Chapter 82.2

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[Please choose the carrier of the demonic insect ball!]

‘Fine. If you can’t do it, then forget it. You’re truly stingy.’

Wei Xun tossed the skull and the cocoon of the mother of the swarm, which was wrapped in human skin, in his hand.

‘Give me a minute, okay.’

He turned his attention to the mother of the swarm. It seemed to have received too big of a psychological blow. When he looked over, the mother of the swarm shuddered. Trembling, it acted completely different from how it did previously.

‘You should be glad…’

Wei Xun sighed, a little regretful, and said in a friendly manner, ‘Anyone who has threatened me previously has died. As for you…’

If it weren’t for this task, he would definitely give this female insect more life lessons that it would never forget.

The female insect was wholly terrified, and cries of ‘Sob, sob, sob’ sounded in Wei Xun’s mind again. Wei Xun didn’t say how he would punish the mother of the swarm. The fear of the unknown was always the best punishment, especially since the mother of the swarm already knew how to cherish its life and understood what fear was.

‘When you hatch, you will eat the cocoon shell, right?’

The mother of the swarm responded immediately, and it said that it was indeed the case. In the past, the female insects never had the opportunity to form into a cocoon and mutate again, but after they became the mother of the swarm, they would devour a large amount of high-radiation ores to enhance their reproductive ability. However, the mutated female insect no longer had to bother to devour ores.

Before it broke the cocoon, the cocoon shell was like an ordinary emerald, without any radiation. But after it broke the cocoon, the cocoon shell would be the best ore with the most radiation!

The female insect was transmitting feelings of flattery to Wei Xun.

When it successfully broke the cocoon and devoured the cocoon shell, it would definitely be able to breed a larger and more powerful swarm for its master!

‘You should come out of the cocoon first and let me see.’

Wei Xun was noncommittal, but this time he was no longer stingy and poured all fourteen drops of blood from the butterfly tattoo from the two tubes that he had prepared earlier onto the emerald cocoon. He felt the joy and gratitude of the female insect and the emotions of surprise and joy. The blood quickly penetrated through the cracks on the surface of the cocoon shell, and the color of the entire cocoon shell was also changing.

It changed from emerald green into a deeper shade of green, and the cracks on it turned dark, making it appear like a miniature jasper-colored watermelon. Since Wei Xun gave more blood, it was not only enough for the female insect to achieve a perfect mutation, but it was also able to help it get better. He saw a few emerald green lights reflecting outwards from the cracks. This light was not ordinary, but an external manifestation of spiritual fluctuations that only Wei Xun could see.

Countless beams of green spiritual light penetrated through the cracks in the cocoon shell and outlined a small figure. At first, there were four tender green membrane wings, like the first leaves that sprouted during early spring. The tips of the wings were a bright yellow, and the emerald color became more intense as it approached the base of the wings, finally turning into an elegant dark green.

Jade colored long curly hair, and light green skin. The antennae an insect would grow appeared among its hair like pearl-colored antlers, and they were also embellished with emeralds. The dark green pupils focused on Wei Xun, and with a smile in her eyes, she appeared fresh and beautiful.

The mental projection of the mother of the swarm’s thoughts appeared as dreamy as a fairy in the forest described in those fairy tales and legends. No one could resist it given the innate allurement and beauty that it possessed!

‘Master, Farara greets your esteemed self.’

A humanoid?

Wei Xun was stunned for a moment and felt that the mother of the swarm was a bit similar to the queen that had a human upper body and an insect lower body in the murals. However, the female insect was only the size of an average human’s palm.

No, it was not a humanoid.

He realized that this was just the mental projection of the mother of the swarm. It could be projected in front of others or remain completely hidden. And the one who could freely switch between the mental projection and its physical state could be regarded as the mother of the swarm among the demonic insects.

Because Wei Xun had subconsciously thought of “hiding it,” only he could see the female insect’s mental projection.

‘Farara is considered one of the classes among the demonic insect’s mothers of the swarm,’ The golden mosquito whispered to Wei Xun.

The classes of female insects were different from the hierarchies of other demonic insects, and they had their own categorization. The highest was Dorara, the queen. Below it was Lairara, the class lower than it was Mirara, and beneath it was Farara. The mutilated female insect without a mental projection would be the lowest of them all.

However, this female insect was a Farara, not because she was strong, but because the number of swarms of Insects of Evil she could control was very terrifying! Even the demonic insect queen‘s subordinates might not necessarily have so many swarms.

