They won the Holy Grail War, but this turned out to be the Virtual Tree Universe.

Chapter 88 Demonized Mother Insect (5000)

Through the memories of the mother insect, Danlei finally learned how the swarm was trapped in this Quantum Sea ruin back then.

At the same time, Danlei also learned some bad news.

After the swarm awoke, it immediately began fighting amongst itself, as countless Amber Ages had been in hibernation. They ate their own kind to regain their strength, and even a planetary queen was eaten.

Therefore, when the insects burst out of the spatial rift, they were not all in a weakened state due to hunger.

However, the combined forces of the Immortal Boat Alliance and the Interstellar Peace Company are still at a significant numerical disadvantage against a swarm of insects that has already been fighting amongst themselves.

Moreover, the mother insect's memories show that in order to restore its strength, Skarakabaz directly devoured the fragments of the Insect Emperor that it had broken the seal on, thus restoring its full strength and even evolving.

Dan Lei was starting to have some doubts, because the swarm was leaderless and Skarakabaz had automatically become the overlord, thus beginning to develop intelligence.

After all, modern insect swarms are actually much smarter than those during the global locust plague. It's not particularly strange that Skarakabaz, which had been hibernating, began to awaken its intelligence after waking up.

However, judging from its previous state, even if it begins to awaken, its intelligence won't be much higher; it'll probably be at the level of a rather dim-witted cat or dog.

The biggest problem now is that this mother insect doesn't know how many fragments of the Insect King are in the Insect Temple; it only knows that Skarakkabaz swallowed one in front of everyone.

If there are no more fragments of the Insect King in the temple now, and all that can be found are remnants of creation from the Amber King's seal on Taizyuros, then the temple's value will be greatly reduced.

However, Danlei felt that they should capture Skarakabaz's soul first to know the actual situation, since Skarakabaz was the one who knew the most about it.

Fortunately, the good news is that the mother insect under Danlei's feet is now under his control.

Using his dual-wielding blue hand, Dan Lei slightly modified its memories, setting himself as its master. He easily signed an extremely unequal familiar contract with it, as if he were fooling a fool.

At this moment, the swarm controlled by the mother insect stopped attacking Dan Lei and his companions, and instead attacked other insects under Dan Lei's orders, causing nearly one-fifth of the lower-level insects in the swarm to instantly turn against them.

After finishing, Dan Lei directly requested a call with Fu Xuan through Yu Zhao, and said after the call connected.
"Lord Fu Xuan, I have captured the queen insect I was in charge of. I have now altered its memories and taken control of it. Please inform the troops to stop attacking my queen insect."

Moreover, I received some bad news from the mother insect's memories: Skarakabaz devoured a fragment of Taizyuros and has undergone some evolution, which might cause problems for the two generals.

So I plan to have the queen worm lead me directly to Skarakkabaz. Using the swarm's unique signal, she'll find Skarakkabaz very quickly.

After hearing Dan Lei's words, Fu Xuan clearly took a few seconds to process them before asking in an incredulous tone.

"Dan Lei, are you sure you just captured a planetary-level queen insect? And you even modified its memories and controlled it? Where did you come from, living Sui Yang?"
Furthermore, if Skarakkabaz has already devoured a fragment of Taizyuros, what use would you be to bring the mother worm along?

To these questions, Dan Lei simply answered calmly...

"Lord Fu Xuan, in fact, the insects' brains are even less intelligent than you imagine. Normal memory users have no interest in exploring their empty brains."

As for controlling them, Suiyang can control them, but they have no interest in the insects' souls.

The insects don't eat meat; they prefer to feed on the emotions and souls of their hosts. For the insects, the emotions of these insects are probably more painful than the soda and soy juice that the tourists on the fairy boat drink, and they don't even fill them up.

Also, my method of controlling the mother insect is different from Suiyang's; it's just some minor tricks to remember her destiny.

As for what use it is to find Skarakabaz.

"Lord Fu Xuan, I have two bodyguards with the power of a Commander. We are qualified to participate in Commander-level battles, at least providing support."

Dan Lei's answer left Fu Xuan speechless, because living Memory Path Walkers are extremely rare in the universe, and the main active force of the Memory Path is the Memory Path meme life form.

Therefore, the Immortal Boat Alliance is unaware of the differences and distinctions in abilities between the living Memories Traveler and the Memoir Memory.

