People are Behind the Scenes, and I Can Do the Material Fusion!

64: Queen worm hatches“Hmm? It’s here so soon?”

Just as he thought about fusion, the system presented him with this option.

However—

“The Golden Lottery Pool is still too low-tier, isn’t it? When will there be a higher-level lottery?”

He muttered, waiting for the system’s response while watching time pass:

One minute… three minutes… ten minutes…

Finally, Su Yi sighed and gave up waiting:

“It seems it’s not going to work. I still need to accumulate 100,000 Reputation first.”

But what exactly is “Self-Fusion”?

Su Yi furrowed his brows, pondering.

Does it mean he can fuse multiple materials at once?

Or directly deal with all the materials in front of him?

If that’s truly the case, it would indeed save a lot of effort.

But the problem is, 100,000 Reputation is no joke.

According to the previous pattern, every increase of 10,000 Reputation required at least sixty to seventy million people to know.

So 100,000 Reputation would mean at least 600 million people would need to know.

That’s too many people!

Moreover, just having people know isn’t enough; he also needs to ensure those people live well.

Otherwise, if he caused a huge commotion and several hundred million people died, wouldn’t it be a net loss?

So the most important thing right now is to quickly establish the Underworld.

Without the Underworld, many things are simply too restrictive to do.

Of course, if there are materials that promote population growth, he could also consider stocking up on them.

After all, the population base on Blue Star is too small. If he encounters Reputation tasks with even higher requirements in the future, he might not even have enough people.

Su Yi rubbed his temples, deciding to temporarily put these worries aside.

The most urgent task now is to have his clones collect more energy points, striving to start the next lottery sooner.

It would be best to draw materials related to the Underworld or the Netherworld, which would allow the plan to progress smoothly.

After thinking all this, Su Yi looked down at the mountain of materials piled in front of him and sighed helplessly:

“Sigh, I have to start refining again…”

“Although it’s tedious and boring, I can’t let myself stop growing stronger just because of laziness.”

“Otherwise, what if the gods revive and I can’t defeat them?”

“So, I still have to do it.”

…

At the same time.

In a secret laboratory, three people who had just broken through their limits were conducting an experiment.

He Chao was covered in high-tech circuits, looking like a walking robot.

“He Chao, that instrument over there! Punch it with all your strength!”

The experimenter stood not far away, shouting loudly.

He Chao took a deep breath, his muscles instantly tensing up, as if forged from steel.

His forehead slightly cracked open, his third eye slowly opened, and ox horns quietly extended from both sides of his temples.

A thick layer of keratin appeared on his skin, as tough as a rhinoceros’s hide.

Waves of air began to surge around his fist, and his entire body was enveloped in blood-red steam.

“Boom—!”

The next second, He Chao’s fist shot out like a cannonball, the air compressed to the extreme, and the roar was deafening.

The moment his fist touched the testing instrument, the entire laboratory shook, and dust from the ceiling fell down in drifts.

“This… this is already the power of the Hao Yue Upper-rank!”

The bespectacled researcher’s voice trembled, “You know, He Qiang just broke through to Bright Moon! And according to the data, his strength was forcibly pulled up.”

“But such pure power can actually reach the Hao Yue Upper-rank…”

Another researcher murmured, “It’s simply incredible.”

…

On the other side, Lin Xuanfeng was staring at Chu Ming, who was lying on the ground, with a complex expression.

Her hands were covered in a layer of frost, but that wasn’t the main point.

What truly concerned her was that a small wound had appeared on the back of her left hand.

One must know that Lin Xuanfeng possessed the strength of Skyfall Mid-Stage.

Under such a huge disparity in realms, Chu Ming was actually able to injure her?

Not to mention, the further one progresses in realms, the greater the disparity.

More importantly, Lin Xuanfeng knew very well—the current Chu Ming had not yet fully mastered his abilities.

The power within Chu Ming was too vast and chaotic; due to his unfamiliarity, its usage seemed extremely disorganized.

But what if Chu Ming mastered all these skills?

And assuming Chu Ming’s realm also broke through to Skyfall, even if it was just a recent breakthrough…

Lin Xuanfeng couldn’t help but ask herself: “Can I defeat him?”

The answer was obvious: No way!

The opponent had over 200 active skills, plus dozens of shameless passive skills. How could she fight him?

What made Lin Xuanfeng even more speechless was that although Chu Ming was covered in injuries from the beating, these injuries recovered almost completely within a few minutes.

She herself had cultivated her power step by step, while Chu Ming was forcibly elevated.

And the result?

Even with a difference of one major realm and one minor realm, she was still injured by him.

This made Lin Xuanfeng sigh: Is this what it means to be a cheater?

…

Linyuan City, the backyard of the Scarlet Palace.

There was a nearly thousand-meter-longcrack here, from which monsters were constantly pouring out.

Not far away, a five-meter-tall monster was slowly approaching.

It had a curved horn on its head, its muscles were taut like dynamite, and crimson patterns covered its entire body, as if burning blood flowed beneath its skin.

Boom!!!

Just then, a figure suddenly struck, directly smashing the monster into pieces with a single punch.

This person was Song Wu. He was now several heads taller than the monster just now, his eyes glowing blood-red, a pair of huge wings spread on his back, and his entire body covered in scales that shimmered with red light.

