Chapter 15: Self-directed and self-acted
The black shoes were twisted and deformed.
An Lang's face changed. He suddenly remembered the scene he saw in the Colosseum, where a star beast chewed up the remaining limbs and spit out the shoe.
He climbed up the big tree, and among the branches he saw the figure he had seen on the light screen.
A giant star beast that resembles a tapeworm.
This star beast is not very wide, but it is very, very long, and its entire body is piled on the ground like noodles.
If it weren't for that strange-looking, suction-cup-like mouthpart, An Lang wouldn't be able to tell which side was the head and which side was the tail.
The flat noodles were sometimes wide and sometimes narrow, and from the extent of the bulge, Anlang could guess which part of the body the food had entered.
An Lang hung on the tree and observed for a while, and found that this star beast seemed to have no eyes, and its head only had a circle of mouthparts like an anemone.
There was a leg in its mouthparts, which it took in and spit out. An Lang saw that the leg was becoming flatter and softer, and gradually turned into a pool of meat paste.
It played like this for a while, and finally its huge body kept wriggling, its head lowered lower and lower, and finally twisted into a ball.
This star beast looked so disgusting. Compared with that horrible beetle, it looked more like an alien creature. An Lang thought that if he was eaten by this bug, he would be worse than the beetle just now.
But fortunately, it should not be hungry now, which made An Lang breathe a sigh of relief.
He had originally decided to lure the Star Beast away first. After all, Lan Xiu was too close to here, and the Star Beast might discover them at any time. But now that he saw the lazy look of the Star Beast, he decided not to alert the snake.
An Lang tiptoed down the tree and groped his way back, but when he returned to the dividing wall, he found that Lan Xiu was gone.
All that was left on the ground were specks of blood and a pile of tattered cloth.
An Lang grabbed the rag and recognized it as Lan Xiu's clothes.
Oh no! Could there be other star beasts?
An Lang's breath was choked. Could Lan Xiu be dead?
Although he had been in the Zerg for a while, this was the first time that Anlang intuitively realized that this place was different from Earth.
It's so cruel.
If he hadn't left Lan Xiu here alone...
An Lang put down the rag, gritted his teeth and ran in the direction of the blood dripping, hoping that everything was still in time.
That's a life!
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An Lang ran for a long time. He didn't know if he had gone in the wrong direction. The scattered bloodstains on the ground had long disappeared, and he could only run around based on his feeling.
"Lan Xiu!"
"Lan Xiu!"
He ran and shouted. At this time, he was no longer afraid of attracting star beasts. He was more afraid that the answer he would get was silence.
Regret and guilt flooded Anlang's heart. This was not the planet he was familiar with. Life here was even more cruel and bloody. Why hadn't he been more careful?
If he had not left Lan Xiu alone in the Xinwen District, if he had stayed by Lan Xiu's side all the time - would he not have died?
Suddenly, he heard a very faint sound.
It felt like something was stirring the water.
An Lang followed the sound and walked through the jungle, and his eyes suddenly opened up.
The waves are as clear as blue, the lotus leaves reach the sky, and large lotus flowers are hidden among them.
A naked man was standing in the middle of the lake. He lazily used his five fingers to comb out his tangled long hair and glanced slowly towards the shore.
He is extremely beautiful.
More beautiful than anyone Anlang had ever seen.
That glance made Anlang's mind go blank for a moment.
At this moment, the rippling blue lake, the pink lotus buds, even the mountains and the sky, everything was eclipsed.
After a long time, the picture seemed to slowly change from black and white to color.
An Lang slowly came back to his senses.
Long white hair and pink pupils.
Isn’t that what the system told him—the female insect that will kill him!!!
Is this system sick? Does the time-space anomaly mean that it will send him to the culprit in advance and then let him ascend to heaven on the spot?
An Lang's feet were nailed to the ground. He had a hunch that if he ran away now, he would die a very ugly death.
Unexpectedly, it was the female insect who spoke first.
"Are you looking for insects?" The female insect standing in the middle of the lake continued to comb her long snow-white hair. She just heard An Lang's call.
This surprised him quite a bit.
Wasn’t the male insect running away?
He became increasingly interested.
Maybe it would be a good idea to kill this male insect slowly.
How boring the same revenge is.
An Lang was also surprised by the other party's friendly attitude, but he thought that the system would not let him die in vain. At this time, he had no grudges against the white-haired female insect, and he thought that not all female insects were crazy.
Perhaps the system wants him to find the white-haired female insect before she turns evil, and turn her enemy into a friend!
But the most important thing now is to find Lan Xiu.
"My friend is missing!" An Lang anxiously described Lan Xiu's appearance.
The white-haired female insect seemed to be thinking about something, and in the face of An Lang's hopeless look, she actually nodded: "I've seen it."
"Really?! That's great!" An Lang was overjoyed. "Where is he?"
