Chapter 727 - 342: The Dawn of War!

"Crack!"

The grand and elegant Mother Queen resided within the insect nest, lying with utmost comfort and ease, occasionally picking up a biological crystal and stuffing it into her mouth, living quite the good life.

The sound of knocking echoed, she merely glanced casually and then ignored it.

Her profound wisdom told her that in such situations, she should not respond, let the other party mistakenly believe she doesn’t exist, and then she could continue to slack off, allowing the race to develop rapidly.

But this time was clearly unusual as the knocking persisted several times with no sign of retreat.

"Huh? Why aren’t they leaving?"

The Mother Queen was puzzled but didn’t pay much attention, after all, she just had to play dead, and those people couldn’t do anything to her; as long as she was theoretically alive, she was fine.

Then ....

"Swish!"

A sharp slashing suddenly descended, the core shell of the insect nest was instantly shattered, turning into countless tiny fragments floating in the air, revealing the outside world as the Mother Queen saw Ye Mingqiu’s figure for the first time.

The heroic young man held a sinister blood spear, with the air still shimmering with the blood-red arc left by the slashing.

Is this guy crazy?

Would a normal person break the insect nest core to see inside just because the Mother Queen didn’t respond?

The Mother Queen’s gaze met Ye Mingqiu’s, those slightly crimson eyes lacked any murderous intent but she could feel an overwhelming terror. Her biological instincts from the insect race told her that this guy’s power was immense, terribly immense, his existence was the root of calamity.

At the same time, he was the top commander of this area, the leader of the Hunting God, the Divine Monarch.

"So this is the inside of the insect nest?"

Ye Mingqiu looked around at the elegant interior, his gaze gradually shifting to the center where the Mother Queen was.

The Mother Queen was large in size but her face resembled that of a young girl, her upper body was more human-like, with few insect race features, a pair of wide and light insect wings sprouting from her back, while her lower body was completely insect race, with eight long insect legs naturally resting on the ground.

[Insect Race Mother Queen (Unnamed) (Level 5 Dominator)]

[Tier: Tier Two]

[Life: 300,000]

[Basic Attributes: Power: 250, Agility: 300, Constitution: 2500, Spirit: 2600]

The characteristics of the Insect Race Mother Queen were simple, great survival ability, capable of controlling the insect swarm, and her combat ability was almost negligible.

However, it couldn’t be said to be nonexistent, when facing weak enemies, the Mother Queen could use her powerful spiritual power to single-handedly defeat them, but those who could assault the Mother Queen and successfully appear before her were definitely not weak.

So it was almost equivalent to having no combat ability.

"Hey, can you understand what I’m saying?"

Ye Mingqiu asked.

"Ababa."

The Mother Queen tilted her head in confusion, playing dumb.

Ye Mingqiu raised the blood spear, and under the confused gaze of the Insect Race Mother Queen, it instantly descended, the sharp blood light instantly severing three of her insect legs, staining the ground with dark green blood.

"Ah..."

The Mother Queen’s expression twisted as she screamed, and for an instant, her expression changed, birthing hostility within her heart.

In the next moment, Ye Mingqiu was already quietly before her, gripping her neck with one hand, and the other hand’s blood spear ignited with blood flame, his slightly red eyes faced the Mother Queen as he murmured, "So this isn’t any intelligence? It’s not defective."

"Wrong... wrong..."

The Mother Queen’s voice trembled, she felt as if she would die in the next moment, the pressure Ye Mingqiu brought her was unimaginably terrifying.

"Now, our insect nest has developed to the fifth stage, with added special passive, even if losing the Mother Queen, we will not fail immediately, as long as we create another within the stipulated time, we can breed a new Mother Queen." Ye Mingqiu spoke.

In theory, a normal insect race controller wouldn’t do this.

Because the insect race construction process is exceedingly complex, without the Mother Queen, development speed would be halved at least, cultivating a new Mother Queen is a low-cost-efficiency task.

But the current situation was, Ye Mingqiu’s Mother Queen was doing nothing, it made no difference to kill her, just replace her with another.

Slacking indeed meant no work.

But not working made you useless.

If you’re useless, why continue to spend biomass to support the Mother Queen?

From a practical standpoint, the current Mother Queen was merely an [expendable and replaceable] ordinary unit, her existence was not crucial.

"No! Don’t! I am useful!"

The Mother Queen struggled to speak.

"What use? Wasting time here all day? Your wisdom is too high, your daily biomass consumption is not low, changing to a lower stage Mother Queen can save lots of biomass under low-energy conditions."

Ye Mingqiu said coldly.

"I can help, build structures, also help manage, I’m very useful!" The Insect Race Mother Queen hurriedly said.

"Oh?"

Ye Mingqiu raised an eyebrow, asking, "But you have no work experience, never made any contributions before, why should I believe you?"

"Because I want to live! I can do anything to survive!"

The Mother Queen spoke righteously.

"...Report to the Short-tailed Cat and the Other Shore, show me your value." Ye Mingqiu said.

"Okay."

....

Later, with the Mother Queen’s assistance, the pressures on the Short-tailed Cat and the Other Shore reduced significantly, and sounds still echoed from there time to time.

"How did you build this structure? Why doesn’t it have any sense of order? Do you even think about problems? Do you calculate calculus before construction to maximize resource utilization?"