Chapter 483: The Chess Game of the Weak

In the other world, in the city center.

Inside the tower that symbolizes the power of the city of Minas, densely packed insect eggs are scattered in the corridor.

There are a total of 199 insect eggs.

They look like soft corn kernels, covered with dark red blood vessels. They are hung on the ceiling, and when the wind blows, they make a "crying sound" like wind chimes.

The queen of the chimera ants raised her face.

The queen is a giant chimera ant over two meters long. She can't speak and can only use telepathic mental waves to transmit information to other chimera ants, but she has emotions and the genes of other intelligent creatures are mixed in her body.

She noticed the uninvited guest and said with her mind: [Come out... I'm just a little bit short, and I can't let anyone... disturb me. ]

The full layer of insect eggs emit fluorescent light, responding to the queen's call, and they illuminate the dark building like lanterns.

The blood threads on the eggs closer to the queen spread out like spider webs, and after squirming a few times, several of them began to break.

Snap~!

A figure fell out of the wet egg.

The queen ant instructed: [Dujuan, bring back their brains. ]

The player from the "Corridor of Death" looked at her queen ant.

"Okay."

...

There are a lot of vampires hiding in the other world, so it is very easy to find the leader.

The three brothers of Hodum plus Shao Hong, even if they are "useless", are more than enough to deal with the leader, so in less than 20 minutes, the four of them basically got back most of the equipment.

"Now I understand."

Hodum put on his [Triple Jump Boots] and stomped the ground a few times with his soles, which was extremely comfortable.

"The vampire leader hid for some reason, and hid in this space."

"So... everything is clear, right?"

Shao Hong paused and asked: "Hodum, is the matter of the chimera ant reliable?"

Hodum adjusted his sunglasses and looked at the high-rise buildings in the city center.

[The nest of chimera ants]

"70% is reliable. If the answer is the same after multiple verifications, it can be increased to about 80%."

Shao Hong took a deep breath, took a tablet, and recorded all the information he had explored so far:

First, there are the invisible bugs all over the city. Those things come from the other world, carrying viruses and living on humans or creatures, and injecting the virus into the human body.

Viruses are: transmission links.

Mutated fungi, living in blood, not everyone will be infected. According to analysis, the infection rate is 2%.

In fact, everyone in the entire Minas City has been infected with the virus.

Once the virus breaks out, the host immediately becomes a vampire.

Vampire: Not a blood clan in the broad sense, but a blood bag that absorbs blood.

Vampire leader...

Shao Hong's fingers paused.

"Speaking of which, why did the vampire leader become the bounty target of the Cairo Expedition?"

The [Cairo Vigilance Bandit Badge] worn by the player is a thing of the "Cairo Expedition". In theory, it has no connection with the player's mission, but the result is that as long as the vampire leader is killed, it will be considered as helping the Cairo Expedition to solve the problem and obtain equipment recycling rewards.

For this matter, Shao Hong used the computer to open her own network connection library.

[Extract Cairo World Data]

[Consume 10,000 gold coins]

"Just consume my personal gold coins."

[Verifying...]

The three brothers came over and were a little surprised by Shao Hong's equipment.

"Awesome, sister, you are a top exploration player."

"Thanks to Mr. Johannessen and Luo Lei, without them, I would not be able to explore the world."

Shao Hong's equipment is almost all exploration equipment. She is a small [Explorer], so Johannessen said that she is the most important person, even Li Nuo, who has not spoken a few words to her, agrees.

[Verification completed! ]

Shao Hong immediately turned down the volume of the tablet computer, as she was worried about disturbing the monsters nearby.

[According to the expedition team's data report, two teams have recently experienced "abnormal biological invasions", and their status is: interstellar hunters suddenly mutated and attacked the surrounding creatures indiscriminately. Their ultimate goal is to suck blood. Since only two similar situations were found, the danger was considered to be negligible. ]

[Vampire leader: Let's call it that. In the two attacks, the leader played an important role. The leaders were all high-ranking people. It was initially determined that killing the leader could control the vampire phenomenon. Since the leaders are people with "identity", there is a certain danger, and killing them can get commissions. ]

Shao Hong touched her chin, and the problem was more serious than she thought.

"Sister, this thing of yours... I remember that I had to spend a lot of money to buy it from the Cairo star, right?"

Hodum was very knowledgeable, and he saw that Shao Hong's tablet computer had a deep source.

