Chapter 79

Editor: Kat

Proofreader: Junyans

The whole livestream room was pitch black, as if the screen was blocked. Wei Xun was still exploring alone and he didn’t like to talk, so the audience in the livestream room seemed to be watching a pure black silent film. If everyone was staying in the livestream room to guess what would happen next, that would be fine.

However, it was not as if Wei Xun was mute. All of a sudden, he would utter out, “Tagla Membar!” Another moment, he would suddenly say, “It came alive!!” The audience watching intently would feel shocked by his words, but they couldn’t see the scene, and they didn’t know when he would speak again. They were extremely anxious.

This was simply too torturous!

[Can Wei Xun turn on the flashlight? I’m so pitiful. I also want to see what’s happening]

[Grandfather, please use your flashlight quickly, your grandson is begging you!]

Just when the commentary barrage began to bet whether the flashlight would be turned on while Wei Xun was underground in the ruins, with a snap, Wei Xun turned on the strong flashlight without any warning.

Suddenly, the audience in the livestream room seemed to see the sun.

[Eyes! My eyes!!!]

[Sob, sob, sob. Who said to turn on the flashlight? All I can see is a patch of white now!]

The audience was finally able to empathize with the aquatic reptile who was in a similar situation previously. Now, a group of victims who were almost blinded by the strong flashlight gathered in the livestream room. But before the victims could get used to the light, Wei Xun turned off the flashlight again.

The audience: ???

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Moments ago, Wei Xun had turned on the flashlight and shone it at the buddha statue, right into the statue’s eyes. He saw a small black shadow roll down from the statue’s seemingly blinking eyes. It was a black bug that had been frightened by the strong light.

It turned out that the Buddha statue had not come alive previously. It had simply been the insects crawling on the Buddha statue’s eyeballs. Although both the bugs and the statue were black, the colors were subtly different. In Wei Xun’s field of vision, it was like the eyes of the black Buddha were rolling.

Wei Xun snorted regretfully but then had a thought, was this Buddha statue guarding the Insects of Evil behind the stone gate?

He looked at the murals above his head depicting the Bon religion killing sacrifices, where the blood of the sacrifices soaked some egg-like spheres. From this, could he infer that the chipped mural depicted the Insects of Evil hatching from the eggs and devouring the sacrifices?

Wei Xun suspected that the gusin of ancient Xiangxiong might have had a way to control the swarm. Thousands of black bugs were hard to guard against. It was a pity to use them to deal with sinners. If they could be controlled during a battle, they would be a terrifying force.

The kind of force that could beat Dog IV-1 so badly that he would scram while urinating him.

“Buzz, buzz!” The golden mosquito buzzed, and carefully expressed its dissatisfaction to Wei Xun.

It was the best among the demonic mosquitoes. Although they, the Valentine demonic mosquitoes, were not as powerful as the Abyssal King Insect, the mosquitoes were highly specialized at secretly sucking a demon’s blood!

Previously, Wei Xun had praised the snow leopard and fox cub. Xiaojin didn’t express its feelings because in its heart, they weren’t the same species as it. But now that Wei Xun praised the Insect of Evil, it mustered up the courage to prove that although the Insect of Evil looked strong, it was not a match for Xiaojin at all!

In the end, to express how powerful it is, the golden mosquito pounced on the Insect of Evil and turned this Insect of Evil into a ball of gray energy. It could only turn into a ball of energy as large as a grain of sand. Then, it sucked the insect dry in one go.

“Buzz, buzz!”

Wei Xun: …

“Heave——”

Wei Xun held his breath for a while and was relieved after sensing that he wouldn’t face another crisis due to the odor. He said in his heart in a nasty tone, “Fortunately, you didn’t inhale the insect directly.”

Otherwise, he would have expelled the golden mosquito from the ruins.

Turning the Insect of Evil into pure energy and then inhaling it was barely within Wei Xun’s acceptable range of actions. Then he curiously asked in his heart, ‘If you can absorb more of this energy, can you evolve into something?’

Mosquitoes like Xiaojin could evolve. It was weak now, and it would get stronger if Wei Xun grew stronger. The absorbed energy would also be passed onto Wei Xun. Just now, Wei Xun had actually gotten a little bit of energy. It was really only a little bit, and the increase in energy was negligible for him.

“Buzz, buzz.”

Xiao Jin hesitantly buzzed, and vaguely revealed its thoughts to Wei Xun. According to the inheritance of their demonic mosquitoes, except for secretly sucking the blood of powerful demons, they seldom sucked the blood of creatures to enhance their strength.

