My Doomsday Bug Nest - Chapter 8

Chapter 8: Hatching Larvae and Producing Worker Bees

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

“Let’s go. We now have one more combat power and one more source of assurance. Let’s test the combat power of the Hidden Shadow Spider first.”

With that, Ling Yichen put the mutated dog’s corpse into the Insect Nest Demiplane.

Then, Ling Yichen brought Ling Zixing downstairs and looked at the miserable street outside.

As soon as Ling Yichen opened the main door, the sound attracted the surrounding zombie crowd.

Ling Yichen was familiar with many of these people. They were all neighbors who lived nearby, but at this moment, they had become like this.

The Insect Race Mother Nest had one ability, which was battle command. Ling Yichen could give long-distance commands to the entire Insect Race under his command. There was no need for words, just a thought was enough.

The Hidden Shadow Spider jumped down from Ling Yichen’s palm and quickly crawled to the nearest zombie.

[Silk Spit]!

Spiders used their buttocks to spit out liquid and solidify it into spider silk. However, the Hidden Shadow Spider was different. In addition to its buttock, its mouth could also spit silk.

The sticky liquid shot onto the ground in front of the zombie. The zombie stepped on it and lost its balance because the liquid was stuck to the soles of its feet. The next moment, it fell to the ground.

The Hidden Shadow Spider quickly climbed onto the zombie’s head and stabbed its forelimbs into the back of the zombie’s head.

The vital point of a zombie was its brain. The moment the spider’s front foot pierced into its brain, it meant that the zombie had been killed by the spider.

Ling Yichen was quite satisfied with the Hidden Shadow Spider’s performance. However, the Hidden Shadow Spider had yet to show its full strength. It had yet to use its Shadow Transformation skill.

However, using [Shadow Transformation] consumed too much energy. Ling Yichen was not in a hurry to let the Hidden Shadow Spider use its ability at will. He still had to keep his trump card.

The spider silk of the Hidden Shadow Spider was very sticky, which was an advantage. It proved that not only was the Hidden Shadow Spider very good at assassination, but it was also very good at control.

Subsequently, the Hidden Shadow Spider used its [Silk Spit] skill on the zombies until it ran out of spider silk.

Ling Yichen sized up the size of the Hidden Shadow Spider. It was really not big. Thus, this amount of spider silk was already its limit.

The effect was not bad. These zombies did not use their brains to move. They did not care about the traps on the road ahead. All of them fell to the ground and could only let the Hidden Shadow Spider kill them.

However, there were still a large number of zombies gathering in this direction. Ling Yichen also took action. A long watermelon knife appeared in his hand and he slashed at the slow-moving zombies.

There were too many zombies at the beginning of the apocalypse. When the organic matter reached 100 units again, he could build new Insect Race buildings.

[Building]: Worker Bee Hive

[Level]: Level-1

[Introduction]: The residence of the Worker Bees. Even at home, they are very diligent.

[Ability]: Produce Worker Bee Honey and provide Worker Bee dwellings (Can accommodate 100 Worker Bees)

[Consumption]: Construction requires 100 units of organic matter.

[Time]: 1 hour

Ling Yichen decided to develop the Worker Bee team first. Although the combat power of the Worker Bees was not strong, they could help him accumulate organic matter more quickly. Moreover, the Worker Bee Honey they produced was extremely nutritious. This was a very precious hard currency in the apocalyptic era where food was extremely scarce.

To produce Worker Bees, he needed to hatch larvae. Many members of the Insect Race evolved directly through larvae.

Ling Yichen gave the order and said, “Use 10 units of organic matter to produce eggs and start hatching larvae.”

At the same time, at the bottom of the Incubation Yard, an insect appeared among a pile of soft meat and began hatching.

“[Unknown Insect Egg] Remaining hatching time: 9 minutes 59 seconds.”

The larvae only needed ten minutes to hatch.

Actually, what Ling Yichen wanted to build the most was the [Organic Matter Conversion Pool]. This building could allow him to accumulate organic matter faster.

[Building]: Organic Matter Conversion Pool

[Level]: Level-1

[Introduction]: A necessary choice for early development.

