Chapter 202: The Power of the Fourth Catastrophe, Bai Fu Who Inspires Fear [55k]
The Tower of Secrets needs a special item called [Cooling Hive] to unleash a Flood Disaster.
The [Cooling Hive] is made by the engineering bugs of the Dark Domain Bug Clan. Its size varies from a diameter of 50 centimeters to 5 meters. Due to the use of spatial technology in its creation, even the smallest 50 cm model can store 100,000 regular bugs and 100 adult bugs. Throwing the largest Cooling Hive onto a surface civilization of the level of Ulysses would result in merciless slaughter.
Although the fleet dispatched by the Tower of Secrets did not carry the largest Cooling Hives, it carried over a hundred medium-sized ones. These hives were enough for them to launch a “Flood” on a scale exceeding ten million.
Do not underestimate the number ten million.
The two most terrifying aspects of the Dark Domain Bugs are their evolution capabilities and reproduction abilities!
If the invaded civilization cannot come up with an effective method to kill the bugs, the Dark Domain Bugs will mercilessly devour everything they can digest to satisfy their primitive desires. During this process, their numbers will rapidly expand from ten million to twenty million, forty million, hundreds of millions, or even more, until the entire planet is stripped bare. Then they will begin to cannibalize each other.
Starting with destruction and ending with destruction, this is the horror of the Flood.
“Director Foster, all Cooling Hives have completed preheating!”
When Jin Gu Star appeared on the large screen in the cockpit of the flagship, Foster heard the voice of the operator in his ear.
He nodded slightly and said, “Release the probes, and let the accompanying brain bugs explore together. Confirm there are no ambushes before advancing to Jin Gu Star.”
This operation of the Tower of Secrets had two objectives.
The main goal was to capture the immortals, and the secondary goal was to capture Bai Fu alive to inquire about the whereabouts of the prototype.
Therefore, the Head Butler had already given orders before the operation, instructing Foster not to glass Jin Gu Star unless absolutely necessary.
Since heavy cannons could not be used, deploying the Dark Domain Bugs was the most efficient way to attack while minimizing casualties on their side.
Foster lightly pinched his chin, eyes slightly closed.
“Bai Fu currently has several thousand immortals around her. I don’t know how many there are on Jin Gu Star. If there are ten to twenty thousand, and I manage to capture all of them and bring them back to the Tower of Secrets…”
A wave of excitement surged within him.
With such great achievements, he would surely advance further, moving from fleet commander to become a member of the combat command room!
“There must be this many; otherwise, I will be very disappointed.”
The sharp black nails of Foster’s right hand gently rubbed his neck, the desire to kill almost becoming uncontrollable.
About fifteen minutes later, the feedback from the probes and brain bugs came—no traces of any ambush were found!
Foster raised an eyebrow.
No ambush? Could it be that Bai Fu hasn’t arrived yet, or that the trash from the Gateway of the Beginning feared being discovered, so they set up the ambush far away from Jin Gu Star?
If it’s the former, then he could counter-ambush Bai Fu, catching her off guard. If it’s the latter, then those trash from the Gateway of the Beginning might cry bitterly this time.
The Head Butler had already considered this situation beforehand and gave him a dimensional fragment before coming. The dimensional fragment has no destructive power, but once thrown outside Jin Gu Star, until it disappears, the trash from the Gateway of the Beginning can only watch helplessly as they do whatever they want on Jin Gu Star.
Just thinking about it makes Foster excited.
“Since no ambush has been detected, we’ll proceed at full speed towards Jin Gu Star!”
The fleet moved forward at high speed, stopping only when reaching the near-Earth orbit of Jin Gu Star. Subsequently, the release bay doors of the entire row of spaceships opened one after another, and the Cooling Hives and air-drop cabins, which had already completed preheating, were shot towards Jin Gu Star’s atmosphere like bullets under the propulsion of acceleration tracks.
Foster did not allow the spaceship to land directly, fearing that doing so might scare the players on Jin Gu Star, causing them to hide and making it time-consuming and labor-intensive to catch them one by one.
At this moment, most people on the fleet were closely watching the virtual screens ahead, and none of them noticed a mass of black mist quietly attaching itself to the base of an air-drop cabin and flying towards Jin Gu Star along with it.
…
In an open sandy area in the eastern hemisphere of Jin Gu Star,
Under the dim night sky, drowsy and sleepy.
