Chapter 246 The King's Appreciation
Too many insects died in this battle.
Corpses were piled on top of each other, the dead became food for blood, and the living were still fighting brutally. The blood gathered into a river in the low-lying areas, rushing westward with a strong smell of blood.
If such a brutal civil war were to occur among the human race, it would surely be recorded in history, and the human race would be dubbed the "meat grinder" for future generations to learn from, or even become a test point.
But the protagonists of this battle are bugs.
There are countless such battles among the Zerg.
Their roars before death were earth-shaking, but after death there was no sound at all.
When the war is over, within a few months, this soil watered by blood will bloom with gorgeous flowers in the cold winter wind.
Only the flowers and plants of that time can prove that these low-IQ creatures once existed.
"Your Majesty, should I go and stop them?" the strange Zerg creature asked in a low voice.
If Su Xia were here, she would definitely recognize this creature.
After the defense of the oasis camp was over, a small swift bug appeared in Su Xia’s warehouse and pulled him into a hallucination.
The illusory world was grey and misty, giving off an indescribable sense of weirdness.
And this creature, in the hazy mist, had countless tentacles and a deformed, hunched body, like some heretical evil god in ancient legends.
At that time, the creature said that he wanted to talk to Su Xia about the issue of cooperation, and perhaps the human race and the Zerg could first join forces to kill the mechanical race.
But Su Xia explicitly refused, because at that time he did not fully understand the background of this world.
The creature next to the woman was a smaller version of the creature that Su Xia had imagined.
The shrunken him did not look as abstract as in the hallucination, but his body was still hunched and dark brown. His facial features were flatter than Voldemort's. There were more than a dozen densely packed tentacles growing on both sides of his black cheeks. His hands and feet were skinny and twisted, and behind him was a piece of tattered gray-black linen that fluttered in the wind.
"It's almost over, what's the point of calling a halt?" The woman frowned, folded her arms and said, "Those two guys can't sit still anymore, let's see how strong they are."
"yes."
The strange creature nodded slightly and stretched out its left hand. The arm squirmed and changed, splitting into dry vine-like tentacles, and several tentacles turned into a bench.
Then he said respectfully, "Your Majesty, please take a seat."
"No, take it back."
"yes."
The strange creature retracted its tentacles, and the tattered gray-black linen cloth behind it suddenly flew up in the wind, growing a little bigger, shielding the woman from the cold rain falling from the sky.
They were standing high up on the hillside, which should have made them very conspicuous. However, in such a huge battlefield, not a single insect noticed them.
It was as if there was an invisible fog between them and the battlefield.
When the time was approaching six in the morning, the lords of the two insect nests finally took action.
On the battlefield, Su Xia raised his head, the cold rain hit his face, and he keenly sensed two increasingly powerful spiritual energy fluctuations.
He also broke through to level four.
Oddly enough, the breakthrough of this clone did not require any illusions. It just happened naturally as long as there was enough energy, as if it was a body built for psychic power.
“Boom!”
There was a sudden explosion from the insect nest in the distance.
Then, a sharp scream tore through the sky, and a huge shadow broke through the air, flapping its wings and piercing through the rain, like a king returning from purgatory.
A flash of lightning passed by, and a huge and hideous shadow was cast on the bloody ground.
Following this long roar, the entire battlefield fell silent for a moment.
All the insects participating in the war on both sides knew that the kings of the two insect nests were going to fight.
A moment later, a deafening roar came from another insect nest, and the terrifying psychic energy fluctuations were facing the king in the sky from afar.
No matter how brutal the previous fighting was, the moment the lords of both sides appeared, the fighting on the battlefield stopped, as if by tacit understanding.
"roar!"
"roar!"
The insects screamed and roared towards the sky, as if to increase the momentum of their king.
In the sky, the monster had a wingspan of nearly thirty meters and was extremely terrifying, like a prehistoric behemoth. After screaming a few times, it swooped down on another insect nest on the ground.
In that insect nest, the lord creature showed its murderous intent. It jumped up and swept across with its blade-like arms.
"bite--"
The collision between flesh, blood, scales and armor actually made a metallic sound.
The terrifying spiritual energy exploded at the point of intersection, turning into a shock wave visible to the naked eye, shattering countless raindrops in the air, like a storm sweeping across.
The battle between the two sides was full of blood and cruelty from the very beginning, like a lone wolf fighting an eagle.