"Mr. Johannesson helped me get it."

Shao Hong tied her hair up and combed it into a ponytail.

The weakness on the woman's face was swept away, and her eyes showed the shrewdness of an analyst.

She continued to record the analyzed information on the tablet:

Vampire leader: It is of great significance. As the leader, they dominate the actions of vampires, similar to the only brain of a group of creatures. The most terrifying situation is that most vampire leaders are "top talents" in various industries. The awakening of these guys means that the things behind them can directly control a region, a city, or even a country.

And so on.

What is the role of vampires?

They suck blood and spread viruses, but the probability of inducing the virus is actually low.

When Shao Hong fell into a bottleneck, Hodum gave her an important message.

"I can see with my sunglasses that a large amount of magic factors emerge from the ground and are transmitted to the high-rise building where the ant nest is located."

Shao Hong frowned slightly, and then his mind opened up.

"Vampires absorb blood, decompose it into magic factors, conduct them into the world, and then transfer them to the queen ant, so that the queen can absorb the energy?"

Queen ant, the queen of chimeric ants.

Chimera Ant: Creature from Hunter Hunter.

The harm mainly comes from its reproduction method that is different from other organisms: feeding and mating.

As the name suggests, it can produce offspring as long as it eats. It does not require male and female to mate and lay eggs, and its appetite will become extremely strong during its reproduction period. It can eat several times its own body weight in food in one day. Every time it eats, it will Lays 1 to 5 eggs.

Because different individuals have different preferences for food, they are also called [gourmet ants].

Through feeding and mating, chimeric ants can eat other organisms and produce offspring with the characteristics of that organism. In other words, the richer the types of food, the more diverse the genes of the offspring.

If the chimera ant eats the player, and if it eats the Cairo star, what kind of monster will be born?

In order to verify this conclusion, Shao Hong dug out his right eye with his fingers without hesitation.

The three brothers gasped at the bloody scene. The contrast between Shao Hong's decisiveness and her usual image was amazing.

【Detection and Secret Eyeballs】

[Quality: Excellent]

[Effect: Release a huge exploration circle with a radius of five kilometers. The location and nature of all creatures in the area can be perceived by the user]

[Negative status: can only be used for ten seconds, vision will decrease after use]

[Brief description: Xiao Ming pinched his eyeballs and found that there were hundreds of millions of him around him. He suddenly realized that everyone was in a race]

Shao Hong raised his eyeballs into the air, turning into a wave of air that spread around.

[Players: Thirty-one]

[Strength: High]

Eyeballs give hints.

The location where players gather is almost always in the high-rise building where the ant nest is located.

"Oops..."

Shao Hong still remembered the player who attacked Li Nuo in the "Corridor of Death". In his memory, thirty-one guild players disappeared en masse.

But they appear here, which shows that those players have a connection with the chimera ants.

When the three brothers saw that Shao Hong's face turned bad, they all realized that the problem was serious.

Shao Hong frowned and asked, "Hodum, is there any way to go back?"

Hodum: "No."

The four of them need to hide and wait for Johannesson and Li Nuo to rescue them.

"Sister, let's hide first."

Hodum patted Shao Hong on the shoulder, his eyes under his sunglasses were very determined.

"The three of us can protect you."

"Thank you, thank you..."

Shao Hong bit her thin lips. Can she really put her life and the lives of her companions in the hands of others...Can she really believe that they can live in peace if I don't do anything?

The chimera ants will eventually give birth to a "king", a thing that will dominate the apex of biological power at birth.

If the queen ant eats the power of the player or the Cairo star, there is a chance that the "king" will be a god-level creature with immortal power.

Shao Hong didn't know how capable Li Nuo was, and whether the [Remnant Blood Man] could eliminate the "King".

All she knew was that Johnathan and Luo Lei didn't have that ability.

At this moment, a dark shadow was reflected on Hodum's sunglasses. The shadow was far away, but in an instant it was full of evil like a demon. Surprisingly, neither he nor Shao Hong had noticed it before. Malice aside.

A shadow falls nearby, a woman, a player.

cuckoo.

From "Corridor of Death".

Including Hodum, all players received the signal that the [intruder] was discovered.

"take it easy."

Du Juan comforted them and looked around at the four "Endless Corridor" players.

"[The one with residual blood] isn't here?"

