Become a girl in the horror world

A dim divine stone is now suspended on the highest tower of the temple. The sun refracts colorful light through the divine stone and scatters it everywhere.

Li Anxin once again compared the sacred stone through "Howling Mountains" and found that it was the Temple Sun Crystal described, and it was also one of the materials for making the Ancient Sea Worm Staff.

According to rumors, the Temple Sun Crystal is used to provide energy to the entire hive, absorbing the sun's energy and transmitting it to various parts of the hive.

At this point the Sun Crystal becomes dim and requires sunlight to reactivate.

The activation method is simple.

Li Anxin turned over the mirrors left over from the surrounding ruins, and focused dozens of rays of sunlight onto the solar crystal at the same time.

As the sun crystal emitted an extremely dazzling light and a powerful energy field burst out with a bang, the entire temple was activated at this moment and started to operate again from top to bottom. The gears from thousands of years ago began to turn, and the sounds of those ancient machines running rumbled in the girl's ears.

A more magnificent temple slowly rose from the depths of the snow-capped mountains. The temple they had originally seen was just the tip of the iceberg.

At this moment, a staircase of the temple stretched out towards them from top to bottom. The gate in the center sensed something and slowly opened outwards. The movement of the stone gate caused the mountain to shake, and the entire snow mountain was trembling slightly.

boom--

With a loud bang, the door leading to the Golden Palace appeared before them.

Li Anxin stretched out her twin white flowers and gently tapped the sun crystal. The entire sun crystal quickly shrank and was taken into her pocket.

"let's go."

Li Anxin looked into the deep passage, and seemed to hear the cry of some giant creature. The cry was harsh and sharp, like crying, and echoed in the mountains for a long time.

This seems to be where the Howling Mountains got their name.

She knew that the journey to the Howling Mountains had reached its final moment, and all the mysteries, everything about the legendary investigator and Jiang Linger's life experience would be solved in this temple.

Chapter 229: "Ancient Sea Insects" Deep in the Insect Nest

As the two girls entered the temple, the door slammed shut, and then the sound of mechanisms turning came again from behind the temple wall. They felt dizzy and their perspective kept changing. It was not until an unknown amount of time had passed that everything returned to peace.

The tunnel leading to the center of the temple is deep and dark, and you can't see your hand in front of you.

What surprised Li Anxin was that the walkway under his feet did not have the texture of building materials such as sand, but instead felt like some unknown metal.

The next moment, Li Anxin lit a match, and the surrounding scene appeared.

The surrounding passages looked like an ancient alien spaceship, with dotted fluorescent lights arranged in a ring, lighting up quickly from near to far. The cold azure alloy metal walls were engraved with murals, and the firelight reflected on the murals, revealing the details of the murals.

The mural depicts an unknown area full of storms. In the area, there is an insect nest that looks extremely sophisticated from a distance. The nest is made of flesh and blood, and the walls of the nest are covered with unhatched Zerg eggs.

In the deepest part of the hive there is a palace. On the throne deep in the palace sits a queen. Beside the queen stand two huge guard insects, tens of meters tall, like giant stone sculptures, which further highlight the queen's majesty.

There are nearly a hundred-meter-long staircase under the throne, on which countless people are worshipping, not only Zerg, but also humanoid creatures, as if the queen rules everything in this area.

Looking at these murals, Jiang Linger's eyes were slightly touched. It seemed as if a crack appeared in the deepest part of her memory, and countless pictures poured out of it. She fell silent, and continued to follow the girl forward in confusion.

The passage gradually became wider after the initial hundred meters, and there were more murals on the walls than before.

In the new mural, the insect nest rises from the ground and floats in the air. Looking from afar, the environment near the insect nest is extremely desolate. The entire area seems to be swallowed up by desolation. Vegetation and life have disappeared, and there are deserts everywhere. Magma flows out from the ground and then falls into the dry canyon, presenting a doomsday scene.

Through this picture, combined with the content of "Howling Mountain", Li Anxin roughly guessed what it wanted to express.