The Zerg's physical advantage was fully demonstrated in this battle.
On a hill in the distance, the woman stared at the battlefield with an unchanged expression and asked, "What do you think?"
The strange creature beside her replied, "The little flying one wins."
"Um."
No matter from which angle you look at it, the black overlord will be the ultimate winner.
He had the advantages of strength and flying, and took the initiative in the attack from the very beginning. He also had a firm control over the rhythm after the start of the war.
On the ground, the Shadow Hunter could only fight back passively and rarely launched active attacks.
After several rounds, the Shadow Hunter had more than ten horrific bloody marks on his body.
The outcome of this battle is actually already determined.
Fighting seemed pointless.
But the woman also knew that forcibly suppressing this internal strife would make both sides dissatisfied. After all, insects are the classic representative of simple minds and strong limbs.
If every battle only requires a comparison of psychic powers, then what is ?
It would be better for the human race and the Zerg to submit to the mechanical race as soon as possible and become the mechanical race's captive biological experimental subjects.
"Huh? What kind of creature is that?" The woman's eyes suddenly focused, and her gaze did not linger on the battle scene between the two lords, but moved to the central area of the battlefield.
Before her eyes, a strange creature appeared that she had never seen before.
It has a human-like body, but is covered with dark red bloody scales, sharp teeth and claws, ferocious wings growing from its back, and a long dark red tail.
In the Zerg evolution history that she had incomplete memories, there had never been anything so strange.
"Your Majesty, could that be a primitive alien insect?" The strange creature beside her spoke, also shifting his gaze to the humanoid monster on the battlefield.
The original alien insects look strange and varied.
Not every primitive Zerg will evolve into a Zerg soldier, some will go further and further on a strange evolutionary path.
The strange creature next to the woman had gone astray on the path of evolution.
But he turned a disaster into a blessing and became stronger than creatures of the same level.
"Let me think about it." The strange creature's eyes flickered. "Looking at his body structure, he should have strong ground combat capabilities and air combat capabilities. It's just that his body is not light enough to compete with flying species such as Black Wing and Gray Shadow. His wings are also too small, so he may only be able to stay in the air for a short time. He has not yet fully evolved..."
"It doesn't look like it evolved from bats..."
"Maybe... a weasel? A lemur?"
"Yes, my queen, I have thought of it. He may have evolved from a lizard."
The strange creature thought of a possibility.
Many primitive Zergs that have taken a divergent evolutionary path have more or less retained some of their pre-evolutionary characteristics.
For example, this strange creature was a giant octopus before it evolved, and it still has tentacles even now.
"In the southeastern forest of this planet, there are many kinds of lizards that can fly. The locals call them flying lizards." The strange creature slowly came over. "Of course, the so-called flying is actually just gliding. The lizards themselves cannot fly for a long time."
"Yeah, that makes sense."
In this way, Su Xia was labeled as a "lizard".
He himself doesn't know it yet.
While the lords of the two insect nests were fighting and the insects on both sides stopped fighting, he moved quietly on the battlefield and secretly absorbed some insect corpses.
It was raining heavily and lightning was flashing. The battlefield was muddy, with blood and mud mixed together. The flesh, internal organs, bones, etc. of the insects were also piled together. His little movements were not noticed by the surrounding insects at all.
But standing on the small hill in the distance, you can see his movements clearly.
"He is devouring the corpses of the other insects?" The woman raised her eyebrows. "He is not affected by the lord creatures of the two insect nests. He is quite powerful and intelligent. It seems that he is like you, a blessing in disguise at a crossroads in evolution. Can you tell his strength?"
"Let me see..."
The strange creature's tentacles squirmed and its eyes flickered as it observed carefully.
After a while, he shook his head slightly and said, "I'm sorry, Queen , his hiding ability is very strong. I can't sense any spiritual energy fluctuations."
"It's okay. He's hiding on purpose. He should be a level 4 creature."
The woman showed a little more interest, and a rare smile appeared on her face. She said, "Compared to those two brainless people who only know how to fight, he should be more suitable to be the lord of these two insect nests ."
"My Queen, I'm afraid he won't be willing."
"Well, let's have a good talk with him later." The woman nodded slightly and changed the subject, "How was your talk with the human leader in the southwest region?"
"My Queen, the human race's management method is very strange. It is not possible for one person to make a decision. Even a small matter can cause them to have internal disputes."
"Not going well?"
