[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-how-do-we-play-if-this-boss-isn-t-nerfed":3,"chapter-how-do-we-play-if-this-boss-isn-t-nerfed-how-do-we-play-if-this-boss-isn-t-nerfed-chapter-198":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","How Do We Play If This Boss Isn't Nerfed?",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1618073,2083,"Chapter 198 - 131: First Day’s Settlement, How Many Points for 10,000 Bugs?","how-do-we-play-if-this-boss-isn-t-nerfed-chapter-198",198,"\u003Cp>\"After receiving the insect tide alert yesterday, I immediately dispatched my younger brother, Chan Jiale, to lead a team into the city. They were to use megaphones to broadcast an evacuation order for all unaffiliated Martial Artists.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But this insect tide underwent a terrifying mutation. Its scale escalated from the forecasted Level Two to the highest, Level One. There were even large numbers of beetles capable of long-distance flight!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The tide came too fast. My brother and his companions were trapped in the city center, and I lost all contact with them...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"At that moment... I thought he’d been killed in action.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But this morning, he miraculously returned alive! The four team members trapped with him also survived!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And the one who saved them was the candidate you’ve all been discussing—the one named Lin Ye!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These words caused another subtle shift in the atmosphere of the conference room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Lingchuan’s eyes flashed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Are you saying your brother personally witnessed Lin Ye fighting within the insect tide?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chan Tianhao’s voice rose sharply as he excitedly pulled a military-grade encrypted communicator from his uniform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not only did my brother see it with his own eyes, he used his wristband’s recording function to capture some of the battle!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The statement struck everyone like a clap of thunder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing is believing!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The biggest point of contention right now was the lack of direct evidence that Lin Ye had killed tens of thousands of beetles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And video footage was, without a doubt, the most direct and persuasive proof they could ask for.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Play it now!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Lingchuan ordered in a low voice, a hint of urgency beneath his tone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, sir!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chan Tianhao strode forward and connected the communicator to the conference room’s main control system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, several video clips, slightly shaky but in high definition, began to play on the main screen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first video was filmed from a gap in a blocked subway tunnel, looking outward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The view was filled with an endless, surging black tide of Iron-Eating Beetles!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They gnawed on the subway cars blocking the entrance, producing a grating sound that set one’s teeth on edge. Under their fearsome mandibles, the tough alloy shells crumbled like crackers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just watching through the screen, the overwhelming sense of despair, as if the sky itself was blotted out, made the scalps of even these battle-hardened officers tingle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many of them had personally experienced insect tides and knew full well how terrifying these monsters were.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But none of them had ever seen an insect tide of this scale and density before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scene shifted, the camera now pointing inside the subway platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The walls, the ceiling, the tracks...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From every direction, a dense, frenzied swarm of beetles was pouring in!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The path ahead was blocked, the way back was cut off, and enemies surrounded them on all sides.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a deathtrap with no escape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My God... They were caught by the insect tide in a place like this! It’s impossible to survive under these conditions...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>an officer exclaimed, his face pale with disbelief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And yet, amidst this suffocating scene,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a figure abruptly appeared in the center of the frame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One man, one spear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like an unshakeable black reef, he stood alone against the endless tide of insects surging from all directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Judging by his face and the number on his wristband, it was Lin Ye!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next second,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a scene unfolded that no one in the conference room would ever forget—a scene that would completely overturn their understanding of the martial way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the video, Lin Ye’s figure became a blur of afterimages within the swarm, his long spear a streak of black lightning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A single thrust skewered several beetles like a shish kebab.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A single sweep sliced a huge swath of beetles in half, splattering dark green ichor everywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His movements were impossibly fast and perfectly precise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even stranger, once the ferocious and frenzied Iron-Eating Beetles came within a certain range of his body, they instantly lost all aggression, becoming as docile as lambs to the slaughter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This wasn’t a desperate resistance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a one-sided slaughter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A collective gasp echoed through the conference room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone was stunned by the figure on the screen, who looked like a War God descended upon the mortal realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They watched Lin Ye weave and dodge through the endless insect tide, reaping lives with cold efficiency.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They watched the beetle corpses at his feet pile up from a thin layer into small hills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They watched the entire underground space, once filled to the brim with the insect tide, be brutally carved into pockets of emptiness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time flew by as the video played in fast-forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A full night of bloody battle was condensed into just a few short minutes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the video ended, as daylight broke and the insect tide receded like an ebbing sea, leaving only carnage and that lone, upright figure...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the entire conference room fell into a deathly silence.\u003C\u002Fp>",825,"2026-06-06T10:31:47.882Z",1,"novelbin.me","fc000215d1d45d5938091d059058fde8c8d3f0693f30e8cf8b79b25a7cf15583","how-do-we-play-if-this-boss-isn-t-nerfed-chapter-199","how-do-we-play-if-this-boss-isn-t-nerfed-chapter-197",250,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fhow-do-we-play-if-this-boss-isn-t-nerfed-cover.jpg"]