<h4>Chapter 200: Chapter 200 Intelligent Worm Overlooks this World</h4><h4></h4>


    Humans of the Mist Continent are innately fearful of mist.


    The gray and white mists of Mist West evoke this fear.


    And now, the red mist descending from the sky elicits the same terror.


    "Why has it gotten so dark so early?" Survivors still digging for insect eggs looked up at the sky, perplexed.


    "What’s that red thing in the sky? Has the sun changed color?" People across the Mist Continent were astounded.


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    "That’s an eye," Caicai said gravely. "Imagine cing a marble with a two-centimeter diameter on a tabletop. The tabletop is the universe, and the marble is a, teeming with lifeforms invisible to the naked eye."


    "Now imagine leaning in close to that marble, staring at it, even blinking at it. From the perspective of the lifeforms on the marble, the scene they’d see looking up at their sky would be exactly what you’re seeing now."


    "Whenever the Insect n invades a, they dispatch Intelligent Worms to monitor the entire operation," Caicai continued, shifting his gaze from the gigantic red eye in the dim sky to Xiao Jinsheng’s group. "Prepare yourselves for battle."


    Xiao Jinsheng stood by the floor-to-ceiling window, her eyes fixated on the deep red hues outside.


    Then, the sky suddenly plunged into darkness.


    The enormous red eye hanging in the heavens seemed to be shrouded by a curtain.


    Before the people of the Mist Continent could react to the darkness, the curtain lifted again. The red eye’s illumination reced the sun, casting an even brighter light than before.


    "The Intelligent Worm is blinking," Caicai exined. "ording to Interster World’s data, Intelligent Worms of different star levels blink to update maps for the Insect n. Once the update isplete, the sky of the Mist Continent will be fully consumed by the Intelligent Worm’s eye."


    "The Intelligent Worm scans this world, rapidly acquiring the distribution of lifeforms," he continued.


    "It transmits this information via the Insect n’s uniquemunication methods to thebat units responsible for the battle."


    "And as everyone in the Interster World knows," Caicai’s voice dropped further, "every blink of an Intelligent Worm signifies that, in the monitored world, at least three regions lose over a million lifeforms."


    "Of course, differents and star-level Intelligent Worms calcte differently, taking the total lifeforms on the into ount—it’s not just humans."


    "By analyzing the blinking frequency of the Intelligent Worm, we can estimate how much life remains on the Mist Continent," Xiao Jinsheng murmured.


    She lowered her gaze to a stack of soft films in her hand, typically used to unlock terminal gifts. Unlike before, she did not open the blind boxes this time.


    Instead, she checked her current Superpower Level.


    Plundering Superpower: 12 Stars.


    Spiritual Power: 11 Stars.


    She then opened the Star Map, where details about her seven Beast Husbands were disyed.


    Yu Yunxiao, Healing Superpower, 11 Stars.


    Su Ye, Enhanced Superpower and Invisibility, 11 Stars.


    Que Zelian, Wind and Cloud Superpowers, 11 Stars.


    Huaiqing, Water, Wood, and Prophecy Superpowers, 11 Stars.


    Mo Jiao, Illusionary ck Mist Superpower, 11 Stars.


    Li, Fire and Domain Superpowers, 11 Stars.


    Shi Xie, Ice and Water Superpowers, 11 Stars.


    After assessing her Beast Husbands’ strengths, Xiao Jinsheng turned her focus to Chen Yunji and Xuan Jiu.


    Chen Yunji, Beastification Silver Dragon, Elemental Superpower, 11 Stars.


    Xuan Jiu, Beastification Nine-tailed Fox (awakened Divine Beast Nine-tailed Fox bloodline), Puppet and Mind Reading Superpowers, no Star Stone.


    Three days remained.


    Xuan Jiu was in charge of food, while the others worked on enhancing their powers.


    As the Star Stone Origin described by the Fog Corpses, Xiao Jinsheng remained near the Star Stone Mine, practically basking in the purest and most concentrated energy.


    Her Plundering Superpower, surpassing her Spiritual Power, had directly advanced to 12 Stars.


    It was during this time that Xiao Jinsheng discovered an even more sinister aspect of the terminal.


    On the Mist Continent, Beastmen who achieve 12 Stars end up as food on the terminal’s menu.


