Chapter 977: Xilin

Xilin was awakened from a nightmare.

The terrifying scene in the dream filled her with horror.

"Mother, I want to go home."

The thin and weak insect-race girl could only hold her knees tightly, curling her body even tighter, and such a weak murmur came from her mouthparts that were no longer sharp.

It was a pity that such a wish was destined to never be realized, because her hometown, the Senhai World, had been destroyed.

She was a member of a medium-sized tribe named the Crown Prince Clan among the thousands of insect tribes in the Senhai World, and she was also the daughter of the clan leader, but her status was not considered high.

After all, her clan leader mother had tens of thousands of children.

The Crown Prince Clan did not have the naturally powerful strength like the Hercules Clan, nor did they have sharp claws and teeth like the Mantis Clan. The only thing the Crown Prince Clan could show off was their strong reproductive ability.

Therefore, the combat power of the Crown Prince Clan was not strong. The members of their clan could only survive by doing all kinds of hard labor that other tribes were unwilling to do.

And Xilin was a quite special existence in the Crown Prince tribe.

She was an alien insect.

The so-called alien insect was equivalent to a deformed child among humans. The insect-people of the Crown Prince Clan, especially the mother insects, were often huge and fat. After all, only such a body could support the powerful reproductive ability sufficient to nurture thousands of descendants.

Normal Crown Prince mother insects could give birth to hundreds of children in their lifetime, excellent ones could give birth to thousands, and individuals as excellent as Xilin's mother, that clan leader, could have over ten thousand children, and this was also the reason why she could ascend to become the clan leader.

The Crown Prince clan took pride in being able to give birth, and individuals with strong reproductive ability should naturally have a noble status.

And Xilin was born with a thin body. Not to mention comparing her body to her mother or other sisters who were dozens or hundreds of meters tall, her body was not even as tall as the ape-man neighbors who were only three or four meters tall in the Senhai World. This three-meter body was really funny to insects.

In the words of her sisters, they had to be careful when walking, lest they accidentally step on this alien sister Xilin.

Naturally, because of this alien insect body, Xilin grew up amidst mockery and bullying.

Normal Crown Prince insect-people often became adults at three or four years old, and after becoming adults, they would immediately start to reproduce. They were a matriarchal clan, and a mother insect often had a pile of male insect mates, only then could they ensure continuous reproduction.

But it was a pity that Xilin's weak insect body was really too ugly in the aesthetics of the clan, and she was already over thirty years old, but let alone having a harem like her sisters, she couldn't even find a single mate.

To this, Xilin had once resented the play of fate, despised those male insects who always shouted "big is good," and envied her fat and plump sisters, but now, she had long since looked past it, or become numb.

Insect life is only a short hundred years, endure it, it will pass soon.

However, Xilin had actually been hiding a secret, which was that she had actually inherited her mother's powerful reproductive ability. After all, her insect-person talent was "Extraordinary Fertility."

Mm, every insect-person in the Senhai World could awaken a talent, which was the gift and grace of Senhai.

And in the Crown Prince tribe, extraordinary fertility was undoubtedly the most powerful talent, and the possessor was often the next clan leader candidate.

Xilin had once proudly told her mother when she was a child that she had inherited this talent, but her mother, who was always busy producing, just looked at her helplessly and pitifully.

"Little Xilin, forget this talent. Your insect body is too weak, and excessive reproduction will only quickly drain your life."

To this, the insect-person girl had once been desperate.

She knew that her mother was caring for her, but such a blunt denial also made Xilin a little hurt. She really wanted to tell her mother that she could do it, she was just small, but actually quite strong.

But thinking about it, she couldn't say anything. After all, she couldn't even find a male insect to be a mate. Did she want her to give birth alone?

And thinking about the male insects of the Crown Prince clan who were generally seven or eight meters tall, Xilin became even more silent.

Whether giving birth too much would kill her was one thing, but if she really found a mate, she might not even be able to hold on to the production step.

In short, give up, being a lonely and wise single insect is also quite good.

Mm, Xilin was undoubtedly smarter compared to those stupid brothers and sisters. As an alien insect, there are gains and losses. Although she lost the plump mother insect body, she got an exceptionally developed brain.

Her brain was even more powerful and perfect than that of the brain insects. With such aptitude, if she were a member of the brain insect clan, she would undoubtedly be the darling of the clan, and might be a wise man who would leave a name in history in the future.

