louisehourcade Chapter 685 Opening the Passage
Chapter 685 Opening the Passage
Chapter 685 Opening the Passage (4000 words)
Xiao Hei's two large compound eyes stared intently at the city lord of the City of Death.
One was enormous, the other was tiny. The tiny one, however, was in no way inferior in imposing presence.
"It is you who disobeys my lord's command?"
The City Lord of the City of the Dead shuddered, and the eyes on his tentacles all stared at Xiao Hei and Lin Xiaohe.
Insect King, are you alright?!
You actually acknowledge a human as your master?!
"You...I...Aren't you on the wrong side?"
For billions of years, the Dead City and the Zerg have maintained a tacit understanding of keeping to themselves and their friendship as creatures of the underworld. Is it really going to be wiped out because of a human?
Little Black doesn't care about any of that.
In its eyes, all living beings are divided into only two categories: those who obey the Lord and those who do not.
Those who disobey will either be beaten until they obey, or be humanely destroyed!
With a flap of its small black wings, the swarm of insects charged fearlessly toward the Lord of the Dead City.
The lord of the City of the Dead was enraged: "You really think I'm afraid of you?! Prepare to die!"
It flung out several tentacles, each wrapped with shattered chains of rules, and lashed them towards the swarm of insects.
The chains of rules struck the swarm of insects, sweeping away a number of them, but more insects surged forward, landing on the chains and beginning to gnaw at them.
"Heh, these are the chains of rules," the Lord of the City of Death sneered.
However, the next second, its smile froze.
Those chains of rules were gnawed away bit by bit by the swarm of insects, each bite striking a critical node of the rune.
The chain broke apart section by section, and the fragments were swallowed up by more insects before they could dissipate.
Each tentacle has a core, which is the key to the flow of power to the Lord of the Dead City, possessing the most indestructible defense.
The insects were densely packed on top, their mouthparts open, but they couldn't break through the defenses.
With a flash, Xiao Hei merely touched the very center of the chain with its tentacles. The core, which had existed for countless years and remained intact, began to crumble from the point of contact, shattering into black powder that was scattered by the wind.
The city lord watched helplessly as every one of his core laws was completely devoured.
"This is bad, this is definitely not the strength of an ordinary Insect King!"
It wanted to escape, but it had nowhere to retreat.
The insect swarm will arrive, completely blocking the passage.
The city lord of the dead city twisted and struggled, but his tentacles were still being gnawed off one by one.
With each break, more insects swarm out from the cut.
The observer's eye seemed frozen in place, not daring to move even a little.
The three city lords spoke in hushed tones, afraid of alerting the insectoid race.
[Insects are hatching inside the main body of the dead city?!]
[My God! It contains powerful hallucinogenic molecules, how can an insect eat this stuff and be completely unaffected?]
I have a bad feeling. The Lord of the Dead City is best at mind control; its physical strength is no match for the Zerg, and its skills are countered by them. It probably won't gain any advantage.
The three city lords were pessimistic about the outcome of the battle, but the worst-case scenario they predicted was that the city lord of the City of Death would be injured and forced to retreat to the City of Death.
After all, its innate talent is too strong, so it's really not easy for it to completely fade away.
The city lord of Wangsicheng, who was in the center of the battlefield, was not as optimistic as they were.
Whose body it is, only they know.
Its enormous size becomes a significant disadvantage when compared to insects.
The swarm of insects had already laid eggs inside the city lord's body, and they were everywhere, densely packed.
The city lord of the dead city let out a roar of unwillingness.
Immediately afterwards, the swarm exploded from its core, devouring it completely.
Only a small part of the City Lord's body remained, still twitching within the fragments of the chains of rules.
Ninety percent of its tentacles were eaten by the swarm, and most of its core was hollowed out from the inside, but it was not completely dead yet.
The lord of the City of the Dead is not so easy to kill.
It has one last card up its sleeve.
"You think you've won?" The roar of the Lord of the City of the Dead came from within the fragments of his body, trembling with a sense of exasperation.
"You think these insects can kill me? My reproductive ability is limitless! Every tentacle fragment, every drop of blood, every soul that I have corrupted can be reborn as my clone!"
"You kill one of me, I'll grow ten more! You kill me a hundred times, I'll grow a thousand! As long as the City of Death stands, I will not die. This is an ironclad law etched into the very essence of both realms! Insects? Hahahaha—insects! I'll stand here and let them eat me. Can they finish them all? Can their digestion speed outpace my regeneration speed?"
Its tentacle fragments began to wriggle.
