scientific research teams of Salfa Federation and Diman Empire, the depths of the mountains became lively.

The excitement is limited. After all, the mountains on the top of the mountains are endless, and a few hundred people in the mountains can't even arouse the echo.

But compared to the fact that it took a long time for the dwarf kingdom to go deep, the appearance of these two teams is already the most lively time here.

The mining of mineral veins and the clearing of monsters by players have cleared a safe path for them. They can directly find the target after reaching the top of the mountains, without having to worry about finding mutated creatures.

The teams sent by the Salfa Federation and the Diman Empire have completely different styles.

After the Sarfa Federation arrived at the safe area next to the mine vein, it began to gradually penetrate into the dangerous area that had not been cleaned up to capture various mutant creatures for analysis and research.

Almost a few days later, with the deepening of the research, the federal team also went deep into the danger zone alone, and disappeared deep into the top of the mountains.

After the Diman Empire arrived in the safe zone, it took a very short time to open up camps and improve logistics. Then it sent troops along the safe zone to gradually collect controllable mutated creatures and then conduct relative analysis.

Almost a few days later, the team of the Diman Empire established a large-scale camp with a clear division of labor, and members of the Diman Empire team came and went in an endless stream.

The NPC who was still maintaining the operation of the mine reported these two completely different styles of behavior to Zhe.

"It seems that Diman Karen III's political reform has achieved remarkable results," He Xingwen handed the report to Zhe and said, "Having the courage to remove the redundancy in a huge organization is enough to impress people, but judging from the behavior of this team In terms of style, it is simple, efficient and restricts unnecessary political struggles. Diman Karen III’s previous 20 years of dormancy are very valuable. He has given the Diman Empire a new look and kept up with the pace of the times.”

This is a shining pearl that can lead civilization to a higher peak and open up a prosperous dynasty in any civilization.

But unfortunately, this world is mixed with countless civilizations, and human beings are just a trivial part of them.

What's even more unfortunate is that there are even equally shining pearls in this world—for example, another direction of human civilization, the leader of science, Li Wang.

The genius politician who was rare in the feudal system, and the genius scientist who laid the cornerstone of the scientific era... met He Xingwen together.

It's hard to say whose misfortune it was, but one thing is certain, the world went a different way at that moment.

Zhe took the report and flipped through it briefly, showing a surprised expression: "A very practical and rigorous report."

He Xingwen handed him another investigation report from the Salfa Federation.

The format and scale of the two reports are very different, and the starting point and results of the reports are also irrelevant.

The report of the Salfa Federation is composed of obscure terminology, without any consideration of whether others can understand it, but at least the conclusion is simple and easy to understand-they believe that the small black cells attached to the spine in the mutant organisms after death Dot, possibly a living thing.

As for the specific situation of this living creature, they need further research.

The report of the Diman Empire is very pleasing to the eye. After briefly describing their work arrangements, task assignments, daily progress, and praise of Diman Karen III, they entered the topic.

According to their analysis of the state of different mutated creatures, they summed up the superficial mutation law, the mutation law spreads from plants to animals, with the increase of biological complexity, the closer to the top of the mountains, the more the mutation state. Seriously—they suspect that somewhere on the top of the mountain that has not yet been discovered has the real reason for the emergence of mutant creatures on the top of the mountain.

Based on this, they gave the application for further exploration and how to judge the basic criteria of the mutation and a simple method to prevent the mutation from spreading.

After reading the two reports, Zhe came to the conclusion: "The Salfa Federation studies the root cause of the mutation; while the Diman Empire studies the law of the mutation, and thus provides the Diman Empire with how to deal with the mutation, ensuring that The safety of the people of the Empire."

These two reports were not written for He Xingwen. This was one of the conditions for the kingdom to allow them to enter the depths of the mountain tops and provide convenience and information sharing.

He Xingwen: "The Federation is a pure research structure, while the Diman Empire is a mature political institution."

Zhe didn't have much emotion about this. For him, the Federation's report was too obscure to be called a qualified report, while the contents of the Diman Empire's report were too simple and meaningless.

He's here to report another matter.

"The observation results of the observer using the ether signal observer to search for the anomaly on the top of the mountain have finally come out." Zhe: "He found the cause of the anomaly on the top of the mountain."

This is not an easy task.

Whether it is the top of the mountains or the South China Sea, the scope is so vast that it is beyond imagination. The ether signal can indeed observe the world, but if you want to find the cause of the problem, you must at least give the exact coordinates, right?

Otherwise, you can only find it inch by inch.

And this stupid way of looking at the past inch by inch took the observer several months-he went to Luo Mu and began to look for the source of the mutant creatures on the top of the mountains. The result came out.

This efficiency has exceeded imagination.

