Chapter 057: Numb, Destroy
The insect mother's belly is very big, and the insect eggs have stretched its belly into a thin layer. Its belly is so big that it looks like a big weight dragging a fly. The insect mother cannot move, and its reaction speed is also very slow. The high belly blocks most of its vision, making it unable to see everything around it.
Jiang He lay on the insect mother's belly, and through the thin layer of belly, he could clearly feel the ups and downs and wriggling of the young eggs in the insect mother's belly.
These young eggs seemed to be able to sense her and gathered towards where she was lying.
Although the worm mother's belly is smooth, climbing is not difficult. Just be careful not to be seen by the worm mother, otherwise the sickle tentacles will attack you.
Lan Hu stared at her with his big eyes without blinking.
This woman was a stubborn creature. No matter how much he yelled at her, it was useless. He stared at her for a long time, but she didn't even register the anger in his eyes. He had to let out a burst of anger and weakly reminded her, "This worm mother is in her old age and her reflexes are slow. Where's your magma beast treasure? Have it set fire to the worm mother's belly."
Jiang He: "They couldn't follow us after we entered the ruins."
She asked Lan Hu, "How do you know this insect queen is in her old age?"
Lan Hu: "In her old age, the worm queen's belly becomes distended and she becomes incapable of movement. She passively serves as a reproductive machine until a new worm queen is born and devours her. These eggs must contain a female worm. This old worm queen is waiting for a female worm to arrive, then devour the young, ensuring her position cannot be replaced."
"My home planet has been taken over by these bugs," Lan Hu said. "I deal with these things all the time."
He knew so much, so he had no hope for his current situation. Jiang He glanced at his stomach.
Lan Hu's fur exploded: "What are you looking at? There's nothing good to see."
Jiang He: "I can do a cesarean section. I have a knife."
She waved the dagger in her hand towards Lan Hu.
Blue Tiger: ...
"It's useless." After the mother planet was captured by the Zerg, everyone around him was like him now, with their stomachs swollen by Zerg eggs. In order to survive, many people tried to perform a cesarean section to remove the Zerg eggs from their stomachs, but no one survived.
The eggs in the stomach can be removed, but there will be more eggs in other parts of the body, such as the buttocks, back, neck, face, arms, and palms. They fall on the body like fallen grass seeds, growing wildly...
Those memories were too horrible. Lan Hu lowered his head and stared at his big belly. He said, "You're wasting your time."
Jiang He: "Oh."
She climbed up along the worm mother's belly, and out of the corner of her eye, she saw someone climbing up on the other side of the worm mother's belly.
It was A. He was quite fast. Seeing Jiang He looking at him, he nodded as a greeting.
The prisoners and guards in the cave climbed up the slope one after another. When they saw the dense insect eggs in the cellar below the huge first-level insect mother, they all took a step back, fearing that they would accidentally fall into the cellar.
"Teacher Song, is the core inside the Worm Mother's body? The Worm Mother's body is about the size of a small mountain. Do we have to crawl into its belly to find it?"
The guard's words expressed everyone's thoughts. Guards and prisoners alike all looked at Teacher Song.
Teacher Song's expression was not very good. "I have never seen such a big insect queen."
He murmured, "How strange! Why is there such a large insect mother? Give me some time. I will measure the location of the core."
Suddenly, a prisoner yelled, "Fuck, those larvae are coming in."
Previously, all the larvae were blocked in the cracks and did not rush into the cave, but now for some unknown reason, the larvae rushed into the cave, leaped up along the collapsed slope, and pounced towards their position.
The growth rate of these larvae is amazing. Even though they have only been hatched for a short time, the mucus on their bodies has dried up, their limbs have grown, and they are baring their teeth and making squeaking sounds at people.
As the larvae climbed up the slope, their cries caused the eggs laid by the mother insect to wriggle and struggle, trying to tear the egg sac apart.
"Fuck, find a solution! Those eggs and worms are about to come out."
"Where on earth is the core placed in the Worm Mother?"
"Look, isn't that 0112? He's on the worm mother's belly."
"This guy wants to take the core for himself."
"How did he jump onto the worm mother's belly?"
"I knew this guy was no good. He used us to attract the larvae so he could keep the cores for himself. That's a nice thought."
The blue tiger was very close to the insect mother's mouthparts.
The insect mother's eyes paused in the middle, staring at him without blinking.
Lan Hu tried to struggle, but the spider silk was not only tough but also had a paralyzing effect. He felt limp all over and could not move.
He stared at the insect mother with eyes that seemed to be spitting fire. He tried to transform his head into a beast's head, hoping that he could bite the insect mother to death before he died.
