A Feeding Relationship

The corpse's chest bulged, rippling upward until its throat and cheeks were stretched to an unbelievable size! A thick, bloated white flesh worm squeezed out through its mouth—

"Everyone, back off!"

Zhou Diao barked. His right hand instantly transformed into a Beast Claw! With one swipe, he pierced the skull and tore the entire head apart!

The fat flesh worm convulsed and tried to shrink back inside.

Zhou Diao dug his Beast Claw into the corpse's throat and yanked hard. The fragile body was split straight down the middle!

Like a water-filled balloon being slashed open, a huge amount of mucus gushed out. The corpse and the flesh worm collapsed together, becoming a thin sheet of skin, with no flesh, bones, or organs left inside.

Qin Liang fought back his nausea as he filmed the scene. "The inside of the body was eaten hollow by the bugs..."

"They look disgusting, but their skin is thin. They're easy to kill and not much of a threat." Zhou Diao glanced back at the other team members. "Deal with these bugs first."

Everyone followed him into the cave containing the Xenomorphs.

Headlamps, flashlights, emergency lamps, and all kinds of lighting equipment illuminated the cave, exposing more oddly limbed Xenomorphs in the light.

Besides the few lying near the cave entrance, there were more than a dozen deeper inside.

Without exception, all of them were corpses.

Some had waxy pale skin, some were rotten and blackened, and others had already been eaten hollow by bugs. Their skin was as thin as paper, and through it, one could even see the fat white worms slowly wriggling inside their bodies.

The team members each took out daggers to deal with the corpses.

Brother Chao, standing at the entrance, watched the scene and finally realized what was happening. His expression darkened as he said, "You aren't people from the Forum. You're from the Supervision Bureau."

In stark contrast to Brother Chao's reaction, Fang Ye, standing beside him, looked delighted. "You're from the Supervision Bureau?"

"Idiot! Do you think they can save us?" Brother Chao cursed at him. "Now that they've taken care of all the Xenomorphs, we won't get a single cent of the reward!"

Fang Ye cowered and did not dare say anything.

No one paid attention to the two brothers. They only thought they were idiots.

Even if they really dragged these Xenomorph corpses outside, they would never get the reward.

The Supervision Bureau's internal procedures had not been designed for nothing. For every Xenomorph case, the bureau produced a detailed analysis report. Coupled with the application and review process, the brothers' lie would be exposed sooner or later at some stage.

Feng Ling's reward had arrived so quickly solely because Su Yuqing had personally vouched for her.

The cave echoed with wet chopping sounds.

Each corpse was like a bag full of water—too thin, too brittle, and too weak. Feng Ling lost interest after swinging her axe twice.

She told Huangfu Miaomiao to try as well, to see if she could earn any Points.

Perhaps because the fat worms wrapped inside the corpses posed no threat, Huangfu Miaomiao became slightly braver. With a grave expression, she raised her hammer and smashed a nearby worm to death.

Using her long-handled axe as a cane, Feng Ling lazily leaned against the end of its handle and asked, "How was it? Did you get any Points?"

Huangfu Miaomiao turned to look at her, revealing her first Smiley Face since entering the cave.

"Yes!" She nodded vigorously at Feng Ling.

Feng Ling smiled and asked, "How many?"

"Two Points!" Huangfu Miaomiao's eyes shone with excitement.

Feng Ling: "..."

Was she so broke that two Points made her this happy?

Forget it. Two Points were still Points. She could exchange them for jelly in the little Xenomorph's Shop.

"Hey, Deputy Captain Zhou~~~" Feng Ling called to Zhou Diao in the distance. "Leave a few for Little Skeleton. Let her earn some Points."

Zhou Diao stopped resentfully and cursed, "Fuck, anyone who cooperates with Xenomorphs has no brains! Sooner or later, they'll bring disaster upon themselves!"

Feng Ling agreed wholeheartedly. "Yeah. Who would be stupid enough to cooperate with Xenomorphs?"

Zhou Diao: "..."

Do you know I'm talking about you?!!

Feng Ling tilted her head at him. "What kind of look is that? Were you insulting me just now?"

Zhou Diao snorted coldly and used his Beast Claw to pick up two corpses before tossing them over. "Hmph. Quit playing dumb."

Feng Ling smiled. "I'm not cooperating with a Xenomorph. We have a feeding relationship."

She asked Huangfu Miaomiao, who was hammering a corpse, "Isn't that right?"

Huangfu Miaomiao paused, then forced herself to agree. "That's right, Mom."

Feng Ling smiled and lifted her chin at Zhou Diao.

Zhou Diao glared at her and tore a corpse beside him into bloody scraps.

At that moment, Qin Liang, who had been filming the entire time, suddenly spoke up. "I found something!"

Everyone turned toward him. Standing beside a cave entrance, Qin Liang said, "There are corpses inside this tunnel too, but their shapes are strange."

"Move aside. Let me take a look." Zhou Diao walked over with a frown.

But Qin Liang could not resist leaning into the tunnel. "Something's wrong. There seems to be something beneath the corpses..."

Before he could finish, Qin Liang suddenly sucked in a breath and hurriedly retreated!

At the same time, a blue-black crawler as large as an adult shot out of the tunnel! Its huge mandibles snapped onto Qin Liang's military headlamp like lightning—

Crack!

The headlamp shattered, and the crawler's entire head was smashed apart by a Beast Claw.

Zhou Diao rushed over and roared furiously at Qin Liang, "I told you to follow my command! Who told you to act on your own?!"

Qin Liang's face was tense, his eyes wide as he drew his gun and aimed at the tunnel entrance. "They're... they're all coming out!"

Two more blue-black crawlers tore through the skin of the corpses and rapidly crawled out!

"Move!" Zhou Diao shouted.

Everyone immediately withdrew from the tunnel entrance and returned to the large cave where they had first arrived.

The two bugs crawled out as well. They were unbelievably fast, and both targeted the flashlights and lamps, lunging to bite at the sources of light!

Zhou Diao swung his Beast Claw and ripped the bugs apart. Hearing the rustling sound of insects crawling from tunnel entrances in every direction, he immediately ordered, "Light up the area with incendiary bombs! Prepare to fire!"

Everyone formed a circle, standing back-to-back as they raised their guns and aimed at the surrounding tunnel entrances.

Xiao Li and Cao Hongyi swiftly pulled incendiary bombs from their backpacks and threw them to the left and right. The entire cave was instantly illuminated with crystal clarity—black Centipede-like insect heads extended from the dark tunnel entrances, their antennae swaying through the air as they waited for an opportunity!

"Fire!"

At Zhou Diao's command, gunfire thundered through the cave!

The Special Forces were all expertly trained marksmen. One bug after another was shot in the head and fell from the tunnel entrances, their bodily fluids splashing everywhere as bullets shattered their carapaces.

Several thick Bug Monsters withstood the gunfire and charged forward, but before Feng Ling could act, Zhou Diao rushed at them like a tigress protecting her cubs and tore them apart!

Standing among them, Feng Ling actually felt a little idle. She could not help thinking, Zhou Diao might not be likable, but he really put his back into his work.

Matching the Special Forces' battle rhythm, she killed several bugs as well.

The gunfire continued without pause until no more bugs crawled out of the tunnel entrances, then gradually died down.

The ground was covered in bug corpses and foul-smelling sludge.

The team members still did not dare lower their guard. They quickly replenished their ammunition, then continued aiming their guns at the tunnel entrances.

"Stay alert!" Zhou Diao ordered in a low voice.