“Ye Long, I have evolved thirteen times!”

Song Wu’s voice was deep and powerful, “As long as I fully master all my current abilities, and after a few more evolutions, I will come find you—I will wash away the previous disgrace!”

Not far away, there were several other humans who also looked like monsters.

They watched Song Wu, who was already on a rampage, and couldn’t help but exclaim:

“This guy still can’t forget what happened that time.”

“If he had truly let it go, would he still be slaughtering like this?”

“Alright, stop the nonsense, the next wave of monsters is coming soon! Get ready quickly, or Song Wu will snatch them all again!”

…

Japan.

In a nuclear wastewater processing plant in Fukushima, it was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

Suddenly, a “crack” broke the dead silence.

The sound was faint, yet it carried an eerie feeling, as if something was cracking open.

Then, more “cracks” followed one after another, the rhythm growing faster and faster, like drumbeats in a symphony, sending shivers down one’s spine.

Just then, a translucent object slowly crawled out from the darkness.

It looked like a bug, but its body had a peculiar texture—as if wrapped in a thin membrane.

Through that membrane, one could see a starlight-like liquid flowing inside, making the entire bug appear extraordinarily unusual, as if it were a strange creature that had escaped from the starry sky.

Its head had a serrated mouthpart, terrifyingly sharp, seemingly capable of easily tearing anything apart.

As soon as it crawled out of its eggshell, the bug frantically devoured everything around it, not even sparing its own eggshell.

In just ten minutes, it had consumed all edible things nearby.

At the same time, its size grew at an astonishing rate.

The small bug, originally only twenty centimeters long, instantly transformed into a twenty-meter-long behemoth!

However, just then, this Abyssal Mother Worm suddenly began to tremble violently.

Its body shook more and more intensely, as if some earth-shshattering change was occurring within it.

“Bang! Bang! Bang!”

A series of explosive sounds suddenly erupted.

The giant bug instantly exploded, its body tearing into pieces, with fragments and internal organs scattered everywhere.

When the dust settled, the originally enormous bug had shrunk back to twenty centimeters in size, but the surrounding ground was stained a shocking blood-red.

Those blood-red tissues scattered on the ground actually began to swell rapidly, and pieces of remains wriggled and twisted.

Every fragment seemed to have Life, proliferating wildly…

Soon, translucent fleshy tumors bulged on the ground, looking like some bizarre Life form.

The liquid inside shimmered like starlight, churning violently, as if something was slowly forming.

“Pfft—”

A sticky tearing sound rang out, and the first bug broke out of its shell.

Its appearance was very similar to the mother bug, but much smaller, only palm-sized.

Its serrated mouthparts were densely packed, and beneath the membrane on its body surface, the liquid flowed faster, and the fluorescent glow flickered even more eerily.

Soon, the second, the third…

Countless bugs emerged from the remains of the mother bug.

They emitted faint “hissing” sounds, their serrated mouthparts opening and closing, greedily sniffing the surrounding air.

Suddenly, these bugs moved!

They surged like a tide in all directions, frantically devouring everything they could touch:

Metal pipes were riddled with holes, concrete walls became pitted and uneven, and even the residual radioactive dust in the air didn’t escape their mouths.

Their eating speed was astonishing; wherever they went, everything turned to ruins.

Even more terrifying, these bugs grew rapidly during the process of devouring.

The small bugs, originally palm-sized, swelled into one-meter-long large bugs within minutes.

Then, their bodies began to tremble violently, and with a “bang,” they exploded, splitting into even more individuals.

The entire nuclear wastewater processing plant was instantly engulfed by the swarm of bugs.

They were like an unstoppable plague, reproducing at an alarming rate, their numbers increasing exponentially.

However, amidst this chaos, the original mother bug suddenly let out a sharp cry.

This sound acted like a signal, immediately attracting the attention of all the other bugs.

What happened next was astounding: the other bugs quickly gathered, forming a tight circle around the mother bug.

Then, they unhesitatingly began to gnaw at the ground beneath their feet.

In the blink of an eye, the previously flat ground was gnawed into a huge, bottomless hole.

The mother bug didn’t hesitate at all, directly leaping into the hole.

And most of the bugs that followed also jumped in without hesitation.

However, when the subsequent bugs jumped into the hole, they did not continue to fall, but suddenly exploded in mid-air.

In an instant, the land was stained red, and the surrounding soil was also eroded by this powerful force.

As the explosions ended, the land that had been gnawed by the bugs underwent an astonishing transformation.

These areas grew rapidly like flesh and blood, eventually transforming into new bugs covered in hard, rocky carapaces.

Dense swarms of bugs covered the ground, as if a black torrent had surged from underground.

At the same time, the original bug had already reached a depth of several thousand meters.

It curled up its body, transforming into a new egg.

At this point, the bugs that had followed down exploded in mid-air, and the spurting crimson blood, like red fountains, continuously merged into the giant egg.

And this egg, nourished by the other bugs,

The size of this egg began to continuously increase, until its diameter was at least a thousand meters or more.

Only then did it finally stop.

Meanwhile, the bugs on the surface continued their frantic expansion, reproducing and spreading, enveloping the entire area in an eerie atmosphere.

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