Those who reincarnate must die.

Just as dawn was breaking, the grain convoy finally arrived at the fortress, closed the city gates, and rested quietly inside the city under the cover of the fortifications of the city walls.

The principle of resting during the day is to make no noise and not attract the attention of passing insects.

The walls of the Citadel are far less towering and sturdy than those of Star City. If a large army of insects were to appear and set their sights on this place, these two thousand-plus people would be utterly unable to defend it! Therefore, the primary function of the walls is not actually defense, but rather to block the line of sight and sound, preventing the insects from discovering that there are people here and making them believe that this is still the same empty city as before!

The people rested quietly in the acropolis. After a night of marching, they were all exhausted and almost paralyzed. They could fall asleep as soon as they lay down. For a while, apart from the snoring, there was no other sound in the city.

Dugu Lan slept until the afternoon. She took a deep breath, stretched, and came out of the house. She saw her brother, Dugu Chen, shirtless, practicing his sword in the open space.

At this moment, his muscles were bulging, his veins were standing out, his skin was purplish-red, and his eyes and temples were bulging, making him look like a man-eating demon!

"Brother, when did you wake up?" Dugu Lan walked up and asked softly.

Upon seeing his younger sister arrive, Dugu Chen breathed a sigh of relief, his whole body relaxed, and his muscles and joints cracked and popped before quickly deflating, his skin returning to normal.

"About half an hour..." Dugu Chen laughed, taking a towel to wipe his body. "Since everyone is still asleep, I'll stretch my legs a bit! I haven't encountered any bugs these past few days, and I haven't wielded my sword much, so I'm feeling a little uneasy."

"Judging from your stance, your internal energy has improved again?" Dugu Lan laughed. "With your current skills, brother, and the treasured sword in hand, you might not even lose to the Purple-Gold War Insects!"

"Let's not take that risk!" Dugu Chen shook his head. "I know my own limitations! My Dugu family's Bengjin technique can certainly increase strength by changing the body's shape, but the body's endurance is still limited. If I can't kill the enemy quickly, and it drags on, I'm afraid I'll collapse first!"

"Isn't this how all bursting power works?" Dugu Lan pouted. "That Feng Xi's Feng family technique isn't even as powerful as ours. It only lasts a little longer than our Dugu family technique. Last time in the competition, if she hadn't deliberately stalled and pushed my bursting power to its limit, the outcome might have been very different!"

Dugu Chen smiled and shook his head: "You might not be the same now, but back then you definitely wouldn't have been a match for Feng Xi!"

"Why should I?!" Dugu Lan said indignantly.

"Just based on the Feng family's martial arts, which have a devastating attack called 'Disintegration'!" Dugu shook his head and said, "The Feng family's martial arts, apart from slightly stronger endurance, cannot compare to my Dugu family's martial arts in terms of strength or explosive power. What makes them worthy of being compared to us? It's all thanks to their ultimate killing move, 'Disintegration.' If they activate it, they will elevate their physical abilities to an inhuman level, but at the same time, they will also severely deplete their life force. Overuse could even cause their bodies to burn to ashes!"

"Will this happen again?" Dugu Lan asked in surprise.

"This is what my father told me!" Dugu Chen laughed. "Years ago, my father was just like you are now, fond of fighting and unwilling to accept the title of the Feng family. He challenged the then head of the Feng family, Feng Xi's grandfather, to a duel. In the end, the old man was indeed no match for my father and relinquished his title as the best in the world..."

"I've heard about that!" Dugu Lan said. "That's why I'm so dissatisfied with that Feng Xi! Even his General Feng is no match for Father!"

"But later, the Zerg attacked, and my father went north to fight them. He was fortunate enough to fight alongside General Feng again. That time, in order to fight the alien race and cover the retreat of the people, General Feng activated his Collapse technique, holding an iron spear and killing several Purple Gold War Insects on the spot! In the end, he burned out his life and turned into ashes, which were scattered on the battlefield..."

"It was this scene that inspired my father, which is why he fought desperately against the Zerg on the battlefield in Jiangnan later on..." Dugu Chen said, his eyes filled with sadness.

"Such a thing actually happened?" Dugu Lan's expression was filled with longing as she looked up at the sky, seemingly reminiscing about her father and also about General Feng...

But suddenly, her eyes changed from nostalgia to horror!

Because she saw six flying insects fly over the Acropolis!

"Brother..." Dugu Lan tugged at Dugu Chen. Dugu Chen looked up and saw the scene. He was so frightened that he dared not move. He could only hope that the insects would fly by silently and not notice the situation in the fortress!

It seemed the insects hadn't noticed anything unusual and were just passing by... Watching the six insects fly over the city wall, the brother and sister both breathed a sigh of relief...

But then, the six insects seemed to have dropped something, and they circled back, hovering over the city!

"We've been discovered!"

The brother and sister immediately felt a chill run from their heels to the top of their heads. Dugu Chen shouted, "Quick, Xiaolan, shoot them down!"

Dugu Lan's large bow was too long to carry at all times, so she usually carried a short bow with her, which was also specially crafted, with amazing draw strength and excellent elasticity! She immediately drew the bow, nocked an arrow, and released it into the sky! With a whoosh, it accurately hit an insect, piercing its skull and knocking it down!

Seeing this, the other insects immediately retreated. Dugu Lan quickly fired, and with the sound of the bowstring snapping, one flying insect after another fell. But in the end, one still managed to escape the range!

"That damned bug, it must have gone back to report!" Dugu Chen gritted his teeth and said, "Quickly, tell everyone to get up and prepare to fight!"

The brother and sister immediately woke up the sleeping soldiers. Upon hearing that the insects were coming, everyone instantly became alert, put on their helmets, picked up their weapons, climbed the city wall, and prepared for battle.

But as soon as they climbed onto the city wall, the soldiers showed expressions of despair!

A massive, densely packed army of insects was seen marching in from the west!

That army was larger and stronger than any of the armies that had attacked Star City before!

The ordinary mantis monsters stretched as far as the eye could see, spreading towards this place like a rising tide. Interspersed among the swarm were larger purple-gold war bugs, round and plump self-destructing bugs with bellies full of acid, and poison arrow bugs that could release spikes for long-range attacks...

As for those enormous, glittering golden beetles, there were dozens of them!

Besides these, the most eye-catching thing is the giant centipede monster!

In recent months, the insect swarms have been attacking the city almost every day, but the Dugu siblings have only seen the centipede monsters a handful of times, and there's only one each time! These giant insect monsters must consume a lot of energy, needing to eat and rest a lot before they can be deployed, so they don't use them easily.

But this time, among the vast sea of ​​insects, there were five centipede monsters! And one of them was even larger than the others, with bigger fangs, longer claws, thicker carapace, and sharp spikes and blades on its head. It was more than twice the size! Clearly, it was an advanced version of the giant centipede monster!

In the world of cold weapons, even the appearance of a single primordial behemoth of this magnitude would be considered a natural disaster!

"Even when we were guarding Sunset Fortress, we never saw anything like this..."

A veteran who had returned from Sunset Fortress swallowed hard, trembling all over. The sight of the swarm of insects stirred up his most desperate memories!

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