novellhall Chapter 684 Little Black! My dear Little Black
Chapter 684 Little Black! My dear Little Black
Chapter 684 Little Black! My dear Little Black
Dark clouds rolled in, and the Iron Curtain hung low.
Because a large number of the deceased went to the dungeon with the city lord, the city of the dead was unusually empty and deserted.
The bored little ghost hung its head on the south gate, swinging back and forth like a teru teru bozu (a Japanese doll shaped like a sunny day).
The guardian of the city gate glanced at it and then ignored it.
There's no way around it, it's boring too.
The once long queues to enter the city have dwindled to just a handful. Anyone with a modicum of ambition has followed the city lord, leaving behind only the elderly, the infirm, the disabled, or those who have given up and are simply indifferent.
These people, lying in any corner or hanging up in some high place, are like dried-up salted fish.
Arguing and fighting? That's not going to happen.
Bullying? We're all equally bad at this, and bad guys shouldn't make things difficult for other bad guys.
The little ghost sighed for the 13,456th time, a long and resounding sigh.
The guardian of the city gate turned his head 180 degrees and lazily asked, "What's wrong with you now?"
The little demon gazed towards the swamp, his eyes filled with longing: "My lord, you've taken my soul with you."
Speak like a human.
"I miss the resurrection soup."
The guardian spirit had heard this phrase from its mouth more than once: "Is it really that good?"
"I feel uncomfortable if I don't drink it for a day. After drinking it once, I feel energetic."
The city guard said, "What you're talking about sounds like drugs."
"No, no, no, you don't understand. Why do I always hang at the city gate? Because only in this way can I prevent the tears from flowing from the corners of my mouth. Even Chopin couldn't express the sorrow of losing the elixir of life."
The guardian of the city shuddered, shed goosebumps all over the ground.
The little ghost looked on anxiously: "When will they come back? They'll definitely return safely, right?"
Without hesitation, the City Guardian said, "Of course! This time, the City Lord himself is leading the team. As one of the four City Lords, who doesn't have some hidden skills? The City Lord has the ability to reproduce infinitely. Even if only a fragment of his genes remains, he can quickly recover to his peak condition in a short time. The other three City Lords can't kill our City Lord. Unless, of course, an Insect King appears and an insect swarm breaks out. Hahaha, but I've never seen such an unexpected event before. It's a once-in-a-million-year occurrence."
The little devil suddenly reached out and rubbed his eyes vigorously.
He seems to be seeing things.
Knead it again.
The little devil stammered, "What did you just say? Once in billions of years?"
The guardian of the underworld boasted, "That's right. Those insects are so lazy, they like to bury themselves underground and stay motionless unless you actively provoke them. Besides, our underworld has nothing, these insects can't even fill their stomachs, how could there possibly be an insect king?"
The little devil grunted an "oh" and said expressionlessly, "If nothing unexpected happens, something unexpected is going to happen."
Ok?
Following the gaze of the little-headed ghost, the guardian of the city looked and saw that the ground outside the city of the dead suddenly moved.
His exceptional eyesight allowed him to clearly see countless tiny black insects emerging from the depths of the earth.
Each one was smaller than a fingernail, and they emerged densely from the cracks in the soil, like black beads of sweat suddenly seeping from the entire earth.
The insects swarmed in from all directions toward the same direction, covering everything in their path—scorched earth, withered bones, and swamps—into a pure black expanse.
Shoucheng Wangshengzhong gasped and used all his strength to strike the bronze bell above the city gate.
dong... dong... dong...
The sound was deep and muffled, yet it traveled extremely far and had a strong penetrating power, as if it were ringing in everyone's ears.
When Wang Shuxiang heard the bell, she understood that it was a warning from the City of Rebirth.
As one of the high-ranking officials in the City of Rebirth, she should have immediately flown into the city to oversee security.
But she stood there, not daring to move an inch.
Because her village was surrounded by insects!
At her doorstep, a dense swarm of insects formed a guard formation, firmly protecting a fallen insect.
This insect was no different from the others, but Wang Shuxiang could sense that it was very important to the insect swarm.
At this moment, she felt as if she were being silently watched by tens of thousands of eyes. If she made any move that threatened the insect, she would be instantly wiped out by the swarm.
Wang Shuxiang stood frozen in place, not daring to even blink.
At that moment, time seemed to slow down, and she slowed her breathing, almost able to hear the slow flow of her own blood.
Wang Shuxiang thought about it a lot.
I think of my elderly parents, the vast wilderness of Northeast China, the golden wheat, and the fragrance of the soil in my nostrils.
In this stillness of time, it was as if she had lived through her life all over again.
