Chapter 20
Inside the hive that was more than half empty, a group of high-level Zerg were wandering around listlessly.
As if adding another strong dose of medicine to their overwhelmed hearts, at this moment, a terrifying breath suddenly came from afar.
Suddenly, everyone's mind went blank, subconscious fear spread across their cheeks, and their lips trembled slightly as they uttered that majestic name.
"It's the Queen Mother... The Queen Mother is back..."
For a moment, everyone's eyes were focused on the past.
——It was a complete insect-shaped monster.
It retains all the sharp features of an insect: antennae, periosteum, compound eyes, wings, limbs... Combining the most proud and powerful parts of many insects, it looks like a grotesque and twisted combination.
However, the strange thing is that when your eyes fall on it, at a certain moment, you seem to see a dreamy and beautiful woman through it, and then when you look at it again, you will feel that the monster in front of you is gorgeous, full of charm, and the most perfect existence in the world.
You'll be completely absorbed in the vision of the monster, hopelessly drawn in like a moth to a flame.
However, the people who had been living under the heavy pressure of the Zerg Queen only saw a monarch who was about to become angry and their lives in danger.
As soon as the Zerg Queen came back, she discovered something was wrong with the nest.
He could sense that the aura of high-level Zerg in the hive had decreased by one third, including the strongest one.
"What's going on?" The Zerg Queen didn't open her mouth, but a sound rang out. Sound waves spread through her high-frequency vibrating wings, creating a shockwave like a sonic boom, piercing everyone's eardrums like needles.
His body was so huge that the other high-level Zerg looked like toys in his eyes, not even as big as a segment of his insect leg.
A high-level Zerg with four wings immediately felt his legs go weak and he knelt down, beads of sweat dripping down his face.
"Big, big things are happening, Queen Mother!"
He lay on the ground, looking up at the huge body, and spoke in panic, his voice trembling.
"While you were away, one-third of the high-level Zerg followed Big Brother and a human and defected. Many of my brothers and sisters also left..."
The four-winged Zerg's words came to an abrupt halt, because the Zerg Queen suddenly opened her eyes wide, and a terrifying aura spread from her body.
The Zerg Queen's intimidation to the rest of the Zerg was almost overwhelming. The hearts of the other people present suddenly began beating like drums, unable to move, and they watched helplessly as a group of low-level Zerg surrounding the Queen were instantly crushed by the pressure.
The exploding blood splattered on them. The Zerg Queen spoke each word, as if she wanted to bite the person she was talking to into pieces and eat them alive, rolling each word over the tip of her tongue.
"Ji...Zhou————!!!"
The Zerg Queen didn't care at all about the human mentioned in the four-winged Zerg's words. After all, humans were nothing more than ants in her eyes and there was no need to care about them at all!
He had never expected that his most promising eldest son would do such a thing while he was away at war!
Good son! He is truly His good son!!
As proud as the former Zerg Queen was of the powerful talents inherited by the other party, she now hates him as much!
"I want him dead—" The Zerg Queen's compound eyes widened and stared straight at him, "Where is he now!"
The four-winged Zerg hurriedly replied: "He, he led the defecting Zerg to the west..."
As soon as she finished speaking, the Zerg Queen flapped her wings like a hurricane, and her huge body moved surprisingly quickly.
The insect army that had just returned from the expedition with the Queen followed without stopping, disappeared from everyone's sight in just a moment, and chased them out vigorously.
The people who stayed there felt like they had just walked through the gates of hell and immediately collapsed.
"Queen Mother, you look very angry..."
They were more than just angry. They had never seen the Queen Mother so furious! They had just thought they were going to be killed!
Fortunately, the Queen Mother was furious and focused on chasing after the eldest brother, so she didn't have time to vent her anger on them. It seems that the eldest brother's betrayal had caused the Queen Mother a great shock after all.
"...Brother, will everything be okay?"
"Shh!"
As soon as one Zerg started to speak, he was glared at by the four-winged Zerg.
