Chapter 363: Li Yu Occupies the Magpie's Nest

"Bug-Thief?"

"What kind of thing is this?"

A mutter subconsciously arose in his heart. This kind of threat seemed to be because it hadn't broken out for long and hadn't formed systematic data, so it wasn't posted on the notice wall.

But in the mouths of some well-informed workers, it seemed very serious?

With Li Yu's current cultivation realm, he had his own sensitive perception of the causal disasters on his body.

When this sudden "warning" appeared, he closed his eyes and opened them again without hesitation.

Casting his innate divine ability: True Pupil of Food-Bait.

The world reflected in his eyes suddenly underwent a huge change, and a scene that only existed in a vague dimension in the dark appeared: dense causal bait lines, and the meanings they represented, were all known to him at this moment.

Unexpectedly!

He was not being targeted alone.

The future he glimpsed: it wasn't just him who would be treated as a so-called "Bug-Thief"; the entire group of Storm Military Factory laborers he was in were all targets and would be slaughtered by the ferocious Dragon Nest Soldiers before long.

The causal lines even showed that the entire Lower City District would be blood-washed afterward. What was most incredible was that the Upper City District was also implicated, and many high-ranking officials died.

The ruling class of the Dragon Nest Empire viewed all civilians as property consumables, trying every possible way to urge birth, and must use them until they were worn out to zero. They would not launch a massacre easily, let alone implicate the masters of the Upper City District. This was truly incredible.

In an instant, Li Yu smelled the meaning of a "big conspiracy."

The desire for voyeurism surged up.

Without hesitation, Li Yu began to peer and solve the mystery along the causal lines.

The first target was easy to find: a fellow worker beside the communal bed named "Peter Hawkins." This was a skinny young man with many pockmarks on his face and cunning eyes; one could tell at a glance that he was a treacherous person.

He was also bald; it was said that he lost his hair due to long-term exposure to radiation sources.

As for why he was looking for him?

The reason was very simple: this guy was a real Bug-Thief.

When those laborers were discussing, his heart almost jumped out of his chest, and when a worker said "is it fun to do that thing with bugs," a look of intense fear appeared on his face.

Too obvious!

Directly exposed before Li Yu's eyes.

The reason why Li Yu didn't realize something was wrong at first was because this was an exotic world after all, and customs, habits, human bloodlines, etc., were all different.

After he descended and adapted to the laborer identity, he noticed that there was something wrong inside Peter Hawkins' body.

But the problem was that he wasn't the only one.

One of the characteristics of Bug-Thieves: bald.

But it wasn't that the Dragon Nest poor were all bald; the number was definitely not small. Radiation or other reasons would produce bald heads.

There were even more people with abnormal bodies because of exposure to radiation, suffering pollution, etc. Almost rarely were there humans who remained unchanged; growing tentacles, tumors, scales, were all common things.

They were ugly and eerie, but in essence, they were still bottom-tier humans and would not possess extraordinary power because of this."

"Let me see what a Bug-Thief is, and what level of threat a Bug Disaster is?"

With these doubts, Li Yu unceremoniously hypnotized and read the mind of this Peter Hawkins.

Everything hidden in his mind, as well as his life experience, were displayed to Li Yu in the blink of an eye.

"Hm?"

Li Yu subconsciously made this sound of surprise, because when he invaded this laborer's mind.

He was almost discovered.

Clearly, he was a bottom-tier civilian with no power to truss a chicken and was incomparably weak.

But there was an extremely keen intelligent network in his mind, or rather, a hive mind.

Peter Hawkins was a point on it.

Fortunately, the strength of this mind was not enough, and in the end, it failed to discover Li Yu, but was instead followed by him along the "nodes," and in just a few minutes, the entire hive mind was peered at cleanly.

And as Li Yu completed the mystery solving, the bubble at the corner of his eye miraculously jumped forward a little bit.

A look of surprise also appeared on his face.

It wasn't because he came into contact with any incredible ancient secrets, or involved any powerful gods.

The reason for Li Yu's horror was that he peered into an extremely terrifying race.

And fully understood an extremely disgusting and horrifying invasion method used by this race:

"Chaos Bug Race."

"The most ferocious race in the Boundless Spirit Realm, a universe-level disaster, with the title 【The Great Devourer】."