Because this method of enhancing their strength was too slow.

It was just like this Insect of Evil. Xiaojin probably had to suck tens of thousands of them to advance, and Xiaojin would have to convert them all into energy and suck each of them. Although the mosquito would not be exhausted, the efficiency was too low.

So, they mostly found a master.

When their master killed an enemy, they sucked their blood. If the master did not kill an enemy, they sucked the blood of their master, and they could become stronger while being lazy. Wasn’t this such an easy way out!

‘Huh? You’ve been leading a good life,’ Wei Xun said, his words holding a deep meaning.

Xiaojin was keenly aware of the sense of crisis, and it immediately buzzingly added that although they would suck their master’s blood, the abyssal type of demons liked to keep them, the Valentine demonic mosquitoes, precisely because they could turn their enemies into obedient servants without their enemies realizing. Just like how Wei Xun had used it to control the dog, and Yue Chenghua.

However, just using them to control solely one person would really be a waste of their talents. One must know that in the depths of the abyss where the Valentine mosquitoes thrived, there were all kinds of insects. The abyssal giant worm, various demonic bees, demonic ants, etc. And they usually heeded an insect king. As long as the Valentine mosquitoes controlled the insect king, that nest of insects would serve them as their master.

Therefore, it was very useful! Xiaojin buzzed, like a fluffy golden candy ball, voluntarily pleading to Wei Xun.

Invasion and control, this was the nature of the demons! There was also a similar insect king in this swarm of Insects of Evil. As long as Wei Xun was willing, it would assist Wei Xun and conquer the swarm!

‘Conquering the swarm…sigh’

Wei Xun’s tone sounded a little melancholy as he said, ‘Forget it, you can try it first.’

Because of the unique characteristic of the Valentine mosquitoes, they were indeed the most effective to deal with the insect swarm. If he used Xiaojin to deal with mammals, it would be difficult for Wei Xun to completely control the herd even if he controlled the leader, but insect swarms were different.

[Gosh, my eyes can only see pure whiteness. I was almost blinded by that sight!]

After the strong light dazzled the audience, Wei Xun did not speak out for a long time, and the audience gradually recovered their eyesight.

[At that moment, I saw a black Buddha statue. Wei Xun was looking at the Buddha statue.]

[I know what is in these ruins, that’s the Buddha statue of Tagla Membar!]

[Tagla Membar is a deity that protects Bon believers from the influence of other religions. He has three faces. The white face is the sign of mercy, sheltering the devout Bon devotees. The red face is the sign of silence. The deity burned themself for the sake of the tiger god, and can control the tiger god when spreading the teachings of the religion. And the black face is the most strange and mysterious face. According to the legends, it is related to the Insect of Evil recorded in the Tibetan scriptures]

[The Insect of Evil can devour everything. According to the legends, it has no natural enemies besides the Garuda and the gods and Buddhas. If the legend is true, behind the stone gate of the ruins is likely the place where the sacrificial ceremony took place, where the sacrifices had been bestowed to the Insects of Evil in the former kingdom of Xiangxiong!]

[In other words, the black Buddha and the seal on the stone gate are both to suppress the Insects of Evil?]

[Wei Xun, hurry up and run! The earthquake shattered the stone gate, the seal was broken, and the Insects of Evil have come out. Do not touch the Buddha statue, or the Insects of Evil behind the stone gate are likely to riot.]

[I’m praying for Wei Xun to leave quickly, this is not a good place.]

[Wait, what is he doing? What is Wei Xun doing?!]

[Stop, why did he move the Buddha statue!!]

Wei Xun was prepared to let Xiaojin freely move about to conquer the swarm, but Wei Xun had to create a cover for Xiaojin. He couldn’t let Xiaojin be exposed. Wei Xun didn’t know if the audience could see anything in the pitch darkness of the livestream room, so he thought of a villainous move.

Wei Xun put his sunglasses on, then manically began to turn the flashlight that could emit strong light on and off.

The audience: ?!?!

The audience in the livestream room was going crazy. Countless people left the livestream room, and the number of people in IV-1’s livestream room plummeted. However, there were also many people who stood firm, ignoring the danger of being blinded, and did not miss a single move of Wei Xun’s.

Then, they almost choked when they saw Wei Xun pick up the Buddha statue with one hand and put it into his storage space (Wei Xun stuffed it into the young fox’s stomach).

[No, I am shocked, how big is his storage space?? A wet corpse, a skull, and a golden box have already been placed inside it. How can you still fit a whole Buddha statue??]

