<h4>Chapter 267: Chapter 267 The Gift Named Greed</h4>
Xiao Jinsheng could be certain that Bai Yan and the Terminal were not dead.
At the same time, a trace leading to the interster universe was found in this space location abandoned by the Terminal.
"It’s the power of the Insect n," Lou Yan Zhi concluded. "The interster Insect Brain has the power to break through space."
"If I’m not mistaken, they have already escaped through space jumps from the Mist Continent."
"The Insect Brain has been devoured by the Terminal," Xiao Jinsheng hesitated, then quickly responded, "So, the Terminal also absorbed the special abilities of the Insect Brain?"
The Insect n became the most troublesome adversary for interster humans.
It’s due to their unique abilities.
As the Insect n themselves said, they controlled time and space.
And now, the Terminal, through devouring an Insect Brain, gained part of that ability.
"Even if it is devouring, the effect can’t be preserved permanently andsts only for three hours," Lou Yan Zhi exined. "This is also the peculiarity of the Insect n."
If devouring were feasible, interster humans would not have been constantly limited by the Insect n.
Just capturing a few Insect Brains, stripping them of their abilities, and using those abilities would make dealing with the Insect n much easier, wouldn’t it?
In reality, the Terminal indeed matched Lou Yan Zhi’s spection.
The power it devoured, belonging to the Insect n’s ability to traverse time and space, can only be maintained for three hours.
To escape.
Among time and space, it could only choose space, leaving the Mist Continent where defenses had already been opened.
A hundred light-years away from the Mist Continent, they descended on a barren star through a space jump.
Bai Yan fell to the ground, looking fearfully at the dark purple giant star with a star ring in this unfamiliar world’s sky, feeling uneasy.
All around were strange-looking nts spewing mes and ash.
Except for her, there were no other life forms in sight.
Until the ck shadow of the Terminal took shape, standing behind her, nudging her foot: "Get up."
"We’ve escaped, but what’s good about staying in such a world?" Bai Yan pointed at the surrounding barrenness.
Especially that giant star in the sky that seemed poised to crash down, making her feel immense pressure.
"Just a small resting spot," the Terminal sneered, "Our destination isn’t like this."
As it spoke, it dropped a piece of flesh that was still twitching, oozing ck-green blood: "Use your Insect n affinity superpower to send a distress signal to the Insect n through it."
"What is this!" Bai Yan suddenly jumped up, looking disgustedly at the piece of flesh on the ground.
"Don’t recognize it?" The Terminalughed gleefully, "You used to spend every day with it, this is the true form of the Insect Brain."
Just a torn piece of a corpse.
"If you don’t want to spend your life on this little barren star, take advantage of the Insect Brain’s power before it dissipates to send a distress signal and coordinates to the Insect n."
"This ce is nine billion light-years away from the interster world, we can’t make it across."
To leave, they could only let the Insect ne to pick them up.
"If you want the Insect n to save you, you have to prove your value," the Terminal said, as a pile of Star Stones fell in front of Bai Yan, urging mercilessly: "Get moving."
"Got it." Bai Yan hadn’t yet processed everything, but she dared not defy the task given by the Terminal.
She had already witnessed the true faces of both the Terminal and the Insect Brain.
In that moment, Bai Yan couldn’t tell who was more disgusting, the Terminal or the Insect Brain.
Just as she was about to absorb the Star Stones, Bai Yan noticed streaks of light passing through the sky.
She was puzzled, "Are there meteors here?"
"Those are warships from the interster world," answered the Terminal, which had read the Insect Brain’s memory and knew about the interster world.
"The direction those warships are heading to seems to be the Mist Continent?" Bai Yan said.
"Hehe," the Terminalughed gleefully.
Facing Bai Yan’s puzzled look, it spoke proudly, "Xiao Jinsheng wouldn’t think I’d be afraid of her escaping, right?"
"To her, the Insect n and humans are both enemies, but the former is easier to deal with."
The cosmic coordinates of the Mist Continent had already been exposed.
Through the Insect Brain’s memory, it understood the allure of the resources on the Mist Continent to other life forms in the interster world.
Xiao Jinsheng could fend off an Insect n invasion once.
But with her cosmic coordinates already exposed, can she defend the Mist Continent against all life forms in the interster world?
The Terminal looked up, watching the increasing number of lights flying in the direction of the Mist Continent like meteors.
"World consciousness?" The Terminal curled its lips, "Hope you like the gift I’ve left for you."
The gift named—Greed.
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On the other side, the Mist Continent.
Xiao Jinsheng brought the corpses of Xi Qu and the other four back to the Mist Base, presenting them before Jin Ao and Qing Zelin.
"You killed them!" Jin Ao raged.
Xiao Jinsheng rolled her eyes speechlessly.
Dealing with Jin Ao was truly a headache.
She pulled back and grabbed Shi Xie, who was closest to her: "You first give him a beating."
"Yes, Female Master," Shi Xie responded.
But Xiao Jinsheng hurriedly dragged him back: "Forget it, forget it, don’t make a move."
If others made a move, it would be alright.
Having Shi Xie make a move, beating someone could turn into killing them.
Xiao Jinsheng quickly chose someone else.
After selecting back and forth, she still called on Mo Jiao, raising her hand to point at Jin Ao: "Beat him."
Mo Jiao’s ck mist appeared, directly sting Jin Ao into the wall.
If Chen Yunji’s strike made an opponent feel pain in their flesh and bones.
Then Mo Jiao’s strike would lead to a mental breakdown.
This time, Jin Ao found himself trapped in an Illusion Realm.
He saw Bai Yan colluding with a dark shadow.
Together, they tricked and killed Xue Ruiyang and the others.
Each of them was joyfully called over by Bai Yan, only to die in agony and despair at her hands.
Even the Star Stones were hollowed out and devoured by that dark shadow.
This was the Illusion Realm Mo Jiao constructed using the corpses of Xue Ruiyang and the other four to recreate their causes of death.
"Impossible, impossible!" Jin Ao shook his head in pain, "Little Yan wouldn’t do this; they were her family."
"Little Yan said we were all her family; she would be heartbroken if anyone got hurt."
"But they weren’t hurt," Yu Yunxiao interjected, "They all died, killed instantly."
Jin Ao was momentarily speechless, ring fiercely at Yu Yunxiao.
"Look at you, being told the truth and still not happy," Yu Yunxiao spread his hands helplessly.
"I wanted to kill Bai Yan, but unfortunately, there was no chance," Xiao Jinsheng said, at the same time cing ayer of Energy Shackles on Jin Ao and Qing Zelin using the Star System Map.
This was on Lou Yan Zhi’s advice.
In the interster world, some interster criminals are detained.
They are all controlled using Energy Shackles from the Star System Map.
They will be monitored twenty-four hours a day.
They will have restricted areas of activity.
Even stepping over one millimeter of the red zone will be punished by the Energy Shackles.
Poison, burning, electric shock, and many other forms of punishment.
Lou Yan Zhi suggested using electric shock.
"Behave yourselves," Xiao Jinsheng looked at Jin Ao and Qing Zelin, "I won’t kill you; I’ll even be charitable and help you find your Female Master."
Currently, only Jin Ao and Qing Zelin had a contract-bound rtionship with Bai Yan.
Killing would be easy.
But keeping them wasn’t entirely useless either.
Jin Ao’s fiery eyes red at Xiao Jinsheng but said nothing.
Qing Zelin nodded woodenly, particrly cooperative.