144: Zerg clone

After a long while, Lu Yang finished digesting all the memories.

He revealed a look of lingering fear.

"Damn it, I just connected to the Zerg Lord's mental network that invaded the Train World! Luckily, I refused quickly. Otherwise, if a high-ranking Zerg Lord discovered me, wouldn't I have just escaped a wolf pack only to fall into a tiger's den?!"

When Lu Yang devoured the Pale Golden Worm's mental corpse, the Zerg will invading the Train World, based on the phase similarity of his mental energy, mistook him for a newly promoted Zerg Swarm Lord and invited him to join the hive's mental network.

That's why he could see countless luminous points of will, each symbolizing another Zerg Swarm Lord.

Fortunately, he refused quickly.

Otherwise, if other Zerg Swarm Lord wills discovered he was an impostor, with their strongest already at the level of a Fourth-Tier professional, they could probably use the Zerg will network to counter-invade him the next second and turn him into an idiot.

However, this unconscious adventure was not without its benefits; after initial authentication, he had been recognized by the highest Zerg Swarm will invading the Train World as a new Zerg Swarm Lord.

This meant that Lu Yang could take over the unconscious mental body of the Zerg Swarm Lord before him, control its physical form, and become a true Zerg Swarm Lord.

It was equivalent to gaining a Zerg clone.

It was simply unbelievably fantastic!

Before that, however, he still had to split a fragment from his own soul and mold it into the shape of the Pale Golden Worm he had just seen.

This was also a disguise and insurance for himself.

This way, if he ever encountered an irresistible situation in the future, he could cut off his arm like a brave warrior, avoiding implicating his main body.

Lu Yang thought, acting swiftly, raising his flaming longblade and striking his own thigh.

He literally carved out a large piece of flesh.

As enjoyable as devouring the mental crystal was earlier, that's how much pain Lu Yang felt now as he split his soul to mold a Zerg sub-body.

It was even more unbearable than the ten great tortures of the Qing Dynasty.

It was a pain that defied description.

Even though Lu Yang was a mental body at this moment, beads of sweat involuntarily trickled down his forehead from the pain.

Fortunately, this was the mental world, and as long as his will was firm, no serious consequences would arise.

Half an hour later, looking at the Pale Golden Worm clone he had molded in his hand, almost identical to the Zerg Lord, Lu Yang nodded with satisfaction.

He opened his hand, and with a thought, the Pale Golden Worm clone immediately flew onto the Zerg Lord's remaining mental body.

It burrowed into the hole left when the true Zerg Lord had emerged earlier.

In an instant, a strange sensation flooded Lu Yang's heart.

He felt as if he truly had a new body.

It was very bloated and sluggish.

He wanted to move, but it was incredibly difficult.

Seeing this, Lu Yang immediately continued to wield his flaming longblade, giving this cheap clone a major trim.

After a while, looking at the mental sub-body, which resembled an enlarged Pale Golden Worm and was noticeably more agile and solid, Lu Yang let out a long sigh.

This was much lighter.

It was time to return to his main body!

Upon returning to his main body, the peculiar sensation of having another body intensified.

Especially on the Zerg Lord clone's side, countless dense mental threads instantly connected to the clone's mental body.

They all came from the Zerg combat beasts it had bred that were still alive.

However, the number was not large, only about two to three thousand, and most of them were Raptors.

As for higher-tier units like the Banelings, Hydralisks, and Ground Spine Spiders, they were almost completely annihilated.

Although the Zerg Lord's main body's gestation chamber in the underground secret realm still had many high-tier Zerg combat beasts in gestation, they were nearing a stagnant state due to the lack of continuous external resource supply.

Moreover, Lu Yang did not intend to continue gestation.

He even planned to abandon the Zerg Lord's main body, which had been developing for a long time.

On one hand, these Zerg, when killed by the Xinhuo Train, could be counted as civilization points; on the other hand, a significant reason was the omnipresent feeling of strange rejection.

According to the memories obtained from the Zerg Lord, the best solution in this situation was to start from scratch.

This involved cultivating a new Lord larva, transferring consciousness to the larva, and then selecting a new territory to develop anew.

The corpses of the dead Zerg beasts would serve as excellent nutrients; although starting over would mean slower initial development.

However, it would perfectly integrate with Lu Yang's mental sub-body.

Only then could he control it as easily as his own arm.