Chapter 57: The Empire's First Beta Crown Princess 26: Go, go...
057 The Empire's First Beta Crown Princess 26
At this moment, both the real world and the unreal world are in chaos.
Lu Jiu kept running in the complex light path.
He didn't know where he would run to, but he couldn't stop. If he stopped, countless insects and beasts would catch up with him.
He gradually felt tired from running.
The penetrating wound on his right leg continued to ooze blood. The pain was like a net that wrapped around his entire right leg and absorbed his perception.
"Jiujiu, why don't you take a rest for a while? That mysterious power may still be protecting you... Your old man will definitely be here soon..." 111 felt a little distressed.
"We can't pin our hopes on uncertain things, nor can we leave everything to him," Lu Jiu panted, his eyes becoming a little tired, "I have to think of a way too."
He held onto the light wall, dragged his right leg, and turned a corner.
He turned the corner with difficulty... and stood there in a daze.
There is no road ahead.
What appeared before him was a huge... abyss.
A hemispherical dome loomed over the abyss, emitting white light.
The deep pit under the dome is at least two hundred meters long and wide. The pit is like a pot of porridge, with a swarm of burning and churning creatures.
Lu Jiu's face turned pale in an instant, and he almost vomited!
…That’s a densely packed hybrid of humans, insects and animals!
Countless people gathered into a human sea, and the waves formed by their limbs surged up and down.
There was no blood on these people's faces, their lips were black and blue, their eyes were dull, and the tentacles and legs of insect beasts would occasionally emerge from these skins and wrap around their faces.
Most of them were wearing imperial military uniforms, which were either stained with blood or had become tattered.
——These are the soldiers who have entered the insect-beast space channel over the years but can never return home!
——They were made into beasts in human skin!
Lu Jiu heard 111's trembling breathing. Even a system would collapse psychologically if it were caught off guard by such a scene.
"Why do they put these soldiers here... What are they doing by hoarding them here..." 111 asked tremblingly.
Lu Jiu gritted his teeth, holding back the discomfort and sadness in his heart, and said, “Chen Yu told me something.”
Under torture, the traitor revealed some secrets of insects and beasts.
The first is about the huge space channel network of insect beasts - some nodes in these networks are very weak and easy to break through.
This minister holds hundreds of node coordinates in his hands. The military used these coordinates to destroy most of the space channels of the insect beasts in one fell swoop, causing heavy damage to them.
Chen Yu said that there were still some key nodes that had not been located accurately. Once they were found, perhaps the insect beast's nest could be completely overturned.
The traitor also confessed that in this intricate network of space channels, there was a huge "fermentation pit" where all the human soldiers who had entered these space channels over the years were piled up.
In fact, these soldiers had been turned into human-skin beasts long before they entered the territory of insect beasts.
However, the insect beast wanted to transform them further.
How to transform?
This has to start with the way insect beasts create human-skin beasts.
They devour everything under the human skin, including the human brain. A mysterious evolutionary reaction allows them to shrink their huge bodies and hide them in the human skin, and also allows them to possess some of the human memory.
——Those insect beasts that are not 4S or 5S level gained some intelligence by devouring human brains and learned human language.
The insect beasts began to wonder whether they could completely transform the low-level human-skin beasts into 4S beasts and 5S beasts?
Within their species, each individual's rank is determined at birth and cannot be changed.
4Smons and 5Smons are extremely rare, which is a huge disadvantage for them.
However, by sharing human memories and learning from each other, low-level insects and beasts can also gain wisdom and upgrade their wisdom. In this way, can't they artificially create high-level insects and beasts?
Thus, the fermentation pit appeared.
These soldiers and their memories have been transferred into the bodies of insect beasts. They have become soldiers in the form of skins. They cannot return to their homes and are unable to see the world all day long.
They were like a pot of vegetables, being stir-fried in this huge iron pot, over and over again, just to give birth to powerful enemy individuals.
111 was speechless after hearing this.
...The insect beast's behavior shocked it so much that it could no longer describe its feelings in words.
In the abyss, waves came one after another. Lu Jiu's eyes met with those soldiers on the waves, and he couldn't help but look away, unable to bear to look any longer.
...This road is not feasible.
He had to turn back and return to the previous fork in the road.
Lu Jiu gritted his teeth and turned around.
——An insect leg passed through his field of vision and hit the wall at the corner!
Lu Jiu's pupils shrank.