"Wherever they go, they will devour all life forms."

"But before that final outcome arrives, they will also carry out a very shameless infiltration invasion in advance. The most common victims are one of the most numerous races in the Boundless Spirit Realm: humans."

"First, dispatch a unit called 【Gene Stealer】 to infiltrate human society, combine with humans, and give birth to generation after generation of mixed-blood offspring. These offspring are called Bug-Thieves."

"Whether it is the humans who are parasitized or the mixed-blood offspring that follow, they will all integrate into the hive network centered on that first-generation ancestor and become a member of the hive consciousness."

"From the moment they are born, they will fall into beautiful hallucinations, ignoring their own, others', and their offspring's inhuman appearance, treating other Bug-Thieves as family."

"At the same time, to facilitate pollution and preaching, the first-generation ancestor will also combine with local characteristics to establish unique evil cults to carry out collective brainwashing... making these Bug-Thieves, who were originally human, mistakenly believe that they are believing in a great existence and are carrying out some kind of great cause."

"For example, the Bug-Thieves on this colony planet were fooled into joining a sect called 【Long Huang Sect】... it's just that their Long Huang, on the basis of being mighty and domineering, also had hundreds more arms, beautifully calling it the only way to embrace all believers."

"They believe that as long as they devoutly follow the great 'Long Huang,' one day, the Long Huang will dispatch the most powerful angel army to come and save them."

"It is also because of these that the loyalty and fanaticism of Bug-Thieves are much stronger than those of local soldiers and civilians, and sometimes even surpass some believers of True God sects."

"Until the psychic network they established is mature enough, it will attract the attention of the 'Main Brain' of the Chaos Bug Race, dispatching an extremely terrifying Bug Race fleet to come and harvest."

"When the Bug Race fleet descends into the planet's orbit, all Bug-Thieves will swarm out under the instruction of the first-generation ancestor, using various methods to paralyze all attack, defense, etc., systems on this planet, to facilitate the fleet's descent and devouring."

"Afterward, the hallucinations on them will disappear, letting them fall into the most horrifying and tormenting nightmare in the world."

"The 'family' they previously thought they had all turned into mixed-blood monsters, the angel army they revered was actually a group of horrifying Bug Races, and the divine messenger also turned into one of them, turning around to eat them as food together with other bugs."

"Few people can withstand such a blow."

"Most Bug-Thieves will collapse because of this and be eaten while screaming."

"A small number of high-level ones can perceive it in advance, but they will not wake up because of this and go to report."

"Instead, they take interstellar transportation tools, leave the planet they are on, and take the infants who have undergone 'atavism' as the new hive ancestor, heading to the next colony planet to continue the next round of infection and invasion... repeating over and over, simply like the infinite fission of a virus."

"The most critical thing is that it is impossible to guard against."

"Because of the extremely harsh living conditions, whether it is the humans in this star system that has established the 【Dragon Nest Third Empire】 or humans in other star systems, humans who can maintain their original appearance can be said to be very, very few, while the number of various weird-looking mutants is very large."

"So wanting to discover Bug-Thieves by relying on some peculiarities in appearance is almost impossible."

"As for other methods, the cost is high."

"So, Chaos human dynasties like the Dragon Nest Third Empire have discovered this invasion method of the Bug Race in recent years. Once they detect signs, they will choose to directly exterminate the local area."

"For example, if traces appear in the Storm Military Factory, then kill everyone in the military factory indiscriminately."

"If it is everywhere in the Lower City District, then exterminate the Lower City District, and the Upper City District with high-ranking officials will also be implicated."

"The Empire does view bottom-tier humans as consumable property, but similarly, the thing it lacks the least is people."

"If there are signs of danger to the rule and problems with the survival of the race, then the act of exterminating all humans on a planet is a necessary price in the eyes of the Empire's upper echelons."

Following these thoughts, there were memory images that made one feel as if they were on the scene. He could even smell the stench on the Bug-Thieves, could feel their fanaticism, and the infinite fear at the end.

Li Yu felt that his knowledge was already broad enough, but he still felt shocked.

Boundless Spirit Realm!

Surprises and shocks are endless.

Compared with these, Wanfu City really looked like a novice village.

