Chapter 593: Chapter 580: Insect Realm
The ear-splitting roars, cries of battle, and the insect chirping shook the heavens and the earth.
On the battlefield, the cries of professionals echoed everywhere, along with panicked people fleeing. Even some explosives were used, blooming with dazzling brilliance all over the place. However, the number of insects on the opposite side was overwhelmingly too many, surging like an unstoppable tidal wave, impossible to kill them all. The human-insect war had reached a fever pitch!
It was unimaginable that within just ten minutes of the battle commencing, the intensity of the fight escalated step by step, almost reaching its limit. In the storm of insect swarms, even though the defenders coordinated well, they still felt an unbearably heavy pressure, as if even their breathing was out of rhythm!
Even with Su Tan’s effective management, the entire force was a solid block, with some capable professionals immediately rushing to the front lines to intercept the insect swarm. However, the rift wouldn’t close, and every second, dozens of insects charged out from it, their stench like a physical entity directly drilling into people’s nostrils.
Time was slowly passing by, yet it felt like a sharp ice pick, piercing people’s hearts bit by bit.
Within less than ten minutes, the survivors residing on the outskirts were already slaughtered to extinction, with terrifying human screams and the excited screeches of insects resounding everywhere.
These insects seemed like Hungry Ghosts oppressed for countless years, as if they hadn’t tasted blood for a hundred years. When encountering humans, they immediately opened their blood-red mouths, swallowing them into their bellies!
"Boom!"
A flash of white light streaked across the sky, followed by a torrential downpour from the heavens, the rain pouring harder and harder, washing away the bloody ground!
An extraordinary phenomenon!
The appearance of the rift caused some weather anomalies at the Pass, and these insects weren’t afraid of the rain at all. On the contrary, upon seeing the rain, they became even more frenzied, with the thunder in the sky like their clarion call for a charge, enhancing their offensive power by a level!
"Where did you disgusting insects come from? I’m not afraid to die!"
A professional soared into the sky, a pair of wings growing from his back. Astonishingly, the wings weren’t made of feathers but sharp iron pieces. He soared into the air, spread his wings, and the iron pieces, along with the rain, shot toward the insect swarm!
"Pooch!"
"Pooch!"
The man’s strength had reached the Silver Tier, making him an elite figure in Su Tan’s force, and this shooting method had a large area of effect. In the blink of an eye, dozens of caterpillars were pinned to the ground, their foul-smelling blood flowing on the ground, evidently boosting human morale.
But just as he attempted to retrieve the iron pieces and launch another attack, a mantis as tall as a person charged toward him. This mantis was entirely blood-red, as if it had been soaked in blood, with two sharp insect limbs on either side of its body. A flash of white light appeared, and the man’s body split in half from the middle!
Instantly, the man’s internal organs and blood scattered on the ground. The surrounding wriggling caterpillars excitedly licked the blood and flesh on the ground, appearing like a group of piglets, except the feed was replaced with human blood and flesh!
As the professionals’ defense line contracted step by step, they still couldn’t withstand the aggressively ferocious insects. A large number of casualties appeared in a short time, with corpses strewn across the land. Once a professional died on the battlefield, the corpses faced two fates: either trampled to a pulp or turned into an appetizer for the insects!
Soon, the insects alerted the nearby defensive forces, who desperately cleared the insects outside the walls, easing the camp’s immense pressure considerably.
However, there were only a few hundred people. Facing the dense army of the Insect Race was merely a drop in the bucket, and the situation was still grim. As time passed, over a hundred professionals were killed in battle, and the most terrifying aspect was that several insects broke through the defenses and entered the camp, initiating a massacre against the already panic-stricken humans!
Some insects had the ability to burrow through the ground, emerging from behind the defense line and spreading out in all directions once again. Even scarier, some insects carried a large number of bacteria on their bodies, exuding a nauseating smell. If they contaminated the human drinking water and were consumed, the body’s immunity would be compromised, significantly increasing the chance of contracting a plague!
"Ah Fei, don’t enter the insect swarm. I have a feeling that within the swarm lies an extremely terrifying enemy. With your strength, you don’t have any chance of escape!"
Su Tan summoned eight green wolves, her energy embodied in these green wolves. Even if torn apart by the insects, they could reconvene. However, during the reconvening process, her energy would be greatly exhausted.
Ah Fei closely followed Su Tan’s side, this girl with some cognitive issues, at this moment entirely transformed into a hyena from the plains, with her fingernails extending one by one, sharp to the extreme!
Canine Slave Ah Fei!
Su Tan’s most loyal subordinate, for this girl whose intelligence was impaired due to awakening, Su Tan cared for her as if she were family.
At this point, witnessing Ah Fei rushing into the insect swarm, Su Tan was furious and frightened, feeling a tingle on her scalp. Once Ah Fei fell into it, even with considerable strength, she would be instantly consumed by the insects!
