I created the myth of the Great Old Ones.

"Wait a minute, could the treasure hidden in these ruins be the Queen Insect?"

Lu Ban stopped the iron fist that was about to smash the altar and asked.

"No, it's only a part of it. Hidden deep underground here is something that can turn people into saints, and the Queen Insect is the one that protects it."

Iron Fist answered.

He clenched his right fist, crystals covering his arm, and then slammed his iron fist down, shattering the entire altar.

The blood-stained stone fell, revealing a huge hollow.

“After those insects hatch and grow up, they must have a place to go out, perhaps into this hollow.”

The faceless man spoke, then summoned his men.

"flash."

The young man with crystal-like eyes came to the cave entrance and looked down.

His eyes emitted a bright light that illuminated the space.

Lu Ban saw that the space below was extremely spacious, with a dome about tens of meters high. The underground space, illuminated by light, contained a complex mechanical gear structure.

These structures are slowly moving things out.

Those are all insect eggs.

Countless insect eggs were scattered across the ground of the space. These dark, crystalline things were densely packed, like a swarm of bees in a honeycomb. Some of them seemed to be wriggling, but none of them had hatched.

The blood from the altar flowed down and landed on some of the insect eggs. The eggs immediately began to stir, their tops splitting open to reveal individual tentacles.

These insect eggs, about to hatch, are grabbed by stone machines, placed on a conveyor belt, and sent somewhere unknown.

And then, from somewhere else, a conveyor belt continuously transported insect eggs over, piling them up in the room.

Are you sure you want to go down?

Lu Ban felt that going down directly was definitely not a good choice.

“Look at these insect eggs, they were transported here, so if we follow the road, we will definitely find the queen insect.”

Iron Fist pointed to a corner, to the pit in the direction the conveyor belt was coming from.

"Shouldn't we clean up down there first?"

Lu Ban glanced at Xi Ya.

Chapter 188 The Swarm

ground.

Some time ago.

The giant arm lurked in the shadows, observing the circular plaza.

He saw Lu Ban approach the leader of the group, exchange a few words, and suddenly pull out a knife.

"Is he planning to assassinate the enemy head-on?!"

Giant Wrist exclaimed in surprise at Lu Ban's courage.

"The other party looks like the leader of a powerful force; they must be very strong. Their chances of survival are slim!"

Yan Xin sighed.

"Didn't he say he was going to negotiate?"

Only the old dream remembered what Lu Ban had said to them before.

"Who negotiates with a knife... Ouch, why did he stab himself?"

The giant asked in a low, surprised voice.

"They seem fine; they shook hands."

Yan Xin glanced at it.

"How come they're eating? I want to eat too..."

"After I finish this order, I'll go back and have something delicious to eat."

Do you think they might just abandon us?

"Don't talk nonsense. We're all in this together. They won't betray us. Besides, if they really did betray us, they would have already come and arrested us."

"Oh, that's true."

"They went down."

"It's so quiet, there are hardly any people in the square."

"Perhaps the main hunters of the wasteland have all gone underground."

"We also need to work hard."

"Wait, did you hear anything?"

Old Dream, who had been watching the area behind the three, suddenly spoke.

The three fell silent, and in the dark and quiet ruins, they could hear a faint buzzing sound.

The sound was like a sharp object slicing through the sky, rushing forward at high speed.

Moreover, these sounds were continuous, not coming from a single source.

"Could it be..."

Before the giant arm could react, it saw dense raindrops falling from the sky.

No, those weren't raindrops, but black arrows.

Or rather, it's something like a bone spur.

The sound of air being cut came from them.

In an instant, the bone spikes passed over the three people hiding in the shadows and landed directly on the circular plaza.

With no room for struggle or resistance, the wilderness hunters in the square became sieves.

Most of them were nailed to the ground, their heads, bodies, and limbs pierced through, their faces showing no sign of shock.

Blood meandered across the ground, the crimson liquid seeping into the mineral rock, upon which lay the remains of the dead.

rustling sounds—

The giant arm heard some urgent sounds. He looked back and saw countless creatures writhing in the darkness.

"Are they insects from the ruins?"

He immediately realized what was happening.

Previous reconnaissance revealed that some insects were lurking in this area, but no one approached them, so the giant arm didn't pay much attention. Now that he thinks about it, such ruins couldn't possibly have only a few insects. This kind of complex terrain would most likely become an insect's nest. Now is the time for those insects to return to their nests.

"We can't stay here."

Flameheart stood up.

They saw shadows flickering among the firelight at the camp of another group of wilderness hunters.

Amidst a flurry of panic and commotion, screams followed in quick succession.

The three of them didn't care about what happened to the other, and immediately packed their things to go to the camel's location. But when they arrived at the foot of the building, they saw a dark swarm of insects surging up from the sky.

The insects were enormous, some as tall as a person, with jet-black bodies covered in sharp spines. Their huge pincers and mouthparts gleamed sharply under the starry sky. They were like a tidal wave, destroying everything in their path.

The giant arm discovered that their exit was blocked, and the only remaining option was the path leading to the square.

"These insects surrounded us from the outside in."

"Old Dream," he said, then pointed to the square in the center of the city.

“Let’s go that way and go into the tunnel. We should be able to hide there for a while.”

They set off immediately, sprinting towards the square at top speed.

When they reached the square, past the hideous corpses, they saw people fleeing from another direction.

The two groups paused for a moment, then simultaneously ran toward the huge hole in the center of the square.

Behind them, the endless swarm of insects formed a wave several meters high. Anyone swept into it would be instantly crushed to pieces and become food for these insects.

The group didn't exchange many words. Everyone knew that in the wasteland, under these circumstances, humans could only choose to cooperate; infighting would only lead to a quicker death.

The giant arm was the last to enter the cavity. Its hands rapidly expanded, grabbed a rock, and slammed it into the opening of the cavity.

Boom—

After a roar, the world fell silent.

The survivors looked at each other in bewilderment, and finally, it was Jiu Meng who raised the question.

"Shouldn't we find a way out?"

He pointed to the only door that had been blown open.

……

"Shouldn't we clean up down there first?"

Lu Ban felt that going straight down like this was too aggressive. Since someone like Xi Ya, who wields a powerful weapon, was here, why not first clean up the three-wheeled vehicle and grind these monsters to dust?

"really."

Xia nodded slightly.

"You all step back a bit."

She gestured for the others to step back, and then raised her right hand.

"You're going to throw that spell at them one by one and blow them all up?"

Lu Ban thought for a moment. Xia's spell speed was quite slow. If she kept casting spells like this, it might take until at least the day after tomorrow.

"How could it be left until the day after tomorrow? It can be resolved by noon tomorrow at the latest."

Xia denied Lu Ban's statement.