    Females who reach 12 Stars are subjected to unified terminal control.


    Seeing her 12-star power yet no action from the terminal, Xiao Jinsheng knew: for someone like her, who was aware of the terminal’s secrets and actively opposed it...


    The terminal would not let her die without first ensuring her emotional state hit its target.


    No matter if she leaked Insect n secrets to Peng Qin...


    Or engaged in verbal probes afterward...


    For those sentenced to death by the terminal, their time before execution became a protective buffer.


    The terminal could easily kill her.


    But rather than ending her outright, the terminal preferred to feast on emotions once they reached its desired peak.


    If it had granted a deadline for her death, it would not suddenly alter its decision to strike early.


    This was the path the terminalid out for Xiao Jinsheng—one where she would walk toward death on her own.


    Before the terminal’s set death date arrived, it wouldn’t act against her unless she chose the third path it left—a path Xuan Jiu once took.


    The terminal would not interfere midway.


    Xiao Jinsheng’s status, as someone who had reached 12 Stars yet roamed freely in Moon City, was the best evidence for this.


    She exhaled deeply, discarding the soft film that could be used to draw tools.


    The terminal’s items were now too dangerous for her to utilize.


    "It blinked again," Yu Yunxiao’s voice echoed.


    Xiao Jinsheng opened her eyes. Through the floor-to-ceiling window, she saw the sky outside had turned to a murky, lightless red once more.


    Soon, the immense red eye opened again.


    ck, shadowy patterns swirled within its pupil, while its crimson hue grew even more vivid.


    This allowed those on the ground to clearly see silhouettes with glowing red dots hovering amidst the nebulous red mist surrounding the eye.


    The shadows descended,nding all across the Mist Continent.


    The ground cracked open in uninhabited areas, where, under the beckon of the Intelligent Worm, insectrvae began hatching prematurely.


    Driven by instinct, they sought food, starting with nearby Mutant Beasts or nt minerals.


    In Xiao Jinsheng’s area, only she and Peng Qin resided.


    The two households had independently cleared the insect eggs within their boundaries.


    For now, no eggs were hatching near their small vi.


    But before the descending Insects reached them, Xiao Jinsheng and her group still had a sliver of preparation time left.


    Meanwhile, those transporting insect eggs to the Cloud Ind fleet weren’t as fortunate.


    With a sharp sh, scythe-like des tore open an insect egg’s shell, spilling sticky green fluid as thervae emerged.


    Standing just under half a meter tall, the creature crawled through the cruise ship’s corridor, leaving a trail of slimy green mucus on the floor.


    "What the hell is that?!" eximed a bewildered Beastman stationed as a guard.


    The sudden appearance of the red "full moon" in the sky had already unsettled the crew, spreading panic across the ship.


    Now, the discovery of an unidentified substance onboard pushed tensions higher. The guard immediately activated the Star Map to alert others.


    As he transmitted information and took photos for inquiry, a rigid appendage tapped his shoulder.


    Confused, the guard turned his head—only to be greeted by a jointed, chitinous antenna.


    At his feet stood a cockroach half a meter tall.


    rmed, the guard staggered back, drawing his de—only to collide with another cockroach clinging to the corner of the wall.


    The cockroach opened its barbed mandibles and mped onto the retreating guard’s head. With a vicious twist, the sound of cracking bones echoed, and blood sttered across the walls.


    "A... A-Dan!" Another Beastman rushed over, his horrified gaze locking onto the decapitated corpse standing stiffly.


    Above the headless body, a giant insect clung to the wall, emitting crisp chewing sounds.


    Chunks of flesh, coated in blood, dripped from its maw, sttering into crimson patterns on the floor.


    The insect’s antennae swayed as its shadow crept over the corpse, moving past the pooling blood toward the Beastman.


    The two cockroaches, working together, nked him from front and back.


    As they spread their wings and lunged, their mandibles inching toward the Beastman’s head, a ck mist struck first, piercing through his abdomen.


    The faintly glowing Star Stone within him was whisked away by the ck mist, soaring into the sky above the ocean.


    The terminal greedily devoured the freshly acquired Star Stone, smacking its lips with satisfaction. "Delicious~"


    "So long as the fear is sufficient, even the lowest star levels taste sweet and delectable."