Capítulo 129: Chapter 129: The Hidden Past of the Insects, Half-Step to Tier 3
Lin Feng got up to clean the film liner on the bed, still damp with the sweat and grime from Chen Yanyan's Tier 2 awakening. They routinely used these liners to keep the bedding clean during major upgrades.
After tidying up and laying down a fresh film, Chen Yanyan emerged from the bathroom wrapped in a towel, seeing Lin Feng preparing to lie down.
"Did you start your awakening too?"
Lin Feng nodded, gripping his lv29 electromagnetic railgun, looking slightly tense:
"Yes, just one more time, and I'll reach late Tier 2 perfection... becoming the strongest below high-tier."
Noticing his deep breaths, Chen Yanyan frowned in concern:
"What? Is this small upgrade dangerous?"
Lin Feng hesitated for a few seconds, then pointed with his chin:
"Remember when I told you about the parasitic hosts, the special psychic insects..."
Chen Yanyan nodded:
"I know, their mental attributes are particularly outstanding, and killing them can enhance our mental powers..."
"Wait, after you finished talking in Jia City center yesterday and killed that avatar puppet, and with Cheng Zhan in the Thirteenth Division who was parasitized... After this awakening, your mental attributes should completely break the limit, right?!"
Lin Feng sighed and nodded:
"Yes! I might prematurely possess mental attributes of the third stage, which is equivalent to a half-step into Tier 3, and it's the rarest mental aspect..."
"That's why I say I'll be the strongest below Tier 3."
"But there's no such thing as a free lunch. Breaking the mental attribute limit means I'll face the Tier 3 awakening challenge earlier..."
Chen Yanyan swallowed, noticing the empty bottles nearby, and swiftly left the bedroom to fetch several bottles of organic nutrient fluid from the kitchen.
She handed them to Lin Feng:
"Here, drink these!"
"I don't know if it'll help with the mental aspect, but during my Tier 2 awakening, drinking these nutrients ahead of time left me with no danger or pain..."
"Give it a try; it can't hurt."
Lin Feng hesitated but finally drank several bottles at once under Chen Yanyan's expectant and commanding gaze. Before starting the upgrade, he joked, "Enough, enough. If I drink more, maybe my physique attribute will break the limit, and I'll step into Tier 3. My frame can't handle that!"
Chen Yanyan laughed, holding his hand.
Lin Feng took a deep breath and began the final upgrade, choosing to integrate that extra mental energy.
Instantly, a warm heat flowed from the gun into his body, accompanied by intense mental energy fluctuations.
Chen Yanyan, holding his hand, felt the formidable energy.
It didn't just originate from the Tier 2 parasitic host but had transformed into a true queen's avatar, containing the mental strength of high-tier insects.
As the energy surged through his arm into his brain, Lin Feng's eyes rolled back, and he lost consciousness.
His trembling body calmed, with only the rising temperature on his forehead indicating the transcendent awakening.
Chen Yanyan quickly used her other hand to wet a cloth with cold water, applying it to Lin Feng's forehead to cool him down physically.
Lin Feng's consciousness was swept away by a hurricane-like assault, pushing him into darkness.
...
When Lin Feng opened his eyes again, he found himself in the vast cosmos...
Everywhere he looked, aside from distant starlight, was a massive planet beneath him.
The planet had a sandy surface, appearing red-brown like rusted iron, unlike Blue Star, predominantly covered by oceans. This planet exuded a dead silence.
But Lin Feng knew it wasn't the same as the barren wasteland of his mental world, which had the Land Cruiser Battleship and electromagnetic railgun as companions.
Here, he had none of those, not even a physical body...
All he had was an uncontrollable first-person perspective like in a dream.
Before Lin Feng could observe further, his perspective shot downwards towards the planet like a rocket launch.
Passing through the thin atmosphere, the planet's surface unfolded before him, revealing that the rust-colored world wasn't as lifeless as imagined.
There were numerous tracks and countless openings across its mountains and valleys...
Seeing such peculiar alien terrain, Lin Feng marveled at life's resilience, but the next moment, from those countless openings, swarmed a massive horde of insects.
Though these insects didn't resemble Black Spinal Bugs, their specialized fangs were unmistakably those of the invading insects.
Only, these appeared more primitive, not solely born for slaughter like Black Spinal Bugs.
Perhaps this was the insect's homeworld.
Existing somewhere in the vast galaxy.
Lin Feng's frown deepened. It could be the absorbed mental energy from a high-tier queen or the pre-upgrade nutrient fluid bringing his consciousness into the insect's genetic memory...
Regardless, his mental consciousness was now parasitic, experiencing the past development of their species.
Upon landing, he witnessed primitive insects gathering like tribal members, enthusiastically welcoming their spacefaring kin, or rather, high-intelligence insects.
Over time, the high-tier insects began disseminating knowledge, teaching their kind advanced biotechnology, nurturing the species' growth.
As time passed, Lin Feng witnessed the insect's development history.
Yet, the more he saw, the harder it was to comprehend why these once-peaceful alien insects, akin to Blue Star's ants and bees, became warmongering invaders...
Even the individual consciousness they once had was erased under high-tier insects' mental control.
The once-civilized base insects became low-tier mindless bio-machines, marching onto alien battlefields as cannon fodder.
During this period, something terrifying must have happened.
...
Until one peaceful morning was shattered by a black light...
Thus began the nightmare.
As the star rose, the usual red light was replaced by a familiar black sun.
Or rather, the eerie solar eclipse once seen in Blue Star's sky...
The sun appeared obscured, with writhing crimson tentacles extending from its outer ring.