"He was taken away by a star beast." The white-haired female insect said as she walked towards the shore, completely unconcerned about her nakedness.
Drops of water kept sliding down his body, like broken diamonds, splashing the green grass.
"Which direction! Please tell me!"
"You are a male insect, do you dare to go looking for it?"
As the white-haired female insect was speaking, she had already come in front of An Lang. An Lang then realized that this female insect was very tall. Her overly delicate appearance made people ignore that she had a body full of power.
Having said that, according to the Zerg's philosophy, this bug is completely of the opposite sex to itself!
An Lang took two steps back and turned his head to the side.
"right!"
The white-haired female insect curled her lips and smiled. She raised her hand and pointed in a direction: "Across this lake, under that rock wall."
"But you better hurry, he looks like he's going to die."
He added.
An Lang was startled, thanked him and ran over there quickly.
Running around the lake was too slow, so he had to endure the pain in his back and spread his wings.
Behind him, the white-haired female insect watched with interest the ripples created by the male insect's tiptoe on the lake surface, and disappeared after a moment.
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An Lang finally climbed up the steep slope. One of his wings was retracted into the scapular socket, while the other wing drooped limply.
It’s not that he doesn’t want to retract it, but the newly grown part is not obedient. It feels sore and soft there, and he can’t use any strength at all.
However, just as he was about to climb down the rock wall, he found that the ravine below was covered with white.
An Lang took a closer look and saw that the white area was made up of strands of noodles - it turned out to be the lair of the tapeworm!!!
Milky white "noodles" curled and coiled at the bottom of the cliff. From time to time, star beasts raised their heads, and their open mouthparts looked like disgusting anemones.
An Lang didn't know if it was because of the growth of wings and further development of his body, but he found that his eyesight had improved significantly.
In the past, it would have been impossible for him to see clearly below the one or two hundred meter high rock wall, but now, these twisted star beasts seemed to be twisting under his nose.
Is Lan Xiu really in there?
Just as An Lang was thinking, a different color suddenly appeared in his sight.
The female insect was lying naked on top of many star beasts. Her skin was very white, as white as a piece of paper, but her abdomen was very red, and bright red blood was still flowing out, as if it was going to take away all her life.
Lan Xiu!
An Lang's breath was caught, and he saw the milky white tapeworm suddenly surge violently for some unknown reason.
Lan Xiu's body was quickly sucked under them.
Amidst the rolling waves of milky white flesh, Lan Xiu's body was quickly arched onto a high platform.
A huge tapeworm was hovering on the platform. Its color was more yellow than milky white, and the circles of segments on its body were clearly visible. It was more than one meter in diameter.
The mouthparts were extremely large, and when they were opened, An Lang could see densely packed fangs inside.
An Lang didn't have time to think about it. He picked up the stone beside him and threw it hard to the bottom of the cliff.
The tapeworm that was hit was instantly split into two halves, and a pulpy liquid like meat spread everywhere.
The rest of the tapeworms raised their heads. An Lang looked down and saw densely packed "sea anemones" opening and closing towards him. Even the large tapeworm on the platform raised its mouthparts.
All the tapeworms seemed to be frozen in time, and the scene was so terrifying that it made one's scalp tingle.
Then, they surged wildly, and in a flash they began to climb up the rock wall.
I saw their mouthparts sticking to the rock wall one after another, their bodies curled up and swung upwards, and then they sucked their mouthparts to the higher rock wall.
An Lang continued to throw stones down the rock wall, and star beasts were constantly hit and exploded.
But the giant tapeworm remained unmoved. It raised its head high and its anemone-like tentacles kept expanding and contracting.
Yes! Male insect pheromones!
An Lang thought of Zhong Tao's words again, but no matter what he did, he didn't know how to motivate himself to emit pheromones.
And blood! He remembered what Teacher El had said: the concentration of pheromones in male insects' blood was very high!
An Lang gritted his teeth, picked up a sharp stone and scratched it across his palm.
"hiss!"
Sure enough, the moment his blood flowed out, the tapeworm below jumped up like crazy.
They're like a bunch of crazy noodles.
An Lang was a little amused by his own thoughts.
Even the giant tapeworm couldn't keep its balance, and it quickly twisted its body and began to climb the rock wall.
Seeing it getting closer, An Lang took a few steps back.
Run up, push back, and jump down!
An Lang struggled to open his eyes amid the whistling wind, and he brushed past many tapeworms bouncing on the rock wall.
Wow——
In the sound of the wind he heard the sound of his wings suddenly spreading.
Flying up!
He made the right bet.
No wonder the mother pushes the young eagle out of the nest when it is learning to fly.
Because at the moment of life and death, the instincts of living things will erupt infinitely!
He gritted his teeth and flew towards the platform, and saw that Lan Xiu, who was lying on the ground, had opened his eyes at some point.
"Lan Xiu!"
Anlang shouted loudly.
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