Chapter 8: Unusual Movement

In this practical course, each team entered the new temperature zone from a different entrance to prevent the male insects from gathering together and being lazy.

In addition to An Lang and Lan Xiu, there are three female insects in An Lang's group.

Two of them were You Zhuo and Lei Li, whom I had met before, and the other one was a stranger.

The stranger was more approachable than the other two and greeted An Lang with a smile: "Your Highness, I am Hunter Aiden, from the Thin Winged Tribe."

Seeing that An Lang didn't say anything, he didn't get discouraged and continued, "The most common species in the new temperature zone is the A-type Star Beast. Their eggs, after being diluted, are very good nutrients, so they are raised by insect workers on the north side of Yifeng Forest."

There are still very obvious traces of human activities in the woods outside the Xinwen District. An Lang glanced at the yellow sign with the words "Danger Zone" while listening to Hunter Aiden's explanation.

Hunter always kept a proper distance, neither too far to make Anlang feel disgusted, nor too far away for him to hear clearly.

"What's the point of you saying so much?" You Zhuo, who was walking in front, glanced at Hunter Aiden, then turned to look at An Lang with a half-smile, "If His Highness hadn't been so respectful to the military lady, how could you have come here?"

Hunter frowned and replied in a neither humble nor arrogant manner, "Although I have retired from the military, I dare not slack off for a single day in my work with Xingzhi."

"Really?" You Zhuo grinned. "Has the carapace on your insect form grown back?"

"I wonder if His Highness will have pity on a wingless grasshopper like you."

As soon as he said this, there was silence all around.

An Lang, who was at the center of the storm, only felt goose bumps on his back, as if he could smell the smell of gunpowder exploding in the air.

"You Zhuo! Don't forget the instructions of the Mantis Lord." Rayleigh warned him in a low voice, but this only angered You Zhuo. His dark eyebrows twisted together, and then green hard armor appeared on his arms. The hard armor became thin and narrow at the end of the fingers, just like the forelimbs of a mantis.

You Zhuo smiled even more contemptuously: "Oh - I forgot about your highness's likes and dislikes."

He glanced at An Lang, whose face suddenly turned pale, sneered, spread his bone wings, and disappeared into the dense jungle in a few flaps.

An Lang had no time to care about all this.

The moment the hard armor on You Zhuo's arm appeared, An Lang felt the sizzling alarm sound in his ears again. His brain felt a sharp pain, and he vaguely saw another pair of such hand blades pulling the male insect's head from its neck.

Sexual cannibalism!

This was the scene the original owner saw when he was lured by locusts!

Then, the pulled-out head in the picture gradually changed from a strange face to his own face.

That very familiar face was filled with fear and shock, his eyes bulging and bloodshot. Looking up from the broken neck, An Lang saw a pair of thin, narrow white hand blades. Bright red blood flowed along the smooth blades, wetting his long, silver-white hair that was winding on the ground.

An Lang's perspective switched from an outsider to the severed head.

He saw a pair of eyes as pink as tourmaline, with a hint of smile.

[Executor No. 0291! Executor No. 0291!]

It's the system's voice!

Unlike last time, the system spoke at an extremely fast speed, accompanied by a constant buzzing sound. Even though it was an emotionless mechanical voice, An Lang could hear the urgency in it!

[Please immediately proceed to a location 120 kilometers northeast. Zizi... Time and space changes have been detected there within 24 hours... Zizi.]

[The world's danger level has been upgraded to S. The image just now showed a zigzag warning. If the abnormal situation is not eliminated... zigzag... within three days... death... beep—]

With a shrill beep, the system's voice disappeared again.

"Your Highness, Your Highness?"

After a few sounds, An Lang came back to his senses. He blinked away the bloody scene and saw Hunter Aiden's face. He leaned back suddenly.

Hunter quickly took a few steps back.

"I'm... fine." An Lang cleared his throat. "I just want to find a place to rest."

He casually raised his hand and pointed in a direction: "Is that the Xingzhi's activity area?"

Hunter nodded. "Most Type-A Star Beasts will go there to lay their eggs. Although it's close to the 'Boundless' area, and the scent of the Type-A Star Beasts there is quite intimidating, Fengwei Mountain serves as a barrier, and that area is also sheltered from the wind. During the breeding season, the Star Beasts will overcome this fear."

"So that's the direction of the 'Boundless' area?"

"Yes, Your Highness."

This is going to be difficult, An Lang thought.

Even if he walked non-stop for more than ten hours, it would take him more than ten hours to walk a hundred kilometers, not to mention in the jungle!

Moreover, that is the "Boundless" area where the Star Beasts are imprisoned. Wouldn't he be seeking death if he went there?

