The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen
Chapter 131 - 47 How Can There Be Reports When They’ve All Become Part of the Insect Swarm?

Chapter 131: Chapter 47 How Can There Be Reports When They’ve All Become Part of the Insect Swarm?

"The capabilities of a single Parasite are still too limited, only offering a singular enhancement and granting the Host a bit of weak Extraordinary Ability.

However, combining it with Gathering Spirit, the enhancement of magic power recovery is quite good. But then why wouldn’t I just create an exoskeletal type instead?"

After another two days of research, Bai Yi deeply felt the enormity of the project. Although it seemed very simple, just producing the three basic types of Parasites has already taken too much time.

With only ten days left until the end of the instance, Bai Yi had no choice but to temporarily set aside the research on the Parasites and start planning the compression of resources.

And there were Zhuchen’s industrial facilities...

Speaking of which, how has Zhuchen’s war been progressing lately?

Bai Yi heard that Zhuchen’s first batch of troops had already set off, and this "game" was also a rough script she had set up, but she wasn’t clear about the specific extent to which the war had continued.

These past few days, she had been researching various Plant Insects and had connected to her own Swarm Network, but had not had the chance to pay attention to it and was unaware of the game’s situation.

Anyway, magic power recovery required time, and after busying herself for so long, she might as well take a break.

She pulled out the lounge chair that had not been used in a while and comfortably lay down under the ginkgo tree, with the ginkgo actively moving its branches to provide Bai Yi with shade.

Under the attentive care of the ginkgo, Bai Yi leisurely allowed her consciousness to roam within the Swarm Network after a long absence.

Compared to her time in the territory, the Swarm Network that was now constructed by a Swarm hundreds of times larger than before was much "more spacious."

A broad perspective, connected through the mycelial pipelines, occupied the entire continent’s Insect Swarm territories.

It seemed to sense Bai Yi’s arrival, as several group consciousnesses actively approached her, but since it was in the virtual Swarm Network, Bai Yi couldn’t give these "children" a hug.

Returning a joyful emotion, Bai Yi then focused her attention on several marked points.

After completing the task of digging Fungus Blanket tunnels, Bai Fa resumed control over the daily operations of the entire Insect Swarm, arranging for the allocation of output and resources across various regions.

On the other side, Bai Sheng’s location was isolated far away, with only a single Fungus Blanket pathway maintaining contact.

Having read some information from Bai Sheng, Bai Yi knew she was currently making a move on the Sicily Islands to the south of Crete, so Bai Yi did not disturb her but cast her consciousness to the last marked location.

...

"Directly ahead! Three Disaster Insects, cover with firepower!

Flag bearer! Summon artillery strike!"

Before the leading captain had finished speaking, a Zhuchen soldier carrying a colorful banner quickly switched to the corresponding flag, threading it onto the flagpole and waving it with all his might.

Meanwhile, the other teammates swiftly set up their firearms, bullets pouring out like money was no object towards the needle erosion insects 200 meters away.

This small squad of no more than twenty people relied on an armored vehicle carrying more than four heavy machine guns, and the rest wielded semi-automatic rifles.

Due to the threat of Disaster Insects, Zhuchen’s military equipment had been updated at a divinely rapid pace in recent days.

Many pieces of equipment still in the experimental phase were brought out, including the heavy machine guns in their hands and the armored vehicle behind them—these armored vehicles were makeshift, quickly pulled together by welding a large amount of armor onto the existing iron cars.

Moreover, Zhuchen’s researchers held an unmatched advantage.

Their researchers were all Transcendents, to the extent that the more profound the researcher’s knowledge, the stronger their own Strength.

This allowed their firearms researchers to personally go onto the battlefield to test the firearms and get the most direct feedback.

Even Zhuchen’s few Level 4 Transcendent craftsmen had come to the front lines, personally using their Extraordinary Ability to craft weapons on the spot.

This was also one of the reasons for the swift update of Zhuchen’s frontline weapons.

Under the rain of bullets, the few needle erosion insects, despite being small targets, were successively shot down to the ground.

This was followed by the whistling descent of artillery shells.

Boom, boom, boom—

As the smoke cleared, a few Zhuchen soldiers had already competently carried a box filled with neatly arranged Incendiary Bombs from the vehicle, throwing them onto the surrounding Fungus Blanket to clear a path with flames.

Apparently intolerant to the scorching flames, the black Blood Flesh slowly receded, revealing a barren patch of earth.

The smile on the captain’s face lasted only a moment before he promptly ordered construction to begin, and the chess player swiftly waved the flag signals, calling for follow-up support.

