Void Beetle Evolution Guide

With her current strength, it would be easy for her to carry a girl of the same age on her back, but when she saw the huge hole above her head, she couldn't help but frowned deeply.

"How are we going to get out of here? We're not going to climb back up from the top, are we?"Mei is not in my life, Mei has no free time, and Lin has no free time......

"Unfortunately, you are right." The Wild Hunter snorted coldly.

He was not that capable enough to dig a secret passage from the village to this place in advance, and then fight his way out of the siege of the insect swarm to reach the retreat route prepared in advance.

"How is this possible!" The girl thought it was a joke.

Because the cave entrance had expanded, even if Kaisha was standing on top of the pile of corpses, she was still at least 15 meters away from the bottom of the cave entrance. Even with the bonus of skin armor, she couldn't jump that high at once, not to mention that she was carrying Uma on her back.

"We could have guarded the mountain of corpses while eating and fighting, but you insisted on bringing a burden with you." The Wild Hunter said a few words, and then threw out a solution, "Now let's try the effect of the crystallized bullet and fire one at the top of your head and see."

"Eating and fighting at the same time... Is he using these corpses as ammunition?"

Kesha didn't dare to think about it too much. She raised her right hand and pointed her palm at the edge of the cave, then she circulated energy and emitted it based on her feeling.

The Wild Hunt had already converted the ammunition type in advance, and a cluster of gorgeous crystal flowers instantly bloomed at the landing point, hanging firmly below the cave entrance.

"There's hope!" Wild Hunt shouted, "Keep shooting, and let the crystal flowers form a vine. Remember to shoot vertically, as a tilted structure will easily cause the crystal to collapse under its own weight!"

Kaisha aimed very seriously and continued to shoot. The crystal flowers that bloomed continuously formed a drooping flower vine. In order to prevent the flower vine from falling off due to loose adhesion and thus wasting all the previous efforts, Kaisha also added a few crystal bullets at the root for reinforcement.

In the eyes of the Wild Hunt, although this girl is a little disobedient, her ability to act is still acceptable. As long as they can reach a common goal, they can reap 120% of the results.

"Uma, I'll take you home right away."

Keisha tilted her head and whispered something cool to the unconscious girl behind her, then she bent her knees and jumped.

She jumped up from right below, her movements light but steady, more like a squirrel than a monkey.

The crystal-made flower vines were extremely weak and could not withstand any horizontal shaking. Even though she had been careful, her hands were still cut several times by the sharp crystals in an instant.

Keisha gritted her teeth and didn't let go.

She stretched out her arms alternately and climbed up. The flower vine led to the exit of life. Even if it was covered with countless blade-like petals that would cut her body again and again as she climbed, she would never let go.

"The skin armor is for speed, and its defense is very poor. Injury is inevitable, so I have appropriately reduced your sense of pain. The reason I didn't completely block the pain is because I'm afraid you will make a wrong judgment and fail to hold on to the flower vine and fall."

The Wild Hunt's voice sounded at the right time, dispelling most of the pain Kaisha was enduring. Her heart warmed, and she struggled to squeeze out the word "thank you" from between her teeth.

"There's nothing to thank me for. After the fusion, I can also feel this kind of pain. I just don't want to suffer with you in vain."

“I’ll remember this feeling.”

In a trance, Kai'Sa seemed to understand how she should get along with the Wild Hunt.

If you think about it carefully, the Wild Hunt was helping her every time from the beginning to the end. Even though his words were a bit harsh, he was thinking about her. He was actually a pretty good person.

Well, as long as she processes those unpleasant words in her mind, she won't feel so resistant.

With the help of the Wild Hunt, Kai'Sa climbed the beautiful but deadly crystal flower vine with difficulty. Then he switched back to the plasma bullets, allowing Kai'Sa to shoot upwards alternately from left to right, blasting several bullet holes on the cave wall - these bullet holes were all the buckle points for her to grasp and step on.

With these bullet holes, Kai'Sa was able to hang her body on the wall of the cave to catch her breath. The Wild Hunt also took this opportunity to repair her body that had been cut to pieces.

Under them was the conquered crystal flower vine, now stained with Kai'Sa's blood. The blood dripping down the inverted petals was so evil and gorgeous that it reminded the Wild Hunter of the red wine tower at the banquet.

Therefore, he could not help but complain, "You only go out but not in. You, the host, are almost starving me to death. If I had known earlier, I would have eaten a few bites of tribute downstairs before coming up."

"Now I don't even want to eat."

Kai'Sa wanted to avoid talking about eating, but the Wild Hunt was a creature of the Void, and this kind of thing was unavoidable as long as she was with him. After thinking about it, it was better to adjust her mentality and respond positively.

She looked down and realized that the swarm of insects had already submerged the mountain of corpses without her knowing.

Those idiots didn't even let go of the little bit of blood that dripped from the flower vines. They rushed towards the center frantically, piling up higher and higher, baring their fangs and claws at her.