With an angry hiss, a giant insect beast crawled out in front of him, blocking his way.
Soon after, two, three, four... all these insect beasts caught up. They squeezed together at the entrance of the passage and formed a solid wall of flesh!
This is no longer a number that can be dealt with by the weapons in the space box!
"Jiujiu!" 111 screamed.
Lu Jiu took a step back.
These insect beasts scrambled towards him, and the pairs of black eyes on both ends of their hard shells stared at him fiercely. The dense insect feet stepped on the ground, making a trembling sound that made people's scalp tingle.
They advanced upon him.
Lu Jiu's heart was beating rapidly. He took another step back, but his heel missed the mark. He looked back.
…The abyss was right under his feet. If he retreated any further, he would fall in.
what to do?
If we go forward, we will definitely not be able to get through this wall of insect and beast flesh.
What these insect beasts want is the baby in his belly, and after cutting out the fetus, they will never leave him behind.
That mysterious power protected him from Lin Miao once, can it protect him a second time?
Or, is that force strong enough to withstand the attacks of so many insect beasts?
If he stepped back, he would fall into this ocean of human-skinned beasts.
The human-skinned beasts in the fermentation pit were all in a state of chaos, their consciousness was focused on memory sharing and wisdom upgrading, and perhaps they would not be so aggressive, but it was hard to say... And even if he succeeded in protecting himself in this abyss and swam to the other side, how would he "get ashore"?
There are so many problems. They all seem to be dead ends. How should I choose?!
"Jiujiu, what should we do?" 111 also became at a loss.
In front of them, the insect beasts approached step by step, and the distance between them shortened to three meters, two meters, and one meter...
Lu Jiu's eyes darkened.
He whispered, "Whatever!"
He took two steps back and allowed himself to fall into the abyss.
Even if he had to die, he would rather be with the heroic spirits.
*
As we fell at high speed, gusts of wind blew from below.
Lu Jiu saw the insect beasts chased to the edge of the abyss and leaned over to look at him.
These strange creatures had no expression on their faces, but Lu Jiu could feel that they were laughing at him for seeking his own death.
Soon, he fell to the bottom, his body was hit and bounced back heavily!
He choked and saw stars for a moment.
After he landed on his back again, he just took a breath when an arm hit him from the side!
Lu Jiu was startled and dodged by tilting his head. Just as he propped himself up and turned around, he was faced with a pale face!
He immediately leaned back, but his back hit another body!
...There is nowhere to hide.
Lu Jiu couldn't even stand up from the sea of people. His feet were quickly caught in the gaps between human bodies, and he could only sink and float with this "ocean".
...No wonder those insects and beasts don’t come down. Once they come down, it will be difficult for them to get back up!
"Jiujiu, just crawl. You can't stand up like this!" 111 said anxiously.
Lu Jiu took a deep breath, pulled his legs out of the gap between his limbs, and began to crawl forward with difficulty.
…
He didn’t know if it was because there were too many insects and beasts in the abyss, but he heard the rustling sound in his mind again.
These voices surrounded him, as if countless tentacles of consciousness were touching his sea of consciousness.
They were very light and low, and were a language that he couldn't understand. Lu Jiu shook his head, trying to stay awake.
But these voices continue to grow louder.
Rustle, rustle.
He had a splitting headache.
Gradually, he discovered…how come there seemed to be some human voices mixed in with these low whispers? !
Lu Jiu suddenly stopped and listened attentively.
“…”
"……pain……"
“…Haha…come on…”
“…Uncomfortable…”
111 also discovered it: "Jiujiu, someone is talking! Is there a living person in this fermentation pit?!"
Lu Jiu was confused and doubtful: "...No way, this is a voice that appeared directly in my mind. Is there any living person who can speak in this way?"
111: "Oh, yeah... Could it be that a low-level insect beast has successfully upgraded and completely learned human language?"
Lu Jiu frowned and continued listening.
"……Help……"
"dad……"
"Mother……"
"...Ah, it smells so good and looks so delicious..."
"… Let's go home…"
“…It hurts…”
111 The more I listened, the creepier it became.
"So many human-skinned beasts have been upgraded successfully? Have they all become 4S or 5S level beasts?"
Lu Jiu stood there, motionless.
An expression of disbelief and astonishment gradually appeared on his face.
"...General..."
"Let's... destroy them together..."
“I’m so hungry…”
"…Is it morning yet…"
“…I’m so tired…”
Lu Jiu's hands began to tremble.
