The moment Sheng Zhang's words came out, the members of the Dawn Team all showed alert expressions and propped up their tired bodies.
Zhou Qing gathered the black sickle in her hand once again, and swung it in the air, making a sharp knife flower, pointing the long blade at the young man in front.
The air was filled with a strong smell of gunpowder, and the cold wind blew up dust all over the ground. The dust hit people's faces, making them feel suffocated as if their mouths and noses were covered.
Gu Qiongsheng could hear the sound of her heartbeat, and she felt the blood rushing faster. Sheng Zhang's words were like boiling oil in water, causing a huge wave in an instant.
A strong sense of unease arose in the hearts of everyone in the Dawn Team.
Gu Qiongsheng barely suppressed his emotions, met Sheng Zhang's gaze again with a calm demeanor, and asked in a low voice, "So, you don't actually have the ability to kill the Insect Mother directly?"
"Yes," Sheng Zhang nodded, sighing helplessly. "Even if I harbor resentment, even if I secretly sabotage its many plans, as long as the spiritual connection remains and its biological instincts remain, I will never be able to truly wield the knife against it."
"In its mind, I'm nothing more than a dog, ready to be summoned and dismissed at will, no different from any other Zerg. If necessary, it can sacrifice me at any time."
"Just like it sacrifices other mindless idiot bugs."
"--But now that I have memories of being a human, how can I tolerate being a dog forever?"
He raised his head slightly, his dark blue eyes gleaming with malice as he licked his lips. "And it's a tamed, degenerate dog, only knowing how to follow orders and obey arrangements. Once it loses its master, it will go mad and become a frenzied, dog-eat-dog... pathetic, stupid dog."
Sheng Zhang raised his head and looked into the distance.
His gaze seemed to have substance as it swept across the Zerg corpses scattered all over the ground. He then looked at the surviving Zerg who were going crazy after losing their Zerg Mother with a look of pity, pathos and mockery.
"That's the real reason why I need you."
He turned around and gave Gu Qiongsheng a grateful smile: "Thank you for helping me solve this problem. From today on, I will no longer be a shackled insect."
The wind is cold and the night is endless.
Standing in the dust, Gu Qiongsheng took a deep breath and exhaled slowly.
"Just as I guessed," she muttered.
Hearing this, Han Tianming turned around in surprise: "Sister Qiongsheng, you know all this, why do you still do what he wants?"
"I didn't know about it very early." Gu Qiongsheng spread his hands helplessly, "I only figured out these things after I landed on Xiling Star."
"His plan is ingenious, with a very tight timeline. One attack after another—haven't you noticed? Ever since we entered the Greater Sally System, we've been like we're being chased, step by step, into his traps. Every round is an unexpected and extremely urgent situation, leaving us absolutely no room to react."
After a pause, she raised her eyebrows again: "However, even if I think it through, I still think this is an excellent opportunity. Why not do what he wants?"
"We will never find an easier and safer opportunity to kill the Worm Queen."
Gu Qiongsheng's clear voice echoed in the wind.
At this point, she even chuckled softly and waved to the team members: "Okay, think about it, everything we have done so far has not harmed humanity, right?"
"Just like he said, the Worm Queen may still have many tricks up her sleeve. Otherwise, the Federation wouldn't have been at a disadvantage for so many years."
"I didn't know about those back-up plans—I didn't know the Worm Queen could escape through the wormhole, I didn't know it had backup shells hidden, and I didn't know where these shells were hidden."
"We really need a worm, a greedy worm that will betray the worm mother and solve these problems for us. So I thought, why not just take advantage of her strategy and use the favorable environment she has created for us to kill the worm mother in one fell swoop."
"He's using us, but aren't we also using him?"
The team members looked at her blankly.
After a moment, their eyes became brighter and brighter.
Yes, even though they fell into a trap, they did kill the insect queen!
If the Worm Queen was in the weakest state before being killed, then at this moment, isn't Sheng Zhang, who wants to become the next Worm Queen but has not yet succeeded, also in a weak state?