The other soldiers also got busy, with a few climbing on top of the armored vehicle to keep watch for sudden attacks from Disaster Insects.

In the past few days, they had encountered this situation more than once—after pushing back the Disaster Insects and believing they had reclaimed an area, those insects would intentionally hide. Then, when their guard was lowered, the insects would gather strength and launch a counterattack.

They had already lost a number of temporary bases regained in this manner, and this time seemed similarly straightforward.

While the team members began to move out supplies to set up a temporary camp, the captain clambered onto the rooftop with both hands and feet, and took out a pair of binoculars to observe the surroundings.

In this land ravaged by the Black Disaster, they encountered fewer Disaster Insects than before—not just their squad, all teams since entering this area had encountered fewer of the Insect Swarm.

Moreover, many nearby buildings were still covered in Black Disaster, and he felt there was a significant chance they would encounter a counterstrike by the Swarm.

"Chess Player, call for artillery bombardment, cover the deserted buildings to the right front!"

The captain decided to trust his intuition; he preferred to risk killing the wrong target rather than let any potential threat slip by.

And this time, he guessed correctly.

As though anticipating the artillery shells’ arrival, the hidden needle erosion insects surged out from their hiding ruins, no longer concealing themselves but charging at them instead.

There seemed to be hundreds of them.

"Here they come! All hands ready!"

The captain shouted, tossing aside his binoculars and leading with his gun.

Following the start of their gunfire, a barrage of bullets came from behind them, with timely artillery support exploding along the path of the advancing Insect Swarm.

But the Insect Swarm were fearless of death, and even though the artillery fire consumed nearly half of their lives, the remaining needle erosion insects still charged forward, quickly clashing with Zhuchen’s soldiers.

And all of this was fully captured in Bai Yi’s sight.

"Queen."

Sensing Bai Yi’s arrival and taking over the command behind this "game," Shang Ji, who was hiding not far away, respectfully greeted Bai Yi who appeared in the network.

"How is Zhuchen’s progress now?"

"They are much weaker than expected, after I took over, I found that if I use the original strength of the needle erosion insects and the Fungus Blanket, Zhuchen might fall into an overwhelming sense of despair.

Even now unable to take down the first Fungus Blanket breeding area.

In order to continue the "game" that you, Queen, hoped for, I took the liberty to set "weaknesses" for the Fungus Blanket and the needle erosion insects, causing the Fungus Blanket to actively retract in the presence of flames, and needle erosion insects abandoned high-altitude maneuvers, restricting them to low-altitude flights.

Otherwise, Zhuchen’s strength would not be able to even clear a single Fungus Blanket, and the cost of exterminating one needle erosion insect would be tenfold.

Now, under my control, Zhuchen has ’hard-won’ control over 4 Fungus Blanket breeding areas, while the Swarm ’struggles’ to defend, but ultimately ’regrettably loses’ to Zhuchen’s weapons.

This breeding area will also fall into Zhuchen’s hands as planned, and except for some needle erosion insects that had to be sacrificed to get Zhuchen’s conviction, all of the Fungus Blanket has retracted as planned, moving the main body underground."

Shang Ji displayed his professional competence, thoroughly briefing Bai Yi on the current state of the "gameplay" between the Swarm and Zhuchen.

Bai Yi also saw the corresponding records from the Swarm Network, which were essentially identical to what Shang Ji described, except that Shang Ji intentionally omitted his secret collection and transportation of the captured weapons to his family’s location on Crete that he had deliberately preserved.

However, considering that Shang Ji had done a good job with the mission, Bai Yi let him have this bit of self-interest, as after all, the "Facehugger" had initially been completed, and after leaving the instance, being far from the family combined with the Facehugger, this situation could be completely eradicated.

"The mission is well done, but I have a new task for you."

"Please command, Queen, which location does Shang Ji need to attend to? Shang Ji will do his utmost."

Shang Ji half-kneeled on the ground, bowing respectfully towards the void.

"No, you continue to command here, but you need to test some new Swarm combat power, which will arrive by tonight at the latest. You will arrange it.

I need to know their combat situation after interaction with the army, and after the tests are completed...

Well, you need to write me a report."

Shang Ji felt like he had heard a disappointing word.

Report...report?

How have I become part of the Swarm and still can’t avoid reports?

.......

Parasitic banyan test report: Symptoms are too obvious in the early stages of Parasite; although the body-breaking process can be completed in just three days after Parasite, once the first Parasite case appeared, it became highly detectable, making it easy to isolate and deal with in the early stages of infection...

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