Chapter 189: with translation of chapter title

It's regrettable, but such a Knight does indeed exist.

Jiang Xia's Hyper Jia Dou transformation and becoming Hyper Jia Dou via the Hyper Insect Ritual are identical, except for the item hanging on the belt.

The Flea Alien Insect, its entire body covered in white armor, has red short legs resembling insect legs extending from the gaps in its carapace.

While Jiang Xia was interpreting the data, the red segmented leg on its back suddenly stabbed out, and the Flea Alien Insect lunged at him in attack.

This red segment, when it bursts with force, can instantly pierce rock; this is its strongest attack. The Knight is definitely a target to eliminate, but for now it's better to run.

If hit, it will use its jumping ability to flee this place at high speed.

The Flea Alien Insect is extremely confident in its jumping ability; even its fellow Alien Insect companions cannot match its jumping prowess.

In its perception, even a Knight cannot catch up to it when it flees.

Just as the Flea Alien Insect felt it was about to successfully escape.

Jiang Xia, who had long anticipated the attack, needed to make no extra movements,

Rings of light suddenly flowed over his entire body, and the armor on his chest, back, and limbs suddenly opened,

revealing the core component inside that was flashing with green light.

HYPERCLOCKUP

The insect-like light wings on his back expanded again, resembling two auroras, shooting out from behind.

In that instant, the red segmented leg and the Flea Alien Insect, ready to jump, eerily halted in midair.

At that moment, the Flea Alien Insect's body was like a stop-motion animation with insufficient frame rate.

Although its body was indeed moving, the speed was extremely slow, and it kept flickering in place.

Obviously, the Flea Alien Insect also sensed the change in the surrounding flow of time, and struggled to enter ClockUp mode.

When the two different time accelerations collided, they produced the Flea Alien Insect's continual stuttering here.

This is due to the Alien Insect's own time acceleration being overwhelmed.

Swish!

Jiang Xia soared high beneath the beautiful, aurora-like light wings on his back.

This was the debut of his remodeled Hyper Jia Dou, and of course he had to perform a splendid finale.

1, 2, 3!

The Devil Emperor's power and the Alien Insect's power perfectly merged; under Jiang Xia's control, all the green gems on Hyper Jia Dou lit up, condensing into a terrifying energy spiral.

HYPERKICK!

With a light shout from Jiang Xia, the energy spiral instantly struck the Flea Alien Insect.

In the bloody, earth-shaking explosion, the Flea Alien Insect felt no pain as it turned into sky‑filling dust, its body shattered directly into atoms.

The booming explosion sound slowly detonated in a world where time flow had been reduced to the extreme.

It is currently the only one that has endured the combined Devil Emperor and Alien Insect Queen power in a double Knight's Kick.

Even its soul was shattered by this move.

Amid a blaze of aurora, Hyper Jia Dou landed safely.

HYPERCLOCKOVER

The bluish‑green Alien Insect energy was absorbed by Jiang Xia's belt, then returned to his body together with the power of the Alien Insect core.

"It's been a long time since I've felt this good after eating."

Jiang Xia could feel his cells throughout his body rapidly recovering, indicating his wounds were healing at high speed.

At that moment, the surrounding time also returned to normal levels.

Suddenly, a clang.

Rixia Bu Xi stared blankly at the wholly black Hyper Jia Dou, and the thing in her hand fell heavily to the ground.

Gazing at the Knight clad in black armor, Rixia Bu Xi's pupils suddenly flashed a bluish‑green.

The appearance of Hyper Jia Dou seemed to greatly stimulate her nerves, activating some special trace.

She looked at the belt and the black Insect Ritual, her hands weakly covering her head.

Countless images kept flashing in her mind, finally forming a picture.

No longer a dark night, she seemed to be walking across a vast desert.

Golden sand with a glowing halo covered the ground; she could even feel the heat continually rising from the earth and the softness of the sand.

The sky was a deep red‑yellow, sandstorms filled the heavens, and every breath of air was dry and scorching.

A yellow‑brown hurricane connected heaven and earth, continually spreading outward in all directions.

Suddenly, a special aurora spread across the sky, covering everything around.

With a boom, the image in her mind instantly faded, and the real Rixia Bu Xi lost consciousness and fell backward.

Jiang Xia's figure flashed and appeared directly behind her, he embraced her in his arms, and his body instantly vanished.

He gently placed Rixia Bu Xi into the medical cabin and released the Hyper Jia Dou transformation.