Standing beside the boulder, the man holding the telescope rubbed his sleepy eyes and sighed, “Will evil aliens really attack?”
“Who knows? The boss says they will, and he asked us to prepare, so we just prepare. The boss isn’t withholding our pay.” The burly man beside him shrugged.
“I’m not doubting the boss, I’m just worried that the boss has been deceived by that woman who looks different from us.”
“That’s not our concern. We just… wait, what is that?”
The burly man suddenly stood up from the ground and stared intently at the night sky.
The man holding the telescope looked suspiciously along the burly man’s line of sight and saw countless streaks of fiery red light suddenly appearing in the originally clear night sky.
The streaks fell rapidly, dyeing the entire sky crimson, as if ignited, presenting a breathtaking scene of the end of the world.
How could this happen?
That’s right.
Aliens, they’re aliens!
The two who had been chatting hurriedly fled toward the nearby signal station, but before they could run far, a streak of fire suddenly fell directly in front of them.
The fire waves formed by the explosion threw them out, and the high temperature made them suffer greatly. Even so, the fear surging in their hearts still made them stand up shakily.
Through the swirling smoke, they saw a brown sphere covered with pores, and at this moment, one bug after another crawled out of the pores of the brown sphere, strange and pitch-black.
Some bugs had double wings on their backs, some had double-forked horns on their heads…
Regardless of how these bugs looked and behaved, the moment they emerged from the pores, their bodies swelled like balloons, increasing in size by a hundred times.
NPCs living on Jin Gu Star had never seen such bizarre scenes. They turned and ran in panic, but how could their speed compare with the bugs whose strength was comparable to C-level superhumans?
The Dark Domain Bugs, smelling the scent of flesh and blood, initiated hunting mode the moment they left the Cooling Hive. They launched attacks in groups, like mudslides rushing down a hillside, accompanied by eerie buzzing sounds.
“It’s over, completely over!”
The faces of the fleeing two turned pale. How could they possibly escape from this swarm of bugs at their current speed?
Despair began to spread, and just at this moment, a streak of white light suddenly cut through the long night, passing above the two and nailing into the surging bug swarm.
Boom!
The deafening explosion caused the two to look up and find several figures suddenly appearing in front of them. The leader was precisely the strange woman who had killed the King of Psionics a few days ago and said on TV that evil aliens would attack.
“You…”
Bai Fu ignored the two. She took a few steps forward, abruptly raising her right hand, triggering a spirit burst. A massive surge of spiritual energy erupted and collided violently with the approaching bug swarm.
The bug swarm emerging from the Cooling Hive was already terrifying enough, but compared to the massive tide of spiritual energy unleashed by Bai Fu now, it was nothing!
The surging spiritual energy melted all the bugs blocking its path into fragments, tearing apart the seemingly invincible bug swarm in the blink of an eye. The thunderous sound echoed across the wilderness, almost drowning out all other sounds in the world.
Along with the spiritual energy tide, ten dazzling magic blades also charged out. The blades spun rapidly, leaving a trail of black illusions in the air as they freely darted through the bug swarm split into two halves. Regardless of whether the bugs were fragile or armored for defense, as long as they were lightly grazed by the magic blades, they would be instantly bisected, completely losing their vitality.
In less than twenty seconds, when Bai Fu lowered her right hand, the surging bug swarm had completely calmed down. Among the piles of rubble, not a single living bug could be seen, only scattered remains everywhere.
“Pity the attack range of the spirit burst is still too small; otherwise, it would have taken only two seconds to kill all these bugs.”
Bai Fu shook her head regretfully.
The two standing behind her stared wide-eyed.
Good grief, she wiped out so many super-scary bugs in just twenty seconds and still complained about the efficiency. What kind of alien superhero is this?
Bai Fu ignored the shocked gazes behind her. She opened the communicator and contacted Scarlet Leaf and Jiujiao, who were putting out fires elsewhere.
“The Tower of Secrets did not directly bombard with ship cannons but chose to deploy a flood disaster. It seems they didn’t come to Jin Gu Star purely for revenge. Perhaps they came for me, perhaps for your immortals. But this doesn’t matter now. Deploying a flood disaster? Today, we’ll make them know, in the Star Ocean…”
They couldn’t do as they pleased; on Jin Gu Star, they had to crawl even more! Let’s go, start the bug-killing operation!”
