Lethal Stunner: Kicking Off with Five Beast Husbands

Chapter 206: Chapter 206: The Terminal Begins Insect Farming

To be honest, Li felt a bit afraid of interacting with Xuan Jiu.

Mental illness—he was worried it might be contagious.

"Three kilometers isn’t fitting for someone like you." Li reached out to stop Xuan Jiu, signaling him to say no more, then turned to the old man. "Old man, arrange the best for him."

"Understood, Lord Leader." The old man chuckled lightly and extended a friendly invitation to Xuan Jiu. "Esteemed guest, please follow me."

"To where?" Xuan Jiu asked curiously.

"The Demon Territory spans a vast area. There’s a tall tower ten kilometers away—it meets both your environmental and distance requirements," the old man replied with a light smile.

Xuan Jiu’s smile instantly froze on his face.

Although... but still...

Xuan Jiu: [Three kilometers is reasonable, are you serious about ten kilometers?]

Xuan Jiu: [With my broken body right now, how long would it take me to walk ten kilometers?]

Xuan Jiu: [Save me, someone, please save me.]

Xiao Jinsheng’s head pounded from the noise of Xuan Jiu’s inner thoughts.

Xuan Jiu dawdled for ages, not taking a single step to follow the old man away.

"It’s better if everyone doesn’t stray too far from one another," Xiao Jinsheng advised Li while pulling him aside. "Staying close makes it easier to look out for each other."

Especially since Xuan Jiu didn’t have a Star Stone and couldn’t even use his superpower.

Normally, when Beastmen lacked a Star Stone, their last bit of superpower energy would drain away, leading to death.

Xuan Jiu surviving even after his Star Stone was removed was entirely due to his special superpower and awakened Beastification Bloodline, and because he had preemptively removed his own heart.

"Whatever you say." Li smiled and nodded, while giving the old man a knowing look.

This time, Xiao Jinsheng and the group each got their own room, all on the same floor.

Meanwhile, Peng Qin and Ming Huaxin were arranged in different suites on separate floors.

The Demon Territory had no shortage of rooms, after all.

Once their accommodations were settled, everyone got busy with the most urgent task at hand: planting trees.

The seedlings issued through the Star Map Tasks from the Terminal... no one dared to plant them.

Currently, they were using trees dug out from Xiao Jinsheng’s Terminal Space.

However, only Xiao Jinsheng and her Beast Husband could enter her Terminal Space.

Although they couldn’t control the items in the Terminal Space using their thoughts, everyone now possessed the power of an 11 Stars superpower.

Using their abilities to dig up trees was quick and efficient.

But as Mo Jiao stared at the cherry sapling he had just planted with his own hands, his brows suddenly furrowed.

Encased in black mist around the roots of the tree were white insect eggs the size of quail eggs. He held them out to the group. "When I originally dug up the saplings, the roots were cleaned thoroughly."

Logically, the seedlings in the Terminal Space had all been screened.

There shouldn’t have been any insect eggs.

Especially not eggs of this size.

Before the apocalypse, most insects never grew larger than quail eggs.

And at the time Xiao Jinsheng obtained this space, it had been completely barren—not a single stone or blade of grass.

Other than the few of them who were alive, there weren’t any other living organisms.

"I can’t confirm if these are eggs from the Interstellar Insect Clan." Xiao Jinsheng frowned, capturing the eggs in her superpower. "I’ll go find Caicai and the Cannibal Flower to confirm."

As soon as Caicai saw the eggs, his voice shot up several octaves in alarm. "Are you out of your minds, leaving Insect Brain eggs in the space?"

"Obviously it wasn’t us," Xiao Jinsheng replied helplessly.

Besides, when her Beast Husbands were planting trees, they had all double-checked the saplings to ensure nothing alive was attached except for the saplings themselves.

"If it wasn’t you guys, then who? Only you can enter the Terminal Space..." Caicai’s voice faltered mid-sentence, his expression souring. "Your space was given to you by the Terminal, wasn’t it? Could it have secretly placed the insect eggs in there when you weren’t around?"

