The Star Train's Journey Through the Heavens

Chapter 168 Cleaning Up the Insect Swarm, Cat Cake
“You’re also going to Pinocchio, right? Why don’t we go together?” Villette said.

"You go first, we still need to deal with the swarm," Himeko said.

“Yes, although we don’t know why the swarm is staying here, it’s very dangerous for passing ships and the surrounding star system,” Walter said.

"I'm sorry, my strength is meager," Vilit said with shame.

Pure Beauty's Destiny is not a destiny that is good at destruction. Moreover, Vilit has only just embarked on his destiny, has no prior experience, and has not even had much combat experience. His combat strength is really not worth looking at.

“Leave it to us, you don’t need to feel guilty,” Himeko said.

Villett piloted Silver Branch's "Rare and Uncommon" toward Pinocchio.

Himeko glanced at the passengers and gave instructions: "Then Danheng, the strongest giant true worm is yours. Sanyue, Huaifeng, and Yan, the rest of the giant true worms are yours to deal with. Huaifeng, find out the real swarm leader while you're at it."

"Walter, you're in charge of clearing out the rest of the swarm. Leave a small portion for Zhuqing, Hongkou, Poxiao, and Xiaoli to practice on. I'll keep a close eye on the battlefield and provide support in case of emergency."

The real breeding swarm is much stronger than the Void Zerg modified by Karl, especially this swarm, which is relatively large in scale except for the lack of a breeding envoy.

Dan Heng could not single-handedly eliminate this breeding swarm as easily as he had crushed the Void Zerg.

Aside from Walter's ability to easily defeat weaker opponents, the other players' opponents were not much different from their own strength, which served as a good training opportunity.

Even if you accidentally crash and lose the fight, Himeko will come to your aid, so there's basically no danger.

“No problem,” Dan Heng said, and the others were also eager to get started.

"Be careful to use the power of exploration to protect yourself, and don't fall into the illusions of the Phantom Moths," Himeko instructed.

The carriage door opened, and Dan Heng rushed out of the carriage first, using the Dragon Transformation Technique to transform into a huge azure dragon, rushing towards the location of the Giant True Insect he sensed.

Dealing with such a behemoth would be much more troublesome without using the Dragon Transformation Technique.

Endless seawater appeared in the universe, and as Dan Heng swept through, countless insects appeared wherever he passed.

On March 7th, a icy sword aura slashed towards a slightly smaller giant true hibernating insect, and the Six Phases Ice froze all the insects in a small vacuum near the giant true hibernating insect.

"Click."

In the blink of an eye, the giant true burrowing insect broke through the ice, accompanied by a hiss, and split into two giant true burrowing insects, while several ordinary true burrowing insects were born from its body.

Not only did the giant true worm that March 7th dealt with split and reproduce, but the entire swarm more than doubled in size in the blink of an eye, including the one that Dan Heng dealt with.

Facing two giant true worms comparable to top-tier Destiny Walkers at once, Dan Heng felt a surge of pressure, but he could still manage.

"Judgment in Flames!"

Yan raised the Blazing Sword high, and the imaginary energy she had just acquired replaced the solar energy, condensing above her head, where destructive power was brewing.

The terrifying energy fluctuations caused the swarm of insects to stir, and several giant true gnats led countless ordinary insects to charge forward.

Meng Huaifeng summoned Yin Yue in the real game, simultaneously activating his Data Body, and used the Law of Heaven and Earth to charge towards the swarm of giant true hibernating insects.

Unfazed by pain, Meng Huaifeng activated his Mad Dog Battle Strategy, firmly blocking the swarm of giant true insects.

Yin Yue used the Cloud Chant Technique to heal Meng Huaifeng, and several water dragons continued to circle around, assisting Meng Huaifeng in battle.

At the same time, the system monitors the flow of data, intercepts and searches the data streams that command the swarms, and traces their origins.

Walter's pseudo-black hole opened up in the swarm of insects, swallowing countless insects.

Zhu Zhuqing's figure was hidden in the dark starry sky, as if she had disappeared completely, and only insects could be seen splitting in two.

Hongkou activated her body-enhancing ability, and her continuously upgraded and modified gravity body was greatly strengthened once again. She wielded her greatsword and charged into the ordinary swarm of insects.

Dawn followed closely behind Red Hair to cover her, and her attacks triggered explosive powers, blasting the insects to pieces.

Su Xiaoli swallowed hard. This swarm of insects was truly countless times more powerful than the aliens who invaded Earth.

To encounter such a formidable opponent so soon after joining the train, pioneering is truly dangerous.

Su Xiaoli cautiously moved along the edge; fortunately, ordinary stinging insects were within her ability to handle.

"Get out of the way!" Yan's voice suddenly rang in Meng Huaifeng's mind.

Without hesitation, Meng Huaifeng used a quantum leap to bring Yin Yue to the vicinity of March 7th, relieving her stress.

