Deep in the Cavern
Judging from the division of the rooms and the decorations, this building should be the city government or council center of some sort.
In the middle of the building was a large patio. Xia Fei stood on the fifth floor and looked down.
All he saw was that the first floor had countless holes dug out, and the height of these holes was enough for a person to pass through. He had no idea where these holes led to.
That savage aura was coming from these holes. Xia Fei guessed that these holes were connected, and an unknown insectoid was living in them.
His eyes observed his surroundings, and there was not a single insectoid in this huge building. It was very likely that the insectoid living here was of a higher rank, and the other insectoids were staying far away from it.
This meant that this insectoid was not only of a higher rank than the insectoids living outside, but it was also very likely to be the leader of all of City 02.
Xia Fei followed the stairs down to the first floor and hid behind a worn-out office desk. He carefully observed the area in front of him, hoping that he could wait for the insectoid to come out of its hole and see what it was like. If possible, he would try his best to kill it.
Time passed, and soon, an hour had passed. The insectoid that Xia Fei was looking forward to did not come out of its hole.
Two hours later, there was still no movement.
Three hours later, that savage aura seemed to be slowly weakening, and Xia Fei guessed that the insectoid was probably asleep in its nest.
After some quick thinking, Xia Fei decided to take advantage of this rare opportunity to enter the hole and kill it while the insectoid was asleep.
Just as he was about to enter the hole, a series of rustling sounds came from outside the building, as if several insectoids were quickly approaching.
Xia Fei squatted down again and stared at the entrance.
After a while, he saw four colorful beetles dragging the carcass of an insectoid and some fresh grass crawling in from outside.
Xia Fei was slightly stunned. He recognized the carcass these insectoids brought because he was the one who killed the sawtooth insectoid. The prismatic crystal on its head was currently lying quietly in Xia Fei's spatial ring.
The four colorful beetles dragged the carcass and grass into the hole with their mouths, completely unaware of Xia Fei's presence.
'Could they be delivering lunch to the insectoids in the hole?' Xia Fei wondered to himself.
There were many species with high intelligence in the insectoid race. They could think and work just like humans. They had their own language and writing, and they could even make other species with lower intelligence work for them.
"Could it be that there's a high-level insectoid in the cave?" Xia Fei was even more confused. It must be mentioned that the insectoids with high intelligence were classified as at least level 4 and above by the Pan-Human Alliance, yet Bosingwa had told him that there were only level 1 and 2 insectoids on this planet. If there really was an intelligent insectoid living here, where did it come from?
Using his Breath Control technique, Xia Fei quietly followed the four Pentashade Beetles into the cave.
The Pentashade Beetle posed no threat to Xia Fei. He had killed no less than a hundred of them when he was outside, so the only thing that could truly threaten Xia Fei was the one inside the cave that he had yet to meet.
Xia Fei's Breath Control was close to perfection, so the Pentashade Beetles were completely unable to sense that there was a human behind them. Xia Fei maintained a distance of about two hundred meters from them, using the uneven parts of the cave as cover as he followed closely behind.
The cave was dark, and the air was cold and damp. There was a foul stench everywhere, as if he was surrounded by a large pile of rotting fish.
Xia Fei turned on the night vision system of the Windshade Mark IV combat suit and kept the environmental detector in his spatial ring. The environment on this planet was terrible, and logically speaking, he should have the environmental detector on him at all times, just in case, but the detector would beep incessantly the moment it detected any danger, which would expose Xia Fei's whereabouts and put him in danger.
It was a good thing that the Windshade Mark IV combat suit had a Legendary rank defense, which was quite effective against all sorts of harmful substances, so Xia Fei did not have to worry too much about the environmental problem.
The length and complexity of the cave far exceeded Xia Fei's imagination. It had already been half an hour since he had entered the cave.
Xia Fei estimated that he should be at least two kilometers underground by now. To be able to dig such a deep and complicated cave showed that this insectoid must have done some research in digging.
That ruthless aura was getting clearer and clearer, and it seemed to be everywhere, filling every corner of the cave.
Turning another corner in front of him, countless caves converged here, all leading in the same direction. From this, it could be seen that the insectoid's nest was not far from here.
The moment he entered, Xia Fei suddenly realized that this cave was much colder than the places he had come from. There were even icicles forming on the stone walls.
The path was very slippery, so Xia Fei pressed the button on his combat boots and extended the icicles on his soles.
After walking for another five hundred meters, the area in front of him gradually widened.
Xia Fei completely opened up the barbs on his combat suit and used these sharp barbs to climb up the walls like an agile gecko.
A few minutes later, Xia Fei silently appeared at the top of this spacious cave. There was a dark red insectoid lying on the ground, sleeping soundly.
The four Rainbow Beetles seemed to be very afraid. They quietly threw the carcass of the Sawtooth Beetle on the ground and placed a bundle of grass next to it before quickly retreating the way they came from. Once they were far away from the dark red insectoid, the four insectoids spread their eight legs and sprinted away, looking as if they had just survived a disaster.
At this moment, only Xia Fei and the dark red insectoid were left in the cave. This insectoid was not big, only about 1.5 meters long, not even reaching Xia Fei's height.
