Liu Zhi's Hard Work

Speaking of which, this could also be considered Liu Zhi's good luck. After discovering this unopened Zerg hive, he arranged for people to go over and inspect it.

If he had not conducted this patrol, perhaps he would not have known that the Zerg had made a considerably large plan even after their hive had fully unfolded. Nearly every island in this sea had a hive egg dropped on it.

This was an astonishing number. Zerg hives were divided into seven levels, and they could only produce hive eggs after reaching level four. Moreover, they could produce only three eggs a day.

The number of islands in Liu Zhi's sea alone might amount to one or two months of production for that level-four Zerg hive.

If they slowly unfolded and quietly developed, that would have been fine. But now that Liu Zhi had investigated them, these hive eggs would not be so lucky.

Having extracted a hive's soul before, Liu Zhi understood the process of hive growth very well. Generally speaking, it took about a month for a hive to fully unfold into a base and for all three Zerg giants to be fully replenished.

This period was the hive's incubation phase. During this time, the hive had almost no defensive power.

A month later, when the first batch of Zerg soldiers appeared, they would finally possess a certain level of combat strength. Even then, however, they would not be a match for the beasts in the ecosystems of the various islands.

They needed to build up their forces and secretly eliminate those beasts before they could develop at full strength.

To reach the level of the Zerg nest Liu Zhi had attacked last time required at least half a year, and that level was roughly equivalent to a level-two