The Death List Novel - Chapter 558
Chapter 558 Harvest
The seventeenth Fallen Angel floated high in the sky. Qin Lun’s cold eyes swept across the battlefield below. After the arachnid base was destroyed by the incoming shells, the insects scattered outside the base began to frantically return reinforcements.
Unfortunately, without the support of the base, the weaknesses of the arachnids would be revealed. Most insects are inherently less intelligent than humans, and their strength lies in their high degree of organization and discipline.
Under such circumstances, the soldiers who were stronger than the Zerg, and whose battlefield organization had completely defeated the other party, could often use the time difference to kill more and less bugs and kill the remaining bugs bit by bit.
During the siege of the remaining arachnids, Apostle discovered that this battle was different from the previous two battles. Perhaps it was because they had entered the Guiding Mission Area that killing the arachnids on Planet X-352 had yielded hundreds of shattered crystals, which made Apostle work even harder.
Seeing that there were fewer and fewer bugs returning, Qin Lun finally stopped staying high up in the sky and flew towards the arachnid base below. Although the arachnid base had been destroyed, no one had yet approached it.
Apostle led Pilot Officer Keith to kill the returning insects. Actually, they had the intention of probing the base of the insects, so that they wouldn’t be ambushed again when they entered the base.
“Huo Biao, bring your team back. Let’s go to the arachnid base and take a look!” Qin Lun shouted at the murderous MT and landed at the edge of the huge ring crater with Alex and the others.
Huo Biao, who had received the order, was slightly stunned. He had originally thought that Qin Lun would call for Frank. Frank was Qin Lun’s servant, so it wasn’t a secret in the inspector team. The young man’s slightly biased arrangements were mostly seen by others.
However, there was nothing to be jealous of. It was just human nature. As long as Qin Lun didn’t have any selfishness in the distribution of benefits, it would be fine. When this deputy Guild Leader first met, the pure and bashful look that he had disguised had long faded in the minds of the crowd of Apostle.
Apart from Bobby, who was younger and had a jumping temperament, Huo Biao, Bahrain, the Robben brothers, and Bowie were all human geniuses. Through a drill, a line-of-fire reconnaissance, and now a surprise attack on the Zerg base, they had understood why the Lost Party would find an “outsider” to act as deputy Guild Leader to the patrol team.
Perhaps Robin was more influential on the order-keeping front, but the way Apostle displayed his strength was not his reputation, but his actual performance.
In their respective guilds, Bahrain, Huo Biao, and the others were either Guild Leaders themselves or elites with outstanding talent. Since they were willing to join the patrol team, it was because they still had a nostalgia for the order-keeping front and were unwilling to leave just like that.
Perhaps they still had doubts about such a temporary team, but after observing the performance of the two Guild Leaders, the doubts in their hearts were being dispelled. This victory came at the right time. The current team of inspectors was truly packed together. It was no longer the temporary team composed of elite individuals.
Of course, aside from Frank and Robin, these people didn’t know that Qin Lun would regularly sell his teammates. Frank wouldn’t say anything, and Robin wouldn’t talk too much about it, causing the team to lose cohesion.
Even though Robin had been threatened by Qin Lun to sell her teammates, after she calmed down, the intelligent Beauty Guild Leader felt that Qin Lun was just provoking her in disguise.
In other mission worlds, Qin Lun’s words were likely to come true, but not in the Gospel World. The biggest threat to them in this world was not the arachnids, or Jannamer, but the Apostle teams pursued by the other two alliances.
It was just that the other guilds wanted to show their strength, both to subdue them and to rope them in. In many battles, he would hold back. Without any real threat to his life, Qin Lun might not sell his teammates.
At least in this mission world, the word’companion ‘was binding on Qin Lun. However, it was precisely because of this that Qin Lun had nominally contributed to the Order-keeping Alliance. In fact, Robin and even Kelly understood that the Lost Party owed the five great murderers a favor, and it was still a huge favor.
Huo Biao glanced at Frank and noticed that there was no dissatisfaction in the eyes of the hunchback servant. He immediately shrugged his shoulders and brought his crew to the 17th Fallen Angel. He felt that he was thinking too much. Frank didn’t change his profession, and he was already a Second Grade MT. Of course, he had to take the lead in entering the enemy base.
“Alex, you guys stay here!” Qin Lun winked at Huo Biao, causing the soldiers piloted by Pilot Officer Keith to remain outside the base.
‘”Sir, be careful. Even if the arachnid base doesn’t have a complete shield, it can’t be completely destroyed by the Attack. There must be remnants of insects inside. If you encounter too many enemies, please call for backup first!” Vera warned with concern.
“Understood!” Qin Lun smiled and nodded his head. His figure changed once again, and he transformed into the Shadow Gale Leopard and charged into the opening of the arachne base.
“What a miraculous replacement ability! It actually maps the innate talent of a summoned beast onto its master!” Looking at the giant cat that disappeared in front of him after a wave, Huo Biao’s eyes lit up as he carried a round shield and flashed into the arachnid base.
Huo Biao couldn’t see Qin Lun’s location, but with the telepathy between the two of them, he could still feel that the young man was not far from him.