But even after biting the tip of his tongue, blood filling his mouth, he still couldn't transform into a beast head. In this ruin, his transformation was like being stripped away, completely undetectable.
Under his angry gaze, the insect mother's mouthparts popped out and rolled towards him.
At the moment when Lan Hu was swept away by the mouthparts, Jiang He finally crawled under him. She pounced on him and waved the dagger in her hand, cutting most of the spider silk that was holding Lan Hu in place.
The food in its mouth was gone, and the insect mother's eyes froze. Then she screamed angrily, her mouthparts popped out, and her tentacles stabbed towards Jiang He and Lan Hu.
Jiang He pulled the spider silk wrapped around Lan Hu and held him horizontally in her arms. She wanted to carry him, but she was afraid that his belly would be squeezed and burst.
As expected, this action caused Lan Hu to violently resist, "Put me down now!"
Lan Hu was so angry that his face turned red and his neck became thick. Just now, he was ready to open his mouth wide and bite the insect mother if he got any closer.
He had to fight that thing. Even if he could only bite off a piece of its flesh, he felt it was worth it.
But unexpectedly, the crucial bite was interrupted.
And what the hell is this posture of being held horizontally by a woman?
He could see his disgusting big belly clearly without having to lower his head.
Jiang He ignored his protests. She had already noticed that Lan Hu was limp and unable to move, and his shouting was just a mosquito's buzz.
The insect mother roared angrily, trying to catch Jiang He and Lan Hu. The eggs in her stomach fell faster as she squirmed. She was like an egg-laying machine, constantly falling from her tail into the egg cellar.
The cries of the larvae stimulated the eggs in the ovaries. The eggs struggled and squirmed, tearing through the egg sac and crawling out. Although they had not opened their eyes yet, they had already begun to bite their fellow eggs around them frantically.
"Most of them are female eggs." Teacher Song watched the larvae fighting, his face filled with shock. He explained to everyone, "As soon as a queen worm lays female eggs, she devours them. She won't allow females to threaten her position. If a queen worm ages severely, the chances of her laying female eggs increase. She's too large to move her body to consume them, so she simply lays them in a large pit and lets them kill each other."
At this point, he suddenly realized, "This insect queen is old and weak. No wonder it's so huge."
At the same time, Jiang He once again avoided the insect mother's sickle tentacles, jumped hard, and jumped onto a small platform in front.
The insect queen's sickle cannot reach here, and the larvae will not crawl here for the time being.
She laid the blue tiger flat and used a dagger to cut all the spider silk on his body.
Lan Hu glared at her. He had been yelling for a long time, but the woman only responded with "oh" and "hmm," completely perfunctory, ignoring his protests and anger. Lan Hu was tired of yelling. "Let her do whatever she wants." He stared at the woman in despair and said weakly, "It's useless. Don't waste your energy."
Jiang He: "Oh."
She glanced at the dagger in her hand. The dagger was quite dirty. She wiped it on her body several times but it still didn't clean. Suddenly, she thought of the sharp scale that Xiaolu gave her, and hurriedly took it out from her arms.
"The scales of a nail-eating green python? They're poisonous." Lan Hu felt uneasy when he saw Jiang He holding up the scales and rubbing them against his thin belly. "What are you going to do? You, you..."
He stared at Jiang He who was unmoved, and suddenly felt numb. "Forget it, whatever you want."
Let it be destroyed, it doesn’t matter!
"It will be a little painful." Jiang He asked him, "Do I need to bite the clothes?"
Lan Hu: "I'm not afraid of pain, you'd better not touch my blood.
He was afraid this stubborn woman wouldn't listen. Given her temperament, she might even argue, which was definitely something she could do. Lan Hu, furious and numb, immediately added, "There are insect eggs in my flesh."
Jiang He: "Oh ok, thanks for the reminder."
Lan Hu: Thank you for nothing, you stubborn bastard! I don’t want to bother with you!
Jiang He pressed Lan Hu's stomach and, noticing he didn't cry out in pain, guessed the spider web had numbed his pain. This was a perfect time to perform a cesarean section.
She simply stopped hesitating and slashed the knife across Lan Hu's belly.
Lan Hu: "Stay away."
Jiang He: "Oh."
Still staying very close, he cut open his belly layer by layer.
Lan Hu's stomach hadn't moved for a long time, and the contents seemed to have become dead. Jiang He pressed on it but there was no response.
But when she cut open the last layer of the blue tiger's belly, the larvae inside suddenly pounced towards Jiang He's face.
What was in the blue tiger's belly was not an egg with a follicle, but a larva with the egg already torn out.
It looks different from the larvae that crawl out of the eggs.
