Somewhere Underground Base.
Gu Yue stared at the screen in disbelief and muttered, "How could this happen? How? The plan was practically guaranteed to succeed. Why did it turn out like this?"
By all rights, Xia Shu could not have been powerful enough to defeat his human-wave tactics.
Yet that was exactly what had happened. Xia Shu had won, and his human-wave tactics had failed. Worse, they had failed so inexplicably that even he could not understand why.
"What do we do now?" Gu Yue asked, looking at the giant spider in confusion.
Human-wave tactics had proved useless. As for sending in an elite force... he had no elite fighters to command.
His strongest armed force had been a combat squad he had trained earlier. During Insectification, he had even directed their mutations to turn them into the Mantis Battle Team.
But that team had accomplished little. It had vanished just as inexplicably.
"There must be something I don't know about... Could Xia Shu have an Exotic Beast too?" Gu Yue frowned and spoke to himself.
If an Exotic Beast was helping Xia Shu, then this outcome made sense.
Gu Yue paced back and forth. His expression gradually darkened. "Is running away really my only option?"
Just then, the giant spider on the base ceiling slowly turned its gaze toward Gu Yue. He shuddered, then cried out in delight, "No, there's one more way: Second Evolution!"
The first Insect Wave could turn living creatures into insect hybrids.
When activated a second time, it would strengthen everyone's insect traits while granting them the powers of other insects as well.
Mixing the abilities of two insects would produce a miracle!
No one knew what they would evolve into. No one knew where this new age would lead.
Deep down, Gu Yue had