Do you think this world is serious?

Chen Xiuming met her gaze and recognized the girl.

—【The Immortal Butterfly】Delta.

"Are you human?"

"...Absolutely genuine."

Upon hearing this, Delta nodded slightly, without pressing for details about Chen Xiuming's background.

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

However, Delta didn't care about Chen Xiuming's specific background; she only knew that she wouldn't be alone anymore, and at least someone would be there to chat with her.

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

"Delta".

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

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

"Uh-huh!"

Delta nodded vigorously. "I can trade you something. Can you give me those?"

"Sure, but I'd like to know the purpose of these cores, and what's happening in this world."

"no problem!"

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

Chen Xiuming controlled the Honkai Energy Sphere to float towards Delta, while simultaneously causing a fist-sized hole to crack open at the top of the Honkai Energy Sphere, making it easier for Delta to retrieve the core of the monstrous creature.

Delta picked up the Honkai energy sphere, and then, to Chen Xiuming's astonishment, bit off a portion of it.

At the same time, she did not forget to answer Chen Xiuming's question, saying vaguely, "My current physical condition is quite special. I cannot eat human food, but need to maintain my life by consuming Honkai energy—your Honkai energy is delicious."

What caught Delta's attention just now was not only the core contained inside the Honkai energy sphere, but also the "fragrance" emanating from Chen Xiuming's Honkai energy.

Delta ate heartily, and after filling her stomach, she ate the cores of the grotesque creatures one by one, and then explained her experience to Chen Xiuming.

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

At that time, a delicate balance was maintained between humans and Honkai Beasts, until a special individual known as the "Queen of Insects" was born among the Honkai Beasts...

In the Queen's eyes, there is not much difference between Honkai Beasts and humans; they are all resources for her evolution.

When human civilization discovered the existence of the Queen, she had already evolved to an unbelievable degree, making the chances of human civilization winning extremely slim.

The Queen of Insects considered humans too inferior as food, so she gave birth to those grotesque creatures, which Delta called "Insect Beasts".

Each insectoid beast carries a tiny fraction of the Queen's power, as well as a single cell of hers.

The insectoid beasts possess an extremely strong ability to infect, spreading like a plague. Whether it is humans or other creatures, they will all be infected and transformed into new insectoid beasts.

Only Honkai Beasts are immune to infection, but they become food for the evolution of Insect Beasts.

From then on, the Queen began to "raise insects" in this world, waiting for the insect beasts to evolve into suitable resources.

In order to survive, Delta used to actively devour the corpses of Honkai Beasts. Although she survived in the end, it caused her arms to deform into giant claws of a different beast. At the same time, she would often go berserk because she could not control her desire to feed on Honkai energy.

Later, most of the Honkai Beasts became food for the Insect Beasts. She had difficulty finding a complete Honkai Beast, so in a fit of hunger, she killed and devoured an Insect Beast.

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

Fortunately, the insectoid beast only carried one queen cell, which rendered it powerless to completely infect Delta.

She then devoured the core of the insect beast, successfully stealing a tiny fraction of the insect queen's power and completely merging with the insect queen's genes.

This not only made up for her physical defects, freeing her from the inability to control her appetite, and restored her arms, which had transformed into giant claws resembling a strange beast, to normal, but also set her on the path of true "evolution."

From then on, Delta changed her target and began actively hunting weak insect beasts.

After consuming a certain number of insect beasts, she underwent the first stage of "evolution," transforming into her current form, which appears to possess a greater degree of "divinity."

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

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

Once the Queen of Insects devours Delta, she will achieve her final evolution and no longer be bound to this world bubble.

Correspondingly, she can also devour the Queen of Insects, thereby achieving a meteoric rise and directly inheriting all of the Queen's power.

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86

Chapter 86: The Queen Insect Suffers a Crushing Defeat!

Delta didn't believe she could turn the tables and devour the Queen, so she kept hiding from her while continuing to hunt and consume the insect beasts.

The Queen Insect probably felt that Delta was too weak, so she did not actively pursue Delta, allowing Delta to continue to devour insect beasts to increase her strength.

The difference in power between Delta and the Queen of Insects is like the difference between a firefly and the moon; even if the former could devour the latter, it would be almost impossible for the former to do so.

Unless the Queen of Insects dies by accident, Delta will not escape being devoured by her.

……

Chen Xiuming glanced at Kiana, who was lost in thought, and felt confident.

Although he was unsure of the Queen's strength, if she dared to come looking for Delta...

Hmph! I'll make sure the Queen of Insects suffers a crushing defeat!

When Delta finished speaking, the Honkai energy sphere was already empty; all the insect beast cores had entered her stomach, growing her Herrscher powers.

Because these insect beasts were very weak, their core powers were extremely weak, and the improvement they brought to her was negligible.

