Chapter 153: The Queen

Everyone *whoosh* surrounded it, squatting on the ground to watch the pile of ash. In the ash, a tree seedling had already grown to the height of a finger. After Ang and the others squatted down, the tree seedling grew even more happily, growing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Ang took the flower pot off his head, only to see the little tree seedling waving its true leaves enthusiastically, sending an enthusiastic message to the seedling on the ground: *Grow—harder—*.

Because when Ang took it off, his palm blocked the edge of the flower pot, it even put a true leaf on the edge, stretched itself a bit higher, and waved the other true leaf enthusiastically.

Ang's Dimensional Passage activated, putting the flower pot into the Anxi Zhigong.

The scene in front of him switched, making the little tree seedling dazed for a moment. It tilted its top leaf, and the little tree seedling sent an enthusiastic message to a stone not far away: *Grow—harder—grow—harder... don't grow... *

Eliminating the interference of the little tree seedling, the growth speed of the seedling in the ash returned to normal, but it still exceeded the speed that a normal tree should have.

From the bugs being burned into ash to Ang and the others chasing out to clear the beetles that slipped through the net, it was less than twenty minutes. A tree had sprouted and grown seedlings. This speed was not much slower than Ang's Speed-Death Halo. What were these ashes? How could they be so powerful?

The Little Xiao Jiangshi curiously stretched out his index finger to poke it, stained a little on his fingertip, and then stretched out his little tongue, trying to lick it.

"No..." Nai Ge Li Si just wanted to stop him, but as soon as the words left his mouth, the Little Angel had already punched the Little Xiao Jiangshi in the eye socket, knocking him backward and sitting on the ground with a *thud*.

"Ow!" The Little Angel scolded him.

"Ow!" The Little Xiao Jiangshi defended himself.

"Ow, ow, ow!" They started fighting.

Ang protected the ashes at the first opportunity, gathered them up, and not just this pile, but the other dozen piles of ash were all gathered up, finally piling into a mound of a full cubic meter, and stuffed back into the Anxi Zhigong.

"Could this be the '*Ni*' that those two guys mentioned?" Nai Ge Li Si guessed.

Luo Ge also walked over, using his Shadow Blade to pry open the covering outside the two severed limbs, revealing a shriveled lich shell. However, their bodies were far more disgusting than normal liches, so I won't describe them, lest you lose your appetite.

"I feel their scent is very familiar. They likely come from the Dark Face City," Luo Ge said.

"Ah? Dark Face City? Your subordinates?" Nai Ge Li Si was surprised.

Luo Ge shook his head: "Dark Face City is very large, and the underground caves extend in all directions. We only occupy a very small area. Let alone us, even the Church of Light hasn't explored one ten-thousandth of that underground cave, otherwise they would have wiped us out long ago. The scent I'm talking about is this."

Luo Ge patted the clothes on the lich, patting up a burst of red dust.

"Aren't they not wiping you out just to nurture the enemy to preserve themselves?" Nai Ge Li Si said while exposing his shortcomings and leaning closer to look, asking: "This is red soil? Is Dark Face City all this kind of red soil terrain?"

"Correct, most of it is. Only a small area in the east is not."

"In that case, the red soil area is also very common, which means no clues." Unable to discuss a valuable clue, he looked back and saw that Ang had already crushed a soul flame and was searching his memory.

"This method is still convenient." As a Brass Dragon, he had never been used to devouring and soul-searching, preferring reasoning and prediction.

However, soul-searching was also a game of luck. Every soul flame was fragile and would shatter if one was not careful. If the shattered block happened to contain the most important information, it couldn't be sewn back together.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, soul-searching would search the memories of several souls or more to cross-verify, or interrogate them first before searching.

As it happened, Ang had two souls.

Hooking out the soul flame on the severed limb on the ground, the soul of this cloaked lich let out a miserable cry: "Don't kill me, don't kill me, I don't want to die, I was forced, I was forced, please, don't kill me..."

"Oh? You were forced? How so? Tell me in detail. If you were really forced, we will consider leaving your soul," Nai Ge Li Si said: "Don't deceive us. The soul of your other companion has already been soul-searched by us."

"No, no, no, I will tell you everything, absolutely not deceiving, absolutely not concealing. We were forced. The Chaos Temple captured us and made us believe in the Supreme He Mo. They also made us release the bug plague. They let the bugs attach to us. If we didn't follow their orders, the bugs would gnaw us into skeletons. We were all forced, forced."

"Your posture just now didn't look like you were forced," Nai Ge Li Si muttered while looking toward Ang, only to see Ang nodding, confirming the cloaked person's statement.

"The Chaos Temple made us split into several groups and launch the bug plague simultaneously from different places."

"Simultaneously?" Nai Ge Li Si noticed a keyword.

"Correct, simultaneously, creating as much chaos as possible, making humans overwhelmed, the defense line breached, and hundreds of millions of bugs sweeping the human world." The cloaked person's soul said.

"Wait a minute, wait a minute, sweeping the human world? Not going to the Elf Forest?" Nai Ge Li Si was surprised.

If these bugs were variants of locusts that could gnaw on plants, then the Elves' territory should be their primary target, right? The dense forest plants could allow them to grow rapidly, but why did the whole thing only mention the human world and humans? Did they not put the Elves in their eyes?

"Ah, right, not going to the Elf Forest, only harassing human villages and cities. The Supreme He Mo said to break the alliance between humans and Elves and choose one side to strike hard," the cloaked person said.

"That is a reasonable strategy, but as long as the Elves are not stupid, they will surely aid the humans, leading to a large number of Elf elites entering the human world, causing the rear of the Elf Forest to be empty, and then being invaded by the bugs. Could it be that they are playing this idea?" Nai Ge Li Si speculated.

"Ah? Ah, ah! Your speculation makes so much sense. The Supreme He Mo only ordered us to harass the human world and create as much chaos as possible, but didn't say to what extent the mission would be considered complete. And among the ten pairs of bug-driving soldiers sent out, only six pairs of us had specific missions. The other four pairs didn't. It is very likely that as you speculated, we are just tools to divert attention."

The cloaked person's tone changed three times, directly shocked by Nai Ge Li Si's speculation. Nai Ge Li Si was just speculating, but he was a personal experience, so as soon as he heard it, he was seventy percent sure that this speculation was true.

"In other words, besides you, there are nine other pairs of liches like you, running around covered in bugs?" Nai Ge Li Si asked.

"Not all are liches. Five pairs are humans, and one pair is Elves."

"Then do you know where this is?"

"Don't know."

"This is Dragonfall Lake. Within a thousand kilometers, it's all desert. Even if you raise more bugs here, how can you fly out of the desert?"

"Ah?!" The cloaked person was shocked for a while and cursed through gritted teeth: "These profiteers!" Obviously, he realized that he had been pitted by Duomite and these people.

Comparing with the memory searched by Ang, confirming that the cloaked person was not lying, Nai Ge Li Si spared his life as promised. Just as he was preparing to discuss what to do next, Lisha teleported to the dragon cave and then ran over hurriedly: "My lord, Dragon Hunter, Elf Queen Gailade requests an audience."

"Looking for me?" Nai Ge Li Si was surprised.

"No, she wants to see the lord, hoping to get the lord's help," Lisha said.

"Help? Could it be that the bug plague has already broken out there?" Nai Ge Li Si asked. ===== CHAPTER 154 =====