Interstellar Number One Farmer: I Only Want To Farm!-Chapter 74 - 28: Idle Hands
There’s only one Insect Man, and it can actually be killed with a sneak attack.
Su Xiaocai told her, "At this moment, you need to think about how to briefly hide the corpse after killing it to avoid being discovered."
Xing Miao looked around, there was nowhere to hide the Insect Man, "How to do it?"
"It’s very simple."
Su Xiaocai and another Mecha Master quickly circled behind the Insect Man.
Su Xiaocai made a gesture meaning "lock the movements."
The Mecha Master nodded, charged at the Insect Man, and forcefully pierced its joint.
Su Xiaocai maliciously stuffed a large stone into the Insect Man’s mouth to prevent it from making any noise.
"The Insect Man usually makes noise from its abdomen, typically having a large belly, but this one doesn’t, so we can completely kill it this way." Su Xiaocai said while twisting off the Insect Man’s head.
The two of them easily exterminated the Insect Man, the process was as effortless as slaughtering a chicken.
Xing Miao’s mouth opened wide, unable to close her jaw.
"Is it this easy?"
Su Xiaocai explained, "It’s not that easy, you need someone to cooperate and distract the Insect Man. You also need a deep understanding of the Insect Man. For example, this Insect Man has a particularly fragile neck; you can twist off its head by pressing down on the protective shell on its neck."
The creators of this game were truly extraordinary, they had figured out the characteristics of each Insect Man.
Su Xiaocai dismembered the Insect Man on the spot, placed its head on the mine top, pinned it to the rock with nails, and threw its body parts in different places.
Xing Miao: She couldn’t understand why it had to be done this way.
"Insect Men have intelligence, but not high intelligence. They’re even dumb, you could say. After dismemberment, their first response is not to report to their superiors, but more likely to gather the body parts to determine if the dead one is a companion." If there were a Space Button, it would be even better, hiding the head can get them completely confused.
Xing Miao: So that’s how it can be done, learned something new.
The copy Insect Man’s eyesight is pretty good, and its hearing is decent too, but because of its short growth time and being a copy, its flaws are obvious.
The intelligence ceiling is there, it’s no different from being mentally challenged.
But why are Insect Men terrifying?
Because their bodies are strong, they evolve fast, and the Insect Mother’s reproduction is remarkable.
An average Insect Mother can produce thousands of copy Insect Men per hour, and as long as there’s living prey to devour, they can grow in a week.
Each Insect Man’s vitality varies, those that can’t grow will eat humans, eat plants and animals, and after they’re finished, return to the nest, delivering energy feedback to the Mother, then die within a month, allowing the Mother to reproduce again.
Where they pass, not a blade of grass grows, even some of the creatures that can survive in the universe can’t escape their nibbling.
Those Insect Men that can grow become Insect Warriors and Greed.
Beneath the Warriors, there are two branches: Warriors and Nest Bugs. Warriors mostly serve as the leaders, Nest Bugs build nests, then devour each other to become the Mother.
If there are more than five Insect Mothers on a planet, it will basically be overrun within a month.
The Greed are mindless vanguards, they have even more diverse branches, possessing all kinds of capabilities.
Su Xiaocai has seen more than a hundred varieties.
These Xing Miao knew, but she didn’t realize the Insect Man’s abilities could be counter-utilized.
"The current textbooks are already one or two years out of date, you’d better find more information online, don’t limit yourself to textbooks."
Xing Miao listened attentively, and agreed promptly.
All the subsequent operations of Su Xiaocai were an eye-opener, broadening her horizons.
Xing Miao watched throughout, doing nothing, observing as Su Xiaocai broke through one hurdle after another, uncovering underground secrets and completing tasks.
Admiration welled up automatically.
The six characters in the game emerged with wounds, looked at the sunset outside, feeling enlightened.
Xing Miao seemed to gain a clearer understanding of the command profession.
Afterwards, Su Xiaocai led her through a rescue operation involving more than a hundred people, all executed decisively.
Xing Miao deeply realized that not a single command could be flawless; the goal is to achieve victory in each task with the least cost.
The challenge of command lies in making the most suitable judgment for the moment.
Outside the game, Xing Miao, usually neglectful of exercise, silently joined Wu Qingqing’s training team in the days that followed. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢
After just two sessions of observing command, she discovered she lacked a lot.
Her Mecha driving skills were too weak, lacking the ability to protect herself, misunderstanding various machine operations, unable to judge accurately, and establish battlefield advantage.
Originally, she thought she’d be a thoughtful commander, but entering the war, she found that was a joke.