"...Jiujiu, what's wrong with you?"
Lu Jiu's Adam's apple rolled, he opened his lips, and his voice became a little hoarse.
"Chen Yu told me something before... He said that the traitor confessed that in the first wave of the insect beast tide, the human-skinned beasts should not have appeared."
Lu Jiu once speculated why the insect beast chose that time to release the human-skin beast.
However, it turned out that his guess was wrong.
The beast in human skin should not have been exposed at that time.
The insect beasts had originally planned to release these human-skin beasts into the centers of major cities without anyone noticing... They had originally planned to wait for a large number of 5S beasts to ferment in the fermentation pits, and then let these "soldiers" go back and step into the important areas of the imperial palace...
Then, just as Lu Jiu had originally envisioned, they would detonate the entire human empire in an instant when humans were caught off guard.
Halfway through the plan, an accident occurred.
The accident forced the insect beast to release its trump card in advance.
111: "What kind of accident???"
"The traitor didn't know. It happened very suddenly, and he was captured by Shen Yu before he could get in touch with the insect beast."
"...Jiujiu, why are you shaking so badly?"
"111, do you still remember the human skin that fell out of the body of the insect beast that was crushed by Lin Miao at the end of the battle?"
"...I remember. I remember that he was a general, his last name was Wang?"
"Yes... do you remember the expression on that face?"
"I didn't look that closely... I was focusing on you at the time, what happened to that face?"
“…It’s laughing.”
"……What?"
"That face was smiling," Lu Jiu's voice began to tremble. "I thought I had seen it wrong, but I couldn't help but recall that scene. No matter how many times I recalled it, that face was smiling. But the insect beast was killed... Why was it smiling?"
That kind of relieved smile confused Lu Jiu for a moment.
111 is muted.
After a few seconds, its voice began to tremble: "Jiujiu, what do you mean?"
Lu Jiu clenched his hands.
In my mind, voices from all directions continued to chant unconsciously.
"...Come, drink..."
"Haha... the sun is shining brightly..."
"Where is the exit..."
Lu Jiu responded to them with his consciousness: "Do you want to find a way out?"
"……it hurts……"
“Boss…”
"Exit...where is the exit..."
Lu Jiu clenched his fists tightly, and he spoke again: "Can you hear me? Do you want to find a way out?"
"……exit……"
"Who is speaking……"
"Ah... where is the exit..."
111 let out a whimper of disbelief.
——These voices can actually respond to Lu Jiu!
——It seems that they do not come from the consciousness of insect beasts at all!
——This is the voice of the soldiers!!
They're not dead?!
No - their bodies had long been hollowed out and digested by the insect beasts. The insect beasts were trying to share their memories and learn from them, but who transformed whom in the end? !
Lu Jiu's vision blurred.
His heart was beating fast.
What prevented the insect beasts from detonating the empire?
On the eve of the first battle, when humans were sleeping and insects and beasts were lurking in the darkness, what accident happened quietly?
...A beast in human skin sneaked out.
He regained his consciousness.
He remembered who he was.
——
Lu Jiu shouted loudly in this empty place: "Do you want to go out?!"
His voice seemed to stir up a storm, and the consciousness floating above the abyss began to attach itself to him.
"Who is speaking……"
"it hurts……"
"go out……"
"How can I...get out..."
"Ah... Dad... Mom..."
"General..."
“…Boss…”
Lu Jiu shouted again: "Wake up, let's go out together!"
"go out……"
"...I want to...get out..."
"I want to... go out..."
"...break through them..."
Wild waves arise from small ripples.
The sea became turbulent.
Half of Lu Jiu's body was sucked in, but he stopped struggling and just continued to shout loudly, over and over again.
He lit a lamp in the cold night.
He was waiting for the arrival of people returning home at night.
"……go home……"
"go out……"
"We are going to... go out... together..."
"General... let's do it together..."
"Boss...let's go..."
"go out……"
"go out……"
"……go out!"
"……go out!!"
“——We need to get out!!”
The world's bell was struck, and its sound echoed over the abyss.
Countless eyes that were sleeping opened at once, and the tentacles of consciousness rapidly extended in all directions, then quickly connected into one piece.
They condensed into a sea of consciousness.
This ocean began its first vital resonance of thought.
*
After Lu Jiu left, Lin Miao quickly regained consciousness from the pain.