Du Juan didn't see the legendary "Li Nuo", so she raised the corner of her mouth.

"Very good."

Shao Hong shouted: "Run!"

She has equipment to detect the enemy's data strength, and the "Du Juan" that appears is far stronger than the four Shao Hongs.

The murderous intent comes from behind.

Malice sweeping around.

A terrifying sense of oppression.

Super standard!

The sound of the road being plowed was rustling, and the team brought by the cuckoo were like the dark shadows that spread quickly after the sunset, standing on the surrounding heights one by one.

In the life born by the queen ant, there are not only players, but also soldiers.

They learn things very quickly. In a technological society, the first thing they need to learn is the use of thermal weapons.

For example, rocket launcher.

boom--!

Shao Hong raised her eyes in the fierce fire. Du Juan stood in front of her. With just a blink of an eye, Shao Hong's head turned into bloody foam with a slap.

This scene stunned Hodum.

The memory that was wiped out by the "Corridor of Finality" comes back again.

Du Juan wiped the blood from her hands and looked at Shao Hong's headless body, feeling that something was wrong.

The big tree of one of the three brothers transformed into a plant and surrounded the cuckoo, but was uprooted by the woman with strange strength. Sancho, the second of the three brothers, pulled out a long bow from the box he was carrying, took out three arrows, and pointed them at the cuckoo. , clasping the bow string with his thumb, his eyes cold.

The bow and arrow that can pierce the steel of the fantasy world cannot pierce Du Juan's skin. Her physical fitness data is as high as "450".

There was an element of magic left inside the bow and arrow, which ignited the explosive light and fire, wrapping the cuckoo in it.

The woman walked out of the fire step by step, her body was swallowed by the flames, her skinless cheeks were crawling with flesh, and she was biting her white teeth. The flames could burn her to death, but there was only this little fire, which was meaningless.

Cuckoo's eyes slowly pierced upward.

In an instant, Sancho was suppressed by the shadow, and the gorilla born by the queen flew down from high in the sky and bent his back with a punch.

Hodum saw his two brothers losing so quickly. As the only one who was not a martial artist, he knelt down.

"I am willing to join you...I can tell you about them."

He was the one who said he was protecting Shao Hong, and he was the one who said he was the second and fifth son.

Du Juan nodded.

A tail instantly stabbed out of his buttocks and lifted Hodum's head.

She took out the brain and looked at the gorilla next to her.

"Tell the queen ant that the delicious 'player' got it."

Dujuan took the reward for killing the player and got Hodum's sunglasses.

"That's it..."

Wearing sunglasses and looking at Shao Hong's body, she realized the problem.

"This woman is still alive."

…

Shao Hong opened his eyes, breathing heavily, his cheeks flushed nervously.

"It's so dangerous..."

【Clone】

[Type: Active Skills]

[Effect: Create a clone, and the aura of the original body is taken away by the clone. After the clone dies, it will give others the illusion that the "original body" is dead]

She used [Barrow Ash] to increase the most basic [Clone] skill to a "+10" life-saving skill.

Shao Hong is very timid.

She usually uses a clone to act, and her true body is usually hidden in a secret corner.

The alien space is a replica of the city. The lights of "reality" cannot shine here, there is only darkness.

Shao Hong was sitting in a cafe without a waiter. She took out the cloned tablet computer from her belt bag, opened the screen, and recorded all the information on it.

Then she took out the [Super Brain Magnetic Fragment] from her pocket. This was something Li Nuo got from killing the players in the "Corridor of Death". It could record the blurry content and give it to her companions.

The magnetic piece touches the temple, turns into blue particles and enters the brain, which is considered to be equipped.

She has decided to find the ant nest.

According to the setting of "Hunter", if the ant king is born by caesarean section, his power will be weakened. It may be a way to make the ant king appear earlier.

If possible, Shao Hong decided to use her own eyes to convey the truth and turn what she saw into the final "death video". Letting Johannesson and Luo Lei survive was the last duty that her useless teammate could fulfill.

She took out the thermos cup given by Li Nuo.

[Breathing Potion: After drinking it, a circular aura field with a radius of fifty meters will be released. In this aura field, your sense of existence will be slightly weakened]

When you unscrew the bottle cap, the smell makes you feel like you are traveling in a dry toilet.

Shao Hong took a deep breath, pinched his nose and drank the potion.

