Chapter 591: Chapter 578: Alternate Dimension
"Boom!"
Intense firelight suddenly bloomed, destructive energy swept across several meters, stirring up countless dust and rubble, even causing billowing smoke to rise.
It was a gigantic beetle, as tall as eight meters, standing on the ground like a small mountain. It raised its neck, its throat trembled, and then torrents of sky-high flames swept toward the crowd!
The flames were even more terrifying than a flamethrower, sweeping straight at the crowd with an attack range of over ten meters, instantly turning buildings into ruins.
It was now evening, with no extra activities due to the apocalypse. After a busy day, the survivors had already gone into their rooms early. Everything happened too suddenly, and most people were still asleep when the flames burned them; a single bug caused hundreds of casualties!
This was Su Tan’s territory. Who could have predicted that the Dimensional Rift would appear here? These bugs, as if having not eaten for decades, rushed instantly toward the densest crowd!
"Zee—"
The chirping of the insect swarm rose and fell, countless insect legs stirred the earth, directly pouncing into the crowd with a momentum that was overwhelming!
Fat bugs squirmed their disgusting bodies into the homes of survivors. When the apocalypse occurred, Canyon Gate had several earthquakes, so for safety, most survivors lived in temporarily built huts. Such defenses could not withstand the insect assault. Just a roll, and the bug broke through the defense, biting toward humans!
These bugs looked like caterpillars but were over a meter long with some slime flowing on their bodies. Wherever it flowed on the ground, the surrounding flowers and plants withered completely, evidently possessing unusual poison.
The strangest thing was the greedy glint flashing in these bugs’ compound eyes, indicating they had simple intelligence!
What a joke!
In the Human World, those mutated bugs only gained simple intelligence after evolving to the Silver Tier, while those below Silver Tier, even Bronze Tier, acted only on chaotic instinct, incapable of thinking.
But these mutated caterpillars, far from awakening, possessed some intelligence, which was terrifying when considered. What about when they awaken? Bronze, Silver, or even Golden Tier bugs, how wise would they become!
The local mutated bugs had a short awakening time, so only their bodies changed, their behavior and consciousness were no different from ordinary insects.
But these bugs seemed to come from some other dimension; the rift was filled with a fishy stench. Looking forward carefully, countless bugs squirmed and flew over the Earth. This world seemed to have existed for tens of thousands of years, so much that the bugs had their own civilization!
The galaxy is vast, with hundreds of billions of star systems, it’s impossible for humanity to be the only civilization!
These bugs were also a civilization; though their bodies were insects, they possessed intelligence not inferior to humans. Perhaps due to the harsh environment of their world, over tens of thousands or even longer years, the life forms on that planet gradually evolved, fixating themselves in insect form to survive.
Maybe in their world, humans also existed, but unlike the humans in this world who were at the top of the food chain, in the bug world, humans were at the bottom, raised for the bugs to devour!
The squirming caterpillars were not strong, but their massive size and fearsome venom prevented ordinary people from resisting.
"What are you monsters... Son, why did you kill my son!"
In a corner of the room, an adult was full of anguish. In front of him was a caterpillar, covered with blood, holding a broken leg in its mouth, deliberately provoking the man, sucking hard to swallow the last piece of the leg.
"Ah! I’m going to kill you!"
The man and his child depended on each other, getting through the darkest times. He once swore to his wife, whose neck was bitten by a zombie, that he would take care of his son for his whole life.
But now, the man’s last belief was gone. His eyes were bloodshot, like an angry bull. Grabbing a nearby chair, he charged at the bug!
But just as he was halfway through, the ground suddenly rolled, and a bloody maw bit onto his lower body!
"Ah!!"
The man let out an earth-shattering roar. Despite his lower body being bitten into a bloody mess with shattered bones, he gritted his teeth, clawing forward, trying to kill the monster in front of him!
The next moment, the horrifying maw of the caterpillar was on him, instantly biting him and swallowing him along with his colorful intestines!
This was just a corner of the city. In Su Tan’s camp, countless other tragedies unfolded. Cockroach-like creatures, the size of fists, leapt into an elderly man’s belly. The man turned pale, clutching his stomach in agony, his eyes almost falling out!
"Splurt!"
The next second, the old man’s abdomen exploded, and countless cockroaches crawled out. The size of a thumb, they moved with incredible speed, killing wherever they went, turning the camp into a river of blood. These cockroaches dived into blood pools, and within a minute, their thumb-sized bodies grew to the size of fists, from one to a hundred, a hundred to a thousand, soon becoming a bug swarm, just the sight of it made one’s scalp crawl.
Besides these, there were leeches with legs. They had no arms, but their body split into two halves like humans, allowing them to run. They chased terrified humans, hopping onto them with a leap, and with a tremor of their bodies, a grown man was sucked into a dried corpse, while the leech’s body grew larger, becoming even more terrifying.
The tense atmosphere surged wave after wave. No matter how desperately humans resisted, they couldn’t stop the advance of the bugs, especially the countless flying and burrowing types, each elusive and unpredictable, causing great trouble for humanity!
The tall city walls, originally well-constructed, had already been smashed through like tofu by a charge of mighty beetles, splitting open huge gaps amidst broken walls. These gaps became the best entries for the bug army to invade the camp!
