Chapter 728 - 342: War Begins! (2)

"Even if you can’t use advanced mathematics, what makes you think you’re useful?"

"Didn’t you say, in order to survive, you can do anything? Let’s see if you can handle math problems and learn calculus!"

"Even insectoids wouldn’t be so dumb as to not understand calculus, right?"

"Hehe, I must survive!"

....

Two days passed quietly.

After successfully breaking through the Sword and Shield Group, the God-Hunting Insect Race seized their mine points. The speed of resource acquisition greatly increased. Originally, after the insect race reached the fifth stage, Ye Mingqiu still needed to provide additional resources, but with the acquisition of new resource points and battlefield nutritional bodies, extra resources were no longer necessary.

Indeed, war is the fastest way to acquire resources, but only if you can win.

After having the Queen Mother join in to work, the pressure on the Short-tailed Cat and the Other Shore lessened considerably. Although the actual workload didn’t decrease much, they now had an outlet for releasing stress.

That’s the Stress Queen Mother.

Stress doesn’t disappear into thin air; it merely transfers from one place to another.

Fortunately, they previously invested enough points to increase the Queen Mother’s intelligence, making her smart enough to have actually learned advanced mathematics and ensure her survival.

Now, this insect race Queen Mother is furthering her studies in theoretical architecture, although she can already build through the inherited memory of the insect race. But the issue is, what’s ancient is not necessarily best, as times will always progress, and better things will appear.

Especially for races like the insectoids, which aren’t proficient in intelligent research, inherited memory generally comes from the strong. And whether the strong can develop and survive mainly depends on the environment and luck—if they didn’t get destroyed in the early stages.

As long as the early stage is successfully passed, the later stage for the insect race carries no major pressure. Extracting a strong enough gene would be an additional advantage.

Therefore, under usual circumstances, a truly developed insect race Queen Mother wouldn’t spend too much time or effort on researching construction and resource planning. It’s better to use that time and effort to directly wage war on weaker forces and plunder resources.

That’s typical robber mentality.

The insect race thinks like this.

If the construction isn’t properly planned, expand the map wider. If resources are insufficient, just capture more directly—it’s that simple.

And today, there’s going to be an anomaly among the Queen Mothers of the insect race.

Currently, the fungal blanket of the God-Hunting Insect Race has completely covered the Poisonous Miasma Forest and even half of a plain. The neighboring Far North Land has also been developed considerably by worker insects with the cold-resistant genes, securing some good resource points.

To further expand their forces, they’ve constructed several subsidiary insect nests elsewhere.

Some of these subsidiary insect nests have even developed to the second or even third stage, looking almost like the headquarters of the insect race.

But that’s actually not the case.

Moreover, this isn’t a strategy to deceive others but merely to better expand the development of the insect race forces.

— Team Channel —

Frost Moon: Leader, all other forces have already mobilized. Our outer strength has been observed more than once, and war is about to erupt.

Divine Monarch: It’s not a big deal.

Divine Monarch: We have already built enough defensive structures, and with the Guardian Array carved by the Deputy Leader, and the total number of forces is plenty. Having two more days to develop is already quite good.

Qing Yu: @Frost Moon, come to the Far North Land to open a teleportation gate. There’s someone watching us now, and they might launch an attack at any moment.

Frost Moon: OK.

.....

Far North Land

Within a concealed igloo, leaders of several forces gathered, including Shadow’s Cang Yue, Ember Fire’s Ember, Immortal Flying Group’s Lotus Sheng, among others.

Among them, Ember and Lotus Sheng exchanged a knowing glance as soon as they entered. Their line of sight lasted only about two seconds before they confirmed each other as part of the escape party.

It’s an unspoken understanding.

Besides them, who were there just for formality, the igloo also gathered the combat faction, the backstabbing faction, the idler faction... all kinds of talents coming together.

"The speed of development of the God-Hunting Group’s insect race is too fast, and their resources are very abundant. They might have discovered a huge resource point. To prevent them from developing further, we need to cut off their resource supply as soon as possible."

"The resource points in Far North Land are relatively far from their headquarters. Making a move here won’t pose much risk. All you need to do is feint attack, no need to exert full effort in battle."

At the edge of the Cang Yue war map, pointing to the resource points in Far North Land, Cang Yue’s gaze swept across everyone, wearing a natural smile, and continued, "I know, gentlemen, you are all competitors. It’s impossible to fight wholeheartedly together, but we can do some beneficial small acts for our common interest."

"Of course, no problem. I was ambushed by them before, and I hate those insectoid scoundrels!"

Ember clenched his fist and said angrily, looking as if he would be the first to rush to the frontline.

"Hmm, it’s best to be cautious. Their overall strength is very formidable. I previously posted pictures on the world channel, so please be extremely careful." Lotus Sheng said with a light smile.

Lotus Sheng, the leader of the Immortal Flying Group, appeared to be a boy around twelve or thirteen years old, with a mysterious and powerful aura swirling around him.

Aside from him, there was also Halleweeds from the Hall of All Beings, Wodell from Thunder Blade, Overlord Halberd from the Conquerors... Lotus Sheng and Ember were more proactive in their discussions, while Cang Yue directly came up with strategies and plans.