"You're still not satisfied. If you want to eat so much, I'll give it all to you!"

The scene in front of her was disgusting. In order to prevent these monsters from climbing up the vines, Kesa fired plasma at the roots of the vines.

The sound of shattering echoed in the underground cave. Seeing the flower vine fall into the insect swarm and shatter into countless sharp crystals, Kaisha shifted her gaze to the abyss passage above her head that was filled with non-light.

However, after seeing the desiccated corpses embedded in the cave walls and the strange black corals growing around them, she suddenly realized that they were only less than halfway to survival.

Chapter 9 The Way Home

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Keisha alternately shot bullet holes in the cave walls, using them as grab-holds to climb upward.

As soon as she entered the abyss of black light, she felt her vision was blocked and she couldn't see her hand in front of her.

The coral glowed with a dark fluorescence, covering up the natural light, like a black hole swallowing up all light except black, and even the vision enhanced by the skin armor could not penetrate it.

When the Wild Hunt passed this level before, he was still an ethereal. With a smaller body, he could choose to bypass the coral and pass outside the range of the black light. But the bullet holes caused by Kai'Sa were all directly above, so bypassing was a thankless solution, so he could only bite the bullet and climb up in the dark.

It's quiet in the darkness.

There was no wind, and the Wild Hunt did not speak. Kesha could only hear Uma's steady breathing and her own heartbeat.Plum blossoms in the absence of Lin Lin has no time to chant without Lin You Yong......

Something's wrong, this is too quiet.

They had just entered the black light and were not far from the underground cave. Logically, they should be able to hear the rustling noises of the group of virtual spirits.

Keisha reached out and groped on the wall of the cave, but didn't find any reliable grab points - the bullet holes left before had been climbed over, so she continued to raise her hands and shoot, creating new bullet holes.

"If we shoot like this, even if there are monsters above us, they will be shot down, right?" The girl could only comfort herself like this as she continued to climb up.

Suddenly, I felt a tingling sensation on my skin, as if thousands of tiny hooks were biting into my flesh.

As soon as Kesha heard the sound of breaking air coming from the darkness, her arm, which was stretched out in the air and had not yet fallen, suddenly turned uncontrollably, and she took the initiative to grab something.

The skin armor squirmed and Kai'Sa felt it clearly, and she felt that she was holding a skinny wrist, and then a shrill scream was heard.

"People?" the girl asked in astonishment.

"No, it's a dead person."

The Wild Hunter's answer was not quite accurate. Through the skin armor, Kesa felt that the wrist had no flesh and blood, as if it had been sucked dry by something. There was no trace of fear in the screams. At best, it was just an empty shell.

The scream of the empty shell was as long and loud as a wake-up call. Kesha pulled it hard and patiently, but she felt a lot of resistance and couldn't pull it off for a while.

"Save your energy. These empty shells grow deep into the cave walls. Their flesh and blood nourish the corals, and the black light emitted by the corals turns this place into a dark abyss."

Upon hearing this, Kaisha tore off the empty shell's arm and threw it away, making it no longer a threat and then ignored it. When you can't see it, it's not so scary to imagine the other party as a puppet.

However, the scream not only did not disappear, but also triggered a chain reaction. The empty shells in the abyss resonated and screamed one after another, forming an ear-piercing demonic sound.

Before the blood flowed from Kaisha's ears, the Wild Hunt blocked her hearing, and now she is blind and deaf. Fortunately, the Wild Hunt can talk to her directly in her mind, so the impact is not great.

"I feel like I've heard these screams before," Kesha said suddenly. "Before they fell, some of the cultists were not ready to die. The screams they made were exactly the same as they are now."

"I understand what you said. These empty shells may be because their memories have not been completely absorbed. That's why they were sucked into the cave wall on the way down and completely absorbed... The cave wall is like the intestines, which will reabsorb the things that have not been fully digested in the stomach."

"Then these people who have lost their memories..." Keisha hesitated to speak. What else could come out of the intestines?

"You're right. It's feces. But your memory wasn't taken away, nor was it absorbed by the cave wall. How come that's the case? Are you born with antibodies or something?"

The Wild Hunt spoke without restraint, but Kesa kept her mouth shut.

She didn't want to admit that Uma was excrement, nor did she want to admit that she crawled out of the excrement.

They just lost their memories...they are still living human beings...sigh.

In a moment of distraction, Kai'Sa forgot something she had originally wanted to ask the Wild Hunt.

She concentrated on climbing the rock, while the Wild Hunt was responsible for protecting her from sneak attacks along the way. The main reason for not using plasma bullets to break the empty shells was because they could not see or hear, and they wanted to save energy for the skin armor.

The last section of the journey was safe and sound. Kesha transformed into a demon and crawled out of the abyss. When she saw the familiar scenery, she knelt on the yellow sand as if she was relieved.

