The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen-Chapter 58 - Mom

Chapter 58: Chapter 58 Mom!

Chapter 58 -58 Mom!

“Mom!”

“Stop! Stop, stop, stop! Just stop right there!”

Bai Yi held her forehead with one hand, a look of mixed amusement and dismay on her face.

Before going to bed last night, Bai Yi, thinking she was already at her current full form, had the idea to go straight through to the 2nd Rank and let the needle erosion insect break through to it.

At the time, Bai Yi hadn’t realized anything was amiss, but after swallowing a mouthful of soup, her eyes rolled back, and she fell into the deepest sleep.

The good news was she did indeed gain a significant enhancement. Relying on her Devouring Growth Talent, a few of the mature insects gnawed on some meat and quickly reached the 2nd Rank’s full level.

The attributes also reached Strength 30, Spirit 25, agility 40, Constitution 30.

This was far superior to the 2nd Rank Poison Blood Beetle.

However, along with the attribute increase came the increased individual intelligence of the needle erosion insects.

Plus, the insect eggs laid last night had all hatched by this morning. With the larvae included, there were a full 400 needle erosion insects, forming a group consciousness that had already taken shape.

Not only did they have a self-awareness close to that of a young child, but they also had a deeper understanding of their own abilities.

They learned to use the Telekinesis of Bai Yi’s shared Spiritual Strong Thought to vibrate the air and achieve simple speech.

But ultimately, this was just the initial stage of consciousness. No matter how smart they were, clear speaking skills would have to be learned gradually.

*Who knows what this group consciousness learned from her dreams while she was sleeping.*

When Bai Yi woke up in the morning, she was surrounded by a swarm of needle erosion insects calling her mom.

“I just became an adult, seriously! How did I suddenly become a mom!

*I have no experience in educating children!*”

Bai Yi scratched her head in slight irritation and glanced at a sneaky head popping out by the hollow of a tree.

Noticing Bai Yi’s gaze, the head shrank back.

It was followed by a dull thud as someone bumped their head.

“Hey! Zhan Er, why are you hiding!”

“Keep it down, or the master will hear!”

“Hey, hey! Don’t push!”

“Hey! It’s going to fall! Ah—”

Bai Yi watched expressionlessly as a few people played Jenga in front of the tree hollow, with Zhan Er, squashed at the bottom, awkwardly greeting Bai Yi.

“Good morning, master, hahaha…”

Aside from Nong Er, who was still hammering away in the Blacksmith’s shop, the other five had all gathered.

*Bai Yi narrowed her eyes at this farce, feeling even more of a headache.*

*Here she was, still irritated, and they were there laughing instead of offering some comfort!*

*Were they really that idle?*

Bai Yi remembered that most of the current work in the territory was contracted out to Skeletons, leaving Zhan Yi and the others with nothing to do.

*But this couldn’t be right!*

She had to find them something to do!

*She couldn’t be the only one raising these children while they laughed!*

Her gaze shifted between the needle erosion insects and Zhan Er and the others, and she suddenly had an idea.

“Hey! Zhan Er! Don’t run away!

You’re it!

The Lord is giving you a mission! From today on, you are Chongchong’s teachers!

Yes! Just like that!

Don’t worry, she’s not dumb! You’ll be fine!

It’s a happily made decision!”

Running over, Bai Yi pulled them all in front of the needle erosion insects, pushed the insects towards them, and bolted out of the tree hollow like a runaway horse.

This left the five staring at each other, while the needle erosion insects received Bai Yi’s leftover instructions from the Swarm Consciousness, and all 800 plus eyes stared straight at the five.

“Zhan Yi, what should we do…”

“How would I know, maybe just teach like this?”

“But what should we teach?”

“…”

After leaving the tree hollow, Bai Yi felt a lot lighter.

No more worries and no urgent matters to attend to.

There were still three hours before today’s challenge began, and there was nothing that needed preparing ahead of time.

With rare leisure time, Bai Yi decided to check out the three new workshops she hadn’t examined thoroughly yesterday.

Aside from the Forge where Nong Er had been forging, the other two workshops were currently only occupied by a few Skeletons, and they hadn’t started working yet.

