Is this world of yours a serious place?

As the city has been abandoned for a long time, it is difficult to find habitable houses.

Even "dangerous buildings" are very rare in this city.

After spending quite some time, Chen Xiuming finally found a house that was barely habitable.

This house is not a "dangerous building", it can even be said to be in ruins.

——This is an intact room hidden among the ruins.

Because it is hidden among the ruins, this room is not exposed to the outside. One needs to pass through a narrow and cramped passage formed by the ruins to reach the door.

Judging from the internal layout of the room, this room was originally supposed to be a "study".

Chen Xiuming shaped a Honkai energy bed, placed Xier on it, and then began to tidy up and clean the room.

Wooden furniture such as bookshelves had become severely decayed and were no longer suitable for use, so Chen Xiuming cleared them out and piled them at the entrance of the room to hide the entrance.

As for the only two single fabric sofas in the study, Chen Xiuming did not discard them directly. Instead, he "recycled" them by disassembling and assembling them into a simple bed, and then moved Xier to this bed.

Immediately, he asked Anila to stay here to look after Xier, and then left the room to go out to continue hunting strange creatures and looking for items that could be used or recycled.

……

Meanwhile, on the other side of the city.

The green-haired girl wearing old gray hat arrived in the city in a dusty state, accurately found the strange creature nearby, and then stepped into the shadow of the strange creature without fear.

The girl's right arm instantly transformed into a giant beast-like claw. Then, ignoring the waving limbs of the monster, she directly grabbed its exposed core and roughly pulled it off the surface of the monster's body.

Afterwards, her right arm returned to normal. She took the core of the monster and gnawed on it like an apple, making a series of crisp "crunching" sounds. At the same time, her other hand held the limbs of the monster and slowly moved forward, dragging the corpse of the monster.

"This city is not bad. There are many weaker [Insect Beasts] here. I should be able to eat them for a while."

The girl did not continue hunting the monster, but dragged the monster's corpse to find a place to rest.

Surprisingly, the strange creatures nearby seemed to be afraid of her and did not dare to attack her even when she passed by.

The cool night wind blew up her long hair, revealing the inner highlights that gradually changed from light green to light yellow. Combined with her bright golden eyes, she looked more "divine".

It was precisely because of this posture that revealed a certain "divinity" that those strange creatures did not dare to attack her actively.

In the area where the girl passed, the monstrous creatures hiding in the shadows waved their irregularly twisted limbs, as if venting their anger, but they did not dare to attack the girl who was walking away.

"...We can't get close to the central city. The [Insect Beasts] there have evolved to a very difficult level."

The girl glanced into the distance, her golden eyes sparkling, as if she could see through the night and catch a glimpse of the many strange creatures that remained silent in the center of the city.

The monsters there are even larger in size, and some of them even have parts of their bodies blended into the environment, making them even more secretive and dangerous.

These weak monsters outside the city dare not attack the girl, but the monsters in the center of the city do not have so many concerns.

In their eyes, young girls are "a great tonic", which attracts them in droves.

When the girl withdrew her gaze, she suddenly smelled a strange yet familiar scent.

The two conflicting senses intertwined, causing her to recall long-forgotten memories.

Perhaps because she has entered the stage of "evolution", the girl's memory is very complete and she can recall her past experiences at any time.

Just like now, she smelled the unique human scent in the night wind, and suddenly recalled every little detail of the time when human civilization had not yet perished.

"I should be the only human left in the world... No, I should not be considered a human now."

"Humanity, oh humanity... Weak yet full of miracles, but unfortunately unable to change the fate of extinction."

The girl shook her head slightly, and took a step forward to pursue the mixed human scent in the night wind, leaving only the wailing mutterings that disappeared with the wind.

It has been five or six years since the extinction of mankind, and with the demise of human civilization, everything in the world is developing at a faster pace, including the evolution of strange creatures and the evolution of the environment.

If it weren't for the girl's special physique, she might have become one of those strange creatures, or died in some unknown corner.

……

Chen Xiuming used that room as the center and indiscriminately killed the nearby deformed creatures, letting Janna devour the remains of the Honkai beast while collecting cores of unknown use.

