This is the unique power of the Zerg Queen: Egg Laying! Although Zerg Queens possess no offensive capabilities, they are one of the few creatures capable of instant death. Fissioning essentially involves launching a stream of small spores at the enemy. (Net) These spores grow within the target unit's organic body, able to pierce thick armor to reach internal organs. Using the victim as fertilizer, within seconds, they gestate a pair of parasites. Once these parasites burst forth from the host, the host dies immediately!

Of course, this ability certainly cannot be used often; even for a rare elite like Jiani, she can only fire twice consecutively, requiring at least a half-hour rest before using it again. It also has no effect on structures, and contractors like Fang Senyan are naturally immune to this horrifying instant-kill ability, having already been exempt from the previous spore infestation.

At this moment, the Overmind of the Viscous Tribe clearly recognized the critical deficiency in their anti-air capability. Instantly, all embryos within the base began hatching Hydralisks. Regrettably, distance offered no immediate relief; Hydralisk incubation required at least ten minutes! Meanwhile, Shen Xu had already arrived at the open ground before the entrance to the Hive Mother Nest. Fang Senyan, fully armed and in peak condition, didn't hesitate. He aimed straight down at the ground below and leaped first toward the twenty-plus Elite Zerglings!!!

Once Fang Senyan landed, he would face a furious assault from at least seven or eight Elite Zerglings, while simultaneously enduring attacks from the Lingua-Spine Bunker! The attack power of the Elite Zerglings and the Lingua-Spine Bunker was absolutely incomparable to that of ordinary Zerglings. Even with Fang Senyan's resilience, he wouldn't last ten seconds! But what he held in his hands was not the Prometheus III Flamethrower, but a dull, disc-like object!

Prototype Electromagnetic Cloud Burst Bomb!!!

A dazzling blue light flared across everyone's retinas. Those twenty-plus Elite Zerglings, seeing Fang Senyan leap down, frantically converged, perfectly absorbing the 80 points of sonic damage from the Prototype Electromagnetic Cloud Burst Bomb. Furthermore, their auditory organs suffered severe damage, meaning the 10-second stun effect was completely unavoidable!

It is worth noting that Fang Senyan hadn't anticipated that the Zerg host carrying them, Shen Xu, would also be affected by this cloud burst bomb. However, as a rare elite with no offensive power, Shen Xu possessed formidable defense, health, and resistance to status effects. Thus, it surprisingly resisted the stun effect! Otherwise, unforeseen variables might have truly arisen.

Therefore, Fang Senyan now only needed to withstand the attack of a single Lingua-Spine Bunker. Although this bunker's attack power was quite significant, for Fang Senyan at this moment, it was within the range he could tough out. In just two short seconds, everyone and everything carried by Shen Xu had landed. Because they had all been fixed within Shen Xu's body cavity, unable to attack, they immediately unleashed their pent-up fury, while simultaneously surging toward the passage leading beneath the Hive Mother Nest.

As the ten seconds were about to expire, Fang Senyan charged suicidally into the pack of Elite Zerglings again, detonating another Prototype Electromagnetic Cloud Burst Bomb. He had now endured the detonation of two Prototype Electromagnetic Cloud Burst Bombs while constantly receiving fire from the Lingua-Spine Bunker, and his health began to drop critically. Fortunately, he managed to dive forward and slip into the passage, escaping the bunker's line of sight, thus ceasing to be attacked.

The internal structures of all Hive Mother Nests are largely similar, just as the arrangement of organs in every person's body is nearly identical. Before arriving here, Fang Senyan had already conducted practice familiarization runs inside the Black Spine Mother, so he moved with practiced ease. He had Adam Savage, skilled at setting up explosives, lay traps along the way, deploying the terrifyingly destructive ordnance they brought. Even though this was within the organic body of the Hive Mother Nest, making a complete collapse or destruction impossible, it would still serve as a formidable means of interception.

The path leading to the bottom of the Hive Mother Nest was quite long, interspersed with numerous flesh-red structures resembling heart valves, incredibly tough, tightly sealed together, blocking their way like doors. These valve-doors were extremely resilient. The two Elite Zerglings clawed and gnawed at them, coupled with continuous heavy fire from the demolitions expert Baylans, only managed to carve out a small gap. Anyone unaware of the inner workings would have spent a significant amount of time just dealing with these damned valve-doors.

