Chapter 171: Worm Disaster, Actually I Am a Warrior

Cheer up; when the Rainbow Bridge appears, the space around Lan Xing will loosen, and the alien race should be coming.

Meet soldiers with generals, meet water with earth; as long as no major disaster arrives, these alien people cannot stir up trouble.

In space,

Ordinary warships are patrolling deep space.

The warships are manned by battle-hardened warriors; their strength is mostly at the first or second realm, not strong, but they are extremely proficient in operating the various weapons on the warships.

Beep beep beep~

Suddenly, the warship's radar sounded an alarm.

There are spatial fluctuations; definitely a spatial rift has appeared—quick, report it upward.

The captain issued an order.

While reporting, the warship sped toward the direction of the fluctuation.

A large number of unmanned early-warning aircraft have already rushed out first.

My heavens!

Good heavens, it's a wormhole and wormships—there's a worm race here!

An hour later, the image transmitted on the screen caused everyone on the bridge to drastically change expression.

On the screen, a huge black hole appeared in the void.

The black hole's diameter exceeds one kilometer, and a large number of warships are rushing out of it.

These warships are not ordinary warships.

In a close-up shot, many warriors saw the appearance of the warships.

That turned out to be a wormship formed by countless worms tangled together!

Such wormships range from several hundred meters to several kilometers in length; the longer the wormship, the more worms inside, and the stronger the worms' strength.

Quick, report the coordinates upward.

Fire all nuclear missiles; we must destroy this wormhole!

The captain decisively gave the order.

A huge number of missiles carrying nuclear warheads were launched, heading toward the wormhole.

Even in the high-martial era, nuclear bombs have not been eliminated; on the contrary, they are being produced more and more, with ever-increasing yield.

This is mainly because nuclear bombs are relatively cheap to produce and have great power; they are unsuitable for use on Lan Xing, but in outer space there is no restraint.

We must destroy it!

The captain stared intently at the screen, where dense red dots appeared, each representing a missile carrying a nuclear warhead.

These missiles kept accelerating, speeding toward the wormhole's location.

Beep beep beep~

But as they approached the wormhole, the red dots kept disappearing.

How could this be!

The captain's face darkened.

This meant that all the missiles had been intercepted.

In the starry sky, some bright points of light appeared—this is the light produced by nuclear explosions.

However, these nuclear bombs are still far from the wormhole and pose no threat to it.

Inside the wormhole, wormships continue to pour out endlessly.

Boom!

Just as everyone on the warship despaired, a huge fireball struck the wormhole at a speed too fast to see, instantly blasting the wormhole and all surrounding wormships into debris.

The sparks from the exploding fireball turned the surrounding area of several hundred kilometers into a sea of fire, showing its immense power.

Even though the warship was tens of thousands of li away from the wormhole, it could still feel the violent shaking of space.

It's the Annihilation Star Cannon! Hahaha, these worms are doomed!

The bridge filled with cheers.

The captain obviously also breathed a sigh of relief.

"Captain, orders have come from above to go look for other wormholes."

"What, there are other wormholes?"

"Yes, there is more than one wormhole; a large number of wormships have already approached Lan Xing, and if nothing unexpected happens, we will face a worm disaster of considerable scale."

The people on the warship had not been happy for long before their faces drastically changed due to the new news.

Rumble rumble rumble~

"They're coming!"

"Destroy them, don't let them enter Lan Xing!"

At this moment,

Around Lan Xing, the battle has already erupted.

Dense wormships are rapidly rushing toward Lan Xing.

These wormships, like meteors, are falling toward Lan Xing.

Numerous space fortresses are frantically attacking, but because the wormships are too far from the fortresses, the interception rate is not high.

The main interception force has become warships cruising in space.

Boom!

A wormship was hit, exploded, and turned into a sky-full of worms.

These worms continued to fall toward Lan Xing.

Grab them.

Cultivators flew out from the warship and launched an attack on these worms.

Most of these cultivators are Immortal Cultivators.

In a moment, flying swords ran amok, techniques filled the sky, and a huge number of worms were killed.

But the worms are simply too many; these cultivators cannot intercept them at all.

"Oh no, the Star-Protecting Grand Formation has been broken!"

Not long after, a worm warship successfully broke through the Star-Protecting Grand Formation and entered Lan Xing.

The number of worms is actually far less than that of dark beasts.

But they are harder to deal with than dark beasts.

