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Bang~!
A crisp gunshot rang out.
This lucky hunter lost his leader and his newly blossoming 'love'.
Serafina is dead.
Oz is half-mad.
"Blood... the blood of hunters on different bounty paths is different colors! Look! Look at the color of that blood! Hahaha...!"
Oz waved his hands, babbling incoherently, and stumbled away, leaving behind only a frantic murmur drifting in the wind.
Qiong leaped to Serafina's corpse, showing no mercy, and kicked her head as if kicking a soccer ball:
"Brother, you can fool yourself, but don't fool me too."
To be honest, Qiong is quite looking forward to seeing how Aha can completely fool him in the romantic drama.
Just imagining that scene made him think...it would be so interesting!
Playing around is a kind of sophisticated entertainment, but...
Qiong glanced at the earrings on Xing Shida's earlobes.
With this thing around, it'll be very difficult for Him to succeed!
"Qiongzai~"
Xing Shida moved closer to Qiong, winked mischievously, poked the still-warm arm of the corpse on the ground with her finger, and teased with a grin:
"This is a rare opportunity, wouldn't you like to... seize the moment?"
"Get out of here."
Qiong wanted to kick him, but considering Estella's situation, he gave Hoshida a merciless flick on the forehead!
"Ow!"
Xingshida covered her forehead and cried out exaggeratedly.
"but……"
Qiong withdrew his hand, his gaze sweeping across the chaotic battlefield:
"This development isn't too bad."
Now, a group of bounty hunters, driven to collective madness and unable to distinguish between humans and insects, roam the ruins like out-of-control beasts.
The army of Hieledil and Mitri, intent on conquering the planet, are sharpening their claws.
There are also the Shireidiling army and Mitri, who want to conquer the star.
So, unsurprisingly, the frenzied bounty hunters, brandishing their weapons, charged headlong into the army's well-prepared positions like an out-of-control torrent.
war!
An unprecedented and extremely brutal massacre erupted on the blood-red land of the planet!
Of course, the devastation was for both the bounty hunters and the Zerg.
The army's manpower consumption is extremely low. The bioengineering team has completed the general's order: to transform the swarm itself into the most terrifying biological weapon!
The cold, impersonal commands are transmitted through the military network.
"Target identification protocol - off!"
Whether it's ferocious insects or desperate humans standing in their way, the swarm simply kills.
Just kill them!
Conquer is all that matters!
Crush all obstacles!
The insects' chitinous exoskeletons shattered under the bombardment of energy weapons, and human limbs were tossed about by the swarm's claws and fangs.
Thick, green insect blood mixed with scarlet human blood, tissue fluid, and charred debris flowed and mingled freely on the ground, emitting a nauseating sweet, fishy, and burnt stench.
Right at the very center of this meat grinder, a wounded insect with a cracked shell struggled to crawl out from the pile of corpses of its kin and humans.
Its compound eyes reflected endless death and destruction—it was the last surviving individual of the beetle-like coleopteran group.
An unprecedented, chilling hatred and loneliness surged through its simple nerve cords like an electric current.
Then, something even more shocking than the hell before our eyes happened!
On the battlefield, all the remaining insect swarms seemed to receive the same supreme command, instantly ceasing their futile fleeing and fighting. Ignoring the hail of bullets and trampling, they frantically poured their last bit of life force into reproduction!
Om-!
Countless insect eggs congealed, swelled, and burst out of thin air amidst the smoke and blood, giving rise to countless new generation insectoid individuals of various shapes and sizes, like a tidal wave.
Then, the last member of the order Betelgeuses soared into the sky from the blood, broken shells, and slime, leaving behind all the chaos, slaughter, and endless smoke.
The instant it broke free from the gravitational pull of the star—in the darkness, the entire galaxy seemed to hold its breath.
"coming!"
The sound of the Black Tower pierced through all the background noise.
"Is this...the moment of His birth?"
Nguyen Mai's tone was unusually agitated.
"The spectrum of cosmic life will thus turn a new page."
The mechanical creaking of the screws carried a solemn sense of witnessing history, while the surrounding screen data flowed like a waterfall.
Qiong raised its head, gazing at the enormous eye in the cosmos, and cried out on its behalf, announcing its current feelings.
"Barzebu, I have ascended to godhood!"
"No, no, no, Taizyuros doesn't deserve this."
As soon as Xing Shida finished speaking, her body emitted a white light, intense yet not dazzling, like a gentle cocoon enveloping her.
The next second, in the gentle separation of white light, Xing Shida's figure split in two, transforming into two completely different girls.
A gray-haired man, his face still bearing the vivid expression from his earlier rant.
A pink-haired girl with bright, lively eyes, exuding the thrill of an adventure.
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Volume 1: Chapter 504 The Horror of Breeding, Wings Fluttering and Waves
To be honest, in previous collaborative research, Black Tower didn't quite understand Nguyen Mai's strong interest in Taizyuros.
Perhaps it was because the global locust plague He caused was too big a commotion?
It was truly shocking.
But that's all there is.
