The female mage was so familiar with this friction sound that her muscles formed a conditioned reflex. Her muscles tightened due to fear and tension, and her slender fingers became extremely pale because she tightly held the staff.
After a while, a terrifying insect she had never seen before entered her field of vision.
Its body is like a big dog, no, a giant wolf. It has slender limbs and fleshy pads on its feet, and is very good at running in wide areas.
Although the body still looks like an animal, starting from the head, there are obvious characteristics of Zerg. A pair of compound eyes are located on both sides of the head. The mouthparts are very huge, and the densely packed small teeth inside make the human scalp tingle.
It has the same chitin carapace as Zergling, and a pair of long spiked claws on its back, which seem to bite the target while also causing puncture damage.
This twisted, pieced-together creature looks more terrifying and cruel than the fighting bugs in Death Forest. There is no doubt that this is the creation of Hatchery.
The back of the female mage's head was so nervous that Neural Thorn stood up. It was this instinctive reaction that saved her life. About six unknown insect beasts did not pounce directly to attack, but circled around the female mage.
Seeing that she was still alive, the female mage tried her best to move the thorns, trying to communicate with the unknown insect beast. After half a minute of hard work, the spiritual frequency was finally connected.
But good luck did not come. With the connection of spiritual frequencies, the female mage's mind did not feel connected to a stable order network. Instead, her consciousness was like a small boat thrown into the stormy sea.
She only held on for a moment before her conscious body was overturned by the huge waves caused by the strong wind. The female mage screamed and fainted.
In a distant place, at the end of the grassland, there is a continuous mountain range. The mountains here were once lush and green, full of vitality, like a paradise.
This is the Gale Valley, the core headquarters of the Astrologers' Association. Those beautiful scenery have changed their appearance, and purple Creep is everywhere.
The mountains have been covered with pavement, and the grassland has also been paved with a large area. Creep has absorbed everything except the stones.
A huge Hatchery stands in the mountains. This Hatchery, which is composed of exposed muscles and spiked bones, is like a devil's palace, which is intimidating.
There is a huge, beautiful and luxurious building in the valley next to Hatchery, with a golden dome, glazed bricks and white marble pillars.
These characteristics are all out of place compared to the Hatchery on the side. The sticky Creep secreted by Hatchery has not entered the area of this building at all.
Inside this building, two women wearing red cloaks and veils covering their faces were moving forward along the long hall corridor.
The hall is spacious and clean, and the decoration is full of occult style. A large number of purple star maps are the most common decorative paintings here.
The most luxurious thing is that even though there is no one here, a large number of Psionics spells illuminate the vast hall like daylight. Using a large number of Psionics spells for lighting can only be done by the Astrologers' Association who have a large number of Psionics people.
The two women in red robes walked one behind the other. The woman in the rear stretched out her right hand from the wide robe, put it at her ear, nodded, and an ethereal and pleasant voice came from under her mask. "Teacher Joanna, the peripheral Swarm has sent a message, and the new Psionics carrier has been captured."
"Scadi, just do this as usual. We shouldn't focus on paying attention to such small things." The voice of the woman in red robe walking in front was also ethereal and melodious, but more mature.
"Thank you for your teaching, Master Tutor. It's just that the Psionics carriers this time are very special. They actually have organs similar to Swarm on their heads. Moreover, the Swarm who captured them said that they are the same kind that can communicate." Skadi said cautiously.
Joanna stopped and said, "What did you say? How could it be!"
She also stopped and said, "Send the message from Swarm to me through the Internet, quickly."
Skadi bowed deeply and immediately did so. She stretched out her hands from her robe and put them on her head.
A large amount of information was conveyed to Joanna's mind through Scatter. She closed her eyes and carefully observed and analyzed that the similar organ was indeed from Swarm. After carefully searching her memory, Joanna recognized the captured Psionics carrier.
These two mages belong to the association and seem to be disciples of Stars. Could it be that Stars also succeeded? If she succeeded, why didn't she contact the association? She has remote Psionics contact authority, so there is no need to send someone to explain the situation.
"This situation is very abnormal. The abnormal situation will affect our plan. Order those slaves to take them to the truth room. I want to check their memories." Joanna ordered.
"As you command, Master Tutor." Skadi squatted down slightly, saluted Joanna and stepped back.
Soon only Joanna was left in the vast hall. Ordinary people might feel psychologically uncomfortable in such a spacious and silent place. However, Joanna stepped on the red carpet like a puppet and walked forward indifferently.
The long hall finally ends, and at the end is a high platform. The high platform is full of mechanical style and has Psionics surrounding it.
There was a round thing floating above the high platform. After Joanna saw the thing, she waved her hand, and an inverted pyramid protruded from the high ceiling, with the top of the tower accurately touching the round thing.
After seeing Psionics at the top of the tower slowly infiltrating the ball, Joanna said, "Typhon, how is the situation with Hatchery?"
"Woo, I'm in pain, mom, I'm in pain." A little girl's voice came from the ball. This voice was as sweet as an oriole, but it was full of pain.
"Typhon, you are a big girl now. You have to be good and obedient. The pain is temporary. When Hatchery evolves again, you won't be in pain anymore." Joanna comforted her softly.
Typhon's voice sobbed twice before calming down for a while, "Everything is fine with Hatchery. Yesterday, three thousand eggs of terrifying beasts were hatched. Since there are not enough Psionics carriers, I did not dare to let Hive Mind hatch them."
"Don't worry, Psionics's carrier problem will be solved. Is there anything Hatchery needs?" Joanna's voice was as soft as a kind mother's.
"Same as before, Hatchery is always hungry. Creep alone can't feed Hatchery. It's been raining recently and the light is not good." Typhon sobbed again, "Also, Hive Mind asked me to find Overmind, and it said that only by connecting Swarm Network of Overmind can the problem of Hatchery's gene damage be solved."