Chapter 159 Another Direction

"I did see a vague picture in my mind, and I also vaguely knew in which areas I should improve, but..."

Feng Ling smiled at Li Qing and said, "But if we copy it exactly, it will be boring."

Li Qing immediately said seriously: "Feng Ling, the image conveyed to you by the card must be the most suitable for you and the safest direction for your growth."

Don't get excited about this kind of thing!

Feng Ling tilted his head and looked at him, saying, "Think about it again?"

Li Qing was a little puzzled. She didn't understand what was troubling Feng Ling. Now the direction was clear and she had made up her mind to get the Eye of Horus. What else did she need to consider?
Feng Ling looked around. The hunters were all busy and no one was paying attention to this place.

She whispered, "Animals will stop reproducing in harsh environments. The social pressure of survival in humans will affect the fertility rate... The same is true. The living environment of us humans is actually not suitable for the mother nest. Although the life I raise can enhance my strength, it also consumes me at the same time."

She picked up a branch, poked the charcoal beside the fire, and whispered: "You are the source of life, you are the mother of the world, you have a strong body and endless power, as long as there is a glimmer of life, it is almost impossible to be killed. You can bring new life, but also bring destruction. Life is your authority. You are everywhere, you can do everything...

I didn’t understand it before, but now I gradually understand it. In fact, the cards have been reminding me that the final form of the mother nest is a nest, like a maze, which constantly creates new species. After the survival of the fittest, it reproduces, evolves, and expands, and eventually becomes a nest where countless life forms can survive. So ‘I’ am everywhere, ‘I’ can do everything. To put it more exaggeratedly, ‘I’ may become a planet.”

Li Qing was shocked and stared at her in a daze.

Feng Ling's eyes reflected the firelight, showing a little more warmth than usual. Although the words he said were full of shocking imagination, his expression was very calm, with a faint smile on the corners of his mouth.

She said: "Growing life is the greatest confidence of the mother nest, but it is not mine. If I follow the direction suggested by the mother nest to improve myself, I think that will sooner or later lead to my own end."

She turned to look at Li Qing and continued, "I'm not trying to become the Brood itself. I want to use the power of the Brood to make myself stronger. Your game makes me the boss, but I can't really make myself the boss."

"I understand what you mean..." Li Qing pondered, "The evolutionary direction of the mother nest is most likely to prioritize reproduction. Now you have bred two contaminants. In the future, the number of contaminants will only increase. Two hundred, twenty thousand... two hundred million. These contaminants will destroy your world."

"Yes, that's about what I mean." Feng Ling nodded.

Don’t be fooled by the hunter who just praised the cat spider as cute. That’s because their interests are not conflicting. If the mother nest really grows bigger and breeds more pollutants, it will rob humans of their living space.

——The pollutants are also a kind of life, they need space and food. While they protect the mother nest, the mother nest also needs to provide them with various survival resources.

Feng Ling didn't want to put herself in that situation, so she needed to make a slight change to the growth direction of the card.

"You have to help me become stronger before I can help you, Taoist priest." Feng Ling looked at Li Qing deeply.

Li Qing thought for a long time and asked her seriously, "How many can you accept?"

"About a dozen..." Feng Ling thought for a moment, "I asked Su Yuqing to rent a whole building. If there are a dozen of them, there should be enough space for them to move around."

Li Qing felt that a dozen or so were a bit too few. According to the scene described by Feng Ling, the final form of the mother nest should be able to command thousands of troops.

But it is indeed unrealistic.

Firstly, food is difficult to solve, and secondly, human ethics cannot accept it.

"I think there are two ways to become stronger." Li Qing said thoughtfully, "The first is to strengthen your own advantages. The advantage of the mother nest is that it breeds life. You can breed thousands of life forms to expand your power. Now this direction doesn't work. We might as well try another direction to make up for the disadvantages."

Feng Ling asked curiously, "...Do you have a way to make up for my disadvantage?" Li Qing didn't say the way directly, "Genes will make a choice in your body. The jellyfish's genes think that your body should become transparent, and the Queen Mother's genes think that your body needs scales to protect it. In the end, the mother nest chose the latter because one of the characteristics of the mother nest is stability. It doesn't need to go into the water, adapt to the environment, or even move, so you are at a disadvantage in this regard."

Feng Ling fell into deep thought after hearing this.

She remembered the first card she absorbed, Killer Bee.

The Killer Bee card not only has the ability to mark, but also has the feature of speeding up. When it is close enough to the tracking target, the speed can be increased by up to ten times.

But after the hive digested the killer bees, she did not gain any speed increase.

Even though she has evolved to a mature form, her reaction speed is fast and her movements are agile, but her movement speed has not changed significantly.

Li Qing's analysis was correct, movement speed was her disadvantage.

"What if..." Li Qing continued, "What if you can breed a polluted body that moves very fast and use it as a vehicle? Would that make up for your shortcomings in this area? Similarly, you can think about what weaknesses you have that the mother nest cannot improve, and then make up for them in a targeted manner. I think this is also a way to become stronger."

Feng Ling felt that his mind had been opened up.

She smiled at Li Qing and said, "So our direction is to change from winning by quantity to winning by quality."

Li Qing said seriously, "Since I promised to help you, I will do what I say. Just give me enough time and I can retrieve all the cards in the card library that can make up for your shortcomings."

Feng Ling nodded.

As long as you have a clear goal, you can collect cards more efficiently.

She sat by the campfire and pondered these things. After a while, she asked again, "How are the coordinates I asked you to look up last time?"

"There are still some to go. There are currently 41 mazes without administrators, and I have just sorted out half of them." Li Qing replied.

Feng Ling clasped his hands together and exhaled a cloud of white mist, "...Then I'll wait a little longer."

The two chatted for quite some time, and the branches in the fire were almost burned out.

Feng Ling stood up and prepared to pick up branches. Huangfu Miaomiao ran back happily, her smile almost overflowing from her skull mask. It seemed that she had earned a lot of points.

Feng Ling laughed and said, "I'm sweating from running."

Huangfu Miaomiao smiled embarrassedly, took off her mask and wiped the sweat off her face. However, when she saw Li Qing again, the smile on her face faded significantly.

"All the polluted bodies nearby have been blown up. I see there is still some forest ahead. Can I go ahead and blow it up a few more times?" she asked Feng Ling.

"Well, go ahead," Feng Ling nodded.

Huangfu Miaomiao got permission and ran away happily.

Feng Ling looked at her back for a moment, then glanced at Li Qing beside him, "Little Skeleton hates you."