I-I've really got it rough! The little hive queen huddled inside the Leviathan's belly, trembling all over.
She really had been having a hard time. Over the past twenty hours, her emotions had been like riding an untested roller coaster. What a wild ride, full of twists and turns!
She'd tailed the raider fleet into New Lushun, thinking she might profit from the situation. She hadn't expected that fiend, the Snakehead, to be there too, and had nearly fled in terror on the spot. But then Xia Li quickly remembered that she'd already maxed out the Leviathan's stealth capabilities. No matter how powerful her opponent was, he was still below the level of a Saint, so he shouldn't be able to detect her.
So she'd hidden herself away and watched carefully. She hadn't expected to play the fisherman who caught both sides, but she'd have been perfectly happy just to scavenge a few scraps.
She'd watched the Star Eater's landing force get torn in two, and was glad she'd chosen to hide. After all, if those Earth psychics could land on the Star Eater's head under the Snakehead's command and behead it, couldn't they just as easily land on her Leviathan, drag her out, and kill her?
At the thought of being dragged from her hole like a gopher and beaten to death, Xia Li wanted to burst into tears.
Still, the way things had unfolded was somewhat reassuring. That terrifying Snakehead hadn't noticed her at all, and had withdrawn after killing the Star Eater.
The Star Eater's enormous body drifted through space, but its head had been caught by the gravity of New Lushun IV and came hurtling down toward the planet's barren wilderness.
Xia Li hesitated for a few seconds, confirming that the two sides were busy wrapping