I murmured a few words, then used the last of my strength.
"Fly!"
"Boom!"
"Holy crap!"
Tuanzi's enormous figure quickly disappeared into the distance. Its body was dense, but not very heavy—
comparatively speaking, it was quite light, even lighter than water of the same volume.
So throwing Tuanzi hadn't affected me when I was at full strength, but now... I probably couldn't manage it.
The instant I threw Tuanzi, my vision went black, and I fell to the ground.
"Rumble!"
At that moment, for some reason, the bugs all around me seemed to receive some kind of command. They'd been about to charge, but their steps faltered. Then, without the slightest hesitation, they quickly retreated, vanishing into the rainforest in the blink of an eye.
"Could that... be the Insect Queen?"
I murmured, cracking my eyes open just a sliver as I watched the last bug disappear into the rainforest.
It seemed... the Insect Queen was keeping her promise.
Thinking of that, I didn't want to keep holding on. My breathing grew weaker and weaker, until it was almost imperceptible, and my consciousness gradually faded away.
But... another sudden turn of events made me open my eyes instinctively. I looked toward the sky in the distance, where a blurry object was approaching with a "whirring" sound.
It looked like... something called a helicopter.
Who was it?
Everything before my eyes was blurry, and I couldn't make out what was happening in the distance. I closed my eyes. It felt like only a few seconds had passed, though it might have been hours, before my vision returned. A familiar figure stood before me.
"Long... Tian...feng..."
I slowly moved my lips, which I could barely open, and looked at the human standing near the corner of my eye... His name, I