Twenty minutes later.

Shao Hong used the effect of [breath potion] to sneak into the high-rise building where the ant nest was located.

In reality, this is the gathering center of the city's wealthy class.

The corridor is pitch dark. Players after level 80 will naturally have excellent visual abilities, but their adaptation to darkness varies from person to person. Above the floor, a huge ant egg becomes a guiding light.

Shao Hong met some cute little guys here.

Among them was a Cairo star.

"(_)Are you delicious?"

Shao Hong was horrified when Mr. Cairo asked this question with a cute expression.

“Not delicious…”

"Forget it."

Shao Hong continued to record information, and the queen ant gave birth to the hybrid Cairo Jun.

She probably understands why the difficulty of the script is lv200.

Shao Hong left the clone here, while the main body continued to detect upwards. Whenever something unexpected happened, the clone would immediately self-destruct, triggering the effect of "causing the death of the main body to others".

To trigger the effect, someone must see the clone's death.

"Hello……"

Shao Hong had the courage to call out Mr. Cailuo.

"If you want to eat, just stare at me."

"real?"

Mr. Cairo was born with a mental retardation.

"Well, trust me."

Shao Hong wanted to use [Medical Puppet] to pick up Cairo Jun's memory, but for a moment, he had an ominous feeling, as if if he took action on the little guy born by the queen ant, unstoppable misfortune would occur.

She "let go" Mr. Cairo.

The main body avoided Mr. Cailuo's sight and continued to move upwards. Following the queen ant's eggs, she found a place mixed with a fishy smell.

From here on, there were more and more people.

You can see that they are all soldiers born by the queen ants. A group of guys who look like animals gather together. The entire floor is divided into living areas, and there is even a special nursery.

[Mist invisibility: Creates a layer of darkness around the body, suitable for walking in the shadows]

Shao Hong triggers skills. As a timid player, she has a lot of "life-saving" skills. Assassin may be more suitable for her, but this cowardly woman still doesn't dare to slash with a knife. She is more like that Students hiding in the dark to spy on college entrance examination answers, not assassins slitting throats with broken swords in the shadows.

"The Queen's appetite has increased recently. The magic factors are not enough for her."

"Phew...it's troublesome, it's hard to get what it wants to eat."

"By the way, what should we do with the three guys called 'players' we just found?"

The three cute little animals discussed how to "eat people".

Shao Hong went around and no one noticed her.

Finally approaching the queen ant area, she stopped and looked around. The ant eggs here were even bigger.

Some of them were broken and the things inside had hatched.

Shao Hong hid in the shadows and summoned the [Medical Puppet] to control the wooden puppet to insert the needle for extracting memory into the egg.

Afterwards, she took out the tablet and summarized all the things into a simplified version based on the extracted information. She input the content on the screen and used the function of the [Super Brain Magnetic Plate] to form memory transmission. What she saw would be seen by Johannesson when she died.

1. There are chimera ants. The queen ant produced about two hundred soldiers, and the average strength of the soldiers is above that of ordinary players.

2. There are 31 players in the "Death Corridor", all of whom are here. Preliminary observation shows that 31 are oversized.

3. The queen ant has not yet given birth to a "king", but she has absorbed a lot of power from the Cairo people in this world, which is very dangerous.

4. The chimera ants have established an effective ruling system. I suspect that someone is controlling this group of chimera ants.

5. The area where the queen ant and the player are located is the inner world. The way to enter is "the vampire leader will open the door to enter in the shadow", and there is no way to leave.

When writing "5", Shao Hong wanted to write that Johannesen and others came to rescue her.

But her fingers paused on the virtual keyboard.

She deleted the information of "5" and changed it to:

5. The queen's nest is in the high tower area in the center of the city. I will find a way to open something that can be teleported here to help you find her quickly.

There are footsteps nearby.

Shao Hong began to fear.

She bit her lips in fear and bit them until they bled.

6. There are invisible bugs in the city. They are virus transmission machines produced by the queen ant. The probability of being infected is 2%. After the virus attacks, they become vampires. The elite class plays the role of vampire leaders. The blood they absorb becomes nutrients, which becomes "magic factors" and is discharged into the "inner world" of the subspace, forming one of the queen ant's food.

7. The queen ant is still hunting players. I fully suspect that many players in the "Endless Corridor" have become her food.

