Chapter 162: The Planet of the Insects, Shen Jie Becomes an Insect Man

In the strange spiritual world, on the black and yellow planet, Shen Jie's spiritual consciousness condensed and took shape again.

He looked at his hands, and the pain from the death experience just now still lingered, it was too real.

And the heartbreaking pain made it difficult for him to recover for a while.

After all, no one can experience the experience of being torn to pieces by a swarm of insects twice.

But now, as the glassy black stone surface beneath his feet began to tremble slightly, Shen Jie, who was still in a dazed state, immediately reacted.

Then he ran back without looking back.

Before walking a few steps, a familiar sound came from behind. It was the roar of a swarm of black spine insects, and the swarm of insects shattered the natural obsidian glass formed by melting magma on the surface as they advanced at extremely high speeds.

Shen Jie ran for his life. At this moment, the eroded Zerg characteristics on his body disappeared. Naturally, he had no choice but to continue to use the awakening ability of devouring and assimilating.

However, what Shen Jie didn't expect was that he would soon encounter another group of black spine worms in the direction of escape.

After being surrounded by front and rear attacks, Shen Jie experienced the pain of being torn apart all over his body for the second time.

The wail deep in the soul has not lasted long...

The third gathering of spiritual consciousness revived Shen Jie again two minutes ago.

But this time, after he reacted, he ran away and looked at his white hands with a gloomy expression.

Because Shen Jie discovered that every time he was resurrected after death, his spiritual consciousness became increasingly thin and transparent...

This shows that resurrection and restart are not unlimited and costless things.

Just like a game, every life lost will hasten the end.

Until a certain moment, his soul power is exhausted.

Shen Jie estimated that what would greet him then would definitely not be the awakening of consciousness in reality, but the eternal sinking like a living dead...

"Damn!!!"

"We have to find a way to escape quickly!"

With a low roar, Shen Jie ignored the trembling pain that had not subsided all over his body, quickened his pace, and ran as fast as he could in the direction where the black spine swarm had not appeared before.

This time, he arrived at a volcanic stone area. The gray-white porous rock was extremely thin and brittle, and it made a creaking sound when he stepped on it.

Fortunately, the black spine worm did not appear in this gray area.

The gray zone composed of porous rock is not large, about the size of a football field.

After a short rest, we started exploring again.

Then Shen Jie discovered that every time he stepped forward with his front foot, his back foot would sink deeply into the porous volcanic rocks, as if walking in a quagmire. He became more and more tired as he walked, making it difficult to move.

The hardness of the volcanic stone cannot support the weight pressure on one foot.

However, at a certain moment, his front foot suddenly stepped in the air, his back foot sank deep into the grotto, and his whole body fell unstable.

Fortunately, Shen Jie, who had quick eyes and quick hands, turned sideways and supported himself on the ground with his hands, and quickly lay down on the porous rock to reduce the pressure on the surface, so that he did not sink in.

Then he cautiously turned around and looked into the deep hole he had just stepped into.

Light shines through the pits and illuminates the underground abyss.

They were countless black hard tentacles, four-legged sharp blades from the Black Ridge Insect.

It wasn't until this moment that Shen Jie realized that the volcanic rock area where he was hiding was actually the top of the Black Spine swarm's lair.

The porous structure of volcanic stone can ventilate, dissipate and exchange air in the nest space.

This should be the home planet of the spine worms.

I don’t know how these strange bugs survive and thrive in such a harsh planetary environment.

After observing for a while, Shen Jie turned over and looked at the dark sky above his head covered by thick volcanic ash due to the volcanic eruption...

The weather was gloomy and there was not a trace of sunshine in sight.

Just like Shen Jie's heart at this moment...

Lifeless and overwhelmed.

Soon, Shen Jie regained his confidence and thought about how to escape.

Do you want to kill all the black spine worms here, or survive until a certain period?

Shen Jie had no clue about this.

Maybe the mysterious woman Lin Feng brought back this time, or the top Zerg leaders, know how to deal with it now.

That's right, Shen Jie relied on genetic assimilation to smell the strong Zerg aura on him as soon as he appeared in the camp.

But she is different from the parasitic mother of the Zerg. The mother only controls the human brain, and the smell is extremely unpleasant. In Shen Jie's eyes, it was just a ball of smelly rotten meat, poisonous and very unpalatable.

However, the feeling that Chrysalis gave him was like the king of the Zerg tribe, making him want to bow his head and surrender unconsciously.