This has led to Dan Lei now blaming everything about the soul and spirit on the fate of memories, which Fu Xuan can't refute.

As for participating in the battle of Skarakkabaz, Danlei's squad is indeed qualified.

After all, Dan Lei had acquired two guards with the cornerstone of the preservation order. Apart from the two generals, their squad was currently the strongest in the entire Immortal Boat Alliance and the Interstellar Peace Company's allied forces.

However, Fu Xuan was still worried that Dan Lei might suddenly barge into the battlefield and disrupt Jing Yuan's original plan, so he refused.
"No, Danlei, you control the mother insect now to support Yaoqing's attack."

The general has his own arrangements; you don't need to worry about them. It would be a grave offense if you intervened on the battlefield without authorization and caused the general's plans to fail.

Furthermore, how do we distinguish which insects you control? The lower-level insects all look exactly alike.

However, upon hearing this, Dan Lei decisively decided to disobey orders from the field. He then activated a barrier to increase interference, and feigned ignorance amidst the severely disrupted communications.
"Buzz~~ What, Lord Fu Xuan, what kind of bug? Buzz~~ The communication suddenly went bad, I didn't hear what you said."

If you're asking about the friend or foe of low-level insects, I think you should just eliminate all of them except for my queen insect; indirect control is unreliable.

Ugh... Also, what happened to Yaoqing? Does he want me to go and help the general?
"No problem, I'll get started right away. The signal interference is too bad right now, I'm hanging up."

After saying that, Danlei hung up the call immediately, and then Yuzhao set the connection to disconnect mode.

After Dan Lei hung up, Fu Xuan's connection was already close to red.

At this moment, Fu Xuan was almost furious. He said, "Dan Lei, even if you want to act on your own, can't you come up with a better reason? Communication problems? Are you trying to fool an idiot?"
Now that the battle on Danlei's side has ended, Luo Fu's warship force was dispatched to support Yao Qing the moment Fu Xuan received Danlei's communication. Unless Danlei creates interference herself, where would the interference come from?

Besides, didn't you hear yourself clearly? You've answered both questions, so you're just pretending there's a communication failure, huh?

However, Fu Xuan was indeed unable to stop Dan Lei now. She still remembered Jing Yuan's words, so she couldn't order the troops to bring Dan Lei back. She could only make a deep note of Dan Lei in her mind.

However, the next second, Fu Xuan still notified the Immortal Boat Alliance forces not to stop Dan Lei's mother insect's actions, and at the same time, he also synchronized the information with the Interstellar Peace Company.

However, the Interstellar Peace Corporation's fleet is currently locked in a bloody battle with the other two mother insects, and they have already fired several rounds of planet-destroying cannons. They probably don't have the spare capacity to deal with Danlei, the mother insect.

The scene shifts to Dan Lei. After the communication was completely cut off, Dan Lei could imagine the level of anger Fu Xuan was experiencing.

Therefore, she still needs to complete the task of supporting Yaoqing that she assigned, otherwise she might really anger our Grand Diviner to the point of illness, and when Jingyuan comes back, he will probably help her deal with himself.

Thus, under Dan Lei's control, his mother insect familiar rushed straight towards the mother insect that Yao Qing Immortal Boat was attacking.

At this moment, due to the defection of some insects and the arrival of the Luofu Fighting Ship forces, the forces of the Yaoqing Immortal Ship were only one step away from reaching the mother insect.

Yaoqing's main attacking force has also been deployed.

Originally, Dan Lei thought that Yao Qing's main attack force would be led by Mo Ze, but upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a female Cloud Rider with an ethereal aura, wielding a golden heavy sword in one hand.

She stood on the warship, and even from a distance, Dan Lei felt an aura of power emanating from her.

She clearly knew that someone on Luofu's side had subdued the planetary-level mother insect, so when she ambushed her own target, she used the power of destiny to send a universal light signal to Dan Lei, who was standing on the head of the mother insect.

There was nothing Danlei could do; he turned off communication, and now no one could contact him through communication.

Fortunately, the meaning of the light signal was quite simple; it was probably instructing Danlei to restrict the mother insect's movements.

Dan Lei naturally handled such a simple matter with ease. His familiar mother worm rushed straight towards the target mother worm, completely ignoring the target mother worm's constant threatening actions.

