Chapter 1 As Li Ang Used the [Tomb Raider] Title Skill to Gather Intelligence, the Wild Lion's Ritual Had Not Yet Progressed to the Point of Completely Controlling Every Part of the Mutated Starfish's Body

The Mutated Starfish was simply too large. To command and control it required both nerve signals and divine power capable of traversing vast distances in an instant.

However, the nerve centers of the starfish's arms had been severed by Li Ang, replaced by Zerg units capable of simulating nerve impulses.

The divine power emitted by the Wild Lion was weakened by the long distance, unable to contend with the brain bugs into which Li Ang had poured his resources and channeled the divine power of the Swamp God by the time it reached the mid-section of the arms.

Normal humans can move their limbs, but cannot control the blood flow in their limbs, or make a particular muscle twitch and contract individually.

But the Zerg can influence and interfere with every part of the body by expanding neural circuits and precisely releasing nerve electrical signals and hormones,

Even more so than the original owner of the Mutated Starfish's body, they can unleash the power inherent in the body itself.

In other words, this is—Starfish Martial Arts.

The tip of the tentacle curled up, like a martial artist clenching his fist,

Hundreds of millions of muscle cells tightly compressed together, contracting, expanding, relaxing, and extending, operating regularly like parts of a huge machine, jointly performing a beautiful and harmonious grand symphony.

The entire tentacle swept across the broken dome ceiling, carrying a storm, and slammed a punch on the divine power barrier temporarily shaped by the Wild Lion.

Boom!

Spider web cracks hundreds of meters long appeared on the divine power barrier, and bursts of crackling sounds erupted continuously.

The Wild Lion's huge body suddenly trembled, and more than a dozen small tentacles wrapped around its body surface burst and fell, relying on squeezed-out divine power to finally maintain the existence of the barrier.

Then, let's do it again.

The fist held by Li Ang quietly loosened, and the starfish arm, whose surface was covered in thorns, also loosened its tip, spreading out like an open palm,

Pressing on the surface of the divine power barrier.

Boom!

Another giant arm broke through the wall and came from the other side, also pressing on the Wild Lion's divine power barrier.

"Do you know how starfish eat?"

"The underside of the starfish's arms has four rows of dense tube feet, with suckers on the tube feet. When preying on bivalves, it sucks on both sides of the shell with two arms, and opens the bivalve's shell mouth through the vacuum action of the suckers at the end of the tube feet."

"Then, it everts its stomach, inserts it into the shell opening, secretes digestive enzymes, dissolves the opponent's adductor muscles and internal organs, and completes digestion..."

Accompanied by the whisper of the Zerg Overlord, two giant tentacles, or arms,

Extended from the dense suckers on the tube feet,

Firmly attached to the semi-solid divine power barrier.

Tearing.

Two giant arms pulled slowly and firmly to the left and right, causing the divine power barrier to explode with continuous sounds.

Bang!

Finally, the divine power barrier completely cracked.

A bright light flashed in the eyes of Michael, who fell to the ground. He flapped the four wings that had barely grown behind him, and rushed straight into the sky. The Flame Sword in his hand suddenly swelled and slashed at the Wild Lion's neck.

Hiss—

Amber blood splattered everywhere, countless sections of arms fell limply, and the Wild Lion swayed and tilted to the right, almost collapsing to the ground.

Divine power, I still have... divine power.

The Wild Lion gave up summoning the arms above, and drove his somewhat blurred consciousness, trying his best to extract the divine power contained in the body plate of the Mutated Starfish under the security door.

But,

Only a small amount of thin divine power, and a large number of incomplete nerve signals, were transmitted back from the life essence link formed by the ritual.

What's going on?

Boom!

The ground in front of the Wild Lion exploded, and Su Ni Shang, who rushed out from underground, threw a large mass of continuously burning, white net-like objects on the ground.

This is the neural circuit of the Mutated Starfish's body plate.

A very complicated emotion flashed in the eyes of the Wild Lion, which were composed of starfish arms. He stepped on the ground with one palm, balanced his body, and looked up to the sky and roared.

Michael was hit by the roar mixed with a huge amount of divine power, broke through the dome ceiling, and disappeared into the darkness of the upper floor,

And Dan Chenzi and others also used the roar as cover, extremely unwillingly, and disappeared from the spot via teleportation.

On the scene, only the Wild Lion, arms, players, and Zerg remained.

"..."

The Wild Lion expressionlessly scanned the battlefield. The severance of the nerves of the Mutated Starfish's main body resulted in less and less divine power being injected into the ritual, and the ritual itself could no longer continue to operate.

Originally, according to their expectations, the Wild Lion would successfully fuse with the Mutated Starfish, blessed by the faith of hundreds of millions of alien creatures, and become a god in one fell swoop.

Not only could they take the gates of the captured Earth players back to their own world, increasing the chances of civilization's continuation,

They could also use the Mutated Starfish itself, with its characteristic of "being able to continuously produce energy as long as it absorbs geothermal heat," to save their civilization from the collapse crisis caused by the extreme squeeze of the Demon Sunflower’s living space.

Unfortunately, the plan was still one step away.

At this moment, any words lost their meaning. The Wild Lion felt the divinity constantly flowing back into his body, and indifferently said: "I look forward to meeting you next time..."

Before he finished speaking, he took half a step back, opened his lion's mouth, aimed at the dark space below the security door, and every arm covering his body surface burst.

"Stop him!"

Tai Hao's expression changed drastically. He shouted sharply, disregarding the consumption of spiritual power, and forcibly drove the Qi Dragon forward.

The other players also felt a strong ominous premonition in the dark,

Amboli waved his scimitar, and the black sail phantom blasted out artillery fire,

David threw the Judge's Spear,

The witch chanted a spell,

Su Ni Shang threw a punch.

However, all attacks landed on the determined Wild Lion, only breaking the arms on his body surface, unable to harm the Wild Lion's main body deep within the arms.

"..."

Li Ang glanced at the Wild Lion, as if he realized something, and directly activated the [Mirror World Travel] effect of the [Abyssal Magic Mirror], which had cooled down, and disappeared from the spot,

Teleporting to the center of the Zerg on the upper floor.

He looked around, confirmed that the system detector did not appear, turned his head towards the large number of brain bugs waiting for a long time, and faintly ordered: "Let's begin."

As the Zerg units took over the arms of the Mutated Starfish and stopped the attack on the lost world, the collapsing trend had stopped,

The spherical giant Zerg nest can also stand stably on the ground.

Buzz—

The Zerg nest vibrated,

The thousands of pipes inserted into the surface of the Zerg nest expanded, contracted, and cycled,

Injecting the amber liquid collected by the lower units into the biological factory in the center of the Zerg nest.

The amber liquid is the blood of the Mutated Starfish, and also the cornerstone containing the divinity of the starfish.

Thousands of tons of amber blood, after multiple filtrations, purification, and refining, are finally injected into the hatching pool.

Li Ang, clad in the Zerg Overlord armor, slowly stepped into the amber blood pool emitting thick steam, and plant tentacles extended from his body.