Chapter 379 - 200: Transporting the Giant Corpse, Lv30 Ion Laser Cannon (Part 2)

Chapter 379: Chapter 200: Transporting the Giant Corpse, Lv30 Ion Laser Cannon (Part 2)

This was the only way to relieve the pressure its massive body exerted on the ground, allowing it to move faster.

But that Red-Armored Beetle Swarm had been wiped out in the nuclear explosion, completely obliterated. Even if any had survived, Ling Yi would have to personally control them to continue their mission as haulers.

Right now, all Lin Feng had at his disposal were five Tier Two Late-stage Awakened, including Liu Yi, who together possessed nearly five hundred tons of strength, and three hundred Tier One Late-Stage Warriors, who could barely muster a combined three thousand tons of pulling force...

It was a drop in the bucket for the task of dragging this Zerg corpse.

The only way to overcome the friction from dragging it across the ground would be to use the Dreadnought Battleship and the other sixty Tanks, all with their throttles floored.

At this thought, something seemed to click for Lin Feng, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

After telling everyone to wait in place, he flew north to find Ling Yi, who had already reached the Riverfront.

She was sitting on the back of a group of Red-Armored Beetles, having covered several miles in just a few minutes.

Landing in front of her, Lin Feng looked at the Red-Armored Beetle Swarm and voiced his theory.

"The Hydrogen Storage Bags inside the Zerg Race’s bodies—besides providing the Chemical Energy needed for life, do they also have the function of regulating gravity and the pressure differential between inside and out?"

Ling Yi froze for a moment, then nodded in acknowledgment. She quickly realized why Lin Feng was bringing this up now.

"You want to move the Jiangbei Mother Empress’s entire corpse?"

Lin Feng grunted in affirmation and continued.

"If the Zerg Race has invaded many planets, they must have had to adapt to different gravitational fields and atmospheric pressures. That means they would need to have evolved an organ that could adjust their internal and external pressure to achieve a kind of dynamic equilibrium."

"Especially a gargantuan, bloated behemoth like a High-tier Mother Empress. Unlike the agile, slender Spine Zergs, a lumbering mass like the Mother Empress would find it nearly impossible to move on Blue Star..."

A faint smile appeared on Ling Yi’s face.

’Lin Feng’s guess is correct. It’s a good thing, too—I was just about to tell him about this method of transport.’

"You’re absolutely right."

"The Mother Empress has a massive gastric sac cavity of over ten thousand cubic meters inside its body. It stores liquid hydrogen as a life energy source, a supplement to high-energy food."

"But more importantly, it can regulate the gravitational pull on its massive body, reducing the pressure on the ground when it moves. Otherwise, it couldn’t move so quickly, even with the Red-Armored Beetles carrying it."

Lin Feng nodded, completely convinced.

"So, does that mean a High-tier Mother Empress doesn’t actually weigh tens of thousands of tons?"

The corner of Ling Yi’s mouth twitched.

"Of course not. That kind of mass—tens of thousands of tons—is on the scale of a Tier Four Cosmic Life. They can live in the zero-gravity of space, so they naturally don’t have to worry about the effects of gravity."

"However, this is a problem that all planet-bound life must face after evolving to Tier Three. Body size, which represents Power, is constrained by planetary gravity; there’s an upper limit."

"For example, the largest advanced life forms on Blue Star’s surface, the Dragon Race, rarely exceed thirty meters in height..."

"But ascending to a Tier Four Life allows them to overcome this. The core thermal furnace in their bodies..."

"But I digress. If you want to move that corpse, you can cut open its abdomen. The gastric sac inside will automatically inflate and push its way out, forming a huge hydrogen balloon. While it hasn’t been tested, the buoyancy it provides should be enough to make the Mother Empress’s corpse float."

"But be careful. The membrane of the inflated sac will be extremely fragile; even a rifle bullet could easily puncture it. It would be best to use Miss Chen’s fleet to support and transport it."

"As for the other details..."

After getting the solution from Ling Yi, Lin Feng threw a "thanks" over his shoulder and hurriedly flew back to the edge of the nuclear crater.

He then raised his repaired Tiger-toothed Chainsaw Sword and began cutting through the skin on the Jiangbei Mother Empress’s flank.

After revealing the organs beneath the fascia and rummaging around for a bit, he finally located the long gastric sac Ling Yi had described.

It stretched from an organ near the neck all the way to the tip of the Mother Empress’s hundred-meter-long tail.

Navigating the viscera-filled abdominal cavity, Lin Feng soon found a blue-green organ connected to the Hydrogen Storage Bag. According to Ling Yi, this was the key; it stored the catalyst for vaporizing the liquid hydrogen.

All he had to do was squeeze its contents into the sac, and in no time, the entire sac would inflate a hundredfold, eventually forming a hydrogen balloon larger than the Mother Empress’s own body.

The buoyancy it provided would be roughly equivalent to the Mother Empress’s mass, so once gravity was overcome, it could be moved with ease.

As Lin Feng squeezed the blue-green gland—which was nearly as big as he was—its catalytic contents flowed into the wrinkled sac. It reacted violently with the liquid hydrogen, and the resulting bubbles, like water in a boiling kettle, rapidly inflated the sac.

The onlookers watched, dumbfounded.

They never imagined that Lin Feng’s round trip to the North would yield such an incredible solution. It was completely unexpected.

Once it was done, Lin Feng stepped aside.

He watched quietly as the hydrogen-filled sac continued to expand, finally bursting out of the abdominal cavity. It spilled out from the incision he had made, forming a long, white, fleshy zeppelin.

’The elasticity of the gastrointestinal tract is incredible, especially the intestinal mucosa. It can expand dozens of times...’

Lin Feng muttered to himself.

According to Ling Yi, the Mother Empress’s body automatically seals the valve on the Hydrogen Storage Bag upon death to prevent any violent, accidental explosions.

So there was no need to worry about the hydrogen leaking.

Everyone stared as the sac continued to swell, eventually reaching several hundred meters in length. It looked like some tenacious new life form growing in the nuclear ruins—a truly bizarre sight.