Judging from the translation of the synesthetic beacon, the mother insect used quite vulgar language.

However, Dan Lei was even dirtier. He had his familiar, the mother worm, go around to the back, then took out a Zhu Ming Fire and used a displacement technique to directly move into a channel behind the mother worm where it was producing worms.

The next second, without needing synesthetic beacon translation, Danlei knew that the mother insect had screamed in agony.

Because Danlei's actions are no different from branding someone's buttocks with a hot iron; they are not fatal, but they constitute a combination of mental and physical harm.

Then, Danlei controlled his familiar, the mother insect, to pounce and seize its target. The mother insect was completely bewildered. Although she had a body the size of a planet, her brain, which functioned like an almond, couldn't understand why a fellow insect swarm member would do such a horrific thing to her. This wasn't the time when she had just woken up and desperately needed food to replenish her energy.

However, after struggling for a while, the mother insect soon stopped thinking about these things.

A massive sword of imaginary energy, reaching to the heavens and the earth, suddenly appeared on its head and then pierced through its forehead without any obstruction.

Upon seeing this, Dan Lei couldn't help but say...

"Damn, the Sword God of the Void! Who exactly is this person?"

In fact, Dan Lei only needs to think for himself to know who released this move. Although the real name of this move may not actually be Taixu Sword God, the person is most likely Su Chang's mother.

After all, the combination of being a woman, possessing a golden heavy sword, riding a celestial boat, riding cloud cavalry, and using moves similar to the Taixu Sword Qi, makes Su Chang's mother the most fitting candidate. However, it's unexpected that she would also participate in this battle.

Fortunately, upon closer examination, it makes sense. It would take more than twenty years for Su Chang to inherit the family heirloom sword and train with the Luofu Cloud Cavalry. It is possible that her mother had not yet passed the sword on to her at this time.

However, now is definitely not the time to say hello. The mother insect's head has been directly pierced by the Taixu Sword God, which is almost the same as having her head cut off. She will self-destruct immediately.

Danlei immediately ordered the planetary queen insect beneath him to move away, bypassing the battlefield and heading towards Skarakabaz.

The self-destruction of the planetary queen is the best cover at this moment. Anyone who comes can say that because of the queen's self-destruction, they really can't receive any signals.

And you know what, although the planetary queen is huge, it doesn't fly that slowly. When it starts at full speed, if the Star Peace Corporation's starships don't use space folding but instead use normal propulsion, they can only eat dust in the back.

Just as Dan Lei and Fu Xuan said, it's not difficult for the mother insect to find Skarakabaz; the insects have their own way of communicating.

Just as Danlei and his two companions were traveling to Skarakabaz on the mother insect, Danlei, as planned, took out the gold dust base from his sac and handed it to the gold dust.

However, when Sand Gold saw his foundation stone, he smiled wryly and didn't immediately reach for it, but instead said...
"Hey boss, you're not really planning to use me as cannon fodder in the fight against Skarkabaz, are you? You even gave me back the Keystone."

In response to this question, Dan Lei deliberately chuckled strangely.

"Don't worry, I won't be cannon fodder. In your usual way of speaking, you are an important bargaining chip, to be used at the most crucial moment. All or nothing, you know."

Upon hearing Danlei's words, Shajin's expression suddenly turned serious.

However, seeing the undisguised look in Dan Lei's eyes, he finally smiled with relief, accepted the cornerstone, and said...

"Boss, I'm starting to like you more and more. I'll trust you this once and take a gamble."

Let me tell you a secret: I've never lost a high-stakes bet.

Dan Lei smiled after hearing this and said that if you had lost before, you would be a dead man now.

Therefore, the claim that you've never lost a high-stakes gamble is a false proposition, because you simply can't afford to lose; once you lose, there's no going back.

However, the incredible luck that Sand Gold had when he was risking his life was real, so Dan Lei wanted to try and take advantage of it, and if that didn't work, he still had Toppa as a backup.

With the planetary-level mother insect flying at full speed, Dan Lei and his two companions soon saw the battlefield of the Commander.

To be honest, getting close to this battlefield is really dangerous. We were flying just fine when a pyrolysis beam almost grazed the mother insect from a distance, damaging one of her elytra.

Then, when it lost control of its flight attitude, a hunting energy blast came and took away half of its lower limbs.

It's fair to say that the mother insect was practically useless before it even got close to the battlefield, which gives you an idea of ​​how intense the fighting was over there.

