Starting with summoning the succubus

Moreover, how could it be so fast? The Zerg had only invaded for a few minutes when a seventh-tier expert arrived to provide support?

If you ask me, this should be the work of a sixth-order transcendent... wait, could it be Chi Yinghao?

Teacher Aka hasn't left yet?!

Oh, I get it!

Upon realizing this, Qi Lin's face lit up with sudden understanding. "The so-called boarding the night before last was just a show, a show deliberately put on for the Yimi insect race to see!"

Teacher Chi deliberately had the mayor escort him, creating such a grand spectacle, just to make the Imi insectoids mistakenly believe that he, a sixth-tier powerhouse, had already left Dawn City.

But in reality, it was a fake boarding; he didn't actually leave but was secretly setting up a magic circle.

In the days before and after the fake boarding, Teacher Chi must have been secretly setting up a magic circle.

The purpose was to lure out and ambush the Imi insectoids!

He first pretended to leave Dawn City to lower the guard of the Imi insectoids, thus deciding to emerge from underground tonight and officially launch a surprise attack on the city.

Hidden in the shadows, Teacher Chi waited a few more minutes until all the Imi insectoid forces had emerged from the ground before officially activating the colossal magic array covering the entire city, annihilating all the Imi insectoids that had surfaced!

"you sure?"

Louisa was first taken aback, then looked at the insect corpses scattered all around her, her expression becoming extremely complicated. "If Qi Lin's guess is correct, then this is indeed a very perfect ambush trap, because the results are quite fruitful..."

However, while the results were substantial, the cost was far too high, truly far too high.

"Just imagine, even with you, a second-tier demon wielder, we still struggled so much just now. How many ordinary citizens must have died in the city in those few minutes?"

"War always results in casualties."

At this moment, Catherine, covered in the blood of the insectoids, slowly walked over, carrying a demonic sword that was still dripping blood, and said softly, "Miss Louisa, you should be glad that the human you call 'Red Hero' made such a decision. Why don't you think about how many people in this city would have died tonight if that 'Red Hero' had really left the city and done nothing?"

“I’m afraid the whole city will be wiped out, and millions of citizens, including us, will die.” Song Junda glanced at the insect corpses scattered all over the ground and said with a grim expression, “The Yimi insect race in history has always slaughtered entire cities and never spared a single living person.”

“I… I just don’t quite understand.” Louisa looked puzzled. “If Teacher Chi can set up a trap in advance to lure the Imi insects out and ambush them, it means that Teacher Chi knew in advance that the Imi insects would attack our Dawn City.”

If that's the case, couldn't he find a defensive strategy with less damage? For example, requesting support from a seventh-tier expert in Hanhai City? Or perhaps some other better method?

"Um……"

Upon hearing this, Catherine pondered for a moment before saying, "Then I don't know. After all, I don't know much about the situation here, so I can't make any hasty guesses."

However, as far as I know, Dawn City is a subordinate city of Hanhai City, right? In other words, Dawn City is a subordinate unit of Hanhai City?

In our hell, if a subordinate unit knows it might be attacked by the enemy but doesn't receive troop support from its superior unit, there's only one likely explanation—the superior unit is also struggling to survive and simply doesn't have the spare troops to send to support its subordinate unit.

"this?!"

Upon hearing this, Louisa, Song Junda, and the others all changed their expressions drastically.

"Could it be that Hanhai City is also under attack from the Imi insectoids?" Louisa exclaimed in disbelief.

"Forehead……"

When Qi Lin heard the discussion reach this point, he couldn't help but speak up and remind everyone, "Everyone! Everyone! Whether this magic circle is actually Teacher Chi's doing is still uncertain. Let's not get too carried away. Besides, our most pressing matter right now doesn't seem to be speculating about these things, does it?"

"That's right!"

On the other side, Lu Tingxue, transformed into an ice ape, slowly walked over. "Although I can't think of anyone else besides Teacher Chi who could set up a magic array of this level in our Dawn City, let's talk about that later. What we should be considering now is where to go next? Now that the Zerg are all dead, should we still continue to rush to Vault 3?"

"Are all the Zerg really dead?"

Catherine suddenly said that.

Everyone stared at her in astonishment.

The blonde succubus crouched down and rummaged through the corpses of insects scattered on the ground. She dug open the shells of the insects with her bare hands, pulled out some obviously charred insect entrails, and examined them carefully.

Chapter 128 Crisis, Two Tier 2 Zerg!

"Burn."

Catherine squatted down, picked up a charred insectoid heart, and slowly crushed it. "The effect of that gigantic magic circle above our heads is to burn the internal organs of a specific race. Simply put, within the range of the magic circle, the internal organs of all the Imi insectoids will be burned."

The spellcaster must have used the blood and internal organs of this Zerg creature as spellcasting materials to lock onto the target... Of course, that's not important.

Importantly, I discovered that this burning force was actually constant.

The incinerating force experienced by Tier 0 Zerg is exactly the same as that experienced by Tier 1 Zerg.

