ocean-life Chapter 119 Insect Mother
Chapter 119 Insect Mother
After gathering his strength, Wang Xiao pushed off the ground with both legs and slashed fiercely at one part of the tumor with his horizontal blade.
That is the vulnerability revealed by "dismemberment and deboning".
If even he, relying on the effects of 'Dismemberment and Bone Removal' and the enhancement of the wind blade, couldn't break through the defense of this corrupted sac, then there's no point in trying for anyone else.
Seeing Wang Xiao swinging his sword with all his might at the incubation sac, everyone tensed up.
As the strongest among them, Wang Xiao's every move will have a different impact on the team.
At this moment, everyone couldn't help but pray that Wang Xiao's attack would be effective.
Wang Xiao responded to them with his own attack.
With the aid of the wind blade, the sharp blade of the horizontal sword deeply cut into the dense red lines under everyone's watchful eyes.
With a crisp tearing sound, a large amount of unidentified viscous fluid gushed out from the wound, and the entire tumor trembled violently!
"It's a success!"
"As expected of Boss Wang!"
……
Seeing that Wang Xiao's attack had worked, everyone's faces lit up with joy, and the crowd erupted in cheers.
With one strike breaking through the defense, Wang Xiao followed up with another slash, cutting down along the same line once more!
Click!
As the blade sliced through, the tumor's reaction became more pronounced, and Wang Xiao could even vaguely see the figure of the worm mother within it.
"It's about to collapse!" someone exclaimed in surprise.
Wang Xiao's movements accelerated once again.
Finally, with a violent tremor, the outermost and hardest protective layer of the incubation sac shattered.
At the same time, the pulsating, blood vessel-like patterns on the surface also dimmed.
And because the initial crack was widening, more and more unidentified liquid was gushing out from the gaps in the incubation sac, making the entire tumor look like a giant eggshell about to break from a distance.
"Back off!"
Wang Xiao gave the order, and everyone quickly retreated more than ten meters, but still maintained a vigilant posture.
Moments later, the tumor shattered with a loud crash!
Large amounts of liquid and shattered pieces of flesh splattered everywhere, and in the center of that mess, a huge figure slowly rose to its feet.
It was a creature more than twice the size of an average person.
It has a face similar to a human's, and its upper body even vaguely resembles a human woman, but its skin is a grayish-white color that represents death, and some inexplicable patterns cover most of its skin.
Moreover, its entire upper body was covered with a wet and transparent unidentified substance, like some kind of substance that had not yet completely dissolved.
Below the chest, it retains the characteristics of the Abyss Soul Claw, with its massive body supported by six thick, segmented limbs.
Upon closer inspection, this creature appears to be in an incomplete state, neither a bug-man nor a ghostly abyss, due to an interruption in its evolution.
The moment the incubation sac shattered completely, the air in the entire mall became noticeably heavier.
The enormous figure slowly rose from the viscous liquid, its six thick limbs supporting its bizarre body, which was neither human nor insect.
On its half-human face, a pair of insect eyes were fixedly locked onto Wang Xiao, who had severed its path of evolution.
"Humans...you...die!"
Intermittent human language emanated from the insect mother's mouth.
Upon hearing the insect mother speak human language, everyone's faces were filled with disbelief.
Even the usually composed Wang Xiao became serious.
Looking at the enraged insect queen, Wang Xiao whispered, "She's actually learned human language. That's quite a 'surprise'..."
At the same time, the insect queen's humanoid face quickly twisted into an extremely ferocious expression, and her insect eyes revealed undisguised killing intent and anger.
"You... interrupted... evolution... You... die!"
Before she could finish speaking, the insect queen suddenly opened her mouth and let out a shriek that swept across the entire mall!
Several ordinary people, who were standing too close, immediately covered their ears and collapsed in pain, bleeding from all seven orifices.
Cover your ears!
Wang Xiao shouted loudly, and at the same time, his figure blurred as he charged towards the insect mother.
He couldn't allow the queen insect to continue emitting such aggressive sonic waves, otherwise, before the battle even started, most of his men would fall.
However, just as Wang Xiao approached the insect queen with his knife, two of the insect queen's segments swept towards Wang Xiao at an extremely fast speed!
Faced with the insect queen's sudden counterattack, Wang Xiao flipped in mid-air, barely managing to dodge the dangerous blow.
The arthropod grazed Wang Xiao's body and slammed heavily against the wall beside him, punching a huge hole in the thick concrete wall.
Upon witnessing the power of this attack, Wang Xiao thought to himself: If this were to allow you, you dead bug, to complete your evolution, wouldn't you be going to heaven?
After landing, Wang Xiao quickly adjusted his posture, keeping his eyes fixed on the insect mother.
Although this queen insect is in an incomplete state due to the interruption of its evolution, its strength is clearly far superior to that of the previous devourer.
The insect queen missed her target and did not choose to continue pursuing Wang Xiao.
On the contrary, the upper body of such people begins to swell continuously, and a huge transparent sac bulges out in the abdomen.
Wang Xiao sensed something was wrong and immediately ordered, "Stop it! Don't let it complete that action!"
Several ability users were the first to react, unleashing their respective ranged abilities to bombard the insect queen.
Small fireballs and ice spikes—various ranged attacks from both ability users and ordinary people—were simultaneously rained down on the insect queen.
But in the end, it could only leave a few shallow scars on its grayish-white skin, and those scars were healing rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.
One of the ability users cried out in terror, "It's no use! This beast's defense is too strong!"
Just then, the transparent vesicle on the mother insect's abdomen suddenly burst open!
A visible black ripple spread outwards from the insect mother's body in all directions, instantly spreading throughout the entire Wansheng Shopping Mall.
Wang Xiao's expression changed drastically.
He could sense that the black ripples contained some kind of special energy fluctuation, like some kind of signal or command.
Sure enough, the next second, Wang Xiao heard exclamations from the regional managers through his walkie-talkie.
"Report! Insect eggs in Sector B are starting to hatch in large numbers! Those mutated monsters seem to have gone mad..."
"Sector C too! All the eggs are hatching at the same time! There are just too many insects! We can't hold on much longer!"
"Sector D requests backup! Those bugs are charging at us like they're out of their minds!"
Wang Xiao also noticed a lot of noise coming from downstairs.
……
After completing everything, a twisted smile appeared on the insect queen's contorted face, and she slowly spoke in her broken human language:
"My...children...wake up...kill...all the invaders..."
Upon hearing the insect mother's words, Wang Xiao's expression turned completely grim.
The insect queen began to command all the insects in the mall with an ability they could not comprehend.
Based on the insects' reactions and the news coming from various places, Wang Xiao could easily guess that the black wave released by the insect queen just now should have some kind of effect of forcibly catalyzing all the insect eggs in the entire mall.
But this is exactly the situation that Wang Xiao does not want to see.
Wang Xiao knew that a mob of insects acting on instinct was a completely different fighting force from an insect with a commander. This was why he did not clear the area slowly and steadily like in other areas, but instead abandoned a large part of the area to find the commander of the swarm as soon as possible.
Unfortunately, in the end, this insect queen, whose evolution had been interrupted, still managed to gain control of the swarm.
Listening to the continuous sounds of climbing below, Wang Xiao silently pulled out a Hongtashan cigarette and put it in his mouth.
After lighting the fire and taking a deep breath, Wang Xiao, while carrying his knife, walked towards the Insect Mother and gave the group his final instructions:
"Stop the bugs down there, don't let them come up. Ten minutes, I only need ten minutes!"