Chapter 181: Chapter 174 Insect People
Zhu Xiong didn’t have ti to ponder the aning of that statent before a bizarre roar coming from the fog interrupted his thoughts.
Two enormous creatures were chased and quickly headed this way. One was a giant ape with shiny silver fur and red eyes, about five ters tall, faintly glowing with silver light. Its huge palm grabbed one of the strange humanoid insect creatures chasing it and threw it heavily.
The other was a gigantic black mantis with three eyes and growths all over its body, its sharp scythelike arms swinging to fend off the attacks of the humanoid insect creatures.
The two monsters rushed over, with at least seven or eight humanoid insect creatures following them, quickly overwhelming them.
“Rip”
The safety airbag was split open by Zhu Xiong, and the person inside finally caught their breath and squeezed out from the car door.
“Run, run! They’re all Second Order monsters. I won’t be able to hold them off for long.”
Zhu Xiong frowned, but he didn’t blindly trust this cultivated-looking old man. Keeping his distance, axe-hamr in hand, he asked in a deep voice, “Who are you, and what are those things?”
The man was taken aback, his mind racing with urgency. What ti was it, and there were still questions like this?
Yet he hadn’t noticed the Angel Envoys of Zhu Xiong, Guo Gang, and Zhao Yimin had already crossed the car, blocking the road on the outer side.
The regular search and patrol squad mbers also retreated behind the inner side of the wall, setting up defense crossbows.
“Bai Shan from Bai Yujing Group. My friend, please believe , I only ran here in a panic to escape. I’m trying to get to Shanhu Villa District…”
Zhu Xiong: ???
“Weren’t you dead?”
He certainly knew Bai Shan from the Bai Yujing Group, or more precisely, he’d heard the na from Bai Qilan.
After Su Han and Ye Kailing obtained flying Angel Envoys, Bai Qilan used her Contribution Value to make a request to Su Han, to search for her father at the Bai Yujing Group.
However, that was a long ti ago. The Bai Yujing Group had already turned to ruins, with not a single person left.
Bai Qilan had resigned herself, either Bai Shan was dead or he was in one of the Bai Yujing Group’s subsidiaries, impossible to search for one by one.
Bai Shan was equally dumbfounded: You know , and I’m dead?
“Roar”
Before any further conversation, those humanoid insect creatures had already surrounded them, their ugly appearances making one’s skin crawl.
Their worm-like heads continuously turned, mouthparts sharp and dense, surrounded on both sides by flesh tendrils of varying lengths, with human-looking bodies, mantis-like scythe arms, covered with an exoskeleton, and insect-like segnted legs.
A total of eight insect people stood in different parts of the street, rubbing their segnts together and staring dead at Bai Shan and the others, their presence oppressively bearing down on them.
“I’ll take the two on the left, Old Guo, you take the two on the right, Zhao Yimin in the middle with two, and Bai Shan, you can handle two yourself, right?”
Bai Shan only then realized that Zhu Xiong’s side had three Second-order Contractors, and there even seed to be two Second Order monsters that were not Angel Envoys.
If he added his charge, the Red-Eyed Giant Ape, and the Three-Eyed Mantis, wouldn’t that make them ten Second Order monsters against eight? The advantage is ours?
Bai Shan imdiately said, “Count in.”
Zhu Xiong nodded, his two Angel Envoys already charged in. The insect people just raised their scythe arms but were tackled to the ground the next mont, wrestling with the Bone Armor Giant Pig.
A nearby Second-grade Insect Person wanted to help, but the next mont it was encircled by the Devourer and then started getting pumled.
The scythes were sharp, but the Devourer’s right arm had undergone Hardening, making it extrely tough, completely unable to be severed, as it bit off chunks of flesh.
Guo Gang moved swiftly too; his two Envoys launched their attack almost simultaneously with Zhu Xiong, pinning down two insect people.
Although they didn’t suppress them as furiously as Zhu Xiong did, they both gained the upper hand.
The Beasts, Zhao Yimin, and Bai Shan targeted the remaining four, but before they could act, a hissing sound ca.
The remaining four insect people turned around, their segnts powering up, and with a forceful leap, they escaped into the fog, fleeing first.
Old Zhu frowned and stopped Zhao Yimin, “Don’t chase, let’s lock up these four first.”
Before clarifying the situation, controlling the current predicant was the more prudent approach.
Zhao Yimin understood and turned around to help, with Bai Shan also quickly joining in.
The insect people, already being suppressed, had no room to resist and were directly taken down with severe blows then locked up in cages.
The sudden unexpected encounter resolved without danger, Bai Shan was then brought to the temporary camp.
As he entered, his eyes imdiately caught sight of the massive crack, and he exclaid, “You’ve got a spatial rift here too, and you’ve managed to control it?!”
Zhu Xiong frowned and quickly latched onto the keyword, asking, “Mr. Bai, you’ve seen this rift, what exactly is going on over there, and how did you end up here?”
His barrage of questions finally brought Bai Shan back to reality, but Bai Shan was also full of confusion, asking, “Wait a minute, you seem very familiar with , what did you an by saying I was dead?”
“Your daughter is with us.”
Bai Shan: ?
“Cough cough”
Guo Gang almost choked to death on these ambiguous words and quickly clarified, “Bai Qilan is one of our camp mbers, but she’s over in the Shanhu Villa District. However, Mr. Bai, you need to share your own situation first, so we can report back to the leader.”