Watching with no decrease in the swarm, Su Tan felt an indescribable suffocating feeling.
Disaster struck so suddenly!
She didn’t even know what had happened. The camp she painstakingly built was entirely destroyed by these predators. What was even more infuriating was that these insects had no sense of mercy. Regardless of man, woman, old, or young, in their eyes, everyone was treated equally, with only one identity: food!
Helpless!
Although Su Tan led her subordinates in a counterattack, they barely held back one percent of the insects. In many other areas, numerous survivors were killed every second.
Even more horrifying was that the rift was getting larger and larger. Initially, only dozens of insects appeared from it, but now it had expanded an entire fold, with over a hundred insects forcefully charging out every second!
How long will this terrible feeling of living on the edge last? Will it persist until life itself comes to an end?
A deep sense of powerlessness nearly drained Su Tan of her strength, but no matter what, she had to hold on, because giving up meant certain death!
These insects clearly see humans as food. In their eyes, there is no possibility of negotiation. They come with murder and conquest. Su Tan was not wrong—in the face of this war, it’s either resist... or die!
The professionals gathered together, attacking forward back to back, trying to increase their chances of survival this way.
"Leopard, don’t be scared. With me here, we’ll definitely survive!"
A Soul Instrument Master whose body emitted a ghostly blue glow, forming a hammer in mid-air, consoled his companion after killing a mutated insect.
But before that companion could respond, a beetle as large as a tank rammed into him. It was a Silver Tier insect, twice as powerful as a Titan Beetle. The violent impact caused the young man named Leopard to be torn apart in mid-air, becoming a lump of flesh!
"Leopard!"
Blood scattered, some even splashing onto the Soul Instrument Master’s body. Watching the dear friend, with whom he’d struggled to reach this point, die just like this, the Soul Instrument Master’s scalp tingled, and he could only shout to vent his heart-wrenching grief!
He was scared!
Facing such a gigantic beetle, its legs seemed rooted in the ground; he couldn’t move an inch. He hated the insects for taking his dear friend’s life and hated himself even more for being paralyzed by fear, unable to fight to the death.
Ordinary Titan Beetles had three-meter-long bodies, charging like a truck on the highway, but the one before him was five meters long, with a tougher shell and stronger body. Its eight legs were bursting with explosive energy!
"Grr..."
The Soul Instrument Master didn’t dare to act, but the beetle had already locked onto him. At this moment, its narrow compound eyes gleamed with a terrifyingly cruel light, its cold gaze locked onto its next prey.
In the beetle’s eyes, there was even a trace of sarcasm. It was obvious it saw the other party’s fear, akin to the feeling when humans calmly remove a grasshopper’s legs and toss it into an ant nest.
With sarcasm and a smile, he watched a lively life vanish before his eyes.
However, their roles had completely reversed. Now, it wasn’t the insect but a human who was desperately struggling. Faced with the beetle’s ferocity, the Soul Instrument Master’s face turned pale, his body weakened, and he turned to flee!
He was terrified!
At this moment, he only wanted to run as far as possible!
But this short distance meant nothing to a Silver Tier insect. Its hind legs slowly scraped the ground, raising a large cloud of dust, like a bull about to charge with its eyes red!
The beetle’s red eyes shone with a scarlet glare, carrying an unstoppable force, rushing towards the Soul Instrument Master’s waist with lightning speed!
Just as it seemed the Soul Instrument Master would follow in his friend’s footsteps and be smashed to pieces...
An unexpected change occurred!
A ghostly figure suddenly appeared above the beetle, raising its fist, followed by a surge of murderous intent, like a tidal wave!
The majestic yet bone-chilling fist made the beetle feel a coldness from within. It tried to stop and let out a screech to summon help, but it was too late. From the moment the figure appeared, the beetle’s fate was sealed!
The beetle’s back was blasted open with a huge wound, its hard Insect Armor, which could even resist Demon and Martial Cannons, was shattered by a seemingly delicate punch!
This person had cat ears, much like Ah Fei. Though differing from humans in many ways, the person’s eyes were clear, gleaming with wisdom.
The Demon Lord, who commanded hundreds of thousands of demons, descended amidst the swarm. She was one of Chen Feng’s strongest allies, the Master of Fist... Flora!
Reinforcements have arrived!
The next moment, the surrounding temperature suddenly rose as a figure engulfed in flames landed on the ground.
This person was Chen Feng!
At this moment, Chen Feng wasn’t focused on the surrounding insects. His bright eyes gazed at the crack, his eyeballs like two miniaturized suns, seemingly piercing through the crack to see everything inside.
Chen Feng’s voice trembled slightly, incredulous as he muttered to himself, "The Insect Realm... the Otherworld said to spawn billions of insects, has appeared here?!"
