Chapter 111 Moth (Part 2)

“Beep, beep, beep—”

A series of notifications echoed from the Star Navigation Department's file restoration room. Gao Siqi's communication bracelet also chimed in, announcing the completion of chip file restoration. She propped herself on the table with one hand, set down her coat, and settled into a chair behind the office desk.

"Looks like I'll have to get off work a little later to go shopping today..." She put her hair back and opened the chip repair file.

The light screen that popped up did not display any images, only a series of voices.

Even after a week of repairs, the voice on the chip was still intermittent and fuzzy. Human syllables were mixed in with the vast noise. Gao Siqi frowned slightly and made out a few syllables.

"Advanced..." She subconsciously frowned and began to repeat, "...What's that word, biological?"

Her voice echoed in the office, and it was spoken at the same time as the voice in the recording, but the pronunciation of the words was completely different.

The language used in the recording is not the common language of the human star field, but the Celtic language of the northern star field.

Gao Siqi only speaks a little Celtic, which he learned from his good friend An Qiu.

She patiently called up the translator and input the audio into it.

"We are observing... advanced... sand... creatures... rustling... moths." A patch of noise interspersed the repetitive words in Celtic. The person recording the chip, presumably anticipating the potential for serious damage to the Break Staff chip, repeated the same phrase over and over again.

"We've observed advanced Kuroshio creatures that appear to be descendants of moths."

"We are at the underground research site on the fifth planet, and we have the latest research results."

"Help. Help. Please save us."

"Watch out for moths."

Outside the arcade in the commercial district near the Capital Star Public Port, Mu Baixing's expression had completely turned cold. He rewound the recording to the beginning and listened again.

Celtic language, the fifth star underground experimental field in the North Star Region.

Mu Baixing frowned and searched quickly through his memory fragments.

The former Northern Star Region bordered the Central Star Region to the south, a resource-rich Star Sea separated the eastern and southeastern Star Regions, and a dangerous and chaotic Star Sea, requiring three days of sailing, separated the North Star Region from the Black Tide Star Sea to the northwest. The Fifth Star, located in the center of the Northern Star Region, was still three days' sailing distance from the X7 Star Sea, once the northernmost point of the Northern Star Region.

It was originally not very close to the Black Tide Star Sea, but after the X7 Star Sea accident, it became one of the inhabited planets near the Black Tide at the northern end of the Northern Star Region, and also one of the bases of the Northern Star Region Border Army.

After the Dawn War broke out, the Fifth Planet was completely unprepared and submerged by the Black Tide. Information about this was deliberately blocked, and by the time the Capital Planet learned of the situation, the best time for rescue had already passed...

Mu Baixing pressed his forehead.

The underground experimental field of the fifth planet...

It seemed to be a highly confidential experimental site, whose main research direction was the types and habits of Kuroshio creatures.

According to existing research, Kuroshio organisms are divided into three types: low-level, intermediate and high-level.

The higher the level, the more intelligent they are, and the better they are at parasitism and mimicry.

The most common low-level Kuroshio creatures are the Kuroshio insects that have shells and like to invade during Kuroshio days. The common intermediate creatures are beasts with insect characteristics, and there is a large gap in the research on the appearance of high-level Kuroshio creatures.

According to past records, every time a high-level Black Tide creature appeared, it parasitized the human body. Their intelligence and abilities allowed them to remain invisible for a long time after parasitizing. If they wanted to, they could completely suppress the Black Tide energy within the human body, passing normal energy detection.

At this time, only high-precision energy detectors can be useful.

But their parasitic time is not infinite.

High-level Kuroshio creatures cannot leave the Kuroshio energy field for long periods of time, and can only survive outside the Kuroshio for fifteen to twenty days at most. Therefore, most of them live in the central part of the Kuroshio star field, and rarely enter the human star field with the brief overflow of Kuroshio daily energy.

Their wisdom comes at a price.

Higher-level creatures do not emit Kuroshio energy like lower-level Kuroshio creatures, nor can they reproduce through parasitism.

Every time they parasitize, their own energy is weakened. In places where the Kuroshio energy concentration is high enough, their combat effectiveness is astonishingly high, but after leaving the Kuroshio, every attack they make is like a "suicide attack."

Mu Baixing's expression was cold.