The long-awaited fiery judgment crashed down, instantly turning ordinary True Stinger Insects to ashes under the destructive power of the flames, while several Giant True Stinger Insects were also severely injured.

Yan transformed into a bolt of lightning, reaping the severely injured giant true insects one by one.

The remains of the insects give birth to new, slightly weaker insects, while some remains are devoured and absorbed by other insects, which then divide and reproduce again.

The train crew continuously cleared out the swarm of insects, whose numbers kept decreasing and then increasing again, like a rollercoaster going up and down.

However, the swarm's reproduction rate can't keep up with the train crew's cleanup speed, and the overall swarm size is decreasing, and the rate of decrease is accelerating.

The swarm kept adjusting its tactics, sometimes besieging Danheng, sometimes attacking the train, but was easily stopped by Walter, who still had energy left.

"Got you!"

Meng Huaifeng leaped to the vicinity of an ordinary giant true insect that was not far from Dan Heng and thrust his spear at the base of its wings.

The giant insect flapped its wings against the spear and unleashed an energy blast at Meng Huaifeng.

Meng Huaifeng withstood the energy cannon head-on, while the wings that were aimed at the Phantom Gun passed right through them.

Although he was slightly weaker than March 7, his fighting style and the fact that the Phantom Gun could not be blocked made him just as fast at killing enemies as March 7!
"laugh!"

The Phantom Gun materialized, forcibly squeezing a hole into the wings of the Giant True Stinger.

The spear tip pierced the base of the giant true cricket's wing. With a slight pull back of the spear, a tiny true cricket was impaled on the spear tip.

The leader and overlord who controls such a huge swarm of insects is actually such a tiny creature!

Just as Himeko had guessed, it was indeed a Phantom Moth True Stinger.

"Sigh~"

The swarm leader wasn't quite dead yet, and seemingly already aware that it was no match for the train crew, it issued orders for the swarm to scatter throughout the universe.

Meng Huaifeng instantly intercepted its last words, and with a jolt of his phantom gun, shattered it into pieces.

Without the wisdom of its leader, the swarm's resistance became even more powerless.

Someone sent a message in the group chat, but everyone was busy fighting and didn't notice their phones lying in their QQ space.

Only Meng Huaifeng, who was in a human-machine integrated state, noticed it.

Distracted, he glanced at the message and saw that it was Xing bragging instead. [Xing: I met a breeding envoy on the space station.]
[Star: Shattered Star King Insect]
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[Star: Isn't it strong? I haven't even used my full strength yet, and I blew it apart in less than a minute. #Sunglasses#]
[Meng Huaifeng: Are you sure you met him on the space station?]
[Star: Of course, the lowest level of the space station.]
[Meng Huaifeng: How big is the space station anyway? Can it even fit a breeding envoy?]
[Meng Huaifeng: We also encountered a swarm of insects. #Picture#, look, one giant true cricket is bigger than a regular satellite. What you encountered must be a fake.]
Meng Huaifeng took a picture of Danheng fighting with the giant true insect and posted it online.

[Star: No! It really is the Commander. Perhaps the Star-Shattering King Insect is just the smaller type.]
[Meng Huaifeng: How could the envoy be defeated by you in less than a minute? That means it's a fake.]
[Star: No! Genius Ruan Mei personally certified that it was created; it truly is the Order!]
[Meng Huaifeng: I don't believe it! How could the envoy be made? It must be a fake.]
[Star: If I'm lying...]
[Meng Huaifeng: I don't believe it, I don't believe it, I don't believe it...]
[star:……]
[Star: Okay, I'll admit it, I'm not as strong as a true Commander, but I'm still a bit stronger than a top-tier Fate Walker.]
[Star: And it wasn't even me who destroyed it. I hadn't even finished warming up when it exploded on its own.]
[Meng Huaifeng: That's more like it. Don't lie in the future.]
[Star: Damn it...]
Retracting my thoughts from chatting with Xing, the battle was drawing to a close.

With a powerful flick of his tail, Dan Heng sent the giant insect flying, only to have it explode with a "boom" halfway through its flight.

Disgusting juices were splattered everywhere in this starry sky.

The remains of the swarm were full of insect eggs, and every now and then a new insect would crawl out of the remains.

"This swarm of insects is indeed terrifying. I'm afraid even the ancient angelic civilization might not have been a match for them," Yan exclaimed as she released heavenly fire to incinerate the remains of the swarm.

As for the current angelic civilization, please, have you heard of the Guardian Order Envoy?
"This is the swarm of insects after the fall of the Star God of Breeding. If it were the swarm before, it's unimaginable how terrifying it would have been." March 7th shuddered.

The Six-Phase Ice is really not very effective at destroying evidence.

Walter manipulated gravity to gather all the debris together, and then continuously devoured it with a pseudo-black hole.