Fortunately, in his desperation to save the Overmind, the Black Spine Mother had truly discarded all restraint, divulging almost every secret related to the Hive Mother Nest to Fang Senyan. Thus, facing this obstacle, Fang Senyan approached and, instead of attacking the door, slammed a heavy punch into the adjacent flesh-red soft wall. Fang Senyan's strength was considerable, augmented by the gene serum, equating to the power of at least two or three adult strong men. This punch sank deeply into the soft wall, embedding itself at least twenty to thirty centimeters.

The valve-door vibrated violently, immediately wilting like a thirsty plant leaf, and with a collective push, it opened. However, once the effect of Fang Senyan's punch wore off, the valve-door slowly began to close again.

The group heard the continuous sound of explosions from behind them, clearly indicating that the pursuing force was constantly detonating the explosives laid by Adam Savage. Ahead, they could see the unique glow emitted by the Pandora Crystals. Fang Senyan and his party quickened their pace, bursting out of this narrow, vessel-like passage. Their view suddenly opened up, revealing they had reached the bottom hall of the Hive Mother Nest. Aside from the two Elite Zerglings, the rest of the group froze upon seeing the scene before them.

The environment here was quite similar to that in the Nightmare Space: flesh-red walls, dim but not harsh light. The difference was the addition of many massive, grape-like vascular tubes suspended in the air and attached to the flesh walls, continuously pumping various colored nutrients and fluids toward the incubation chambers above.

On the west side of the lower hall, large quantities of Pandora Crystals were neatly stacked. A worker drone was continuously picking up crystals and dropping them into an adjacent digestion pool. This pool effectively extracted the immense energy contained within the crystals, sending it through various vessels connected to the pool to nourish the different organs.

What stunned Fang Senyan and his group was: on the west side of the chamber, there was a massive cage constructed from woven, pale-white biological tendons. The flesh-red walls on either side of the cage featured numerous dense, bowl-sized holes. Within these holes, boiling, surging green fluid desperately tried to spray out but seemed to be held back by an invisible force. However, the green fluid constantly churned, occasionally splashing out a few drops that hissed upon hitting the flesh-red floor like sulfuric acid, emitting an extremely foul odor and corroding pits into the ground!

In front of the cage stood a massive, flesh-red worm covered entirely in mucus, resembling the shape of a pupa but frozen completely motionless. Its head bore a huge, gruesome wound, as if a bomb had detonated inside, spilling pink flesh and transparent bodily fluids everywhere.

Inside the cage was an equally corpulent giant worm. Its surface was a faint black, covered in wrinkles, with noticeably loose skin, making it look like a withered human elder who hadn't had water for seven or eight days. Its head possessed a small, dark crystal, seemingly embedded there. Its body could be seen trembling slightly, and several major vascular tubes originating from its head stood out clearly, bulging above the surface of its skin.

Seeing this situation, Fang Senyan easily pieced together the preceding events. The Viscous Tribe Overmind, realizing the guards at the entrance had failed to stop the intruders, flew into a rage and initiated the mechanism to violently kill the imprisoned Black Spine Overmind Mozhi. Perhaps because Black Spine Overmind Mozhi had been confined for so long, it appeared near death, leading the Viscous Tribe Overmind to become momentarily careless. It was unexpectedly killed on the spot by some form of psychic attack launched by Black Spine Overmind Mozhi! It seemed the Viscous Overmind intended to devour Black Spine Overmind, but it ended up being the one devoured!

The horror of Black Spine Overmind's strength, and the intensity of its forbearance, were truly to this extent!

Furthermore, Black Spine Overmind Mozhi had used its psychic power to form barriers or similar constructs, psychically solidifying the light green corrosive fluid about to erupt from the channels on both sides, completely plugging it to prevent full release! Such capacity for restraint and such formidable psychic power explained why the surrounding Zerg tribes were so suspicious they united to annihilate the Black Spine Zerg tribe.

By now, the two Elite Zerglings had wildly charged forward, fiercely biting and tearing at the vine-woven cage, emitting desperate roars, but achieving little success. It was believed that if the acid had sprayed out, they would have unhesitatingly used their bodies to block the orifices. Seeing Black Spine Overmind Mozhi's massive body trembling more and more violently, Fang Senyan could no longer hesitate. He equipped the flamethrower and pulled the trigger, sweeping the area. Even though this would cause the bulky creature to suffer some scorching from the edge of the flames, the vine cage restraining it should be less able to withstand the heat. It was far better than exhausting its psychic energy and being corroded and dissolved alive by the twin streams of acid.

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