601 Zergss Lab (1/2)
No one dared to let their guard down. This could be the experimental lab of the Zergs that the humans had been searching for so many decades. Some people believed that they were guarded entirely by the dark ones, but they hadn't seen a single dark one among the dead Zergs. Despite its obscure location, Wang Tong and his soldiers and came across it by luck.
After a few cautious moments, Zergs started to appear from behind the holes on the wall, only to be greeted by the human warriors' belligerent attacks. This hive was ancient, and it had never been attacked by any human forces. However, once the humans came, they wreaked havoc with abandon.
It didn't take long for Tan Bu and Lun Duo to catch up with Yin Tianzong. The reinforcements quickly threw themselves into the battle; their injuries were too mild to hinder their ability to slaughter.
The had done this many times, so the soldiers knew exactly what to do to maximize their damage as a team. Without Wang Tong giving an order, the soldiers moved closer to the source of the Zergs and built a defense around the existence of those holes on the wall. They could not let the Zergs get close to Wang Tong and interrupt his battle with the eggs. These eggs not only appeared different than the normal ones, but they were also able to fight back. What surprised Wang Tong even more was that they also had soul energies.
The queen had sniffed Wang Tong out as soon as he stepped through the portal. However, she was quickly dealt with before she could sound the alarm. Wang Tong's killing blows and revealed his strong soul energy and attracted the Zergs toward him. The queen had soul energy inside her, and that made Wang Tong make up his mind to kill her outright instead of using her as bait.
The queen's death cry sounded indignant; she was so close to hatching the most terrible Zergs the humans had yet seen.
The soldiers' suspicion was right; this was one of the most important experiment labs of the Zerg. The reason they were so hidden was that they were set up in a hive, which was either in the space or deep underground. This hive, for example, took the Zergs decades to create a hole deep enough to hide it. And for centuries, it had waited patiently as the queen tinkered with the genes of her next brood of hatchlings.
For five hundred years, they were able to carry out the morbid experiment undisturbed; but their days were numbered.
The battle was more intense than anyone had thought. If Yin Tianzong and his warriors hadn't arrived in time, Wang Tong might very likely have been trapped in the hive with thousands of Zergs and the terror within the eggshells. Whatever was in the egg possessed an incredible soul energy. It was the results of generations of genetic mutations and modifications. Perhaps, they were bred specifically to counter the mastery casters.
It finally occurred to Wang Tong that the passage on the precipice which absorbed any form of energy was not prepared for the humans; it was a device used by the Zergs to absorb radiation energy to feed the eggs. Once these Zergs were hatched and arrived in the battlefield, they would be able to disrupt human warriors' soul energy output, and severely undermine the humans' defensive ability.
Wang Tong's knee-jerk reaction was to destroy these eggs, but he was able to hold back his impulse and decided to control these unborn Zergs using his soul energy and turn the Zergs' weapon into humans' advantage.
However, it was easier said than done. These Zergs had put up fighting against Wang Tong's restraining energy even before they had hatched. Having failed many attempts, Wang Tong was about to give up and destroy these eggs when Yin Tianzong showed up. This much-needed assistance made Wang Tong continue his taming of the Zergs with a newfound confidence.
Using soul energy wouldn't work, so Wang Tong attempted to cover the egg with his golden soul essence. Ordinary Zergs were no different from machines, but the soul energy in these Zergs had made them sentient. At this stage, not only did they need the queen's physical protection like all eggs would, but also required the queen to fill their sentient mind with Zergs' code of conduct. Without the poisonous preachings of the queen, these Zerg' minds were clean slates.
As the golden light glowed brighter on the surface of the eggs, some green lights were trying to pierce through the golden shimmer. The new Zergs had felt something was amiss—this was not their mother—and they fought back. Wang Tong was taken aback by these baby Zergs' power; if the queen were successful in her plan, these little monsters would have wreaked havoc in the human world.
Despite their powerful inborn soul energy, these baby Zergs started to falter as the green eggs started to change color from the center, slowly turning gold. Once one egg had completely turned golden, the Zerg inside joined Wang Tong and started to convert its brothers and sisters. Wang Tong was pleasantly surprised by how quickly the tables had turned. In a heartbeat, most of the eggs had become golden. He scanned the tamed eggs with his soul energy and felt the monstrous form inside. Wang Tong did not know what kind of Zergs they were going to be and thought it was very likely a brand new breed. He couldn't help but marvel at the Zergs' skills in splicing genes. He wondered how long it took them to evolve into a gene splicing master.