Chapter 47 The Empire’s First Beta Crown Princess 16 “I clearly heard…

047 The Empire's First Beta Crown Princess 16

In the forest.

In just a few minutes, a large number of insects and beasts emerged from the ground and broke out of human bodies and dispersed the team.

Lu Jiu and the student in the same group were also separated. The communication platform was disturbed by the vibration and it was difficult to receive each other's signals. In desperation, he could only try to connect to Chen Yu's communication.

Fortunately, the starship's communication platform remains normal.

"Have you found him? Where is he?" Lu Jiu asked breathlessly after killing a bug beast.

"The coordinates have been sent to you."

A man's calm voice came, and a holographic screen unfolded in front of Lu Jiu. On it was a forest map, with a small red dot in the southeast direction.

The map refreshed, and this time a large number of blue clusters appeared - this was the life signal of the insect beasts.

Dense blue clusters surrounded Lu Jiu, but the area around the small red dot was very clean.

The little red dot moved towards the southeast corner, and at a certain moment, it disappeared.

"What is he doing over there... Never mind, I'll go over and take a look!"

"Are you the only one over there now?" Chen Yu suddenly asked.

"Yes, everyone was dispersed."

A gap appeared behind Lu Jiu, and he immediately got out, flew up, and headed towards the southeast corner.

Although he hadn't heard his explanation yet, Chen Yu had already contacted the leaders of other troops in the forest battlefield, sent them coordinates, and ordered them to set off to the coordinates immediately.

From the sky, you can clearly see the brutality of the battlefield below.

Why would an ordinary second-level battle turn out like this, and what does it mean behind it... Lu Jiu couldn't think about it at the moment.

He still needs to sort out the matter regarding Lin Miao.

"Chen Yu, the smell emitted by these insect beasts covered in human skin is different from that of ordinary insect beasts. I don't know if it's because they have been trapped in human skin for too long, so their smell is much stronger."

When the two do not appear at the same time, the difference is difficult to distinguish.

I just feel like, ah, it seems to be particularly smelly this time.

But when the two flavors appear at the same time, the subtle difference becomes very clear.

Lu Jiu remembered this stench, he had encountered it more than once.

"The insect beast in the underground trading area also had this stench when it appeared. I was always curious about how an insect beast of that size could get into such a small house. Now I finally understand the reason!"

——Because that insect beast was also in human form at that time.

It is also a beast in human skin.

It was in human form, talking to another human in the dark—but was the latter really a human? It was hard to say now.

At this point, Lu Jiu asked, "The man who escaped from the scene using a mecha...did you find any clues?"

Chen Yu replied: "It is impossible to trace his specific identity, but the person behind him has been identified. Through a series of clues from the latter, we can determine the approximate range of the former's activities - this person is from Cangxing Academy."

Lu Jiu understood.

He extracted two meanings from Chen Yu's words.

First, Chen Yu knew the identity of the person behind the scenes. He had probably been secretly observing the other party for a long time, but he had not made any move on him yet, probably because the time was not right.

Second, when he told Chen Yu the name Lin Miao just now, the answer probably already appeared in Chen Yu's mind, but he didn't want the person behind the scenes who was currently unknown to know that they knew it, so he asked everyone else to leave the command room.

It is also possible... When those generals walked out of the command room, Chen Yu had already ordered his men to take action.

Lu Jiu nodded - even though he knew Shen Yu couldn't see it - with Shen Yu's words, the answer in his heart was completely confirmed.

"I've encountered that stench once before."

“That day outside the teacher’s office, this smell appeared between Lin Miao and me.”

At that time, there were only him and Lin Miao in that place. The stench could not have come from him. He thought Lin Miao farted.

After the smell appeared, Lin Miao turned and left angrily - was he really angry and left?

Now it seems that it is not.

Lin Miao also smelled the same smell at that time - he was scared and wanted to run away.