The four-winged Zerg gestured to the surroundings - although the Zerg Queen took away part of the army, some of them remained.
Most of the Zerg Queen's army are in the same "insect shape" as her. They do not have advanced abilities such as mimicry, but they are absolutely loyal to the Zerg Queen.
There is an ear-reporting beetle in it, which acts as the queen's mouth, eyes and ears for surveillance. It is a very troublesome insect.
"......!" The high-level Zerg who was speaking quickly covered his mouth, signaling that he would not speak anymore, and then looked at the rest of the brothers around him tacitly.
Afterwards, the four-winged Zerg discovered that the returning Zerg army had brought back a special "prisoner".
——The white-haired demon was seen half-leaning in the cage constructed by the Queen’s mental power.
Translucent chains bound the demon's hands and feet. There was a lot of blood on his body, and judging from the smell, most of it was from the Zerg.
As if noticing the gaze of the four-winged insect race, the white-haired demon's drooping fingertips moved slightly, and then he slowly raised his head.
At that moment, the Zerg seemed to have fallen into a sea of corpses and blood, and saw a beautiful and decadent flower.
That flower, engulfed in blazing flames and surrounded by boiling molten lava, drew countless people to its presence, overcoming countless dangers and hardships. Yet, all was but a mirage; it was a monster's ripped bones, carved from hell. Behind its pure white lay the crimson of poisonous fire, the gaze of a monster still lingering, half-awakened.
……Danger!
The four-winged insect's heart trembled, and the subconscious warning made him quickly look away, not daring to look into those eyes.
"Is this the demon who slaughtered the Zerg army on the other side of the abyss?" he asked in shock.
The ear-reporting insects hissed in affirmation, and said that the Queen asked them to take the other party to the dungeon and lock him up first, and then deal with him after the Queen came back after cleaning up the traitors.
"How did the Queen Mother catch him?" For some reason, the four-winged insects always felt that something was wrong.
The earworms were unconcerned and responded with a cry: "He has killed countless of our compatriots and must have exhausted his strength."
The four-winged insects had no choice but to take the other party into the dungeon with doubts.
He was on guard all the way, but the other party did not resist at all - no, it should be said that he had a kind of laissez-faire and indifferent attitude.
In the dungeon, the white-haired demon who had been acting listless saw the one-third of the Zerg that had defected that the Zerg had mentioned before, next to his cell.
As soon as the imprisoned Zerg saw the four-winged Zerg and the others, they immediately rushed to the prison door and shouted, "Let us out quickly! If the Queen Mother doesn't see us when she comes back..."
The special prison reinforced with mental power remained motionless.
"The Queen Mother has returned. She now thinks you are traitors and is hunting down Big Brother." said the Four-Winged Zerg and others.
——That’s right, this time they were actually more skilled and took over the other party’s position.
At that time, after Ji Zhou asked if anyone wanted to go with him, after a difficult struggle, two-thirds of the people on the spot expressed their willingness to go.
Then, at Lu Mi's signal, Ji Zhou ordered them to lock up the remaining one-third of those who were unwilling to leave. With more people against fewer, it was naturally easy.
After finishing, they asked if they could escape before the Queen Mother found out, but Lu Mi asked them to stay.
"We have other things to do, so we need you to stay here and tell the Zerg Queen the wrong pursuit route to buy time for us." The silver-eyed young man spoke calmly.
"Stay? Then we will die! We will definitely die!" Their only courage actually came from Ji Zhou. As for Lu Mi, they didn't understand the other party's strength at all, so naturally they were unwilling to gamble with their lives.
"So?" the silver-eyed young man looked at them indifferently. "Do nothing, just run away, and spend the rest of your lives hiding in fear of being found by the Queen at any moment—how is that any different from your current situation? It's better not to do it. If you have to do it, do it to the end and eliminate any future troubles."
"...What do you mean?" The four-winged insect couldn't help but move his throat, and his heartbeat accelerated because of the speculation at this moment.
