Chapter 1213: The Big Guy
“What is going on?” Jian Jie and Wang Jian’s expressions changed drastically.
Dust and chipped stones continued to fall from the roof of the circular tunnel as if an earthquake was happening.
However, the hoarse noises made by the bugs clearly told them that this wasn’t an earthquake. Instead, many enemies were rushing over to them from all directions in this maze-like cave.
Fortunately, Fei was here.
With the golden mist engulfing them, when the dust and chipped stones were half a meter away from those three, they flew outward as if they smashed into a layer of invisible shield.
Although Jian Jie and Wang Jian’s hearts raced, they weren’t that afraid.
Fei’s prior demonstration of power completely conquered them.
In the next second, bugs dashed toward them like a flood, completely burying them. Then, as the golden mist flashed and unleashed its power, the bugs turned into gas as if ice pallets were dropped in lava, disappearing completely.
In just a second, tens of thousands of bugs disappeared inside the tunnel. It felt as if they never existed.
“It seems like the master of this place already noticed us, the unwelcome guests,” Fei laughed and said, “Follow me tightly and don’t fall behind. Other types of bugs might start appearing.”
It felt like the passage of time was extremely slow inside this deep and mysterious maze-like cave.
Fei, Jian Jie, and Wang Jian could clearly hear their own breathing, their heartbeats, and the sound that blood made when it traveled through their vessels. In the endless darkness, it felt like the Grim Reaper’s tentacles had clenched their throats.
Fei was walking slowly, and he would stop from time to time to ponder.
The deadly silence continued for about 20 minutes. To Jian Jie and Wang Jie, they felt like an entire day had passed, and they couldn’t do anything but follow Fei closely.
Whoosh!
Suddenly, a streak of wind blew through them.
“What is going on? It feels like something dashed by us?” Beauty Jian Jie was surprised, and her female instinct made her rush over and grab onto Fei’s shoulder. Her full chest tightly pressed onto one of Fei’s arms and emitted some heat as their bodies rubbed against each other while they walked.
Wang Jian also sped up subconsciously.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
A black figure that was as fast as a bolt of lightning dashed by these three, creating chilly wind like a ghost. Wang Jian and Jian Jie couldn’t capture this figure with their eyes, but their instinct made them clearly sense the rapidly approaching danger.
Whoosh!
A streak of red light shot toward Wang Jian’s forehead from the roof of the tunnel, and Fei reached out his hand and captured it in mid-air.
It was a strange bug that was about the size of a human infant and looked like a monkey, and it got pulled out of the roof as it squeaked.
Its body was covered in greenish-grey bone scales, and organs such as eyes couldn’t be seen on its head. Right now, its giant bloody mouth opened wide, and its two-meter-long arrow-like tongue froze in mid-air.
That streak of chilly red light was this bug’s tongue.
“Huh? A new type of bug? It seems to have the abilities of chameleons. It can merge with its surroundings, ignore gravity, and climb around with ease. Its agility and phantom-like speed… eh, and it should have a higher level of intelligence and instincts.” Fei observed this bug with interest.
He discovered that this bug should have evolved at least once, and its strength reached about Four-Star to Five-Star in terms of the power levels on the Azeroth Continent.
Its tongue had insane assassination ability, enough to instantly penetrate a 20-centimeter-thick iron plate, and it could also excrete corrosive liquid. However, its defense was weaker than the lowest-level spider-shaped bugs that had bone spikes.
“It seems like my guess is correct. There are high-level bugs on Earth.”
Fei waved his hand, and this monkey-like bone monster completely disappeared. At the same time, a series of panicking screams sounded, and hundreds of similar monkey monsters showed themselves and struggled before they got turned into nothingness.
At this moment, Fei acutely sensed a streak of well-hidden spirit energy wave coming from the depths of the cave, and it quickly flashed by.
“That is the place! It should be where the commander-level bug is at.”
Fei intentionally emitted a streak of powerful energy, approaching that location.
Just as he expected, a series of nervous and anxious spirit energy waves appeared in that location, and they moved around in different frequencies, reaching every corner of the maze-like cave.
“Eh, the bugs don’t have the ability to talk, so they communicate with each other using spirit energy frequencies. However, this is an advanced and complex system. It isn’t easier compared to any language… it would be tough to decipher it!”
Fei used the spirit energy techniques that he learned from the purple scroll and copied these different spirit energy frequencies.
He wanted to spot some patterns in these frequencies. It would be great if he could understand the communication between the bugs. Through this method, he could get more information about the Polluters and even control some low-level bugs using other tactics.
At the same time, Fei continued to exert pressure toward the entity in the depths of the cave that seemed to be the commander. He wanted to force this bug to summon all the high-level bugs that hadn’t appeared yet. This way, Fei could get to see all of them and understand their types and abilities in one go.
Ever since Fei discovered the Polluters on Earth, he repositioned them as the future enemies who could bring destruction to the Azeroth Continent. He wanted to gather as much information about these bugs on Earth as possible; any new information might bring positive changes to the future war of destruction on the Azeroth Continent that was mentioned in many prophecies.
Fei’s strategy was successful.
In the next hour or so, Fei continued to move forward and copied a total of 108 spirit energy frequencies that the bug commander released. He also discovered 15 groups of bugs that looked different and had different power levels. In the last few groups, the bugs were as strong as mid-tier Moon-Class Elites on the Azeroth Continent.
In a giant cave about 600 meters deep into the ground, Fei finally saw the bug commander.
Just like what was depicted in movies, it looked like a giant pink mountain of flesh, and it was covered in a viscous liquid. However, it emitted a pleasant fragrance.
It was clear that this entity had human-like intelligence. When Fei, Jian Jie, and Wang Jian appeared, it instantly unleashed a wave of spirit energy frequencies that contained fear. At the same time, it wriggled and crawled backward while many low-level bugs rushed out from all the openings connected to this cave. These bugs were fearless and were trying to buy time with their own lives for the bug commander to escape.
“This meat mountain has the strength of a peak Moon-Class Elite, and its spirit energy reached the Sun-Class Realm already. I’m afraid no one on Earth can defeat it!”