Chapter 277: Survivor in the Poison Fog_2
The street intersection had turned into a melee.
The poison monsters hidden in the fog, although mutated in form, still somewhat resembled poisonous insects.
Su Han's eyes swept over them, scorpions, centipedes, spiders... There were far more types of poison monsters than Sun Hu and the others had described.
Soon, the three thousand Zerg were suppressed.
Although the Zerg were fierce and unafraid of death, they did not surpass the poison monsters by much in terms of individual strength. In the constant killing, they suffered casualties at a ratio of two to one, leaving behind the bodies of over a thousand poison monsters at this crossroads, while about four to five hundred of the three thousand Zerg also perished.
"The number is still too small, but we can supplement the genetic structure a bit."
The Mother Worm had only emerged from the rift in the alternate dimension a few days ago, and even with full-force breeding, it had only managed to increase the number of its offspring to three or four thousand, with only about three thousand being able to be brought into the battle.
This number naturally could not compare to the sea of insects in the western district of the city, but this time it was just an experiment and also a need for the Mother Worm to perfect the structure of its lineage.
"Hum"
Upon receiving Su Han's command, the Mother Worm immediately activated its psychokinetic power. A large number of poison monsters were flung away, their bodies starting to crack.
From the position of the Mother Worm's spine, countless tentacles shot out, hundreds or even thousands of them.
They whipped out like lashes, striking into the midst of the poison monsters battling with the Zerg.
Each tentacle was like a blade of destruction. As they shot out, they instantly pierced through the bodies of the poison monsters.
The corrosive blood did not harm the tentacles in the slightest.
Then, the Second-grade Monsters that were hit by the tentacles were abruptly tightened and then pulled up above the Mother Worm's head.
Seven or eight Second-grade Monsters, including the Green Giant Centipede and the Double-headed Spider, were caught. Su Han watched this scene with a smile. He raised his left arm, and with a gentle tap of his finger, a Spirit Melding Vortex appeared among the monsters, beginning to erase and devour their Spiritual Energy.
Energy, like a warm current, flowed into his body, improving his constitution, and making his Spiritual Energy increasingly abundant.
The energy he had expended in the battle against the Blood Sea Demon was now replenished, adding to his Soul reserves.
Second-grade Monsters were devoured by Su Han, and a part of the dead Second-grade and the majority of the First Rank poison monsters were tossed into the mouth of the Mother Worm.
No chewing, just swallowing. The formidable digestive capability was enough to allow these monsters to enter the Mother Worm's body, quickly being digested into organic liquid, and then continuously transformed by the Mother Worm.
With the Mother Worm joining in, the battle turned into a one-sided slaughter.
More than ten minutes later, the original encircling situation had significantly thinned out.
The Mother Worm stopped its assault, and the swarm began to spread out at the intersection, securing the passages.
It slowly moved to the center of the intersection, facing a seven-story building, opened its gaping maw, and with its huge body writhing, spewed out a vast amount of Bug Quality.
The Bug Quality covered the surface of the building at an extremely rapid pace, moving from top to bottom like viscous flesh-colored asphalt, stickily clinging to the surface.
The Mother Worm continued to vomit, the Bug Quality becoming more and more abundant, piling up like a small hill, and then the Mother Worm activated its Skills.
With the assist of the Mother Worm's psychokinetic power, the Bug Quality rapidly converged against the building's walls into the form of a hive, with four or five bug sacs gradually appearing on top of the hive, into which nutrients were slowly injected, eventually forming new Zerg.
Su Han looked at all this, his gaze flickering slightly as he thought: This is the true method of the Zerg's invasion, as long as they can hold their ground and have a steady supply of organic matter, they can wage a terrifying war of attrition.
The first hive was successfully constructed, and the Mother Worm began to control the differentiation of the swarm, with a part guarding the nest, actively tossing the poison monster corpses, which had not yet been fully devoured, into the Bug Quality to further the transformation.