So Shen Jie was wary,

He also rarely talked to her.

Occasionally, when their eyes met unexpectedly, he could see a flash of intense interest in the other person's eyes when he was smiling, as if he could see through all his secrets with just one glance.

Especially after going deep into the insect nest, this uncomfortable feeling became more and more intense. And when he saw with his own eyes, the incredible abilities of Chrysalis Yi were...

A surprising conjecture emerged in Shen Jie's mind.

Could it be that this woman who suddenly appeared in front of me is the mother queen of the Zerg tribe? !

Once this conjecture appeared, it took root firmly in Shen Jie's mind and couldn't get rid of it.

Lin Feng gave the introduction and explanation. Naturally, Shen Jie would not believe that a woman could know the structure of the insect nest inside out, unless she lived in it every day and could escape the mental investigation of the insect queen.

If his hunch was true, then the reason why Lin Feng asked it to cooperate was to deal with other insect swarms together?

After all, Lin Feng was indeed attacking the Zerg, and he ventured deep into the Zerg nest and completely destroyed the guards of the mother nest, so there was no possibility of being controlled by Lingyi.

This doomsday world is getting crazier and crazier.

The Zerg that invaded the Blue Star actually cooperated with humans and fought side by side.

Shen Jie sighed. Compared with the weird picture of human-Zerg cooperation, the weird spiritual world in front of him was even more beyond human cognition and understanding.

What if Lin Feng was here?

What if it was Lingyi? As a high-level commander of the Zerg, where would the Queen Mother be on this Zerg mother planet at this moment?

A bunch of questions troubled Shen Jie, but with a series of gurgling sounds coming from his stomach.

All kinds of doubts disappeared.

Because he was hungry.

Although it was unclear why there was hunger in this dream-like spiritual world, the weakness from the limbs was extremely real.

In any case, Shen Jie must fill his stomach first. As for how to escape, that is what he should do after he is full.

Crawling on all fours, he returned to the direction he came from.

On such a primitive and harsh planet, Shen Jie felt that the only thing he could eat should be those black-backed insects.

Although he didn't know whether he still had the ability to devour and assimilate at this moment, he would never know if he didn't try.

At most, he would lose another life, which was better than starving to death.

If he could still assimilate, Shen Jie would probably know how to escape.

With this in mind, he had already climbed out of the top cover of the insect nest made of volcanic rocks and quietly groped his way to the place where he came from.

As expected...

The two groups of black-backed insects that appeared before were not targeting him.

It was just that Shen Jie happened to appear on the battlefield.

These were two groups of black-backed insects from different tribes, and they had slight differences in the lines on their bodies and the structure of their giant jaws.

Shen Jie, who already knew the spinal worms well, could naturally see at a glance that the structure of this group of black spinal worms was quite primitive, and the giant jaws were not as long as when they invaded the blue planet, only about half of them.

And their internal fighting should be for the competition of territorial resources, like the stick war of primitive tribes.

There is no skill or strategy to speak of.

But because of this, the internal fighting of the black spinal worms was quite bloody, with blood and flesh splattered and limbs flying.

As long as there is still a breath, they will use the remaining limbs on their bodies to continue to launch crazy counterattacks and bite the enemy to pieces.

Not long after, this primitive battle of fists and flesh came to an end.

And the result of the battle was naturally that the side with the advantage in numbers won the final tragic victory.

Then they dragged their broken legs and limbs, and their wounds all over their bodies, and cleaned up the corpses on the battlefield.

Whether it was their own comrades or the corpses of the enemy, they all carried them back.

On a primitive planet with extremely poor resources, any biomass is extremely precious.

Cannot be wasted.

However, the blood and meat residues left on the ground could not be taken away by the black-backed worms with their body structure.

Shen Jie was still preparing to fight to the death with the red beetles that came to finish off the group, but he did not expect that after the black-backed worms disappeared with their full load of "supplies", no low-level worms were seen cleaning up the battlefield for a long time.

Perhaps there were no other insects on this barren planet except the worms?

Shen Jie thought about it carefully, after all, even the black-backed worms had to rely on the corpses of their own kind to survive, so how could they feed other insects that consumed more energy?

Thinking of this, he took a deep breath and carefully touched the edge of the battlefield to collect the blood on the black stone and the meat scraps scattered everywhere.

Through sucking and chewing, Shen Jie soon felt a heat in his stomach, and then a familiar heat flow spread throughout his body. Not only did he recover, but he became stronger.

