Daily News: Insect Girls' Heavy Dependence

rustling... rustling...

The iconic chirping of the Silverwing Hunter Bug rang out again after its death!

The piercing, terrifying insect chirp emanated from the fourteen-winged Devouring Knight's Insect Belt.

The echo reverberated throughout the entire camp!

The meaning of this insect chirping is...

—Battle begins now!

In an instant, the silent campsite was brightly lit.

Brush brush!

Bows and crossbows were cocked, and the soldiers rushed out of the tents, with some guards surrounding Richard.

They naturally noticed the eyes in the distant woods as well.

However, neither side made any rash moves...

The captain of the guard and Gosling sneaked up to Richard.

"Govie, those things are mushroom people, fungus people..."

Goldie interrupted Richard's briefing on the enemy situation. Having studied mushroom worm science, she naturally knew what a mushroom man was.

She spoke not only to Richard, but also to the guards around her:

"Don't panic. The mushroom people aren't very aggressive, and they don't have much ranged attack capability. Have everyone wear masks; the mist emanating from them can affect the emotions of living beings..."

"Just keep at a standoff with them. Their fog is useless at this distance. Our crossbows aren't much use against them either. If the mushroom people want to attack, just use your machetes to cut these things in half vertically..."

"Also, don't be fooled by the fact that these things have 'person' in their names and look like people... they're not people! They're mushroom worms! Don't hold back when you fight them later!"

Gove listed a long list of characteristics of the mushroom people, even though some people in the group had heard of or knew about them.

But this warning must be conveyed, since many humans have previously thought mushroom people looked like humans. Showing mercy... ironically cost them their lives!

The humans in the camp and the mushroom people in the forest faced off for a full ten minutes.

Seeing that it was still too dark, Richard naturally did not give the order to attack, after all, Gove had said that the mushroom people had no means of ranged attack.

Seeing that the humans did not charge forward, the mushroom people did not rashly leave the forest.

……

Until the stars of this world rise from the horizon.

Richard was finally able to make out the blurry outlines of the mushroom people.

Although it was too far away to see clearly, it was just as Gove had said.

From what could be seen in the woods were clearly human upper body shapes.

It has one head and two pairs of forelimbs. The lower body is not visible, but Richard guesses... it probably walked upright!

As the stars rose, the mushroom people's buzzing grew even louder.

The color in their eyes didn't dim in the sunlight; instead, it became even more dazzling and radiant, like mirrors reflecting the light...

Richard, of course, had no time to waste on them; he didn't need any command horns or pre-battle shouts.

The Fourteen-Winged Devouring Knight Insect emitted a highly penetrating chirp, signaling "launch."

Despite Goldie saying that crossbows weren't very effective, Richard still wanted to give them a try.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh—!

A series of arrows fired does not require much precision.

If you can scare away the mushroom people, that would be ideal. If you can't, you should observe their ability to withstand sharp objects.

When the arrow struck the first mushroom man...

There was no penetrating wound as one would when a person is hit, and not even a drop of red blood came out.

Although Richard couldn't see clearly what specific injuries the arrow had caused to the mushroom man.

But he could clearly see that none of the mushroom-men who had been hit showed any sign of pain; they didn't even seem to care about the piercing wounds left by the arrows...

"Sergeant! Command the charge..."

Since the facts are the same as what Gove said.

Richard naturally chose to believe her claim that she used a machete to deal with the mushroom man.

A large number of people with extensive combat experience were separated from the Trail Blazers.

They had all at least been implanted with worms.

This insect enhances its endurance.

Worth to talk about.

The "cow and horse insect" is the easiest insect for lower-level personnel to obtain and implant. Even though this insect only has the potential to grow into a second-tier adult, its overall effect is surprisingly powerful.

In addition to enhancing human endurance in all aspects, it can also improve the host's tolerance to pain to a certain extent.

And the best part is! Humans implanted with cow-horse worms will be highly obedient to their leaders!

Back to topic.

Watching these 996 second-tier pioneers put on gas masks and rush into the forest.

They began driving away the mushroom people...

The entire human army has been mobilized! How can the fungus people resist?

The result was nothing unexpected; it was just a one-minute close-quarters battle.

The mushroom people saw that these humans were not afraid of their protective mist at all.

Humans can cut them in half with a machete.

They decisively abandoned their brethren, buzzing and scattering in all directions...

Many of Richard's 996 second-tier humans were not even carrying machetes, but rather shovels and pickaxes.

After all, the primary task is to extract the essence of the buried insects, while driving away the fungus people is only a secondary task.

Seeing that there were no major problems on the battlefield, Gossamer began to teach Richard other things about mushroom people:

"The mushroom people of the northern snowfields were indeed a troublesome problem for humans a hundred years ago. Once you inhaled their protective mist, the creature would become uncontrollable."

"For example, the mist from the red mushroom man, once inhaled, will make him extremely irritable and violent, and he might even attack his companions nearby..."

"Inhaling the mist from the blue mushroom man will cause you to become depressed and unwilling to do anything. In severe cases, it can lead to extreme hatred of the world and yourself, and ultimately, suicide..."

"Inhaling the mist from the yellow mushroom man makes it even more unbearable. It heightens one's lust, and some people, upon seeing even a hole, will eagerly bring out their 'big treasure'... to fill the void..."

"As for the purple mushroom man's mist? You know that the Kingdom of Gil has a popular item called rubber insect sticks... and these items are often made in purple, called Purple Mood... and both men and women buy and use them."

"Inhaling the mushroom man's purple mist has a similar effect to the yellow mist. However, at this point, just any hole won't suffice. It requires someone of the same sex..."

After listening to Goldie's further explanation, Richard understood:

"It seems... the mushroom people are not weak creatures at all; it's just that the gas masks invented by humans have suppressed their attack methods."

But all of this is just irrelevant nonsense.

Richard, seeing that the mushroom people had fled, did not order his men to pursue and kill them.

He left behind a hundred technical personnel to guard the camp, who implanted tool-building insects such as weather forecast mushrooms, ground-listening wood ear worms, and mud worms.

I put on a mask and entered the forest filled with four-colored mist.

After all, the annoying fog in the woods still hasn't dissipated!

This fog has severely hampered his men's efforts to mine and collect the essence of the insect venom.

This requires Richard to provide on-site guidance.