Another part, roughly one thousand five hundred members of the Zerg, began to spread out to the surrounding area, searching for new prey.
The Zerg did not fear sacrifice because even the corpses of their own kind could be transformed into organic Bug Quality. Death was but a cycle of the race, and while some organic matter was lost, it was entirely acceptable.
Su Han watched the unfolding situation with a cool eye, considering the potential involvement of his Zerg in the reclaiming operations.
"If we deploy the hives first to eliminate the monsters' fighting force, then the latter stages of the operation will be much simpler."
He had this thought flash through his mind, but he quickly dismissed this idea, frowning slightly, "We cannot let go completely, or else the Zerg won't be able to accurately distinguish between survivors and might engage in indiscriminate slaughter."
The further away from the Mother Worm, the more difficult it was to fine-tune control and to distinguish the difference between survivors and monsters.
At that time, to the Zerg, both survivors and monsters were nothing but "Bug Quality."
Su Han did want to retake the city, but he wasn't aiming for a ghost town.
"Hiss hiss"
At this moment, the Mother Worm beneath him let out a hissing sound.
Su Han's expression changed as his psychokinetic power connected with that of the Mother Worm, and the next moment, he entered the state of the Spiritual World.
Most of Lisu County fell into his field of vision, covered in a pale purple hue that enveloped the entire county town. Clusters of purple-shadowed monsters gathered in buildings, streets, sewers, and even deeper underground.
The Zerg were launching an attack on the surrounding poison monsters according to the Mother Worm's orders, and it was then that Su Han saw in a shopping mall that there were still twenty or thirty human-shaped spiritual energy figures. Moreover, by their movements, they didn't seem like monsters.
Su Han exited the state of the Spiritual World, revealing a puzzled expression, "With the poison fog like this, there are still people?"
Seeing the poison fog enveloping Lisu County, Su Han had almost lost hope for the possibility of survivors.
But now, if there really were living people, that would be a big problem. How were they withstanding the poison fog?
Su Han's gaze flickered slightly as he made a decision on the spot: to go and see for himself.
The Mother Worm moved swiftly towards the shopping mall.
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"What's with those poison creatures, they suddenly went mad. What do we do now?"
Inside the mall, a group of people wearing oversized parkas that concealed their figures gathered together.
They were wrapped tightly from head to toe, even their faces covered with thick masks, some even wearing gas masks, with not a single patch of skin exposed.
Next to them were large and small hiking backpacks, clearly filled with supplies.
"Don't know, maybe there's been some activity from the monsters near the poison pit."
Someone muttered in a low voice, his tone uncertain.
"Ge Ming, big brother, what do we do now?"
All eyes turned to the man in the black trench coat by the window. He stood next to it, cautiously observing the outside. A massive man, nearly one meter ninety in height, huddled under a black robe.
"Wait, just like our previous experience, even if the poison creatures become agitated, it won't last too long. At least a day or two, at most a week."
His voice was low, but hoarse as if it belonged to a half-mute drake, discomforting to hear.
"But, but we can wait, but can the elders and children in the village last that long?"
A woman's voice rose, sounding to be in her thirties or forties, filled with worry.
Ge Ming turned around, his face covered with a black mask, with only his eyes slightly visible—one normal, while the left eye bore a scar, its eyeball whitened, blinded.
"The village has grain to last a while. Without these poisonous creatures, it's just suffering for a bit; it doesn't necessarily mean death."
Despair filled everyone's hearts. Was it just suffering a bit?
It was a pain that seemed to burrow into the bones, as if thousands of ants were swarming the marrow, biting and tearing from the inside.
"We shouldn't have stayed in..."
Rumble rumble
Before someone could finish speaking, the shelves and glass in the mall began to tremble slightly.
Ge Ming's pupils contracted sharply, and he immediately looked outside. Through the dense fog, a massive creature approached, its size dwarfing the mall itself, like a towering mountain.
His face displayed terror as he almost cried out, "Since when did Lisu County have such a horrifying creature?"
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