8. According to the information of the eggs I extracted, in addition to the "Death Corridor", there is another corridor that makes trouble. I fully suspect the "End Corridor".

"..."

9. There is a "high-dimensional life form" in the real world, with a correct probability of about 70%.

"..."

10. All the above content can only draw one conclusion. Don't get involved. Escape if you can. Find a way to leave this script. "High-dimensional life forms" and "kings" are not things we can face.

"..."

Shao Hong doesn't know Li Nuo's ability. She can only warn her compatriots.

At this moment, a player walked out of the side passage, his eyes were as dark as the night, and he walked past Shao Hong.

"..."

Shao Hong didn't dare to breathe at this time. She had already turned off the tablet, extinguished the light, and hid in the shadows with skills.

The player stopped: "Awesome, you can sneak in like this."

Shao Hong took a breath.

She immediately controlled the clone left on the lower floor to detonate the bomb in her hand!

Boom!

The fire below the floor ignited!

[Clone] effect triggered: the main body is considered dead.

Taking advantage of this time, Shao Hong did not run, but ran towards the direction of the queen ant.

There were only two things in her mind:

According to the setting of "Hunter x Hunter", the "king" pregnant by the queen ant was born prematurely, and its power would be weakened.

For this purpose, Shao Hong took out a [Fall Guys Bomb] from her waist bag and hit the queen ant with it!

On the roof,

the "Cat Ears" player sitting on the top floor opened his eyes.

"Not dead~"

Boom!

The floor shook.

Du Juan rushed in from outside, and Shao Hong was stepped on by her.

Blood flowed and sank into the ground.

This was Shao Hong's last clone.

[Medical Puppet] was hidden in the blood and inserted as a "landmark" next to the queen ant and into the core area of ​​the ant nest.

As long as someone can use the magic of space, they can pass through the defense and face the queen ant directly.

Shao Hong is dead.

The queen ant looked at her soldiers angrily.

She was about to get angry.

Suddenly, the last gift left by Shao Hong jumped out of the blood, and she turned into a dead spirit and jumped up.

[Blood Ghost Art: Dead Spirit]

The living have their uses.

There is a meaning for people to die.

Shao Hong used her last soul to make a face at the queen ant.

"w(Д)w!"

Her last appearance in the world was particularly funny.

Shao Hong, who was full of blood, was extremely happy. Look, who said that the weak can't touch the chessboard.

[Kill her! ] The queen ant was frightened and moved a little.

Snap!

Du Juan stepped on Shao Hong's blood shadow.

The [Fall Bean Man's Bomb] that fell to the ground fell off its own safety pin.

As a spoof toy, it popped out countless beans, each bean was filled with a happy smile, which was Shao Hong's funeral for herself and the last step to scare the queen ant.

If you use malicious things to attack the queen ant, you will definitely be discovered. That's what she thought, so she used this thing to bury herself.

The beans appeared suddenly, scaring the queen ant for the second time.

The queen ant finally had another miscarriage and could no longer suppress the things in her stomach.

She used her mind to convey a message to everyone: [Hurry, help me! The king is moving! ]

…

[Border prison mission updated, the source of the virus has been found]

[Main mission updated: Kill the "king"]

[Main difficulty changed: lv120~lv200→lv100~lv170]

[Mission details updated: Chimera ants are one of the truths behind the whole incident. The birth of the king is inevitable from the beginning. The earlier it appears, the better for you, but even so, there is still a brush behind the whole incident]

[The queen ant has a miscarriage, and the "king" will be born within two days]

[The death of the weak does not bring much value. It depends on whether her final decision can leave you a new idea]

[Some people, dead is dead]

…

[Your teammate, player 5450 has died]

Johnathan turned off the panel.

Luo Lei parked the car on the side of the road.

The two were silent in the car.

…

The door of the warehouse opened.

It was already daytime.

The sun was shining.

Yesterday's dark clouds had all gone.

Li Nuo stood at the door and stretched in the sun.

On the Cairo Starman's toy phone, Johannessen left him a message.

——"Shao Hong is dead."

In addition to this message, there were also clues found by Shao Hong, which were sent over.

Li Nuo walked out while looking at his phone, and the medicine bottle wrapped around his waist jingled.

The phone received a message from "Carton Ram", and the photos of the three "Death Corridor" players in the real world slid across the screen one by one.

"..."

Li Nuo called Johannessen.

"Do it."