The female insect was now the lowest Farara class, simply because all the insects in her swarm were ordinary insects.

As long as Wei Xun let the three mantis brothers continue to mate with her, or found a higher-ranked demonic insect to rejuvenate the female insect’s swarm, if all of them were able to become inferior demonic insects, Wei Xun felt that the female insect could directly leap in class. She could jump into the next class and become a Mirara, and even the higher Lairara class!

While Xiaojin explained to Wei Xun, the female insect’s mental projection looked at the golden mosquito gently. Her eyes were full of tenderness, and Xiaojin shivered in fright, hiding behind Wei Xun like an orange juice sugar ball.

It was the highest ranking demonic insect under Wei Xun with the exception of the female insect, and it was also an adult demonic insect. Therefore, it was normal for the female insect to stare at it!

The mother of the swarm smiled softly in Xiaojin’s direction, and then she lifted her leaf-like skirt and saluted Wei Xun gracefully.

‘Farara beseeches Master to bestow me a name.’

The name of a demonic insect could only be bestowed by its master.

‘You will be called Xiaocui.’

Wei Xun said casually, ‘Xiaocui, you want to eat the cocoon shell, right?’

‘Yes, Master.’

Xiaocui was one of the rare demonic insects who could talk to Wei Xun normally. As the mother of the swarm, she was naturally and uniquely intelligent. In fact, female demonic insects were extremely difficult to encounter, extremely rare and precious, and it was almost impossible to catch them.

However, the Insects of Evil had been irradiated for a long time, and they had undergone some mutation themselves. The mother of the swarm of the Insects of Evil had devoured high-radiation ores all year round, and sucked nearly 20 drops of Wei Xun’s blood, evolving into a Farara female insect!

And because of this, after Xiaocui completely surrendered to Wei Xun, she was more loyal and did not hide anything.

Most of Wei Xun’s nineteen drops of blood were absorbed by her, but part of them was absorbed by the cocoon shell, which had also been tempered and had metamorphosed. After Xiaocui swallowed the cocoon, her abilities would grow stronger, especially her most important ability, the reproductive ability. The eggs she laid from now on would have a 50% chance of hatching into demonic insects.

‘Since you’re gonna eat it anyway,’ Wei Xun gave her advice, ‘Don’t bite it, and swallow it whole. There should be no problem with this, right?’

Xiaocui: ???

For a beauty whose mental projection was only the size of an average human’s palm and a flawless and lovely fairy, how could she swallow the cocoon shell the size of a fist whole??

How maddening was this!

‘Can it be done, eh?’

‘……Yes.’

Xiao Cui bowed her head down in the face of her master’s might. She dissipated her mental projection and turned back into her original form. She was an emerald-colored insect that was only the length of a forearm and with a slender upper body, appearing like a lacewing. Her body was covered with light green membranous wings that were wide and light, like a gauze skirt. And her abdomen was not as large as that of an ordinary mother of the swarm, because there were not a lot of eggs in her abdomen at this moment.

It was impossible to swallow the entire cocoon shell with her small mouth alone, but Xiaocui directly and decisively tore open her abdominal cavity and stuffed the cocoon ball inside. Her wound healed very rapidly, and almost as soon as the cocoon shell was swallowed into the abdominal cavity, it healed so that there was no visible scar.

And Wei Xun also told the Travel Services before the cocoon shell completely entered its belly, ‘I’m going to choose it as the carrier of the demonic insect ball.’

The demonic insect ball reminded Wei Xun of the eggs that Miao Fangfei had given him, which had been obtained by Miao Fangfei after acquiring a dark blue title. Miao Fangfei could give the Gu eggs to Wei Xun, and the eggs surprisingly had not lost their functionality even after they were transferred to Wei Xun. Wei Xun suspected that if the demonic insect ball fell into the hands of others, they could also utilize it.

More likely, there were tourists or tour guides who specifically snatched other’s props and used them to control the prop’s owner.

Wei Xun wasn’t being an alarmist. Dog IV-1 had let Wei Xun understand the dark side of many tour guides. For example, some tour guides would take the initiative to hand in their “exclusive props” in order to join a big tour guide alliance or to declare their loyalty to a bigwig tour guide to receive protection from them. There were also tour guides and even tourists with similar titles, who would collect this kind of thing specially.

After all, a title was not exclusive, and others might also obtain the same titles.

Just like other tour guides or tourists with the title of [Demonic Insect Dominator], they might also have a “damaged demonic insect ball” in their hands. If they could grab some props from others and integrate it with their demonic insect ball, they could gradually “repair” their demonic insect ball and make it even more powerful.

