Chapter 1070 - Mother Nest (1/2)

Translator: _Min_  Editor: Caron_

The fracture dozens of meters in length located in the center of the military base was like a giant crater that appeared out of nowhere. Under the crater, 500 meters down, was the underground bunker designed by the Rothschild Group.

There wasn’t a sign of life in the underground bunker. It was completely covered by a suspicious blood-red flesh bubble, exuding an awful stench. Suppressing nausea, upon closer examination, there was dense, sesame-sized pus covering the surface of the meat bubble.

Whenever the pus ruptured, spore gas was released. With the countless flesh bubbles, countless spores were born every moment. They drifted through the entrance to the surface, and contributed to the expansion of the nest.

In the center of the underground research institute, there was a giant flesh pile that acted as the root. As the core of the nest, it was both the heart and the “central processing unit” of the nest. The tentacles that spread from top to bottom acted as the cable lines connecting the host and the subunits.

In its abdomen, there was a coffin carved out of a resin material, or, more appropriately, a “culture chamber.” Unlike the flesh-colored nest, this lacquered black cabin looked reinforced. Through the translucent film with palm-sized thickness, it was possible to see a person lying inside.

His eyes were open and he gazed at a number on the semi-permeable membrane.

[14731]

Four thousand of them were refugee recruits he brought underground, and more than three thousand of them included researchers and his own guards. The other seven thousand came from the conflict between the mercenaries and refugees in the military base. Then the British also contributed about six or seven hundred people to him.

Each person contributed two units of organic matter, and he already consumed half of the organic matter to fortify the nest and hatching mutants.

“Not enough.”

Carmen, inside in the culture chamber, shook his head and began to reflect on whether he went overboard with showing off.

If he didn’t kill them all at once, perhaps he could give the British the illusion of winning, thus they would send more people to provide him with organic matter.

However, now the British were more cautious.

Other than constantly shelling this area, no one entered the area.

Upgrading the nest required 500,000 units of organic matter.

There were two sources to obtain organic matter—one was primitive photosynthesis and just required waiting. The other was also one of the quickest, simplest and most primitive methods, which was to eat constantly. It was growing by phagocytizing creatures and digesting their flesh and bodies.

Carmen, of course, favored the latter. If organic matter was to be obtained by photosynthesis, it would take a few centuries for the nest to cover the entire world. But if he constantly devoured, he could complete the transformation in just a few days.

With that thought in mind, Carmen looked aggrieved.

The reason why he chose this location for the nest was because the refugee camp next to the military base had more than 500,000 refugees. If he swallowed the refugee camp and swallowed the town of Paltak, he would’ve completed the first stage evolution!

The second-stage nest required an astounding amount of energy. Not only would the mutants’ hunting range be expanded to 100 kilometers, but he would also unlock new “forces.”

For example, a monster named Roshan that could withstand tank shells with its fat.