The urge to curse her out vanished in an instant.
That saying was true: you didn't hit someone who was smiling at you. Most people wouldn't do that. After all, the other person was smiling so sweetly—wouldn't it be unreasonable to go up and slap her?
"I... Forget it, it's nothing. I was just getting ready to make a run for it with this old man."
"Make a run for it? How many kilometers? Why don't we run together? I'll go first~"
As she spoke, the Insect Queen turned to run. Without a word, I grabbed her by her long hair. Her whole body swung sideways in an exaggerated arc, and she took a few more running steps,
but then her feet suddenly missed the ground. Her eyes widened, and she let out a cute, confused sound.
"Huh?"
"Wham!"
The Insect Queen landed flat on her back, a cute, puzzled look on her face.
"Yuxuan, why are you pulling me? Are you afraid you can't outrun me? Oh~ Wait! I remember now. Human sports need a starting gun, right? Should we
run together? Is this old man the referee?"
As she spoke, she stood up, not caring that I still had hold of her hair, and strode straight toward Long Bixian.
"Hey, hey, hey!"
Before I could let go of her hair, a tremendous force dragged me forward, making me stumble several steps.
The Insect Queen was far stronger than me. Unless I was in dragon form, I stood no chance against her.
During the ten years I was "dead," the Insect Queen had evolved at an incredible pace. According to her, she'd used some of my DNA and the virus to undergo a long period of evolution. She'd spent about seven or eight years in a deep evolutionary sleep,