"Yes, among the human resistance forces in the southwest region, the only one who can really make the final decision is Commander Beifeng." The strange creature replied: "Everyone in the Oasis Camp admires him very much and is willing to listen to his command, but... his attitude is very firm, and he regards us and the mechanical race as the same enemy."
"Well, from the perspective of the human race, it is understandable to think this way."
The woman put her hands behind her back, looked up at the gloomy night sky, and said, "The human race has never been a force to be reckoned with, and there are serious internal struggles. We must have someone with strong hands to keep in touch with Commander Beifeng. We can provide help when necessary."
"no problem."
As the two men were talking, the war between the two lords was finally coming to an end.
As expected.
The black overlord with stronger psychic power is already on the threshold of victory.
He let out a sharp roar towards the sky, his pair of sharp claws grabbing the enemy's scarred body, and his wings vibrated as he flew against the rain towards the dark sky, as if he was planning to drop this defeated general from an altitude of ten thousand meters.
This scene gave Su Xia, who was watching the battle below, a sense of déjà vu of Godzilla fighting Ghidorah.
Just when he thought the battle would end with the Shadow Hunter's death, a deep voice suddenly came from a distance.
"Stop it, it's time to end it."
At this time, lightning flashed in the sky, and more than ten strange and dark tentacles suddenly stretched out from the clouds.
The black overlord was unable to dodge and was whipped hard by the tentacles.
He screamed, his wings broke, and he was completely unable to resist, falling towards the ground below.
“Bang!”
“Bang!”
The two lord creatures fell into a turbid pool of blood, splashing bloody water.
On the battlefield, the bugs with lower intelligence were at a loss, not knowing what was going on.
Su Xia's heart trembled, and he recalled the strange tentacle creature he saw in his hallucination after the defense of the oasis camp.
The Zerg boss is coming?
"They are not real tentacle, they are illusions, combined with condensed psychic energy." The keen observation ability of this body allowed Su Xia to see the true appearance of the tentacles.
I have to say, those tentacles emerging from the sky are really scary.
But after seeing through the essence, it is actually just like that.
Pure illusion can be achieved with current technology, and with the addition of some powerful weapons, it can be indistinguishable from the real thing.
"His true body should be nearby."
Su Xia slowly moved his eyes, remained alert, and observed the environment around the battlefield.
How long has the other party been here?
Did you notice anything abnormal about him?
If the situation is not right, Su Xia will find a way to leave.
However, the other party may have hidden his body with illusion. Even if he is standing not far away, he can transform the place where he stands into a field of weeds. If he intentionally hides the fluctuations of psychic energy, it will be very difficult to find him.
On the hill in the distance, the woman said with admiration: "He is smart. He pretends to be as confused as other insects, but he is actually looking for our true form."
"Yes, Your Majesty, he should have realized it was an illusion."
"Let's go, it's time to show up."
The woman took a step forward, leaving the visual illusion created by the strange creature, and looked at Su Xia.
At this moment, Su Xia's cautious inquiring gaze just moved to the location of this small hill.
The eyes of both parties met for a moment.
It’s actually her?
Su Xia was startled, and thought of the woman he met in the basement of the Midnight Tavern in Coral City.
Is she a Zerg? Or a human? Why was she able to enter the safest core area of the Zero Point Tavern?
A few doubts flashed through Su Xia's mind, but his expression remained calm. He immediately looked away without any other movement.
Su Xia knew that she had been discovered.
The other party showed no hostility and did not use any means to stop him, which meant that he was also considered a member of the Zerg.
"It's over, everyone disperse."
The woman suddenly spoke, her voice was very mature and had a special sense of majesty.
The bloody battlefield fell completely silent, leaving only the sound of cold rain.
The surrounding insects retreated and bowed their heads, making way for her to follow a bloody path, as if they were welcoming a returning king.
Even the two lord creatures who struggled to get up from the pool of blood bowed their heads to her to show their submission.
This is a deterrent engraved in the blood, and even the newly born Zerg can feel it.
The old king is not dead yet, and the new king is not born yet.
The Zerg are still the same Zerg.
"Yes, they are all very obedient."
The woman nodded slightly, very satisfied with the current situation.
The strange creature was beside her, looking majestic, like an ancient guardian.
The woman walked through the corpses scattered all over the ground, stepped on the mud and blood, and walked step by step to Su Xia's side.
"You're good, would you like to do something for me?"
