The death of a bug
As the supreme political power center, heavily guarded by the First Legion and the Zerg Mother's Guards, Saint Hobel's Palace is arguably the safest area in the entire Zerg-governed star region. Furthermore, the Palace Star Court is a gathering place for the heirs of high-ranking families, so its security is even more formidable.
According to the Zerg's understanding, it was impossible for alien species to appear in such a place. The defense was mainly aimed at internal fighting among the Zerg, and the weapons equipped were mainly light weapons such as tranquilizer rounds that would not cause casualties.
Who could have imagined that in the campus that should have been the safest, there would appear alien species that only appeared at the edge of the universe!
The alien species that evolved from the interstellar Zerg are generally considered the most difficult to deal with. They often retain the original racial characteristics of the Zerg, such as hard shells and flying elytra. They are highly sensitive and defensive, requiring heavy weapons to penetrate their armor and an organized encirclement and suppression to kill.
This alien seemed to be a newly degraded Zerg. Its body was not very big, but it was extremely flexible. The security team fired more than a dozen tranquilizer bullets at it, but they had no effect on it. Instead, they knocked down a large number of students who had no time to take shelter.
The moment the alarm sounded, the Tiger Guards immediately formed a wall of insects, shielding Alyssa behind them. Ryan held Alyssa on his left and the slow-moving snail cub on his right, evacuating to the safe house as quickly as possible under the protection of the wall of insects.
Alyssa's stomach ached from the poke of Ryan's arm. She looked up amidst the violent turbulence and saw the students falling. Not knowing that this was just the anesthetic effect of the sedative, she panicked and desperately slapped Ryan's gauntlet: "Ryan! Ryan! Go save them!"
"Hmph!" (Your Majesty Alyssa, my mission is to protect you!)
"They'll die!" Alyssa burst into tears. Ryan felt the tears of the insect mother dripping onto his shoulder armor like magma, burning from the shoulder armor all the way to his heart. He gave an order, and half of the Tiger Guards separated from the insect wall and flew towards the alien.
The Tiger Guards, entering the campus, weren't equipped with heavy weapons to combat the aliens. However, they were well-trained military insects, having undergone numerous coordinated combat drills. They quickly surrounded the alien from eight directions. With a series of whirring sounds, several steel cables shot out from the Tiger Guards' gauntlets, tightly encircling the alien.
Who knew that the insectoid, seeing it couldn't break through, suddenly opened its tail armor, and a long, strip-like body stretched out from its tail, plunging into the ground! The Tiger Guards were only entangled in its shed carapace!
Without time to think, Tiger Guard immediately pulled over the intercom and shouted, "Captain! The alien is mutating very quickly! It's burrowing underground, alert!"
Ryan immediately spread his elytra and took flight, but for a large insect like the giant stag beetle, flight wasn't their strong suit. Ryan glanced to his left, and Severus, who had been following closely behind the worm mother, immediately spread his wings. Just as Ryan was about to hand the worm mother to Severus, there were sudden, crisp sounds from the granite floor below, and the alien creature burst out from the ground!
The alien that rushed out accurately located the insect queen, aiming right in the middle of Sevier and Ryan. They were both thrown off balance by the sudden attack, and Alyssa was thrown into the air!
Amidst the flying granite debris, Alyssa stared wide-eyed at the centipede-like, earthworm-like monster covered in spines. The monster scattered them, then arched its body and shot towards her like lightning!
At the critical moment, Ryan quickly transformed into an insect, and the 15-meter-long giant forked mountain stag beetle claws suddenly closed, clamping the alien species tightly. The downward force brought by the huge weight brought the alien species down with it, and a huge cloud of dust was smashed on the granite ground, and Alyssa was also falling!
At this moment, Seville really hated himself for not being a bee. His large wings made it difficult for him to adjust his balance and fly. He flapped his wings desperately and reached out to the falling Alyssa: "Your Majesty Alyssa!"
Just as Alyssa was about to touch the ground, the snail cub nicknamed Mumu, who was held in Ryan's right hand, rolled on the ground and turned into a snail more than four meters tall. He stretched out his soft and elastic body, wrapped Alyssa like a spring pad, and then dragged her into his shell.
Only then did Seville collapse limply from exhaustion.
Snails, hermaphroditic insects, only determine their gender after choosing a partner. Only then will they be given a formal name based on their gender, so Mumu only has a nickname.
Alyssa was tightly wrapped in Mumu's shell. The space inside the shell was originally only big enough for Mumu, but now with Alyssa inside, it was extremely cramped. Alyssa couldn't breathe easily, but she didn't dare make a sound because she could sense that Mumu was terrified.
Occasionally, gravel would hit Mumu's shell, making a dull thud. Faintly, one could hear the alien's shrill cries and the sharp sounds of its claws opening and closing.
After a while, the alien stopped calling, and the sound outside the shell sounded like something was breaking, or like some liquid was spilled on the shell.
A disgusting, fishy smell came from the gap in Mumu's shell that couldn't completely close. Mumu was shaking violently. Alyssa tried to pull her hand out from his shrinking soft flesh and gently stroked him: "It's okay, it's okay..."
Mumu gradually calmed down under Alyssa's comfort. The sound of insects talking could be heard from outside the shell, as if many insects were gathering. Alyssa wanted to know what the battle situation was like outside the shell, whether Ryan had won, and whether the fallen students were still alive.
