The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen
Chapter 130 - 46 Facehugger

Chapter 130: Chapter 46 Facehugger

"How do you feel? Are you accustomed to it yet?

Is there any difference from before?"

After recharging with magic power for an afternoon, Bai Yi, who was now fully restored, also fused Bai Fa with the Swarm Consciousness. Since this time it was truly one of their own, Bai Yi cared even more.

If there was an issue with that business opportunity, they could think of other ways to find another, but Bai Fa had been following Bai Yi for a long time and was truly a veteran of the territory.

"Very well, Master.

Now I can directly connect to the Swarm Network without the need for additional swarms as an interface and can also serve as an interface to pull others into the network."

This sentence was spoken simultaneously in the network and in reality.

After Bai Fa was connected to the swarm, Bai Yi could already read Bai Fa’s thoughts and emotions through the Queen’s privileges of the Insect Swarm, and could also directly transmit the needed commands into her brain.

There was no longer the need to have an Erosion Worm constantly by her side to relay messages.

"However, it is still difficult to communicate directly over long distances; physical distance indeed represents a significant barrier.

Yet now, we might be able to temporarily solve this through certain methods."

Bai Yi suddenly realized that she had once needed a swarm as an intermediary to establish a large enough swarm network, connecting her to swarms beyond her connection limit.

But now, she had the Fungus Blanket, a special kind of swarm unit, which could serve as a kind of "fiber optic" to connect her with distant swarms.

A widespread deployment of the fungus blanket not only utilizes every inch of sunshine and the magic in the environment but also expands the swarm network of Bai Yi outward.

Of course, if it’s already an occupied area, it doesn’t matter how Bai Yi spreads the fungus blanket.

But like now, where Bai Yi wasn’t planning to expose herself to Zhuchen or after returning to the territory, area 33 is not like this instance where she can manipulate at will.

Directly laying it on the surface would be too easily discovered and too vulnerable to being cut off.

Even though the capabilities of the fungus blanket allow it to repair itself quickly, having it cut off at a critical moment would still cause some trouble.

For Bai Yi, it is incredibly unsafe.

However, she can consider another idea—burrying the fungus blanket like real fiber optics.

The fungus blanket is not a regular plant; sunshine is just an added bonus for it, as it relies more on magic power to replenish itself and produce nutrients and flesh.

She could completely depend on Burrowing Worms to tunnel underground and lay the fungus blanket there.

This could be used for communication and also cultivate more space to use the secrecy of the underground to store nutrients, while the remaining passages could also serve as high-speed hidden routes for the swarm’s covert maneuvers.

Of course, the most important thing is that this would free up a lot of surface area not covered by the fungus blanket, allowing her to freely plant some flowers and herbs.

Having made a plan, Bai Yi immediately took action, instructing Bai Fa to be in charge of this first route, connecting various stationed swarms with her location, and bringing the swarms back under the Queen’s supervision.

As for the newly joined Shang Ji, Bai Yi tasked him with managing the affairs of Crete.

Bai Yi didn’t want to interfere with the process, but she needed him to complete the integration of resources within two days, including but not limited to the blood and flesh that could feed the swarm for reproduction.

As for various mineral resources, Bai Yi didn’t plan to take them all away, or rather, not take everything.

This instance’s gains were simply too vast, making even how to take everything a problem.

Entering the instance only allowed bringing 200 units, which Ju had to carry, and at the end of the instance, Bai Yi didn’t expect the game to be very generous.

Bai Yi was prepared, at the end of the instance, to only take away most of the swarm and a set of industrial machines from Zhuchen.

The spatial capacity of the orange cat seemed large, but it became somewhat cramped when accounting for the swarm’s space.

"Improve the Parasite as soon as possible, preferably develop a plant that can compress nutrients or magic power before the instance ends, in order to take as many resources as possible."

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[Swarm·Facehugger (Tier 1/Gold)]

After two days, Bai Yi finally cultivated this prototype of the Parasite.

After several attempts, Bai Yi ultimately chose to predominantly use the Insect Clan for the fusion.

Currently, this prototype looks like a clump of sticky white worms, which although different from the facehuggers seen in movies, resembles more of a parasite found inside some animals.

However, since it also needs to pounce onto a creature’s head and enter through the orifices to parasitize the brain, Bai Yi consequently named it this way.