The chip found in the body of the black tide worm involves the black tide biological research experimental field in the Northern Star Region, research data on advanced black tide creatures... and a distress signal.

He couldn't tell for the moment whether the information on this chip was loaded at the beginning of the Dawn War, when Planet No. 5 sent a distress signal to the North Star Region, or after the Dawn War...

Mu Baixing searched for Gao Siqi's contact information in his address list, paused for a moment, and then turned to Cui Xiaoduo.

His gaze seemed to be real. The little squirrel's eyes quickly moved away from the bird head in Mu Baixing's pocket. It subconsciously straightened its body and looked at Mu Baixing.

Cui Xiaoduo: "Boss Mu?" His way of addressing Mu Baixing was somewhat influenced by the colorful hairy guys.

Before Mu Baixing could say anything, a light screen next to him suddenly made a beeping sound like an alarm.

It’s Zhao Ying’s surveillance camera.

While his attention was focused on the chip data, the peaceful scene of the banquet hall on the light screen suddenly disappeared and turned into darkness. Half a second later, an alarm prompt indicating that the signal source was interfered with popped up on the light screen, turning into large snowflakes.

Mu Baixing's face changed suddenly.

The signal source was interfered with, and there was an 80% chance that a sudden burst of strong energy waves occurred near the Ming family manor.

He pulled his arm out of his pocket, placed the bird in Cui Xiaoduo's palm, and said simply, "Trouble you."

Cui Xiaoduo looked bewildered. Before he could figure out what was going on, he heard Mu Baixing continue, "I'm going to the Ming family manor. Something might have happened."

"Ah?" The little squirrel was confused. Mu Baixing had already walked quickly towards the aircraft parking lot in the business district, leaving messages for the colorful hairy guys as he walked.

"What could happen at the Ming family manor? The security there is tight. Not to mention Brother Yu and Brother Lian, there are many big guys inside... Hey, Boss Mu, you're leaving too fast! How about I go too? Wait - wait, I'll come too!" He hurried to catch up with Mu Baixing, and heard two chirping sounds from his palm again.

Cui Xiaoduo: “!”

"Hey, what should I do with this bird..."

"Boss?" Red Hair suddenly popped his head out of the arcade. He was halfway through playing a game when he received a message from Mu Boxing. Although he hadn't figured out what was going on, he subconsciously disconnected the game console and ran for the door.

Cui Xiaoduo immediately turned back and stuffed the bird in his hand into Hongmao's arms. Without waiting for Hongmao to ask, he turned around and moved forward, chasing Mu Baixing at the speed of a 100-meter sprint.

"No!" Red Hair said quickly, "Cui Xiaoduo, wait a minute! Hey! Where's the boss? This bird wants to fly—"

Cui Xiaoduo was running around the corner and didn't hear what the red-haired man behind him was shouting.

Are you kidding! If anything really happened...his brother Lian is still in the Ming family manor!

But what can two people do?

Cui Xiaoduo had no idea what was happening at the Ming Family Manor. As he ran, he hesitated over whether to call the police. By the time he caught up with Mu Baixing, the man had already boarded the elevator. In the quiet elevator, a soft sound echoed from the screen beside him.

"brush--"

A faint sound of flapping wings came from the light screen filled with noise.

Immediately afterwards, an even stronger energy wave hit, completely interrupting the light screen communication and causing the screen to suddenly shut down.

Inside the banquet hall of the Ming Family Manor, it was as if a small bomb had exploded on the spot.

Above the stage, a black tide energy field with a wavelength completely different from ordinary mental waves erupted with the old man as the center, and the energy value increased rapidly and vibrated violently.

In an instant, all the light strips were shattered by the exploding energy field, making a harsh sound.

The communication signal is cut off.

In an instant, in the pitch-black banquet hall, a scream was heard from the podium where no one could see what was happening. The sound was carried by the microphone that was barely working, and accompanied by the sound shrieking caused by energy interference, filled the banquet hall!

“Ahhh!”

“Ahhhhhhhhh!”

The screams from the podium filled Mingyu's eardrums.

The distorted voice made it difficult to tell who was screaming, whether it was one person or a group of people.

Scream after scream rang out, drowned out by the shrill whistles of the radio. Simultaneously, the sound of flapping wings crescendoed, growing louder and louder.

