0p0 Chapter 228 Relying on the Blessing of Divine Beasts, Bravely Venturing into the Apocalypse 62
Chapter 228 Relying on the Blessing of Divine Beasts, Bravely Venturing into the Apocalypse 62
"We failed last time because we attacked too openly and honestly."
"We should learn from the cunning humans and ambush them." The scorpion queen, recalling the human ambush she had witnessed from the shared perspective, had a sudden inspiration and decided to learn this method of attack from them.
The Spider Queen had witnessed humans ambushing their own isolated subjects and understood the meaning behind the Scorpion Queen's ambush.
The question was: "How should we ambush them? We don't think we've ever attacked like this before. How do we set up an ambush?" The spider queen asked the same question twice, indicating that she really didn't know anything about how to ambush.
The scorpion queen was speechless when asked this question. She only knew how to ambush, but she didn't know how to deploy the ambush.
"How about we ask the leaders of the other three races?" the Spider Queen asked uncertainly.
"Why bother with those stinky bugs? All they do is cause trouble, what else can they do?" the scorpion queen said disdainfully. It seemed she had a grudge against one of the queens.
"Many insects have great strength. Since neither of us knows how to ambush, it wouldn't hurt to ask them." The spider queen was willing to lower herself to ask the scorpion queen for cooperation, so she could naturally lower herself to ask the queens of the other three races for help.
The scorpion queen thought the spider queen's words made sense and reluctantly agreed.
So the scorpion queen dispatched her people who were still in Sichuan Province to form three teams to go to Yunnan Province, Tibet, and Xinjiang to find the queens of the other three tribes.
Relying solely on the scorpion's crawling, it would take forever to reach the farthest territory. In the end, the scorpion queen sent her offspring to the nearest province, Yunnan, to search for the knife-wielding tribe.
First, they inquired about the ambush plan with their subjects and the Queen of the Blade-Hand Clan, but unfortunately, the Queen of the Blade-Hand Clan also did not know how to set up an ambush.
The Scorpion Queen then asked the Knife Hand Clan to carry her people to the territories of the other two clans so she could consult them about ambushes.
The Blade Hands, which resemble mantises, are flying creatures. They can carry the Scorpion Clan to Tibet and Xinjiang, saving a lot of time.
The scorpion queen and spider queen can also take this time to recuperate and develop stealthily.
The insect tribe inhabiting the Tibetan region is the myriapod tribe, while that in Xinjiang is the white insect tribe.
Due to the sparse population in Tibet, the myriad-legged tribe expanded their territory to Ningxia and Gansu provinces, and the myriad-legged queen insects lived in the deep mountains of Ningxia.
Compared to the Scorpion Clan seeking help from the Knife-Hand Clan in Yunnan Province, it would be more convenient for the neighboring Spider Clan to approach the Multi-Legged Queen.
The Spider Queen learned of the whereabouts of the Multilegged Queen from her people, and her people learned from the Multilegged people that their Queen was in Ning District.
However, the people of the multi-legged tribe were unwilling to bring the people of the spider tribe to their mother, so the spider mother had to send her people to search for the multi-legged mother.
After discussing it, the Scorpion Queen and the Spider Queen decided that the Knife-Hand Clan would carry the Scorpion Clan to the frontier region in Yunnan to find the White Insect Queen.
Meanwhile, the spiders bypassed the city where their base in Shaanxi Province was located and headed to Ning District to find the multi-legged queen insect.
Their operation took half a year. During this time, no insects were seen within a hundred miles of the base in Shaanxi Province. They were resting and recuperating, hunting from other places to supplement the nutrition of the two female insects.
For a time, the Shaanxi Province base became a hot commodity again, a highly sought-after place to settle. Many survivors, upon hearing the news, traveled from other bases across the country to settle there.
Although they still faced life-threatening situations on the journey, they persevered as long as they thought about the bright future ahead.
Compared to other bases fraught with danger, where lives are threatened daily by mutated animals and insectoid creatures, those who risk traveling thousands of miles to settle in the Shaanxi base have a more secure future.
The Shaanxi Province base has expanded several times over in just six months, but housing is still in short supply.
Many survivors who came here could only temporarily live in the shed area on the edge of the base. They could only move into the new housing area by lottery once the new houses were built.
Other bases, due to the increasing Zerg population around them, have also considered relocating their bases to the Shaanxi Province base.
In the past six months, several small bases have been destroyed by the Zerg, and a large number of refugees have fled to nearby bases, with the majority choosing to flee to the Shaanxi Province base.
The overpopulation led to a food shortage at the Shaanxi base, prompting the Sun and Wang families' research institutes to begin focusing their research on food production.
As more and more people gather at the Shaanxi base, the supplies they hoarded in Beijing—which were later stored in warehouses on the outskirts of the city—will eventually be discovered, which will certainly cause unnecessary trouble.