Unlike Blue Star, no large-scale alien invasion occurred on the insect's homeworld, but instead, fiery blasts erupted everywhere.
Deafening explosions emanated from deep-rooted insect nests, followed by the collapse of entire hives, burying millions of insects.
The unknown assault quickly drew high-tier insect attention, and through Lin Feng's perspective, the high-tier insect rapidly boarded a bio-transport ship with companions, heading for space.
To locate the threat.
As masses of high-tier insects piloted bio-ships into space...
The sight before them stunned the insect high command.
A massive shadow enveloped the solar system's center star, and as it faded, the star's brightness dimmed significantly in minutes!
Its radiated light lost its former heat and strength, as if it had aged billions of years, transitioning from middle age to senescence, nearing its end.
Yet before the insects could react!
Minutes later, as the star's last light illuminated the outer planet and the dark space...
The insects beheld a colossal insect beast, thousands of kilometers long!
Its length equaled a tenth of the homeworld's width, filling half the sky!
Many high-tier insects recognized the beast from their ancestral knowledge as the insect's creator...
A great, supreme, unseeable insect god!
Immediately, numerous high-tier insects prostrated in reverence, their worries and fears swept away, replaced by joy and excitement...
Lin Feng estimated this massive insect, nearing a small planet's size, was beyond Tier 4.
For it, surviving in space was trivial, and with full power, it could destroy a planet!
Perhaps it had reached another level, akin to transitioning from Tier 3 to Tier 4.
One, two, three, four, five, six, beyond that...
Seven, eight, even higher...
But before the insects could celebrate, as the star illuminated, the great insect god, under all high-tier insects' eyes,
Suddenly...
Its massive hundred-kilometer head exploded into powder!
Its body followed, bursting, spraying blood and veins across the starry sky, the energy within the insect god unleashed.
Like a mini-planet exploding in vibrant hues...
Coating bio-ships in a layer of flesh debris.
Fortunately, Lin Feng's host perspective reacted swiftly, piloting the ship to dodge the cannonball-speed debris.
The explosion's shockwave dispersed the homeworld's thin atmosphere, revealing a flesh sky in space...
Torrents of blood and debris, propelled by the blast, rained down on the planet, a colossal blood rain impacting half its surface.
A hellish apocalyptic scene unfolded for all survivors.
The insect god's remnants, drawn by gravity and rotation's angular momentum, formed a hundreds-of-kilometers-wide blood ring at the equator.
The crimson ring, over the rust-colored homeworld, became a cosmic rose.
Desolate despair engulfed the bio-ships, countless high-tier insects unable to believe or accept this outcome.
Their unseeable, unreachable insect god...
Easily perished before them.
The terror that slew it left no trace.
Fortunately, Lin Feng's host perspective remained calm, controlling the bio-ship to scan the battlefield, recording the scene.
As a fleshy tendril inserted into the bio-ship's control platform, it connected to its brain...
Through layers of flesh walls, the distant events imprinted in its mind.
The insect god's death place revealed other colossal insect beasts, holding roles like war god, mother god in the insect's history.
Their sizes spanned over a hundred kilometers, smaller than the insect god, likely Tier 5 or 6.
Beyond them lay over a dozen other giant insects, ranging from ten to several dozen kilometers.
These giants were the insect's true elites, their highest combat power.
But with the insect god's death...
They too were in disbelief.
Yet, before any mourning or shock...
In seconds, the destroyer appeared before the giants.
A mysterious enemy, too small to discern.
Even with focus, it appeared as a mere two-meter alien being.
But with a simple gesture, it effortlessly killed the star system's mightiest, the insect god worshipped by trillions.
A moment later, a mental wave echoed in the giants' minds like a storm:
"Surrender... or die!"
Under the mysterious being's pressure, lesser giants retreated, but some, loyal to the insect god, charged fearlessly.
Yet, when they reached the being, a glance unleashed an energy storm, shattering the Tier 5 and 6 giants into dust.
Leaving no trace!
Witnessing this, the remaining giants knelt, bowing in submission...
The dramatic change shocked Lin Feng, and the high-tier insect witnessing it.
It quickly recorded the insect god's death and the insect's submission, encoding it in its genetic sequence...
Hoping distant descendants would uncover this dark past...
At this point, Lin Feng's consciousness, along with the high-tier insect in the surrendering giants' mental control, fell into slumber, breaking free.
Next moment, his consciousness plunged into an abyss.
Vaguely, he heard the insect's lament, like hellish wraiths clutching him.
Faintly, three words echoed:
"Da Hei Tian!"
Lin Feng suddenly shouted, sitting up in bed, consciousness returning.
But his mental state remained dazed, oblivious to Chen Yanyan's concerned shaking and words...
His mind half-frozen.
Only after dozens of seconds, as text reminders sharpened, did he snap back!
"Ha!"
Lin Feng exhaled, breathing deeply, gripping Chen Yanyan's hand tightly.
"It's okay... it's okay..."
Minutes passed, and with Chen Yanyan's patient comfort, Lin Feng emerged from the surreal insect history.
"Yes, I'm... I'm okay..."
Chen Yanyan wiped tears from his eyes, worried.
Lin Feng smiled, brushing aside the towel:
"I'm fine, really."
Chen Yanyan nodded, stepping back.
Lin Feng inhaled, steadying himself, reading the rich rewards from breaking his mental limit:
"Lin Feng, lv29/29"
"Health 980, Physique 980, Spirit 1045"
"Completed mental breakthrough, permanent +50 spirit"
"Skill enhancement: ..."
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