Bai Fu’s words were transmitted through Jiujiao’s live stream to every player on Jin Gu Star.
Together with this message came the game’s notification sound.
【You have triggered the hidden quest [Defend Jin Gu Star]】
【Quest Introduction: The evil forces of the Tower of Secrets投放ed a large number of cooling bug nests from beyond the sky onto Jin Gu Star. If left unchecked, a terrifying flood disaster will sweep across the globe, turning Jin Gu Star into a lifeless禁区. For Jin Gu Star, contribute your strength!】
【Quest Objective: Prevent the Tower of Secrets’ invasion of Jin Gu Star! (Current progress 0.00%)】
【Reward: Reward is determined based on contribution】
Both the players on Jin Gu Star and the other players who arrived with Bai Fu received this quest.
Even before receiving the quest, they were already enthusiastic about fighting against the Tower of Secrets. Now that they had the quest, they were even more eager to try.
This was a mission to stop the powerful faction of the Tower of Secrets, which possessed Catastrophe Tier superhumans, from invading. The quest rewards would absolutely be very generous!
Alright, alright, alright, Tower of Secrets, right?
I don’t care about fire disasters or floods, none of them can compare to our Fourth Disaster!
【Brothers, charge, crush these bugs!】
【Shit, Jin Gu Star is my hometown in this game, how could we let you bastards ruin it?】
【It’s time to show our true skills. I specially bought a set of neural induction enhancement equipment from Fu Fu. I’m going to kill, kill, kill】
The players who were divided into dozens of groups by Bai Fu stationed in various major cities on Jin Gu Star moved out. They rode troop carriers, launched forward, and headed straight for the landing sites of the cooling bug nests.
Within each group of players, there were many combat teams. The commanders of each team were the group of players Bai Fu brought from Source Star, such as Pai Da Xing and Sword Aura Sky Piercing.
Their average combat power was much higher than that of other players, and they had participated in the Heaven Lake Star War, having rich experience in dealing with the Dark Domain Bug Clan. With them taking charge of the combat command, the players on Jin Gu Star were all convinced. Anyway, they wouldn’t snatch the spots for the players on Jin Gu Star to go to the Star Ocean.
When the players went out in all directions, the NPCs on Jin Gu Star also acted after the initial shock. Jin Gu Star belongs to the players of Jin Gu Star, but it is also their Jin Gu Star. They must do something.
If they can’t participate in the front-line battlefield, then they will handle logistics. Weapons, ammunition, no matter if they can effectively kill those bugs, prepare them first.
With Bai Fu’s order, the entire Jin Gu Star ran at high speed, entering a state of war.
At this moment, she was not a queen, but better than a queen.
Countless people were chanting her name. Many people on Jin Gu Star stopped praying to the gods and began praying to her instead.
“We must win, big sister with white hair!”
Bai Fu looked up, calmly gazing at the temporarily peaceful night sky.
She believed that the people of the Tower of Secrets in the starry sky should have noticed the changes on the ground.
…
Foster indeed noticed.
At first, he was excited. None of the over a hundred cooling bug nests dropped encountered any accidents, all landing safely. This seemed to be a good omen.
After noticing that players appeared in groups near the cooling bug nests, he became even more excited.
“Here they come, here they come. This fearless fighting style, this abnormal behavior of laughing even when close to death, are the undead. Jin Gu Star really has a large number of undead!”
Foster roughly estimated and found that there were at least a thousand undead on the big screen.
There were a thousand here, the possibility of having several thousand or even tens of thousands of undead across the entire Jin Gu Star was getting higher and higher.
“Notify the brain bug, tell the bugs below not to rush to kill the undead blocking their way. Killing them all at once, who knows where they will resurrect. It’s too troublesome to capture them one by one.”
“Yes!”
Upon receiving the notice, the brain bug quickly conveyed the order down.
Foster looked at the big screen with radiant eyes, watching the players being driven around everywhere.
What he saw wasn’t the backs of fleeing players, but his own future of promotion and salary increase; what he heard wasn’t the screams of the players, but the praise from the head butler.
As time passed, with more and more players appearing on the big screen, Foster laughed even more happily.
“Two thousand people!”
“Five thousand people!”
“Ten thousand!”
“Wow, looks like I underestimated again. Jin Gu Star might have two or three ten-thousand undead!”
