19: Chapter 19 Zerg

After Gu Han returned to Dongjiang University from the city, he dove straight into the school library.

The 2 million directional credits had already arrived in his account, but he still had to be meticulous about how to spend this money.

Since the Orcs could settle down in the Divine Kingdom, the next step was to let them breed, establish tribes, and form a civilization.

He walked to the bookshelf in the alien species section, pulled out several thick books on the habits and tribal structures of the Orcs, and found a secluded corner to sit down.

According to the books, the Orcs were a typical patriarchal clan society that valued martial strength and had an extremely strong sense of territory. They regarded bloodline inheritance as paramount.

Orcs had high combat power but low-to-mid-level intelligence; they were a race that was relatively strong in the early stages and easy to control.

Gu Han flipped through a few pages, felt he had enough theoretical knowledge, and planned to see how the three guys in his Divine Kingdom were doing.

Perhaps he could bestow some "miracles" upon them or buy something like a Beast God Altar.

Many species that had experienced war, if disabled, would be sold by Divine Lords at low prices on the trading platform. Ten of them could be bundled for 500,000 credits; he could buy some disabled Orcs at a low price to breed them into a tribal scale.

Looking into the Divine Kingdom, the excitement on Gu Han's face instantly froze.

The habitat established by the Orcs was in shambles.

Jana lay in a pool of blood with a large hole in her chest, her blood staining the surrounding weeds red. Her eyes were wide open, staring in death.

Dalton stood to the side, panting heavily, his grayish-green face full of terror and madness.

"You are already unclean, the Beast God will not forgive you!" Dalton roared hysterically.

Not far away, Vina was kneeling on the ground, her hands tightly clutching something.

Gu Han zoomed in on the scene and gasped.

It was a newborn baby.

But this was definitely not an Orc!

The baby was a size larger than a normal Orc cub and had two thick Zerg horns on its head.

Its body had the rough skin of an Orc, but it was covered in a layer of golden exoskeleton that shimmered with a metallic luster under the sunlight.

Most horrifying of all, the infant had four arms, with sharp, hooked claws at the ends of its fingers. On its back, there was a pair of semi-transparent elytra that had not yet fully unfolded.

Clearly, it was a Zerg-Orc hybrid birthed by Jana.

The sharp hook claws had left several deep, bone-exposed lacerations on Vina's arms.

"Die! Die!" Vina gritted her teeth and squeezed hard with both hands.

By the time Gu Han wanted to do something, the baby's head had already been snapped off.

Vina disgustedly threw the baby's corpse aside and turned to look at Dalton.

"Jana was polluted by an Evil God; she gave birth to the Evil God's spawn." Vina panted, her voice trembling, "We must burn them, or the Evil God will come for us!"

Dalton nodded vigorously.

The two began frantically collecting dry vines and branches from the surroundings, piling them onto the corpses of Jana and the Zerg-Orc infant.

Without a fire source, Dalton picked up two stones and rubbed and struck them together desperately.

Gu Han watched the two corpses and felt a pang of heartache over the lost credits; things had completely deviated from his expectations.

He had originally thought that as long as he provided enough food, these three Orcs would be able to breed peacefully.

He had underestimated the xenophobia of intelligent species.

Any intelligent species had deep-rooted ideological perceptions and social bottom lines. They could never accept the birth of a hybrid.

Even if Jana was the baby's mother, she might not have been able to fully accept it upon seeing the child's appearance, let alone Dalton and Vina.

They came from tribes with complete systems, and in their cognition, they could not accept hybrids. This went against the advantages of Gu Han's skill.

Intelligent species had brains, thoughts, and traditions. Forcing them to give birth to hybrids would not only affect their worldviews but could even trigger internal slaughter and collapse.

Gu Han rubbed his temples and let out a long sigh.

Fortunately, he hadn't acted on impulse and taken those 2 million credits to go on a massive shopping spree for Orcs.

If he had spent a large sum of money to buy dozens of Orcs and then used "Forced Breeding" to crossbreed them, creating a bunch of bizarre hybrids...

The Orcs in the Divine Kingdom would likely have slaughtered those hybrids along with themselves.

A large amount of credits would have been flushed down the drain.

It seemed the plan to rely on Orcs to build a civilization had to be put on hold. The development path of ordinary people was completely unsuitable for his skill.

Gu Han looked at the two people in the Divine Kingdom trying to make fire and pondered: "Vina should be giving birth soon, and the one in her belly is a proper Orc, so there shouldn't be any problems. I'll just keep these two as breeders for now."

The development of the Divine Kingdom required careful planning.

Gu Han exited the Divine Kingdom, leaned back in his chair, and fell into deep thought.

To advance as a Divine Lord, the species in the Divine Kingdom must advance to the extraordinary level, and in the early stages, only intelligent species had pathways to do so.

Gu Han's path was completely different from ordinary people; gathering the advantages of all races to cultivate super-strong hybrids was his foundation.

To solve the problem of intelligent species accepting hybrid creatures, he could not rely on external intelligent species.

He had to cultivate them himself within the Divine Kingdom and establish a stable social system and cognition of hybrid civilization.

But that required a long period of evolution, and what Gu Han lacked most right now was time.

Elves were relatively tolerant of all races, naturally attuned to magic, and possessed extremely high intelligence. However, the price was not low; an adult Elf cost 600,000 credits.

Moreover, their pathway to the extraordinary was magic, and the price of magic systems was generally high, second only to the human cultivation system.

Perhaps he could start with other species; if he could crossbreed with intelligent species, the pathway to the extraordinary shouldn't be a problem.

They needed to have strong combat power, fast reproduction, be extremely easy to discipline, and be absolutely obedient.

The image of the dead Zerg-Orc baby flashed through Gu Han's mind.

Exoskeleton, sharp hook claws, four arms...

This was simply a natural killing machine!

Gu Han sat up straight abruptly, his eyes shining terrifyingly bright.

Zerg!

How could he have forgotten about this!

Gu Han immediately got up, shoved the Orc books back onto the shelf, and walked quickly toward the unpopular section in the deepest part of the library.

The area in front of the Zerg bookshelf was deserted, covered in a thin layer of dust.

In this world, the Zerg were definitely the most unpopular of the unpopular.

Strong combat power, fast reproduction, massive consumption, very short lifespans, and worst of all, they lacked intelligence and did not obey the Divine Lord's discipline.

Zerg lacking intelligence meant they could not establish a civilization, could not provide high-quality faith, and the development ceiling of the Divine Kingdom was not high.

Occasionally, some Divine Lords would buy Zerg, but only some beneficial insects or small ants to place in their Divine Kingdoms as decomposers to handle trash and corpses. Or they would use some grubs as food consumption.

No one counted on using Zerg to fight wars; after all, Zerg capable of combat would bring significant disaster to the Divine Kingdom.

Gu Han casually pulled out an "Illustrated Handbook of the Zerg," flipped through it quickly, and then opened his handheld device to compare prices on the trading platform.

Gu Han looked at the prices on it, and the corners of his mouth curled up wildly.

Compared to the Orcs that cost hundreds of thousands, the price of the Zerg was practically dirt cheap.

A nest of ordinary ants only cost ten credits.

Even the larger combat-type Zerg had prices far lower than other creatures of the same level.

Gu Han scanned the book's table of contents quickly and rapidly locked onto one of the entries.