When Ye Yi brought over the Gale Leopard's Demon Core, Ye You once again showed off his peerless speed, snatching for it in a flash...
However, Ye Luo really did raise his right hand, dodging Ye You's move. "What are you doing?"
"My Emperor promised it to me. Don't believe me? Ask him." Ye You looked completely unafraid.
Ye Luo could only smile wryly and nod. Only then did Ye You snatch the Demon Core as if it were a priceless treasure and swallow it in one gulp!
"Buzz!!" The moment the Demon Core went down, a surge of green elemental power swirled around Ye You's body. Then, a green rune appeared on his forehead, just like the others'.
Ye You opened his eyes and, brimming with excitement, waved toward the distance. "Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!" Three Wind Blades shot out in an instant. What was impressive was that they followed one another in quick succession. A tree as thick as a man's thigh was chopped through by the first Wind Blade, then cut two-thirds of the way through by the second. With the final strike, the tree crashed to the ground!
A high-level, third-tier Demon Beast's core really was something else!
Afterward, Ye You thrust out his chest and held his head high. His face barely changed, but his pose and expression together made his pride plain to see...
"Idiot..." Ye Meng muttered. His right hand flashed, and a blade appeared. With a casual swing at a nearby tree, he cut straight through its trunk. The tree was a third thicker than the one Ye You's Wind Blades had brought down!
The pride on Ye You's face froze.
Looking at the two more trees now lying on the ground, Ye Luo sighed from the heart. "You're a hundred times better at chopping wood than Baldy Qiang! If Boss Li had hired you, he'd be on the Forbes list by now..."
"Who's Baldy Qiang? Who's Boss Li?" the Ye Family Four Generals asked in unison.
Ye Luo gave them a mysterious smile. "You tell me..."
Ding. A battle has broken out 100 meters north of the base. Enter battle view?
"Battle?" Ye Luo was startled. That precious base was what he depended on to survive right now. Nothing could happen to it.
"Ye You, turn into a Leopard!" Ye Luo ordered suddenly.
Without a word or question, Ye You transformed into a black Leopard the size of a calf. Ye Luo leaped onto his back. "Something's happened at the base. Let's go back..."
With Ye Luo on his back, Ye You raced along at top speed. Ye Luo closed his eyes, entering battle view directly in his mind.
A hundred meters from the base, more than thirty Magic Wolves were fighting over a dozen Zerglings.
The Magic Wolves were best at attacking with Wind Blades. But with the Zerglings leaping right into their midst, they had to swallow their attacks to avoid hitting their own.
One Zergling lowered its head and raised its tail, its long neck and tail almost level with each other, much like a raptor stalking its prey. It suddenly sprang at a Magic Wolf. Gigaz's claws tore six deep, bone-revealing gashes across the wolf's back. The Magic Wolf cried out in pain, and its nearby companions immediately rushed to help!
Unexpectedly, the Zergling was an exceptionally powerful fighter. Just as a Magic Wolf pounced from the side, the Zergling swung its tail. "Whap!" The crack rang out as the airborne wolf was flung away by the blow. The Zergling's claws didn't pause for an instant; one swipe opened the Magic Wolf's throat!
"So the Zerglings' tails are that powerful too. I guess traveling ten thousand miles beats reading ten thousand books..." Ye Luo's opinion of the Zerglings' fighting style rose another notch.
Though the Magic Wolves outnumbered the Zerglings by more than two to one, the Zerglings' formidable close-combat abilities ended the battle in less than five minutes. All thirty-six Magic Wolves were dead. Drones dragged their corpses straight back to the Hatchery. Demon Beast cores were valuable energy sources, and their flesh contained far more energy than the flowers and trees around them...
The price of this brief battle was only three lightly injured Zerglings. They would recover quickly as soon as they returned to the Creep around the Hatchery.
When Ye Luo returned to the Hatchery, the sticky, reddish-brown Creep already covered a thirty-meter radius around it. The tall trees in the area had been turned into nutrients for the Creep, and the Hatchery, once hidden among the trees, was now increasingly exposed...
"These Magic Wolves were weak, but their attack shows that the Demon Beasts nearby have discovered our base. Low-level Demon Beasts might keep their distance, but there's no guarantee that one or two curious high-level ones won't come. Looks like we'll have to speed up our development..." Ye Luo said softly as he watched the final Magic Wolf corpse being dragged into the Hatchery.
Ye Feng spoke slowly. "My Emperor, while we were hunting the Gale Leopard, I sensed a strong disturbance to our south. It was beyond the limits of what I can detect, so I couldn't pinpoint its location or determine the level of the mineral deposit. But I can say with absolute certainty that there's a mineral vein there!"
"A mineral vein?" Ye Luo's eyes lit up. With a mineral vein, the Zerg Base could develop at breakneck speed...
"Base, how many resources do we have right now?" Ye Luo asked.
"My Emperor, we currently have 9 points of level-one energy... We also have 23 Drones and 19 Zerglings..."
"From now on, stop evolving the resources gathered by Drones into more Drones. Use all of them to evolve Zerglings!"
Evolving a Drone cost 10 energy points. Evolving a Zergling cost 20. With the Larva supplied by the current Level 1 Base, as long as he had enough energy, he could evolve 50 Zerglings in a single day. With that many Zerglings, Ye Luo would finally have the means to grow stronger.
Ever since crossing over, he'd been excited nonstop. Once the excitement wore off, Ye Luo was overcome by exhaustion. Protected by the Ye Family Four Generals, he fell sound asleep...
He slept for an entire day. By the time he opened his eyes again, it was already dusk the next day. Nearly eighty Zerglings had gathered beside him in several patrol squads, constantly circling the Creep. The base's outskirts, now extending a hundred meters in every direction, had become a sea of reddish-brown Creep!
"Ah..." Ye Luo stretched with immense satisfaction, and the Battle Armor on his body slowly disappeared. He'd slept inside the Hatchery wearing the armor so he wouldn't get slime all over himself.
"How long was I asleep?"
"My Emperor, twenty-five hours and seven minutes," Ye Meng answered promptly.
Ye Luo nodded and looked around at the Zerglings, very pleased. Seeing him awake, Ye Feng immediately came over. "My Emperor, we've discovered traces of humans..."
"What..." The drowsiness of waking up vanished at once. Ye Luo's eyes widened. "Traces of humans? Are you sure?"
Ye Feng nodded. "Ten hours ago, seven people passed five hundred meters south of our base. Judging by their clothes and equipment, the intelligent life on this planet doesn't have a very advanced civilization..."
At that moment, Ye Luo wasn't concerned with the level of human civilization at all. His heart was already filled with the joy of discovering other humans.
Even though his body had been modified and he was now a member of the Zerg, he'd still grown up in human society for twenty years. Deep down, he still felt a strong affinity with humanity and a sense of belonging to it.
"Leave all the Zerglings at the base. Ye You, stay here and command them. If you spot any enemies, send me a warning immediately. Ye Feng, Ye Meng, Ye Yi, come with me. We're heading south to take a look at human society!" Ye Luo said, his voice tinged with excitement.
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