"Really? You can tell if you come and smell it now. This smell is exactly the same as what you smelled in the corridor at that time," Lu Jiu said, "but I can't figure it out..."

He suddenly stopped talking.

I couldn’t tell Shen Yu what was going to happen next.

What he couldn't understand was... Lin Miao, an escaped player, didn't he know that he had been killed by the insect beast at some point and turned into a human skin?

If this is true, then his soul code should have disappeared. Why didn't the Quick Travel Bureau notify 111?

*

At this moment, in the southeast corner of the forest.

A mecha numbered 18 from Canxing Academy landed on an open space.

Lin Miao's heart was beating fast.

On the way here, he killed countless insects and beasts, and his mecha malfunctioned during the battle.

His communication platform was broken, and the tracker that was installed on the mecha as requested yesterday seemed to have fallen along the way.

He didn't know whether the instructor noticed that he was "lost", nor did he know whether the generals on the starship were still watching the real-time footage. If so, did they realize that he had lost himself on purpose.

Lin Miao just felt that he could no longer kill insects and beasts in that ordinary way.

The cadet was only able to participate in limited battles, and he couldn't waste the opportunity.

If he continued like this, he would be no different from the other students, and all of them would be overshadowed by Lu Jiu's halo.

He had to accomplish something special.

In this battle, the location of the king beast has not been discovered yet...but Lin Miao can find it.

That's right, he was the man who appeared in the underground trading area that night.

There is the blood of insect beasts in his body.

…

Lin Miao discovered that he was somewhat different from others when he was very young.

His body would often become strangely restless. When that restlessness appeared, he would always feel that there was a monster in his body. The monster was quietly growing and supporting him. One day he would be burst, and the monster would take his place and become "Lin Miao".

Lin Miao felt that his family was also strange. He was born in a poor family, and his parents seemed to be very afraid of him, but whenever he wanted something, they would always try their best to satisfy him - was it because they were afraid of him that they satisfied him? But what were his parents afraid of?

Sometimes, Lin Miao himself felt that the things he asked for were beyond the family's ability to afford, and he felt ashamed to ask for them. However, his parents still put the things he wanted in front of him, squinted their eyes, pulled the corners of their lips, and both showed what looked like smiles, asking him if he was happy.

Lin Miao was very happy.

——He had a humble beginning, but everything went smoothly, which made him feel that one day he could become a big man.

As the days passed, he grew up.

He found that sometimes strange wounds would appear on his body, and a foul odor would emanate from the wounds.

This kind of stench often attracted disgust and ridicule from others, and Lin Miao felt extremely ashamed.

But when he went to the hospital, the doctor always gently told him: This is normal, there is nothing strange about your body. If the stench makes you feel ashamed, then leave as soon as the smell comes out. Just rest for a while, the wound and the smell will disappear. One day, you will be able to control them.

These doctors are so weird.

Lin Miao began to feel... as if someone was watching him in the dark.

Who is it?

What do you want to do to him?

Want to hurt him... or have some other intention?

One year ago, Lin Miao awakened.

He suddenly possessed hundreds of years of experience and memory from various fast-travel worlds. His mind became clear and his thinking became agile.

It suddenly dawned on him that his identity might not be what it seemed.

The couple who claimed to be his parents looked too much like passers-by who were caught to play his parents. Although those doctors appeared in different hospitals at different times, they seemed to have undergone unified training.

Something was not right with him, and neither was his situation.

This discovery briefly made him excited - a mysterious identity often means mysterious wealth, which is common knowledge among fast-travel missioners. Can he finally reach the pinnacle of his life in this world?

This joyful thought collapsed the night when an insect leg emerged from his body.

…

The blood of insects and beasts flows in his body.

The insect beast seemed to be able to connect its thoughts with humans. Once he turned eighteen, every night, countless thought tentacles would reach out from all directions, rustling and whispering something, trying to touch him.

Lin Miao was terrified.

Of course he didn't dare respond to these tentacles, but he felt that these insect beasts seemed to be curious about him, in awe of him, and treated him like their master.

