Chapter 276 Shocking Discovery
From the Bochaola River to the southeast, crossing the towering Ural Mountains, Chu Qiancheng and others came to the cold tundra in northeastern Europe. Almost an old insect nest can’t be found here. Instead, there are many birds, rabbits, Arctic wolf and reindeer active.
After walking on the tundra for a few days, the entire army was about to enter the Siberian primeval forest area, and Chu Qiancheng suspended its march.
At this time, the People's Corps had already reached a range of 1,000 kilometers from the relay station of the Bochaola River. Chu Qiancheng ordered the entire army to dig a temporary underground shelter as fast as possible, and use the large military biobattery it carries as the energy supply core to establish a small relay station, further expanding the space leap network that has already extended to the Bochaola River.
During the excavation of the underground shelter, the mobile team members under the Management Bureau of the Guanqing Organization were divided into several expedition teams, exploring towards the east and south with the excavation site as the center, assisting Chu Qiancheng's Android investigation of the surrounding environment.
Explore this temporary shelter for more than a hundred kilometers south and arrive at the old Taiga Belt area near the Ob River Basin. It is located in the cold temperate zone and has low decomposition efficiency. The wastelands of the riverside area still stand with dead trees five hundred years ago.
Mutant moss and new fern vegetation grows thriving among dead branches and leaves, and even under the glimmer of nighttime light, there is still an unstoppable new green.
The expedition team entered the forest belt by the Ob River and immediately saw a strange scene. In the dense forest where dead forests and ferns were mixed, thousands of abandoned insect nests and insect mother nests were densely distributed.
The shapes of these postworm nests and maternal nests are different from all recorded postworm and maternal nests. They are not old nests, nor are they new nests that nurture new insect nests and maternal nests.
Their shape is a bit like the worm and the worm mother nest embedded in the breeding beehive in the breeding base, but it is not exactly the same.
There were no honeycomb-like breeding hatching bins similar to those found in the breeding bases in these insects and around the insect mother nests. The blood pool and breeding bins in the insect nests were still divided into two buildings.
There are no remains of any corpses of insect soldiers here. There are only empty nests. This means that this nest was not eliminated because of Zerg evolution or civil war, but the owner of the nest voluntarily gave up the insect nest.
The insect swarm that originally lived in the insect nest was obviously a group on the front line of the Hill of Glory. This discovery made the expedition team very frightened and immediately reported to Chu Qiancheng.
After Chu Qiancheng received the news, he immediately brought all members of the management bureau to the insect nest found by the expedition team and observed it personally.
"Although these insect nest buildings have never been seen before, they are not the latest buildings." Xiaoling quickly came to a conclusion after sorting out the data.
"Well, a transitional type between the latest breeding base and the Zerg's large-scale evolution." Chu Qiancheng nodded in agreement, "At present, this should be the Zerg building we have found that is closest to the Zerg nest of the Lord of the Ten Thousand Worms."
"It seems that your judgment on the Hill of Glory was correct!" Guan Qing looked at Chu Qiancheng with his flashing electronic eyes, "This breeding base has existed for a while and has a certain popularity among the insect swarm."
"But don't you find it strange?" Qin Zhen suddenly interrupted, "We went all the way from the Bochaolar River Basin and didn't see a single nest at all. The Zerg pheromone on the tundra is pitifully few. The Arctic wolf and reindeer are basically not affected by any pheromones and radiation, and still retain most of the original genes. Why did thousands of nests suddenly appear here?"
"The insect swarm has always lived with energy, which can only show that there is an energy source for the evolution of the insect swarm by the Ob River, at least it has been there before." Guan Qing said in contemplation.
"Humans in Siberia's industrial zones and urban clusters are far south of this place. There should be only one nature reserve to the south. Moreover, there is only 40% of the forest in this nature reserve, and the other parts are swamps, and other places outside the reserve are wastelands and Gobi."