From my observation, this incinerating power would easily kill zero-tier, first-tier, and second-tier creatures, but its effect on third-tier creatures would probably be quite limited. As long as a third-tier creature isn't particularly afraid of fire, it should be able to withstand it..."

At this point, Catherine looked at Louisa and the others, "How much do you actually know about this 'Imi Insect Clan'? How resistant are they to fire?"

“Their resistance is very low. The book says that the Imi insect race prefers cold and dislikes heat. Their bodies are resistant to cold but afraid of fire,” Louisa replied.

“That’s good.” Catherine nodded gently. “If that’s the case, this level of burning effect would be very lethal even to a third-tier Imi insectoid, enough to severely injure it. However, against a fourth-tier Imi insectoid, it would probably be practically useless.”

"Among the Imi insectoids that attacked us just now, there weren't any Tier 2 or higher insectoids, were there?" Louisa asked.

“No, there isn’t.” Catherine nodded gently.

“And the clouds of insects that gathered in the sky have all fallen down now,” Louisa added.

“That certainly seems to be the case.” Catherine nodded again.

"So, doesn't this prove that all the Zerg are dead?" Louisa hesitated slightly. "Moreover, the book also says that the Imi Zerg are best at swarm tactics, always sending out hundreds of millions of low-level Zerg soldiers to attack, but they are all around Tier 0 or Tier 1."

"Then let's hope that everything in the book is correct."

Catherine said nothing more and turned to look at Qi Lin.

"Alright, stop talking. No matter what, we should get to the shelter first. Let's go!"

Qi Lin glanced at everyone to make sure they were all there and unharmed, then turned around and started walking towards the location of Dawn 3 Shelter.

Catherine, Louisa, Louisa's father and mother, Song Junda, Chen Zhao, Jeffrey, Lu Tingxue and others followed closely behind.

……

……

"Master, look!"

3 minute later.

The crimson magic circle above the city gradually dissipated, the night sky returned to its clear state, the bright moon hung high, and the stars twinkled.

Although Qi Lin and the others had not yet reached the location of Shelter No. 3, they spotted a dark green insectoid creature, its body emitting smoke and its steps faltering, in the distance under the streetlights.

This insectoid creature was about the size of a brown bear, covered in a dark green carapace. It looked like a giant mantis, except that it had four wings on its back, eight legs, four bladed arms, and a long, cylindrical mouthpart that protruded forward, resembling a black gun barrel.

At this moment, the dark green insectoid was emitting smoke and was walking extremely slowly on the street, swaying as if it would fall to the ground at any moment. It looked like it was in a very abnormal state.

"..."

Upon seeing this scene, Qi Lin and the others felt their hearts pounding wildly.

It can still move!

Still alive!

This Zerg is still alive!

As Catherine just mentioned, the effect of the super-giant magic circle is estimated to be able to burn to death zero-level, one-level, and two-level insectoids, but for the third-level Imi insectoids, the effect will only be "severely injured" rather than "burned to death".

In other words, the Imi insectoid that appears to be seriously injured and unsteady on its feet is very likely a Tier 3 insectoid!

And the strongest among them, Qi Lin, is only at the second rank!

"Shh-"

Qi Lin stared intently at the dark green insectoid creature ahead, then tiptoed back along the roadside green belt, whispering to the people behind him, "Be quiet, let's get off this street, don't disturb it..."

Although everyone was terrified, they managed to remain calm, nodding repeatedly as they slowly retreated with Qi Lin, trying to keep their footsteps as quiet as possible.

At the same time, they also used the trees in the green belt to hide themselves.

"Crack!"

Suddenly, a sound of crunching dry branches came from behind them, especially clear in the dead of night!

Damn!

Who made that noise?!

Qi Lin's heart pounded wildly. He looked in the direction of the sound with annoyance, and then his pupils suddenly contracted!

"quack--"

A deep blue Imi insectoid creature stood on a broken, withered branch, gently waving its four bladed arms. Its blood-red compound eyes were fixed intently on them.

Live!

The second living Zerg!

That's the second Tier 2 Zerg!

When did this guy get here?!

"Gah!!!"

The blue insectoid suddenly looked at the dark green insectoid in front of it, opened its barbed mouthparts, and emitted a sharp cry.

"Gah?"

Upon hearing the sound, the dark green insectoids turned around and looked at Qi Lin and the others. As if they had instantly come to their senses, they flapped their wings and flew rapidly toward them!

At the same time, the blue insectoids also swung their bladed arms and launched an attack on Qi Lin and the others!

Two Tier 2 Zerg units attacked from both sides!

"Don't be afraid! They're all injured, we can win!!!"

Catherine roared and charged forward, gripping the magic sword tightly with both hands, directly clashing with the blue insectoid's bladed arm, exchanging high-speed blows!

"Clang clang clang clang clang!"

A clanging sound of metal clashing rang out, and the collision between the demonic sword and the bladed arm sparked a series of sparks in the night!

The third-tier Zerg, located behind the group, was held back by Catherine single-handedly.

"Zizi!"

Seeing this, Qi Lin also condensed several lightning spears and hurled them at the more severely injured dark green insectoid in front of him.