“Good heavens, is that the legendary Xingyan insect? It's so huge!"

For some reason, Lu Xiaoyao's entry into the game scene seemed different from others.

When she first came in, everything around her was extremely quiet.

There were no humans, only she, a lone insect, drifting alone in outer space, looking extremely pitiful.

However, this was just Lu Xiaoyao's subconscious sigh. If she had seen other insects fleeing for their lives, she definitely wouldn't have found the present peace so bad.

Gradually, after so long, she slowly digested herself from an ordinary insect into the information of an advanced Xingyan insect.

It wasn't particularly bad.

At least in Lu Xiaoyao's memory, whenever she encountered Xingyan insects in the game, she was always the one getting her butt kicked.

Every time she was defeated, she was never able to surpass them.

Being able to play such an insect, Lu Xiaoyao felt it was a real perk.

At least before Lu Xiaoyao saw the insect army, she felt she could overturn everyone.

So, while no one was around, was it okay to admire her own "heroic appearance"?

However, when Lu Xiaoyao was admiring her whole body, she ran into a problem.

What does it mean to be "high-eyed"? (idiom for arrogant)

Lu Xiaoyao had turned into two eyes growing on two small antennae. At first glance, it really was the case.

Looking down at her whole body again, she was so fat that the only thing you could see at a glance was her protruding belly.

Lu Xiaoyao looked at her protruding belly and remembered that her hands and legs were still hidden there—well, now they should be called feet.

Lu Xiaoyao clumsily stretched out a bunch of slender and soft insect feet from the fluff growing on her lower abdomen. The sight of those countless insect feet wriggling made Lu Xiaoyao feel very...thankful for small mercies.

She almost threw up.

Forget it, forget it, put them away.

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No longer tormenting herself, Lu Xiaoyao looked around again until she saw a small satellite not far from her, and she moved closer to compare.

It already didn't seem very big.

Now that she was up close and compared it to herself, Lu Xiaoyao felt it was even smaller.

After all, it wasn't even as big as her face!

"Why isn't anyone here after so long?"

After sizing herself up, Lu Xiaoyao shouted around again. When she was sure there were no other insects, Lu Xiaoyao began to contemplate insect life.

Touching her nonexistent chin, she recalled the information about the various insect races that she had learned in class.

"Xingyan insect... a solitary insect race, feeds on stars, wanders alone when adult, only returns to the insect race to join the battle when summoned by the insect emperor, fights alone..."

While no one was around, Lu Xiaoyao groped around for information about her insect.

"Xingyan insect... solitary. Receives summons from the insect emperor..." Lu Xiaoyao felt that this information was a bit strange.

Something seemed wrong.

…

Meanwhile, in a research institute countless light-years away, Ruan Xun looked at Yan Hui beside the experimental platform, seeing that even after going to make games for so long, he was still so smooth when doing experiments.

"How is it?"

Seeing Yan Hui staring at a piece of flesh whose original tissue was unclear, Ruan Xun was also curious.

Their research institute had actually kept this piece of tissue for a long time. The last time someone from the research institute invaded and moved his data, this was almost discovered as well.

"It's from the insect race, and it's definitely from a Xingyan insect," Yan Hui confirmed the source of the flesh again and again. "However, this piece should not be from the Xingyan insect general called 'Feng Xun'."

"Is that so? But this tissue was found in the area where Lieutenant General Lu died back then. At the time, it was said that it was left behind after the other party died together with a Xingyan insect general, and the captured mental power was 'Feng Xun'..."

"The mental power of a Xingyan insect general?" Hearing Ruan Xun's evaluation, Yan Hui sneered with disdain, "Even the mental power of a Xingyan insect queen, if placed in the game, would have been weakened to the point of being as stupid as an idiot after so many years if I wanted it to. Being able to be so powerful after so many years is not something a Xingyan insect general can do."

"But the DNA test shows it's a Xingyan insect."

"Since you're sure, why have you kept this tissue for so long?" Yan Hui seemed not to see Ruan Xun's hesitation. "I think you should have discovered something, but you have no way to prove it, so you've kept it for so long and asked me to come and confirm it."

Ruan Xun couldn't help but purse his lips when Yan Hui spoke his mind, pushing up his glasses and saying, "That's right, I detected that this tissue was from a Xingyan insect a long time ago, and I also reported it at the time."

"However, I thought about it carefully afterwards and felt that everything was too coincidental. Why could this relatively well-preserved tissue be found on a battlefield where even Lieutenant General Lu's bones were gone?

It's like it was prepared in advance."

"But, you discovered the remaining mental power of the insect race left on the tissue, and the comparison with the one in the game made you have to believe that the tissue was from that Xingyan insect general."

Yan Hui said the place where Ruan Xun hesitated.

"Yes," Ruan Xun admitted readily.

"What if I said that the guy called 'Feng Xun' is not the real Xingyan insect general?"

Ruan Xun was stunned when he heard this: "What?! You mean he's a fake?"

"Yes, an insect race who thought about hiding its true identity before dying." Mu Chen said, then tapped his personal optical computer and popped up a screen.

It was a first-person perspective, seeing "Mu Chen" and also seeing the unusual insect form in the other party's body.

"What is this thing?" Ruan Xun was not in a hurry to ask how Mu Chen knew, he was just curious about what was wrong.

"This is what Lu Gui saw with the talent spirit eye that the character identity possessed when playing the game. I saw it on that insect race, a kind of insect we have never seen before."

Ruan Xun looked at the golden body, which seemed to be wrapped in a high concentration of mental power.

The other party's light purple eyes looked very soul-stirring.

"The status level of this kind of insect is definitely not low, otherwise how dare she imitate a behemoth like the Xingyan insect." Yan Hui said, comforting Ruan Xun that this matter was not important, "I have already sent the information to the main brain to check."

The omnipotent main brain didn't know about this yet. If it knew, it would definitely laugh twice.

They want him to work for them if they have nothing to do, what are they thinking?

In the game, Mingmei ran too fast. Before anything could happen, she looked up and no one was left around her.

"Meimei, let me down first."

Mingmei heard Mu Chen's voice again, put the other party down, and confirmed that the Qianmu insect (Thousand-Eyed Insect) Mu Chen in front of her was okay, then she breathed a sigh of relief.

"Where did you come from?"

Mingmei took a breath and asked Mu Chen about the situation after entering the game.

"I've been nearby, but I didn't know which one you were for a while, so I didn't act rashly. I followed the team of insects with dirty faces and went forward together. Fortunately, I saw you."

"How could you see me?"

"It's very simple."