The arachnid hole they entered this time was not a normal entrance or exit, but was one of the cracks that had been torn apart by the shelling. When they stepped into the interior of the arachne base, their first reaction was to feel hot. It was like a steamer inside.
Qin Lun quickly realized that his invisibility had lost its effect through Huo Biao’s reminder. The steam evaporated from the biological tissue caused the Black Panther Mech to reveal a transparent body that flowed like waves of water. The Shadow Gale Leopard’s Shadow Innate Skill had actually been cracked under such a unique environment.
Seeing that his invisibility was useless, Qin Lun helplessly recovered his human form. He raised his chin and signaled for the snickering MT to walk in front.
The inner walls of the arachnid base revealed typical body textures. Due to the residual heat from the shelling, the muscular walls showed signs of melting, making them wet and disgusting to look at.
The crack that Qin Lun and the others entered was located above the base, and there was a huge space. From their position, a charred pit appeared at the bottom of the base. In some places, there were coke-like dark fires.
From the information they had browsed on the Attack earlier, they could tell that this pit was originally supposed to be the incubator of the arachnid base, and was also the main structure of the arachnid base.
Around the hatching pond, there were densely packed biological caves. This was a nursery similar to a human nursery. It was used to nurture all kinds of insects needed by the arachnid base.
Apart from that, there are also some material storage rooms, most of which are organisms of plants and animals. As for the way the insects were stored, there was naturally no need to talk about it. Even Qin Lun’s appetite had dropped a lot after looking at the projection data.
The cities of the arachnids were so simple and rough. Their social structure was different from humans. There were no hospitals, no schools, no hotels, no casinos. Everything was just to expand their populations. The desire to survive and reproduce was always like a black hole that was hard to fill.
If there were no natural enemies, they would only maintain a minimum of military strength. Everything depended on reproduction and expansion as the first prerequisite.
According to the information obtained by the Giants on the original Bug Star in the Gith Galaxy, they discovered that a complete colonial base for the Arachnids had been counted from the moment it descended. The complete transformation and domination of a planet of life only required about three star cycles, the first of which was the construction of the base’s outer shell.
Only when the arachnids encountered natural enemies such as the Heathmayers or the Giants would their first sequence of needs transform from reproduction to defending against their enemies. From this point of view, the arachnids are purely defensive races, and what threatens other lives is their fertility.
The learning abilities of the arachnids were extremely terrifying. When they encountered a race that was more advanced than themselves, once the war dragged on, the enemy would discover that the arachnids could evolve and simulate their unique technological weapons and defeat them in greater numbers.
Of course, the arachnid race wasn’t without natural enemies. At the very least, the Heathmeier people with spirit bodies were their natural enemies. If insects couldn’t simulate spirit bodies, they wouldn’t be able to copy Heathmeier’s technology. This was the main reason why the people of Heathmeier were able to firmly suppress the arachnids in a corner of the galaxy’s spiral arm.
[Inspector Team, your subordinate members have entered the Zerg base on Planet X-352. They are deemed to have completed the guidance mission ‘Assist in Occupying Base X-352’. Personal mission reward: 15,000 broken crystals, 100 exchange vouchers, 7 contribution points]
“This is considered to be the completion of the guidance mission?” Everywhere in the battlefield, Apostle, Robin, and the others couldn’t help but be stunned. Recalling what Qin Lun had said, they realized that this guidance mission was indeed very simple.
Originally, this guidance mission was not difficult, and the patrol team could complete it alone. Now that the Arachne base had been wiped out by the main cannon of the Attack, it could not be any simpler.
“It’s good that we’re done!” Robin let out a sigh of relief, then laughed self-deprecatingly. Being stimulated by Qin Lun, the Beautiful Guild Leader’s psychological burden became heavier. She wanted to change herself, but how could her old habits change so easily?
“It’s just that the profit is a little bit less!” Bobby crossed his legs on the control panel and curled his lips to observe the battle coming from the surface of the planet.
However, he quickly revealed a trace of surprise. Qin Lun and Huo Biao, who had entered the base, had obtained new harvests. They had found some giant eggs that still had signs of life in the base. The so-called pleasant surprise was that the starry sky prompt indicated that these eggs belonged to treasures that could be carried out of the world and could be hatched into summoned beasts.
This discovery caused Apostle to cheer from the bottom of their hearts. Even if these eggs could only hatch the lowest-grade insects, they were still high-grade summoned beasts. In the Gospel World, they are the lowest-grade arachnids. If they were to switch to another mission world, then …
[Tip: According to the progress of the mission, the patrol team triggered a competitive main mission two days ahead of schedule, extending their stay by two weeks …] Perhaps the starry sky was dissatisfied that they were happy too early, and an important tip followed. The previous content was not strange, but the latter content forcefully suppressed the cheers in Apostle’s stomachs.
‘”According to current estimates, there are a total of four Apostle teams participating in this competitive main mission. Among them, high-level members meet the minimum requirements for forming a three-member black iron team. The final mission evaluation will be automatically raised by two levels, based on the Silver Evaluation of the Central Demon World!”