Chapter 183 A Place for the Zerg

Li Ang had long considered moving the Zerg outside the automated pet breeding box.

To maintain the ecological balance inside the breeding box, he first went to the wilderness to dig up soil and trees himself.

Later, with the player plaza, he repeatedly purchased goods from Mule, buying container-sized soil, plants, water sources, animals, and minerals at high prices.

The money he painstakingly earned from running the store was spent on this.

The volume of the ecological box was ultimately limited.

It gradually couldn't keep up with the excessively exaggerated reproductive capacity of the Zerg.

Moreover, Li Ang also planned to continue to increase the volume of the Zerg units, so that they could adapt to the battles between high-level players, and at least cause some interference to the battles.

However, if he wanted to release the Zerg, he had to face three problems.

Where to place them?

How to maintain contact with the Zerg?

How to ensure Li Ang's absolute control over the Zerg?

Li Ang stood in place, scanning the vibrant primeval forest, and fell into thought.

The placement location should be as far away from human habitation as possible, and the biomass resources must be as abundant as possible.

The sum of the Earth's population has long exceeded the 7 billion mark, widely distributed across the seven continents and four oceans.

In the past, primitive natural areas that were sparsely populated and full of deadly factors have mostly become characteristic scenic spots.

Islands, rainforests, barren mountains, deserts, snowfields...

Even Antarctica has established a large number of scientific research stations, underwater robots monitor marine life, transport ships transport personnel and goods every few days, and there are satellites monitoring the sky.

If the Zerg were placed in such a place, they would probably be photographed in minutes.

Either they would appear on information app websites as blurry photos like the Loch Ness Monster, with unscrupulous editors adding all kinds of outrageous titles.

"Monster Appears in India's Ganges River, Actually Likes to Eat People, Real Identity Revealed After Being Caught"

"Share Quickly! Deadly Monsters Appear in These Five Waters! People Have Already Been Affected!"

"Shocking! Top Ten Monsters in the World Ranked! Loch Ness Monster Can Only Rank Third, What is the First?!"

Or, they would be discovered by official organizations such as the Special Affairs Bureau or the Global Supernatural Alliance, causing unnecessary trouble.

"What are you thinking about?"

Chai Chai's crisp voice interrupted Li Ang's thoughts. He turned around and saw Chai Chai holding a book with the title *Saint Chai's Revelation Revised Edition Draft 2: I'll Write Half of It First and Revise It Again Tomorrow* on the cover.

"Thinking about whether to move part of the Zerg out."

Li Ang withdrew his gaze from *Saint Chai's Revelation* and casually talked about his idea.

Miss Chai blinked her eyes and thought, "Mountains can't be gone to, islands can't be gone to, rainforests can't be gone to...

Why not put them in the sea?

The deep sea has vast space and abundant biomass resources, which is more than enough to support the development of the Zerg."

"I've thought about the sea too,"

Li Ang nodded and said, "The current satellites can't detect the sea area below the surface that is not illuminated by light.

As for fishing boats, underwater probes, and submarines,

They can also be detected in time by reconnaissance worker insects disguised as fish.

But how to contact them and maintain absolute control is still a problem..."

"Eh?"

Chai Chai was stunned for a moment. "Isn't your divine power network able to cover a very long range? Shouldn't it be able to reach the offshore waters?"

Zerg units can communicate with each other through pheromones, and Li Ang can also precisely control the surrounding Zerg individuals by releasing pheromones.

The brain worms, which have a higher level of intelligence and possess self-awareness, mainly rely on faith connections to communicate with Li Ang—they pray in their hearts to the All-Unifying Flesh and Swamp Lord.

While providing Li Ang with weak faith power, they can also transmit fragmented thoughts in their hearts to Li Ang.

Li Ang can directly observe the scenery around the brain worm with the help of the divine power bond, see what the brain worm sees, know what the brain worm thinks.

And respond, let his voice ring in the brain worm's ears, or directly control the brain worm's body, descend divine grace, and cast divine spells from the air—of course, this process requires the consumption of divine power, and the farther the distance, the greater the consumption of divine power.

Through previous tests, the limit of Li Ang's connection with the brain worm is about 1,000 kilometers.

Beyond that, the degree of signal distortion and the proportion of divine power consumption will reach an unacceptable level.

"If I put the Zerg into the ocean, I can remotely monitor the brain worm with divine power, and the brain worm can control the worker insects below through pheromones.

That can be done."

Li Ang roughly calculated it and said slowly, "The ocean can provide sufficient biomass for the Zerg to develop and grow.

And I can also relax the restrictions and mass-produce more brain worms—each brain worm can provide a small amount of faith power.

As long as there are enough brain worms,

The faith power they provide,

Can balance the consumption of communicating with divine power and the consumption of faith power transmitted to me.

It won't be unsustainable.

In addition, the [Synthetic Beast Creation Station] cannot be taken out of the breeding box.

However, brain worms also have a certain degree of gene debugging ability. They can collect the genes of marine organisms and create new Zerg.

As for absolute control over the Zerg...

It can barely be done."

Miss Chai blinked her eyes. She had long known that Li Ang had set up a prevention program for every Zerg unit to prevent them from getting out of control.

For example, Zerg cells will self-destruct after dividing a certain number of times;

Some Zerg units have sporocysts installed in their bodies. Li Ang can remotely trigger the sporocysts with swamp divine power at any time, causing them to emit deadly spores and directly wipe out all the surrounding Zerg;

The brains of some brain worms have hidden alien glands that regularly secrete harmful hormones. They must accept Li Ang's adjustment every once in a while, otherwise they will quickly decline;

Li Ang is wary of the Zerg he created like a poisonous dagger.

Lest the creation backfires, or cause irreversible harm to the real world.

Chai Chai asked, "Then why are you so hesitant?"

"The risk of exposure."

Li Ang said succinctly, "The divine power network allows me to accurately connect to every intelligent life that sincerely believes in the Lord of Flesh and Swamp.

But I can't be sure, after the spatial distance is lengthened,

Whether there are other beings who can see the divine power network—organizations like the Different Society have a long heritage, and their ancestors may have passed down some kind of classics that can find demigods.

What's more, I haven't reached the level of a demigod yet."

"Oh, oh."

Chai Chai nodded, expressing understanding, "But I remember that Queen Elsa in that fairytale script seemed to be only at the demigod level, right?

She was able to collect faith power from all over the Ruhr territory."

"You're talking about that one."

Li Ang said indifferently, "Combining the occult books I collected from the script, as well as the analysis of the statue,

Elsa's faith collection technology largely relies on the effect of the Abyss Magic Mirror.

She placed the Magic Mirror fragments in the statue to reduce the consumption of divine power transportation.

But it is impossible for me to break the Magic Mirror again, put it into my own statue, and bury it in the ocean to serve as a node for divine power transportation—although this may reduce consumption and increase concealment."

The Abyss Magic Mirror is a key prop for the evolution of the Zerg.

Leaving the Magic Mirror will greatly reduce the efficiency of Zerg mutation.

"The Zerg must expand,"

Li Ang rubbed his palms helplessly and shook his head, "But before that, I have to find a way to reduce the consumption of divine power...

Well, the other players I met in the script mission last time probably know that I have divinity.

I can just ask Mule, Bai Haozheng, or Ω,

See if they have any equipment, props, or skills related to divinity.

If that doesn't work, I can offer a reward for acquisition on the forum or the mall."