Because dark beasts are blocked by the Star-Protecting Grand Formation, finding this path impassable, they will be attracted to the space fortress.

But worms won't.

They will desperately clash with the Star-Protecting Grand Formation.

The Star-Protecting Grand Formation is huge; its main function is actually to prevent Lan Xing from losing its atmosphere during high-speed movement, blocking disasters similar to stellar storms.

It also offers some protection against external enemies, but it's not very strong.

So it was broken through like that.

The first worm warship that broke through the Star-Protecting Grand Formation was several kilometers long; after breaking through the formation, it quickly fell toward the ground, disintegrating rapidly at a few kilometers above the surface, turning into a sky-full of worms that landed.

These worms each have thick shells and sharp limbs, they emit a "squeak" sound, and rush toward the nearest city.

"Worm clan?"

"Yes, Brother Fan, the news has spread everywhere; I was wondering why my right eye kept twitching, turns out this is the reason, damn, these worms really pick their timing."

Beidou University, Lu Xun, who was lying flat in the dormitory, received a message from Li Bu Fan.

There are worms at the node of the Starry Sky Ancient Road!

Worm clans exist at many nodes.

The worm race's mother star has already run further ahead, but they left some worm nests on the ancient road nodes for development.

Not every one of these worm nests can develop.

After all, the most common thing on the Starry Sky Ancient Road nodes is the Starry Sky Alien Species.

The ferocity of the Starry Sky Alien Species is not inferior to that of the worm clan at all.

If they eat the worms, they can also gain the advantages of the worm clan.

Those celestial alien species locked in the secret realm are actually weakened versions.

Most of those celestial alien species take the form of rabbits and mice, and their abilities are too ordinary.

There is also no Dark Energy in the secret realm, limiting their growth.

The celestial alien species on the ancient path node are all sorts of strange; some have consumed too much life, so their offspring possess various strengths of life, and their difficulty increases linearly.

Although that is the case,

If an insect nest can develop, it often becomes very formidable, even capable of exclusively occupying a Spirit Realm on an ancient path node.

Then, the insect nest can frenetically breed using the resources of that Spirit Realm; with sufficient resources, they can produce hundreds of billions of offspring in a short time.

At that point, once a spirit star arrives, they will face the attacks of these insect nests.

Of course, their targets are not just Lan Xing, but all ascended spirit stars.

Specifically, which one they focus on attacking depends on which spirit star is closer.

Lan Xing last encountered the bug swarm several decades ago.

That bug swarm's attack brought a great catastrophe, namely the bug disaster.

After Lan Xing paid a heavy price to repel the bug disaster, it took considerable time to completely clear the bug swarm from Lan Xing.

In the following years, although the bug swarm was occasionally encountered on the Starry Ancient Road, they were not particularly strong, and Lan Xing was not a primary target of their attacks.

Until this time.

"How many?"

Lu Xun saw some videos transmitted online.

This bug swarm attack was extremely fierce, with bug warships assaulting Lan Xing from all directions.

In just a few hours, the number of bug warships that broke through the star-protecting grand formation exceeded one hundred.

This means the number of bugs that have fallen onto Lan Xing's surface likely exceeds one million.

Some cities have encountered their attacks.

In one online video, outside a city, countless huge bugs can be seen swarming.

"War bug."

These bugs are basically war bugs, with extremely strong defense, and their speed and strength are both outstanding.

In terms of strength, ordinary war bugs possess the strength of the first or second realm.

Slightly stronger ones can reach the third or fourth realm.

Moreover, some war bugs have different abilities, such as fire bugs, thunder bugs, and storm bugs that can fly and summon storms.

"These guys, they really picked a good time."

The timing of the bug swarm's attack is too perfect.

At this point, most of Lan Xing's experts above the Six Realms have already left; even if a few remain to defend Lan Xing, their numbers are not large.

Lan Xing as a whole is currently in a state of emptiness.

Their such frenzied attacks put Lan Xing in a dilemma.

If the experts are summoned back, the gains from this ancient path node will inevitably be greatly reduced.

If they are not summoned back, once they can't hold out, Lan Xing will face huge losses.

No matter how Lan Xing chooses, the Insect Clan's objective has been achieved.

As for these insects... the Insect Clan never lacks insects.

These war insects, regardless of their realm, are expendable goods and cannon fodder for the Insect Clan.