Shen Jie subconsciously touched the bones on the elbows of his arms...

Sure enough, two long bone blades only a few millimeters wide appeared on both sides of his arms.

The ability to devour and assimilate is still there.

Shen Jie's face lit up with joy, and he continued to "clean" the battlefield, not leaving any traces.

After he cleaned up most of the bloodstains, the bone blades on the sides of his arms had already taken shape, one meter long and four centimeters wide.

Although not as good as the form in the real world, and the bone hardness is not as terrifying as the giant jaw, but considering that the swarm of spiny worms here has not evolved to the level in reality...

Shen Jie is already satisfied with the "equipment" he can use. At least next time he faces black spiny worms, he will not be as helpless as before.

At this moment, he has the strength level of a ninth-level enhanced person, and it is estimated that he will have to kill a living black spiny worm to advance to the first stage.

Just as Shen Jie had a small harvest and was planning for the future...

A black spiny worm with a broken leg suddenly rushed out from the broken walls destroyed by the black spiny worm swarm.

Shen Jie did not expect the other party to kill a surprise.

But the initial assimilation form still activated his instinct to predict danger, and then he jumped and dodged.

The black-backed worm was running a little slower due to lack of strength. It swung its huge jaws across the front of the strange creature and smashed the black rock on the ground.

Shen Jie jumped to the ground, crossed his fists, and observed the surroundings to confirm that there were no other black-backed worms. He originally planned to escape first, but changed his mind to take a risk.

After all, it is not easy to find a lone black-backed worm, especially one that is seriously injured and has reduced strength.

Soon, the two charged at each other.

Although the original black-backed worm is not big and has a small jaw, it is also a real first-stage life form. In terms of physical strength, it is much better than Shen Jie.

With just a swing of the jaw, Shen Jie, who was blocking with his hand, was knocked out.

After retreating several steps, he just stabilized his position, but saw the continuous attacks of the black-backed worm, which were about to follow.

In a hurry, Shen Jie once again took advantage of his thin and flexible body, slid backward and fell to the ground, and used the bone blade on the side of his arm to cut the abdomen of the black-backed worm.

Just like the first time he killed the tiger-backed worm...

Win the final victory!

After chopping off the limbs and jaws of the dead worm with great effort, Shen Jie carried the other spoils away from the battlefield with his bloody back.

Who knows if there will be other worms, and if you are exhausted, it is better to stay away as soon as possible.

After eating the worm corpse, Shen Jie successfully transformed into the black warrior form and began to hunt lone black-backed worms everywhere.

Shen Jie, who easily dealt with one, two, three, seven or eight, and finally advanced to the late stage of the first stage, can now easily deal with a group of dozens of black-backed worms.

His fighting skills are constantly being honed...

At this moment, he also discovered in the battle that the assimilation form of the spiritual world's supernatural power does not have a time limit.

It can be opened without limit, but the degree of alienation continues to deepen as the battle continues.

Until now, Shen Jie has gradually lost himself in the battle of killing, with only one thought in his mind,

That is to kill!

He began to desire to fight, to desire the feeling of taking away all lives.

Over time, the black-backed worms in the black rock area can no longer meet his strong fighting needs...

And Shen Jie, whose half of his face has been covered with black shells and even has a worm jaw mouth, immediately looked at the sulfur area near the foot of the volcano.

The environment there is even worse, with hot springs with sulfuric acid mist everywhere, and the pungent smell of sulfur can kill a group of creatures.

But there are precious water sources here, as well as blazing heat coming out from the ground.

And the only ones who can survive on this are the more powerful second-level tiger-backed worms!

Shen Jie's footsteps have already reached the sulfur area at the foot of the volcano. His red eyes stared at several second-level tiger-backed worms not far away who were threatening each other for a small hot spring pool.

They live on the water source inside, and at the same time can absorb geothermal energy to become stronger.

Seeing that the three tiger-backed worms were about to take action, Shen Jie suppressed his inner urgency and waited quietly.

Until they decided the winner, one died tragically, and the other was defeated and retreated, leaving only the final winner, with a bloody scar, walked into the hot spring that was more than ten meters wide, and began to enjoy the fruits of his victory by holding the corpse of his kind beside him.

However, at this moment, a very inconspicuous low-level black-backed worm suddenly appeared in front of it.

The winner screamed impatiently.

He wanted to drive away the little bug.

