The old man charged toward the enormous coffin with the air of someone who would not turn back until he hit a wall. Just as he was about to smash his head against the coffin wood, black light flashed from the coffin, and the old man instantly vanished...
Over on Ye Meng's side, as the first Zerg Hive unfolded, ten more Zerg Hives were continuously assimilated from it. Massive numbers of Larvae were born from the hives. A level-nine Zerg Hive could produce ten thousand Larvae per day; ten Zerg Hives meant one hundred thousand Zerg combat units!
Watching Zerglings and Drones burst forth from their eggs one after another, Ye Meng issued a cruel order. "All Drones, adopt a destructive harvesting method! Zerglings, expand the perimeter and protect the Drones!"
"Scritch, scritch..." The Drones eagerly waved the enormous mandibles by their mouths twice, then ran up to a large tree. Opening their mouths, they extended tube-like mouthparts resembling steel pipes, viciously plunging them into the tree. Their mouths pulsed as though they were drinking from straws, while the tree's vitality rapidly drained away. A giant tree that could have lived for a thousand years instantly reached the end of its life. Its lush branches and leaves yellowed and fell, while its trunk—too wide for even three people to encircle—swiftly shriveled and contracted... Three seconds. In merely three seconds, a tree that had taken more than two hundred years to mature became a pile of dry, dead wood and crashed to the ground!
As for smaller plants, the Drones ate as they walked, their gear-like teeth never resting for a moment. Vitality was also a decent source of energy. Destructive harvesting was the Zerg's most brutal, yet most efficient, harvesting method.
The first wave of Drones dealt with the towering