Chapter 976: with translation of chapter title

"Fuck!!!"

"What the hell is this?!"

As the giant insect turned its head, Xiong Hanzi, upon seeing the insect's full appearance, couldn't help but burst out with vulgar language.

Where the giant insect's head, resembling a maggot, should be, there was actually a human face.

Only empty eye sockets remained where the eyes should be, and a huge mouth, fresh red and dripping, was split open to the limit.

"Hungry!!!"

It hissed and charged forward.

Lin An watched the giant insect rush forward at high speed, and a strange expression also flashed across his face.

Not an insect!

Compared to Zhang Tie's observational skills, he spotted the wound on the insect's body at a glance.

The wounds covered both sides of the body, and the stark bone stubble could be faintly seen.

This isn't an insect; it's basically a person who had eaten his own limbs!

Sword net!

Without Hesitation.

Having detected the anomaly, Lin An decisively drew his sword backward; a grim sword qi turned into a dense sword net that headed straight to envelop the Human-Insect.

Under the sword net, even a third-rank Mutant would be sliced into fragments.

A blast sounded instantly.

The speed was extremely fast.

Hard to imagine, the limbless Human-Insect seemed to glide halfway and instantly rushed over.

The next second.

The charging Human-Insect, lacking vision, slammed headfirst into the dense sword qi grid.

However, the expected scene of tearing the Human-Insect's body apart did not occur.

Only then did the giant insect suddenly open its huge mouth and, like a whale swallowing, gulp down that piercing sword qi in one gulp.

Without waiting for the two to attack again, driven by hunger, the Human-Insect instantly roared, opening its huge mouth, trying to swallow Lin An, who stood at the front, in one bite.

"Eaten?!"

Standing in place, Lin An's eyes couldn't help but flash a strange color.

He was still seeing for the first time that his own sword qi could be so easily broken.

That sword storm, capable of destroying a building, was eaten by the Human-Insect as if it were food.

"Retreat!"

A fierce shout.

Lin An, after failing with one strike, made another strike.

After blasting back to create distance, spiritual energy instantly erupted.

In an instant, purple spheres burst forth from around him, and after 0.1 seconds they condensed into an Arcane Torrent that directly smashed into the charging giant insect.

"Boom boom! Boom!"

Imbued with a large amount of spiritual energy, the dark-purple arcane power instantly exploded on the giant insect's body.

Unlike being swallowed as before.

The close-range impact energy, like shards, blasted the insect's body full of holes.

Juice splattered; the dark-green blood, like a punctured balloon, shot out from the shattered insect body.

"Sizzle-"

The green blood splattered onto the ground and suddenly melted like sulfuric acid.

Judgment!

Destruction!

Skills were released in succession.

Wu Yun gathered, and the drawn lightning suddenly pierced the hall, the dense electrical energy carrying a burnt smell slammed down.

The sword shadow rose again, and the sword qi under the destruction skill kicked up a howling wind.

On the other side, the startled Xiong Hanzi also came to his senses, directly activating his bear form, his huge body reaching the ceiling, and directly wielding the lingchi, he charged toward the giant insect.

One hammer strike smashed down.

Fresh blood splattered.

The splitting lightning and the violent sword qi directly pierced the Human-Insect's skull; the combined damage from the two instantly blew up this strange insect.

"Boom!!"

1 second later.

Lin An's expression unchanged, he continued to watch warily as the ground was a mess of unmoving flesh paste.

The head was smashed to pieces, the body cut into several sections.

At a glance, it was dead beyond dead.

But from beginning to end, a faint sense of unease never faded.

Looking at the dead Human-Insect on the ground, Lin An's gaze was solemn, his vigilance unabated.

Is it dead...?

Standing before the giant insect's smashed head, Zhang Tie slowly exhaled a breath, white smoke continuously rising from his body.

Closest, the splashing blood burned his fur with a sizzling sound.

"Lin Dui, this thing..."

Just as the words fell.

The giant worm corpse that should have been dead and could not die again suddenly twitched.

Only to see the fragmented worm bodies suddenly move again, each segment seeming to come back to life.

In an instant, the worm corpses on the ground turned into dozens of smaller Human-Insects, screaming as they charged again.

!?

A moment of shock.

Only to see the dozens of Human-Insects, now much smaller, split open their sole mouth on the face and frenziedly bite toward Zhang Tie.

"Retreat!"

No time to think further.

Lin An, upon realizing the worms had revived again, without hesitation pulled Zhang Tie and retreated once more.

"Wrong!"

His mental power spread out, sensing the Human-Insects' aura seemed even harder to deal with, and a flash of surprise crossed Lin An's eyes.

Although the worms had shrunk, with his observational skill it was easy to see that if these worms were pieced together, they would clearly be larger than before.

This is...

It devoured all his attacks!?

Having never encountered such a situation, Lin An could only continuously burst forth sword energy, trying to incessantly shred the charging Human-Insects.

Within just a few seconds, the continuously spreading battle remnants easily destroyed the original hall.

And while there was originally only one Human-Insect, now under attack it kept splitting into tens, then hundreds.

The more they fought, the more there were.

It was as if under endless devouring, every sword energy infused with spiritual power was completely swallowed by these worms.

"Lin Dui!"

"This damned thing can eat my power!"

Realizing something was wrong.

Zhang Tie stared in shock, glancing back at Lin An, who was pulling him backward.

He was the closest.

Xiong Hanzi stared fixedly at his arm where the Human-Insect had touched it; the wound on that arm simply would not heal.

This mode of attack seemed to directly devour all his abilities.

"This damned thing is so like..."

Before he could finish, Lin An's face grew grim, and he directly negated with a right‑hand sword slash.

Zhang Tie wanted to say whether this thing was like an amoeba worm, capable of consuming spiritual energy and growing stronger the more they fought.

But in the previous attack, he had deliberately used only physical strength in several strikes.

Yet no matter the attack, this thing seemed able to digest it entirely.

Moreover, amoeba worms lack the ability to absorb power merely by contact.

"Hunger..."

"Hunger!!"

"Hunger!!"

Dense and numerous, in an extremely short time they split into over a thousand Human-Insects that surrounded the three.

At a glance, it had already become a dead end.

Meanwhile, Mo Ling, held in Lin An's arms, could only hurriedly summon Undead Bodies to try to ease Lin An's pressure.

However, a few seconds later.

"Lin An!"

"Each of these things is individually alive!"

His expression was urgent.

Under Mo Ling's control, the continually flying Undead Bodies easily pierced the nearest few Human-Insects.

But just like Lin An's earlier misjudgment.

Undead Body attacks were slightly more effective than other means, but each could only take away one Human-Insect.

And the "frozen-to-death" worms, at the moment of death, would be swarmed by other worms and devoured into their mouths.

No matter how they attacked, the number of these things kept increasing wildly.

Listening to the endless human wails in their ears, each voice a bone‑deep cry of hunger.

Lin An suddenly realized.

What on earth had happened in this Spaceflight City?

All living things were probably devoured clean by this worm.

"Hunger..."

"Hunger ah ah ah!!"

With only the same howling remaining, the Human-Insects surrounding them closed in like a heavenly net, ever nearer.