But if I don’t go——

He shook his head violently. He was very precious to his head and didn’t want a bug to pull it off!!!

He thought about the three days the system mentioned—

In the original evolved world, the original owner's head was pulled out by the female insect three years later.

Why did it become three days when it came to him!!!

What evil had he done?

Why is the deadline brought forward?

An Lang shook his head. It was unrealistic for him to go there by himself, so he could only find another way out.

"Your Highness, let's go a little further inside. There are a lot of surveillance cameras outside to prevent poaching. It would not be good if the teacher found out that we have not taken any action." Hunter had calmed down and explained patiently to Anlang.

Seeing An Lang's furrowed brows, Hunter thought the pampered male insect was tired and didn't want to leave, so he continued to persuade him, "Your Highness, please be patient for a moment. I will try to find a flat place where Your Highness can sit down and rest."

Hearing this, An Lang, who had been deep in thought, trembled in his eyes. He suddenly said, "It's really dangerous here. I want to go to 'The Boundless'."

"It's boring to stay here. I might as well go to the Colosseum and watch a show."

As soon as he finished speaking, Hunter's expression froze, Rayleigh's brows furrowed, and even Lan Xiu, who was silently carrying a backpack on the side, raised his head.

"This..." Hunter hesitated. He had finally earned the opportunity to be alone with His Highness, so naturally he had to do everything he could to win His Highness's favor. However, this request was really difficult to fulfill.

"Your Highness, this is a real combat test. If the outsiders knew about it—" Rayleigh obviously did not have Hunter's patience. He secretly warned the prince, hoping that he would change his mind.

"So what if you know?" An Lang's voice was filled with pride. "With my father here, who can touch me?"

He crossed his arms, raised his eyebrows, and acted like "My dad is Li Gang".

"And if you don't tell him, and he doesn't tell you, who would know? What bug in the Colosseum would dare to say anything?"

Rayleigh wanted to persuade him a few more times, but he heard An Lang continue, "If you don't take me with you, I will send a signal flare and withdraw from the practical training class right now."

Rayleigh didn't want to say anything more. His face darkened. "Since Your Highness has made his decision, I dare not interfere. I only ask Your Highness to remember Lord Mantis's efforts and keep quiet when you go to the Colosseum."

This prince is indeed as arrogant and domineering as the rumors say.

"Of course, I just want to watch the show."

Hunter Aiden, who was standing by, saw that Rayleigh had taken on this responsibility and quickly said, "I'll adjust the aircraft right away."

Rayleigh raised his arm to stop him: "The aircraft is making too much noise."

Hunter Aiden's face changed slightly after being stopped, but he finally put down the terminal.

An Lang has already seen that Rayleigh is still the leader among this group of female insects.

Rayleigh took out a terminal from his boots and after a few operations, a small flying car that looked like a motorcycle appeared in front of them.

It has a very narrow body, obviously designed to better move through the woods.

"Your Highness, this carriage can only carry two insects." Rayleigh said as he stepped onto the front seat.

Obviously, there was no way he would let His Highness, a male insect, go.

"Uh..." Now it was An Lang's turn to be embarrassed, but he had no choice, he had to go to the 'Boundless' area.

But he was worried about leaving Lan Xiu behind.

"Is there only one car?" An Lang asked.

Rayleigh's expression remained unchanged: "This is for use in emergencies."

Most mantises have wings, so when they made this preparation plan, they did not consider bringing an extra female insect.

An Lang glanced at Lan Xiu with some apology, and then asked Hunter, "Please take care of Lan Xiu."

Hunter naturally did not want to be kept. His defeat at the bamboo throwing banquet was a great humiliation, but he did not dare to refuse His Highness's request.

"Your Highness, this is the outer area. There won't be any danger." Lan Xiu suddenly said, "I'll wait here for Your Highness to come back."

Rayleigh turned his gaze to him, looked him up and down, and warned: "Don't let the other teams find out."

"Yes, Mr. Walker."

An Lang was worried about Lan Xiu being here alone, but he had no other choice. He dragged Lan Xiu aside and said in a low voice, "Lan Xiu, wait for me here obediently. It's okay even if you get discovered, but don't get hurt."

He thought about it, then handed Lan Xiu the colored signal distributed to the male insects on the spacecraft.

"Use it when necessary, don't be afraid."

Lan Xiu looked at him deeply and nodded obediently.

Rayleigh was driving Anlang at high speed. In order to avoid being seen, Rayleigh was driving almost close to the ground.

The red-eyed female insect who was left behind in the forest looked up and watched the two people disappear from his sight. He weighed the heavy bag on his back, found a flat ground, dusted off and sat down.

Hunter also watched the two of them walk away, the gentle smile on his face gradually disappearing.