Chapter 168: Clearing The Swarm, Cat Cake
“You’re also heading to Penacony, right? Why don’t we go together?” Verity said.
“You go ahead. We still need to deal with the swarm.” Himeko said.
“Yes, although we don’t know why the swarm is lingering here, it’s extremely dangerous for passing spaceships and the surrounding galaxies.” Welt said.
“I’m very sorry, my strength is low.” Verity said shamefully.
Pure Beauty Destiny is not a Destiny particularly skilled in destruction, let alone Verity who has only just stepped onto the Path, with no prior accumulation and hardly any combat experience, his combat power was truly not worth watching.
“Leave it to us, you don’t need to feel guilty.” Himeko said.
Verity piloted Silver Wolf’s “Rare Treasure” toward Penacony.
Himeko glanced at the passengers and arranged: “Then Dan Heng, the strongest Giant True Stingworm is yours. March, Huai Feng, Yan, the rest of the Giant True Stingworms will be handled by you three. Huai Feng, also find the real swarm leader.”
“Welt, clean up the remaining swarm. Leave a small portion for Zhu Qing, Hong Kou, Po Xiao, and Xiao Li to practice. I’ll keep watching the battlefield and provide support in emergencies.”
The real Propagation Swarm was much stronger than Karl’s modified Void Insectoid, especially this swarm—aside from lacking a Propagation Envoy, its scale was relatively large.
Dan Heng couldn’t single-handedly crush this Propagation Swarm like he could the Void Insectoid.
Aside from letting Welt bully the weak, the opponents for the others were not much different in strength from them, which could serve as good training.
Even if they flipped the car due to carelessness and lost, Himeko would step in to help, so there was basically no danger.
“No problem.” Dan Heng said, and the others rubbed their fists eagerly.
“Be sure to use Pioneer power for protection and don’t fall into the Illusionary Mothworm’s illusions.” Himeko cautioned.
The train car door opened, Dan Heng charged out first, using the Dragon Transformation Secret Art to turn into a massive Azure Dragon, rushing toward the sensed position of the Giant True Stingworm.
Dealing with such a giant beast would be much more troublesome without using the Dragon Transformation Secret Art.
Endless seawater appeared in space, sweeping along with Dan Heng, and countless bugs materialized wherever it passed.
March 7th sent a ice sword qi slashing from afar toward a slightly smaller Giant True Stingworm, Six Phases Ice freezing all the bugs in a small vacuum area nearby.
“Crack.”
The Giant True Stingworm broke free of the ice in an instant, accompanied by a shrill cry, splitting into two Giant True Stingworms, with several Ordinary True Sting Insects emerging from its body.
Not only the one March 7th was fighting split and propagated, the entire swarm’s scale doubled in an instant, including the one Dan Heng was facing.
Facing two Giant True Stingworms comparable to top-tier Pathfinders at once, Dan Heng’s pressure surged, but he could still handle it.
“Flame Judgment!”
Yan raised the Flame Sword high, the newly acquired Imaginary Energy replacing solar energy, condensing above Yan’s head, with Destruction Power brewing within.
The terrifying energy fluctuations agitated the swarm, several Giant True Stingworms leading countless ordinary bugs in a charge.
Meng Huaifeng used True Game to summon Jing Yuan, simultaneously activating Data Body and Heaven and Earth Manifestation, charging toward the group of Giant True Stingworms.
Data Body feared no pain, Meng Huaifeng activated mad dog combat method, firmly blocking the group of Giant True Stingworms.
Jing Yuan used Cloud Chant Technique to heal Meng Huaifeng, several water dragons swirling continuously to assist in the fight.
At the same time, data flowed in his eyes, intercepting and tracing the data streams commanding the swarm from their actions.
Welt’s Quasi Black Hole opened in the swarm, devouring countless bugs.
Zhu Zhuqing’s figure hid secretly in the dark starry sky, as if vanishing entirely, only seeing bugs split in half one by one.
Hong Kou activated Body Enhancement supernatural ability, the repeatedly upgraded and modified Gravity Body greatly enhanced again, wielding the greatsword and charging into the ordinary bug swarm.
Po Xiao followed closely behind Hong Kou for cover, attacks triggering explosion supernatural ability, blasting bugs apart.
Su Xiaoli swallowed, this swarm was really countless times stronger than the aliens that invaded Blue Star.
Joining the train and immediately facing such a powerful opponent, pioneering was truly dangerous.
Su Xiaoli carefully prowled at the edge; fortunately, ordinary True Sting Insects were within her ability’s coping range.
“Get clear!” Yan’s voice suddenly rang in Meng Huaifeng’s mind.
Meng Huaifeng unhesitatingly quantum leaped, bringing Jing Yuan to appear near March 7th, relieving her pressure.