It was very fast and accurately hit her face, as if it had planned it for a long time. Had it been lying in wait?
Jiang He was very surprised. She met the larva's murderous eyes.
It was going to kill her.
She actually saw murderous intent in the eyes of a newly born larva.
Jiang He quickly leaned back, grabbed the man's neck with one hand, and restrained him just when his mouth was just inches away from her.
The skin of the larvae is very similar to that of humans, because when they are just born, they are skin and bones, but they do not have any scales or hard armor like other larvae. Moreover, they not only have sickle tentacles, but also human-like hands and feet.
Unlike other larvae whose eyes are white and pupils are gray, this larva's pupils are blue like those of the blue tiger.
After Jiang He grabbed its neck, it twisted its limbs and struggled, baring its teeth and growling at Jiang He angrily.
It was not the squeaking sound of a larva, but the roar of an animal.
Jiang He was stunned.
At the moment she was stunned, the larva kicked and struggled to break free from her, rushed forward, fell off the high platform and landed in the densely packed insect egg cellar.
Jiang He didn't turn her head to look at the fallen larvae. She moved closer to Lan Hu and checked the condition of his internal organs.
Fortunately, there were no other insect eggs in the blue tiger's body, and no insect eggs were attached to its blood and organs.
She pulled the spider silk that she had just removed from the blue tiger, broke the dagger into several pieces, picked out the smallest piece, carefully poked small holes in the blue tiger's belly, and then threaded the spider silk into them to sew it up.
Lan Hu was so weak that he couldn't even speak. Now he came to his senses, glanced at his belly full of blood holes, and asked Jiang He: "Are you okay just now? That thing was pretty ferocious."
Jiang He: "I'm fine."
Lan Hu glanced again, stunned. "What the hell is that thing you sewed? It's no different from a sow's two rows of nipples."
Jiang He: "Oh."
Lan Hu was already numb to her unyielding attitude. He sighed, "It's no use. My body is packed with insect eggs. If I take one out, there will be countless more."
Jiang He: "There was only one insect egg in your stomach, you're fine now."
Lan Hu rolled his eyes: "What do you know?"
Jiang He didn't want to argue with a woman who was bleeding heavily in labor. She focused on stitching up the wound and said, "Yeah."
Lan Hu: ...This stubborn guy makes me so angry!
He tilted his head slightly and looked in the direction of the insect mother.
Teacher Song's instrument detected that the core was inside the insect mother's body.
The guards and prisoners were determined to dig out the core of the worm mother, and they cut at her belly desperately.
The insect mother's belly was already weak, and after feeling the pain, she angrily swung her sickle tentacles and made a sharp sound from her mouth.
The larvae seemed to have received a call from the insect mother and rushed towards these people regardless of everything.
Jiang He finally sewed up Lan Hu's stomach. She wiped the sweat from the corners of her eyes and then went to her pocket to look for medicine.
Her own healing ability is extremely strong, and the medicine she carries has only been used on the nail-eating green python, but because the nail-eating green python is huge, there is not much medicine left now.
Jiang He flipped through the box and found that they were all medicines for stopping bleeding, relieving pain and removing toxins. She lifted Lan Hu's head, fed him all the oral medicines, and sprinkled all the external medicines on his belly.
After doing all this, I finally breathed a sigh of relief, slumped down on the ground, and turned my head to look around for a way out.
She was not interested in the core that everyone wanted to get. The dense insect eggs in the cave and the smell of the sticky liquid made her feel sick. She just wanted to leave here as soon as possible, go outside to get some fresh air, and find the nail-eating green python.
Lan Hu saw the larvae fighting in the depths of the cave. He said to Jiang He, "Do you know why humans are so afraid of the Zerg?"
Jiang He: "I don't know."
She has no past memories, and all her knowledge of the Zerg comes from Teacher Song, so she only knows a little bit.
Lan Hu: "The Zerg's eggs can parasitize any living thing, whether it's a human or a mutant. They will all be parasitized by the eggs, becoming a breeding ground for the Zerg. After parasitizing, these eggs will also improve their own genes based on the host's genes. Their genes are constantly learning from each other's strengths and weaknesses, and they are constantly evolving."
Jiang He thought of the larvae that had just jumped out of the blue tiger's body, with human-like limbs and skin, and eyes like a blue tiger...
After being reminded by Lan Hu, she suddenly realized that the larvae just now even had some similarities with Lan Hu in terms of facial features.
Lan Hu: "Thank you, I can live a little longer."
He changed the subject so quickly that Jiang He was stunned. "Oh, you're welcome."
Lan Hu: ...Can't you hear it? He's being sarcastic! !