After discussions within the Sun family, they decided to invest most of their resources in the development of the base.
Seeing the Sun family and their in-laws' great righteousness and selfless dedication, the original base commander felt that the Sun family patriarch was more suitable to manage the base, so he stepped down and gave way to the Sun family, which then rose to prominence.
Moreover, managing a base with an ever-growing population is a bit difficult for a base commander who was just an ordinary soldier before the apocalypse. It would be better for him to step down and hand over the reins to a more capable person, so he can at least earn a good reputation.
The Shaanxi Provincial Base is now a hot potato; whoever becomes the base director is doomed.
The first priority is to solve the housing problem, followed by food rations and job assignments. These are the most pressing issues that the Shaanxi base needs to address.
The mutated animals near the Shaanxi Provincial Base are becoming increasingly difficult to hunt. The base can only organize personnel to hunt them in nearby cities. The most common tasks in the base's mission hall are searching for building materials and hunting mutated animals in nearby cities.
These are the most scarce resources in the base right now, and all the survivors are actively participating because the base is offering so many points that they are willing to risk their lives to find these things.
Points are the value of money that can be spent in the base, in addition to currency.
All points are obtained through various tasks issued by the base, so everyone is working their butt off to earn points in order to get points that can be spent.
Since the old man of the Sun family took office, he has accepted ordinary people from the surrounding area to enter the base.
No, these groups are no longer ordinary people. Most of them have evolved superpowers and are extremely united.
After all, they had been surviving together for so long, their bond and understanding were better than those who stayed in the base.
Their combat strength is also much greater than that of most teams living in the base.
As the amount of mutated animal meat consumed increases, ordinary people will eventually all evolve superpowers. It was these two points that made the old man of the Sun family think of bringing this group of people into the base.
Ordinary people were delayed by almost a year compared to their previous lives when the Shaanxi Provincial Base accepted everyone, regardless of whether they had superpowers.
This life may be influenced by the reborn, and at the very beginning of the apocalypse, the base did not accept any ordinary people.
Among the ordinary people, whether they were those who had evolved superpowers earlier or those who later developed superpowers, none of them abandoned the ordinary people who had not yet evolved superpowers and entered the base first.
They are family members who have supported each other since the apocalypse. Those who have evolved superpowers will not easily abandon those who have not yet evolved.
They believe that given enough time, everyone will be able to evolve superpowers.
Furthermore, with Qiu Tong's help and advice in the early stages, their survival skills were improved.
It also brings together and manages all the ordinary people in the vicinity, and its current scale can be considered a small base.
Moreover, the living environment in Shaanxi Province is far superior to other regions. With less threat from the Zerg, even if a group of ordinary people and superhumans were to survive outside the base, they would still be able to survive.
The strength of ordinary people among them far surpasses that of some people in the base. People in the base are used to comfort and cannot compare to ordinary people who are constantly on edge trying to survive.
"Born in hardship, die in comfort"—this is truly a profound saying.
Over the next six months, as the number of mutant animals increased, everyone in the base finally realized that eating their flesh could help them evolve and advance their mutant abilities.
Therefore, in order to become stronger, more and more people are organizing teams to hunt these supernatural animals.
Originally, the base was full of beginner-level ability users, but within six months, a large number of level two and level three ability users suddenly appeared.
The reborn individual, possessing memories of their past life, was upgraded to a Level 4 ability user, becoming a standout in the base.
With Qiu Tong's guidance, Li Mengran, Sun Jiayi, and others have become outstanding individuals, far surpassing most other ability users.
Due to the overwhelming public opinion against her six months ago, and the constant harassment from Qiao Feiyu, Yu Fang's personality became increasingly gloomy.
Apart from those who shared her bad habits joining her team, other people of decent character left her team long ago.
Her team is currently in the base, and they are notorious; they're a bunch of rotten people with questionable character.
Because Yu Fang didn't have the help of Lu Hu and the other two, or the protection of the Four Divine Beasts, her strength was far inferior to that of Qiu Tong and the others.
Although she is a reincarnated person, she was too arrogant in her previous life and offended many people who had returned from the dead.
No one knows how Qiao Feiyu managed to get all the reborn people to ally with him, constantly creating problems for Yu Fang, leaving her overwhelmed and unable to concentrate on improving her superpowers.
Qiao Feiyu was able to upgrade to a level four ability user, but Yu Fang remained at level three for a long time. This was unacceptable to the proud Yu Fang, and her personality became crazy.
Qiao Feiyu is also a ruthless person. After joining the Reborn Alliance, he sought revenge on the man who had taken care of him in his previous life.
Just then, Yu Fang recruited this man into her team, and during a joint mission, he turned the tables and killed his opponent.
This was all thanks to Qiu Tong and Quan Hongfang's help; otherwise, with Qiao Feiyu's fragile body, he probably would have been beaten down in no time.