Apocalypse: My Items Can Upgrade Infinitely

Chapter 264: Chapter 160: Source of the Zerg Race’s Mental Realm, The Battle of Reclamation

[Successfully destroyed a Biological Nest!]

[Killed Mutated Mother Body—Node Symbiote]

[Acquired 10x Tier Two Upgrade Energy...]

[Acquired the Node Symbiote’s Gift: Zerg Race Mental Realm Spiritual Energy]

[Source of Realm (Zerg Race): Upon absorption, you can delve into the secrets of the Zerg Race. Spiritual Attribute +100. Grants a chance to analyze and obtain related Mental Realm Skills.]

[Tier Two Upgrade Energy: Can be used to Upgrade Orange Quality equipment or items. Can also be used to Upgrade oneself.]

The more Lin Feng read, the more delighted he became.

Ten charges of Tier Two Upgrade Energy would solve the Land Patrol Battleship’s upgrade consumption problem, saving him from wasting precious Tier Two Zerg Eggs.

This would allow him to create more Tier Two Awakeners.

It would lay the foundation for assembling a Tier Two Corps.

What surprised Lin Feng the most was the extra reward for killing the Node Mother. The description was just like the Spirit World he had experienced before.

After absorbing this Source of Realm, he would be able to enter the Zerg Race’s Realm Inheritance. Besides the base one-hundred-point increase to his Spiritual Attribute, he would also have a chance to obtain a High-Tier Mental Realm Skill, like Genetic Radiation.

This would give Lin Feng more trump cards when it came time to kill a High-tier Mother Empress.

However, now wasn’t the right time to absorb it. He would have to wait until he returned to camp and was in the right State to try.

Behind him, Ling Yi was controlling more Red-Armored Beetles to widen the Wormhole entrance to the incubation Nest.

The five Tiger Spine Zerg guards she had previously controlled had all died in the blocking maneuver. While their deaths had successfully stopped the Tiger Spine Zerg Swarm’s invasion and saved the team from a pincer attack, they had also completely blocked the Hive entrance.

So now, they could only rely on the Red-Armored Beetles to dig out the tunnel walls and remove the Zerg corpses.

This was the scenario Lin Feng had worried about most, but thankfully, with Ling Yi’s help, he didn’t have to worry about being trapped for too long.

As Lin Feng approached, Ling Yi glanced over, her golden eyes suddenly narrowing in focus.

She sensed something different about Lin Feng—a change in his Spirit. ’His Spiritual Power was clearly a little weaker than mine before...’

’...but now, it feels much stronger.’

’Perhaps after killing the Node Mother, he absorbed its Life Energy and received an extra gift.’

’This sort of thing is very common. The Mental Realm, as a nascent form of a true Realm, automatically spreads out and corrupts its surroundings. That’s why Cosmic Life is so powerful.’

’And the Mental Realm pollution caused by killing a Cosmic Race is equally fatal to the natives of some planets.’

’It gradually warps their genes, turning them into a kind of continuation of that Cosmic Race.’

’Take the Genetic Warriors, for instance, or Shen Jie, who’s currently trapped in the Mental Realm. It’s hard to say if they’re still purely human... or Zerg.’

"What about these corpses?"

Looking at the smiling Lin Feng, Ling Yi pointed to the Tiger Spine Zerg corpses that had been dug out.

In response, Lin Feng swung the Lv. 27 Chainsaw Sword in his hand, hacking off the Tier Two Giant Mandibles from a corpse and using them to continue upgrading his Tiger-toothed Chainsaw Sword.

Killing that Lv. 29 Peak Tiger Spine Zerg and slicing open a Tier Two Zerg Egg to help heal Shen Jie’s injuries had given him just enough Upgrade Points for the next round.

"Just transport the Giant Mandibles out with everything else."

"Wait, the Node Mother is dead, so all the Swarms in this Hive..." Lin Feng was in the middle of hacking off several more pairs of Tier Two Giant Mandibles, planning to take them back for his Land Patrol Battleship or copied Tanks to assimilate, when he suddenly thought about the Node Mother’s death. He also realized that the Tier Two Tiger Spine Zerg Swarm that had been about to charge in from outside the entrance was now gone, and a certain possibility occurred to him.

Ling Yi followed Lin Feng’s train of thought and nodded.

"That’s right. They suddenly lost control and fell into chaos. At a time like this, the instinct for survival trumps all else. You don’t need to worry about the soldiers guarding the surface entrance. With their firepower, they can handle a Black Spine Zerg Swarm of tens of thousands."

"As for the Tier Two Tiger Spine Zergs outside the tunnel, I’ve already taken control of them to maintain order in the main passage."

Lin Feng raised an eyebrow.

"Your Spiritual Attribute broke through the Tier Two limit and reached Tier Three? How many Tiger Spine Zergs can you control now? And from how far?"

The corners of Ling Yi’s mouth curved upward slightly. She waved a hand, summoning a Giant Red Beetle, and sat on its back.

"Take a guess? I’d say no fewer than twenty..."

Before she could finish, Ling Yi’s expression suddenly changed. Her golden eyes darted to the left, and her tone grew solemn.

"They’re here."

Lin Feng tightened his grip on his Tiger-toothed Chainsaw Sword and Electromagnetic Cannon, activating Mind Sensing.

’Hai City or the North?’

Ling Yi began to urge the Red-Armored Beetle Swarm to hurry up, her mind split between two tasks.

"Hai City. With the Tier Two Tiger Spine Zerg incubation Nest destroyed, it’s definitely the one in a hurry. The one from the North wouldn’t get involved so easily. It’ll only move to surround us and reap the benefits once we show signs of weakness..."

Lin Feng inwardly breathed a small sigh of relief. ’What he was actually worried about was the Mother Empress from the North coming in person.’

’After all, the two locations were only a dozen or so kilometers apart.’

’In his current condition, and with his team members exhausted, they had no way of withstanding an attack from a Mother Empress. They could even be wiped out here.’

’As for Hai City’s Mother Empress No. 76, it was a full one hundred and fifty kilometers away. No matter how fast it was, it couldn’t get here directly. At most, it could dispatch an elite Tier Two Zerg Race squad.’

’Something like a mixed team of Samurai Hunter Zergs and Tiger Spine Zergs, meant to slow the Human Awakeners’ retreat and mitigate the Zerg Race’s losses as much as possible.’

"Then let’s hurry up!"

Lin Feng shrugged, walked to the front of the group, and kicked one of the Tiger Spine Zerg corpses blocking the entrance out of the way. Fortunately, while the tunnel walls cracked a little, they didn’t collapse.