He Xingwen didn't pin his hopes on him at all. After all, the third expedition team had already set off to the South China Sea to find the problem.

Zhe pressed the switch of the projection stone, and projected the final confirmed cause in front of He Xingwen.

A pitch-black background was brightened up. It seemed to be the interior of a certain mountain. It was so dark that there was no light at all. In fact, there was nothing worthy of attention on the screen, just a cross-section made of stones.

Zhe zoomed in on the background, and as the background continued to zoom in, a small crack was suddenly visible in the mountain composed of stones—just like the small cracks that would appear on any wall, it cracked slightly along the stone cracks, without any cracks. conspicuous.

Zhe continued to zoom in on this small slit, and it was only after the small slit was difficult to find that it occupied the entire screen impressively that it revealed its true colors.

Dense black dots filled the entire seam. These black dots are so inconspicuous that even if you zoom in and look at them, you can only see dense dots, as if it is really just a Just a little bit.

Zhe zoomed in on this scene again, so that small slit that was almost impossible to find at first became the main body of the projection, forming a narrow "road".

Under this degree of magnification, the little black dot finally revealed its true colors—two tentacles and countless fluffs that swayed slightly.

He Xingwen leaned back, keeping a distance from the projection.

The little black dot has no feet, its fluff is its feet, and there are actually head, abdomen and other parts under the subdivision-but it is a bit sanguine to look closely.

Because this projection is not a small black dot, but a small black dot that fills the entire gap. After the projection is continuously enlarged, it can be said that this small crack is filled with thousands of small black dots. point.

He Xingwen: "Is this the root cause of the change on the top of the mountains?"

There is one thing to say, the observer can find this thing, it is really awesome.How many magnifications do you need to use a microscope to search every corner of the top of the mountain to find these things from a crack?

"Yes," Zhe changed to a projection stone and continued to activate: "Although this gap is inconspicuous, its length is astonishing."

The projection was still dark, and Zhe repeated the operation just now to continuously enlarge it.

The inconspicuous gap extends to the top, which is actually a stagnant water in a depression in the mountainside. The stagnant water is located in a natural rift valley in the mountainside, and some snakes, ants, insects and rats are infested.

However, the bottom of the gap stopped abruptly. The bottom was not connected to any existence at all, and it was interrupted on the stone wall in an ordinary manner.

Zhe continued to zoom in on the bottom of the gap: "Interestingly, these small black spots are oviparous organisms."

This is actually an oviparous creature?

The scene magnified countless times on the projection is presented in front of He Xingwen. At the bottom of the barely visible gap is the spawning room. The gap below is filled with translucent shells, and the shells can even be glimpsed vaguely. small black dots inside.

He Xingwen frowned more and more tightly: "What is this?"

Zhe turned off the projection: "The root cause of the mutation, at least we can be sure that this is a living animal, not some... virus."

He Xingwen remembered the final conclusion of the report of the Salfa Federation. The Salfa Federation believed that the small black spots on the spines of those creatures were living creatures.

He Xingwen was a little unbelievable: "So, it entered the body of those mutated creatures?" No, that line of conclusions flashed in He Xingwen's mind again, and He Xingwen suddenly realized: "When it was in the bodies of those creatures, was it still alive?"

Zhe nodded.

This is a microbe?

No, microbes don't lay eggs.

This is an animal that is so small that it is almost invisible.

He Xingwen took a deep breath, and after thinking for two seconds, he told Zhe: "Tell this information to those who should know it, so that observers can continue to search for the origin of the mutant creatures in the South China Sea."

Zhe responded one by one and left the meeting room.

He Xingwen sat in the conference room for a few minutes, and suddenly whispered: "This is amazing news."

It directly raised the problem to an extremely difficult level.

Beings so small and so many, they don't even need to be aggressive, because they don't need to attack other beings, they just need... contact with those beings is enough for them to complete their mission silently.

The system, which has always remained silent, took over the conversation: "In fact, this is an old acquaintance in this world."

When He Xingwen saw those little black dots, he guessed something, he leaned on the back of the chair and was a little lost in thought: "Zerg?"

System: "Zerg."

"This is different from the Zerg that I know." He Xingwen sighed deeply: "I thought they had already defeated the Zerg."

"They did defeat the Zerg. Judging from the shape and attack style of this bug, the Zerg chose an extremely concealed method to reproduce." System: "This basically confirms the fact that the Zerg was defeated."

He Xingwen was very surprised: "The Zerg have absorbed the lessons of failure?"

"Obviously the natives of this world don't understand the Zerg either. They defeated the Zerg, but not thoroughly." System: "So, the Zerg was given a second chance."