He also suddenly realized that his smooth life so far seemed to have been protected by the person in the darkness. That person... might be his real father or mother.

He is probably the product of the mating of humans and insects.

——This kind of specialness is not the specialness that Lin Miao wants!

How could this happen?! He didn't want to be a bug or a beast! He didn't want this extremely risky "special identity"!

What he wanted to do was obviously the exiled prince of the royal family! He was the son of an aristocrat who was swapped by a mistress and sent to the common people, but could eventually return from the common people! He was the glorious and righteous counter-attacker who could fight his way from the bottom to the top!

He doesn't want to be a bastard with dirty blood!

Lin Miao was extremely angry. The moment he figured everything out, he decided that he would never follow the path paved for him by the man in the darkness.

He knew that the man was currently asking for whatever he wanted, most likely because the path he wanted to take was temporarily consistent with that man's goal - that man also wanted him to become a military academy student and hoped that he could successfully enter the military.

But then what? What will the other party do? What will they ask of him?

When he steps into the military stronghold, what kind of plan will the other party launch?

What kind of chess piece will he become?

Lin Miao didn't know.

He didn't want to care anymore.

He only knew that if he could get into the military, he would work his way up—

He had to work hard to climb to a position where that person could no longer threaten him, and the Empire would not abandon him because of his bloodline—

He has to climb to the top on his own!

…

At this moment, Lin Miao took a deep breath.

Of course, it is not that easy to achieve the goal you set for yourself.

During this year, his thoughts have undergone various changes, and now he does not reject the use of the power of insect beasts.

——Yes, just as the 5S insect beast in the dark room that night said, he had actually used this power a long time ago.

He used this power to improve his combat capability in a short period of time, and also used this power to find insects and beasts hiding in the campus combat forest.

Why not?

They polluted him and used him, so shouldn't he be allowed to use them in return?

As long as he is careful and doesn't let anyone find out, there is nothing wrong with using this power!

Just ten minutes ago, he used the power of his bloodline to sense the location of the king beast.

It was unexpected, right in this forest, probably no one expected it.

Huge tentacles of thought were dancing secretly at this moment where he was.

This was an open lawn, with mountains in front and a deep cave ten steps away.

Lin Miao’s perception of the king beast extends only to this extent. From now on, he can only search for it with his naked eyes.

The king beast is probably hiding in this cave.

He shook his right arm, and a laser cannon appeared. He fired more than ten or twenty rounds at the cave. After a deafening roar, smoke and dust rose in front, and the cave was reduced to ruins.

…There was a figure sitting in the ruins.

The king beast is actually a beast in human skin!

Lin Miao clenched his teeth.

Just now on his way here, he heard noises coming from all directions and smelled a foul stench. He felt disgusted by this insect beast that was extremely similar to him but several levels inferior to him!

He moved his arm and aimed his laser cannon at the man.

The recorder hanging in front of the windshield of the mecha is still operating, recording everything at the moment.

Lin Miao remained silent. After the battle, people would find a reasonable explanation for how he found the king beast so easily.

The laser cannon fired out——

*

The moment the laser cannon was fired, the figure on the ruins began to shake and expand violently.

Countless tentacles emerged from his body, densely weaving into a net, and attacked Lin Miao!

Lin Miao's pupils constricted, and he immediately retreated more than ten meters, replaced the laser cannon with a ray gun, and waved his mecha arms to cut off the tentacles!

The tentacles fell with a crackling sound, and laser cannons bombarded the figure from all sides, making a loud rumbling sound.

The smoke and dust blocked Lin Miao's vision. He gritted his teeth and continued to fire shells, which lasted for a full minute before he stopped.

…The wind blew from afar, and the smoke and dust slowly moved away from the lawn.

The empty land had become pockmarked, with burn marks and holes left by artillery bombardments everywhere.

