Chapter 151: Vermicular Splitting (Part 9)
Chapter 151: Vermicular Splitting (Part 9)
Deep in the underground palace.
Lin Heng lay in the cold and sticky blood mud, motionless.
Suddenly, his tense body relaxed slightly.
The cold power that was like a thorn in his flesh, suppressing him and imprisoning every bit of his energy, disappeared.
It was like an invisible mountain that had been pressing down on me was instantly removed.
The restraints...disappeared?
Lin Heng's consciousness was still a little confused. He moved his fingers with difficulty, trying to mobilize the insect energy in his body that had long been exhausted.
A faint, almost imperceptible force slowly flowed along the dried-up meridians.
He propped himself up with his arms and used all his strength to barely sit up from the pool of blood.
The heavy feeling in his abdomen made him groan. The little guy in his belly seemed to feel his movement and moved slightly, as if responding to him.
Lin Heng lowered his head and looked at his bulging belly. Finally, there was a trace of life on his pale face.
He raised his hand and gathered the faint insect energy at his fingertips.
The light flickers.
A tiny rose bud, only the size of a fingernail, trembled and bloomed at the tip of his finger.
The flower buds are a delicate pink-white color, not the intense bright red of the past, and they seem as if they would break with the slightest touch.
Just to give birth to such a small bud almost exhausted all his strength.
Lin Heng dropped his hands weakly, and the flower bud withered and turned into a point of light and disappeared.
I am too weak.
During the days and nights of imprisonment, his flesh and blood were cut off again and again, and forced to grow wildly again and again.
In order to maintain his "flesh production" efficiency, those people would only provide him with the most basic and lowest quality food, barely enough to keep him alive.
In addition, in order to build this underground palace, he almost exhausted all his insect energy and vitality.
Why did I...
His thoughts drifted uncontrollably, back to the day when he had just arrived here.
A year ago, he separated from Mianmian and went to the northern base alone to look for Fu Ze.
But when he finally arrived at the base after going through many hardships, what he saw was a dead ruin.
The entire northern base has been completely submerged by an endless swarm of insects.
He didn't believe that Fu Ze would die like this.
He searched the ruins like crazy and tried to gather information everywhere. Finally, he learned from a survivor who had managed to escape that Fu Ze had fled to the Xuanwu base with a small group of people.
So he rushed to the Xuanwu base without stopping.
When he arrived exhausted, the condition of the base was even more miserable than he had imagined.
The overwhelming swarm of red ant monsters is eroding the city like a tide.
The ants weren't big, but their numbers were terrifying. They had mouthparts that could devour anything, and whether it was wood, steel, or concrete, they were as fragile as biscuits.
Houses were eaten away, fortifications were destroyed, and survivors could only cling to life in crumbling buildings.
The red ants regard the entire base as their dinner plate. Anyone who tries to escape will be swallowed up by the ant swarm in an instant, leaving no bones behind.
He saw Fu Ze.
Fu Ze stood at the gate of the ruined base, covered in blood, leading the few remaining insect followers to fight against the red ants day and night.
But it's useless.
There are too many ants to kill them all.
The elderly, children, young insect followers... one living being after another was drowned by the tide of ants in front of him, letting out short and shrill screams, and then fell silent.
That is hell on earth.
Lin Heng could no longer stand idly by.
In order to save these people and to save Fu Ze, he made a decision.
He revealed the deepest secret he had always kept hidden.
Under the desperate gaze of all the survivors, he walked to the center of the base.
He brought his legs together and the lower half of his body began to undergo drastic changes.
Flesh is torn apart and bones are reassembled.
A huge, ugly, slimy earthworm tail burst out from behind him, replacing his legs.
The huge, wriggling insect form stunned everyone.
Their faces showed undisguised surprise, fear, and...disgust.
He even saw a flash of unnaturalness on Fu Ze's face.
At that moment, his heart felt like it was pricked by a needle.
But he soon put the insignificant sting behind him.
It doesn't matter.
It was his own decision to save people.
He plunged his giant insect tail deep into the earth, releasing his immense insect energy without reservation.
The earth began to shake.
The soil surged as if it had life.
Houses made of pure mud rose from the ground one after another, sheltering the panicked survivors.
In the end, he exhausted almost all of his strength and built an extremely solid and huge underground palace three thousand meters deep underground.
When the last survivor safely entered the underground palace, and when the thick earthen door blocked out the endless ant swarms from the outside world, everyone looked at him with eyes that were a mixture of gratitude and awe, as if they had survived a disaster.
They called him the Savior.
But he doesn't really care whether those people thank him or not.
He's just doing what he thinks is right.
He just didn't want to see anyone else die.
…
My thoughts were pulled back from distant memories.
Lin Heng stroked his cold abdomen, feeling the tiny life inside.
He saved these people once.
Use your own strength, your own dignity, and your own future.
What he got in return was imprisonment, cutting of flesh, and humiliation.
He is so... naive.
Now, he doesn't want to save anyone anymore.
He just wanted to save his child.
Lin Heng slowly lowered his head and gently rubbed his bulging belly with his cheek.
"Baby, don't be afraid."
"Dad...will definitely take you out."
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