Probably because He Xingwen's expression was really not good, the system said good news: "Judging from the situation on the top of the mountains and in the South China Sea, the Zerg race should have been discovered by the Kingdom before they were ready."

If the Zerg were ready, it would not be just a few scattered mutant creatures, but a frenzy of mutant creatures sweeping the entire continent.

This is the usual style of Zerg.

"I still remember the appearance of the Zerg overwhelmingly sweeping towards the South China Sea last time," Tuoer Jin recalled: "Huge in size, large in number, extremely powerful in attack, painless, and of various types, they formed a well-trained Even if the newborn worm mother has not yet grown up, its combat effectiveness is amazing enough."

Kenti: "They underestimated us. The vast South China Sea held back the overwhelming swarm of insects, and the demons, mages, and dragons who continued to come cooperated with the undersea kingdom to launch a counterattack, and almost left the insect mother on the seabed. In order to protect the insect mother, The bug swarm retreated, we took advantage of the victory to pursue, and the victory was straightforward."

None of the others present had experienced that time, and could only listen to the memories of the two longevity species.

If you were to say why they recalled the past here, you could only blame the South China Sea for being too big.

The fleet galloping on the sea took several days to reach the destination, and the bored passengers had to get together to listen to the stories of the past told by Tull King who lived for several eras.

Green Leaf applauded and asked, "It's amazing, but why don't you just kill the mother insect? Keeping the mother insect, in case the Zerg revives one day, isn't it very dangerous?"

Tuol Jin snorted, with a bad expression on his face.

Kenti happily explained to the players: "If we could kill them, we wouldn't be so stupid as to keep the worm mother, but the problem is, we can't kill them."

"The dormant worm mother is located deep in the wormhole, and the wormhole is a space teleportation where the teleportation location is unknown. It is too difficult to find the worm mother from the wormhole."

"And after the Zerg was repelled, the other races that gathered to fight against the Zerg had their own grievances, so the plan to go all the way to the wormhole to kill the Zerg mother was put on hold," Tuo Er Jin snorted, and the defeated opponent They expressed their disdain: "Anyway, there are only a group of remnants and defeated Zerg left."

Information from the Kingdom arrived at the expedition around this time.

Yan's expression was very bad. After relaying the cause of the mutated creatures on the top of the mountains, there was a lot of discussion on the scene.

"Is the little black dot alive?"

"A tiny crack full of little black dots?"

"Or an egg-laying creature?"

"Does that sound a little creepy?"

"These little black dots have caused a mutation... wait a minute, it's contagious, is it because these little black dots will also climb to another person through contact?"

The player has passed this description and completely lost the san value.

The observing etheric body inserted into the dialogue: "If this is an egg-laying organism, the possibility of diseases and viruses is ruled out, that is to say, this is an animal."

He paused: "It seems that we should have completely killed the insect mother back then."

"Zerg?" The players exclaimed: "This sounds like a completely different species from the previous Zerg."

In Tull King's description, the Zerg is huge, but these small black spots may only be found with a microscope.

"Obviously, we don't understand Zerg." The great scientist said indifferently.

"But the changes on the top of the mountains are different from those in the South China Sea. If the changes in the South China Sea were also caused by the Zerg, then it can only be said..." Duoti looked at the sea worriedly: "They have already succeeded in half."

The npc driving the boat sent a message: "We are almost arriving at Dragon Island."

On the sea farther away, the continuous island looms.

Yan took out the map: "The Coral Kingdom is further south of Dragon Island..." His finger slid across the Coral Kingdom and landed on the wormhole mark in the south of the Coral Kingdom: "Further away is the end of the South China Sea, the area where the wormhole is located gone."

Everyone cast their gazes together and paused at the wormhole sign.

It is like a strong evidence for the judgment of great scientists, slowly deepening their sense of unease.

Wang Xuan lowered his voice and asked Du Kang: "So, this task is now the second explanation for the crisis in the South China Sea?"

The second explanation of the South China Sea crisis - the South China Sea is in danger.

Wang Lun sighed: "If the mission fails, it will not be a crisis in the South China Sea, but a crisis in the mainland, a crisis in the world."

Ye Quan sighed purely as a player: "The planning is really awesome, isn't this Zerg setting a secondary setting?"

Wu Xing: "How can there be an existence in this game that fits the design?"

Because it is a real other world.

Luye also sighed purely as a player: "Then this should be a long-term dungeon?"

Kenti, who was listening in, interrupted the conversation: "Fighting against the Zerg is not suitable for extending the front line. The weak Zerg mother needs time to recover, and the Zerg needs time to reproduce. The mutation of creatures will only increase with time, and we don't have that much time. "

Wu Xing: "So, our goal this time is changed to a wormhole?"