The place where the ancient sea Zerg once lived seemed to have become no longer suitable for living because of something that happened, so the Queen of Zerg activated the Zerg nest, hoping to fly to a new area to find a habitable environment.

Thinking of the Howling Mountains again, the story seems to be connected. After that, the Zerg Hive accidentally entered the mechanical layer and fell from the sky of the mechanical layer into a vast ocean. The Zerg Hive began to grow in power, and then the earth's crust changed into mountains, and the Queen Zerg fell into a deep sleep.

But what puzzled Li Anxin was that the story became a little tortuous and bizarre after the legendary investigator went to the insect nest.

Logically speaking, after learning of the huge potential threat posed by the hive, the investigator did not contact the Mirror City authorities to send additional personnel, but instead went to the hive alone, attempting to kill the Ancient Sea Queen alone.

His initial stance was to allow humanity to continue on the mechanical plane, otherwise he would not have come to die knowing that it was extremely dangerous, but what he did was contrary to his stance.

Knowing that failure may lead to the Queen's immediate awakening, he chose to go alone. Logically speaking, it's like a...

Bedtime reading for little ones?

The sense of division is too severe.

Li Anxin was thinking this and didn't notice the changes in Jiang Ling'er behind her.

The girl's eyes were dazed and she looked confused and at a loss. Suddenly, she staggered and fell against the alloy wall beside the passage.

The entire passage suddenly lit up with a buzzing sound as if it had detected something. Mechanical sounds in an unknown language echoed in the aisle. Then a valve appeared from the concealed alloy wall and slowly opened to both sides.

Li Anxin stepped forward and gently supported Jiang Linger's body:

"Are you okay?"

Jiang Linger came back to her senses and shook her head gently:

"I'm fine..."

The surrounding scene can be seen clearly.

I saw that the metal wall of the ceiling had been broken, and lifeless flesh and blood squeezed out from the metal cracks. Countless granulations hung above the aisle, like a hunter staring at his prey in the dark.

Can't go wrong.

This so-called temple is the insect nest, which is actually a high-tech spaceship.

The road ahead seemed to have no end in sight, but a new passage appeared on the side, with azure fluorescent light spreading in the air, foreshadowing something ominous.

Li Anxin gently took Jiang Ling'er's hand and walked towards the new passage.

The moment they stepped into the new corridor, the scene around them changed again. The walls rippled like water waves, and the surrounding metal walls disappeared. They seemed to have stepped into a completely empty space, stepping on the void, with a scene like a vast starry sky under their feet.

As if something was detected again, the surrounding space twisted again, and the strange unknown mechanical sound sounded again. The surrounding scene faded from illusion and turned into reality.

Perhaps this is a form of protection?

To prevent outsiders from entering this important area.

But why did it appear automatically after detecting their arrival?

Li Anxin suddenly thought of something and his expression changed slightly, but he did not let go of the girl's hand behind him. Instead, he continued to hold her hand and walked forward.

I saw that the surrounding scene had transformed into a space like some kind of huge execution platform. The giant platform was cast from bronze alloy and was as large as several football fields. There was no end in sight. In the distance, a giant statue attracted Li Anxin's attention.

It was a huge Royal Guard Zerg, its body falling to the ground like a collapsed mountain, its entire head chopped off by a giant axe of judgment. Compared with that Royal Guard, Li Anxin's small body was as small as a grain of sand in the sea.

Li Anxin realized somehow that

This is the place in the hive specifically used to punish disloyal Zerg.

The Queen's orders are absolute, but there are always alien beings whose innate glands can secrete pheromones to hinder the Queen's consciousness. They will disguise themselves, intending to kill the Queen and replace her as the new controller.

The next moment, the entire hive was fully activated, and the azure light flashed throughout the hive. The distribution diagram of each cabin in the entire hive appeared in the sky and was reflected in the pupils of the two girls.

The next cabin below the execution platform where they were was the gestational room, and further ahead was the Queen's bedroom.

Just as Li Anxin wanted to move forward, Jiang Linger stopped silently, her face was shrouded in shadow, and her expression could not be seen clearly:

"An Xin, let's not go any further, okay..."

