Chapter 412 - 211: Sister Yurou, Energy Form, Full Support

Chapter 412: Chapter 211: Sister Yurou, Energy Form, Full Support

A gnawing hunger urged him to continue absorbing Energy.

However, Lin Feng had already eaten three meals today, each five times the amount of a normal person, equivalent to eating seven kilograms of rice.

But this food was only enough to meet Lin Feng’s most basic survival needs. The slightest exertion resulted in drastic consumption.

This made Lin Feng realize something: although a small-statured Tier Three Life Form held an absolute advantage in speed and agility, its insufficient Energy reserves resulted in low sustained combat capability.

Judging by the Energy storage capacity within his body, even if he chugged a bellyful of Organic Nutrient Liquid before a fight, he could at most maintain his Tier Three strength for about ten minutes.

And that was without even activating his Realm Ability for a powered-up burst State...

Once his Energy was depleted to an unsustainable level, his State would plummet, dropping him back to Tier Two.

Similar signs had appeared back when he entered the Underground area of the first defensive line to fight alongside Qin Hu’s Genetic Warrior squad.

The first-generation Genetic Warriors suffered from excessive Energy consumption after activating their Assimilation State. They needed to replenish with high-energy food immediately after battle; otherwise, their hungry cells would begin to cannibalize each other, leaving the host even weaker and causing their strength to continuously decline.

As one’s Level increased, this flaw would become more and more apparent, eventually severely impacting the normal performance of a Tier Three Awakener.

In contrast, Tier Three Zergs, whether a Mother Empress or a King Spine Zerg, generally possessed massive bodies over a hundred meters in size. This was especially true for a Zerg Race Mother Empress, which would normally carry a huge Biological Nest on its back as an external reserve of Energy, unless it needed to move quickly.

The Biological Nest not only recharged it for sustained combat but also provided a substantial bonus to its Life Attributes.

This was also why a Zerg Race Mother Empress was so difficult to kill.

Beings like humans, with their small bodies and inherently insufficient reserves, could only max out their speed and burst power stats from their Physique. This forced them to sacrifice Life and Defense Attributes, leaving them in the dangerous position of being glass cannons—high attack, low defense.

Moreover, humanity had just entered the era of evolution and Awakening, and its supporting technology was not yet fully developed. If they couldn’t achieve an instantaneous burst to kill a High-tier Zerg Race, their chances of victory were slim to none.

It was just as Lin Feng had worried before: when his burst Damage couldn’t instantly kill a Mother Empress, he would face the desperate situation where the Damage he dealt was less than the rate at which the Zerg Race Mother Empress recovered.

There were two ways to solve this predicament.

Lin Feng contemplated his own State as he drank Organic Nutrient Liquid to replenish his body.

’The first method is the most direct and easiest to achieve: abandon the current human form and, like the Zerg Race, continuously expand my body as my Level increases.’

’For instance, I’m over 1.9 meters tall right now. If I just grew to three meters, I could extend my combat State and maintain an output of Tier Three strength for more than half an hour.’

’If I grew to four or five meters, I could probably extend it to about an hour. That would give me plenty of strategic flexibility when facing a High-tier Zerg Race.’

’But such a massive body would also increase my food intake, which would be an unseen burden on the fledgling Jin City Base.’

’It’s just like the Zerg Race ruled by a High-tier Mother Empress. Their fundamental motivation for continuous expansion and advancement is to keep feeding the Mother Empress, whose consumption is frankly absurd.’

’If I also choose this path, I might swell to tens of meters in the future, losing my advantage of agility and speed in the process.’

’What’s more, I would gradually detach myself from normal human society and become some kind of deified other.’

’Overall, increasing my body size can only offer a temporary and limited improvement to my current predicament.’

’It doesn’t solve the problem at its root.’

In comparison, the other method—the Energy conversion process Ling Yi once briefly mentioned—was much more feasible.

Although the transformation process would be difficult, it was also the life transition from Tier Three to Tier Four. It could be considered preparing in advance.

In reality, the fundamental reason for insufficient Energy wasn’t an issue of physical capacity.

Evolving a massive body, like the Zerg Race did, was merely a solution born of necessity.

The real problem lay in biological Chemical Energy. The maximum Energy density of absorbed substances like sugar, fat, and protein could only support a Life Form’s evolution up to Tier Three.

Beyond that, without changing the method of Energy Absorption, increasing one’s body size was the only path forward.

However, even so, there was a limit to body size under the constraints of planetary gravity.

It was, in effect, a dead end.

The only true path for life’s evolution was to change the form of its fundamental internal Energy, preparing for a future where it could overcome gravity and venture into space.

Lin Feng immediately took out his Lv30 Ion Laser Cannon and switched it back to Electromagnetic Cannon mode. He then placed his hand on the Magnetic Storm Electric Ball contained within the barrel, trying to let the cell layer on his palm’s surface adapt to the electric current flowing into it and driving cellular activity.

Lightning was the most violent form of Energy release on a planet, and aside from nuclear explosions, it was also the most condensed form of high-density Energy.

If he could power his body with electric current and absorb plasma as a reserve Energy source, Lin Feng would become the number one existence in terms of physical Power below Tier Four.

By using the magnetic field generated by his own Electromagnetic Energy, he could absolutely accelerate to several Mach on Blue Star. Overcoming gravity to fly through the sky or burrow into the earth would be a simple matter.

However, this transformation process was slow and painful.

After a brief attempt, while he didn’t feel the paralysis of half his body as he had at Tier Two Peak, Lin Feng discovered that of his own Tier Three Cells, not even one in a hundred could actually adapt and survive the electric shock.