bookbashuk Chapter 43 Insect Mother
Chapter 43 Insect Mother
"fireworks?"
Messenger 7582’s compound eye flickered.
Although it doesn't understand what fireworks are.
But after watching that "memory blockbuster," it has developed a blind trust in the destructive power of this group.
Even if Xing suggested boiling this sea to make seafood soup, it would probably nod and say, "Great idea."
"Come with me."
The messenger turned around and pulled out a fist-sized sphere that emitted a faint blue light from the gap in the shell on his back.
"This is the 'pheromone blocker' we developed."
"It can mimic the odor signals of true larvae."
"As long as we don't get too close or make any obvious aggressive moves, those big guys will most likely treat us as... immature members of their own kind."
It hung the sphere on its chest.
The blue light spread out, forming a pale blue light shield with a diameter of about ten meters.
"Limited scope."
The messenger reminded him.
"Everyone, squeeze in."
Hoshino glanced at the somewhat cramped halo.
Then he looked at the people around him.
We definitely need to squeeze in.
This is practically... a VIP suite experience in a deep-sea sightseeing elevator?
"Let's go."
Dan Heng gripped Ji Yun tightly.
Although he was underwater, he did not feel any discomfort.
As the enlightened dragon lord, water is as natural to him as air.
He can even create an invisible water-repelling barrier around him, so that people don't have to blow bubbles like fish.
The group walked out of the protective force field of Crystal City.
The moment I stepped into the deep sea.
The light dimmed instantly.
The oppressive feeling that couldn't be felt in Crystal City was like a million tons of seawater, weighing heavily on everyone's hearts.
It's very dark here.
Only the faint afterglow of the red dwarf star pierced through the thick ice, casting a pale, dark red glow.
The seawater was extremely murky.
Unidentified fluffy substances and severed limbs were floating everywhere.
That is……
The leftover scraps after being eaten.
"Over there."
The messenger lowered his voice (although it was translated through a beacon, the tension was still conveyed).
It pointed to the deeper darkness ahead.
"That's a trench."
"It's also a geological fissure on this planet."
"The mother insect... builds her nest there."
Everyone held their breath.
They cautiously slid into the abyss.
True hibernating insects began to appear around.
At first, there were only a few scattered ones.
Like scouts on patrol.
They have golden carapaces, sharp scythe-like forelimbs, and pairs of compound eyes that glow eerily in the darkness.
A large, adult true cricket swam past the light shield.
We were so close we could almost touch its tentacles.
It stopped.
The enormous head turned towards the crowd.
Compound eye rotation.
It seemed to be sizing up this group of strange "larvae".
Hoshi felt like her heart was about to jump out of her chest.
She covered her mouth tightly.
Her left hand gripped Xing's clothes tightly.
I was afraid of making the slightest sound.
Don't look at me, don't look at me...
I don't like it!
I'm all bones!
And I also have toxins (fertility factors) in my body! Eating me will give you diarrhea!
Fortunately.
That jammer is really something.
The real stinging insect sniffed.
I seem to smell a familiar scent.
It flicked its tail.
It turned and swam away.
............
"call……"
Xing let out a long sigh of relief.
He put the Molotov cocktail he had been clutching back into his pocket.
"It works quite well."
The deeper you go, the more you realize how much you need to explore.
The greater the density of insects.
If we were just strolling down the street a moment ago...
It's like being crammed into the subway during rush hour.
Insects were everywhere.
Black, red, gold.
Big ones, small ones, and ones without legs.
They were crammed together densely.
It's like a pot of porridge that's been boiled.
Or rather...
It resembles a giant, wriggling biological organ.
Even with a shield.
The group's pace was forced to slow down.
Because there was no road at all.
We had to carefully squeeze through the gaps between those insects.
"This quantity..."
On March 7th, he looked around at the constantly wriggling carapaces.
I'm getting trypophobia.
"Isn't that too much?"
"If a real fight breaks out... even if we break the bow, we still won't be able to shoot them all!"
"This is 'breeding'."
Nguyen Mai watched the insects that were still splitting and feeding.
His eyes were cold.
"Lack of individual consciousness."
"Only the accumulation of numbers exists for the continuation of the population."
"A life form that is... nauseating."
at last.
After traversing a labyrinthine tunnel of insect swarms.
The view ahead suddenly opened up.
Or.
A huge, open space appeared ahead.
That's the very bottom of the trench.
"arrive."
The messenger's voice trembled.
It stopped.
I stopped going forward.
They even started to shrink back.
Everyone looked up.
Look at that entity that occupies the center of the trench.
That instant.
Hoshi felt as if her breath had been cut off.
Big.
too big.
In her memory.
The creation engine is already quite large.
The Jianmu tree is already very tall.
But in front of this thing.
Those all look like toys.