But it was a pity, who let her be a Crown Prince insect-person? Wisdom? What is that? Can it help with reproduction?

Therefore, Xilin had actually been quite lonely, and she had had enough of these compatriots who did nothing but eat, sleep, and give birth.

Finally, she left the group and lived alone, and became a scavenger.

Mm, the so-called scavenger was actually a corpse collector. Insect-people often fought with the ape-man neighbors next door, and war naturally meant dead people, and dead people meant corpses, and corpses meant people needed to handle them.

To be honest, Xilin's thin body was not suitable for this kind of hard labor, but maybe she had been single for too long and was really a bit mentally abnormal, she quite liked this job where she could contact countless compatriots' bodies.

However, she was not abnormal enough to want to do anything blasphemous to these corpses; she just wanted to study, mm, study the structure of these compatriots.

She wanted to figure out the principle of alien insects, so that maybe more tragedies similar to her would not be born in the future.

And the scavenger's job could help her obtain more samples, and similarly, she also had the opportunity to obtain some equipment and technology from the ape-men.

Mm, although those ape-men had weak bodies, their brains were very good, not much worse than the brain insects of the insect race's staff. Although they didn't have the powerful spiritual power like the brain insects, they had a special power called technology.

Xilin tried to learn the power called technology from those ape-men's relics, which was quite interesting. She learned very quickly, and among them, an academic subject called anatomy and another called genetics made her very interested.

She had been secretly collecting materials for these two academic subjects and secretly dissecting and studying the corpses of her compatriots.

To this, she didn't feel anything blasphemous. Anyway, these corpses were also used as spare food when collected.

Well, in the insect-person culture, the corpses of old insects should be the nourishment for new insects, and children would eat the corpses of their dead parents and inherit the glory and will of their predecessors.

And her research progress was quite smooth. She soon figured out the principle of the birth of alien insects. Her genes were too unstable compared to her compatriots, extremely easy to produce some kind of mutation, and this mutation was random, and it was not clear whether it would mutate in a good or bad direction.

Xilin was undoubtedly a lucky one. Compared to those alien insects who mostly didn't grow up and died early, her brain mutation was undoubtedly benign.

It was just that this unstable gene could not be eradicated. After all, this was the ancestral gene at the root of the insect-person, and the thousands of different insect-people in the Senhai World today were all mutated from this.

This was the root of the strong survival ability that allowed insect-people to adapt to various environments and reproduce, and it was also the key for them to continue to evolve and move forward.

It was just that random mutation was too inefficient. If she could actively master the direction of mutation, then the insect swarm would undoubtedly have a better future.

After realizing this, Xilin suddenly had a sense of mission. She suddenly felt that she might have been born into this world for this purpose. She would find a way to control the unstable genes of insect-people, and finally let the insect-person race evolve rapidly towards a higher and farther direction.

Well, although she actually didn't have much affection for the insect race, after all, she grew up being squeezed out and mocked.

As smart as she was, she didn't think that she and those stupid compatriots were the same species, but living always requires finding a goal for oneself, right?

Besides, if she really researched something, she could at least cure herself, right? By then, she would be the greatest clan leader of the Crown Prince clan.

And so, she continued her research.

And then...

And then the Senhai Great World encountered demons, and the Abyss didn't know why it was staring at the Senhai World.

That day, a terrifying extraterrestrial evil existence descended, followed by destruction, slaughter, and despair.

That day, Xilin, whose research finally had a little progress, just came out of the nest to get some air, and then saw the war flames that dyed the sky red and the battlefield that made her, a veteran corpse collector, fear.

That might no longer be called a battlefield; calling it a slaughterhouse might be more accurate.

The ground was full of blood, mucus, and broken limbs, countless corpses of insect-people and ape-men piled up like mountains, and the disgusting smell made Xilin, who had long been accustomed to dissection, vomit on the spot.

And then, she saw the blood, mucus, and the corpses of insect-people and ape-men combined strangely, finally forming an evil demon.

"Hello, nice to meet you, summoner. Is it your desire that made the great Abyss notice this world? Mm, it's really not bad desire? Interesting, interesting."

That terrifying demon composed of corpses didn't hurt her, but its behavior was unexpectedly gentlemanly. Mm, according to the ape-man culture, this should be called a gentleman, but there was no such description in the insect race.

