Chapter 19: The First Hatching
Luo Wen had envisioned a grand scene: standing before his enemies and shouting, “The Sacred F2 binds us—swarm, charge!”
[T/N: F2 is a reference to the game starcraft where the F2 button is the select all army button which is especially helpful for Zerg players.]
Then, an endless tide of insects would flood forth, engulfing the enemy like a rolling dust storm.
However, for now, this vision remained purely in his imagination. Judging by the current situation, he wasn’t even sure it would ever come to fruition.
Frustrated and weary from feeding the Brood Nest, Luo Wen bit off a small section of the tree root, carried it back with the Brood Nest connected to him, and returned to the underground cave.
Back at the cave, he stuffed one end of the root into the funnel-shaped intake of the Brood Nest. The root was long, and much of it stuck out, but Luo Wen decided to leave it that way and let the Brood Nest digest it slowly.
He patted himself on the back for his cleverness. Although this method slowed the Brood Nest’s absorption efficiency, it saved him a great deal of effort, didn’t it?
Over the next few days, Luo Wen stayed put, planning to establish a temporary nest here.
He expanded the small makeshift underground chamber several times over, digging dozens of tunnels that branched in all directions—some leading to the surface, others to unknown areas, and even a few descending deeper underground.