Its territory and food must not be violated!

However, the little bug did not run away, but instead quickened its pace and rushed towards the hot spring pool!

The second-level tiger-backed worm was not stupid. After feeling a little threat, it quickly pulled its limbs out of the lime mud in the pool and stepped onto the land.

Prepare to teach this ignorant little bug why the sulfur area under the throne is a restricted area for low-level untouchables!

However, it had just won the victory, and it was arrogant and conceited. It forgot about its scars and was soon found a breakthrough by Shen Jie, and finally died tragically by the hot spring pool.

Shen Jie began to devour the bodies of two tiger-backed worms with the hot spring water.

…………

After hunting for several months like this...

A battle attracted the bored Shen Jie.

At this time, his skin on his whole body had grown a bright yellow outer armor like the tiger-backed worm. Except that he did not have wings, he was no different from the winged tiger in the battle form.

In order to survive, Shen Jie had to maintain his assimilated form all the time, until a certain moment, he had forgotten his assimilated existence, and even thought that the insect man in the reflection of the pool was what he should have looked like!

In a world without humans, the difference between humans and insects became increasingly blurred in Shen Jie's cognition.

Until this moment, he stopped and looked, and actually saw a group of tiger-backed insects leading a large number of low-level black-backed insects on the wasteland, chasing a group of fully armed humans.

A trace of doubt flashed in Shen Jie's eyes, but it was soon covered by the desire to kill. Excitement drove him,

Turned into a yellow lightning and descended on the battlefield.

In the wanton killing, he didn't know how many tiger-backed insects he had killed, and how many black-backed insects he had taken away with the aftermath of swinging the bone blade heavy sword...

In short, this group of thirty or forty tiger-backed insects, led by a team, only survived for a few minutes, and was killed by the mysterious insects that suddenly rushed in!

The humans who fled in all directions looked at a loss.

Until the strange insect in human form pointed a pair of bone blade heavy swords in his hands at them.

A new battle broke out immediately.

The humans wearing red black armor began to shoot the insect man with shotguns.

Although the enemy changed from a group of tiger spine insects to a strange insect man, the human reaction speed was too slow and could not catch up with the speed of the insect man.

Watching his companions fall one after another, turning into light powder and disappearing...

The last old captain stared at the appearance and combat mode of the strange insect man.

Suddenly, a similar guy came to my mind!

At this moment, the strange insect man also killed the last soldier and locked his target on him.

Then his figure flashed and turned into a shadow and rushed over quickly!

At the critical moment of life and death, the old captain suddenly had an idea and shouted that name:

"Shen Jie!"

The insect man's figure then stopped in front of him who was frightened and trembling on the ground. The huge bone sword with flame cloud pattern was already attached to his neck, not only cutting off the armor protecting his neck, but also gradually oozing blood.

But the old captain did not hesitate at all. He pulled the trigger directly at the moment when the insect man showed a flaw.

The shells of the shotgun exploded at close range.

Shen Jie, who was in a trance and had no time to dodge, was hit directly in the face.

Fortunately, he was protected by the berserker form of the tiger spine insect. In the end, only half of the jaw on his face was broken, revealing the muscles and blood vessels inside, without the skin...

And its face has been completely fused with the epidermal insect armor, and it was torn out together with the jaw blowing away.

Shen Jie, who lost half of his face, didn't care about the blood splattering on his face, but used the bloody eyeball in the pupil to stare at the dying human in front of him.

"Lei Zhengmo Zai Zhe..."

The alienated and distorted throat struggled to speak.

The old captain looked at his gradually disappearing lower body, realized something, and grabbed Shen Jie's arm:

"Remember! You must, must remember to go back!"

After saying that, he turned into starlight and disappeared.

Shen Jie was left stunned in the same place...

New beetle jaws gradually grew on his face, but his eyes revealed confusion.

Then, he tore off the newly grown half of the beetle armor on his face, held it in his palm, and crushed it together with his own face skin.

"Go back..."

"Go back!"

…………

In the real world, when Lin Feng was guarding the black and yellow insect eggs and continuing to upgrade the tiger-toothed chain saw sword...

A wailing sound came from a residential building in the distance.

Then Liu Yi walked over quickly, his face was uncertain, and his tone was trembling:

"Sergeant, division commander..."

"The first batch of members who underwent the second-level awakening fell into the same dream during the awakening process, among which..."

"An old captain reported that they encountered..."

"Captain Shen Jie!?"