The long-brewing Flame Judgment smashed down, Ordinary True Sting Insects instantly turning to ash under the flames containing Destruction Power, several Giant True Stingworms also severely injured.
Yan turned into a bolt of lightning, harvesting the heavily wounded Giant True Stingworms one by one.
New weaker bugs re-emerged from the bug remnants, some remnants devoured and absorbed by other bugs, splitting and propagating again.
The train crew kept clearing the swarm, the swarm’s numbers dropping then rising repeatedly like a rollercoaster bungee jump.
However, the swarm’s propagation speed couldn’t match the train crew’s clearing speed, the overall number continuously decreasing, and the rate of decrease accelerating.
The swarm constantly adjusted, sometimes besieging Dan Heng, sometimes impacting the train, easily blocked by the still energetic Welt.
“Found you!”
Meng Huaifeng leaped to a ordinary Giant True Stingworm not far from Dan Heng, thrusting his spear at the base of its wings.
The Giant True Stingworm’s wings slapped toward the spear, an energy cannon spraying at Meng Huaifeng.
Meng Huaifeng tanked the energy cannon, the wings slapping at the Phantom Spear passing right through.
Though his strength was slightly weaker than March 7th’s, due to his fighting style and the Phantom Spear being unblockable, his kill speed was in no way inferior!
“Sizzle!”
The Phantom Spear materialized, forcibly squeezing a hole in the Giant True Stingworm’s wings.
The spear tip stabbed the wing root, slightly withdrawing, an extremely small True Stingworm impaled on the tip.
The leader overlord controlling the vast swarm was actually such a tiny thing!
Indeed as Himeko guessed, an Illusionary Mothworm True Stingworm.
“Hiss~”
The swarm leader wasn’t fully dead, seemingly realizing it wasn’t a match for the train crew, issuing orders for the swarm to disperse into space.
Meng Huaifeng instantly intercepted its final words, the Phantom Spear shaking, shattering it to pieces.
Without the leader’s wisdom, the swarm’s resistance grew even feebler.
Someone sent a message in the group chat; everyone was fighting, phones in space, unnoticed.
Only the human-machine integrated Meng Huaifeng noticed.
Multitasking, he glanced; it was Xing showing off in reverse.
『Xing: I encountered a Propagation Envoy at the space station.』
『Xing: Star Shatterer King Worm』
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『Xing: Strong or not? I didn’t even use full strength, less than a minute and I blasted it#Sunglasses#』
『Meng Huaifeng: You sure it was at the space station?』
『Xing: Of course, space station’s lowest level.』
『Meng Huaifeng: How big is the space station? Can it fit a Propagation Envoy?』
『Meng Huaifeng: We encountered a swarm too, #Picture#, look, one Giant True Stingworm is bigger than an ordinary satellite, what you met is definitely fake.』
Meng Huaifeng took a photo of Dan Heng fighting the Giant True Stingworm and sent it.
『Xing: No! It really was an Envoy, maybe Star Shatterer King Worm is just small-sized.』
『Meng Huaifeng: How could an Envoy be blasted by you in less than a minute? Definitely fake.』
『Xing: No! Genius Ruan Mei personally certified it was manufactured, it really was an Envoy!』
『Meng Huaifeng: Don’t believe it, don’t believe it, Envoys can’t be manufactured, definitely fake.』
『Xing: If I’m lying…』
『Meng Huaifeng: Don’t believe don’t believe don’t believe…』
『Xing: …』
『Xing: Fine, I confess, it wasn’t as strong as a real Envoy, but still a bit beyond top-tier Pathfinder.』
『Xing: And it wasn’t me who blasted it, I wasn’t warmed up yet, it self-exploded.』
『Meng Huaifeng: That’s more like it, don’t lie next time.』
『Xing: Damn…』
Retracting his consciousness from bantering with Xing, the battle was nearing its end.
Dan Heng swung a divine dragon tail, sending the Giant True Stingworm flying; it exploded mid-flight with a “boom.”
Disgusting juices splattered everywhere in this starry sky.
The swarm remnants were full of eggs, new bugs occasionally crawling out.
“This swarm is truly terrifying; probably even the previous Angel Civilization wasn’t necessarily their match.” Yan released Heavenly Fire to burn the swarm remnants, sighing.
As for the current Angel Civilization, please, understand Preservation Envoy?
“And this is the swarm after the Aeon of Abundance fell; the previous swarm is simply unimaginable how terrifying.” March 7th shivered.
For destroying corpses and traces, Six Phases Ice really wasn’t very effective.
Welt controlled gravity to gather all remnants together, then continuously devoured with Quasi Black Hole.
