Who Is the Bug?!

Immediately after, the girl's abdomen convulsed violently, and a monstrous force burst outward from within.

Pfft!!

The next moment, a pair of palms covered in swollen lumps reached out from the woman's belly. The lumps rolled around, splitting open at their centers to reveal pairs of venomous eyes staring fixedly at Su Tu.

Then, an incomparably hideous head emerged. Though vaguely human-shaped, it had two thin red antennae growing from it. Its face resembled that of an ant-like insect, yet it was made entirely of human flesh, a nauseating sight.

"So it really is a bug."

Su Tu looked at the monster before him, his eyes icy. An indescribable sense of danger kept pricking at him like needles.

The monster exerted its entire body and crawled out of the abdomen. Its whole body was no larger than an infant's, but Su Tu's instincts told him that it was several times stronger than before.

"Human, you actually forced me to be reborn. You deserve to die! This body hasn't even been properly nurtured yet!!"

"I've changed my mind. I'll breed with this female human right in front of you, then watch your despairing expression as I slowly eat you alive to the sound of your screams!!" The infant's voice was filled with unspeakable malice.

Countless red vines floated through the air—no, they could no longer be called vines. They were strands of red thread, each no thicker than a hair.

Though these threads looked delicate, they were exceptionally sharp. Three or four of them casually swept through the surroundings, instantly slicing the furniture into several pieces.

Its body twisted slightly, as if it were about to undergo some transformation.

But in the blink of an eye, Su Tu had already burst forward and reached its side.

He clenched one fist and drove it down. His five organs resonated, muffled thunder rumbling within him as his punch shot straight toward the infant's frail body.

What decent person waited for their opponent to transform in the middle of a fight?

As Su Tu attacked with all his strength, his fist swung out, compressing the air until it exploded with a thunderous boom.

Bang!!

Just as the punch was about to pierce through the monster's body, the infant's body rapidly twisted and grew. At last, a large hand covered in swollen lumps caught Su Tu's fist.

Strength, danger, savagery—every kind of terrifying aura flooded the room.

The monster became immensely tall, its muscles grotesquely bulging as it radiated an incomparably dangerous presence.

"Unfortunately, this body hasn't fully developed. I can only reach the peak of Rank One for now. Still, that's more than enough to crush you."

"Remember this. The one who will torture you to death is Lord Ka Sha Shi." It grabbed Su Tu and instantly flung him away.

With a bang, Su Tu was smashed heavily into the wall, collapsing it outright.

Each additional acupoint a martial artist opened brought a clear increase in strength. At this moment, the monster was at the peak of Rank One, equivalent to a martial artist with all 108 acupoints opened.

Su Tu, meanwhile, had only opened a single acupoint. The gap between them was simply too vast.

Yet even before an enemy so much stronger than himself, Su Tu's eyes showed no panic whatsoever.

"I said I'd crush you, so I'll definitely crush you!" Su Tu's cold voice carried a trace of fervor.

Before his eyes, a system notification quietly appeared. It was the Proficiency settlement from when he had first crushed the monster's head.

You have just experienced a life-and-death battle. Combat Proficiency +100!! Body Strengthening Proficiency +50!

Combat (Mid Grade): 50/1000

Body Strengthening (Mid Grade): 452/1000

At the same time.

North Sea Security Administration.

In the Covert Operations Execution Department, bursts of red light suddenly flashed across the massive holographic projection, and a shrill alarm began to blare.

In the blink of an eye, four or five people appeared in the previously empty conference room.

The leader was the bespectacled middle-aged man who had attended the meeting with Zhou Wuliang and the others earlier.

"A powerful psychic fluctuation has appeared in Phase Two of Taibo District. A 'Beast' is suspected. Head there immediately!"

The group said nothing. The wristbands on their arms rapidly displayed the location of Taibo District.

The next moment, their figures swiftly vanished from the conference room.

The man at the front was tall and had a bold, heroic bearing. It was Li Hu. It seemed as though he stepped atop silent thunder with every stride, faint arcs of Thunder Light flickering beneath his feet as he left the others behind.

"Li Hu, what are you in such a rush for?" A frivolous-looking figure barely managed to keep up with him.

"Human lives are at stake. What do you think I'm rushing for?" Li Hu did not want to waste words on him, and his pace quickened further.

But the flippant figure spoke with disdain. "They're just a bunch of Ancestral Star natives. What are you so anxious about? Let that Beast kill for a while. The more it kills, the greater our merit will be when we exterminate it."

Li Hu's expression darkened at those words.

"What the hell did you just say?!" He grabbed the man by the collar with one hand, his eyes bloodshot as though he had heard something utterly unbelievable.

