You Woke Me Up

The slash wave and flames erupted at once, blasting a gap through the encirclement and punching a hole roughly a meter wide through the train's roof.

The two leaped onto the roof, their expressions grave.

"His flying insects are becoming more heat-resistant and harder to kill." Ke Kang held his scimitar before him. Each attack killed fewer and fewer insects. At this rate, defeat was inevitable.

Sweat slid down Ji Xiang's face as the blazing fire illuminated his features. "We just need to hold on a little longer, until they're safe."

"Then I'm afraid you'll never get to wait for that." Evil Leech was carried up by the swarm and drifted out from inside the carriage.

A sense of foreboding flashed through Ji Xiang's heart. He shouted, "What do you mean?!"

"What do I mean?" Evil Leech crooked a finger. The jet-black sea of insects, perfectly concealed by the night, carried over more than a dozen corpses from behind the train. They were the survivors from the last two carriages who had just escaped.

Among the corpses, Ji Xiang and Ke Kang saw two familiar figures.

Their faces were filled with disbelief, as though they had witnessed something utterly inconceivable just before death.

"Meng Juan, Li Xuhao!"

Flames shot forth, snatching their corpses from the insects.

"My little darlings haven't eaten their fill yet. Why are you in such a hurry to leave?" Like a cat toying with mice, Evil Leech commanded the insect swarm to attack without pause.

His flying insects burrowed into their enemies' bodies. Not only did they gnaw through flesh and blood, they also injected a neurotoxin. Its potency was such that contact meant death.

Then, using human corpses as nests, they bred new flying insects.

Their only flaw was that the newly bred insects had