Each gene segment is expanding, dividing, and growing new suckers and bone spurs.
Rising anew from the wreckage were hundreds and thousands of miniature versions of the city lord, each with a mouth full of sharp teeth, each emitting the same maniacal laughter: "See that! I am infinite! Infinite!"
Lin Xiaohe narrowed her eyes, flipped her wrist, and the golden divine power flowed like water around the black insect whip.
Little Black: "My lord, please let me do it."
How dare a mere octopus be so presumptuous before my lord?
They are incredibly audacious and reckless, unaware of the immensity of heaven and earth!
Today, Xiao Hei will teach these disobedient people to start anew!
The swarm of insects suddenly quieted down in that instant.
All the insects that were gnawing at the city lord stopped eating at the same time, raised their heads, and turned towards Little Black.
Xiao Hei didn't make a sound, but the entire swarm of insects completed some kind of communication in 0.00001 seconds.
Then, the entire swarm of insects surged up at once, like a black tide washing over the beach.
Before the city lord's clone could grow a second tentacle, it was broken down at the molecular level by the insect swarm.
The city lord's clones continued to emerge, and the insect swarm piled up layer upon layer.
The clones grow quickly, and the insects multiply even faster.
The clone exploded into a cloud of black mist, which the insect swallowed whole, consuming the mist and air together. After finishing, its belly glowed briefly, as if it had digested something high in calories, before turning around to gnaw on the next cloud.
The city lord's roar changed from maniacal laughter to cursing, from cursing to howling, and from howling to intermittent wails.
For the first time, it discovered that its regeneration rate couldn't keep up with the rate at which it was being eaten.
Its regeneration is a geometric progression, and Xiao Hei's digestion is a geometric progression of geometric progressions.
The lord of the City of the Dead finally broke down.
Its remaining core convulsed amidst the swarm of insects, emitting a piercing scream: "What are you! The bone-eating insects of the City of Death aren't like this! Bone-eating insects can't eat the rules! What have you done to them? What are you?! What are you..."
Little Black lay lazily in the very center of the insect swarm.
It didn't move at all from beginning to end, not even the shell on its head trembled, it just touched the void slightly with its two tentacles.
Then, it opened its mouth and sucked hard.
The core fragments, tentacle remains, and fragments of the chains of rules of the City Lord of the Dead City, along with the surrounding contaminated spatial folds, were all pulled into Xiao Hei's mouth by an irresistible suction force. The City Lord's last sound was stretched into a thin line, changing from a scream to a whimper, growing softer and softer until it disappeared completely.
Xiao Hei closed its mouth, let out a burp, and a small wisp of black smoke floated out of the burp.
It stretched out a small insect leg and patted its belly, as if it had eaten too much. It turned its head towards Lin Xiaohe, its two compound eyes sparkling, full of longing for praise.
Lin Xiaohe gently patted its head and said proudly, "Well done! You truly deserve to be our combat leader!"
"Hiss hiss hiss!" Little Black flapped its wings excitedly, circling around Lin Xiaohe, its whole body brimming with joy and excitement.
The Ming Tombs are empty; there is no black mist, no chains, no tentacles, and no clones.
That enormous, sky-covering shadow was completely devoured, leaving not a trace.
The sky was crystal clear, and the golden sun slowly climbed above the horizon.
As the swarm dispersed, their wings no longer shone with a cold, eerie blue light, but instead were edged with a faint golden hue by the morning sun.
The boundary wall of the capital city dungeon rippled in the sunlight, like a perfectly full bubble, bulging and bulging.
The entire Eastern Kingdom was deathly silent.
A creature with a human face and a fox body stood before the city wall, its mouth wide open, words stuck in its throat, unable to be uttered.
There was no smugness in his eyes, only a bewildered look of not having yet come to his senses.
The once arrogant and invincible city lord was devoured just like that?!
Not even a trace was left?
The head of the ghost baby behind him fell to the ground, rolled twice, and came to rest in a pool of black ashes.
The eyes on its head strained to stay open, as if trying to figure out what had just happened. Where was the city lord?
The Tatar cavalry were also looking at the sky.
Their scimitars were still raised, but their arms were frozen in mid-air, as if they had forgotten who they were supposed to cut.
They couldn't understand the origins of the swarm, but they could understand one thing.
The city lord they thought was invincible, the black mist behemoth that could change the color of the heavens and earth, was eaten by a group of insects!
Lin Xiaohe hovered in mid-air, looking at the group of bewildered and stunned Reincarnated Beings in the capital dungeon, and said calmly.
"Little Black, leave no one alive."