No matter how many die, they feel no regret.

The core of the Insect Clan consists of wisdom-endowed insects, namely the wise insects, and the more advanced brain insects.

Above the brain insects, it is said there exists something like an Insect Queen.

What exactly it is, nobody knows.

Currently, the highest-ranking Insect Clan encountered by Lan Xing, the strongest among them, are the brain insects.

"It really looks like it's turning into an Insect Disaster!"

As time passes, the number of insect ships landing on the ground keeps increasing.

This Insect Clan offensive is about to turn into an Insect Disaster of enormous scale.

For some slightly weaker nations, it has already become a major catastrophe.

Currently, the East still has no major problems.

All cities have adopted a defensive stance, activated the city-protecting grand formation, and rely on sturdy city walls for defense.

With the aid of various powerful weapons and strong cultivators, they can barely hold on for now.

"How did so many suddenly appear?"

But, just one day later, the Insect Clan's offensive intensified further.

The number of insect ships landing on Lan Xing's surface has multiplied several times in a short period.

"Willow City has fallen!"

That afternoon, a heavy piece of news arrived.

A city with a population of one million fell, overrun by the Insect Clan; out of its million inhabitants, very few managed to escape.

Another, even worse piece of news is,

Insect ships began to gather more and more toward the East.

The East has become the focal point of the Insect Clan's targeting.

"Paulownia City is under emergency!"

"Attain City is under emergency!!!"

"Yellow City can barely hold on; requesting support!"

A large number of cities issued emergency alerts.

These cities, most with populations around one million, have their strongest individuals at most at the Fifth Realm, and that's after grinding time to reach the Fifth Realm.

Many cities don't even have a Fifth Realm.

"Damn, again like this—why does it always target our East?"

"Looks like we're heading out to kill insects."

"But definitely not, the outsiders haven't moved yet; with such a huge Insect Disaster, the outsiders will surely seize the opportunity to act—everyone must stay calm!"

Many Clear North students have been aroused with battle intent, wanting to go out to fight.

But the school has locked down the entire campus, not letting anyone out.

Clear North's students are a key target of the outsiders; after suffering a loss once, whenever Lan Xing enters the Ancient Road Node, Clear North locks down the school.

By doing this, even though several years ago that disaster, the outsiders launched a major assault on Clear North, Clear North didn't suffer major losses.

"Lu Xun, are you going out?"

"Yes, Principal, faced with such a huge disaster, I cannot stand idly by."

In the principal's office, Lu Xun's voice rang out.

Yes,

He came to see the principal.

The purpose is simple.

Lu Xun wants to go out to fight in the war.

Several years ago, in that disaster, Lu Xun's parents died therein.

At that time, he was powerless, finding self-preservation difficult, let alone protecting his parents.

Now, his strength is no longer weak.

Even if he cannot resurrect his parents, at the very least, Lu Xun can ensure that more children won't lose their parents at a young age like he did.

Even, life.

He is not a saint.

But, within his capability, Lu Xun is also unwilling to stand by idly.

"Lu Xun, this is too risky; with the Insect Disaster erupting, the outsiders are surely lurking in the dark, eager to move; you're definitely on the outsiders' hit list, so you should stay at school and wait to enter the Rainbow Bridge."

"Principal, I'll disguise myself and sneak out; the outsiders won't notice..."

"That also won't do; remember, you represent the future, not the present."

"Principal..."

Lu Xun tried persuading him both ways, but the principal refused outright.

Seeing this, Lu Xun had no choice but to resort to his secret weapon.

"Principal, I am actually a warrior who already has battle merits; you have no right to stop me from earning more battle merits."

Lu Xun took out the one-star medal that Fu Xue gave him.

"One-star medal?"

The principal saw the medal and was stunned for a moment.

One-star battle merit is not insignificant; even a Fourth Realm cultivator would find it hard to earn that much battle merit.

Normally there is no opportunity.

Even if there is an opportunity, one must kill many enemies and establish considerable merit to be able to.

"You... sigh, take these talismans with you; when you go out, use this invisibility talisman, don't let the foreigners discover you."

Immediately, the principal felt helpless.

As soon as Lu Xun took out the medal, he indeed could not stop it, because the medal was issued by the War Office.

Those who possess the medal are warriors recognized by the War Office; no one can stop a warrior from earning battle merit.

Helpless, the principal had no choice but to give Lu Xun some talismans.