[Ability]: Efficient Conversion

[Requirements]: Construction requires 1,000 units of organic matter.

Time: 1 day

It required 1,000 units of organic matter. According to the conversion efficiency he had observed before, one unit of organic matter would be converted every minute. As such, it would take 16 hours and 40 minutes to convert 1,000 units of organic matter.

It took too long, so Ling Yichen chose to prioritize the production of Worker Bees. The Worker Bees also had the effect of assisting in the digestion of organic matter. After they devoured the corpses of animals or plants, they would store them in the special cavity in their bodies and automatically secrete a high-efficiency digestive fluid, decomposing all the substances in the cavity into organic matter.

He would obtain one larva in ten minutes, and six larvae in one hour. Ling Yichen decided not to stop the production and hatching of the larvae.

When Ling Yichen made these decisions, more and more zombies surrounded them. Ling Yichen decisively chose to pull Ling Zixing back and close the main door.

The Hidden Shadow Spider had the strength of a Mortal Body Rank-1. Ling Yichen did not have to worry at all. After all, this group of zombies had not even reached the Mortal Rank. Even if there were many of them, it would not be a problem for them to escape with the [Shadow Transformation] skill.

Ling Yichen could go back now and use the Origin Crystals to cultivate. He would only come out after he had broken through to Mortal Body Rank-1.

After the battle just now, Ling Yichen once again stored the corpses of 15 zombies into the Insect Nest Demiplane. Including the Origin Crystal from the mutated dog, Ling Yichen obtained a total of 16 Origin Crystals.

With these Origin Crystals, it was enough for him and Ling Zixing to cultivate to Mortal Body Rank-1.

When they returned home, Ling Yichen took out the zombie corpses one by one and dug out all the Origin Crystals. Then, he sat cross-legged on the spot, closed his eyes, and began to meditate.

Ling Zixing also followed suit and began to meditate.

Time passed quickly. In the blink of an eye, an hour had passed.

Ling Yichen was the first to break through the realm and successfully reached Mortal Body Rank-1.

What was worth mentioning was that when an Awakened one reached Mortal Body Rank-1, information about the ranks in the Mortal Body Realm would automatically appear in their mind. However, there was no information about the next Mortal Evolution Realm.

In the apocalypse, humans could cultivate Origin Energy through Origin Crystals. This energy could strengthen the human body, and using various combat techniques required Origin Energy.

Ling Yichen circulated the energy in his body. Compared to before his rebirth, this bit of energy was like a drop in the ocean.

[Ruler]: Ling Yichen

[Level]: Mortal Body Rank-1

[Talent]: Immortal

[Genes]: None

[Organic Matter]: 66

[Military Unit]: None

In the past hour, six larvae had hatched. Each larva only needed to consume 10 units of organic matter, which was the same as the current production efficiency of organic matter. The number in the [Organic Matter] column was about the same as when he first hatched the first larva.

Ling Yichen looked at the military unit column. The Hidden Shadow Spider’s name was not listed. It only recorded military units that could be produced casually like Worker Bees.

As for the Hidden Shadow Spider, which was unique and could not be produced in large quantities, it was not recorded.

[Military Unit]: Worker Bee

[Level]: Mortal Body Rank-1

[Attribute]: None

[Skills]: Resource Gathering, Digestion Acceleration

[Characteristics]: Support

[Evaluation]: The most diligent insect and the weakest insect apart from the larvae.

[Consumption]: One larva requires 10 units of organic matter

“Consume 60 units of organic matter and begin to evolve them into Worker Bees.”

As soon as Ling Yichen gave the order, the six larvae began to spin cocoons. In the blink of an eye, they became cocoons.

Organic matter was stored in the Insect Nest Demiplane and didn’t need a container. It was directly integrated into the entire Demiplane and could be mobilized whenever he needed it.

The larvae evolved very quickly. In just a few seconds, they broke out of the cocoons and six Worker Bees flew out.

The Worker Bees looked similar to the Worker Bees in StarCraft. They had the same fleshy wings and a pair of sharp appendage pincers on their forelimbs. Their mouthparts had rows of sharp teeth. The Worker Bees were more than a meter long.