Chapter 378 - 200: Moving the Giant Corpse, Lv30 Ion Laser Cannon

Chapter 378: Chapter 200: Moving the Giant Corpse, Lv30 Ion Laser Cannon

Watching Ling Yi leave, Lin Feng called out after them:

"When will you be back?"

After the successful decapitation strike, there was still the even more troublesome Hai City Zerg Race to deal with. Without Ling Yi’s covert cooperation, it would be difficult for Lin Feng to extricate himself.

Ling Yi turned their head and held up two fingers:

"Two days at most. If Wu City can’t hold on, just retreat first. I’ve already prepared defenses on the East Shore of Taihu Lake. It’s a perfect opportunity to use this tunnel to move the masterless Swarm from North of the River."

"The death of the Jiangbei Mother Empress has already provoked the Mother Empresses worldwide. The battle to defend the Federal Capital in the North will become even more intense and bloody. The outcome will likely be decided in the next few days."

"There isn’t much time left for humanity."

"If you hurry over there, you might be able to pick up the scraps."

With that said, they continued on their way.

Lin Feng was slightly stunned. He hadn’t expected that his accomplishment—humanity’s first kill of a Mother Empress—would trigger such a severe chain reaction.

Not only was a Tier Three King Spine Zerg about to enter the battlefield, but the butterfly effect was also accelerating the failure of the Federal Capital’s defense.

Only after having killed a High-tier Mother Empress could one truly understand how powerful and terrifying these descendants of the Divine Race were.

Unless the Federal Capital was willing to pay the price of mutual destruction and just carpet-bomb the area with nuclear bombs, Lin Feng saw no hope of victory in the defense.

Even if Qin Hu converted all the city’s soldiers into Genetic Warriors and used any means necessary to force-grow a batch of Tier Two Peak Genetic Warriors, it would still be difficult to eliminate a Zerg Race Mother Empress.

Even for a rare case like Shen Jie, the outcome of a confrontation with a High-tier Mother Empress would still be uncertain.

Half the credit for this victory went to the precise nuclear bombardment, while the other half was due to Lin Feng’s fearless disregard for his own life, as well as the support from Ling Yi and the other soldiers.

To replicate this victory, they would need to encounter another opponent as "cooperative" as the Jiangbei Mother Empress.

As the great battle ended and he watched Ling Yi depart, the cleanup work was still ongoing.

And the abundant Life Energy within the Zerg Race Mother Empress’s body left Lin Feng, who had been waiting for several minutes, utterly shocked.

Ordinarily, a Tier Two Zerg Race’s Life Energy would be plundered almost instantly upon its death. This was the first time Lin Feng had ever seen something like what was happening with the High-tier Mother Empress.

It was possibly related to their massive amount of Spiritual Energy.

After all, Ling Yi had just mentioned that killing a Mother Empress wasn’t just about seizing its Life Energy, but also its Spirit and consciousness.

In simpler terms, its soul.

Although a soul couldn’t be seen or touched, it was a very real form of high-frequency energy.

It was of great help in raising one’s personal Spiritual Attribute.

He recalled how an ordinary Zerg Race mother-body could grant an extra fifty to one hundred points of Spiritual Value. Now, after killing a High-tier Mother Empress, even Lin Feng couldn’t help but look forward to the kind of spiritual boost it would provide.

Gripping his Level 29 Electromagnetic Cannon, after resting for a moment, a notification finally appeared before Lin Feng’s eyes:

[Life Energy from Lv32 Zerg Race Mother Empress has been fully absorbed.]

[Equipment Tier Jumping Upgrade Energy acquired.]

[Large amount of extra Spiritual Energy acquired.]

[Initiate Tier Jumping Upgrade for Level 29 Electromagnetic Cannon?]

Lin Feng directly initiated it. He then pulled the barrel of the gun out from the back of the Mother Empress’s corpse. A golden light flowed from his body into the cannon, beginning its upgrade and modification.

Because this was a crucial Tier Jumping Upgrade, the time required would be longer.

Fortunately, thanks to the extra bonus effect from his Spiritual Attribute greatly Breaking its Limit, the time needed for the Skill Upgrade was halved. It should be completed soon.

While the upgrade was in progress, Lin Feng gathered the nearby team members and began to clean up the battlefield.

They were to take the valuable Tier Two Tiger Spine Zergs, while the rest of the Low-Tier Zergs would be left for Ling Yi to handle.

But the most important task was to transport this colossal corpse at his feet, over 150 meters long, directly to Jin City, over a hundred kilometers away, for dissection and research to uncover more secrets of the Zerg Race Mother Empress.

This was the only Mother Empress corpse in the whole world. Its practical value was actually no less than the impact Lin Feng would have as the first-ever Tier Three Awakener.

How to best utilize it was the most crucial part of all the tasks ahead.

After summoning the commanders of the Tier Two Battle Groups for a discussion, Lin Feng decided that Liu Yi and four other commanders would lead the remaining three hundred Tier One Late Stage Awakened to escort the massive corpse of the Zerg Race Mother Empress.

As for the Tiger Spine Zerg corpses, after their Giant Mandibles were cut off, Lin Feng directly fused them into orange Tiger Armor. This armor was given as a reward to a few Tier One Warriors who had performed exceptionally, having killed Tiger Spine Zergs in the previous blocking battle, as a commendation.

The remaining twenty-some Tier Two melee members, armed with Chainsaw Swords, would follow Lin Feng back to Wu City to provide support.

The major strategic retreat about to commence in Wu City was not suited for more personnel. Too many people would only put more pressure on logistics and transportation.

Besides, three hundred Tier One Late-Stage Warriors wouldn’t have much of an impact on the situation anyway, so it was better to have them take on the task of transporting the Zerg corpse.

However, after the decision was made, a new problem presented itself to everyone:

How were they going to move this colossal corpse before them?

The Mother Empress’s head was fifty meters high and thirty meters wide, and its body was one hundred fifty meters long. Even with a teardrop-shaped structure—a large head and small body—it would still weigh tens of thousands of tons!

And that was just a rough calculation using the density of water; the actual density was likely much more than one ton per cubic meter.

According to Ling Yi, a Mother Empress would normally control over ten thousand Red-Armored Beetles to crawl beneath its body and carry it forward.