The man caught in his grasp had a pallid face and exaggerated dark circles beneath his eyes. Facing the enraged Li Hu, he remained completely calm.

"I really don't know what you're pretending for."

"We followed our master to the Ancestral Star for only two reasons: opportunities and credentials. As for whether these Ancestral Star natives live or die, who cares?" the man said indifferently.

They were all martial artists from New Star. Each of them was backed by a martial lineage, with patrons no weaker than Zhou Wuliang.

Their public mission on the Ancestral Star was to suppress and kill every foreign race that entered it. But their true purpose was only one: the inheritance site that had illuminated the entire galaxy not long ago. As for the local humans of the Ancestral Star, they did not amount to anything in their eyes.

Li Hu swept his furious gaze over the others. They remained silent because they did not want to offend him, but deep down, they agreed with the man's words.

Seeing this, Li Hu could not help but sigh inwardly.

There were quite a few people in the Federation, and even on New Star, who thought this way. The Ancestral Star had been isolated for too long. Its backward technology, the difference in levels of life, the gap between eras—everything made many New Star People deeply disdainful toward the humans of the Ancestral Star. They carried an inexplicable sense of superiority.

Many of them called the humans of the Ancestral Star natives.

Many of the younger generation did not even know that within the Solar System was a blue planet, the birthplace of all humanity.

"Chen Yuan! You look down on the humans of the Ancestral Star, but don't forget that without them, you wouldn't get so much as a hair of the opportunities you want!" Li Hu said in a low voice.

"Pfft! It's just a bunch of children playing house. You don't seriously think one of these natives can produce a Martial Dao prodigy capable of resonating with the 'Immortals,' do you?" Chen Yuan said disdainfully.

"Honestly, if it weren't for the Dou Shuai Palace Ruins, I wouldn't know what value the Ancestral Star even has. Its resources are scarce, its technology is backward, and even its Martial Dao has only just been established."

"The only value these natives have is letting people like us become tainted with providence!"

Chen Yuan's voice was cold. He walked across the heavens, looking down at the entire city with disgust in his eyes.

Li Hu did not wish to say another word. Having traveled across the cosmos with Old Zhou, he had long known that the Federation had changed. Too many people thought this way. He could not manage them all; he could only manage himself.

"At the end of the day, these natives are just supporting characters. Once my younger clansman arrives, takes first place in the Martial Examination rankings, and obtains the providence, I can leave this damn place as soon as possible."

Chen Yuan continued, sounding utterly confident in his younger clansman.

Yet when Li Hu heard this, the corners of his lips curved upward slightly. In his mind appeared that "junior brother" who had nearly drained him dry, the student who had given his master a headache because his talent was simply too high.

"Hey, Chen Yuan, do you know something? Being weak isn't scary. What's scary is ignorance. If the younger clansman you're so proud of can't even see the back of one of the natives you look down on, how would you feel?" After saying that, thunder flashed beneath Li Hu's feet. In an instant, he disappeared from everyone's sight.

He did not have a habit of setting up his own people. Naturally, he would not pull his junior brother into some bet or make enemies for him like in those scripts. But if what he had just described truly happened someday, that would be quite interesting.

Chen Yuan and the others merely laughed disdainfully at Li Hu's words, treating them as nothing more than angry remarks. They paid them no mind and continued flying leisurely through the sky.

Xiao Tu, Brother Tiger will start giving you practical combat training tomorrow. You'd better make me proud!

Li Hu thought to himself. In his eyes, his junior brother possessed heaven-defying physical talent and was monstrous in technique as well. He could not help with matters of the mind, but he had experience in real combat. His junior brother had always been on Blue Star and had only recently come into contact with Martial Dao, so surely he had no experience killing and fighting. He needed to train him properly in combat!

What he did not know was that at this very moment, the junior brother whom he thought was "bad at fighting" was continuously throwing punches before the horrified gaze of a monster, beating it until its flesh was mangled and blood splattered everywhere!

"How is this possible?!" Ka Sha Shi stared in shock at the human before it. Its once-powerful body had been beaten into a mangled mess of flesh.

It looked at the Youth standing opposite it. The arrogance in its eyes had been replaced with deep terror.

"How can the human Ancestral Star have a monster like you? Have you broken the Three Locks?!" Its voice trembled with fear, unable to believe what had just happened.

Across from it, Su Tu leisurely shook the blood from his hand, battle intent blazing in his eyes like fire.

He raised his index finger to his lips and made a soft shushing sound.

"A dying bug doesn't need to talk so much!"

At that moment, this Xie Race creature that had always regarded humans as ants truly seemed to have become a bug before Su Tu!

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