Seeing the team members showing a determined look, Gu Qiongsheng curled his lips, and a gleam flashed in his amber eyes.
"That's right," she whispered. "In this case, all we have to do is keep fighting and kill this half-human, half-insect creature in front of us."
In the rustling cold wind, murderous intent loomed again.
The air instantly became stagnant and the atmosphere became extremely depressing.
Gu Qiongsheng put her right hand behind her back and made a quick gesture. The others followed her command, dispersed, and approached Sheng Zhang in an encircling manner.
Sheng Zhang narrowed his eyes slightly.
"Do you want to kill me?" He looked at Gu Qiongsheng and said with a smile, "I'm afraid it's not that simple."
Gu Qiongsheng smiled and replied, "Give it a try. I think it might not be that difficult."
"That's not necessarily true," Sheng Zhang clenched his right fist, put it in front of his mouth, and coughed softly a few times. "What do you think that piece of meat I just swallowed was?"
Gu Qiongsheng clenched her right hand, and the silk thread had already solidified in her palm.
Her voice was low and crisp, she said, "I don't care what it is. It's nothing more than something that takes away the control of the Worm Queen."
Before he finished speaking, countless silk threads had already flown into the air, like a torrential downpour, rapidly shooting towards Sheng Zhang in the center of the crack in the ground!
Sheng Zhang kicked the stone wall with his toes, his body distorted and launched into the air. His back arched strangely upward, and something in his spine twisted rapidly beneath his skin, pushing the skin to reveal the shifting outline of bones.
While dodging, he asked, "Since you guessed it, why are you still chatting with me leisurely?"
"Don't you know that every minute and every second, I am rapidly digesting its authority?"
As he spoke, Sheng Zhang raised his head, bent his slender fingers in the air, and snapped them lightly.
“Pah.”
The sound of the snap was very light, but to the ears of other Zerg, it was like thunder in the sky.
The Zergs that were fighting each other stopped and turned around stiffly, with confusion in their scarlet pupils, their backs bent, their limbs curled up, and their eyes focused on Sheng Zhang.
The next second, light appeared in the turbid eyes of some Zerg.
They seemed to have struggled out of despair and grasped the backbone again, so they roared and waved their sharp forelimbs, responding to Sheng Zhang's call, and once again gathered into a wave, rushing towards Gu Qiongsheng and others.
However, if the last insect swarm was as huge as a tsunami, then this time it was just tiny waves at high tide at the seaside.
On the one hand, nine out of ten Zergs died under Qin Yuan's full-strength attack. On the other hand, Gu Qiongsheng noticed that not all Zergs were controlled by Sheng Zhang and recognized him as their master.
Most of those rushing over at this time were giant knife worms with well-developed limbs and simple minds.
The pupils of the rift worms flickered, as if they were still hesitating about something. The winged worms circled in the sky, baring their mouths and revealing their sharp teeth. None of the silent worms moved at all, lying lazily on the ground, their pupils constantly looking in the direction of the mother worm's corpse.
They do not recognize Sheng Zhang, the new generation of "Insect King" who suddenly emerged and replaced the Insect Queen.
It’s just that this “disapproval” is being rapidly suppressed.
Seeing that many Zerg hadn't reacted, Sheng Zhang pursed his lips slightly, the blue light in his eyes growing brighter. His eyes seemed to contain a sealed abyss, or a vortex tens of thousands of meters beneath the polar sea, slowly spinning, as if to suck away the Zerg's souls—
The moment those eyes looked over, the Zerg who had been keeping silent shuddered.
Gu Qiongsheng saw that the Silent Worms were still paralyzed as usual, but the Rift Worms and Wing Worms had begun to stir. Their movements were stiff, their expressions sluggish, but they still moved their limbs and slowly approached them.
Gu Qiongsheng licked his back teeth hard, his expression gloomy.
Sheng Zhang had been paying attention to her, and when he saw her like that, he chuckled softly, "What's wrong, Gu Qiongsheng? Are you feeling tired?"