"I... don't want to go any further."

Chapter 230 "Ancient Sea Insects" Love from Years Ago

"Are you scared?"

Li Anxin didn't turn around, but spoke softly.

"I......"

"Your hands are shaking."

After hearing this, Jiang Linger lowered her head silently without saying a word.

"The reality is right before our eyes, so why let the fog bind us? Escaping will only make us sink deeper and deeper into the fog."

"An Xin..."

"Okay, let's go."

Li Anxin didn't say much. She turned around and pushed Jiang Ling'er forward.

"Why are you so confused and uneasy? There is nothing that you can't face calmly."

Li Anxin said this and took Jiang Linger's hand again.

Feeling the warmth the girl was conveying to her, Jiang Linger looked at the beautiful profile of the girl in front of her and was speechless.

"If only I could remember you, or get to know you earlier...An Xin."

"Why do you say that?"

"Then maybe we can become real friends."

"Aren't we friends now?"

"Then...even after knowing the truth, An Xin, will you still consider me your friend?"

Jiang Linger took a deep breath, as if waiting for the girl's answer.

"Someone once said that I have a very good personality. If anyone is willing to be nice to me and be sincere to me, I will also be nice to them."

Li Anxin stuck out her tongue slightly and did not answer the question directly.

"Just don't let Ling'er get angry with me later."

Jiang Linger nodded slightly, and continued to walk towards the darkness ahead with the girl.

The incubation room was filled with broken egg sacs, with corpses of some long-dead Zerg floating inside. Due to the long absence of a queen, these Zerg had long since died in the long river of time. The entire Zerg nest sat here as if it had been forgotten by the world.

Looking at these scenes, Jiang Linger's eyes moved slightly.

Finally, as the girls reached the end of the birthing room, the spider-shaped flesh and blood aggregate in front of them squirmed, and eight sharp claws reached down and stabbed into the wall of flesh and blood.

Rumbling--

The long-sealed flesh and blood door slowly opened outwards under the operation of the spider's claws, and the rumored palace appeared in front of Li Anxin. Countless stone sculptures of Zerg were lined up in a row on both sides from small to large. On hundreds of steps, behind the queen's throne, the egg sac was ruptured, and there was nothing inside.

Even though she was mentally prepared, Jiang Linger's pupils still trembled slightly when she saw this scene.

It is said that the queen who was sealed here by the legendary investigator had already broken free from the shackles of the egg sac at some point and welcomed a new life with a brand new face...

"No! It's not like that..."

"I am a human... My name is Jiang Ling'er... I live in Mirror City. My father is a legendary investigator! He died in the fight against the Queen of Insects. I am her daughter!"

"Why......"

"Why......"

Jiang Linger obviously couldn't accept the fact that this so-called queen was her from the beginning to the end.

She came here with endless hatred to find her past, but in the end she could only get such an ending.

Li Anxin was not surprised by this, but slowly said:

"Ling'er, do you remember? Brainworms can only create illusions based on scenes a person has experienced."

"Of course no one present has ever seen those Zergs. You are the only one who has actually seen them."

"An Xin..."

Countless memories flooded into Jiang Linger's mind at this moment, and all memories about the insect nest were revived at this moment.

"Why......"

"I can't accept this ending..."

Just when Jiang Linger was struggling internally and about to collapse, a holographic projection was cast from above in front of the throne, and the operation log of the insect nest appeared in front of the two girls.

At this moment, a man appeared in front of the two of them. The man's eyes looked very weathered, and he was wearing clothes from a hundred years ago, which looked a bit strange now.

Just as the two were puzzled, the man's image slowly spoke:

"Ling'er, the fact that you can see this scene means that your memory has been revived and you have returned here again, right?"

Jiang Linger slowly raised her head in disbelief, and subconsciously reached out towards the man's image, but could only touch the air.

"You are......"

"Ling'er, you must be confused now. I am your father. No... to be precise, I brought you back to this insect nest a hundred years ago and adopted you..."

"what?"

The man touched his nose suddenly, looking like he had no idea where to start. Finally, he said quietly,