And the reason why the data was so detailed was that the "Long Huang Sect" that had gradually matured on this 18th Colony Planet, the so-called divine messenger, was actually an atavistic infant who had escaped in advance from the colony planet where the first bug disaster broke out.

Now, what was about to be carried out was a new round of infiltration and pollution, and the harvest of results was not far away.

Li Yu saw it clearly through the hive network.

Besides those "bottom-tier Bug-Thieves" without combat power, the vast underground pipes of the Lower City District were filled with a large number of units that had evolved extraordinary combat power.

For example, psychic saints with brainwashing and mind control abilities.

Various aberrant bodies that were like berserkers, mixed-blood assassins, and mutant tyrants, etc.

"But compared to these, the more troublesome ones are actually the infiltrated ruling class."

"The Upper City District of this colony planet, those masters, are almost about to be infiltrated into a sieve."

"Many high-ranking officials look normal, but in fact, they have also become Bug-Thieves."

"Once the 【Harvest Day】 arrives, the upper and lower levels will combine to launch a riot. Even if the Dragon Nest army and mechanical police here are very powerful, I'm afraid they will be caught off guard."

"At that time, the defense will have loopholes, the Bug Race fleet will descend, and everything will be irreversible."

"The entire planet will be devoured alive."

"Except for some high-level Bug-Thieves who will again carry atavistic infants to escape in advance, other life forms will not be spared and will all be turned into the most primitive biological matter and eaten up."

"If I don't intervene, this 18th Colony Planet will have two endings."

"The first is to be eaten up by the Chaos Bug Race."

"The second is as shown in my premonition, the Dragon Nest army upper echelons first carry out point-to-point cleaning, and later realize that they have been completely infiltrated... so on a certain day, they take away those high-level ones who passed the inspection, and then directly activate the 【Planet-Annihilation Cannon】 to carry out a great extermination-style cleaning."

"No matter which one, I seem to be exposed, and even if I don't die, I will be hunted down."

"No wonder the Demon Star Command gave a ten-day survival main mission."

"If I'm not mistaken!"

"Other Command holders most likely descended on other colony planets, and the planets they are on will also have hidden extermination crises like mine, and definitely more than one."

When Li Yu realized this, he could be said to have completely lost his choice.

Intervene!

It had become inevitable.

Moreover, in his premonition, the great cleaning would arrive in the second half of the night.

"Storm Military Factory will be a starting point."

"The workers here will, under the instigation of this guy 'Peter Hawkins,' refuse the comprehensive physical examination of the mechanical police, suddenly erupt into conflict, and finally step by step brew into a great cleaning."

"But the ending is not good."

"It did kill quite a few Bug-Thieves, but the number of poor people who died in the cleaning will be hundreds of times that of the Bug-Thieves."

"The most critical thing is that because the harvest day is approaching, some high-level Bug-Thieves of the Long Huang Sect in the Lower City District have been successively taking some atavistic infants and withdrawing from this colony planet since a few days ago."

"So, according to the normal progress, it will still be exterminated and devoured, and the Bug-Thieves will continue to infiltrate and pollute..."

"Since that's the case, why not take it and use it for waste."

"As an opponent and enemy of Bug-Thieves, it will feel very disgusting... then I will join the Bug-Thief side, which can perfectly solve it."

"I will be the new divine messenger!"

"I will master this part of the power."

"Hypnotic brainwashing, I am also good at it."

"Just happen to use this to survive for ten days, and then go to deal with 【Change the World】, the most troublesome mission."

Li Yu's thoughts turned, and he actually wanted to occupy the magpie's nest.

And in the next moment, he put it into action.

He was even too lazy to wake up this Peter Hawkins and then act, but cast a spell to make him sleep soundly.

When the mechanical police who got the information come to the door in the second half of the night, they can easily harvest a merit, and can also save the lives of those ordinary laborers.

As for Li Yu?

He directly erased the memories of his existence in everyone's mind.

He got up silently, walked out of the military factory like a ghost, followed the memories in Peter Hawkins' mind, and headed to the incomparably vast and complex underground pipes.

Tonight!

He wants to break into this dirty and complex underground world and receive and transform a Bug Race evil cult.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 364 =====