What does it mean that the Demon King was killed by a wheelchair?

The spectacle before him made House almost forget the passage of time for a moment, and it was only when Green patted him on the shoulder that he came back to his senses.

"Hmm..."

But when it came time to take action, House faced a dilemma.

According to Doan, the bomb around his neck was meant to blow up the "mother nest".

But... there was no mother nest at all, and the only giant insect guarding the mother tree even dried itself out and died.

He looked left and right, but couldn't see anything wrong with the tree. Wasn't it perfectly fine?

"Is this tree really going to die...?" House muttered speechlessly.

Green walked up to the mother tree's pulsating heart with his arms crossed, and then suddenly drew his sword and slashed down!

Suddenly, a huge gap appeared in the emerald green heart, and sap gushed out like a spring!

"What?! Holy crap, what are you doing, Green?!"

Green shook his head and said, "Alright, now this tree is really going to die."

House's eyes widened: "Are you fucking serious!?"

"Hahahahaha," Green laughed heartily as he saw House fall for the trick. He hooked his arm around House's arm and explained, "I was just joking. The Mother Tree's self-healing ability is extraordinary. Come, come, see for yourself."

"Don't suddenly make such a stupid joke... I thought you were a villain too." House grumbled and wheeled his wheelchair over to Green.

"What are you looking at?"

Green pointed to the gash on his heart that was even beginning to heal: "Look inside."

House poked his head in, and what he saw almost made him vomit up his breakfast from that morning.

Inside this heart is a hollow branch that pierces straight into the earth. Normally, this wouldn't be a big deal, but what's disgusting is that inside this branch are hordes of disgusting worm eggs that stretch as far as the eye can see!

Countless colorful insect eggs were densely packed on the branches, and with the pumping of the heart, the embryos inside those transparent eggs were also pulsating.

House felt a chill run down his spine and quickly pulled his head back. Still shaken, he asked:

"What the hell is this thing?!"

"As you can see, a large number of insect eggs have turned this place into a breeding ground."

House shook his head: "Of course I know that! The problem is these bugs... huh?"

He suddenly felt a sense of doubt... He suddenly remembered that when he and Chiaran were traveling downhill, they had clearly seen many of those insect nests built on stalactites, hadn't they?

And what about these insect eggs...?

With just that brief glance, House was certain that he had seen at least dozens of different kinds of insect eggs.

There's no such thing in nature, is there? Different kinds of insects helping each other?

Although I didn't watch many animal documentaries when I was a child, I think the relationship between insects was more like that of hunter and prey.

Seeing House deep in thought, Green smiled, then patted the trunk of the mother tree and said:

"You should have noticed that these insect eggs are not the offspring of the insects that hunted you back then; they don't belong here."

"It doesn't belong here..." Houston paused, then asked, "Then where does it belong?"

"Mount Belle is about 900 kilometers east of here."

"No...where?"

House pressed his temples and said:

"Wait a minute, I'm a bit confused. These eggs inside the mother tree came from... Mount Beller? And what about those bugs I just saw?"

"They are the masters of this place," Green said, arms crossed. "They have been rooted here for generations."

House stared blankly for a moment, then opened and closed his mouth in disbelief. "So those bugs were originally in this cave?"

"Not only that, but also those fungi, those white umbrella mushrooms are also native. They are mortal enemies with the insect swarms that live here. The umbrella mushrooms use their spores to turn the insect swarms into puppets, and the insect swarms will uproot the umbrella mushrooms and chew them up. The living die and the dead live, in an endless cycle..."

Green rubbed his shoulder: "A stable natural ecosystem has long been established here."

House was completely bewildered by this.

Damn it... that idiot Fudoan! Not a single piece of information he provided was correct!

If we hadn't met Green and had just listened to him, I don't know how many twists and turns it would have taken for Kiarland and me to figure these things out!

Should we call him a good-for-nothing or his crow a good-for-nothing?

Damn it, actually they're both pretty useless!

But, but, but... let's get back to the point.

House then thought about it again and realized that something was still wrong.