After all, the Terminal monitored the entire Mist Continent.

At the thought of this possibility, Caicai felt nauseated. "I used to think the Insect Clan was the most disgusting thing, but now I realize I’ve seen too little of the world—there’s something even more disgusting."

"The Mist Continent is essentially its turf. Why would it raise Insect Clan invaders?"

"Maybe your earlier suspicion was right. The Terminal eats Beastman Star Stones. Maybe its tastes are extreme, and it eats the Insect Clan too." noveldrama

"Whatever the case, I don’t dare to use this space anymore." Xiao Jinsheng’s face darkened.

Given the current circumstances, she also wasn’t comfortable leaving her Beast Husbands in the Terminal Space anymore.

She immediately entered the space to bring them out.

As for the saplings inside the Terminal Space...

If the Insect Brain’s eggs were indeed placed by the Terminal, Xiao Jinsheng naturally couldn’t use those saplings anymore.

She thought of Ming Huaxin and Peng Qin, who also had Terminal Spaces, though theirs were of varying sizes.

Xiao Jinsheng quickly sought the two out, asking them to inspect their own spaces.

Initially grinning, the two women entered their Terminal Spaces to search, but when they came out, their smiles vanished in an instant.

"I’m absolutely disgusted—I’ve hated bugs my entire life." Ming Huaxin used her superpower to encapsulate a pile of insect eggs, roughly thirty in total.

Unlike the white eggs Xiao Jinsheng had found, Ming Huaxin’s eggs were mottled brown.

"Why? Isn’t the Terminal supposed to be on our side?" Peng Qin also brought out a pile of insect eggs, looking perplexed. "The Terminal Space is its domain, yet it contained Insect Clan eggs... I don’t want to think about it anymore."

"The Terminal is just no good at all." At that moment, Ming Huaxin completely lost any positive feelings she had towards it.

For Insect Clan invader eggs to inexplicably appear inside spaces granted by the Terminal...

Unless the Terminal had already fallen to the Insect Clan, which would explain why the eggs appeared there.

If the Terminal were still operational, how could eggs show up in its space unless it deliberately placed them there? Could the Insect Clan really pull that off?

At this point, they had already fled to Mist West for refuge.

The true nature of the Terminal was something Xiao Jinsheng would naturally share with Peng Qin.

After today’s series of events, Peng Qin came to believe the Terminal was malicious even quicker than Ming Huaxin had.

The Demon Territory, with its Purification Trees, was the only place in Mist West fortified against the Poisonous Fog.

Of course, besides Purification Trees, Demon Gems and Mermaid Tears could also resist the poisonous mist.

Xiao Jinsheng had no intention of voluntarily mentioning Mermaid Tears.

It wasn’t because she distrusted Peng Qin and Ming Huaxin.

But once news spread that Mist West could shelter people from the Insect Clan, every survivor would be hunting for ways to resist the Poisonous Fog.

Mermaid Tears were far too unique a resource.

Xiao Jinsheng understood the concept of "treasuring a jade that invites calamity."

In an apocalypse, people would do anything to survive.

Secrets known by too many people were no longer secrets.

As for Demon Gems, until she found a new Demon Gem Mine, Xiao Jinsheng also wouldn’t bring it up voluntarily.

So for now, their only path to survival was planting Purification Trees.

With the Terminal Space unsafe...

Xiao Jinsheng thought about her own Realm.

As long as her unique constitution remained, she could still grow Purification Trees without using the Terminal Space.

The only issue was that her Realm’s area was still far too small.

To expand it, she needed more Star Stone Source Stones.

Once again, Xiao Jinsheng set her sights on the Star Stone Mine they had already raided numerous times.

After feeding all the insect eggs to the Cannibal Flower, Xiao Jinsheng gathered everyone to prepare for a raid on the Fog Corpse horde’s Star Stone Mine.

After all, they’d already spent months camping out near the mine.

A little more time wouldn’t matter—they might as well clear the mine out completely this time.