"Don't look for it. There's no way out here. The insect queen wants to kill all the female insects to secure her position. If there's a way out, the male insects will rush in to protect the young female insects."
Lan Hu said, "Until the insect mother kills all the female insects, the road to the outside world will not be opened."
Jiang He: "You know more about the Zerg than Teacher Song."
Lan Hu sneered: "My home planet has been eaten away by the Zerg bit by bit. I've been fighting them for so many years, how could I not understand?"
It sounded like a sad thing. Jiang He didn't know how to comfort him and could only remain silent.
Everyone has sad stories, but fortunately she is lucky and has forgotten all her sad stories.
Suddenly, Lan Hu's body suddenly jumped down from the small platform. He held the short knife that Jiang He had broken in his hand. He jumped onto the insect mother's belly and rushed towards its head quickly.
The worm mother's belly looks thin, but this is actually the worm mother's strongest layer of skin, which is difficult to pierce.
Jiang He didn't expect that after Lan Hu recovered from the paralysis caused by the spider silk, the first thing he did was to jump down and fight the insect queen.
But considering Lan Hu's temperament and his experience on his home planet, this seems to be reasonable.
Jiang He pinched the scales in his hand and jumped down.
The insect queen's scythe tentacles waved wildly, and the three sharp tongues in its mouthparts quickly stabbed at the guards and prisoners who wanted to get close to its head.
It was angered by humans, and its squeaking sound echoed throughout the cave.
Suddenly, its cry stopped.
It was A's black dagger that pierced its skull, splitting its head in two.
"Damn!" Lan Hu saw the insect mother's head split open and turned to Jiang He, who had just landed on the insect mother's belly, and shouted, "Hide quickly."
The insect queen's belly is huge, and there is no place to hide around it, unless you jump into the cellar where larvae are still fighting each other.
Moreover, Lan Hu's warning came too late. Almost as soon as he finished speaking, the insect mother's belly exploded, and the dense insect eggs and serum inside splashed everywhere, sweeping everyone into the larvae pit where they were fighting.
Jiang He finally understood why Lan Hu told her to hide.
Oops, I shouldn’t have jumped off the platform just now.
They fell into the larvae pit like breadcrumbs into a fish pond, and all the larvae rushed towards them.
These larvae can breathe and swim freely in the slurry, but it is difficult for people to move inside. Most of them fall into the center of the slurry, and it is a bit difficult to get back to the ground through the dense larvae.
Lan Hu was seriously injured. He had just jumped down from the small platform to kill the insect mother out of pure hatred.
The moment the insect mother's head was pierced in half, he glared at A who attacked, and then rushed towards A quickly.
Killing a queen insect was his obsession. Now he had a rare opportunity, but someone got there first. At this moment, he even had the urge to smash A's head into pieces.
A stood on the Worm Mother's shoulder, slowly wiping his dagger. He glanced at the charging Blue Tiger and said slowly, "0112 fell into the slurry."
His words gave Lan Hu's anger-filled mind a sudden start. He turned his head and saw Jiang He falling into the slurry, with the larvae baring their teeth and swarming towards her.
Lan Hu glared fiercely at A who was so close to him, and finally turned around and jumped into the slurry.
But he was already at the end of his strength and lost consciousness after jumping into the slurry.
Jiang He used the scales in her hand as a knife, and in the hazy liquid, she saw 7039.
He pulled a prisoner in front of him, shielding him from the larvae's attack. The larvae's sharp claws tore the prisoner's head off. 7039 used the prisoner's body as a shield, searching the prisoner's body as he fled.
When Jiang He looked at him, he also saw Jiang He.
This kind of thing happened frequently in the training camp. Jiang He withdrew his gaze and climbed up the deep cellar filled with mucus and larvae in another direction.
Because the worm mother's belly exploded, one-third of the blood hole was filled with the worm mother's fluid and eggs.
Jiang He had just climbed up the slope when he turned around and saw the blue tiger in the slurry.
This guy was in a coma and didn't move after falling into the slurry. The larvae around him pounced on him like hungry beasts smelling meat.
Jiang He's heart was lifted instantly, and he threw himself into the slurry again without hesitation.
But when she approached the blue tiger, she found that there was a larva protecting the blue tiger. All the larvae that wanted to pounce on the blue tiger were brutally torn into pieces by this larva.
This larva has blue eyes.
It was the one that was cut out from the blue tiger's stomach.
As soon as she approached, the blue-eyed larvae that were biting their companions immediately turned their heads and bared their teeth at her ferociously, but when they saw it was her, they were stunned for a moment and then turned their heads to pounce on another larva that wanted to bite the blue tiger.