From a newborn baby girl to a graceful young woman, a shy bride, a helpless new mother, a betrayed wife, and a resigned housewife.
Time has etched white frost onto her hair and wrinkles onto her face; every cell in her body is experiencing the passing of life and the approach of death.
If all goes well, she will become a grandmother and maternal grandmother as expected, dedicating her remaining years to the next generation.
She will relive the hardships of raising children, and after her grandchildren grow up, she will accompany her husband, who is no longer adventurous, achieving the goal of "a young couple growing old together."
The wounds suffered in youth will be gradually covered up with the passage of time.
Whether she had truly forgotten, truly forgiven, or simply lacked the energy to dwell on it, she could no longer tell, and no one cared.
If she is blessed, she will close her eyes and end her life without illness or pain.
She thought to herself that she was blessed. After all, she had such a remarkable daughter!
daughter?!
This word seemed to have triggered some kind of prohibition or underlying code, and Wang Shuxiang suddenly came to her senses.
She was utterly horrified.
She looked down at her hands. Could these still be called hands?! They were clearly bones covered with a layer of wrinkled skin, and age spots were growing on them.
Wang Shuxiang felt a sense of unease and touched her face.
Sure enough, she had become a breathing skeleton!
In that fleeting dream, her life force was drained. If she had woken up even a minute later, she would have been dead!
What kind of unfathomable and mysterious method is this?!
Wang Shuxiang felt a deep sadness, believing that Earth and humanity were truly beyond saving.
They can infiltrate the underworld and find a glimmer of hope for humanity.
Faced with such a swarm of insects, she felt powerless to resist and wanted to give up.
It's like a weary traveler climbing a high mountain, thinking that once she crosses it, she will see human cities and hope.
Unexpectedly, after climbing to the top of the mountain, she saw not only a continuous range of mountains, but also a towering Himalayas!
How could this not lead to despair?
Large tears streamed down his incredibly aged face.
Wang Shuxiang's mind was filled with worry: what would happen to her eldest daughter? Knowing her daughter's personality, she was afraid she would cause her herself a lot of trouble!
"Why don't you go find her? Where is she?"
Wang Shuxiang's mind went blank for a moment. "Yes, let's go find her. If we're going to die, mother and daughter should die together!"
But where is my daughter?
“You can find her. You are her biological mother, you are connected by blood. Blood will guide you to find her.”
Yes, yes, twins have a telepathic connection. She and her daughter definitely do too. After all, they were born together for ten months!
Wang Shuxiang's consciousness followed a red line, searching and searching.
She didn't know how far she had walked, but she finally saw that familiar figure.
"Daughter!"
"Xiao He!"
In the center of the swarm, a black beetle, which was being protected, suddenly raised its head.
This action caused all the insects to stop simultaneously. Then, it emitted a wing-beating sound inaudible to humans, and the entire swarm simultaneously opened its wings in that instant.
Each insect's wings were as thin as cicada wings, translucent, with edges gleaming with a cold, eerie blue light.
When they flapped their wings at the same time, the blackness on the ground disappeared, replaced by a swarm of insects that blotted out the sky!
The swarm of insects took to the air.
Looking up from the dead city, a black sky seemed to be rising from the ground.
The swarm of insects constantly changed formation during flight, sometimes gathering and sometimes dispersing. When they gathered, they resembled a soaring roc, and when they dispersed, they resembled a vast, black net.
"Awooo! Help! Bugs are coming!" The little-headed ghost was so anxious that he tried to jump off the city gate, but he was too nervous and his head got stuck. Only his two legs were left, kicking and thrashing in mid-air like grasshoppers.
The guardian of the city grabbed his legs, lifted him up, and spun him around, finally saving the clumsy hybrid: "You owe me a bowl of resurrection soup!"
"Good, good, good. You're truly a good person to be reborn in the Pure Land!"
The two of them took off running, trying to find the sturdiest room to hide in.
At this moment, the entire city of the dead was in complete chaos.
No one thought about protecting the city on the verge of death.
Don't be ridiculous, this is a swarm of insects that even the city lord fears! They don't even dare to run dungeons, how could they possibly fight against a swarm of insects?!
When the swarm of insects flew over the dead city, most of the natives were paralyzed by the silent oppressive feeling.
The little ghost trembled and hugged himself helplessly: "I haven't written my will yet, sob sob... How can a person be so unlucky? To die once, and then die again!"
The swarm of insects ignored them.
Their goal is only one direction: the spatial rift that is slowly closing!
……
In the Ming Tombs instance, everyone seemed frozen in place, completely still.
The Eastern Kingdom players and the anomalies inside the instance felt a powerful, unprecedented pressure descending upon them.
Under this oppressive force, their muscles trembled slightly.
