Chapter 77

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Chapter 77: The Queen’s Inheritance (XVI)

A dead person?

Just now, this little girl who was suspected to be the Dragon Ant Queen had claimed to be just a dead person. Qi Leren hadn’t noticed that beneath the elegant court dress, it was empty.

Qi Leren immediately thought of the Dragon Ant Queen lying on the bed in the bedroom. She had also had no lower body.

“What’s your relationship with the Dragon Ant Queen in the palace?” Qi Leren asked.

“She is a part of me, and I am also a part of her,” The little Queen said faintly, looking down at Aya who was kneeling on the ground. “I’m hungry, give me something to eat.”

“Do you… Do you want some solution?” Aya shook her head and stretched out her thin but clean arm.

Come to think of it, when he’d seen the Dragon Ant Queen in the bedroom, she had drunk a bright red “solution”. Indeed, as rumored, did the aging Dragon Ant Queen suck a great amount of virgin blood to prolong her life?

“I don’t eat this.” The little Queen showed a look of disgust. “Only that person likes this kind of thing.”

“What would you like to eat?” Aya asked.

“I will have some devil crystals,” said the little Queen.

Qi Leren took an unused succubus crystal from the item bar and gave it to her. The little Queen held it in her mouth and chewed it up like an apple. The crystal was automatically turned into energy and disappeared into her body.

“Can you tell us what’s going on now?” Qi Leren asked while she was eating.

“There is nothing to say, just a spare little game. Don’t think about it too much, just live to the end and jump into the Flame in the valley’s abyss,” the little Queen said coldly. “But be careful, it will kill you by any means necessary, because your existence is the continuation of its pain.”

“Whose?” Qi Leren asked.

The little Queen looked at him faintly and suddenly smiled: “Me.”

“!!!” Qi Leren immediately pulled out his gun and pointed it at her.

The little Queen chuckled: “But it’s also not me.”

Qi Leren looked at her carefully. The person in front of him was really strange. She was neither a human nor a ghost nor a demon. She had an inseparable connection with the Dragon Ant Queen, but her attitude was very strange and elusive. He vaguely had some conjectures, but he couldn’t confirm them.

“What is the relationship between you and the Dragon Ant Queen?” Qi Leren asked.

“In the beginning, we were the same person. It should be said that there was only one person. However, during the long torment, the Dragon Ant Queen’s soul gradually began to split, which produced me and it. I represent her humanity and rationality, it represents her tyranny and madness, and we live in the same body. If there hadn’t been an accident, this balance would continue to be maintained, just like the precarious order of the Underground Ant City, but I am tired.” The little Queen looked at the fog in the distance and murmured, “Among the candidates here, there are puppets who have already placed their lot with Power, and there are poor people who are drifting with the tide, but there are no warriors who are willing to bear the pain and guilt and shelter the world from the wind and rain… Forget it, let the Flame of Ant City in the valley be extinguished. It should have been extinguished long ago, and should not have lingered until today.”

The vicissitudes of the little queen’s words, which were inconsistent with her age, touched Qi Leren. He realized that the good will of the Dragon Ant Queen was disappointed with the present situation. She should have guided the suitable candidate to inherit the Dragon Ant Queen’s field, but now she had become disheartened and decided to stand by.

This is bad news for Qi Leren’s task. He thought that it was enough to keep at least one candidate and ensure that someone succeeded the Dragon Ant Queen. However, it seemed now that this was not the case—he still had to fix this little Queen who seemed to have suddenly entered her rebellious phase. She must have some important information that she didn’t say, for example, what had happened to “Power’s puppets”.

Judging from the conspiracy that the system asked him to overcome between the Devil King of Power and the Devil King of Slaughter, these two Devil Kings’ people must have been mixed into the selection ceremony, and the difficulty of this task was simply insane!

“No, you can’t let the Flame go out!” Aya, who had been careful and silent, suddenly said, “If it goes out, the whole Underground Ant City will collapse!”

“Of course I know that, but what’s the point of continuing this field? Here, human beings hate demons, demons are hostile to human beings, and there are demon tides again and again… This is neither a paradise for human beings nor a holy place for demons, but only the tombs of women with sad fates. In order to maintain this dangerous peace, each of them suffers in pain and faces a bad ending. As a Virgin guarding the Holy Flame, you are not ignorant of these things.” The little queen looked at the black cloth on Aya’s eyes and laughed mockingly.

Aya shivered and said nothing.