It's not that there aren't stronger insect beasts, but the stronger the insect beast, the more difficult it is to deal with, and it might even cause injury to oneself. Therefore, she never sets her sights on powerful insect beasts.

"Thank you, this is the first time I've ever eaten so many cores at once—is there anything you need?"

"No. I just thought those cores would be good, so I collected them specifically, but I didn't expect them to be useless to me."

Chen Xiuming shook his head slightly, preparing to undo the shaping of the Honkai Energy Sphere, but then he saw Delta eating the Honkai Energy Sphere, so he gave up the idea.

When Delta finished eating the Honkai energy sphere, she seemed to realize something, paused for a second, and then stared straight at Chen Xiuming.

Chen Xiuming felt a chill run down his spine under Delta's gaze and couldn't help but ask, "W-what's wrong?"

"Your Honkai energy is not only delicious, but it can also help me evolve—are you a 'god' who came to help me?"

Delta didn't believe in "gods" before, but now that she's no longer a pure human, she's started to believe in the ethereal "gods".

The reason for considering Chen Xiuming a "god" is simple: Chen Xiuming's Honkai energy is not the kind of Honkai energy that humans can possess.

Not only does it taste better than ordinary Honkai energy, but it also contains special energy that promotes her evolution.

“I am not a god, but…”

Chen Xiuming looked thoughtful, then continued somewhat hesitantly, "I came here to help you."

Looking at all the world bubbles he has traversed so far, every single one has a problem that requires Chen Xiuming's help.

The world bubble containing the three Shaniat sisters is likely meant to help them escape their arranged marriages, while the world bubble containing End Kiana and Janna is meant to help End Kiana find liberation.

Sirin's World Bubble is about saving Sirin, while the Magical Girl's World Bubble is about breaking the tragic cycle of "the dragon slayer becomes the dragon."

As for the current state of the world...

It is highly likely that Delta will need to be "nurtured" to develop as quickly as possible to the point where she can devour the Queen. Then, Delta will completely devour the Queen, inherit all of her power, and leave this destroyed world bubble.

Normally, he should assist Delta in gradually killing stronger insect beasts, but Chen Xiuming can "take a shortcut".

Putting aside the fact that his Honkai energy can drive Delta's evolution, Kiana's End alone is enough to directly kill the Queen, allowing Delta to inherit the Queen's power by devouring her corpse.

"That's it..."

Delta nodded thoughtfully, seemingly lost in thought.

Chen Xiuming also remained silent, lost in thought.

Compared to normal Honkai energy, his Honkai energy only has the added power of the Saintess, which should be the root cause of Delta's evolution.

The Saintess's power originates from the Herrscher of the End, and can be seen as a castrated and weakened version of the "Power of the End".

As the "ceiling" of the Honkai series, it seems quite reasonable that the Herrscher of the End possesses power that can help Delta evolve.

After figuring this out, Chen Xiuming opened his right hand, and a small ball of dazzling golden light appeared in his palm.

This is the manifestation of the Saintess's power, and also the purest form of the Saintess's power, without any Honkai energy mixed in.

Chen Xiuming originally thought that Delta would be eager for the pure power of the saintess, but in reality, Delta was somewhat afraid of the pure power of the saintess and even decisively stayed away from Chen Xiuming, not daring to get close to him.

Seeing this, he seemed to be deep in thought, and mixed Honkai energy into the ball of Saintess power in his hand.

As Honkai energy took up an increasingly larger proportion of her body, Delta's fear gradually diminished.

Only after the Honkai energy in Chen Xiuming's hand transformed into normal Honkai energy did Delta reveal her longing expression again.

However, instead of handing the Honkai energy to Delta, he selectively ignored Delta's longing gaze and directly dispelled the Honkai energy.

"I found a suitable place to rest around here."

Chen Xiuming extended his right hand to Delta, inviting her, "Would you like to come with me?"

Delta thought for a moment, then reached out and placed her hand on Chen Xiuming's right hand.

"Can I follow you forever?"

"can."

As they spoke, Chen Xiuming grasped Delta's soft hand.

Delta was draped in a large gray robe, but when she raised her hand, one could vaguely see her graceful body beneath it.

Although Gray Him makes her look conservatively dressed, her inner clothing is quite daring, consisting of only very revealing white underwear.

Besides that, she didn't even have shoes and always walked barefoot.

Despite wearing very few clothes and not even shoes, Delta's body was spotless, without a trace of dirt, as pure as a flawless gem.

Delta seemed to notice Chen Xiuming's gaze, and perhaps not wanting to be misunderstood by him, she explained, "It's hard to find clothes to wear these days, let alone clothes that fit my body shape. Besides, I tend to tear my clothes when I'm fighting, so that's why I'm dressed like this."

As she spoke, Delta commanded her other hand to transform into a gigantic, monstrous claw, which she then showed to Chen Xiuming.