Now Janna's body has shrunk from the size of a palm to the size of a washbasin. It is no longer suitable to lie on Chen Xiuming's hair, so she swam around Chen Xiuming.

A Janna of this size can already hunt weaker monsters alone, but the process will be more difficult.

However, Chen Xiuming has not rested yet, so Janna naturally does not have to go through the trouble of hunting down the weak and strange creatures alone.

"Janna, at this rate, how long will it take you to recover to your prime?"

“I don’t know~”

Janna smiled and said, "I don't know if there are more powerful creatures in this world, so I can't be sure how much strength I can recover."

Devouring weak Honkai beasts can help Janna get through her weakest period, but as her body recovers, the effects of the weak Honkai beasts will become weaker and weaker until they completely lose their effect.

Therefore, if Janna wants to continue to recover her strength in the later stage, she must devour a powerful Honkai beast, or at least devour a complete Honkai beast.

As things stand now, if Janna wants to recover to the point where the remains of the Honkai beasts stitched together by the deformed creatures have lost their effect, she will need to devour a very large number of the remains of the Honkai beasts.

~~~~~

85

Chapter 85 Delta and the Queen of Worms.

Chen Xiuming controlled the Honkai energy chain to roll up the core of the deformed creature and sent it into the Honkai energy sphere that was growing bigger and bigger beside him.

Angelia's previous feeling seemed to come true, he did become a bit like a "tentacle monster".

Although it is not a tentacle monster in the true sense, he can control the Honkai energy chains with ease, turning him into a chain version of a "tentacle monster".

"This bubble should be able to restore you to a better state. I will find a chance to find other bubbles filled with Honkai beasts later."

There are all kinds of world bubbles in the Quantum Sea, and there might be a world bubble filled with Honkai beasts.

According to the current progress, Janna should be able to recover to a relatively good condition before leaving this world.

Janna might not have impressive strength by then, but at least she won't sleep so often.

"Good~"

Janna responded softly, all the while smiling sweetly, as if she would not refuse or object to any proposal or decision Chen Xiuming made.

Chen Xiuming seemed to sense something and suddenly looked up to the left front.

At the end of the sight, a slender figure walked slowly, dragging a dead and distorted creature behind it.

Cana exclaimed: "Strange... That person should be a human, but he looks like a Honkai beast, and he also has slight Herrscher reactions..."

Chen Xiuming seemed to be thinking about something and had some vague guesses.

If the deformed creatures that cannot maintain their basic form are the product of "evolution failure", then the figures that maintain a normal human body at the end of the line of sight should be humans who have "evolved successfully".

The human body and mind plus the physical strength of the Honkai beast, supplemented by the power of the Herrscher...

This made Chen Xiuming wonder whether the human civilization in this world wanted to create a "god", but accidentally went too far, which led to the human civilization being in danger or even destroyed.

After standing there and thinking for a few seconds, he did not choose to avoid the figure, but waited quietly for the figure to approach.

Since that figure was a human, it meant that he could learn about the situation of this bubble from him, as well as...

How did the strange creatures that can be seen everywhere come into being?

This kind of "counter-style" monster does not look like the style of the Honkai series.

In the Honkai series, except for a few "big bosses", it can be said that "everything can be feminized."

It is worth mentioning that Janna was once called "Cthulhu".

Finally, Kiana came back to her senses from her daze and looked at the figure that was slowly approaching.

Seeing that the opponent was very weak and was like an "ant" that he could kill with ease, he no longer paid attention to the opponent.

Not long after, the figure walked to a place about ten meters away from Chen Xiuming, then stopped, staring closely at the sphere of Honkai energy floating beside Chen Xiuming.

"……Hello?"

Chen Xiuming greeted him tentatively, and while trying to attract the other person's attention, he looked at him inconspicuously.

This is a girl with dark green knee-length hair. Her pretty face is filled with indifference, but her eyes are lively and bright.

Hearing Chen Xiuming's voice, she reluctantly moved her gaze away from the Honkai energy sphere and turned to look at Chen Xiuming.