Mingyu immediately summoned his mental power, but a sharp, dull pain rippled through the depths of his mind, and his previously effortless mental power became incredibly stagnant. The mental energy strands curled up deep within his mental realm, heavy and stagnant, moving only twice.

Mingyu's heart trembled.

His spiritual energy was suppressed... What happened?!

The first second the abnormality appeared, all the guests, like Mingyu, subconsciously called upon their spiritual power. But then, almost everyone found that their spiritual power was ineffective.

“I can’t use my mental power!” People kept shouting in panic, “What the hell! Something flew at my face! Aaaaaaaa——!”

"Where's the alarm?! Where's the abnormal energy blocking device? Is the Ming family's security system not working?!"

"Hide! Hide quickly! Hide under the table! -"

"Move." Mingyu said to himself with sweat all over his forehead, "Hurry... hurry up!"

His mental domain felt severe pain, and every time those bright blue mental threads moved, the pain in his mental domain deepened.

Mingyu ignored the pain in his head. He tried his best and finally a layer of light blue gauze appeared around his body.

The bright blue veil in midair immediately descended, briefly forming a protective shield around Mingyu, encompassing the banquet hall. Mingyu strained to expand the shield. He had no idea who was standing next to him, nor how many people his shield engulfed. Amidst the excruciating pain, he watched as countless moths swooped down, one after another, colliding with the shield, sending up bursts of energy sparks.

Ming Yu knew that this thin amount of spiritual energy would soon be dispersed, and the current situation had reached his limit.

In the dim banquet hall, several dark protective shields lit up, flickering like lights that were about to go out.

"Where's the door...we have to get out first!"

Mingyu was nervous and was trying to find the exit of the banquet hall by relying on his memory, but his wrist was suddenly grabbed and twisted backwards.

Mingyu: “!”

The opponent is very strong and his technique is quick and decisive.

Mingyu threw an elbow backwards as fast as he could, but his opponent was even faster. His strike missed, and then he felt a cold metal object pressing against his lower back.

That's the barrel of the energy gun.

The next moment, a cold hand covered Mingyu's mouth and nose, silencing both his voice and his breathing. Something cold, furry brushed against Mingyu's arm, climbing up it. It was a subtle touch, like a brush, scraping his skin until it bled.

The bright blue protective shield was still suspended in the air, but a black moth crawled over Mingyu's body.

The next second, a gray energy line flashed in front of Mingyu, and the scene suddenly changed.

The dim banquet hall disappeared, replaced by a neat and well-lit room.

A black moth was flying into Mingyu's dress from the cuff, crawling up his arm, and quietly resting on the side of Mingyu's neck.

Ming Yu looked out the window first and immediately realized that this was still the Ming family manor.

Outside was a vast garden, lush with vegetation. The building housing the banquet hall stood far away among the flowers and trees, bathed in the evening sunlight.

The banquet hall's doors were tightly shut, and no one knew what was happening there. The sound of a large number of moths flapping their wings was still ringing in Mingyu's ears, and at the same time, the dull pain from the contact of the black moth on his skin gave him a bad association.

It was like the black super energy carried by a black tide creature, dissolving its skin in the destructive radiation.

From Mingyu's neck to his arm, a long scar was left on his skin. The scar was slowly spreading outward and blood was gushing out.

Those are the traces left by moths crawling.

Ming Yu ignored the pain. He realized that the moth-shaped black creature came from the stage in the banquet hall! It came from Ming Zhengen's body...

Grandpa is dead.

Mingyu quickly made a judgment in his mind, and the guests in the hall were in danger.

He took a deep breath, suppressed his emotions, and immediately touched the communicator on his wrist. However, even if he was far away from the banquet hall, there was only a meaningless noise on the screen.

This indicates that there is a lot of energy interference nearby.

"Take it." Albin said.

He took a step back, took out a medicine box to deal with the black tide radiation from his pocket and threw it to Mingyu.

On his finger, a black moth folded its wings on his shoulder.

The Third Legion pilot leaned against the rear wall, his dark eyes fixed on Mingyu. His skin, where the moth had touched him, was intact. His gaze swept over the anxious look on Mingyu's face, and he curled the corners of his lip in a mocking manner.

"Doesn't it look good?" Albin smiled, a black spot on the tip of his tongue like chocolate sauce smeared on a party cake. "I didn't expect you would help them escape."

"I specially prepared this for revenge."