On the way home with her, Ao Cang noticed that she had her brows furrowed the whole time, and he could roughly guess what she was thinking.

He arrived at the Li family's house at noon the next day, had lunch with Xu Hui and the others, and then told her that he planned to go to the interstellar battlefield to check on the situation.

“Currently, some citizens who worship me are able to receive some protection. If the situation is really serious, we can discuss having someone you know pray and make offerings to me first. If it works well later, we can see if it can protect other citizens.”

As for the other sacred beasts, if they were useful, the Federation Marshal Siren probably wouldn't have resorted to such a desperate measure.

“But the interstellar monster battlefield is clearly not safe right now. Even someone as strong as a Siren almost lost half their life there. Your injuries haven’t fully healed yet. What am I supposed to do if something happens to you if you go there?”

Ao Cang said helplessly, "An'an, have you forgotten that I am not human? I am a god. There are many ways to avoid danger. There won't be any problems. I'm just going to take a look."

Qiao Mei wanted to continue refusing, but considering that this matter would affect whether the world in the book could continue to maintain stability and continue to exist, she finally relented.

"But you can go, I have to go with you, otherwise I won't feel at ease."

If she were with him, even if something happened to him, she wouldn't regret or blame herself for not going with him afterwards.

"Alright, then you must stay by my side at all times. The interstellar monster battlefield is extremely dangerous. For safety's sake, I will use my divine power to transform into a black dragon, and you will lie on my dragon body."

Qiao Mei hadn't seen his black dragon form in a long time, and she was thrilled to hear that she would see it again this time.

Since he began living with her in interstellar space as a human, she has rarely touched his dragon form.

She seized the opportunity this time. After mounting his dragon body, she violated the rules by touching his still soft and fluffy belly, even though it had been enlarged.

The dragon scales there are not cold; on the contrary, they are very warm.

The sensation when petting it is almost the same as petting a cat's belly.

Ao Cang didn't expect Qiao Mei to still be touching him at a time like this. After his dragon scales were covered with a layer of pink, he lowered his voice and said to her, "An'an, let's talk about it when we get back. Right now, we have important business to attend to."

Although he had already used the power to conceal himself and her, he still felt a little embarrassed in such a public place.

The federal soldiers only felt a gust of wind pass overhead, and then muttered in surprise, "Why did it feel like something passed by?"

But looking closely at the gloomy sky, there was nothing to see except for clouds and rain, so they could only withdraw their puzzled gaze and continue their patrol.

Perhaps because the Sirens, who had previously served as the Federation Marshal, had suffered severe injuries, the safety perimeter surrounding the interstellar monster battlefield had been reinforced with additional personnel.

There are even mechs that can be seen everywhere.

In this situation, to enter the interstellar monster battlefield, one must wait for the military to open the gates.

Otherwise, if they force their way in, it will definitely trigger the alarm system.

Fortunately, they were lucky. Not long after they arrived, staff members who were replacing the monitoring equipment were waiting at the entrance in mechs carrying a bunch of new monitoring devices.

After the door finally opened following multiple password and ID card verifications, Ao Cang led Qiao Mei into the other side of the security circle first.

The battlefield was filled with a smell that was hard to describe. Although Ao Cang had used his divine power to create a defensive circle to block the harmful gases, the smell still could not be eliminated.

Qiao Mei smelled it and thought it smelled a bit like the stench of a sewer mixed with the smell of a rotting corpse.

Feeling unwell, she pressed her nose against Ao Canglong's body to inhale his scent for relief, then looked up to see the situation on the battlefield.

What is visible to the eye, besides the vast expanse of what looks like a mutated jungle, is indeed the presence of many irregular round holes in the gray sky.

However, no more interstellar monsters have yet emerged from the circular hole; only some interstellar monsters on the ground are...fighting each other?!

Qiao Mei looked in disbelief at the two mantises with very different sizes but very similar appearances, fiercely entangled and fighting.

The larger of the mutated two-armed mantises had blood-red eyes, as if it had completely lost its mind.

Even though the two-armed praying mantis opposite it had fiercely thrust a mantis blade at it, it acted as if it hadn't seen it, and went straight for the mantis blade, only to have half of its head cut off.

But at the same moment, its mantis blade also directly severed the head of the mantis with two arms in front of it.

The headless, two-armed praying mantis struggled a few times before going completely still.

Immediately afterwards, the victorious mutated two-armed mantis went to fight other interstellar monsters, seemingly attacking indiscriminately.

Qiao Mei withdrew her gaze, suppressed her surprise, and then observed the situation of the other visible interstellar monsters.

They were found to be very similar.

Judging from this momentum, it seems that the original interstellar monsters could be wiped out without the Federation army even having to intervene.

Just then, Ao Cang reminded her, "An'an, look to the west. That mutated interstellar monster is eating the corpse of the original interstellar monster."

Qiao Mei looked in the direction Ao Cang pointed and indeed found that the mutated two-armed mantis, which had won the battle and had one of its arms cut off, was beginning to feed on the corpses that had died in front of it.

It ate very quickly, giving Qiao Mei the feeling that it was almost like drinking water.

With each bite, you can see the missing parts of its body growing back a little.

Towards the end, Qiao Mei wondered if it was just her imagination, but it seemed to have doubled in size compared to before.

"how so.......?"

Ao Cang squinted at the larger mutated two-armed mantis and told Qiao Mei, "The death energy inside its body is even more concentrated than before, and its combat power should have increased considerably."

"If this continues, even if the number of monsters in the interstellar monster battlefield decreases sharply, the strength of the remaining mutated interstellar monsters will increase dramatically. Just like that mutated two-armed mantis from earlier, now one of it can take on at least ten ordinary two-armed mantises."

Qiao Mei had guessed it too.

After seeing the general situation and Ao Cang leaving, he was very worried that if the students from the Federal Academy were really sent to the battlefield, there wouldn't be enough food for these mutated interstellar monsters.

If even the original interstellar monsters couldn't defeat these mutated species, how could humans possibly do it?

She lay sadly on Ao Cang's dragon body and asked him, "Cang Cang, if more people believe in you and you give them protection, won't it be very harmful to you?"