Hearing Lin Feng’s question, Ling Yi dropped her affected act, slowly stood up, and then asked:
"Mass-producing these Membrane Wings... are you trying to create a group of Flying Soldiers?"
Ling Yi knew that the Biological Armor Lin Feng wore enabled him to fly.
The source of this function was the synthetic material derived from the muscular pair of Membrane Wings on a Cyan-winged Zerg’s back, which was then integrated into the Battle Armor using Lin Feng’s Superpower.
Right now, Lin Feng was looking at the ruptured Tier Two Zerg Eggs. The waste fluid was mixed with Zerg Race tissue stripped from Zhang Liying’s body, including transparent fragments of Cyan-winged Zerg Membrane Wings.
With this tissue removed, the young woman’s skin had recovered, becoming smooth and flawless. As she left, she had finally revealed a genuine smile.
Ling Yi had initially thought that Lin Feng stopped her because he wanted to use the Biological Nest’s stripping and purification abilities to reduce Zerg Race gene contamination for his future Genetic Assimilation Battle Group, thereby extending their combat lifespan.
But his real purpose...
...made Ling Yi narrow her eyes and ask a question in return.
Hearing her question, Lin Feng nodded in acknowledgement.
"That’s right. Cyan-winged Zergs are rare, and we haven’t even seen a trace of a Wind-winged Zerg yet. It makes collecting biological materials for flight extremely difficult..."
Lin Feng shifted his gaze from the Zerg Race tissue on the ground to the Biological Nest behind Ling Yi.
After completing the stripping procedure, it was still active and could be repurposed.
"If this biological factory can mass-produce the materials I need, you can name your terms."
It wasn’t just the Battle Armor that needed Membrane Wings integrated for the Flying Ability; even the future Dreadnought Battleship and its Replicas would require the Membrane Wings of flying Zerg types to provide the Extra Attributes for Ground Effect Flight.
This was the reason they could ignore terrain factors and rampage freely across the land.
And yet, even when the Dreadnought Battleship was Upgraded to the peak of Tier Two, its Average Speed was no different from a Flying Wing Tank’s. This was precisely because he had yet to acquire any Tier Two Orange Quality Membrane Wings...
That was why its speed had stagnated.
Cyan-winged Zergs were rare, and Wind-winged Zergs were even more elusive, cruising above the clouds and never showing themselves.
He hadn’t considered this problem before. Back then, the teams he led only numbered in the dozens or hundreds. After a few more battles, he could always collect the Membrane Wings he needed.
But now, Lin Feng’s Tier Two Corps and Warriors numbered over five thousand. Even if he only equipped a tenth of his elite forces with Flying Battle Armor, he would need to hunt more than five hundred Cyan-winged Zergs specifically for that purpose.
Not only would it be time-consuming and laborious, but a Mother Empress might notice and set an ambush, making it extremely dangerous.
In the future, as the number of Warriors grew, the need for flight would only become more urgent.
A squadron of Flying Soldiers would hold every advantage in a direct confrontation with the Zerg Race. Equip each of them with a Shotgun, and they could break through to the rear of a Swarm and unleash absolute carnage.
In this way, even an elite squad of just a few dozen could suppress a Swarm of ten thousand in a matter of minutes.
Although the Dreadnought Battleship’s current firepower was enough to annihilate any Zerg formation, once Lin Feng chose a location for his base and put down roots, he would face the same dilemma the Federal Capital now faced...
...being surrounded by several, or even a dozen, Zerg Race Mother Empresses. When that happened, the need for aerial strike capabilities and the pressure of air defense would multiply.
That’s why he had to plan ahead and prepare now!
Especially with the decisive battle at Wu City fast approaching, if he could cultivate a group of Flying Soldiers before then, they might have an unexpectedly decisive impact!
After hearing Lin Feng’s answer, Ling Yi was silent for a moment before speaking slowly:
"Do you know why Tier Two Wind-winged Zergs are so rare?"
"Because their production cost is extremely high. The Flying Ability is inherently incompatible with Spine Zergs. You’ve been to Shen Jie’s Slaughter Realm World, so you understand the environment on Ceres. From ancient times to the present, Spine Zergs have never evolved genes for flight..."
"So, both Cyan-winged Zergs and Wind-winged Zergs are products of Genetic Fusion. Their Membrane Wings originate from flying species the Zerg Race found on other planets, and they are used to create Tier One and Tier Two flying troops to counter enemy air power."
"The cost to produce a single Cyan-winged Zerg is about ten times that of a common Black Spine Zerg. The cost for a Wind-winged Zerg is even higher, reaching over twenty times that of a Tier Two Tiger Spine Zerg."
"And that’s just one part of it. Beyond the production cost, the food required to sustain them is more than ten times that of a same-tier Spine Zerg. After all, Energy consumption in flight is directly proportional to speed. A Cyan-winged Zerg needs to eat to refuel after just two or three hours of flight, and a Tier Two Wind-winged Zerg needs to do so even more frequently."
"That’s why Flying Zerg Race units are relatively rare on the battlefield. They’re seldom used to attack ground targets because the cost is so high that every single one is precious."
"Many Zerg groups that haven’t faced aerial attacks have Mother Empresses who don’t even bother breeding Tier Two Wind-winged Zergs. The same amount of Biomass Energy can produce twenty Tiger Spine Zergs instead, which is far more cost-effective."
Having finished her explanation of the Zerg flying units, Ling Yi looked down at the Membrane Wing fragments in the remains of the Zerg Cocoon.
"So, if you want to use a Biological Nest to synthesize Membrane Wings, you’ll need to spend thousands of tons of fish meat in the Early Stage just to build a Nest capable of incubating the wing structures,"
"After that, the production cost will be ten tons of fish meat for a single pair of Membrane Wings. And ten tons of meat is enough to keep ten thousand humans alive for two days."
"The cost of doing this is hardly low. Furthermore, once a Biological Nest is built, it’s extremely difficult to move. The very reason the Zerg Race’s invasion and expansion is so slow is that the Nests in their Underground caverns have to be disassembled, transported, and then rebuilt."