<h4>Chapter 201: Chapter 201: No ’Second’ Intelligent Life Forms Allowed to Coexist.</h4><h4></h4>


    Above the sea, countless Star Stones streaked with radiant trails, flying toward the ck fog on the horizon.


    Blood-stained cockroaches leisurely gnawed on headless corpses.


    White bones and flesh were fed into their mandibles, the crunching sounds harmonizing with the surging waves.


    As long as the fear threshold was met, the Insect n didn’t even need to act—Beastmen’s Star Stones were pierced and swallowed up by the ck fog.


    On the cruise ship, Beastmen one after another sumbed under the coboration between the ck fog and the Insect n.


    Only the women, whose spiritual power dwindled one star at a time, were surrounded by the swarm crawling up from the seabed.


    Just as a sea scorpion swung its tail and prepared to strike a woman with its venomous stinger, a sudden tornado of white light erupted around her.


    "You cannot kill them," the Terminal’s voice resonated from the sky above the sea.


    Under its control, a gentle, warm white light swept away the insect swarm this time.


    The Insect n attacking the cruise ship had their bodies forcibly lifted into the air by the white light before being torn apart.


    The crisp snapping sounds echoed above Cloud Ind.


    The Terminal’s lips still held a piece of a scorpion leg, chewing it with satisfaction.


    It smacked its lips and sighed contentedly, "Tastes good, I quite like it."


    The surviving women on the cruise ship gripped their weapons tightly, cautiously scanning the deceptively calm surface of the sea.


    They hadn’t yet figured out what power had swept away the suddenly hatched Insect n.


    Nor did they have time to grieve over the deaths of their Beast Husbands.


    Years of apocalyptic task experience led them to stand back-to-back, relying on each other to watch their surroundings.


    The awakening of second superpowers had also given them stronger means to protect themselves.


    "The Star Map can show information—check if there’s any family left alive," one woman quietly suggested.


    Soon, suppressed sobs rose from the crowd: "They... they all died in the ck fog."


    Though the sudden hatching of the Insect n hadn’t caused significant casualties among them,


    it was the abruptly appearing ck fog that truly imed the lives of their Beast Husbands.


    Among the thirty-one remaining survivors, once they tallied their numbers,


    not a single Beast Husband was left alive.


    This operation to transport insect eggs had allocated forty families to each cruise ship.


    With trembling bravery, they searched the ship, finally discovering only one lone surviving woman.


    Forty families, with at least six members each.


    In just an instant, only thirty-two women remained alive.


    The bodies of Beastmen had been devoured entirely by the Insect n.


    [Apologies, survivors]


    A familiar voice echoed above the cruise ship.


    The Terminal’s apologetic tone cut through the air: [The Insect n descended earlier than expected—Survivors on Mist Continent were too scattered. I’ve done everything in my power to protect you all.]


    Terminal: [My beloved people, I arrived toote.]


    Terminal: [The Mist Continent is no longer safe after the Insect n’s arrival.]


    Terminal: [The cruise ship will escort you to Cloud Ind for refuge. Cloud Ind will be thest stronghold for the Mist Continent. Together, we will brave this ordeal.]


    Upon hearing the Terminal’s voice, hope surged in the women’s hearts.


    They were even ted to realize that the white light which swept away the Insect n belonged to the Terminal’s power.


    Under the escort of white light, the cruise ship steered northward toward Northern Cloud Ind.


    A tentacle as thick as a wrist dangled from above, swaying outside a first-floor window.


    Xiao Jinsheng’s superpower remained activated, allowing her to hear clearly the metallic scythe-like noises scraping outside the window, alongside the sound of walls being dug into.


    "It’s moving fast," Caicai remained calm even as it faced the Insect n. "Based on the tentacle, it’s an interster cockroach."


    "Cockroach?" Xiao Jinsheng’s expression changed. "Little bug? Roach?"


    Caicai paused in confusion.


    It reviewed the information on intergctic species, nodded in confirmation. "Yes, it’s a cockroach—but worse than what you’re familiar with."