"Hiss, that's not right... You said these eggs came from Mount Belle, so how the hell did these insect eggs get here from 900 kilometers away? Did they teleport here out of thin air?"

Green gave a thumbs up: "Congratulations on getting it right! That's exactly the answer. These insect eggs were teleported here together using teleportation magic."

"...ha?"

"Teleportation magic... Does such a thing even exist in this world?"

"Hmm... There are indeed very few people in this kind of magic society, and the learning methods and similar knowledge are strictly controlled by various countries; moreover, each activation requires many magicians to cast the spell together, plus a huge magic circle to provide magicians with a continuous supply of magic power."

House spread his arms wide, then interlaced his fingers together: "I understand now. So, money, territory, and personnel are all indispensable, and approval from above is also required?"

Green nodded.

But this made House even more confused: "Wait... is the person who activated this magic mentally unstable? Crazy? Going through all that trouble just to transfer a bunch of disgusting insect eggs into the branches of the mother tree?"

Green was equally skeptical of this question. He used his fingers to pry open the oozing wound on his heart and said thoughtfully:

"I've thought about the question you raised... but after much thought, I can only think of one possibility."

"What?"

"These insect eggs were just affected by the impact."

"Those affected?"

"Yes, that's right. Teleportation magic is a rather difficult spell to control; a slip of the hand can lead to disaster. For example, these insect eggs from Mount Beller might have been accidentally affected by the teleportation magic and then randomly teleported into the trunk of this mother tree."

House then asked, "So, how did you know these were insect eggs from Mount Belle?"

"It's very distinctive; I can tell where it's from at a glance."

House grinned and then pulled the multi-barreled bomb off his neck.

Are you kidding me, Thunder? You can tell where it came from just by looking at it? That's about as good as being able to tell the name of every Minion, right?

But House had had enough of this nonsense: "Okay... anyway, I get it. It's these damned insect eggs that caused the mother tree's barrier to fail. Once we kill them, this troublesome chaos will be over, right?"

Green drew his straight sword, and with a slight flick of his wrist, a tiny flame flickered from the blade.

"Hmm, you're right. Want me to light the bomb for you?"

House chuckled and nodded. "Thank you very much."

As a string of flames ignited on the chain of bombs, the entire chain of bombs began to tremble violently. House quickly stuffed the about-to-explode chain of bombs into the gap in his heart, and then the two retreated rapidly, moving far away to the side.

There was no deafening explosion as expected. The bomb had been falling for a minute. House and Green looked at each other, and he frowned, thinking to himself, "Damn it, has Doan messed up again?"

Even the bombs are broken?

The moment the thought crossed my mind, my ears twitched slightly. In the weak frequency range, the speed of auditory reaction is faster than that of sight and smell.

Like the slight ripples created by a pebble thrown into the sea, a deep echo reverberated along the trunk of the mother tree, followed by a deafening gust of wind—something had run back from the very bottom of the trunk.

boom--!!!!!

Two loud bangs rang out, and even Green was caught off guard, let alone House. A massive amount of energy burst out from the small opening in the heart of the mother tree!

Accompanied by towering flames and shockwaves, the two were blasted straight away by the surging air currents!

Then came a violent ringing in his ears. House could hear nothing and could only see that the cave was almost completely filled with smoke and dust.

After a while, the smoke gradually dissipated, and House, clutching his head, got up from the ground again.

But he paid no attention to his own injuries; he was filled with worry as he examined the mother tree, fearing that he had caused a great disaster.

If everything goes smoothly but you end up ruining the mother tree yourself, that would be a real pain!

But it turned out that... his worries were completely unnecessary.

Not only was the mother tree's heart completely unharmed, but even the gash that Green had just slashed open had healed.

This self-healing ability is truly insane... such a violent explosion didn't even damage the stem in the slightest.

However, House felt that even if these bugs were born from his mother, Witrum, they would be reduced to ashes by this level of attack.

The task should be completed.

Sure enough, the voice in his head confirmed the result the next second.

【Ding! 】

[Congratulations, mission complete: The coastal insect hive has been destroyed!]