She wanted Mumu to let her out, but Mumu still held her tightly. From the tightly pressed bodies, Alyssa clearly sensed the message Mumu was conveying: it was dangerous, and she couldn't go out.
For the martial Zerg, especially adolescent students, nothing can get their adrenaline rushing better than witnessing a fierce battle with their own eyes.
The moment Ryan transformed, countless students rushed toward the astonishingly large, forked mountain stag beetle. Fortunately, the Tiger Guards and security team reacted quickly, forming a large circle to isolate the students from the tragic scene. The students, knowing their own limitations, refrained from forcing their way in. Instead, they activated the recording mode on their computers and watched with grimaces as the Chief of the Guards, the Mother Worm, tore the newborn alien into pieces. The exterior of the neat, childlike building in the Rugong Xingyuan cub activity area was splattered with the alien's dark green blood, the stench of blood further agitating the students.
The lampposts began spraying tranquilizer spray again. The reason why fighting alien species makes Zerg so agitated is that both the battle scene itself and the flesh and blood of the alien species stimulate the Zerg's adrenaline.
Alyssa was very anxious, and she suddenly thought, could she try to use her mental power to see what was happening outside the shell?
As a result, the Zerg at the scene suddenly felt as if a layer of soft gauze was brushing against their faces, and their attention was all focused on a gray snail shell not far from the battle scene.
The pale golden, densely interwoven worm mother's spiritual energy spread out from the snail shell, quickly covering a large area. Alyssa opened her golden compound eyes, and a double vision appeared before her. One side was the pitch-black, opaque snail shell, while the other side was filled with numerous golden dots of light.
These golden spots of light are the spiritual power of the Zerg present.
Among them, the one that Alyssa was most familiar with and the one that caught her eye the most was Ryan, whose spiritual anchor had been incorporated into her spiritual world. Ryan's golden light spot was in the shape of a beetle.
But next to Ryan, there was a deep red light flickering, as if it was about to go out at any time.
……What's this?
...Is this the monster's mental power?
Alyssa said to Mumu: “Mumu, let me out!”
Mumu still stubbornly refused to let go, and Sewell tried to persuade him through a layer of shell: "Your Highness, the remains of the alien species need to wait for a special recovery team to clean up. Please wait for a moment, and the Tiger Armor Guard will help you transfer..."
Alyssa was anxious, and her words seemed to resonate from deep within her body, carrying with them her mental power, so that every Zerg present could hear them clearly: "By order of the Zerg Queen, let me out!!!"
Seville stepped back, and Mumu relaxed his confined shell.
The petite insect queen crawled out of the snail's hole. She looked utterly disheveled, her soft hair covered in snail slime, her neatly ironed uniform wrinkled, and one of her shoes missing.
Alyssa had never witnessed such a terrifying scene. The adrenaline rush from its insect transformation hadn't yet subsided, and the giant forked mountain stag beetle, unable to return to its mimic form, had bits of alien flesh still hanging from its claws. The Tiger Guards and security team, their elytra fully spread, hovered in the air. And the students, watching from the agitation, had their eyes transformed into insects.
Dark green, slimy plasma splattered like plump berries burst by a punch, scattering everywhere from trees to streetlights to the ground. At the center of the radiating plasma lay the long, centipede-like, earthworm-like monster she had seen before. Its hard, spiny armor had shattered, its body cleaved and split into several sections. It was completely lifeless, with only the exposed flesh still occasionally responding to the most basic spinal reflexes.
In Alyssa's vision, the crimson spiritual light spot that was about to go out overlapped with the monster in front of her.
"Are you a bug?" Alyssa walked forward step by step, ignoring the dirt on the ground, tears flowing from her golden compound eyes. "Are you a bug?"
Those light golden, outward-expanding linear mental powers gradually converged into a thick golden thread and placed it on the alien's head.
The security team members who were searching the gym equipment room flew towards Ryan at full speed: "Report! We found an intelligent computer in the equipment room. It belongs to a student named Meyer!"
He flew over and saw the scene clearly, then quickly fell silent.
Alyssa knelt beside the alien's head, holding its tentacle, which was no longer recognizable as an insectoid. "Is it Meyer? Is it Meyer?"
Meyer's spiritual world had been shattered. Alyssa could only see that his spiritual world was like a bowl with a hole in the bottom, and thick, sweet red syrup was leaking down the broken bowl.
It’s the first honey!
Alyssa desperately used her mental tentacles to fish in the red syrup waterfall. She could vaguely hear an unfamiliar voice, saying to her in a weak voice, "Your Majesty Alyssa... I'm sorry... The photo..."
What photo? Alyssa wove her mental power into a net, and finally filtered out the syrup that made her uncomfortable. It seemed that a small object fell into her net.
An old pocket watch engraved with the family crest.
Alyssa said, "Meyer! I have found your spiritual anchor point, and I will incorporate it into my spiritual world. Your spiritual anchor point is in the world of the Worm Mother, and you will die as a worm."
"Her Majesty Alyssa..."
The crimson light turned back to gold in the last moment before it went out.
On the alien's head, the dense stalactite-like spines faded away, and the distinct tentacles could be distinguished again.
A stink bug.
Mayer died, and he died as a bug.
The surrounding insects lowered their heads, and sad pheromones filled the air.
They were mourning the death of a bug.
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