Li Qing looked up at the sky in frustration. Why was it that every time he was about to win, an even stronger opponent would appear?!
Why do they have to suffer so much?! Those damned anomalies must be so smug, right?
The Lord of the Dead City and the Eye of Observation were not pleased at all.
On the contrary, they raised their vigilance to the highest level.
It's an insect!
It looks like a swarm of insects.
What is it about here that attracts them?
Without a king insect, the swarm's uninitiated activity can only have one explanation: there's food for them here!
Finally, under everyone's watchful eyes, a tiny figure squeezed out of the spatial rift.
This insect is really small; it's not even as big as the smallest sucker on the Dead City Lord's tentacles.
Its tiny legs support its chubby body, making it look like it could break at any moment.
The black-backed carapace was covered with haphazard, disordered scratches. It looked rather forlorn and miserable.
However, neither the Lord of the Dead City nor the Eye of Observation dared to underestimate this insect.
Without any..., a guy who can physically traverse different realms is definitely not an ordinary guy.
This insect is far stronger than the insects in the Dead City territory!
"The Insect King?" The voice of the City Lord of the City of Death was full of confusion.
How could there be an Insect King in the underworld?
How could it penetrate the boundary between two worlds? Is the Insect King really that powerful?
Before it could even begin to eat, the crack stopped healing and instead started to widen.
Immediately afterwards, the dense swarm of insects pierced straight through the theoretically insurmountable boundary between the two realms, as if penetrating a thin sheet of rice paper.
The sealing runes on the boundary wall lit up simultaneously the moment they were touched by the swarm of insects, and then went out all at once.
"How...how could this be? This is impossible!"
The four city lords were deeply shaken!
Meanwhile, the East Country Emergency Command Center.
Commander Zhang's cigarette fell from his fingers into the ashtray; the cigarette butt touched the wet end and hissed out.
On the screen, the image of swarms of insects obscuring the sky was captured simultaneously by the perspectives of tens of thousands of players, filling the entire large screen.
Xiao Liu from the tech team was frantically typing on his keyboard, trying to analyze the movement trajectory of the swarm, but he couldn't do it.
It's impossible on a technical level, and even more impossible on a psychological level.
The imagery of the insect swarm arriving was incredibly oppressive.
Even through the screen, across countless layers of spatial barriers, the oppressive feeling still made them feel suffocated.
"It's over. Director Lin is caught in a pincer movement." Old Zhou's voice was very soft.
A city lord of the City of Death is already terrifying enough, but with a massive swarm of insects, even a human wave tactic could overwhelm Director Lin.
The population advantage of the Eastern Kingdom is insignificant in the face of the insect swarm.
The clerk turned her face away; she didn't want anyone to see her crying.
Xiao Liu gave up on himself and slammed his fist on the keyboard.
Old Zhou took off his glasses and stared blankly out the window, seemingly looking at something.
Commander Zhang stared intently at the screen, his eyes unblinking. He didn't speak, but his fingers dug four white marks into the edge of the table.
Did our forefathers feel the same way when facing the enemy? Were they filled with hatred, wishing they could perish together with the enemy, yet powerless to do anything about it?
Commander Zhang closed his eyes and made a silent decision: if the day ever comes when the entire nation is mobilized for war, then we will fight to the death, rather die than live in dishonor!
On the screen, the black beetle that looked very unusual moved.
It slowly flew towards Lin Xiaohe.
The people of the Eastern Kingdom were filled with despair, their eyes filled with pain.
Although the city lord of the City of the Dead remained vigilant, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
The Insect King isn't the problem; at worst, we can just give the fattest piece of meat to the Insect King.
The black beetle stopped just one meter away from Lin Xiaohe.
Its two compound eyes stared intently at Lin Xiaohe, which looked somewhat terrifying from an observer's perspective.
Lin Xiaohe stared at the black beetle for a long time.
Suddenly, Lin Xiaohe's cold expression melted away like ice and snow, revealing a genuine smile.
She reached out her hand, her voice incredibly gentle: "Little Black, you've come."
Bang!
Like a small cannonball, Xiao Hei crashed into Lin Xiaohe's arms, its two tentacles rubbing against her body, its wings trembling slightly and frequently, its whole body radiating an indescribable excitement and joy.
"Little Black, dear Little Black!! Waaah, you're finally here. Quickly help us beat the bad guys." Xinbao babbled on and on, complaining.
She's just a support character, and Xiao He's abilities are restricted. They're really at a disadvantage.
Now, their powerful fighting partners have arrived!
Hahaha, all of you, go and die!
Ahhh, I'm going crazy!
During this season when poplar fluff is flying everywhere, my rhinitis has never gotten better!