Kaisha untied her helmet, the armor plates overlapped and flipped back, revealing a haggard face, with the roots of her hair stained with a little purple. She looked up at the sky, the emotions that had been accumulated for a long time, squeezed the air in her lungs, but in the end she only coughed a few times.

After venting her feelings, Keisha stood up again.

The platform where the prophet had been was swallowed up by the earth along with the sacrifice. There was no one around, only some huge, shell-like tree roots growing wildly from the rocks at the edge of the cave.

The mission had apparently been abandoned. The Wild Hunt told her that those things were called hernias, manifestations of the Prophet's power.

The stars were hanging in the sky. What Kesha saw when she fell was the night sky, and what she saw when she came out was also the night sky, but it was certain that it was definitely not the same day.

Although she could not read the stars, she clearly remembered that the stars were unusually close on the night of the sacrifice, not as far away as they are now.

'I have to get home quickly. My mother is absolutely crazy looking for me.'

Keisha untied the cloth strips, moved Uma to her front and held her, then spread the cloth strips over her body and set off on her way home.

Suddenly, she stopped.

"By the way, I still don't know what to call you, Mr. Shell."

"Are you assuming I'm a man?"

A rough and hoarse voice slowly sounded. He had hardly spoken since he started hunting by climbing the cave wall.

Keisha knew why, the previous series of actions had almost exhausted his energy.

"It's mainly because your voice sounds like a man's," Kesha replied. What she really wanted to say was that the Wild Hunt's voice sounded like that of an evil villain who was obviously bad.

"Fine, just call me Wild Hunt."

"Thank you, Wild Hunt. I will find you plenty of food when we get back to the village!"

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Before Kesa returned to the village, she was found by villagers who were out looking for someone. The man was holding a torch and his eyes were sparkling with fire. He was the hunter in the village and also Uma's father.

The girl quickened her pace, but the other party decisively took out his weapon and blocked her less than a hundred steps away from the village. He drew his bow and arrow and shouted at her: "Don't come over here, or I'll shoot you if you come any closer!"

Before the arrow was shot, Kesha felt as if she was nailed to the spot by something, and that was a feeling called bitterness.

"Uncle Mayil, it's me... I'm Kesha! My mother is Eliza, and my father is Cassadine, you know them all."

"Kesha? What's wrong with you?" The hunter was stunned for a moment. After seeing Kesha's face clearly, he slowly loosened the taut bowstring, but still held the bow and arrow tightly.

"The prophet, he wasn't praying for our peace through sacrifice... He deceived us, including his followers. He made a huge hole in the valley over there and threw everyone in to feed the monsters!"

Meier's alert expression did not change much, as if he had known about this for a long time. He said with a dark face: "Don't talk nonsense, I want to ask you what's going on with this!"

Kesa was shocked by the other party's attitude. Facing this capable hunter, she completely forgot that she already possessed strength beyond that of an adult.

She said guiltily, "I don't know how to explain it. We fell down and almost died, but there was a monster in there that didn't eat me. Instead, it sacrificed itself and became the shell on my body. Because of it, we were able to come back alive from underground, so please don't be hostile to it."

"We?" At this time, Mayer's eyes left Kesha's terrifying shell and noticed the person she was holding, covered by a cloth. As if thinking of something terrible, he asked with trembling and cracked lips: "Is the person in your hand... Uma? She disappeared with you for a whole day, and we have been looking for you everywhere."

"Yes……"

After receiving a positive answer, Mayer dropped the weapon in his hand like a deserter.

He rushed over and took the unconscious girl from Kesha's arms, but no matter how he shook or shouted, he could not wake his daughter up.

"What's wrong with her?!"

"We were all captured by the prophet, who extracted her memory and threw her into the cave. If it weren't for this insect armor, we would have died there. It's a blessing in disguise that we were rescued."

The reunion of father and daughter was such a sad scene. Keisha, feeling extremely guilty, choked up as she explained.

What she didn't expect was that after hearing her words, the father's eyes went dark and he suddenly fell to the ground.

The girl was stunned for a moment, then shouted for help at the entrance of the village.

"Someone come! Someone fainted!"

Chapter 10: The Vision of the Evil Star

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Kesha's cries soon attracted many villagers who came to search and rescue. They held torches in their hands and formed a wall around each other, but they did not dare to get too close to Kesha. Some of them even pointed weapons at her.

"What are you doing? Save them quickly!"

Seeing people whispering but no one willing to help, Kesha yelled, but people turned away coldly as soon as they met her eyes. They were talking away from her, not knowing that she had enhanced hearing.

"That thing... isn't it Kassadin's daughter? The shell on her body is really scary!"

"How did it become like this? The monsters in those ancient legends are no more than this, right?"

"She has been missing for a day. She must have gone to a place she shouldn't have been. She angered the prophet and was punished."

"Why did Mayil fall to the ground? And his daughter... Was all this done by Keisha? She was such a good girl, it's a pity that she became like this."

"..."

They called her "that thing", they said she was turned into a monster because she angered the prophet, and they said the hunter and his daughter were killed by her.