The silver-eyed young man just looked at them as if it was natural—
"Kill your queen."
Under the gaze of all the Zerg, he looked at them one by one calmly, but their suppressed emotions suddenly exploded under such a gaze, and they could hardly help shaking all over.
"Don't you think so?" he said.
— So bold! At that moment, the rest of the Zerg seemed to suddenly understand why their eldest brother was willing to follow this man. Just this courage and boldness...! Even they, accustomed to oppression, probably wouldn't be able to muster that kind of energy in their entire lives.
Fear and excitement clashed internally, like a tug-of-war, and it was hard to tell which side had more power.
So in the end, everyone got carried away and agreed to join this audacious backstabbing plan.
Although afterwards, they quickly realized that courage and strength are two different things, and they wondered if they had been fooled into committing a great disaster.
Some people even started to regret why they didn't run away on the spot...
But the arrow has been shot and there is no turning back. Now there is no room for regret. They can only hope that the Queen Mother will discover that she has been deceived later.
"...How dare you!? How dare you deceive the Queen Mother?!!"
Back in the dungeon, upon hearing the four-winged Zerg's answer, one-third of the imprisoned Zerg immediately showed expressions of despair.
The reason why they did not defect was that the accumulated prestige and fear of the Zerg Queen had long been deeply rooted in their hearts, and even the sense of security brought by the Thorns, which they relied on most, could not offset it.
And now look——!
It was obvious that the four-winged Zerg and other talents were traitors, but they locked them up by relying on their numerical advantage, and at the same time they occupied the nest openly and as if nothing had happened, and then labeled them as traitors.
Now it seems that the Queen Mother still believes it! Maybe even the direction of pursuit provided is completely wrong!
[Things are getting interesting...]
The white-haired devil looked at the scene before him that he had not expected, slowly retracted the power that was about to be unleashed from his fingertips, and turned to watch quietly from the side.
He leaned against the damp and cold wall of the cell with his head slightly lowered. His white hair covered most of his expression, and he looked quite tired.
Originally, he was tired of killing insects in the abyss, and for some reason, he couldn't kill the Zerg Queen, which was very annoying.
So he thought it would be better to sneak into the enemy camp and do something big right away. As for whether he would be executed on the spot if he surrendered... Anyway, the person was not there, so he didn't bother to think about such troublesome things.
But judging from the current scene, even if he hadn't come, there would have been other people who had turned the Zerg base upside down - he was actually a little curious about the person who dared to do these things.
"You can't really hold out for it," the imprisoned Zerg jeered desperately, "Do you think anyone can defeat the Queen Mother? Even Big Brother can't do it. What are you expecting?"
The four-winged insects and others fell silent. They did not refute because this seemed to them to be a slim possibility.
But they still said: "We just want to experience... freedom without oppression..."
It just so happened that someone did it first - the human who reached out to the eldest brother must have touched a part of the eldest brother's heart, which made him willing to risk his life and give it a try.
Even if they failed, it didn't matter. They had had enough of this life of living in fear day after day, where they couldn't see tomorrow if they weren't careful...
What no one saw was that just above the Zerg hive, higher than the clouds, a huge dragon shadow slowly swam by.
After the white-haired demon sends a signal, it will descend from the sky and head towards the huge nest.
At this moment, each party seemed to have their own plans, and by some strange coincidence, they came together directly or indirectly.
On the other side of the stage, just as the four-winged insects said, Lu Mi and others who had left were heading towards the abyss crack, accompanied only by Ji Zhou, Grant, and Salien.
Ji Zhou led the way in front of the aircraft. Lu Mi did not stay in the aircraft, but knelt down and sat on the top outside the aircraft.
"Are you worried about the Zerg that stayed behind?" Lu Mi, who was holding his chin and looking down at the blue sea below, suddenly asked.
As we hurried along, the only sounds were the whistling wind around us and the crashing waves below. Under normal circumstances, this scene would undoubtedly be beautiful. Unfortunately, the timing was wrong, and now it felt like the calm before the storm.