Xiaoling checked her ancient earth information.
"We can cross the river to search the riverside area in the south to see if there are other insect nests. Perhaps some groups of strange beasts or ferocious beasts with strong vitality have evolved in the nature reserve, and these life energy will also become the supply of the Zerg."
Chu Qiancheng looked south.
"Then I suggest going deep into the nature reserve in the south, where it is isolated from the external environment, and the species of animals and plants on Earth are relatively rich, and it is likely that after radiation, beasts with powerful life energy will mutate." Xiaoling said.
"Well, it will take another day to build the underground shelter. Taking this opportunity to check the evolution of the main insect nest of the Wanwans, it will be very helpful for us to predict its future evolution in the future." Guan Qing's tone became excited.
After making the decision, Chu Qiancheng notified the old awakening generals of the Black King and other old awakening army to supervise the progress of the underground shelter, and summoned the expedition teams sent to all directions in the east to quickly gather at the current location.
When the teams met, Chu Qiancheng led all senior management and mobile team members to cross the riverside forest belt, flew over the Ob River through the magnetic levitation skateboard, and arrived in the southern part of Henan.
A large number of abandoned insect and insect mother nests were once again found in the forest belts in southern Ob River.
The number of insect nests discovered this time is nearly five times higher than the number on the north bank of the river, and the area covered by insect nests covers the entire forest belt.
Chu Qiancheng's expedition team carefully investigated and marched in this giant abandoned insect nest area, carefully observing the morphological characteristics of the insect nests in the entire area, and counting the number of insect nests and insect mother nests behind the insect.
After nearly five hours of search and investigation, Xiaoling summarized the reports of several teams and calculated that the number of insect mother nests in the entire insect nest area reached 300, the number of insect nests after insect nests was about 3,500, and nearly 100,000 breeding warehouses and blood pools.
The number of such insect nests far exceeds the upper limit of a head-in-chief insect swarm. However, Chu Qiancheng searched all the area but found no head-in-chief nest.
What made him most uneasy was that there was not a single abandoned insect corpse here. The entire nest swarm seemed to have left with all the full members.
According to the state of the insect nest, they did not leave the insect nest for a long time, and even the bacterial blanket did not completely wither.
"Such a large-scale insect swarm gathered in the Ob River Basin, but there was no head of commander in the insect tide. Could it be that these are just scattered soldiers of the Zerg and the mother of the insect who lost the head of the head?" Qin Zhen asked in shock.
"Impossible. So many insect mothers gather together. According to the insect cluster effect, a head of state should have appeared long ago, unless..." Chu Qiancheng touched his chin.
"Unless the head of state already exists!" Guan Qing said.
"Mom, what do you mean is that there is probably a head of the head of state in the mother nest of these insects, and we just don't distinguish it?" Xiaoling asked.
"Yeah." Guan Qing nodded, "I think we can extend the adventure for one day, carefully search the structure of each nest to see if we missed something."
"The insect mother is similar to the head of the head of the head of the lair. Of course, this is possible, but there is another possibility, that is, the head of the head of the lair is not here, but in another place." Chu Qiancheng said in a deep voice.
"Oh?" Everyone looked at him together.
"When we attacked the core of the insect swarm, we had discovered that the Lord of Ten Thousand Worms has established a unique dual system, which has established a direct link with the insect swarm, and separates the head of state, insect mother, insect queen and king insect as an independent reproduction system. This is the scene we saw in the breeding base."
Chu Qiancheng said in a deep voice.
"What you mean is that this system actually existed before the swarms gathered. The head of the insect tide here controlled the swarms by such a separation system. These are just breeding nests composed of king insects after the mother insects?" Guan Qing asked quickly.
"No one knows how the Lord of Ten Thousand Insects came from." Chu Qiancheng looked at the insect nests in front of him, with a solemn expression, "Maybe, the insect nest here is the nest when it was still the head of the insect tide."
Chapter completed!