Chapter 401: The Unusual Insect Domain
Chapter 401: The Unusual Insect Domain
Cheng Qingye pondered for two seconds and slowly said, "Probably not.""The genetics of the Companion King Worm naturally suppress all Insect Races except for me."
"Those insects don’t dare to harm her, nor will they harm her."
"Besides, Archi and the others are there. They wouldn’t allow those Low-level Insect Clans to harm my sister."
After all, my sister saved their people in the Insect Race’s Spiritual Domain, and she’s almost regarded as a master by them.
If it weren’t for me, the Companion King Worm, Archi and the others might have already mutinied.
"But Ruan Ruan said there are many voices constantly chattering in her mind." Lu Shinian recounted the earlier situation.
Cheng Qingye hadn’t encountered this kind of situation before either. Such a case had never occurred among the Insect Race, so he wasn’t sure what to make of it for a moment and could only respond, "When your sister wakes up, give me a video call, and I’ll see it for myself."
Lu Shinian agreed but didn’t want to place all of Su Ruan’s abnormalities on Cheng Qingye alone, so he asked, "Can you contact Cheng Yushu?"
"If you can’t reach him, how could I?" Cheng Qingye said, "You’re better off contacting our mother."
As a fellow Insect Race member, Cheng Qingye couldn’t understand his father’s thinking either.
His mother was a bit easier to understand.
"Can’t reach him." Lu Shinian said in a deep voice.
The Su Ruan in his arms seemed to be disturbed, her brow furrowed slightly.
Lu Shinian gently patted her back, lowered his voice, and said to Cheng Qingye in the video, "That’s it. I’ll call you when Ruan Ruan wakes up."
After speaking, he hung up the phone.
As the other voices disappeared, Su Ruan’s brows gradually relaxed again. Her small hand unconsciously clutched Lu Shinian’s clothing edge and she slept more deeply.
Lu Shinian held her like that, quietly waiting for her to wake up.
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On the Federation Central Star, Su Heyuan again brought the Evil Beast before him, his gaze cold.
"Can your blood detoxify?" he asked.
The Evil Beast looked at Su Heyuan in terror, "My blood is also toxic!"
"Oh." Su Heyuan casually tossed the Evil Beast aside again.
He had checked his body over the past few days, and using the Federation’s instruments, nothing abnormal was detected; there was no sign of poisoning in his body at all.
Either this little monster was lying, or with the Federation’s current technology, this little monster’s poison couldn’t be detected.
Although he leaned more toward the former, Su Heyuan absolutely would not allow the possibility of the latter.
If there was even a possibility, even if it were the former, he wouldn’t allow things that exceeded his control to happen.
Su Heyuan slowly took off his glasses, seemingly casually wiping them, but his presence had already surged, directly confronting the Evil Beast.
The weak, pitiful, helpless yet toxic Evil Beast: sob sob sob
"D-don’t hit me." The Evil Beast was about to cry, having thought it was dealing with a good human, but now things had suddenly changed, "There’s... there’s someone who might be able to save you."
"Who?" Su Heyuan asked coldly.
"Time!" the Evil Beast quickly said, "I think it’s called... called..."
"Called what?" Su Heyuan’s expression became intense as he pressed the question.
The Evil Beast wracked its brain; it really wasn’t sensitive to human names and only remembered after a long while.
"Called Su Ruan!"
"Yes, that’s right, called Su Ruan!"
Su Heyuan was stunned.
Su Ruan? Isn’t that his sister?
"You’ve seen her?" Su Heyuan narrowed his eyes, lifting the Evil Beast again and shaking it, "Where? When did you see her?"
"In the Empire!" the Evil Beast said firmly, "Just over a month ago, she was with Destruction!"
"Who is Destruction?" Su Heyuan was evidently unaware of the events happening in the Empire.
"I think it’s called... Lu Shinian?" the Evil Beast said uncertainly.
Human names were really too convoluted for it.
"Lu Shinian..." Su Heyuan repeated lowly, "He really is with my sister."
Ha, he knew that guy Lu Shinian had taken his sister away, off to that place called the Empire.
"Where is the Empire?" Su Heyuan pressed further.
This left the Evil Beast uncertain about how to explain.
"Empire is just Empire." It looked at Su Heyuan with confusion, "I don’t know where it is either."
It was Lu Zhiya who guided it here, how could it know where the Empire was.
To it, all places were pretty much the same.
Here, it could even play the game of swinging back and forth with this human.
The Evil Beast resumed swinging back and forth on Su Heyuan’s fingers.
Su Heyuan glanced at the Evil Beast, asking nothing more.
This little monster seemed silly enough that it was unlikely to yield any more information.
He stood up and headed towards the data room of the Imperial Palace, determined to see for himself what this "Empire" was.
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Within the Insect Domain, Archi and other insects were busy suppressing the Low-level Insect Clans that were itching to wake up.
This disturbance filled several High-level Insect Races with confusion.
If low-level insects on a planet suddenly ignored these High-level Insect Races’ commands and wanted to wake, it might mean some mutation had occurred on the planet itself, prompting the low-level insects to sense danger and attempt to escape.
It wasn’t unheard of before.
A planet on the verge of self-dissolution had low-level insects awaken and flee.
But this time, almost all the planets within the Insect Domain had low-level insects struggling to wake up, and they struggled immensely, with Archi and the others expending significant effort just to barely suppress it.
Even with strict orders, it seemed they wouldn’t be able to suppress for long.
It’s likely that they might all wake up collectively at some point soon.
Due to this event, Archi and three other insects gathered again to discuss the incident.
The first to speak was Ian, who had a fiery temper, "What’s wrong with those low-level insects? Are they trying to rebel?"
The Insect Race has a strict hierarchical system rooted in genetic suppression, making "rebellion" almost inconceivable within the race.
But the unusual behavior of the low-level insects was so extraordinary that even Ian couldn’t help but bring up such suspicion.
Next to him, Archi shook his head, "Impossible."
"I don’t sense any rebellion intention among them."
"Could there be some mutation across the entire Insect Domain?"
Ian disagreed, shaking his head, "If there was some mutation, shouldn’t we, the High-level Insect Races, have sensed it first?"
"Why didn’t we sense anything, but those low-level insects did?"
"It’s abnormal."
Indeed, it’s abnormal.
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