Chapter 65: War Preparation
Above City 023, a Golden Flame Eagle streaked across the sky. Qin Mu leaped vertically from the back of the Golden Flame Eagle and hovered in mid-air a few meters above the ground.
Currently, in City 023, there were five Level 3 Nests and over four million Zergs. At full speed, they could produce 350,000 Zerg units per day, making it the city with the highest concentration of units in the entire swarm.
In recent days, they had been frantically slaughtering monsters, and the number of dead monsters exceeded ten million, causing extreme turmoil in the entire City 023. Under such turmoil, most human warriors, pressured, had already left City 023, with only a few who believed in their strength still wandering in the city.
The city could no longer accommodate so many Zerg units; it was time to divert them.
Under normal circumstances, monster hunting was mostly for sustenance, without meaningless massacres. But the swarm was different; it killed every monster it encountered. It was a massacre on the verge of extinction.
This abnormal situation had already attracted the attention of the military and several global powers. However, due to the short time, most powers were still observing. In the past, similar situations had occurred in a few cities. Some cities had given birth to King-level monsters, or King-level monsters fought for territory, leading to fierce battles among monsters.
Using his auxiliary computer to log into the military network, Qin Mu investigated the nearby military teams based on his authority.
Currently, among the teams still in City 023, there were two from the military, both led by War Gods. In recent days, they had discovered some abnormal monster behaviors, continuously hunting monsters and dragging them into the subway. Monsters also continuously crawled out of the subway, hunting monsters everywhere. This situation was clearly abnormal.
One of the teams attempted to infiltrate the subway but was discovered by the swarm. They were forced to retreat amidst the surging swarm. Qin Mu did not order the swarm to pursue because he did not want to actually kill them, only to drive them away.
In recent days, the swarm had developed rapidly, and he needed to take stock of the swarm's current strength before planning the next arrangements. Linking his thoughts to the entire swarm, the detailed situation of the swarm was summarized in his mind.
The swarm currently had 30 Nests, half of which had advanced to Level 3, and the other half were Level 2. The reason it was half, not all Level 3 Nests, was mainly because the swarm's energy reserves were not sufficient to support the evolution of all Nests. Another reason was that some of these Nests were in relatively remote small cities or in the wilderness, where Level 2 Nests were sufficient to deal with threats.
The total number of the swarm was about 16 million, increasing by nearly a million per day. Of these 16 million Zergs, the vast majority were Soldier-level, with about 1 million Commander-level, and only 892 Horde Leader-level monsters, most of which were High Horde Leader-level.
The main reason for this was the lack of resources; otherwise, all would be hatched to the Horde Leader level. Each Horde Leader monster, even a Low Horde Leader monster, required 10,000 energy points. Middle and High Horde Leader monsters required even more energy.
Under limited resources, it was necessary to allocate resources reasonably to achieve the best configuration.
A High Soldier-level Tiger Mastiff only required 30 energy points, while a Low Commander-level Tiger Mastiff required 500 energy points.
In the wilderness, hunting a Low Soldier-level monster with a High Soldier-level Zerg and a Commander-level Zerg had almost the same effect. Therefore, how to allocate resources reasonably and hatch Zergs of different strengths was very important under limited resources.
The swarm's resources were not only used to hatch Zerg units but also a considerable portion was used to analyze the genes of various monsters and even plants. Besides these, a portion of energy also needed to be stored as backup to prevent emergencies where a large amount of energy was needed in a short time.
"The resources needed to upgrade a Level 3 Nest to a Level 4 Nest are not 500,000, but 5 million. The requirements for gene data have also increased significantly."
Qin Mu frowned slightly. Energy was still manageable, but gene data was troublesome.
Obviously, just as warriors advancing from the Apprentice level to the Planetary level was a qualitative change, an evolution of life essence, the evolution of a Level 3 Nest to a Level 4 Nest was also a qualitative change. According to the performance of the Nests, once they advanced to Level 4, it would mean the ability to mass-produce King-level monsters, that is, Planetary-level monsters.
If a Level 4 Nest appeared on Earth, there would be no need to fight the war against monsters; it could just push through directly.
For a Level 3 Nest to advance to a Level 4 Nest, the genes of Soldier-level and even Commander-level monsters were no longer very useful, only serving as genetic materials stored in the gene bank.
Now, for the swarm to advance, it needed the genes of Horde Leader, or even King-level monsters. And to obtain the genes of Horde Leader and King-level monsters on a large scale, there was only one way: WAR! A total war with the entire Earth as the battlefield!
"16 million is still too few. Once a total war breaks out, even compared to just the land monsters, it is far from enough."
Compared to all the monsters on Earth, 16 million was too few. Just the land monsters alone numbered at least several billion, if not more. This data was not an exaggeration. Of course, the vast majority of these monsters were weak, only at the Low Soldier level.
For example, a random Level 3 rat tide could have over 100 million rat-type monsters, similar to ant tides, bee tides, and so on. Moreover, there were also many King-level monsters on land. Although there were fewer King-level monsters on land than in the ocean, there were still at least hundreds.
As for the various monsters in the ocean, their numbers could only be counted in trillions. King-level monsters numbered at least in the thousands. To confront so many monsters head-on, the swarm's numbers would have to be counted in the billions.
Fortunately, the monsters were not harmonious among themselves.
"The scale of the swarm needs to expand rapidly, so more Nests are needed. Now, the swarm has enough Horde Leader monsters to open up Nest bases in relatively safe conditions on a large scale. During this process, I also need to enslave and Zergify more King-level monsters as much as possible." Qin Mu carefully took stock.
"It's about time to communicate properly with the military. Once the war between the swarm and the monsters fully erupts, If the military is completely unaware, it will inevitably lead to misjudgments and unnecessary consequences."
Qin Mu had a good impression of the military and also felt a certain sense of belonging. He did not want to cause unnecessary misunderstandings and casualties.
An important development direction for the swarm was City 003, the largest monster gathering center in the Eurasian continent, with a massive number of monsters. Moreover, City 003 was a coastal city, from where the swarm would enter the ocean.
The military had built a war base on the Huangpu River to block monsters from entering the interior of the land along the Yangtze River. These war bases not only blocked ocean monsters but would also block Qin Mu's Zergs from entering the ocean.
Now, the aquatic Nest in the Taihu Lake area had hatched hundreds of thousands of aquatic Zerg units. Without prior communication with the military, once they entered the sea and passed by the military's war base, a major battle would surely erupt.
Communication was one thing, but how to communicate was another. He couldn't directly tell the military that he had a Zerg swarm clone. Before Earth made contact with the universe, it was fine, but once contact was made, if it reached certain people's ears, it would be troublesome.
After thinking for a while, Qin Mu suddenly smiled. In fact, this problem didn't need to be considered too much. Some things were inexplicable and didn't need to be explained.
His previous identity as a Beast Tamer was sufficient. What he needed to do was to display his strength. When strength was strong enough, there was no need for him to find reasons; others would find them for him.
He only needed to partially reveal his strength to the military high command and let them know that he had already enslaved a King-level monster, the Flame Giant Lizard. Not just one Flame Giant Lizard, he could completely enslave and Zergify several King-level monsters.
The land monsters did not have a Monster Emperor; even the strongest monster kinda would not be Qin Mu's opponents.
"First, set a small goal: let Nests spread throughout China and clean up the monsters within it's borders."
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