In fact, this is not the first Parasite that Bai Yi has cultivated.

Two days ago, the Banyan Tree Insect that Shang Ji encountered was one of them.

To be precise, it was those tender branches on the heads of that cluster of insects.

Their prototype was originally the Transcendent Worm Grass, which is actually a type of fungus that infects wild insects and parasitizes inside them to reach a suitable location for reproduction, eventually bursting out to become a complete entity and continuing to spread through spore infection.

Bai Yi was particularly interested in this ability to parasitize and control, and the Mutation that day took great effort in this regard.

However, he had never achieved the desired effect since then; this gene had never shown sufficient intelligence in plants, making it difficult for Bai Yi to indirectly influence through the Swarm Consciousness.

The result was the Banyan Tree Insect seen yesterday.

Eventually, Bai Yi, citing his familiarity with the Butcher’s strength as the reason, had the maid take him away from the Imperial Palace. In the market of Taian, he deliberately purchased some diseased fish and extracted several parasites from them to fuse and create what is now known as the "Facehugger."

The pros and cons of this current "Facehugger" are quite evident: its body is extremely fragile, and it lacks mobility.

It can only be effective when his own people beat the opponent half to death, then pin the opponent down to parasitize.

If that’s all there was to it, Bai Yi might as well directly initiate Swarm Consciousness, which is more convenient, faster, and more reliable.

The strength of the "Facehugger" lies in the fact that, once it successfully invades the brain, it can even control higher-tier targets. Now at Level 1, it can already forcibly control Level 3 targets.

Moreover, under the control of the Facehugger, since there are no chaotic thoughts from the brain, it can directly manipulate various nerves, even enabling the controlled body to achieve stronger responses and to extract more potential!

"Now we just wait to raise its level, then let Bai Sheng and the others take it out for a test. If we can obtain some high-level combat power through this..."

Bai Yi hadn’t finished speaking when he noticed the side door of the courtyard being pulled open from the inside.

"Bai Sheng? Are you back?"

The one who pushed open the wooden door was Bai Sheng, who had just returned from her expedition to Hailan.

This time she did not rely on the orange cat’s Teleportation, but came through a Fungus Blanket tunnel excavated under Bai Fa’s command to Zhuchen’s territory, to Taian in the Capital, inside Bai Yi’s courtyard.

That tunnel was located in a corner of the side room.

Upon seeing Bai Yi, Bai Sheng exchanged a few pleasantries and immediately reported her most important find, producing a Level 6 Extraordinary Relic.

When Bai Yi saw the information on the panel, he understood why Bai Sheng was so urgent in annihilating one country and hurriedly initiating a war on another country in Hailan.

This Divine Fragment, possessing a power very similar to the Swarm, can establish a spiritual connection with a certain range of allies and draw strength from these connections to become stronger.

However, the only issue is that this Extraordinary leans more toward the Spiritual side. Even after eradicating an entire country, Bai Sheng could not find the corresponding ritual.

Bai Sheng had planned to choose this as her Transcendent profession, but now she had to give up; these relics had to be temporarily fused into the Swarm in the form of cultivating Transcendent creatures.

After receiving Bai Sheng’s findings, Bai Yi brought up official business and had Bai Sheng also fuse with the Swarm Consciousness.

Once Bai Sheng got used to the changes in the everyday-connected Swarm Consciousness and opened her eyes again, she saw Bai Yi holding up a cluster of white insects.

"This is a new species I’ve cultivated, called the Facehugger. It’s very fragile, but it can parasitize and control creatures much stronger than itself.

However, it is still at the experimental stage, so I need you to try and test their capabilities in the upcoming battles."

Bai Yi briefly explained, then cast more detailed information into Bai Sheng’s mind from the Swarm Network.

Suddenly Bai Sheng said:

"This Facehugger, does it provide enhancement to the host? Then why don’t we also get one for ourselves?"

"No, that would be much less effective for our Swarm, and once you guys are parasitized..."

Bai Yi instinctively objected, intending to enumerate the disadvantages of parasitism, but Bai Sheng’s suggestion sparked more ideas in him.

Yes!

Could it be possible to directly create parasites with supportive abilities and attach them to our own people?

Even if it doesn’t provide an effect greater than the sum of its parts, it could at least enhance individual combat power!

Following this train of thought, a torrent of ideas surged through Bai Yi’s mind.

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