It took the train crew a long time to clean up the starry sky.

The Star Train continued its journey towards Pinocchio.

Another day passed before Xing returned from the Black Tower Space Station.

The Black Tower Space Station has been quite lively these past two days, with all the geniuses gathering together.

Then the Grand Duke of the Underworld invaded, causing a lot of trouble.

Xing was extremely busy, testing and simulating the universe, helping Ruan Mei deal with the troubles of creation, and investigating the mystery of the disappearance of the space station staff.

The troubles of creation are not limited to the simulated breeding of the Star-Shattering King Worm, but also to the Cat Cake.

"This is March cake, this is Danheng cake, this is Jizi cake, Huaifeng cake, Angel cake..." Xing even brought the cat cake back to the train and introduced them one by one.

"So cute." March 7th was already mesmerized by the adorable cat cake.

Not only on March 7th, but other girls also gathered around with great interest.

The star surrounded in the middle was extremely proud; now it was finally my turn to show off.

“These are all cultivated by me personally, don’t they look like them?” Xing asked proudly.

Xing treated everyone equally, leaving no one out. Even Su Xiaoli and Yan, who had just joined the train, raised similar cat cakes.

"It's incredibly similar," Himeko said with a slight smile.

"These are very interesting creatures. Are they edible, like pastries?" Yan asked curiously.

Upon hearing this, the cat cakes were so frightened that they immediately moved away from Yan, hiding behind Xing and piling up in a heap, trembling with fear.

"Don't say such scary things, you're frightening them." March 7th glared at Yan.

“Although they look like pastries, they are already real living things,” Xing said.

"I was just asking. By the way, why don't I see any that look like you?" Yan asked Xing.

Yan, who had just joined the train, was not very clear about Xing's personality and quirks.

“Without a doubt, this cat-shaped cake that looks like a trash can symbolizes Ah Xing,” March 7th said, pointing to the trash can cake.

"Not bad, isn't it cute?" Xing picked up the trash cake and rubbed it hard against him.

"I want to ask, Ah Xing, you're not really going to feed it garbage, are you?" Meng Huaifeng asked on a whim.

"What trash? Where is there trash? Those are all my treasures!" Xing disagreed.

"So you really plan to feed it garbage?" March 7th's eyes widened slightly.

"What's wrong with a trash can eating trash?" Xing asked matter-of-factly.

"Mimi! Mimi!"

Trash Cake struggled wildly in Xing's arms. It only looked like a trash can, but it really didn't eat trash!
"Don't be afraid, I'll collect trash to support you." Xing hugged the trash cake tightly.

"You're not allowed to keep cat cake!" March 7th pried Xing's hand open and rescued Garbage Cake.

“I bred them! Nobody knows cat cakes better than me!” Xing retorted.

“Ruan Mei,” Meng Huaifeng reminded her.

"...Would you die if you didn't expose me?" Xing froze for a moment, then kicked Meng Huaifeng's shin hard.

"No, it will be uncomfortable. It's because you acted too arrogantly and not smoothly enough." Meng Huaifeng said innocently, "If you had acted smoothly enough and without any loopholes, I wouldn't have been able to take you down."

"You wait, one day I'll leave you speechless," Xing said angrily.

Meng Huaifeng shrugged.

"Everyone, take your own cat cake. If you don't want to keep it, you can leave it with Pam. With the cat cakes to keep her company, Pam won't be lonely when we get off the bus to explore," Xing said to everyone.

Pam was slightly taken aback, then said with immense gratitude, "Star Passenger, you're so kind, Pam!"

"Haha, it's what I should do. Um, could I be excused from my cleaning duty?" Xing asked.

“No problem, I’ll clean it for you, Pam!” Pam readily agreed.

“I can help too,” Abe said softly, raising her hand.

"This map of the Yan Kingdom is really short," Meng Huaifeng complained.

Cat Cakes were a product of Ruan Mei's attempt to create geniuses. Although the attempt failed, the Cat Cakes were not unintelligent.

Therefore, they are very easy to raise, and you don't even need to do anything. When they are hungry, they will know to come out of the room to eat.

So everyone took one back to their room, including Danheng.

However, most of the time the cats would play in the observation car, stacking themselves up like human pyramids, making the car even more lively.

Abe suddenly developed an interest in cooking, and whenever Pam cooked, Abe would go to the kitchen to help.

Pam was not opposed to Abe's idea of ​​learning to cook, and even taught her everything she knew, without worrying at all that Abe would learn to cook and take her place as head chef.

As the number of passengers on the train increased, Pam was finding it difficult to cook all by himself, and he urgently needed to hire more staff in the kitchen!

Abe, in his first-generation beast form, doesn't shed fur easily, and there's no need to worry about hair getting into his food, which is quite suitable.

Most importantly, Abe is very talented, much better than the clumsy little March!
(End of this chapter)