From its appearance, it looked like a large watermelon insectoid. Its body was long and narrow, and its back was covered in a smooth and hard carapace. There were many soft antennae on its abdomen, and it looked like it was using these antennae to move. There were two blood-red eyes on its head and tail, making it difficult to tell which was the head and which was the tail.
Its body was tightly curled up into a ball, and a few of its slightly longer antennae would stretch out from time to time to scratch itself.
There did not seem to be anything special about this insectoid. No matter how one looked at it, it did not look like a ferocious insectoid, but there was an extremely violent aura coming from its body.
Xia Fei stuck close to the top of the cave wall and used his left hand to take out his communicator and aim it at the insectoid, hoping to find out what kind of species it was, what its level was, and what habits it had.
The communicator was actually a microcomputer. Communication was only one of its main functions, but there were actually many other things it could do.
With the development of technology, almost all devices used a calculator as their core, but the focus was different. For example, Xia Fei's microcomputer mainly used the interplanetary internet, while the communicator mainly used various frequencies to communicate.
The data of the dark red insectoid was quickly entered into the communicator, and the computer quickly searched for a matching insectoid in its database. A few seconds later, Xia Fei got the results.
The results showed that the insectoid could not be found in the database at all, and the screen displayed the word 'unknown'.
Xia Fei put the communicator back into his spatial ring and prepared to continue observing this insectoid and figure out its true identity.
It took much less time than Xia Fei expected. In just ten or so minutes, the dark red insectoid woke up from its slumber. It spread its body and slowly crawled toward its food, eating it with gusto. It was not in a hurry or impatient.
Every time it ate, it would stop to rest for a few minutes before continuing to chew on its food. Two mouthfuls of the insectoid carcass and two mouthfuls of grass. This insectoid actually knew how to pair meat with vegetables.
What do you think? Xia Fei asked Phantoms opinion in his consciousness.
Cant see through it, but this insectoid doesnt seem to be much of a threat on the surface, so why is this insectoid emitting such a violent aura? Phantoms head shook as he said.
Xia Fei gritted his teeth and revealed a cold smile. It's actually very simple to find out if it's just putting on an act. We'll know once we kill it.
* Shing! *
Before he finished his sentence, Xia Fei leaped down from the top of the cave and pounced toward the dark red insectoid. He raised his Chasing Light high and slashed horizontally at the insectoid body.
* Bang! *
The sound of metal clashing echoed throughout the entire cave, echoing everywhere.
The insectoid's thin carapace was far harder than Xia Fei had imagined. His Chasing Light's full-powered slash was actually unable to break through it. Instead, it caused Xia Fei's arm to go numb.
All of a sudden, that incredibly violent aura became even stronger. The dark red insectoid turned around at an incredible speed, its two blood-red eyes staring right at Xia Fei.
It was hard to imagine that just a few seconds ago, this insectoid was still slowly chewing on its food. But the instant it was attacked, its speed suddenly increased by a hundred times.
Although it put on an angry posture, it did not launch any substantial attack.
Xia Fei ignored its stance. Since he had already started attacking, he would not stop until it was dead.
Using his speed to put some distance between himself and the insectoid, Xia Fei circled around it. He was highly focused. Right now, he needed to avoid the hard carapace and attack the soft spots on its abdomen.
Meanwhile, that dark red insectoid was using its extreme speed to chase after Xia Fei's movements. As such, it became a rather peculiar sight. Xia Fei was circling around the cave, while the dark red insectoid was circling around in a small circle.
"Chance!"
Xia Fei stomped on the wall of the cave with one foot and used the powerful reaction force to launch himself forward like an arrow let loose from a bow.
Xia Fei's body stayed close to the ground, like a fish swimming on dry land. His Chasing Light swept across the body of the dark red insectoid.
* Crack! *
Chasing Light was like a low diving lightning bolt, slicing off the soft antennae on its abdomen one after another.
No, an entire row of antennae had been completely sliced off by Xia Fei.
The dark red insectoid relied on these soft antennae on its abdomen to support its body. All of a sudden, one of its antennae was completely sliced off, causing it to lose its balance and fall to the side.
This was the perfect opportunity for Xia Fei to completely expose its soft abdomen as it fell to the side.
"I'm cutting!"
* Whoosh! *
Xia Fei did the same thing, using the reaction force from the wall to launch himself forward, Chasing Light right at its weakest abdomen.
The dark red insectoid had already lost its balance and was completely unable to defend itself.
* Shing! *
This sound was like a piece of cloth being torn down the middle.
Chasing Light was abnormally stable as it sliced a straight line across its abdomen. The dark red insectoid had been sliced open from its abdomen.
Green liquid mixed with many of the insectoid's internal organs slowly flowed out. No matter how hard its carapace was, its abdomen was still its fatal weak point.
Xia Fei stopped in a corner and took out a Hongtashan cigarette from his pocket and lit it. All he needed to do now was wait for this dark red insectoid to die so that he could tidy up the items that were of value to him.
The lighter let out a bright yellow flame, and Xia Fei brought the cigarette closer to it.
The corner of his eye inadvertently glanced at the carcass of the insectoid, and that was when something happened.
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