“Only a Virgin who guards the Flame would put black cloth over her eyes, because once you look directly at the Flame with the naked eye, your eyes will be burned and blinded. The blindfold can protect you from the burning pain of the Flame, and from being hurt by other Virgins. It’s not that you can’t take off the blindfold, but that once you take it off, you can’t be a Flame Virgin anymore, you can only become a honey ant that provides blood, and die from the exhaustion of overwork. You are afraid of the tyrannical authority of the Dragon Ant Queen, and yearn for the power and glory that being a Virgin can bring you… Look at how weak and greedy human beings are. Such a little gift can make you reluctant.” When the little Queen looked at Aya, she couldn’t tell whether it was with ridicule or pity, or both.

Aya shivered and couldn’t say a word.

Although she had been a Holy Flame Virgin for only a short time, Aya had lived tens of millions of times better than before because of her luck. She had exquisite food, a comfortable room, and a respected status. Even the Dragon Ant Queen would not live better than the Holy Flame Virgins—because every Dragon Ant Queen would suffer a terrible curse.

Seeing that Aya was shivering, Qi Leren couldn’t bear it. After all, this was just a young girl. It was human nature to yearn for a comfortable life, so why blame her?

So he changed the topic: “Let’s go west and look at the valley where the Flame’s located.”

Saying this he helped her and led her toward the right path.

The little Queen followed them step by step, and Qi Leren turned back and asked, “You’re coming too?”

“Sure, why not come?” The little Queen answered matter-of-factly.

“Don’t you dislike her?” Qi Leren caught a glimpse of Aya, who still looked depressed.

“I can also consider you for the position,” said the little queen.

Qi Leren was stunned: “But I’m a man!”

Weren’t all Dragon Ant Queens queens? First of all, the gender was wrong!

The little Queen’s mouth bent, revealing a malicious smile: “What does it matter? When you become the Queen, you will only have the upper body. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a man or a woman.”

When Qi Leren thought of the dying Dragon Ant Queen lying in the bed, he feel a burst of fear: “What about the lower body?”

“What, haven’t you seen it? The lower body of the Dragon Ant Queen is an ant exoskeleton. The first Dragon Ant Queen separated half of her body before she died, and all her strength was blessed there, so his field is inherited by inheriting her lower body.” The little Queen didn’t think it was a secret at all, so she said it freely.

Qi Leren looked down at his lower body, unwilling.

No, don’t cut that off!

The three people didn’t go far, and it was already night. After nightfall, the surrounding demons became rampant, and it became difficult to move on. The three found a suitable courtyard and settled down. Because there was no barrier, they discussed taking turns to watch during the night.

Dinner was naturally provided by Qi Leren, as only he could carry around enough food for three people. Aya carried a satchel with her that was filled with something, but it wasn’t food. She said it was a book.

After dinner, Qi Leren patrolled the neighborhood. His intuition was quite sharp, and he always felt that the night wouldn’t be very peaceful, because something evil would find them hiding here. Without Ning Zhou around, Qi Leren had to do it himself, using the “Secretly Observing” skill card and lying it wait for a while, thereby cleaning up several demons wandering nearby.

There was also a big guy at the corner of the street. Qi Leren had noticed it for a long time, but it had been hiding in the shadows regularly and looked harmless.

“That’s a tree demon. Don’t look at it now. It’s very likely that its roots have spread underground to our feet,” the little Queen suddenly said.

Qi Leren’s heart was so surprised that he almost stabbed his dagger into her heart: “How did you find me here?”

Clearly, he was using [Secretly Observing], so it should be difficult for him to be found.

The little Queen glanced at him with disdain in her eyes. “Have you forgotten who I am?”

Yes, although she wasn’t the field-level Dragon Ant Queen, she was the good side of her soul, so it wasn’t surprising that she had outstanding eyesight.

“Why did you come out? What about Aya?” Qi Leren asked.

“Oh, her. There are several Holy Flame Virgins coming to see her.” The little Queen’s mouth curled up with a cold humour. “I don’t want to see them.”

“Why?” Qi Leren thought her attitude was a bit odd.

“Because they are no longer my sacred goddaughters. Although they are still blindfolded and obey the rites, they are already a group of traitors who have laid their lot with Utopia,” The little Queen said coldly.

“Oh no! You just left her there?!” Qi Leren slapped a hand to his forehead and turned to go save her. Unexpectedly, at the moment when he turned around, the tree demon that had been quietly lurking in the shadows suddenly came to life!

Flexible vines suddenly burst from the ground, and dozens of vines shot out with them! Qi Leren’s reaction was a beat too slow and he failed to dodge a vine that wound around his ankle, instantly turning him upside down.

"You go back to find her first! I’ll be right over!” Qi Leren shouted. He launched his attack against this tree demon and cut off the vines wrapped around his ankle with a knife, and flew towards the position of its main body.

The little Queen stood under the eaves for a moment, looked back towards where Aya was sleeping not far away, pondered for a moment, and walked slowly towards Aya.

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