"Her body is unharmed, but her consciousness has suffered a shock."

"Could there be something I don't know about?"

Jiang Xia frowned, quickly consulted the Earth Library, but strangely, the Earth Library had no record of the relevant data.

Aside from Rixia Bu Xi believing the belt's owner is her enemy who killed her relatives, everyone else is basically in agreement.

But why did her consciousness suffer a shock the moment she saw Hyper Jia Dou?

Jiang Xia looked at the unconscious Rixia Bu Xi, and various possibilities flashed in his mind.

Although the possibilities are many, they are merely speculation with no evidence.

Is it a problem with the Timeline, or a special ability of the Original Insect?

For now, we'll have to wait until she wakes up to determine the situation.

Rixia Bu Xi opened her eyes, discovering she lay on a bed covered with white sheets, a blanket still over her.

This was a clean and tidy room, with not a speck of dust, notebooks filling the surroundings, and a small lamp resembling the sun hanging from the ceiling.

Rixia Bu Xi sat up dazedly, looking around, and recognized this as Jiang Xia's room, though she wondered why she was here.

"You're awake?" Jiang Xia gently pushed open the room door and slowly walked in.

"Can you tell me what happened? Why did I faint on the roadside?"

"I don't know; I seemed to have walked out of the restaurant, and then I saw a pitch-black person whose back was emitting light."

Rixia Bu Xi carefully recalled the scene she had seen before losing consciousness.

"I felt heat, as if it were an endless desert, with even the sky covered."

"A desert?"

"Hmm, a boundless desert, as if the whole world were covered in yellow sand."

Rixia Bu Xi's eyes showed a hint of bewilderment; clearly she didn't know why she would see a desert, though she had never been there.

"If you feel any discomfort in your body later, please speak up promptly."

Jiang Xia observed Rixia Bu Xi, and after confirming she was fine, she instructed.

Rixia Bu Xi nodded and replied softly.

An endless desert and Sea Pa Jia Dou?

Could it be that Xiao Xi saw another timeline?

The timeline belonging to Godspeed Love, the Alien Insect meteorite did not fall in Shibuya but landed in the ocean.

This caused a global shortage of water resources, and moreover the meteorite's scale was much larger.

But if that were the case, it would mean the future has already been changed, so why would we still see the story of that time point?

The Jia Dou who possesses the Sea Pa Worm is able to change past and future outcomes through time travel.

If it is not a singularity, then when changing the past, it is almost impossible to remember events from another timeline.

However, as a Molting Original Insect, Rixia Bu Xi's species is inherently capable of controlling time particles to control time.

Thus, it is possible she could detect alterations to the timeline, though this is merely Jiang Xia's speculation, and the exact cause remains unknown.

Jiang Xia also didn't dwell on this; the Molting Original Insect is inherently a mystery, with few in the world able to fully molt, so having some special ability is quite normal.

"What, the headquarters personnel were killed?" JiaYouYue first froze, then exclaimed.

"Hmm, they've been dead for several days; investigation shows it was the work of Alien Insects, and this time two headquarters personnel died."

Tashiro Xiu Yi called up the photos of the headquarters personnel and instructed:

"If you see these two people, notify ZECT immediately; it's highly likely the information has been leaked."

As JiaYouYue was looking at one of the photos, her complexion suddenly turned grim,

because one of them was the tall man in a black coat who had actively approached her and struck up a conversation.

"That restaurant, oh no, the Alien Insects have already set their sights on them."

"Kagami, be careful; the Alien Insects are very likely to have already targeted your workplace."

JiaYouYue took out her phone and quickly notified Kagami, who was currently working.

"Oh, this, you don't need to worry; the Alien Insects have been defeated, it's that Alien Insect that mimicked a headquarters personnel, right? Rest assured, it's already dead."

Saying that, Kagami also glanced at Jiang Xia, who was working in the kitchen.

Jiang Xia nodded and said a few words to Kagami.

"That's right, that's right, I killed it; I sensed it was an Alien Insect and decisively opened fire."

"Huh." Kagami exhaled, continued working, and his merit log gained another Alien Insect.

Tiandao hung the merit of killing Alien Insects on his head, and now Jiang Xia is the same.

Kagami felt he was just a scapegoat; without the Knight system, how could he possibly defeat the accelerated adult insects?

One or two are fine, but once there are more, someone will eventually notice something's off; Alien Insects aren't cabbage, you can't just say 'kill' and kill them.

(End of chapter)