154: Light Gu Insect

Tang Ping’s face was covered in blood, his eyes devoid of any emotion, as he painstakingly peeled the embryo from the nest, knife stroke by knife stroke.

The baby girl’s screams from inside grew louder and louder, mixed with pitiful pleas.

“Brother, Brother, it hurts so much, so much.”

Perhaps a soft-hearted person would have let the baby girl go on the spot, and if someone unfamiliar with an Infected nest had stumbled in, they might have even mistaken her for a pitiful human child.

But Tang Ping, who was well-acquainted with the Infected Mother Queen, naturally wouldn’t be deceived by this facade. One had to understand that the blood splattering onto his face from these blood vessels came from countless people who had been digested and absorbed.

The gestation of this Infected Mother Queen would require at least a thousand deaths to meet the most basic conditions.

“Brother, please, let Niu Niu go, Niu Niu hurts so much.” The Infected Mother Queen’s watery, big eyes were filled with tears.

Unfortunately, the knife didn’t pause for a moment. After the last blood vessel was severed, the embryo finally dropped.

The baby girl’s voice also stopped abruptly.

Tang Ping caught the embryo, which was only the size of a bucket. Inside, there was no baby girl; there was only a monster with a baby girl’s face, but from the neck down, it was all hair-like tentacles.

Every Infected Mother Queen is different, because their birth is a monster concocted from a blood sacrifice feast, combining various complex and chaotic genes.

The Mother Queen inside the embryo had not yet fully formed.

The Heavenly Calamity Moth Gu had already begun to emit hungry cries.

Tang Ping soothed the Heavenly Calamity Moth Gu: “Don’t rush. Later, I’ll feed you with the Five Poisons Nest, which can make your transformation more thorough.”

Clearly, compared to the Heavenly Calamity Moth Gu devouring and transforming on its own, it was far less effective than absorbing special items within the Five Poisons Nest for a more complete transformation.

If the Heavenly Calamity Moth Gu were to devour on its own, most of it would likely be wasted.

The Heavenly Calamity Moth Gu rubbed affectionately against Tang Ping’s thumb, evidently quite impatient.

Tang Ping didn’t waste any more time. He placed the Heavenly Calamity Moth Gu into the Gu worm cultivation tank and added the Mother Queen embryo as a special item for the Heavenly Calamity Moth Gu.

This method, besides allowing the Heavenly Calamity Moth Gu to transform, might also bring an unexpected surprise.

As the Mother Queen embryo disappeared, the entire nest began to weaken. A nest was destined to only give birth to one Mother Queen; it couldn’t be repurposed to gestate a second one.

Because the Infected nest itself was equivalent to the Mother Queen’s body, and with the Mother Queen’s death, this body also began to rapidly weaken.

The blood vessels covering the nest walls became soft, and the unsupported nest shriveled like a deflated balloon.

As the nest collapsed, the Infected that had been continuously gathering towards it suddenly lost their direction, becoming bewildered and resuming their aimless wandering.

At this moment, the brother and sister, who were looking for a way out, suddenly felt the light above them. The boy looked up and found that, for some unknown reason, a hole had collapsed above!

“Sister! This is great, we’ve found a way out!” The boy clenched his fists, incredibly excited. He firmly secured his sister to his back, then used his dagger to stab into the nest wall, but he suddenly froze.

“What’s going on?”

“The originally tough wall, which even a knife tip couldn’t penetrate, how did it become so soft now?” Nie An was still puzzled, but worried that the exit might disappear, he immediately climbed upwards. Soon, he emerged from the hole and saw the overcast sky outside.

One or two hundred meters away, he could still see the familiar buildings of the town.

“This is great! Sister, we’re finally out!” Nie An was excited, but then his expression immediately tensed. An instinctive fear for his life, as if a great danger was present, made him instinctively fall to the ground and tightly shield his sister.

He lifted his small face and saw flames soaring twenty to thirty meters away, instantly tearing through the nest. The scorching golden-red flames burned Nie An’s face painfully.

“What is that?” Nie An’s heart pounded. He could feel that if he were hit by those flames, he would turn to ashes in the next second.

“How can there be fire here? Could it be a powerful Talent User!” Nie An’s eyes gleamed. He was almost certain that these flames definitely came from a powerful Talent User!

Sure enough, in the next second, he saw a figure rush out from inside and head into the distance.

The figure seemed to glance at him, making Nie An’s heart tighten. However, before he could wonder what to do if this mysterious powerhouse came, or whether to hand over the Shelter, that person had already departed.

“Was it him who destroyed the entire nest?” From the surrounding situation, Nie An had vaguely guessed a hint of the truth, and gratitude for this person immediately rose in his heart.

“Thank you.”

Tang Ping, who had left, naturally noticed the brother and sister, but he didn’t pay them any mind. After leaving the nest, he still had to meet up with Zhang Xile. Tonight, they planned to take everyone back to Tianfu Base.

Although the road was broken, driving was still possible. Without any accidents, the thousand-plus people would reach Tianfu Base tonight, a journey of several tens of kilometers.

Before long, Tang Ping found Zhang Xile.

“How are things now?” Tang Ping stood beside Zhang Xile on the Great Emperor Moth.

“Everything is going smoothly. We’ve already emptied several building material factories and are preparing to return,” Zhang Xile said happily. “Also, many other survivors joined the team along the way. We now have over fifteen hundred people, Brother Tang. After we return this time, I estimate it won’t be long before the base’s walls can be initially built!”

Tang Ping nodded: “Once the walls are built, I plan to first form some teams to clear the surrounding Pollution Beasts. After that, I’ll take you to a dungeon.”

Upon hearing ‘dungeon,’ Zhang Xile immediately became excited: “Brother Tang, is it that dungeon you mentioned, the one with the purple, purple light golden sun tree? Yes, the purple light golden sun tree dungeon!”

“Yes. By then, your Talent should be able to break through to S-rank, and you’ll also get a Companion Holy Spirit.”

“S-rank, Companion Holy Spirit.” Zhang Xile was beaming with joy. Indeed, choosing to cling to Brother Tang’s thigh back then was the wisest decision he had ever made in his life!

Tang Ping suddenly had a thought, “Oh, it’s actually completed its gestation at this time.”

“What’s completed its gestation?” Zhang Xile asked curiously.

Tang Ping’s gaze fell on Zhang Xile. Thinking of his own Gu worm, he suddenly felt that Zhang Xile and this Gu worm were a match made in heaven. Moreover, once the purple light golden sun tree was contracted, it might even allow this Gu worm to undergo another transformation!

Tang Ping immediately smiled and said, “Zhang Xile, let me give you something good first.”