After a long time, the train crew finally cleaned this starry sky.
The Stellar Train continued toward Penacony.
Another day passed before Xing returned from Herta Space Station.
These two days at Herta Space Station were quite lively, first with all the geniuses gathered.
Then the Netherfire Grand Duke invaded, causing quite a mess.
Xing was extremely busy: testing Simulated Universe, helping Ruan Mei handle creation troubles, investigating the space station staff disappearances.
Creation troubles weren’t just the simulated Propagation Envoy Star Shatterer King Worm, but also Cat Cakes.
“This is March Cake, this is Dan Heng Cake, this is Himeko Cake, Huai Feng Cake, Angel Cake…” Xing even brought the Cat Cakes back to the train, introducing them one by one.
“So cute.” March 7th’s eyes were already dazzled by the adorable Cat Cakes.
Not just March 7th, the other girls also crowded over with great interest.
Xing, surrounded in the middle, was extremely smug; finally his turn to show off.
“I personally nurtured all these, don’t they look like them?” Xing asked proudly.
Xing treated everyone equally, not missing anyone, even nurturing similar Cat Cakes for the newly joined Su Xiaoli and Yan.
“Extremely lifelike.” Himeko smiled lightly, lips pursed.
“Interesting lives. Like pastries, can they be eaten?” Yan asked curiously.
At these words, the Cat Cakes were scared and immediately distanced from Yan, stacking behind Xing, trembling.
“Don’t say such terrifying things, you scared them.” March 7th glared at Yan.
“Though they look like pastries, they’re already real lives.” Xing said.
“Just asking. By the way, why no Cat Cake like you?” Yan said to Xing.
The newly joined Yan wasn’t very clear on Xing’s personality quirks yet.
“Undoubtedly, this trash can-like Cat Cake symbolizes A Xing.” March 7th pointed at the trash cake.
“Right? Isn’t it cute?” Xing hugged the trash cake and rubbed it hard.
“Just wondering, A Xing, you wouldn’t really feed it trash, right?” Meng Huaifeng asked on a whim.
“What trash? Where’s the trash? Those are all my treasures!” Xing disagreed.
“So you really plan to feed it trash?” March 7th’s eyes widened slightly.
“What’s wrong with a trash can eating trash?” Xing said matter-of-factly.
“Meow! Meow!”
The trash cake struggled wildly in Xing’s arms; it just looked like a trash can but really didn’t eat trash!
“Don’t be scared, I’ll pick trash to raise you.” Xing hugged the trash cake tighter.
“You’re not allowed to raise Cat Cakes!” March 7th pried open Xing’s hands and rescued the trash cake.
“I nurtured them! No one understands Cat Cakes better than me!” Xing said unconvinced.
“Ruan Mei.” Meng Huaifeng reminded.
“…Won’t you die if you don’t tear me down?” Xing stiffened for a moment, then fiercely kicked Meng Huaifeng’s calf.
“No, it’d be uncomfortable. You acted too arrogant, not smooth enough.” Meng Huaifeng said innocently: “If you acted smooth enough without flaws, I couldn’t tear you down even if I wanted.”
“Just wait, one day I’ll leave you speechless.” Xing said indignantly.
Meng Huaifeng shrugged.
“Everyone take your own Cat Cake. If you don’t want to raise it, give it to Pamu. With Cat Cakes accompanying, Pamu won’t be lonely when we get off for pioneering.” Xing said to everyone.
Pamu was slightly stunned, then deeply moved: “Passenger Xing, you’re too good, Pa!”
“Haha, it’s what I should do. Um, can I skip my cleaning duty?” Xing asked.
“No problem, I’ll clean for you, Pa!” Pamu agreed immediately.
“I can help too.” A Bei raised a hand, saying softly.
“This Yan Kingdom map is really short.” Meng Huaifeng complained.
Cat Cakes were products from Ruan Mei’s attempt to create geniuses; though failed, the Cat Cakes’ intelligence wasn’t low.
So they were very easy to raise; even if neglected, they’d come out of rooms to eat when hungry.
So everyone took one back to their rooms, Dan Heng included.
However, most of the time Cat Cakes would stack human pyramids in the observation car, making it even livelier.
And A Bei suddenly took interest in cooking; whenever Pamu cooked, A Bei would help in the kitchen.
Pamu didn’t mind A Bei’s desire to learn cooking, even teaching everything, not worried she’d replace his head chef position.
With more passengers on the train, Pamu alone couldn’t keep up with cooking; he urgently needed more kitchen hands!
First Generation Beast Body A Bei wouldn’t shed fur casually, no worry of hairs in food, quite suitable.
Most importantly, A Bei had great talent, much better than Little March’s clumsiness, Pa!