Foster’s eyes were sharp and bright.
Winning big!
This time, he really had to thank Bai Fu. If it weren’t for Bai Fu, the undead named [Wind Menthol] wouldn’t have sent out a long-distance rescue signal. Without intercepting this rescue signal, they wouldn’t have found Jin Gu Star, not knowing where Jin Gu Star was, he wouldn’t have been able to capture the undead on Jin Gu Star. Without capturing the undead, relying solely on fighting the trash in the Initial Gateway Star Cluster, how long would it take him to accumulate enough achievements for promotion?
The head butler said they made Bai Fu’s current high value possible, but Bai Fu is honest. Isn’t she starting to repay their kindness now?
Say thanks to Sister Fu!
Thanks to Sister Fu!
The others on the spaceship were now genuinely grateful to Bai Fu. If this operation succeeded, they would also get promoted and receive raises.
“Commander Foster, when do we start the capture operation?”
“Let’s wait a bit longer, no rush. Anyway, they can’t escape.” Foster smiled confidently.
But as they waited, the situation started to change.
Not, why are these undead still coming out?
Thirty thousand, forty thousand, fifty thousand… Shouldn’t it be over by now… Shit, how could there be so many undead lurking in this place!
Foster couldn’t smile anymore.
He saw the players luring enemies deeper, laying ambushes halfway, and finally surrounding the bugs born from a cooling bug nest, wiping them all out.
He thought this was the limit of the players, but he soon realized this was just the beginning.
Because the players kept coming out!
From fifty thousand to a hundred thousand, from a hundred thousand to two hundred thousand, seemingly endless.
No matter how powerful the Dark Domain Bugs he deployed were, they were simply not enough to deal with players whose average combat power could rival newcomers at B-level and who were fearless.
Bug tide charge?
Player countercharge!
Accidentally surrounded by a large number of Dark Domain Bugs, with the Bugs sharpening their knives ready to eat?
Hey, hold on, let me blow myself up first!
Bugs can fly and burrow underground?
Ha, do you think our abilities and the props we just bought from Fu Fu are just for show?
Foster had deployed cooling bug nests on other planets many times before, each time causing a huge wave on the planet, but this time…
Crazy?
【We, the undead, will see how crazy you can get today!】
Even the Dark Domain Bugs deployed in the wilderness hadn’t had time to encounter a single NPC before being slaughtered by the players rushing in urgently.
Those few unlucky ones deployed near settlements didn’t fare much better. These places were closely monitored by Bai Fu. Once Dark Domain Bugs were discovered, she immediately dispatched a large number of aircraft-carried players to parachute down.
The “flood” that Foster had pinned great hopes on did not cause any significant damage on Jin Gu Star and was easily crushed by the players.
“Could it be like this?”
Foster was stunned.
Manu and others were also stunned. Although the scale of the flood on Jin Gu Star was small compared to the flood on Heaven Lake Star, it was still surprising to see it wiped out so easily.
They witnessed the terror of the players for the first time and realized the immense value of the players for the first time.
Also, Bai Fu’s value.
Bai Fu can command so many undead, her value is immeasurable!
Manu got excited. The Star Network Community has truly struck gold.
Unlike the excited Manu, Foster was almost cracking.
What the hell, why are there so many undead on Jin Gu Star?
A terrible idea suddenly sprang to mind – could it be possible that the entire Jin Gu Star is full of undead?
If that were the case…
Foster’s scalp went numb. There must be about ten billion people living on Jin Gu Star.
“I understand, I completely understand. This is a trap, a trap set by Bai Fu. She deliberately let the undead on Jin Gu Star send out long-distance signals, making us think we’ve caught her weakness. We eagerly drove the spaceship here, but in fact, we jumped into the pit she dug for us. What a cunning woman, I actually thought she was honest just now!”
Foster’s breathing was extremely heavy.
Since Bai Fu had set such a trap, she certainly wouldn’t let them leave so easily. Running away would likely result in being intercepted halfway, suffering heavy losses, or even total annihilation.
To survive, it seemed there was only one way now –
Fight to live!
“Shit, Bai Fu, even if you have countless undead under your command, so what? As long as I can capture you alive and use you as a hostage, we will still win this battle!”
Foster gritted his teeth and immediately issued the order for a general attack.
Charge into Jin Gu Star, capture Bai Fu alive!
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