As he spoke, the attacks of the others had already come in front of him.
The ice butterfly was gorgeous, its pupils were hazy, and its shield turned into a hard stone pestle, blocking the baby-faced young man's retreat in all directions. At the moment the ice butterfly flew in front of Sheng Zhang, its fluttering wings quickly merged together, condensing into a huge black sickle in mid-air.
Zhou Qing's figure broke through the fog and grabbed the long handle of the sickle in an instant. She turned slightly sideways, and her flexible waist bent into a graceful arc. Using the rotation of her body as a force, she made the sickle dance rapidly!
“Wow—”
Flames flashed and the wind howled.
The pitch-black scythe seemed to weigh ten thousand tons, and its long blade flashed with a sharp cold light as it chopped down fiercely at Sheng Zhang, whose body was restrained by the shield!
At that moment, a huge amount of dust and sand was stirred up from the ground, swirling like a storm.
Gu Qiongsheng put his right hand in front of his forehead to block the dust blowing in his face, squinted his eyes and stared straight ahead.
Han Tianming roared excitedly from the side: "Hit it!"
She thought happily, Sheng Zhang's level in school was very low, and Zhou Qing's scythe was so strong, wouldn't it be easy to cut off the head of that stink bug with this hit?
But compared with her excitement, Gu Qiongsheng's expression seemed very solemn.
After a few seconds, the dust settled and the strong wind dissipated.
Everyone finally saw the result of the previous attack.
Zhou Qing fell in a pile of mud and sand.
She seemed to be hit by something and was swept away by the hurricane. She rolled on the ground more than ten times before she managed to stabilize her body in the pit.
And her giant sickle... was held in Sheng Zhang's hand.
Team members: “!!!”
Han Tianming gasped, his head spinning. "What, what's going on? Isn't that Zhou Qing's weapon?"
"That's a spiritual weapon, how could it be stolen?"
Hearing her scream of disbelief, Sheng Zhang, holding the sickle, raised his head with his eyebrows slightly raised.
"Why not?"
He played with the sickle and tried to swing it - his movements were not skillful and the blade almost cut his cheek.
But the moment the blade touched his body, it suddenly melted and evaporated quickly like ice and snow meeting the morning sun, turning into rising white steam and dissipating in the air.
Zhou Qing, who had just climbed up, turned pale. The hands supporting her knees suddenly went limp and she almost fell back into the pit.
With her trembling right hand, she tried to clench her fist in mid-air, imitating the gesture she used to make when she condensed the black sickle.
…but nothing showed up.
Ice butterflies, giant sickles, and even the simplest vines.
Zhou Qing has a very calm temperament. No matter how difficult the situation is, she rarely shows panic.
But at this moment, she opened her eyes wide in fear, slowly turned her head and stared at Gu Qiongsheng, her purple lips trembling: "Qiong, Sister Qiongsheng, my mental power..."
The mental power is gone!
It wasn't because of consumption, but more like being plundered, being swallowed up in a big mouthful -
Gu Qiongsheng ran over quickly, threw a shot of medical treatment, then bent down and helped her up.
She looked at Sheng Zhang and sighed helplessly: "...It is indeed like this."
Sheng Zhang looked in good condition, with a satisfied look on his face, as if he had eaten a lot.
He even tilted his head, an innocent smile on his baby face, and gestured to Zhou Qing, "Ice-type spiritual power, huh? It's as delicious as ice cream. It's really delicious."
Zhou Qing's face turned pale and blue.
Fortunately, mental strength can be restored. Under Gu Qiongsheng's treatment, she gradually felt the strength in her limbs return.
But Zhou Qing was really confused.
Just now, she clearly saw that the moment the black sickle touched Sheng Zhang, the other party was suddenly covered with a layer of faint blue light. The light was like concentrated acid, which quickly dissolved her mental weapon, leaving her unable to resist and could only be blown away.
Mental weapons are ineffective against Sheng Zhang.
How the hell can I fight this guy?
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