Tuol Jin rolled his eyes at the stupid remarks from the player, flapped his wings, and flew into the sky, his pocket size just now instantly reverted to a huge shadow hovering in the sky.

The sound of dragon chant resounded through the sky.

"When the worm mother is threatened with her life, all the zerg will rush back to her." Tuo Er Jin flapped his wings and flew towards the direction of Dragon Island: "Without any preparations, I woke up the worm mother rashly and stimulated it to lay eggs crazily Not a good choice."

On the contrary, killing those bugs first, and then going to fight against the bug mother will greatly reduce the pressure of the battle - after all, the bug mother is still in a dormant stage.

The faint dragon chant came from a distance, and gradually became louder as the distance got closer.

The players suddenly fell silent.

Above the sky, hundreds of dragons flew towards them, covering the sky and the sun, showing pure power.

Anuta was not shocked by this scene, he glanced at the sky, and confirmed with Yan in a low voice: "The kingdom hired the remaining dragons?"

"Now it seems that this is a very correct choice." Yan was not deterred by this scene, he watched the sea level in the south, worried: "The only question right now is how big is the range of mutated creatures in the South China Sea. "

To be precise, it is what the Zergs hiding in the depths of the South China Sea have done.

The South China Sea is simply too big.

And the south of the South China Sea is so far away that no one has paid attention to what is going on here before.

Another part of the South China Sea, the bustling sea has never been quiet.

Nubida maintained the previous posture, squatting on the sails and thinking about life.

He was probably witnessing something extraordinary.

Nubida knew how crazy and disorderly players were, and he had witnessed the power that players could unleash when they formed a group—even the Arcane Academy could only be helpless against such weak creatures.

But he never thought that the madness and disorder of the players has no limit at all, and what they think they "understand the players" is just being forced by the other party's world view again and again.

The player is almost acting with the momentum of eating up this thing.

Of course, it hasn't reached the level of eating up the enemy right now, after all, the enemy is too big.

However, relying on the desire and pursuit of food, the player Leng, after inventing cooking methods other than barbecue, chopped off countless tentacles of the enemy with meaningless deaths, and then turned them into a plate Another plate of food...

It's hard to notice this process when you're in it, but the number of tentacles waving on the sea is decreasing day by day, and the terrifying existence that was arrogant enough to make people lose their sanity did not know when it became sympathetic, which is enough to fully prove how much the player has achieved.

"Nubida, don't you really want to try it?" The player once again promoted the delicious food: "I promise, you will definitely regret it if you don't eat it."

Another player cried while eating: "I was born in this world just to eat this one bite."

This kind of touching and enthusiasm because of the delicious food has lasted for several days.

Nubida even suspected that they had mutated—because they were too weak, they could only mutate into gluttonous and addicted creatures.

It was at this moment that Kenti communicated the new information from the kingdom to Nubida through a spiritual link.

This news helped Nubida confirm that the players did not mutate, and their behavior was purely because it was really delicious...

If the culprit of this mutation is the Zerg, then the player can basically be excluded from the scope of the mutation.

Because they have no entity at all, just a group of ethers.

Zerg probably has to evolve to the point where it can directly affect the ether to be effective on the player.

It's a pity when you think about it.

Nubida clapped his hands to attract the players' attention: "You have to speed up, I heard that the South China Sea is full of mutant creatures, and they are all delicious."

It is said that?No, he made it up.

But the effect of these words is visible to the naked eye, and enthusiastic whispers sounded among the players.

"The shelf life of this thing is quite long. I put it in the space bag and it hasn't broken... Tell me, let's make more, how about selling street food?"

"Fuck? How did your head grow?"

"What a great idea! When the time comes, I will open a restaurant in the kingdom... By the way, does the kingdom have no restaurants?"

"There are no restaurants in the kingdom. Except for Aizhijin's commercial building, there is no other business at all, and Aizhijin's business is only for players."

"It doesn't matter, when the time comes, you can just sell it to the players to eat? Just because of the deliciousness of this stuff, the players must be crazy to buy it? Think about it again, the players will be given batches of places for the public beta, and the new players in the future will be a piece of food that has not yet been released." Open up the blue ocean!"

"And by the time new players enter the game, this task will be over long ago, and they can only buy it from us by then! Isn't it crazy to sell?"

"Fuck! This is the real recipe for getting rich!"

When the players turned their heads to look at the tentacles waving on the sea, the emotion and enthusiasm born of delicious food faded a lot, and most of them changed to a hotter love for money—of course there must be Pure players who are not interested in the currency in the game, but the number of such players is too small.

It's hard to say, which is more useful, food or the incentives given by money.

But according to Nubida's personal observation... the giant pirate in front of him is weak even in the waving tentacles, and seems to have accepted his predetermined destiny.