this infinite world

Chapter 1004 Extra - The Devil Team's Journey (I): The Holy Way
——In the world of Starship Troopers, the Zerg home star system “Klendasu”.

The Klendasu system originally had two suns, one shining like gold, the other as blue as the ocean, but now, only the turbid and withered yellow and the cold and dark blue-grey remained. Their cores were infected and parasitized by the Zerg, and the fusion energy and star core matter became the nutrients for the new Zerg creatures. Even the surface was covered with a thin fungal blanket like clouds and fog, turning them into two biological Dyson spheres.

Outside of the stars, all the planets, satellites, and even asteroids in the galaxy have been fused together by countless flesh and blood biological tissues. Twisted and strange corrupt miasma seeps out from the planets, polluting the physical laws of the surrounding universe. Ugly visions grow in the dark space, and every bit of energy is squeezed out and turned into part of the insect nest...

The deformed flesh and blood covered with tentacles, bones, scales, wings and fangs, driven by never-ending primordial hunger, constantly devours the surrounding void like cancer cells of the universe. And driven by the same primitive impulse of proliferation and reproduction, it releases tens of millions of spore seeds and hatches countless alien insect monsters.

In fact, not only was it physically devoured, but even the will of the planet seemed to have become food for the insect swarm. Under the endless, rampant attack of the insects, the light of the stars was obscured, the fire of civilization was drowned, and even this part of the universe was devoured and swallowed, approaching the edge of destruction...

……

"…Is this what you call a 'little trouble'?"

At this time, the Demon Team is in the universe two light years away from the Klendasu Galaxy, in the disc mothership they seized from the alien civilization "Reaper" in the "Independence Day" dimension.

This resource drilling ship, which exists to devour the energy of the planet's core, has a diameter of 50,000 kilometers, which is almost equivalent to a continent floating in the universe. Under the crazy transformation and unscrupulous investment of the clone Chu Xuan, it has been upgraded again based on the alien technologies such as Cybertron's spark source, stellar energy extraction tower and space bridge in "Transformers"... Now this mothership can be said to be an invincible space fortress and mobile fortress.

Inside the captain's room, the clone Zheng Zha's face was as black as the bottom of a pot as he used instruments to observe the swarm of insects two light years away that was almost like a "dancing riot" of demons.

This man who usually had a cold face and looked like a devil took several deep breaths and barely suppressed the urge to draw his sword. He then looked at Yi Qi who was still smiling as if nothing had happened. "This damn world... How did it become like this?"

It’s no wonder that even the clone Zheng Zha’s Qi-cultivation skills couldn’t hold back, because the scene before him was truly beyond his expectations.

"Trigger the side quest... Within 30 days, destroy the Klendasu system that has been infected and devoured by the Zerg's Holy Path, save the world, and ensure that the coordinates of the Earth are not known to the Zerg."

"Complete the mission, and the whole team will obtain an S-level branch story and 50,000 reward points. If the mission is not completed after 30 days or the earth is destroyed, all members of the Demon Team who have not activated the fourth-level gene lock will be eliminated, and they will lose the qualification for the final battle..."

This was the main god mission that the Demon Team received when they had just returned to the Starship Troopers world and hadn't even settled down yet. An S-level side story and a 50,000-point reward for the whole team were enough to show its value.

Although the clone Zheng Zha was determined to win this huge reward, he also understood the difficulty, especially the punishment after failure, which he could not accept at all. It would be fine if he could kill those trash who had not even opened the fourth level, but he could not accept losing the qualification for the final battle, that is, the reunion with the Zhongzhou team.

Therefore, even though the clone Zheng Zha had absolute confidence in his own strength, he could only suppress his restless heart and follow the instructions of the clone Chu Xuan, acting cautiously with the main focus on collecting intelligence, and not attacking alone... and when the specific observation of the Zerg home planet was finally completed several hours later, the severity of the situation was beyond everyone's expectations.

——Damn it, what kind of insect nest did I disturb? Are these insects refreshed from the subspace?
Facing the clone Zheng Zha's face full of "Where did I get to... Is this still Starship Troopers?", Yi Qi just smiled calmly and responded: "Isn't it great? For me, it's a 'little trouble', but for you, it's just the right battlefield for your current strength."

"...I don't trust you." The clone Zheng Zha almost squeezed out these words from his teeth: "If I had known it would be so troublesome, I shouldn't have listened to you and returned to this world." Obviously, at the beginning, the clone Zheng Zha only planned to return to the Starship Troopers world, which had long become the logistics base of the Demon Team, to check the results and see if there were any side plots and bonus points to be gained. But what he didn't expect was that after returning, the Demon Team would face such a hellish scene.

The most infuriating thing is that the Lord God forced them to have an irresistible "saving the world" mission... and all of this was thanks to Yi Qi in front of them.

"Unfortunately, it's too late to back out now."

Yi Qi smiled nonchalantly, and then the man looked at Tom, who was also using a space detector and concentrating on using his mental power as an amplifier to observe the state of the insect swarm: "You have been targeted."

"What do you mean?" The clone Zheng Zha frowned.

“When you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you.”

As he spoke, Yi Qi grabbed Tom in the air with one hand, and an ugly cry suddenly resounded throughout the central control room, shocking everyone. In Yi Qi's hand, an extremely ugly insect was caught, and it was even constantly changing its shape. It seemed that even the surrounding space and machinery were showing signs of activation...

“What the hell is this——!”

In an instant, the flames ignited and burned all the bugs in Yiqi's hands. The replica Zheng Zha also figured out the key to this in an instant, and shouted to Tom who was still a little confused: "Stop all corresponding observations! That thing can infect everything at the source in some way!"

"Yes, your brain works very quickly."

Yi Qi smiled and shook his hand, extinguishing the flames in his hand: "This is another lesson I'm teaching you. Don't just observe things you don't understand."

"What on earth is that?"

The clone Zheng Zha stared at Yi Qi's right hand and maximized his perception. After confirming that the surrounding environment had not mutated again, he lifted the alert: "It can actually be infected and assimilated in such a weird way. It's almost comparable to those beings in Cthulhu mythology..."

"This is the 'Holy Way'."

Yi Qi's smile remained unchanged. He did not look at the questioning expression on the replica Zheng Zha's face, but looked up at the sky. In his field of vision, most of the area of ​​this plane called Starship Troopers had been covered by dense insect eggs and parasites. It would not take long for it to be completely devoured and completely plunged into death...

"It belongs to the holy way of the ancestor of the multiverse Zerg, the high-level saint 'The Overlord'."

(End of this chapter)