Chen Xiuming looked at her and recognized the girl.

——【Immortal Butterfly】Delta.

"Are you human?"

“…guaranteed to be genuine.”

Hearing this, Delta nodded slightly and did not ask about Chen Xiuming's specific background.

The sudden appearance of new humans in a world where human civilization has perished is obviously not a normal thing.

However, Delta didn't care about Chen Xiuming's specific background. She just knew that she would no longer be alone and at least there would be someone to chat with her.

"My name is Chen Xiuming, what's yours?"

"Delta."

Delta spoke briefly, then looked at the Honkai energy sphere again, her eyes filled with deep desire.

Chen Xiuming controlled the Honkai energy ball to float towards his palm and asked: "Do you need the cores of those monsters?"

"Uh-huh!"

Delta nodded vigorously, "I can exchange things for them. Can you give them to me?"

"Okay, but I want to know the purpose of these cores and what happened in this world."

"no problem!"

Delta agreed without hesitation, then dropped the corpse of the deformed creature she was dragging and looked at Chen Xiuming expectantly.

Chen Xiuming controlled the Honkai energy sphere to float towards Delta, and at the same time created a fist-sized hole on the top of the Honkai energy sphere to make it easier for Delta to obtain the core of the monster creature.

Delta picked up the Honkai energy sphere, and then, under Chen Xiuming's surprised gaze, bit off a part of it.

At the same time, she did not forget to answer Chen Xiuming's doubts, and said vaguely: "My current physique is quite special. I cannot eat human food, but need to maintain life by eating Honkai energy - your Honkai energy is so delicious."

What attracted Delta's attention just now was not only the core stored in the Honkai energy sphere, but also the "fragrance" emitted by Chen Xiuming's Honkai energy.

Delta ate with relish. After filling her stomach, she ate the cores of the freak creatures one by one and told Chen Xiuming about her experience.

Before the demise of human civilization, she was an ordinary warrior fighting against "Honkai".

At that time, humans and Honkai beasts maintained a delicate balance, until a special individual named "Queen of Insects" was born among the Honkai beasts...

In the eyes of the Queen of Insects, there is not much difference between Honkai beasts and humans; they are all nourishment for its evolution.

When human civilization discovered the existence of the Queen Worm, she had already evolved to an incredible level, and at least the hope of human civilization winning was slim.

The Queen of Insects believed that humans were too inferior as a source of nourishment, so she gave birth to those monstrous creatures, which Delta called "Insect Beasts."

Each insect beast carries a tiny bit of the queen's power and a cell of the queen.

Insect beasts have extremely strong infectious abilities and spread like a plague. Whether they are humans or other creatures, all will be infected and turned into new insect beasts.

Only the Honkai beasts will not be infected, but will become food for the evolution of insect beasts.

At this point, the Queen of Insects began to "raise insects" in this world, waiting for the insect beasts to evolve into suitable food.

In order to survive, Delta actively devoured the corpses of Honkai beasts. Although she survived in the end, her arms were deformed into strange beast-like giant claws. At the same time, she often lost control and ran wild because she could not control her desire to eat Honkai energy.

Later, most of the Honkai beasts became food for the insect beasts. It was difficult for her to find a complete Honkai beast, so she killed and devoured an insect beast during an uncontrolled rampage caused by hunger.

The Queen's cells infected Delta, causing her to almost transform into a new insect beast.

Fortunately, the insect beast only carried one queen cell, so it was powerless and unable to completely infect Delta.

After devouring the core of the insect beast, she successfully stole the extremely tiny power of the insect queen and completely integrated the insect queen's genes.

This not only made up for her physical defects, allowing her to no longer control her desire to eat, and her arms that had transformed into strange beast-like giant claws returned to normal, but also allowed her to embark on true "evolution".

From then on, Delta changed her target and took the initiative to hunt weak insects and beasts.

After devouring a certain number of insect beasts, she entered the first stage of "evolution" and became what she is today, looking a little more "divine".

Although the taste of evolution is wonderful, Delta would rather not evolve.

——She became the last piece of the puzzle for the Queen of Insects to transcend this world.