Netherworld Retrograde

Chapter 255: Chapter 120 Come out and face your death!

’Humans who don’t understand sacrifice, if they want to succeed instantly, should play all their cards! This is greed and stupidity...’

In the deepest part of the Underground Maze, the Insect Master mocked human actions with abandon.

Ben Lei’s survival was indeed unexpected; he managed to stay alive long enough to bring the information to a major human shelter.

But the Insect Swarm had immediately included him as part of their plan.

He became a part of the Insect Master’s scheme to manipulate the human strategy.

Given the increasingly difficult situation of humans, if they were to discover the location of the Insect Master, they would inevitably launch a massive decapitation strike!

In the Insect Master’s estimation, humans would probably need to amass nearly three hundred thousand troops, gathering all their armored vehicles and more than two thousand Spiritual Ability Users.

Only then would they have a chance of reaching deep into the maze where it resided.

At the same time, this would mean that humans would almost abandon the defense forces of each shelter, converging all their might to strike!

And with their numbers having climbed to several hundred million, the Insect Swarm could effortlessly conduct multi-front battles, resisting the human decapitation forces while relying on defensive lines, and launch intense attacks on all shelters lacking defensive power.

They might even devour more than half of the shelters before the main forces could reach deep into the maze.

By then, the Insect Swarm would obtain a massive amount of biomass, giving birth to more higher-class members of the Insect Race, thus annihilating humans in one fell swoop.

Of course, the Insect Swarm was also taking a risk.

After all, the Insect Race could not understand human emotions.

The Insect Swarm could not comprehend why ordinary humans, who were shivering just before, could explode with strong willpower when protecting their loved ones and fellow humans, picking up knives and forks to charge at the Insect Swarm. In certain situations, the human race could exhibit extremely strong combat will.

If the human army’s push was extremely fast, delving deep into the maze at any cost, then the Insect Master might also face danger.

But now, with only a little over five hundred elite Spiritual Ability Users mobilized and not even deploying more troops or armored vehicles for protection, they simply charged straight towards the Underground Maze.

Clearly, the officials of the Giant City wanted to carry out a decapitation strike on the Insect Master, yet did not want to abandon the protection of the major shelters.

Wanting both, their greed is boundless!

Mercy of women, not willing to give up anything, thus will end up with nothing!

In the consciousness of the Insect Swarm, they could not understand the choice of humans.

They were even more baffled why merely five hundred human Spiritual Ability Users dared to rush into the maze.

Although Spiritual Ability Users were indeed strong, this group was the elite of the elite, which meant their team’s mobility and offensive capabilities were extremely strong!

But they were facing an almost endless Insect Swarm.

Eventually, they would be drained of their Spiritual Energy, just like the Black Brilliance Dragon.

In the face of absolute numbers, even a Spiritual Ability Supreme would be exhausted to death!

They should have had the massive human army and armored vehicles cover for them, reducing their consumption, or allowing them time to recover their Spiritual Energy, rather than the Spiritual Ability Users fighting alone.

Even the sharpest knife will break after relentless hacking, they had no plan to repair or replenish their Spiritual Energy and would be continuously worn down by constant fighting until death.

Moreover, each shelter would also see a decrease in defensive power due to the extraction of their elite forces. The difficulty for the Insect Swarm to break into shelters would thus be reduced.

It would have been better to completely give up the shelters and concentrate their forces to fight.

Although incomprehensible, there was no need to understand!

The foolish humans were already doomed!

The Insect Master let out a cruel laugh, and then it issued an order.

It ordered the Insect Swarm to start attacking all the shelters!

It wanted to see if the human shelters could hold after losing these high-end combat forces.

Even if they could hold, it did not matter.

In its calculations, the five hundred human Spiritual Ability Users could never reach its presence.

Once these five hundred people died in battle, humans would no longer have the capability to organize a decapitation team, and at the same time, the Insect Swarm would devour the biomass of these elites, further boosting their strength!

Once it devoured all the biomass in the Disaster Fog, it could ascend to a new level. It might even accomplish the status of a King!

Confronting that Spiritual Power Monarch, the Mad King, whom it feared.

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On the other side, within the defensive fortification of Shelter No. 25, Zhang Laifu was busily transporting the wounded.

This name might seem unfamiliar; he was the boss of the antique shop where Li Yelai worked.

He, too, hadn’t managed to leave the Giant City and was protected and placed in this shelter.

As the Insect Swarm advanced, the shelter’s external defenses teetered on the verge of collapse, with a large number of Human Warriors sacrificed.

The civilians had no choice but to pick up weapons or transport ammunition and the wounded, doing their utmost to assist the Human Warriors.

Looking at the bloody battlefield in front of him, Zhang Laifu felt a tightness in his chest, nearly retching.

Compared to this battlefield, the Scavenger’s bloody fights were truly just minor skirmishes.

He suppressed his fear, pulling the cart forward. He had to go to the front line to bring back the wounded.

Yet he saw a young Processor being attacked by a swarm of Flying Beetles; as the Processor snapped his fingers, a scarlet flame ignited, completely engulfing the beetles.

Still, several beetles broke through the fire, biting the young Processor with their sharp mouthparts.

”Ah, ah, ah, ah!” The Processor swung his fists furiously, shattering the Flying Beetles, but his body was already covered in unstoppable bleeding.

He leaned against the wall, weakly controlling the flames, burning more of the Insect Swarm.

It was Starfire!

Upon seeing Zhang Laifu, Starfire immediately let out a hoarse voice, ”Run, the front has fallen!”