[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-doomsday-lord-starting-as-a-insect-queen":3,"chapter-the-doomsday-lord-starting-as-a-insect-queen-the-doomsday-lord-starting-as-a-insect-queen-chapter-1258":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen",{"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},1494228,1941,"Chapter 1257: 431: Infiltrating Undead (6k)_2","the-doomsday-lord-starting-as-a-insect-queen-chapter-1258",1258,"\u003Cp>Capítulo 1257: Chapter 431: Infiltrating Undead (6k)_2\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Your Highness, we’ve received a message!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>………\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, in the Edge Star Zone, at the Faith Hunter headquarters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Returning to the headquarters after so long, the captain felt an immense sense of familiarity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During their return, they had already taken the time to leave the warp state for a brief report, confirming that the high-tier officer had fallen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even a Seventh Rank had fallen at the hands of those Red Moon believers, yet he managed to return alive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon first leaving the planet, they hadn’t felt it, but now, only a sense of gratitude remained for them being able to return alive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thank goodness he came back at last, so he could bring this invaluable information back…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The captain found a reason for his escape that could convince himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ship docked in the outer space, sending a request to the Star Port below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though prior communication had been made in advance, the application was still thoroughly validated, before the captain finally saw the verification pass message on the screen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hurriedly docked the ship at the Star Port below. As soon as he opened the hatch, he saw an agent waiting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Just leave the ship to the staff.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The leader is already waiting for you in the command room, follow me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The agent spoke formally and seriously, making the transfer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After saying that, the agent turned and walked in one direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following the internal passage, the agent took the captain and the team behind him through planetary transport and stopped in front of a room in another building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through the open door, the captain saw the leader, whom he had only seen once on the day the organization was established, also one of the three 8th Rank officers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the moment, the leader was in the command room watching a pieced-together video comprised of various segments, which featured the battle he had just experienced.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, because it was all pieced together from different on-site video clips, even making sense of the events inside was rather difficult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The captain halted his thoughts and stepped into the command room, approaching the leader, saluting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Leader!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing the noise, the leader paused the video and turned to scrutinize him and his teammates, nodding after a moment:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hmm, it seems there was no psychic influence, and we can preliminarily rule out Parasite for now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, within each of you there remain traces of those Red Moon believers’ Transcendent abilities, make sure to visit the medical room for treatment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now let’s talk about what exactly happened in that battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And how did you manage to come back alive?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Here it comes!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The captain had long anticipated such questioning and promptly recounted the event in detail.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From planning with the high-tier officer and setting up an ambush on that planet, to every detail of the battle initiation, and even their thoughts, to his final decision to withdraw.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire process was meticulously described.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The leader did not interrupt, quietly listened to the narration, then after a long silence, slowly asked in his particularly forceful tone:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So your initial attack didn’t achieve the expected outcome at all, and even the subsequent strikes were already preemptively defended against by them?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You were even led into unfamiliar melee combat unwillingly?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The captain replied reluctantly but then quickly explained:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We also found it strange at the time, those Red Moon believers seemed to have foreseen how we would ambush, every countermeasure was precisely enough to deadlock our subsequent actions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Our intelligence simply did not perform the expected function.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the battle had started, and there was no chance to adjust the plan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I even suspect whether they have mastered a similar ability, able to foresee the enemy’s movements…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s how they could achieve this…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The leader glanced at the captain, though this suspicion seemed somewhat like an excuse, yet its likelihood couldn’t be denied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, those prior preventative measures that appeared prescient couldn’t be explained by luck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Being lucky just once with defense can be reasonable, but it shouldn’t be perfect across the board; explaining one or two might barely suffice, but all of them making the same defenses?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Coincidence simply doesn’t cover it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But if assuming they obtained precognitive-like intelligence akin to theirs…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s not out of the question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The captain might not understand how this intelligence came about, but the leader was fully aware.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This captain shouldn’t know about “prophecy” itself, is this testing?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The leader neither confirmed nor denied, asking again:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And about the second issue, why did that Red Moon believer, possessing the combat power to defeat the Seventh Rank, particularly spare you? How did you manage to return alive?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The captain took a deep breath, silently acknowledging the interrogation for suspicion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Being seemingly deliberately released by a powerful foe and losing a major combat strength in return, even he needed to suspect this might be an inside job.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t know either…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The captain chose honesty over seeking reasons for defense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I was pondering this issue throughout my return, but only formed some conjectures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those Red Moon believers likely foresaw the high-tier officer’s ambush through their precognitive means; hence deliberately feigned weakness, using our team to expose him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Red Moon believers’ target was always that high-tier officer.”\u003C\u002Fp>",883,"2026-06-06T04:11:51.942Z",1,"novelbin.me","9feeafd489aec2fff0789824490aee34b912fb4b8a0c9d6da74f24944b5a688a","the-doomsday-lord-starting-as-a-insect-queen-chapter-1354","the-doomsday-lord-starting-as-a-insect-queen-chapter-1353",1449,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-doomsday-lord-starting-as-a-insect-queen-cover.jpg"]