Under the protection of the bugs, two warriors headed to the human regions to purchase food.
Xia Jin was already considering how to optimize the taste of the nutrient solution so that her human subordinates could accept it.
Nutrient solution drinks, nutrient solution mixed rice, nutrient solution candy, and the like.
Currently, she was probably the only one who could somewhat tolerate the taste.
On this second day, all the bugs evolved to Tier 2. This significantly reduced the overall casualties, allowing them to easily crush Tier 1 magic beasts even in one on one combat.
However, Xia Jin still had them hunt in pairs, ensuring that the squads could quickly reinforce each other.
That evening, two birds descending from the sky attacked a zergling, bothering the creature for a long time.
Although it desperately wanted to kill its attackers, the zergling found it simply couldn't do anything to the flying things.
Once this Tier 1 bird determined it couldn't break the bug's defense, it eventually left.
This made Xia Jin realize that she still needed to be wary of threats from the air.
Time reached the third day, and the two men who went out to buy items returned with large bags and small parcels, having spent a total of 2 gold.
Among the supplies was mostly candy.
The snacks that commoners in this era could enjoy most were sugars and fruits.
But fruit was difficult to preserve.
Sugar was very expensive. Decades ago, before the Great Navigation era began, sugar was exclusive to the nobility. But recently, as oceanic trade transported massive amounts of cane sugar and other sugars back from the colonies, the kingdom's commoners could finally enjoy the delicacies once tasted only by nobles.
But in terms of quality, the sugar eaten by ordinary people was of the lowest grade.
As for exquisite pastries and delicacies, Xia Jin couldn't even think about them for now.
She found that she could only drink some unexpectedly good nutrient solution whenever she was craving something tasty.
Although she didn't know why the others found it disgusting, she truly thought it was quite good. Biologically, perhaps she really had become part of the Zerg.
The morning of the third day...
“My Queen, the swarm has discovered intelligent life in the depths of the northern forest.”
The brain bug transmitted a piece of information into Xia Jin's mind.
“Mm, let me see.”
Shared vision activated.
In a dense jungle, a lurking zergling watched the distance with a cold gaze.
A group of creatures with entirely green skin held various pieces of equipment, gathered around a campfire.
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【Target race identified: Goblin.】
They also used the Continental Common Tongue, but this group of creatures had a strange accent, making it difficult to understand them if they spoke too quickly.
“Goblins? A staple of fantasy worlds.”
Seeing these hideous creatures sitting there, with two human female captives lying nearby half dead, Xia Jin quickly found relevant information in her memories as a Princess.
Goblins, a species that could reproduce by plundering the females of other species.
Their nature was quite vile.
She had heard that orderly goblin tribes existed, but they were a tiny minority.
For many years, the kingdom's borders had suffered no small amount of harassment from goblins.
Countless women had been ravaged.
It could be said that humans hated these low but numerous creatures to the bone.
For decades, the army had killed countless goblins, yet they continued to emerge as if they were endless.
“It seems the goblins in this world aren't as absurd as the ones in Goblin Slayer.”
Xia Jin found a lot of information in her memory.
The kingdom's officials didn't actually care much about this species. Otherwise, if the nobles were determined enough to launch a war, they could basically wipe out all the goblins entrenched around the borders. Why would there be chaos every year?
Ultimately, it was because the nobles did not care about the lives of the commoners.
“Now the number of zerglings has reached 240, and they are all Tier 2. Attack.”
Just now, the resources she obtained were barely enough to reach a production rate of eight per hour. Xia Jin finally had some confidence.
The Queen's command was delivered to thirty nearby bugs, and these zerglings quickly began to concentrate with extreme efficiency.
In less than five minutes, the swarm launched its attack.
One by one, zerglings suddenly rushed out from the jungle, opening their ghastly maws and swinging their sharp sickles as they launched an offensive against these green skin creatures who were caught off guard.
“Danger, enemy attack!”
A very large, clearly Tier 3 giant goblin was the first to give the warning.
The small goblins who were eating their food stood up one after another.
It could be seen that this squad of over ten goblins was quite strong, containing two Tier 3 goblins, five Tier 2 goblins, and ten Tier 1 goblins.
With such strength, they could already go head to head with the regular army of some small countries. Commoners had no power to deal with them at all.
Facing the Tier 2 zerglings suddenly rushing forward, nearly half of the goblins had already prepared for combat during the charge.
The rest who couldn't react in time were pounced upon in the first encounter.
Accompanied by dull thuds, a fierce battle broke out between the two sides.
The zerglings' sickles easily pierced the abdomens of these flesh and blood bodies.
However, the Tier 3 giant goblin's skin was as tough as steel. Even after a bite, the zergling could only barely penetrate a piece of the surface flesh.
On the other side, the Tier 3 goblin priest clearly chanted some sort of incantation, and several black spheres flew out, landing on a zergling.
With an explosion, half of that zergling's body was actually blown off.
But then, something that shocked these goblins happened.
This zergling, with only half a head and less than half of its carapace remaining, actually swung its weapon and continued to attack with extreme difficulty.
“How is this possible?”
The goblin priest's eyes widened.
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