However, the gentlemanliness of this demon only made Xilin feel cold all over.

"What? I summoned it? Impossible, right? I didn't do anything? I was just quietly conducting my research?"

The insect-person girl was clearly unable to accept such reality. She was clearly trying to contribute to the development of the tribe, but she didn't know when she attracted the minions of destruction, finally leading to the destruction of the entire world.

"Hehehe, yes, yes, yes, that's it. Your soul is really great. No wonder this fragrance was sensed by the great Abyss from far away across the Spirit World."

"Despair, cry, and then fall, sister. I, the great Apostle of Envy, Lord Xia Nai, welcome you to join our big family."

Regarding Xilin's collapse, that strange demon just laughed happily on the mountain of corpses and sea of blood.

And then, and then she couldn't laugh anymore.

Because she died.

A terrifying beam of light descending from the sky directly destroyed that terrifying demon and also purified that terrifying battlefield.

Xilin was on the edge of that bombardment, and she was almost evaporated together, but it seemed that good luck favored her, and then she saw countless existences that looked like female ape-men riding strange sticks falling from the sky.

"Tsk tsk tsk, I said that staring at the Abyss would definitely have gains. Look, we don't need to fight ourselves, isn't this the spoils of war?"

"The captain is amazing, worthy of being a follower of the great Demon King, your conspiracy and evil are really great."

"The captain is evil and insidious, the vice-captain is insidious and evil, invincible."

"It's just that captain, aren't you demon witches and the Abyss allies now? Is it really okay to pit each other like this?"

"What's the problem? The Abyss is the law of the jungle, and the winner takes all is the rule, okay? Those who were pitted should go back and think about whether their wisdom and conspiracy have grown over the years."

Xilin heard these female ape-men laughing and talking like this in a daze, and then she lost consciousness.

And when Xilin woke up again, a beautiful face directly reflected into her pupils.

Mm, beautiful, pretty, perfect to the point of making Xilin's heart stop.

But in fact, the insect-person girl had never been able to appreciate the appearance of ape-men. In her insect-person view, these monkeys without carapaces, jointed limbs, wings, or tentacles were too ugly, and they all looked the same, and she couldn't tell who was who at all.

But at this moment, she strangely understood the beauty of this female ape-man before her. Although the other party was not as tall as her, only two meters or so, it was really thin, and according to the aesthetics of the Crown Prince clan, this kind of thin body should be ugly, but Xilin just felt that the other party was really beautiful.

"Yo, you're awake. Just right, let me check your body."

This beautiful female ape-man smiled like this, and the stunning smile like a hundred flowers blooming almost made Xilin directly indulge in it, but the familiar look in the other party's eyes immediately made her wake up directly.

How could she not be familiar with this?

Every time she looked at the corpses on the dissection table before, she could always see a similar look in the mirror.

That was the look of a fanatical scientific researcher.

This female ape-man wanted to dissect her.

After realizing this, Xilin was immediately alert. She waved her hand, and the arms that were originally similar to ape-men and had five fingers to facilitate grasping tools instantly turned into a pair of sharp sickle limbs, attacking this beautiful but strange female ape-man.

She was still quite satisfied with this blow of hers. After all, this was a gene weapon she learned from the Mantis clan. Although she didn't know the martial arts of the Mantis clan, the sharpness of this sickle limb was unquestionable. She was imitating the genes of the strongest warrior of the previous generation of the Mantis clan.

Mm, over the years, she had basically collected the genes of thousands of tribes. Even if the Senhai World had been destroyed, as long as she was given enough time, she could re-nurture thousands of tribes.

It was just that her blow, which she was determined to win, was blocked by a finger of this beautiful female ape-man. The beautiful fingernail of the other party, which was fair and had no decoration, just blocked in front of the sharp sickle limb, no matter how hard the insect-person girl tried, she could not advance any further.

"Mm, not bad, quite energetic, I like it."

She heard this beautiful but terrifying creature say this with a smile.

But Miss Xilin was gradually desperate.

Damn, the insect race was really going to be destroyed because of her.

Insect-person girl in despair...

Preparing to attend a classmate's wedding, sent it early, sigh, college roommates are almost all married, damn, I'm the only single dog left. ===== CHAPTER 978 =====