Bai Shan’s heart flooded with both shock and joy—his daughter being safe was the best news.
He took a long breath and said, “That’s good, that’s good. Let think where to begin…”
Zhu Xiong said, “Start with what happened to you. Qilan had asked the leader to find you, but the Bai Yujing Group building was destroyed, and we didn’t see you.”
Bai Shan offered a wry smile, “I went to inspect the pharmaceutical plant in the east of the city early in the morning. As soon as the mist ca, that area was the first to be trapped, and I was organizing workers there for defense, so I couldn’t leave.”
The eastern part of the city, and it’s a manufacturing plant at that—quite the distance from Shanhu Villa District. In the enveloping mist, crossing such a distance without substantial strength would be impossible.
Zhu Xiong raised an eyebrow and said, “Mr. Bai is no ordinary man. Not to ntion being a Second-order Contractor, you even manage to pull together a bunch of people. But now, how co…”
“You’re wondering about the insect people, aren’t you?”
Zhu Xiong nodded, and Bai Shan let out a sigh before saying, “It’s because of the Corpse Demon Worms going out of control.”
“Corpse Demon Worms?”
What kind of unleashed monster could produce so many Second-grade Monsters? Zhu Xiong’s brows furrowed tightly.
“The Corpse Demon Worm was part of a project by our researchers after the apocalypse, aid to strengthen Angel Envoys, led mainly by Zhao Shijie. Initially, it was for injecting more powerful enhancent serums, but I never expected he was secretly intensifying the cultivation efforts, trying to create a queen-like monster.”
Bai Shan’s face soured when he talked about the research.
Thanks to the decent security force at the pharmaceutical factory and his own high prestige, he had quickly organized the first round of defense, exterminating monsters that had turned into flesh corpses.
He was among the first batch of Contractors; instead of killing flesh corpses, he had risked taking down an experintal gorilla in the midst of mutating.
Benefiting from his early strength, his organizational leadership went smoothly. Using the pharmaceutical plant as a center, he established a base of hundreds of mbers and facilitated research on monsters.
The research focused mainly on two categories: human body enhancent and Angel Envoy enhancent.
The pharmaceutical factory camp developed smoothly and rescued many survivors during ongoing search efforts.
Bai Shan, nearing the First Order Upper Grade and approaching Second Order strength, was ready to look for his daughter Bai Qilan in the Shanhu Villa District.
But with the camp’s growth, so researchers started to disagree, especially Zhao Shijie. The man’s research talent was not low, and he had Angel Envoy talent to match, breaking into Second Order almost simultaneously with him and rallying a big crowd.
Research conflicts, while not as overt as direct fighting, were not to be underestimated.
Zhao Shijie wanted to study even more powerful monsters, especially queen-like monsters akin to ant and bee queens.
If contracted, controlling one queen could dominate a whole swarm of monsters. Moreover, using insect genes could enhance Angel Envoys dramatically, potentially reaching Third Order strength.
It was a bold idea but incredibly dangerous.
If it got out of control, it would be like putting the entire pharmaceutical factory at risk.
He could only suppress Zhao Shijie’s experints or leverage his prestige to keep the experints under control to prevent chaos, unless there was certainty about making a Contract with the creatures. Crossing the line was absolutely not allowed.
The safest thod was to use similar serums, gradually transforming Angel Envoys before initiating the Divine Initiation Ritual for them to evolve into queen-like monsters, rather than directly cultivating uncontrolled queen monsters.
Differences in research thods made it impossible for him to leave, further magnifying the rift within the pharmaceutical factory.
Hearing this, Zhu Xiong asked in a grave voice, “So they drove you out, and all these insect people are the offspring spawned from the monster Zhao Shijie created?”
“Offspring?”
Bai Shan pondered the term but didn’t delve deeper. With a deep sigh, he said, “If that were the case, it would actually be better. At least there would still be living people in the pharmaceutical plant. Those insect people were once humans, researchers with considerable strength.”
“What?”
Zhu Xiong’s expression changed, and he urgently asked, “What exactly happened?”
“Zhao Shijie secretly increased the cultivation of Corpse Demon Worms, which were already on the brink of losing control. I didn’t expect an interdinsional rift to appear,” said Bai Shan, his eyes darkening. “The concentration of Spiritual Energy rose, hordes of Corpse Ghosts surged out, and the Corpse Demon Worms completely went berserk. Even Zhao Shijie didn’t know what was happening—he rged with them, turning into a Third Order Corpse Demon Worm. They slaughtered the survivors at the pharmaceutical factory, the eggs parasitized them, mutating the hosts, turning them into the shape of insect people. If it weren’t for high-grade monsters among the Corpse Ghosts sparking a battle, I wouldn’t have had a chance to escape.”
He paused, then continued, “Zhao Shijie possibly wanted to control to continue the research. I have been hiding from him all this ti. Still, I fear that the eastern part of the city is… completely out of control by now.”
Thousands of monsters were surging from the unchecked interdinsional rift, and Zhao Shijie’s insect people weren’t in the minority either. Adding the already existing hordes, the eastern district is now a realm where monsters run rampant.
When Bai Shan fled, he wasn’t alone, but now he’s the only one left.
If not for his daughter, he probably wouldn’t have managed to keep going.
“Could you take to see Qilan?”
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