The Sand King is different from the other Star Gods. He doesn't even possess the wisdom of an ordinary human, let alone extraordinary wisdom.
His mind was completely empty except for reproduction; there was nothing in it.
All it does is breed, breed, and it's all about breeding!
Because of the countless Zerg offspring who embarked on the path of [breeding], their thought patterns are like a clumsy copy, almost incapable of generating any complex thoughts beyond the core command of breeding.
But at this moment, witnessing the terrifying evolution taking place on the Parasite Star, brought about by His ascension to godhood and the creation of [reproduction], the Black Tower had to admit in awe:
It is precisely this absolute single-threaded thinking that has allowed Taizyuros to take the path of "breeding" to its extreme.
He doesn't even need to do it deliberately; with just a shake of his body, he can plunge all the insects in the universe into an endless, frenzied, and limitless cycle of self-replication.
"Wow... so many bugs!"
Having inherited Starstar's memories, Estella was not confused or bewildered by the situation before her.
But without the buffer of Xingna's abstract thinking filter, facing the dense swarm of insects that would kill someone with trypophobia on the spot, she was somewhat distressed, and her face instantly lost its color.
Influenced by the lingering sense of dependence on Hoshida, she almost instinctively shrank into Qiong's arms and hugged him tightly.
"Wow!"
In stark contrast to Estella's terror, Hoshino smacked her lips, savoring the peculiar taste of roasted sugar worms from Estella's memory, while gazing at the ocean of protein before her—enough to burst the stomachs of countless humans.
"This...we can't finish it, we simply can't finish it!"
The insect swarm is surging and multiplying wildly!
All actions are solely for the purpose of achieving one goal: maximum efficiency and the largest possible scale of reproduction!
They don't even need to rely on conventional material and energy exchange; they can multiply out of thin air solely through the power of their [reproduction] destiny.
But in pursuit of higher speed and efficiency, they still greedily devour everything in their path, energy, matter... they devour everything!
Xing watched helplessly as a vast, vibrant grassland was wiped away in the mere seconds it took for the insect swarm to pass by, as if erased by an invisible eraser, leaving only desolate yellow sand.
The fleeting fantasy of food on her face vanished instantly, her expression turning incredibly serious, even tinged with a hint of horror:
"My suggestion is to run."
This is absolutely inedible.
You'll get eaten by the other side!
"Then what are you still standing here for?"
Qiong kicked Xing's butt with the back of her foot, picked up Aistar and sprinted a hundred meters, rushing towards the nearest Xiling Army warship docking area like an arrow released from a bow.
Mitri, in his search for 'self-meaning,' has gone half-mad and will never order his army to retreat, remaining immersed in his delusional dream of conquering everything and building civilization.
As General Qiong's right-hand man, it was easy for him to obtain control of a non-combat starship. He deliberately chose a small one with the strongest engine thrust and equipped with a basic point defense fire control system.
With the engines roaring and the tail jets emitting a stream of eerie blue ions, Qiong piloted a small starship, rising from the surface of the star like a moth breaking free from a spider web.
During the brief escape from the atmosphere of the worm-infested planet, Qiong didn't forget to use the starship's fire control system to fire a few shots at the surging swarm of insects below.
call out--!
Boom!
The explosion burst into flames within the swarm of insects, instantly clearing a small area, but it was filled back up in less than a second.
"really…"
Qiong glanced at the points displayed on the system interface and a slight smile appeared on her lips.
"Killing these insects that have embarked on the path of [breeding] will give you more points than the ordinary insects on the Silver Star."
Estella stood beside Sora, her pink eyes reflecting the apocalyptic scene outside the porthole.
The land of the worm-infested planet is being covered by a living blanket that is constantly writhing and multiplying.
"So... this is just the tip of the iceberg of the global locust plagues recorded in history?"
The pink-haired girl murmured softly, her voice filled with indescribable emotions:
"This is... absolutely stunning!"
“In the past, some staff members on the space station submitted research projects on global locust plagues, and I have reviewed their reports and simulations…”
Estelle shook her head slightly, her fingertips unconsciously touching the cool porthole.
"But those cold words and charts cannot even begin to capture one ten-thousandth of the despair and madness of what is before us."
Perhaps it was the shock of the overwhelming scene before her that overturned her understanding, or perhaps it was the sense of habit and dependence brought about by Xingshida's memories.
Estella was completely unaware of how close she was to Sora at that moment.
A delicate hand rested on the glass, and the planet below was reflected in Estella's pupils.
The hatchery, where countless alien insects burst forth from the soil and squeeze each other, covered and devoured the continuous mountains and rivers, leaving only a jagged skeleton.
"did not expect……"
Estelle's voice carried a hint of relief, but the thought that this was a simulated universe and the academic value of this scene quickly replaced her fear with the excitement of a researcher:
"I actually witnessed the beginnings of a global locust plague! I even had the privilege of glimpsing the birth of a star god!"
Suddenly remembering something, she abruptly turned her head, eagerly gazing at the deep starry sky, while instinctively grabbing Qiong's wrist beside her: