Chapter 131: A Trip to the Black Wasteland (Ask for Collection~Ask for Recommendation~)
"Juggernaut, what do we do now?" Zagala surrounded the castle with the swarm, but he didn't know what to do.
After Xue Hua had a rough idea of what was in the castle, he forbade Zagara to send the swarm in to explore again.
That's just going to give people heads.
"Isha, Abasser, all come out, get an idea, this place can't be left like this, I don't worry." There is great strength in numbers, and Xue Hua decided to use the collective wisdom to solve the problem.
"The evolution of the swarm unit is at a critical moment, and it can't be interrupted, otherwise all the work done will be wasted." Abbathhar's unwavering voice rang out in the mind of the main nest.
"Okay, then you focus on your task first." Xue Hua nodded, and asked Abbather to go back to his evolutionary experiment.
"Juggernaut, I've detected something unusual about this building's psionic readings, its underground part seems to be much larger than the above-ground part, and in the underground part, there are more active psionic networks at work that seem to be powering a powerful psionic unit so that it doesn't fail."
Isha submits a psionic test report to the mind of the main nest, which shows that there are pipe-like psionic nets underneath the abandoned castle, which have been supplying the castle with energy, and a small part of this energy is absorbed by the psionic matrix that maintains the masking effect of the castle itself.
Most of them were taken over by an active psionic unit.
The unit has no way of knowing, but it is known that it is constantly being resupplied and depleted, and the psionic energy provided by these psionic nets keeps it in this equilibrium - neither increasing nor decreasing.
"Okay, I probably know what's going on......" Xue Hua looked at the description on the report, and already roughly knew the reason why a monster with a level of up to sixty appeared here.
This is supposed to be a doppelganger.
Monster clones, like deities, cannot descend to the First World, as there is no amount of psionic energy needed to sustain their overly powerful power.
If the monsters' deities forcibly descend on the First World, they will quickly exhaust in a short period of time, and finally be counterattacked by the will of the world and forcibly sent back to hell, or they will be defeated and imprisoned by humans.
The level has been reduced to level 60, and it has reached the critical point of being forcibly expelled by the will of the world.
So it can't be a Buddha-figure.
"Isha, can we cut off these psionic nets?" After understanding what was going on, Xue Hua also knew how to deal with this guy.
The doppelganger will also quickly deplete without sufficient psionic energy supply, but in the end, it will not be expelled by the will of the world, but will degenerate into a projection and remain.
As long as these psionic channels can be cut off, this guy's level will continue to decrease until it matches the monster level in the area of Camp Rogue.
And at that point, it will degenerate into a pitiful projection.
"I'm afraid not, Juggernaut, these psionic nets look like pipes, but in fact they exist invisibly, unless we can build a permanent psionic barrier, even with the inhibition spores of toadstools, we can't completely cut off these psionic tubes that can change the transmission location at any time." Isa's explanation rejected the simplest solution, much to Xue Hua's annoyance.
"So what are we going to do? I can't ignore the existence of such a horrible thing in my backyard. Xue Hua frowned, looking at the castle's painful expression.
"In response to this matter, Isha has two solutions for the master to choose, the first option is to send a large number of swarm troops to forcibly storm the building, forcing the high psionic unit to continuously consume psionic energy to fight against the swarm, these psionic pipelines have a limited transmission capacity, it is impossible for it to maintain its maximum psionic level in battle, and when its psionic level is reduced to a certain point, the swarm can kill it."
"This plan is estimated to be a small loss...... Xue Hua twitched the corners of his mouth.
"The estimated loss will be 1500-2000 Zerg units." Isa's cold voice was untouched.
“...... That's too much of a loss, isn't it? Xue Hua wailed, unable to accept such a heavy unit loss.
Although the swarm now has a real base and stable resource income, it can't be such a loser, right?
"The terrain in the building is narrow, which is not conducive to the development of the insect swarm, and the opponent may hide in the underground fortifications of the building, so it is difficult to give full play to the numerical advantage of the insect swarm."
"Can't we just destroy this castle and dig three feet into the ground and dig that guy out?" Xue Hua hated it so much that he couldn't wait to catch that guy out and bite it twice.
"This building is both a shelter and a prison for the other party, and if we destroy the building directly, the situation will completely get out of control, and since we can't destroy the psionic energy transmission pipeline, this will only give the other party a chance to move freely, and at that time, the loss of the swarm will be incalculable."
"Okay, I see, what's option two?" Xue Hua sighed dejectedly and asked Isha.
"Plan 2, our monitoring king worm can monitor the direction of the psionic pipeline, they found that these pipes are all from the unknown place outside this valley to draw psionic energy, according to the observation of the king worm and the map you gave, it is confirmed that the psionic energy comes from an area on the map called the 'black wasteland', you can go to this area, use the king worm's guidance, destroy the source of the psionic network, and the high psionic targets in the building will weaken on their own."
"Black Wasteland?!" After Xue Hua heard this, he turned around and glanced at the two sisters, Xue Hua and Isha's conversation was not hidden from them, and they also heard Isa's two plans from the spiritual link.
At this time, the eyes of the two girls were also full of surprise.
"It can't be such a coincidence, can it?" Xue Hua muttered to himself.
"The Countess's Tower is in the Black Wasteland?!" Anne and her sister looked at each other, and they also felt a little strange.
"Forget it, whatever, let's go find out!"
He snorted, and finally decided to go to the countess's tower to see what moths were there.
Even if nothing comes out in the end......
You must know that the countess in the game is out of runes!
He wanted to see if he could make a rune.
So even if there is no such thing, before he goes to trouble Sister An, he will stop by the tower to see if the countess can give him some good goods.
Now that the safety of the swarm base is at stake, it is even more of a responsibility.
So, he beckoned Zagala and told him to send a swarm of insects to guard the castle twenty-four hours a day, but not to enter, and to report to him at any time.
Then he took the sisters out of the mountain, found the road sign left by the seniors, and walked towards the underground passage.
To reach the Black Wasteland, you must first go through an underground passage to reach the Dark Forest, and then through the Dark Forest to finally reach your destination.
The journey was quite long, and the time spent on the road alone would have taken at least a month or two.
But fortunately, Xue Hua still brought a lot of supplies, even if it was more than enough to make a round trip.
So instead of going back to Rog's camp to resupply, they planned to go directly to the Dark Forest.
However, at the entrance to the underground passage, they ran into a team of professionals who were also preparing to go to the Dark Forest.
The team averaged around level 10, with a barbarian at the lead, an assassin and a paladin, and a transformation druid.
It can be said that the composition of the profession is quite unbalanced, and there is an extreme lack of long-range strikers.
Seeing Xue Hua alone with two mercenaries, the barbarian captain was first weird, and then greeted him in a friendly way, trying to invite Xue Hua to join their team.
But Xue Hua declined his invitation and showed his rank, telling them that he was just coming to see and had no intention of going to the Dark Forest.
Although he was a little surprised that Xue Hua, a seventh-level necromancer, dared to lead two mercenaries of the same low level to train in the stone wilderness alone, the barbarian did not force anything, just gave a friendly reminder, and entered the underground passage with his teammates.
"It seems that the professionals have also recovered and started to continue their training." Xue Hua watched the professional team disappear into the entrance of the underground passage, and then nodded and said.
"Let's wait a little longer and then go down, or we'll be embarrassed to bump into the bottom......"
Xue Hua's reason for refusing their invitation was simple, without the help of the swarm, his own strength was not much different from that of an ordinary level 7 necromancer.
And the secrets of the swarm should not be known to more people now, especially those who are not so knowledgeable.
The two sisters nodded, and understood what their master meant, so the three of them waited in front of the underground passage for about half an hour, and only after the monitoring king worm's vision was completely invisible that it was a professional person, and then several people entered the passage.