He stood up with great pain, gritting his teeth - time was almost up, he couldn't stop here, he still had things to do!
Even if I failed to successfully dissect Lu Jiu's fetus, it didn't matter...
As long as I can trick that man over here...
He staggered through the space channel and soon arrived at a coordinate point.
Several human-skinned beasts were waiting there, looking at him coldly. They communicated with each other through their consciousness.
"Where's the human child?"
"I didn't get it. There's something strange about his body, so I can't touch him. But it doesn't matter. As long as I can see Shen Yu, I can put the eggs on him!"
"Are you sure?"
The insect beasts looked at him suspiciously.
Lin Miao was a little scared, but he pretended to be calm: "Of course!"
…
He had escaped from that explosion a month earlier.
There was no bed in the insect beast's lair. He huddled in a dark corner, struggling with the bloody wounds on his body in the darkness, struggling to stay alive.
And when he was in great pain, Lu Jiu and Shen Yu announced their wedding.
Lu Jiu's child is actually Shen Yu's!
Lin Miao was extremely angry.
This is ridiculous. How can those two be so happy when he lives like this?
The insect beast tribe once treated him as their little master. They and his biological father had been supporting him, hoping that he could enter the military and the core of power without others noticing. At that time, he and his father would be able to join forces to destroy the Empire State Building in half.
However, all plans were shattered.
His biological father was killed in the explosion.
He became a discarded pawn.
He crawled into the space channel and luckily survived, but these insect beasts hated him so much that they wanted to throw him out.
He ran and ran desperately, and the insects and beasts soon gave up chasing him and left him to fend for himself in the corners.
When he recovered and had the strength to walk out, he knew why the insect beasts let him go - they changed their minds.
They decided that as long as he survived, they would use him as a breeding machine.
He's a useless hybrid.
They decided to make new ones.
Lin Miao was frightened out of his wits.
As an omega, it's fine for him to give birth to children for humans, but he can't give birth to children for insects or beasts even if you kill him!
He immediately opened the collector's treasure chest left by 329, and found that the "new look" function could no longer be used. He didn't know why.
Of the remaining three functions, he zeroed in on “Rock Solid.”
He racked his brains to come up with a plan, and said to the insect beasts: "What's the use of giving birth to more hybrids? Even with my father's help, I couldn't enter the core of the empire. Can you give birth to other hybrids?!"
"Don't you want to kill Shen Yu, or make him your puppet?! Have you given up on this plan? I can do it... I can do it for you!"
"Bring Lu Jiu here! Chen Yu and he have only known each other for a short time, and there is no way they can have a deep relationship. Chen Yu married him for the sake of the child, and he values the child! For the sake of the child, Chen Yu will definitely agree to meet us. When the time comes, I will come forward, get close to him, and take the opportunity to put the insect eggs on him!"
"...No, I can't let you go. He knows you are insect beasts, how could he let you get close to him! I'm different, I'm still a human, he won't be that wary of me!"
"Let me go, please, I will succeed. When the time comes, I will leave here, and Shen Yu and I will go back to the empire together. When the insect eggs in his body grow up and completely devour him, I will help you to break through the empire together! Lu Jiu will be left to you, he can also give birth, you can find him if you want to make new hybrids!"
Regardless of the considerations, the insect beast finally agreed to his plan.
Then, they came to this moment.
"Chen Yu has arrived," the insect beast said to him coldly in his consciousness, "You'd better think about how to negotiate later."
"I still have a secret in my hand, he will want to know," Lin Miao avoided the gazes of the insects and beasts, "Anyway, you have already agreed that I will use that secret as a bargaining chip, right!"
"...Humph," the insect beast turned its head away, "Let's go."
The door at the end of the light path was opened.
Lin Miao saw the scenery outside, which was lush trees.
It’s been more than a month…more than a month, and he finally breathed fresh air!
Lin Miao dragged his feet and walked out excitedly.
The planet is sleeping and dawn is coming quietly.
The sky was grey and in the dim light, the giant fleet was suspended in the air, the mecha soldiers were flying above the jungle, arranged in a spectacular and breathtaking array, and the human soldiers were standing in rows on the open ground, with their weapons pointed at them.
A tall and handsome man stood in front of the array.
He was listening attentively to his subordinate's whispered report, without a trace of expression on his handsome face.
Noticing the movement here, his dark grey eyes turned.
A cold gaze fell on Lin Miao.
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