Ji Zhou was silent for a moment, then shook his head. "According to the Queen Mother's temper, the person she would most like to deal with right now is me. They won't be in danger for the time being."
"Your mother, the queen, must have already begun searching for us from the west based on the false intelligence they provided, but the direction we actually left was east."
Lu Mi's posture was very relaxed, which attracted Ji Zhou to look at him.
Perhaps because he had always been someone else's elder brother, Ji Zhou looked somewhat helpless. "According to your request, the high-level Zerg left behind will take the opportunity to transfer the hostages in the hive."
Those humans were captured from other places before and used as food reserves for the Zerg Queen. If it weren't for this incredible and shocking development, they would probably never have the chance to leave the Zerg nest again in their lifetime.
I wonder how those humans would react when they saw that the people coming to rescue them were Zerg.
I wonder how the people on the auction ship would react when those high-level Zergs sent them to take refuge on it according to the address provided by Lu Mi - they would probably be scared to the point of cardiac arrest.
Lu Mi felt a little sorry that he couldn't see the developments over there, but he had more important things to do right now.
In the blink of an eye, Ji Zhou, who was leading the way, suddenly stopped.
Without Ji Zhou saying anything, Lu Mi knew they had arrived—
In the distant sky, I saw a gap a hundred meters wide hanging on the sky, like a dark eye, or a big mouth that was about to swallow the world.
This is the abyss crack.
The size of this rift was incomparable to the one beneath the Blue Steel Empire; to say it was a hundred times larger wouldn't be an exaggeration. No wonder the Zerg Queen was able to lead her army straight through.
"This rift will continuously replenish the Queen Mother's armaments. As long as the Zerg surround her, she will have access to an endless supply of energy. No one can pose a threat to her in such a situation."
Ji Zhou looked solemnly at the insects that were still flying out of the crack.
These low-level insects had no idea what was happening. It was precisely because of the pressure from Ji Zhou, who was a high-level insect, that they respectfully avoided him and did not dare to get close.
Lu Mi said calmly, "That's why we need to cut off His supply first."
If we use the monster-killing analogy in a game, the Zerg Queen is a massive boss that can regenerate health by constantly devouring smaller monsters. Before a boss fight, of course, you have to cut off the enemy's most troublesome arm first!
"...I can ask my brothers to help. They can block the swarm of insects here and prevent them from flying out."
It was impossible for Ji Zhou to stay here by himself because he had to assist Lu Mi in dealing with the Zerg Queen. In fact, when making this decision, Ji Zhou was already prepared to sacrifice himself.
He didn't doubt Lu Mi's strength, but he knew too well how terrifying the Zerg Queen was.
"Don't look so pessimistic." Lu Mi miraculously understood the man's emotions from his silent face, which seemed incredible to the man himself.
Ji Zhou couldn't help but look at the other person, but Lu Mi didn't say anything to comfort him.
Everything you say now is empty talk. This shadow that has accumulated over time can only be shattered with violence, such as punching the Zerg Queen in the face right in front of them.
Zerg Queen: Are you polite?
"What are you going to do?" Ji Zhou was a little curious about how Lu Mi would deal with it.
Lu Mi lightly hummed, "The old way."
He looked around. For the sake of spatial balance, he decided not to hide the crack in the shadows this time. So...
His eyes were fixed on the blue sea.
——Just put it in the mirror.
Isn’t this boundless ocean the largest mirror in the world?
In the spiritual space, the book of keys quietly turned to the first page.
The silver-eyed young man waved his hand and summoned a silver spear, calling out, "Enchant."
The author has something to say: At this moment, Lu Mi completely forgot how he had rolled over before. Don't use your ultimate skill casually, what if the real target is nearby?
At this time, the Zerg Queen was still looking for someone everywhere, but she didn't expect that her home had been occupied by traitors and there was a nuclear bomb locked in the prison.
#miserable#
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