It was as if the Travel Services was raising them as Gu, which would result in only one strongest person among those with the same title, and the rest would all become the targets for the strongest person to plunder from and trample on.

Therefore, if Wei Xun wanted to use his identity as a tour guide to reveal the title of [Demonic Insect Dominator], he must hide his demonic insect ball in advance.

Xiaocui’s stomach was a good place to use as a carrier!

Wei Xun’s heart was flooded with bad intentions. At the same time, he was a little curious.

The demonic insects he conquered could be raised in the demonic insect ball, and now the demonic insect ball was in the belly of the female insect, and integrated with the female insect. With this Russian nesting doll-like system, if the female insect was also “stored” into the demonic insect ball, would the demonic insect ball still be corporeal?

Wei Xun stored the three mantis brothers and Xiaojin into the demonic insect ball, and the process was very smooth. Part of the ability of the demonic insect ball was [When your esteemed self possesses two things, one title relating to the demonic insects and a damaged insect ball, you will be able to obtain some abilities of the insects in the insect ball, and this ability will also be reflected onto the swarms your esteemed self controls].

Thus, after putting the four of them into the insect ball, there were two new prompts regarding the insect ball:

[Your esteemed self is a natural concealer, and your esteemed self’s swarms will be silent when lurking around, not attracting the attention of any creatures]

[Your esteemed self is a born fighter, and your esteemed self’s swarms will possess blade-like weapons]

Wei Xun found this very interesting. The attributes that enhanced the swarm brought by the insect ball were not random, and would not conflict with each other. For example, the characteristics of Xiaojin were concealing and blood-sucking, but this attacking style was not in line with the blade mantises, so the enhancement the swarm received was “stealth.”

The characteristics of the blade mantis were hard armor and blade arms, but now most of them were ordinary Insects of Evil. Obviously, the caterpillar-like swarm couldn’t mutate collectively, so the enhanced attribute became “possess blade-like weapons.”

Wei Xun summoned an ordinary Insect of Evil and found that the dense black hair on its body was soft and droopy when it moved, but when it attacked, the black hair would become sharp and hard, like needles as thin as cow fur. They were also poisonous, so the enemy would never feel well after they pierced their bodies, regardless of if they were human or animal.

And these concealing and fighting attributes were not only reflected in the swarm, but also enhanced Wei Xun’s abilities.

In fact, the enhancement only worked for an outlier like him. When most people received the title, it was impossible for them to have a huge insect swarm. The enhancement one would receive from the demonic insect ball could only strengthen their body.

When Wei Xun took off his gloves, his pointed nails were no longer like the claws of beasts but had turned black, and even his hands, wrists, and the front half of his forearms had turned black. On his knuckles, nail roots, and wrists, emerald green scales grew. Wei Xun moved his hands, and found that his fingers were flexible. They were also shimmering. It was evident that they had turned into weapons, just like the modified mechanical hands in those blockbuster sci-fi movies.

But when Wei Xun chose to hide this characteristic, his hands looked the same as a normal person’s. Of course, they merely “looked” the same.

‘So……’

The most important question now was, could the demonic insect ball in Xiaocui’s belly store Xiaocui, and what form would it take?

‘Store.’

Xiaocui disappeared into thin air. It was beyond Wei Xun’s expectations. He originally thought that the process wouldn’t be so smooth, and that either Xiaocui could not be stored in the demonic insect ball, or the demonic insect ball would appear, but they both disappeared completely!

Wei Xun caressed his heart thoughtfully, and he felt his butterfly tattoo move slightly.

With a change of his thoughts, Xiaocui appeared in Wei Xun’s hand. Once again, with a change in his thoughts, he could store the ball in the tattoo on his body.

Was it because of his blood?

Whether it was the carrier, the cocoon which was also the demonic insect ball, the female insect in the ball, or the three mantis brothers and Xiaojin, all of them had absorbed the blood from his butterfly tattoo before they had been mutated and subdued by Wei Xun.

Or was it because of his title?

One must know that before obtaining this title, neither Xiaojin nor the four maggots had felt anything about this butterfly tattoo. They were only interested in the blood.

Demonic Insect Dominator, the demons, the abyss, the insect, the son of insects.

Was the Maria Abyss Flashing Butterfly a kind of demonic insect in the abyss?

Wei Xun’s eyes glimmered. Obtaining this title might be of great help to him in exploring the secrets of the Maria butterfly.

T/N: Pr-ed chapter will be uploaded soon. :]