    "What kind of cockroach has tentacles this big? These antennae are three meters long!" Xiao Jinsheng eximed, horrified.


    The walls of the small vi were soon breached under the cockroach’s gnawing, creating a hole with a diameter of fifty centimeters.


    Through the hole, Xiao Jinsheng caught sight of a glistening, slick brown-ck carapace passing by outside, followed by the multi-faceted eyes of the cockroach peering in.


    This cockroach was unlike any Xiao Jinsheng had known.


    The interster cockroach’s eyes glowed red.


    A deafening "boom!"


    The cockroach kicked through the ss, its tentacles flexibly probing into the room.


    This was a seven-star cockroach—manageable for the eleven-star group to deal with currently.


    Xiao Jinsheng couldn’t hold back any longer, sending a Wind de slicing toward the tentacle.


    Su Ye drew his de, his form disappearing in an instant.


    When he reappeared, his de struck the cockroach from midair.


    "Don’t kill it—" Caicai shouted urgently.


    But its voice was too slow to stop Su Ye’s strike.


    The cockroach had already been sliced in half by the de.


    Whitervae erupted along with pale yellow viscous fluids, bursting out from the cockroach’s body.


    Su Ye quickly retreated, pulling back his de.


    What he saw were countless thumb-length whitervae with soft shells, swarming in every direction.


    "These giant cockroaches are carriers forrvae invasion."


    "Don’t kill them directly—burn them with fire or freeze them to death," Caicai shouted anxiously.


    Xiao Jinsheng and Li released mes, spreading them across the floor and burning thervae.


    The continuous pops and crackles erupted within the mes, apanied by a nauseating stench wafting from the ck smoke.


    Once the fire died out, the entire living room was littered with the charred remnants ofrvae corpses.


    The stench was overwhelming, making the house uninhabitable.


    The Cannibal Flower rushed forward, sweeping up charred corpses with itsrge green leaves and stuffing them into its mouth.


    "Stop!" Xiao Jinsheng felt her stomach churn with nausea.


    But the Cannibal Flower had already swallowed the corpses with practiced ease, shaking its leaves at Xiao Jinsheng.


    "Can it even eat that?" Xiao Jinsheng grimaced.


    "It can eat them—you can’t," Caicai replied.


    "Eating those is no different from eating excrement, is it?" Yu Yunxiao pinched his nose and pulled Xiao Jinsheng toward the door. "This house is useless now."


    Thankfully, they had prepared in advance.


    Most of the small vi’s furniture had already been moved to the vi in the Realm.


    The Insect n’s invasion left nothing but wreckage in this world.


    Since there was the Realm, it was naturally safer than staying in the Mist East vi.


    Xiao Jinsheng lived in a sparsely popted area.


    It was just her and Peng Qin’s two households.


    As a result, under the surveince of the Intelligent Worms, fewer insect attacks targeted this area.


    The bulk of the Insect n prioritized regions with a denser human poption to attack.


    Within the interster world, years ofbat between the Insect n and humans had taught them one truth:


    To implete control of a world, one must eradicate its most intelligent life forms.


    Only then would the universe’s myriad dominions be fully dominated by the Insect n.


    This universe did not allow a ’second’ intelligent species to coexist.


    Unless—through assimtion...


    Insect Brain: [Our n has arrived. I wouldn’t mind having an honest conversation with you.]


    The Insect Brain’s seductive voice echoed in Bai Yan’s mind.


    Insect Brain: [Your superpower is unique; you were born to belong to our n.]


    Insect Brain: [I’m here to extend a sincere invitation for you to join us.]


    Insect Brain: [Of course, you can choose to refuse.]


    Insect Brain: [But you should first understand one thing: the Insect n hasn’t attacked you yet because of my presence.]


    Bai Yan’s terrified gaze swept around.


    The area she moved into, together with ten households residing there, had naturally formed a smallmunity.


    The once warm and cozy neighborhood nowy riddled with gaping wounds.