A fierce glint flashed in Xiao Hei's compound eyes: "I obey my lord's command!"
Little Black tapped the void with its tentacles.
In that instant, the insect swarm completely changed direction, no longer circling around the Ming Tombs, but turning their heads in unison towards the interior of the instance.
Sensing danger, the eerie creatures heading towards the dead city scattered and fled. Some jumped off the city walls, some crawled into the cracks in the black mist, and some tried to blend into the pile of corpses and play dead.
The fox-faced human-bodied creature ran in front, with the ghost infant close behind.
"Go to the edge of the instance. Once the instance closes, we'll immediately infiltrate the Eastern Kingdom!"
Without the support of dungeons, their strength will be greatly reduced.
But if they stay inside the instance, these bugs will definitely not let them go.
As the swarm of insects descended, the fox-faced man glanced back and was instantly filled with dread.
The massive black tide that pressed down from the horizon was exactly the same as the one that had rushed towards the city lord just now.
Silence, precision, and no unnecessary movements.
The dead species were like paper in the face of the insect swarm; wherever the insects passed, the dead species disappeared layer by layer from the outside in.
In less than half an hour, those rampaging monsters disappeared without a trace.
The Observing Eye within the crack, taking advantage of the gap in the insect swarm's cleanup of the battlefield, quietly retreated back to the underworld.
Wow! The Zerg swarm is this powerful?! It's beyond my comprehension!
[It's over, it's over. This newcomer, Lin Xiaohe, is even more difficult to deal with than the Earth Goddess Houtu. She can actually summon such powerful helpers!]
I'm 100% certain that the insects' significant increase in strength is inextricably linked to the Insect King.
Could it be from another world? The Zerg from beyond, those omnipresent, greedy destroyers.
If that's the case... we must join forces. The extraterrestrial insectoids are a race capable of devouring the universe. Even if there's only one, we cannot afford to be careless.
【agree! 】
[Seconded!]
A gust of east wind blew by, and with a pop, the dungeon wall of the capital city dungeon broke!
The sound waves were so pleasant to hear.
Li Qing swore that this was the most beautiful sound he had ever heard!
"Aaaaaah!! We made it!"
He let out a hoarse, high-pitched, cracked roar: "That felt good! That felt fucking good! Director Lin, you're my god forever!"
He threw the knife into the air, and it somersaulted in the air before falling back down.
The other East Asian contestants remained seated on the ground, the broken pieces of their weapons having vanished in the wind.
The regimental commander, Yunlong, braced himself with both hands behind his back, looked up at the sky, and after a long pause, finally managed to squeeze out, "Those bugs...are they from our side?"
The political commissar next to him took off his helmet, revealing sweat-soaked hair, and grinned, "If you're not from our side, do you think you can eat the Death Seed as a snack?"
Then, he turned in the direction where the swarm of insects had disappeared and roared, "We won!"
Suddenly, everyone realized what was happening. Chaos erupted on the city wall!
"Hahaha, I'm still alive."
"My goodness, heaven knows how desperate I was just now! I never imagined that the Zerg swarm would be our reinforcements. Hahahaha!"
“When I got back, I wrote this down in the family genealogy. Next year, during the ancestral worship ceremony, the clan will definitely let me be the first to burn incense.”
"You're overthinking it. The one who burns the first incense is definitely the regimental commander; he's from the same clan as you."
"Alright, I'll compromise and burn a second incense stick."
At this moment, upon learning of the disappearance of the copy, the entire country's emergency command center sprang into action.
A medical team of tens of thousands of people has officially set off for the capital to treat the wounded and sick.
With the help of the military, researchers cordoned off the area where the decisive battle would take place. They were to study the air, soil, vegetation, and so on.
The City Lord of the Dead City, Director Lin, and even the insects have all left traces here. Some special substances might be extracted from certain fragments.
The propaganda department was incredibly busy. They needed to announce this fantastic news to the entire nation!
They wanted to tell the people that, through the united efforts of the military and civilians, the Eastern Kingdom had achieved a phased victory! This victory had bought the Eastern Kingdom precious breathing time.
The political department of the military unit is responsible for providing compensation to the fallen soldiers.
At this point, no one complains about working overtime or working 24 hours a day. Sometimes, finding yourself still able to go to work is a kind of happiness.
After arranging the work, Commander-in-Chief Zhang and Lao Zhou, along with most of the senior executives, once again set foot on the land of the capital.
They rushed to the Ming Tombs immediately.
Above them, Lin Xiaohe and the black beetle were still there, looking down at everyone.
"Director Lin...do you have any instructions for the next step?"