Bai Yi had initially planned to go and offer some modern wisdom to Nong Er, but after observing for a long time, she had to admit.

Nong Er’s professionalism and proficiency were beyond her comprehension.

*Aside from barely recognizing that she was crafting a watering can, there was nothing Bai Yi could say.*

On the ground beside her, a few iron buckets were already stacked, which seemed to be Nong Er’s recent creations.

“The efficiency is still too slow, I remember the Corpse King mentioned last night that he could use some processing to trade rice.

Does his superpower involve controlling Zombies to work?”

Yet, thinking about her own territory having Skeletons laboring tirelessly around the clock, Bai Yi could accept it.

“Next time we negotiate terms, let’s add this in!”

Since it was payment for trade anyway, and this time it was her seller’s market, exchanging for some convenient everyday furniture seemed good too.

Walking over to the adjoining Firearms Workshop, in terms of functionality, it resembled the “creative workshops” found in many games.

Blueprints were needed to craft items, and there were two sources for them.

One was to reverse engineer an existing firearm, and the other was through human design.

But whether the crafted firearm from the design would work or blow up was another matter.

The adjacent Gunpowder Workshop was much more user-friendly.

It only required raw materials to produce gunpowder or even further to make bombs.

And the raw material restrictions were very lenient; as long as something could burn, it counted as a raw material.

*The consumption and yield ratios, as well as the final product’s effectiveness, varied slightly depending on the materials consumed.*

For instance, using wood required a full 200 units to produce just 1 unit of gunpowder, and it was just the most basic black gunpowder.

*But if there were any other replaceable raw materials in the territory…*

*It seemed there really were?*

Bai Yi suddenly remembered the Marching Ants she had nearly forgotten.

They converted into high-quality Combustible materials, didn’t they!

After all, they were naturally explosive; using them to make bombs shouldn’t be a bad idea!

But when Bai Yi managed to catch a Marching Ant, she encountered a new problem.

A single Marching Ant, after exhausting itself, could only provide 0.1 units of the special compound.

*This nearly drained the Ant dry!*

*With only 20 Marching Ants, they could only gather a total of 2 units. That kind of yield was unacceptable to Bai Yi.*

To get this special compound on a large scale, Bai Yi had two paths before her.

The first was to breed a large number of Marching Ants directly.

This was the most straightforward method, winning by numbers.

Moreover, she could also fuse some genes to selectively enhance this ability.

However, the downside was also obvious. Since Marching Ants were soldier units, the more they reproduced, the more food they consumed.

The second route was the potatoes planted yesterday.

*She had thought of giving the potatoes the Combustible Conversion keyword, planning to play around with making Potato Mines.*

But now, thinking about it, given the current reproduction rate of the potatoes, extracting this compound from them wasn’t a bad idea either.

*However, extracting it would require caution; otherwise, she might blow herself up before even getting any.*

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Although Bai Yi wasn’t currently short on food, and the foreseeable grain storage looked to be overflowing.

But since planting potatoes was more convenient and didn’t require extra food consumption, Bai Yi chose potatoes.

“I remember trying yesterday, and fusing genes required 1,000 Magic Power Value.

Currently, there were 770 points, with 14 free attribute points, leaving a gap of 90 Magic Power Value.

The fruit today plus a Superpower Crystal from the store at noon would give a total of 30 Magic Limit.

The remaining 60 points could be gained from today’s challenge. With the experience, it should be enough to level up, and the extra free attribute points can be used for Spiritual Value, sufficient to cover it!”

Having made a plan, she couldn’t just let her magic power go to waste.

Bai Yi then went to the greenhouse and entered.

Although the upcoming enhancements would turn the potatoes toward weaponry, Bai Yi didn’t plan on abandoning their use as food.

*So, developing the potatoes in two directions was the best method.*

*This also conveniently used up the maxed-out Magic Power.*

…….

Black Gunpowder: Since the apocalypse, lands have continuously fallen, and humans have had increasing difficulty obtaining minerals. Many cities even experienced varying degrees of technological regression, making gunpowder configurations more challenging, ultimately leading black gunpowder to become mainstream…