As for the king beast - on top of the ruins, it turned into a pool of black mud. The human skin that had not yet completely fallen off lay on top of the mud, twitching along with the thing.

Lin Miao breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, dealing with the king beast was easier than he thought.

He raised the corners of his lips excitedly - the greatest achievement in this battle was his!

He was about to walk over when he heard a voice behind him and looked back.

This glance scared him.

A military green mecha was flying in the air, heading towards this direction. The non-compliant weapons connected to its left and right arms were very conspicuous. This was clearly Lu Jiu's mecha!

Why is Lu Jiu here?

He flew straight here, obviously looking for him, but how did he know he was here? !

Lin Miao froze, and subconsciously recalled the day when he had private contact with the insect beast in the underground trading area——

The secret meeting was discovered by Lu Jiu. Until today, he still doesn't know whether Lu Jiu saw his face clearly at that time. He has been living in fear for the past week!

In front of others, he played the role of the excellent and gentle Lin Miao, but in private, he was actually always afraid that Lu Jiu would report him. For this reason, he even neurotically paid attention to Lu Jiu's every move!

These days, Lu Jiu has been acting very normal. He seems to know nothing and has discovered nothing. But at this moment, he is chasing after me for no apparent reason. What is he trying to do...? !

Lin Miao's breathing became rapid, and all kinds of thoughts were fighting in his mind.

The king beast let out a weak and struggling cry.

It's not dead yet.

Lin Miao's eyes darkened.

Calm down, calm down... No matter why Lu Jiu came here at this moment, and whether he discovered his secret that day...

Now...now there are only two of them here.

If you think about it carefully, since the threat exists, why not just take the opportunity to eliminate it... right?

This is clearly a good opportunity.

He turned back decisively, focused his consciousness and talked to the beast in front of him: "Kill the human soldier chasing us, and I will let you go."

Above the mud, the human face and eyes moved.

Inside the mecha, the recorder continued to run, recording the silence at the moment.

Lin Miao raised his voice in his mind: "Did you hear that?! Don't pretend you don't understand. I know that you 4S-level and 5S-level beasts can learn human language! Do you want to live?!"

"You... can talk to the insect beast... You are not an ordinary human..." The pair of eyes rolled wildly, and indeed began to speak human language, "You are the legendary... the little master of the insect beast...?"

Lin Miao choked.

He didn't notice the strangeness in the insect beast's words, and gnashed his teeth: "I'm not a master... Don't waste time, are you going to do it or not? If not, I will kill you now!"

"Okay..." The insect beast laughed sinisterly, "Such a cheap deal, I didn't say it's a bad deal... But I'm so weak now that I can't even kill you, so how can I kill him..."

Lin Miao's heart was beating fast.

"I will be here to block his sight. When he falls behind me, you will kill him immediately!"

Lu Jiu, I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do.

No one can stop me from reaching the top.

*

Lu Jiu was still continuing the conversation with Shen Yu.

"…One thing is very strange. Although these human-skinned beasts can disguise themselves as humans, they obviously cannot move like humans. The way they walk is very strange, and the sounds they make are incoherent."

"...But Lin Miao speaks and walks very normally! He is a little different from those ordinary human-skinned beasts... Aww."

Lu Jiu wasn't being cute.

He couldn't help but yawn.

"Very sleepy?" Shen Yu asked sharply.

"A little..." Lu Jiu said quickly, "It's not a pregnancy reaction, I just suddenly feel a little sleepy!"

"Jiujiu, listen carefully to what I'm going to say next," Chen Yu suddenly said, "The location of the king beast is usually difficult to find with a scanner, because it will hide in a very deep place once it arrives on the battlefield."

"There are generally two ways to determine its location on the battlefield. One is to look at the density of low-level insect beasts. If there is a place where the insect beasts are densely packed to the point of stacking up, that is where the king beast is."

Lu Jiu shuddered.

Why did Shen Yu suddenly tell him this?

He bit his tongue and forced himself to wake up.

