Gamers Are Fierce

Li Ang sat on the sofa and pondered for a moment, "Direct attack... Could it be that the Global Occult Coalition and other organizations have discovered a considerable number of star gates worldwide,

and they know the differences in appearance of these star gates and can distinguish the characteristics of different star gates."

His eyes unfocused, he murmured, "It could also be that the civilizations on the other side of these star gates generally have aggressive and hostile tendencies,

and once the opposing side fully opens the star gate, a large-scale war would erupt immediately?

Hmm...

In the real world, I can open The Portal anywhere at will,

but the opening location of the portal on the other world seems to be fixed; at least for now, I haven't found a way to move the portal's location in the other world."

Lacking sufficient intelligence and information, Li Ang couldn't draw any conclusions.

"You watch the house for a while; I'm going to take a look at The Portal World."

He said to Chaichai, stood up, put on his disguise, entered the Alchemy Workshop, closed the door, and opened his star gate.

The previously broadcasted footage was too blurry to see clearly what the star gate by the seaside in Mayotte looked like, but compared to Li Ang's B Rank portal,

the color seemed slightly darker—though that might also be because it was obscured by seawater.

After this period of exploration, Li Ang had gained a deeper understanding of the mechanism of star gates,

He took a drone equipped with a camera out of his backpack, plugged in a data transmission cable, and connected it to an independent screen.

Subsequently, Li Ang inserted the drone into the star gate, and the independent screen immediately displayed the footage captured by the drone.

The footage showed a dry space composed of flesh and blood,

Li Ang had a Fortress Level Bug Nest floating aircraft parked at the fixed location of the star gate, with its hollow abdomen covering the star gate,

so that objects from the star gate world wouldn't easily come into the real world.

The observation port in the abdomen of the bug nest floating aircraft was made of explosion-proof glass material,

The drone connected with the cable flew straight to the observation port and looked down,

only to see that the lush forest on the island had been mostly logged,

and numerous Bug Nest buildings had sprung up from the ground,

countless Worker Bugs planted Mycelium Carpet on the ground,

sending nutrients to the Bug Nest Factory—the Brain Worms in the factory were responsible for tuning the genes, mass-producing a colossal number of battle bugs.

And the native wildlife on the island,

after being genome-extracted and drained of their utility, were mostly kept in the Bug Nest Museum as living genomic reserves,

Only a small number of wild creatures, due to their unique characteristics,

were slightly modified and incorporated into the Bug Nest unit sequence as new types of troops.

Li Ang felt no guilt about his actions in destroying the environment of the otherworldly island,

The life force of the native species on the Portal Planet was extremely abundant; the vegetation on the island would quickly regrow if not logged for half a month.

After opening the star gate, Li Ang reestablished a Divine Power Connection with the Brain Worms on the Portal Planet,

the Brain Worms over there transmitted all the recent intelligence they collected to Li Ang—the transmission of information through the Divine Power Connection, like the drone cable, required energy as it traversed the star gate.

Li Ang quickly browsed through the intelligence,

the Brain Worms at the Bug Nest Base were actively exploring the island's surrounding environment, sending out a large number of scout bugs, with only a few managing to return with valuable information.

The planet where The Portal is located is very complex and dangerous,

just the trench along the edge of the Origin Island is over two thousand meters deep, and the ocean is teeming with shoals and large fish, some of which reach lengths of over ten meters or even fifteen meters, rivaling the long-extinct mosasaurs, super crocs, and Deinosuchus of Earth's history.

And the deeper and further the exploration goes, the larger the encountered creatures become,

some even possess special abilities that resemble supernatural powers—such as releasing voltage, freezing seawater, and intimidating nearby fish using their aura.

It's not just the native organisms; the environment on the Portal Planet is also extremely perilous,

sudden thunderstorms frequently erupt over the sea, destroying drones flying within the range of thunderclouds,

waves reaching ten or twenty meters high, which are quite rare on Earth, are commonplace in the Portal World.

Due to various factors, the exploration and expansion speed of the Bug Nest is not fast,

so far, they have only established a camp on the nearest small island from the Origin Island,

beginning to capture large deep-sea creatures, enriching the gene pool and Bug Nest unit sequence.

"Not observed any traces that can be considered 'civilization'..."

Li Ang murmured, "Not even finding shipwreck fragments on the seafloor or floating garbage on the sea surface; maybe the Portal Planet indeed lacks civilized species?"

He pondered for a moment, then lifted his head and issued an instruction to the Brain Worms on the Portal Planet through the Divine Power Connection—abandon some unnecessary disguises and accelerate exploration and expansion.

The expansion potential of the Bug Nest is terrifying in the Portal World, where there's no lack of sunlight, nutrients, and soil,

The main reasons holding back were, firstly, the limited number of Brain Worms,

and secondly, the uncertainty whether there are any civilized forces on the Portal Planet, deterring them from using some aggressive methods that might be easily noticed.

Since it can now be confirmed,

the sea area around the island is intermittently shrouded by thunderclouds, making entry and exit difficult, so the Bug Nest can lift restrictions and adopt special measures...

Li Ang's will, through the Divine Power Connection, was enacted within the Bug Nest on the Portal Planet,

the Brain Worms at the Bug Nest Base released Spiritual Energy fluctuations,

the countless Worker Bugs across the island paused for a moment, then quickly accelerated the harvesting of biomass balls produced by the Mycelium Carpet,

the Bug Nest Factory sped up the hatching of bug eggs, and allocated several production lines to produce more Bug Nest biological factory components, assembled by Worker Bugs,

the long-dormant Spore Tower also began emitting a vast amount of purple-red powder—

these powders drifted with the wind, falling into the sea, solidifying rapidly, and weaving into a carpet on the ocean surface.

Numerous Worker Bugs, under the protection of battle bugs, moved to the seaside and began planting and tending the Mycelium Carpet on the ocean surface as if planting seaweed.

These Mycelium Carpets would absorb sunlight and plankton on the water surface, proliferate rapidly, and expand swiftly.

During the reproduction process of the Mycelium Carpet above water, it would compete for sunlight, lower water temperature, and consume oxygen in the water,

secreting mucus that can clog fish gills, causing mechanical obstruction to marine fish, leading them to suffocate and die, while decomposition of the corpses would further deplete oxygen.

Besides, the Mycelium Carpet above water would secrete targeted toxic substances,

which might not affect Sea King Class (massive ocean creatures), but if Sea King Class ingest a significant amount of small toxic fish, they would die of chronic poisoning,

and after Sea King Class dies, the Mycelium Carpet spore sacs in their corpses would activate,

decomposing the corpse to obtain nutrients, finally rising to the ocean surface,

and in that sea area, create a new Mycelium Carpet, repeating the cycle.