At this moment, Dan Lei observed the terrain and discovered that the battlefield of the messengers was currently in a large asteroid belt. However, this asteroid belt could only be described as riddled with holes, with energy sufficient to destroy stars constantly shooting out from it.

Moreover, this location is on the shaded side of the star, whose light is currently blocked by Ejihazo.

So Danlei asked Topa, who was standing next to him.

"Topa, can you calculate how long it will be before the starlight shines on this area again?"

Topa didn't know why Danlei asked the question, but she still took out her small tablet to check and said...
"According to calculations, there is approximately one and a half system hours remaining."

Dan Lei nodded, mentally estimated the distance, and felt that there was enough time. So he took out the Ghost King Crystal that he had sealed from the Holy Grail and fed it directly to the mother worm, which was now half-crippled.

As soon as the mother insect swallowed the Ghost King's crystal, the evil magic and the life essence of the ghost within instantly spread throughout her body.

As is well known, magic has always been regarded as a special kind of life energy in the Star Iron Universe, and insects can naturally digest it because they eat almost anything.

As for that bit of ghostly life essence, it quickly flowed through the insect's body along with the blood, completing the initial ghost transformation.

Dan Lei quickly sensed that the mother insect's originally stable emotions had rapidly descended into a frenzied craving for flesh and blood, but fortunately, the familiar contract was still in effect, and he could still control it.

As for the damaged elytra and hind limbs, they instantly regenerated from the demonized mother insect.

Seeing that the mother insect had regained its mobility, Dan Lei had it use the energy of its reproductive destiny to spell out four crooked characters on its back: "I am an ally!!" before charging back into the battlefield.

Dan Lei did this for Jing Yuan and Fei Xiao to see. Once they saw it, they definitely wouldn't attack the demonized mother worm, because worms can't write this.

As for Skarakabaz, it is illiterate, and if it's lucky, it will mistake the mother insect for an allied force that has come to its aid.

Sure enough, as soon as those four big characters appeared, the attacks suddenly stopped targeting the mother insect.

Danlei immediately ordered the mother insect to speed up and rush to the battlefield, and it quickly entered the asteroid belt.

Upon entering the asteroid belt, Dan Lei and his two companions witnessed the battle between the three commanders.

At this point, only one pair of elytra remained on Skarakabaz's back, and both forelimbs were broken off.

Only one of its large horns remains on its head, and there is a huge gap in its back, most likely caused by a sneak attack from Jing Yuan's Wei Ling Shen Jun. It is still oozing blue sap.

However, its two blood-red mandibles at the edge of its mouthparts remained intact, and its speed and movements were not significantly affected.

Skarakabaz was severely injured, and Jingyuan and Feixiao were not without their own problems either.

The Feihuang that Feixiao merged with was, in a strict sense, an energy body formed by the convergence of the power of the hunting path. However, in the state of fusion with Feixiao, its injury was Feixiao's injury.

Just like in the game's storyline, when Fei Huang swallows the Crimson Moon, the Crimson Moon will enter Fei Xiao's body.

At this moment, two wounds were clearly visible on Fei Huang's waist, and starlight energy points were constantly falling, which should have been caused by Skarakkabaz's giant jaws.

Jing Yuan appeared to be unharmed, but his face was pale and his life energy was somewhat disordered, indicating that he had suffered internal injuries. However, the extent of his injuries was unknown.

The battle between the three was temporarily suspended due to the arrival of the insect queen.

At this moment, Skarakabaz suddenly emitted a wave that could be transmitted throughout the universe, but could only be heard as a "squeaking" sound by the naked ear.

According to the synesthetic beacon translation, it is urging the mother insect to hurry behind it to produce swarms.

At this moment, Dan Lei activated Yu Zhao's communication function again, ignoring the 999+ red message alerts, and spoke directly to Jing Yuan and Fei Xiao.
"Generals, please gather your strength. I have taken control of the mother insect beneath me and made some modifications."

Now I will have the queen worm lead us closer to Skarakabaz and launch a surprise attack on it.

"In terms of seizing opportunities, both generals are better than me. Therefore, please attack according to the situation. As long as you don't engage in a direct assault, you don't need to worry about friendly fire. I will have Sand Gold fully utilize the power of the Protectorate to defend."

(End of this chapter)