"——But sometimes the situation is completely the opposite. The second way to judge, I have already told you last time that insect beasts can theoretically communicate with humans through consciousness. And there have been cases on the battlefield where soldiers' consciousness was suddenly disrupted collectively. Those areas are often where the king beasts hide."

Lu Jiu's heart beat rapidly.

"The closer they are to the king beast, the more confused they become. Soldiers will gradually develop hallucinations and auditory hallucinations from simple drowsiness."

Lu Jiu immediately slowed down the speed of the mecha, replaced the heavy sword on his left arm with a laser ray cannon, and retracted his sight from a distance to his feet.

...The meaning conveyed by Chen Yu was very clear. He may have entered the area where the king beast was.

The communication platform fell silent.

You can hear the beeping sounds of various instruments in the control room.

While carefully observing his feet, Lu Jiu chuckled and said, "I guess you want me to stop immediately and wait for the reinforcements to arrive."

"You guessed wrong."

"You guessed wrong?" Lu Jiu raised his eyebrows, "Are you willing to let me go alone?"

"If I want to stop you at this step, I might as well knock you out at the beginning and lock you up until the actual combat training is finished." His Royal Highness the Crown Prince narrated something that sounded a little scary in a calm tone.

"The King Beast is usually a 4S Beast, with the highest overall combat power, but if there is only one, continuous bombing with your new weapon should be able to easily deal with it."

Lu Jiu felt that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince seemed to be saying that his new weapon was a bug.

He was a little proud.

This smugness seemed to have been discovered.

"Happy?"

"Um!"

Chen Yu seemed to smile lightly as well.

Lujiu continued to advance forward.

The forest retreated beneath his feet.

"Tell me something more," he said, "so I can tell at any time if I'm hallucinating."

If you keep quiet, you might get caught accidentally.

Shen Yu paused for a moment.

He said suddenly: "You said I was controlling, but you are actually controlling me."

Lu Jiu was caught off guard by this sudden topic.

"…Am I already hallucinating?"

Shen Yu said calmly: “Regarding the conflict between us, no matter what my original idea was or what my purpose was, in the end your decision determines everything.”

Lu Jiu calmed down.

He curled his lips: "...Can I understand that you will uncontrollably obey me in everything?"

The man said, "Yes, you win."

"Why do you say it so coldly?" Lu Jiu chuckled, "It clearly sounds like a love statement."

"Is that how you interpret it?" The man's attitude remained calm.

"Okay, stop it. It won't be cute if you keep talking about it."

Lu Jiu suddenly stopped and adjusted his posture in the air.

There were no soldiers below him, so he pointed his cannon toward the forest.

"This man is not so unromantic."

"——So, it seems to be at this location."

In the starship command room, a tall and slender figure leaned in front of the control panel with his thin lips raised.

Above the forest, light gathered at the muzzle of the gun and rushed out quickly!

Dozens of luminous bombs were fired continuously downwards, turning the forest into a sea of ​​light!

*

The whole forest shook.

The soldiers scattered everywhere were all startled, thinking that another wave of insects and beasts were about to emerge from the ground.

Their nerves were stretched to the extreme, but they soon discovered that they seemed to only hear sharp cries coming from afar, and the vibrations under their feet seemed to come from a long way away.

…Under Lu Jiu’s feet, in the sea of ​​light, dense insect legs stretched out, but before they could struggle much, they were submerged by the light again.

The light bubble continued to expand and explode, and the popping sounds were like an oil pan exploding.

The air current surged up, shaking the mecha, knocking the recorder off, and disrupting the communication platform, which was filled with rustling sounds.

Lu Jiu saw that at the edge of the Gwanghae Sea, the environment had changed.

——The arrangement order of the trees in the forest has changed, and the position of the mountain in front is also different.

The illusion created by the king beast is fading.

Before this, if a soldier accidentally broke in here and failed to realize in time that he had entered the illusion realm, he would probably bump into invisible trees or mountains without knowing it and lose his life.

