More terrifying still, the pulsating flesh walls and coiling thick "blood vessels" throughout the enormous spherical chamber began to spasm and contract violently in unison, like a chain reaction!
Countless painful flesh tumors bulged from the walls, then rapidly collapsed.
The thick blood vessels writhed frantically like dying giant pythons, bursting and spraying vast amounts of foul-smelling Dark Purple Slurry.
The psychic shriek emitted by the Bug Nest reached a soul-freezing peak before suddenly weakening and warping, like a string forcibly snapped.
In the end, it became a chaotic, feeble, low and agonized whimper like that of a dying beast. It echoed a few times through the viscous air before falling completely silent.
That omnipresent psychic whisper that drove people mad was gone.
In its place was an absolute, heart-stopping... silence.
Huo Yushen staggered and braced himself against the nearby flesh wall, which was still twitching slightly, before barely managing to steady himself.
He looked up warily.
The eyepiece of his Mecha Helmet was covered in the viscous liquid splattered from the Bug Nest organism.
He looked toward the center of the chamber.
There, the Energy Nexus that had once emitted an anomalous magnetic field had now completely lost all vitality, becoming a huge, ugly mass of dead flesh that constantly dripped gray mucus.
Under the cold Dark Purple Phosphorescence, the Bug Nest slowly and irreversibly collapsed and disintegrated.
Soon, starlight spilled down from above.
The entire passage was revealed beneath the starlight.
Huo Yushen took a deep breath and opened a Mecha communication link with Xia Chujian.
"Chujian, I've killed the Bug Nest, but that High-Rank Insectoid isn't here."
Xia Chujian was delighted at first, then frowned. "...It's not here?"
"If it's not here, where could it be?"
"The Zerg's most elite forces are all on Southern Cross Star."