Jiang He held the scales in one hand and grabbed Lan Hu's arm with the other.
It's impossible to breathe in the mucus. Even with the protection of the blue-eyed larvae, the blue tiger cannot survive in the mucus. She has to drag people out.
She thought the blue-eyed larva was going to attack her and was ready to fight.
But unexpectedly, when he was about to swim to the surface of the slime with Blue Tiger in tow, the other party did not catch up to stop him.
Not only did it not catch up with her, it also helped her bite and drive away all the larvae that were trying to pounce on her.
Jiang He glanced back at the blue-eyed larvae as the mucus emerged.
The blue-eyed larvae were very powerful. The larvae were torn to pieces by it and hid far away, not daring to provoke it again. When Jiang He turned around, it was chewing a larva's head in its mouth and staring at the blue tiger.
Jiang He withdrew his gaze and dragged Lan Hu up the slope.
After coming out this time, there were a few guards and prisoners from the training camp on the slope. They had just climbed up and were lying on the slope, gasping for breath.
"The core is in here." Teacher Song, also injured, wiped the mucus from his face and said, "It's right here, a huge ball of energy."
The others were moved by his words and after taking a rest, they jumped into the slurry again to look for the core.
Even the most terrifying insect queen is dead, and the core is within reach. These larvae are not a big threat.
Jiang He kept a distance from everyone. Lan Hu was still breathing, and most aliens were not easy to kill. After she squeezed out all the mucus that Lan Hu had poured into his stomach, she sat aside to rest.
Her pocket was a little bulging, so she wiped the mucus off her face and casually took out a transparent crystal core from her pocket. It was not big, only half the size of her palm, and was round, smooth and shiny.
Is it a crystal core?
But she couldn't feel the breath of the crystal core.
Just when she was confused, the white characters on the transparent screen in front of her, which had been silent for a long time, began to scroll rapidly again.
Just as Jiang He looked around vigilantly, waiting for the impending danger, the white characters finished scrolling and the screen went blank, as if the pause button had been pressed.
Previously, the white characters on the screen were constantly scrolling, and there was no blank screen situation.
Just as she was wondering, four bold characters appeared on the screen in front of her:
Are you sure you want to log in?
There are options for "Yes" and "No" below.
There is another line of small black text below the option: User genetic information has been detected, and the user is eligible to log in to the "The Abyss" live broadcast room. If you refuse, please click "No".
The abyss of evil?
The live broadcast program of A62 to the entire galaxy is called "The Evil Abyss", but Jiang He doesn't think it is a magical fate because of the same name.
She didn't expect that this screen, which only existed as a warning, could also enter the live broadcast room of "The Abyss".
Is this transparent screen a high-tech item from ancient ruins, or a smart screen dropped here by modern people?
Although he was extremely confused, Jiang He did not hesitate at all and reached out to press the "Yes" button.
She didn't think anyone was trying to sting her. She was a prisoner with nothing, a miserable life, and nothing that could be targeted by anyone.
Her fingers were wet and covered with mucus. When she touched it, the mucus on her fingers "popped" and fell first on the "no" mark.
The screen responded immediately, and a bunch of unfamiliar characters scrolled out.
I can't understand it, not a single character.
After waiting for a long time, no new text appeared. Only a bunch of unfamiliar characters, the same as before, slowly refreshed the screen.
Jiang He guessed that the screen had just defaulted to "No".
...I'm so speechless!
A walked over from a distance and glanced at the blue tiger lying next to Jiang He. "When a new female insect is born, all male insects will smell its message."
The males will rush here, pry open the sealed nest, and then have sex with the females.
Jiang He: "There's no way out. We can only wait for the male insect to dig this hole open."
A nodded and said nothing more.
Compared to the other guards and prisoners who kept entering the slime, the two of them seemed out of place.
Watching the people being surrounded and eaten by the larvae in the slime, Teacher Song looked anxious: "The core is clearly here. Such rich and powerful energy can't be wrong. Why hasn't anyone fished it out?"
Suddenly, as if he had thought of something, he turned his head and stared at A and Jiang He: "Did you two get the core?"
Suddenly, a prisoner in the slime screamed miserably: "Ahhh, hurry up, pull me up, there is a monster in there..."
He looked terrified and raised his hands high towards the slope. The people resting on the slope did not reach out to pull him. Because of Teacher Song's words, these people all stared at Jiang He and A with unfriendly faces.
The next moment, a whirlpool suddenly appeared around the screaming prisoner's body and swallowed him.
The people on the slope ignored the vortexes that appeared in the slime. They stood up, transformed into mechanical forms, and approached Jiang He and A, "Hand over the core."
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