Soon, a piece of open space appeared at the edge of the sea of ​​light.

Lu Jiu narrowed his eyes.

This is almost the place where Lin Miao's location disappeared. At this moment, there is a mecha standing on the open space in front. It stands there stupidly, and no one knows what it is doing.

Suddenly, the mecha slowly turned around and looked at him...

It’s Lin Miao’s mecha.

But why is this guy looking at him?

The black stuff behind him almost completely covered him, didn’t he notice?

In the sea of ​​light, the king beast let out a final wail before gradually fading away...

…

Lin Miao stared straight at Lu Jiu's mecha that was flying towards him.

bring it on.

bring it on.

He was breathing rapidly.

Hurry up.

Come here quickly.

Land behind me quickly.

Then, we can officially say goodbye...

Suddenly, the scene in front of me blurred.

The dense forest disappeared, replaced by a rolling sea of ​​light, from which came a deep wailing sound.

Lin Miao blinked and found that Lu Jiu's mecha was not flying towards him, but was hovering above Guanghai, looking at him quietly.

He was stunned.

What's going on?

Click.

It was the sound of metal breaking.

Lin Miao was stunned again and looked in the direction where the sound came from - it was above the windshield.

In an instant, his eyes were bloodshot.

A winding crack appeared on the metal roof, and black sticky substance was seeping in from the crack.

——That insect beast is attacking him? !

When did it come closer? How come he didn't feel it at all?!

“Hahaha…” a sinister voice sounded in his mind, “Do you think I’m the king beast? The master of the insect beast… is nothing more than that… Don’t you know… your real target… is in that sea of ​​light… you’ve been fooled by it… hahaha…”

Lin Miao screamed miserably——

He twisted and struggled, and fired laser cannons into the air!

He soared into the air, spun his body desperately, and tried to shake off the black sticky substance. He fired at it like crazy: "Die, die, die!!"

The insect beast laughed!

"I can encounter such an interesting thing before I die... I have no regrets..."

Not far away, Lu Jiu saw Lin Miao suddenly go crazy, frowned and flew over.

He saw a piece of human skin fall out of the shattered black sticky substance in the air, and instantly turned into ashes under the laser cannon.

Lin Miao was really crazy. He had clearly already blown the target into powder, but he was still continuing to fire shells.

Are you stressed?

"Lin Miao!" Lu Jiu turned on the speaker and shouted, "What are you doing? Stop it!"

Lin Miao turned around breathlessly and saw Lu Jiu—and also saw a mecha troop chasing after Lu Jiu.

The troop spread a large net in the air.

Was it really aimed at him?!

Lin Miao was startled and turned around to escape!

Lu Jiu narrowed his eyes and immediately changed his weapon to a laser cannon, taking advantage of Lin Miao's unpreparedness and blasting off his left foot with one shot!

Lin Miao's mecha tilted in the air, and it turned around and raised the laser cannon at Lu Jiu.

Lu Jiu blew up its arm without saying a word, and then blew up its other arm with another shot!

Lin Miao's mecha was instantly left with only one leg, its engine was affected, and it could no longer fly!

The next second, the face of the mecha was opened, Lin Miao crawled out from it, and struggled to release a black mecha from the space box!

Lu Jiu's pupils constricted.

It was the mecha that escaped from the underground trading area that day!

Lu Jiu changed his weapon to a heavy sword and flew over quickly. Two white lights flashed, one of which cut off the legs of the black mecha, and the other cut across the waist of the black mecha!

The black mecha lost power and fell down.

Lin Miao stepped on empty air and fell down screaming.

Just as Lu Jiu was about to catch up, a violent white light suddenly burst out from the ground, and everything around, whether it was trees, rubble or air, was sucked into it!

Is it a space channel? !

Lu Jiu was startled. In the blink of an eye, Lin Miao had been sucked in. Then the white light disappeared and the airflow dissipated.

The space channel is closed.