jdhmnovel Chapter 713 The Situation at the Seabed, the Giant Mother Nest
Chapter 713 The Situation at the Seabed, the Giant Mother Nest
Having received the new orders from the Hive, the remaining Zerg were in a frenzy. They didn't care if they disappeared like their brethren the next second, as long as they could cause the Water Sphere even a little trouble.
The Zerg's frenzied attacks and rampages did cause some trouble for Su Mo, since the barrier of the water-repelling beads required energy to maintain, but it wasn't a major problem.
Su Mo spent some more time and finally managed to clean up all the Zerg in this wave of attacks in batches.
Fortunately, none of them tried to escape; each one was determined to fight to the death. Otherwise, with such a vast ocean, Su Mo wouldn't have bothered to chase after any that tried to escape.
Next, we head to the underwater mother nest to defeat this mini-boss.
Mother nest.
Su Mo's sustained fighting prowess dispelled the Mother Nest's impotent rage, leaving it now shrouded in deep despair.
The number of soldiers who had been protecting them and solving countless problems caused by native creatures in the deep sea continued to decrease.
The mother nest couldn't understand it. Several waves of native humans had come to this place before, and none of them survived. They all lost their lives in the deep sea. So why were the natives who came this time so terrifying?
Why would a remote, low-level indigenous civilization possess such strength? Although the intelligence it gathered was fragmented, it didn't actually say that.
It has never encountered such a bad situation since it settled here! What should we do now?
The mother hive regrets it now. It should have reproduced more to be prepared, instead of thinking that enough was enough and storing up all the energy it saved!
But now it's too late for regrets or anything else.
It didn't even produce the spare insect eggs it should have prepared, let alone quickly replenish its manpower within two days.
However, no matter how many ideas the mother nest has, it's all in vain now.
Su Mo's flying boat is now less than a kilometer away from the mother nest, and it is still getting closer.
Two hundred meters.
Su Mo felt that the closer she got to the seabed, the greater the resistance to her mental energy. Now, the mental energy she released outside the water sphere felt as if it had stepped into a swamp, and was very blocked.
This further limited Su Mo's ability to perceive the outside world, which was already confined to the darkness, to a smaller area around the water sphere.
She slowed the speed of the airship, carefully surveyed the area, and slowly approached.
After delving deeper, she finally determined what had been battling against her mental strength.
Part of it came from the spiritual power of the mother nest itself, and the other part came from the large number of spores produced on the mother nest's fungal carpet. Both of these interfered with her, which is why Su Mo's spiritual power could not be used well in the sea.
The spiritual power of the Mother Nest is manageable; while it restricts Su Mo, it is also restricted by Su Mo. The Mother Nest's life level is slightly higher than that of humans on Blue Star, but it is still somewhat insufficient against Su Mo, who has already formed his core.
Therefore, its mental strength cannot directly overpower Su Mo.
Fungal mats are a standard feature of the mother nest, and they also exist in the seabed mother nest. However, Su Mo had always been far from the seabed and had not noticed this issue before.
In fact, over the years, the spores of the fungal mat have been dispersed in the sea, but the density decreases as you go deeper into the water.
The deeper Su Mo went into the sea, the greater the density of spores became, and the greater the obstacle to Su Mo's mental power.
The spaceship is now about 100 meters away from the mother nest, where the spore concentration has reached its maximum, to a level that can be easily detected.
Of course, the barrier protection ability of the water-repelling pearl is first-class. The spores cannot penetrate in and can only attach to the outside of the barrier, gradually covering the outer layer of the barrier and limiting her mental power to the greatest extent.
Su Mo was very annoyed by this situation.
She tried to disperse the spores with water jets, but it wasn't very effective. They were too small; the water jets could only disperse them for a moment before they would stick back up again.
Su Mo had an idea; he still had to use fire to burn it!
Although Su Mo's current strength is insufficient to start a fire in the sea, she can still ignite the minuscule fire elements in the environment, thanks to her possession of celestial fire.
She thought this way and did it anyway; she had no choice but to do it, otherwise Su Mo's channels for finding out the situation outside would be completely blocked, which would be detrimental to her killing the Mother Nest.
In the darkness, not far above the seabed, where faint purple light shimmered...
With a "whoosh," a crimson flame burst forth.
It lasted only a few breaths before it "poofed" and disappeared, but the spores within that one-meter radius also vanished.
Su Mo felt relieved when he sensed that it was working.
Immediately afterwards, red flames rose and disappeared on the outside of the water sphere, quickly cleaning up the attached spores.
At the same time, tiny red flames were ignited around the water sphere, clearing away spores in a large area around the water sphere and rapidly reducing the overall spore concentration.
Su Mo's mental vision has finally been restored.
Standing at the bow of the ship, when she saw the situation outside again, the mother nest was almost in front of her!
Su Mo, standing at the bow of the flying boat, was slightly startled by the situation outside.
There are only a few mother nests rooted in this seabed, only one, but it is huge, at least a hundred times the size of a mother nest on land. It has no shape, just spread out in a large area covering the seabed.
Without careful observation, it is not easy to distinguish the boundary between the mother nest and the fungal carpet, but this is not what surprised Su Mo the most.
The three hidden passages scattered throughout the area covered by the mother nest were the most surprising discovery for Su Mo!
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Why are there three secret passages so close together here? The situation is completely different from that on land.
Su Mo didn't know if this situation was natural or if the mother nest had done something.
However, judging from the current state of those three secret realm passages, they are already unstable. It's obvious that this is because the spiritual energy within the secret realms has been absorbed too much by the Mother Nest.
Otherwise, she wouldn't have failed to notice Su Mo even when he was hundreds of meters away from the passage. If it were a normal secret realm passage, she would have been able to see it even if her mental power was blocked.
But now she's less than fifty meters away, and the passageways are barely visible.
Now, looking at the enormous mother nest again, Su Mo understood why.
It took the unrestricted support of three secret realms to nurture a mother nest into what it is today.
Su Mo had no intention of communicating with the mother nest.
The moment the spaceship got close enough to the mother nest, she attacked it without hesitation.
Outside the water sphere barrier, amidst the active spore cluster, fifteen arm-thick and sharp-tipped ice pillars condensed and took shape one after another after Su Mo quickly cast a spell.
(This is the result of Su Mo's repeated practice of the Ice Arrow spell during the previous battle with the insect swarm; she has already mastered part of the essence of this spell.)
Su Mo flicked his right hand, and fifteen ice arrows, ready to be fired, struck all parts of the mother nest's body simultaneously.