Between these mountain peaks, a small basin had formed. Tens of thousands of insects from the Insect Race remained here, besides those dispatched after forming units.

Because one of the Troop Nest Beetles had been attacked, the others were accelerating their hatching process, spawning soldiers to kill that rebel!

Chen Gu saw that nearly all the insects in the basin had gathered around this particular Troop Nest Beetle, and he broke into a smile.

While on the giant ghoul claw bug, he gently raised his hand, pressing down on a certain part of the Troop Nest Beetle beside him.

Then, familiar, faint blue ripples began to undulate. In an instant, Quantum Teleportation whisked both him and the giant ghoul claw bug away from the basin.

THUMP!

Chen Gu and the giant ghoul claw bug landed outside the mountain range. Simultaneously, within the basin, the light bursting from that Troop Nest Beetle was so intensely bright that the arriving insects, in pain, turned their heads to avoid it. Then, in the next moment, a massive fireball soared into the sky...

Behind the mountain range, Chen Gu felt the familiar trembling of the earth and cracked a smile. He patted the giant ghoul claw bug crouching beneath him like a loyal dog and muttered to himself, Indeed, I've always been a man who plays with explosions.

Hardly any insects remained in the basin. Chen Gu's attack on the Troop Nest Beetle was intended to attract all the other insects so he could eliminate as many as possible with a single Biological Nuclear Explosion.

He had not attacked the Troop Nest Beetle directly because the giant ghoul claw bug was more conspicuous and could draw the other insects' attention more quickly.

Moreover, the giant ghoul claw bug's rebellion would enrage the insects even further, hastening their gathering.

As he rode the giant ghoul claw bug out, the ghoul claw bugs on sentry duty outside the mountain range couldn't understand what was happening. It's clearly a giant ghoul claw bug, but why is there a human on its back?

Before they could figure it out, the giant ghoul claw bug's claws descended, impaling them.

He returned to the basin. Due to its wide area and the even distribution of the Troop Nest Beetles, only about a dozen had been killed by the first explosion. Chen Gu spurred the giant ghoul claw bug toward another Troop Nest Beetle and triggered a second Biological Nuclear Explosion!

He continued this process, bombing them one by one, until only thirty Troop Nest Beetles remained. By then, Chen Gu could no longer initiate Biological Nuclear Explosions.

But he had other skills. For instance, by combining Nuclear Meltdown Ray Eyes with Radiation Field after finding the Troop Nest Beetles' weak spots, he effortlessly killed them.

The reason he waited until all his Biological Nuclear Explosions were spent before using these skills was simple: Chen Gu truly was a man who played with explosions.

Clearing this nest was particularly challenging for Chen Gu. By the time he reached the last Troop Nest Beetle, he was gasping for breath.

Yet, a bold idea suddenly occurred to him. He casually killed the giant ghoul claw bug beneath him with his sword and began exerting Mind Remote Control on the enormous Troop Nest Beetle.

The invisible spiritual power, like tentacles, wrapped around the Troop Nest Beetle. It wasn't long before Chen Gu understood that Troop Nest Beetles were more like 'biological tools' without a clear sense of self; what they hatched was entirely the decision of the Empress controlling them.

For example, the Skyrocketing Insect Chen Gu had controlled previously had been prearranged by the Empress to set up cocoons upon landing.

Their job was to hatch, providing the developing insects with nourishment and energy.

Even so, they exhibited some organism-level neural reflexes. Even if he couldn't completely control them, a Brain Domain Hacker could still make a difference.

Chen Gu had originally wanted to see if he could control the hatched swarm via the Troop Nest Beetle, but now he changed his mind. He withdrew Mind Remote Control, swept a Thought Storm over the Troop Nest Beetle, making its body stiffen and tremble, and then used Mental Tentacles to adjust some of the beetle's neurons.

Following these neural "commands," the Troop Nest Beetle's body began to focus all its efforts on hatching a large creature: the Blazing Mammoth Bug.

This, in turn, stopped the hatching of other insects.

In just half an hour, one of the cocoons within the Troop Nest Beetle swelled at a rate visible to the naked eye.

Before the Blazing Mammoth Bug matured, Chen Gu had already taken control of it with Mind Remote Control.

Then, as the Blazing Mammoth Bug "fell ripe from the stem," Chen Gu mounted it. With a blast from his Nuclear Meltdown Ray Eyes, he completely killed the Troop Nest Beetle and steered the Blazing Mammoth Bug straight toward the battlefield.

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The Roaring Mecha Corps had reached their last stand, with Close Range Attack Ships constantly crashing from the sky. Although the Skyrocketing Insects also suffered losses, their numbers still greatly exceeded those of the human warships.

Three Skyrocketing Insects had now disengaged from the main battle and were flying toward the Roar, the war machine, intent on destroying this most threatening weapon!

In fact, because the Empress commanded from behind the scenes, the Insect Race's grasp of the battle situation had always been delayed. They should have targeted the Roar with Skyrocketing Insects much earlier.

However, Chen Gu, still dozens of kilometers away, did not see that after he killed the last Troop Nest Beetle, the swarms on the battlefield suddenly descended into chaos.

Even those three Skyrocketing Insects slowed their pace somewhat.

The Close Range Attack Ships seized this opportunity to destroy an already injured Skyrocketing Insect.

But soon, the swarms calmed down. At the rear of the entire insect army, amidst the dense ghoul claw bug swarm, one very ordinary and inconspicuous ghoul claw bug quietly broke away from the main group. It found a relatively hidden place and suddenly let out painful shrieks.

This ghoul claw bug began to mutate!

All of its legs and claws plunged deep into the ground. As they pierced deeper, they began to resemble the subterranean tentacles of a Troop Nest Beetle.

To delve deeper underground and obtain nutrients and energy, its tentacles had to pierce very deeply. It frantically drew materials and nutrition from its own body to sustain their growth. This caused its large body to shrink rapidly until, within just a few minutes, it became a diminutive Troop Nest Beetle.

Finally, when its tentacles were deep enough, it began to grow rapidly. Both the accelerated shrinking and rapid growth were extremely painful, violating biological norms. This mutated Troop Nest Beetle, now without vocal organs, trembled incessantly from pain. Yet, in just over ten minutes, it grew to be over ten meters tall.

Although still small compared to a mature Troop Nest Beetle, it could now re-establish contact with the Empress.

Once the mutated Troop Nest Beetle re-established contact with the Empress, the chaos and unrest throughout the entire swarm quickly subsided.

But just as the Empress transmitted new orders, THUMP, THUMP, THUMP... The beloved "Leading Actor" was riding his dear little motorcycle... no, riding his beloved elephant trunk... still incorrect, he was riding his beloved Blazing Mammoth Bug, arriving casually but purposefully.

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