[This is not the key point, okay? Is Wei Xun crazy? Without the suppression of the Black Buddha, the swarm will come out!]

The moment Wei Xun put away the Buddha statue, the surrounding temperature seemed to drop, and a chill came from behind the stone gate. Xiaojin had already drilled through the cracks of the stone gate to find the insect king, but it would take time.

Wei Xun heard the dense rustling sound that made one’s scalp numb come from behind the stone gate. The sound was getting closer and closer, and it sounded like a man-eating beetle emerging from the pharaoh’s coffin in the movies. Listening carefully, he could hear the surging sound of insects coming from all directions, like a tidal wave formed by thousands of black insects.

The strong light from Wei Xun’s flashlight shone on the cracks of the stone gate and illuminated countless tiny black shadows flickering behind the cracks, all of which were actually the dense swarm of Insects of Evil. They were like a blanket of insects, similar to a large number of army ants, rushing towards Wei Xun, the only living person in the ruins, as fast as they could. It was like the Insects of Evil were rushing towards the living sacrifice, rumbling like a tide.

He had to adapt to this situation eventually.

Wei Xun had a blank expression on his face as the strong light beam from the flashlight swayed slightly. Currently, his face was white, without the slightest hint of blood.

In the livestream room, the audience worried whether Wei Xun was so afraid that he became stupefied. When the black insect tide was about to reach his feet, Wei Xun took out the gold-plated and silver-inlaid skull.

The swarms of worms rushing in immediately receded like a tide, and in less than three seconds they hid behind the stone gate. They didn’t emit the slightest sound in doing so.

[Huh, fortunately, he had that. I was so frantic that I forgot about it]

The frightened audience in the livestream room gasped.

[Fortunately, Wei Xun didn’t give it to the descendant of the eagle flutist. This skull was really useful! I even think that with the skull there, Wei Xun can go inside the stone gate and explore it!]

[Wait, no, why did Wei Xun put away the skull?!]

He had to adapt to this situation eventually.

Wei Xun thought to himself as he put away the gold-plated silver-inlaid skull and waited quietly for five seconds. Sure enough, the sound of a swarm of insects rustling behind the stone gate appeared again, and soon after, the black torrent formed by the gathering of Insects of Evil came again from the cracks of the stone gate. But it seemed that this time, their speed seemed to be much slower than how they moved just now. It was as if the insects were hesitating.

The swarm arrived at Wei Xun’s feet hesitantly, and then Wei Xun took out a gold-plated silver-inlaid skull.

The swarm: ???

The swarm immediately retreated behind the stone gate, leaving behind grayish-white and curved insect corpses at Wei Xun’s feet.

“Look, the insects are pretty clean, and they’re not stinky or dirty except for being a little annoying, right?” Wei Xun muttered to himself, put away the skull again, and repeated this process several times.

Afterwards, the swarm went in and out of the stone gate as Wei Xun repeated his actions. And in the end, when Wei Xun put away the skull, the swarm did not come out again. The viewers in the livestream room who were tortured together with the swarm were relieved until they saw Wei Xun cut his fingers and begin to bleed.

A swarm that was attracted by the blood reappeared, but the size of the swarm was smaller than the one Wei Xun had originally seen.

“Oh, they’re pretty stupid.”

Wei Xun repeated his actions until the swarm became like an old man with a curved back, trembling as it crawled over very slowly. Wei Xun sighed and took out the skull again.

The swarm and the audience in the livestream room all felt numb to his actions. They felt very emotionless as if they were disillusioned with the world and detached from reality.

When Wei Xun finally stopped teasing the insects and walked towards the stone gate, the audience still hadn’t reacted.

Wei Xun walked quickly to the side of the stone gate after he heard Xiaojin’s buzzing in his heart. The golden mosquito had lived up to its promise, and had found the mother of the swarm of Insects of Evil!

But it was stuck in a sticky situation now, and it desperately needed Wei Xun’s help!

The author has something to say:

The audience/the insect swarm: This was a torturous moment for men and women (Bugs’)

Sob, sob!

Let me recommend my good friend’s novel. She’s an old author, and her good wordsmanship could be guaranteed. The MC is a super adorable little fox! The little angels who are interested in reading could go take a look at it, it’s a super interesting book!

<<I rely on my cuteness to reclaim the main character’s halo [Quick Transmigration]>>

T/N: I did not translate the summary of the book, but those interested in the book can just google the raw name of the book 《我靠卖萌夺回主角光环［穿书］》

T/N: Bonus chapters will be published tomorrow and on Monday.