"What should we do next?" Lin Huang asked through voice transmission immediately.
He was the only newbie who had entered the Abyss for the first time. He had no experience in dealing with such a situation, so he could not act rashly.
Everyone else had entered the Abyss before. Even if they had not encountered such a thing, they should have heard of such a situation. Perhaps they would have a way to deal with it.
"Lan Ling, check out the situation around us." Virtuoso had changed the way they addressed Lan Ling; their attitude was clearly more serious now.
Lan Ling nodded slightly and rolled up her left sleeve, revealing a slender, frail arm.
As her lips moved, her right hand rapidly performed hand seals. Black incantations that looked like they were made up of countless ants quickly appeared on her left arm.
The complicated and mysterious incantations were like little living snakes, swimming and slithering on her arm at lightning speed.
A moment later, she spread her fingers and pressed her palm against the ground. The tiny incantation snakes rapidly slithered along her arm and seeped into the ground.
After that, Lan Ling closed her eyes and sat down with her legs crossed.
It was Lin Huang's first time witnessing such a strange skill. However, he noticed something strange about it.
He had not sensed any Divine Power waves from Lan Ling throughout the entire process, nor had there been any spiritual waves.
He realized the significance of such a detection technique right away — conventional techniques could not detect anything.
Approximately two to three minutes later, the sigils on Lan Ling's half-naked arm began to appear again. She finally opened her eyes slowly.
She pulled down her sleeve with one hand and covered her arm again. Only then did she stand up.
"I didn't sense any Lords or more powerful auras nearby …"
To Lin Huang, this sounded like good news. However, Saber9 and Tu Tong, who were next to him, did not look relieved.
Although they could not see Virtuoso's expression through the mask, Lin Huang could sense from their auras that Virtuoso had not let down his guard.
"But we've indeed been teleported to a rather troublesome area …" Lan Ling paused for a moment before revealing the name of the area they were standing on. "The Demonic Bug Maze!"
Everyone's expression changed slightly when they heard the name.
Even Lin Huang was no exception.
Although he had never been to the Abyss before, he had taken the time to do some homework before coming. He knew some basic knowledge about the Abyss.
The Demonic Bug Maze was a special area in the Abyss.
This kind of area was usually formed by a large number of Demonic Insects.
Under the summons of the Bug Queen or the Bug Queen, the massive number of Demonized Bug Tribe members would gather into a colony and build a hive-like structure to live within.
This kind of special structure would even have some characteristics of a bug nest, and its structure would be even more strange and complicated.
An ordinary bug nest had tens of thousands of tunnels. In a Demonic Bug Maze of the same size, there would only be more tunnels, more winding, and more unpredictable.
If someone accidentally entered it, there was a high chance that they would get lost. This was because the Demonic Insect Labyrinth could block most probing methods. It was impossible to know which path led to the exit. One wrong turn could cause one to lose the chance to escape.
As Lin Huang recalled all the information about the Demonic Bug Maze, he began to have doubts.
"Are you sure this is the Demonic Bug Maze? Why can we see the sky? "
"That's an illusion created by the Bewildering Bugs." Virtuoso explained calmly, "Ignore these illusions. They only exist by relying on the walls of the cave and won't affect us at all. Moreover, nobody below lord-level can break through it. "
Only then did Lin Huang realize that this was not mentioned in the information he had.
"Have you sensed the Bug Queen or the Bug Queen?" Saber9 asked.
"No." Lan Ling shook her head. "The structure of the bugs in this Demonic Bug Maze is very complicated. I'm worried that there might be bugs with special senses, so I didn't dare probe too far.
"However, judging from the complexity of the bugs' structure alone, the lord of this Maze might be a lord-level or a half-step lord-level powerhouse."
Lin Huang knew why Saber9 was asking this question. He wanted to confirm whether the lord of this Maze was a Bug Queen or a Bug Queen.
If it was only a Bug Queen, it would not be able to sense whether its subordinates were dead or alive.
However, if it was a Bug Queen, it could clearly sense the life status of all its offspring. This meant that it would be even more difficult for them to break out of this place.
"Since we can't be sure if the lord is a Bug Queen, it's better to be safe." Virtuoso's tone was calm, but everyone could hear their caution.
At the very least, Lin Huang had never felt that Virtuoso had done anything safe in the few times they had come into contact with each other. Now that Virtuoso had taken the initiative to say that they wanted to be safe, Lin Huang even suspected that the Virtuoso in front of him had been replaced.
"Have you thought of a way?" Lin Huang had no clue.
To him, finding the exit in the Demonic Bug Maze was an extremely difficult task.
There were too many tunnels, so there was no way to determine which one was the right one.
Moreover, the most troublesome thing was that these Bug Tribes that had been contaminated by Abyssal energy had muddled minds. There was no way to read any information at all.
Virtuoso glanced at Lin Huang but did not nod. "Let's try it first. It might not work."
Including Lin Huang, no one objected to it.
After all, nobody had come up with a good idea. They could only try Virtuoso's idea first.
Following that, Virtuoso began to explain their idea through voice transmission.
Their idea was actually very simple and crude. It was to get everyone to hide inside a Demonic Bug's body and get Lan Ling to control the Demonic Bug's movements with a spell.
That way, they could avoid fighting other Bug Tribes in the Maze and causing Bug Tribe deaths.
They could also avoid being sensed by the Bug Tribe Queen Mother.
Although they could not confirm whether the Demonic Bug Maze's overlord was the Queen Mother, they had to plan for the worst.
Although Virtuoso's plan was very simple and crude — one could even say it was crude — everyone agreed with it after they were done explaining.
After all, this method had a certain degree of feasibility. Moreover, they did not have any other better ideas.
After the plan was finalized, everyone quickly began discussing the details.
The five of them quickly finalized the various details after brainstorming.
Almost immediately, Lan Ling performed a seal with both hands. Spell sigils floated around her like snakes as she dove into the ground.
Not long after, a giant, rotten bug beast crawled over quickly and prostrated itself in front of them.
Lin Huang and the rest frowned slightly. This was a completely physiological reaction. The smell coming from the rotten bug beast was comparable to a biochemical weapon.
No, to be exact, it was a biochemical weapon.
In reality, all sorts of toxins and Abyssal energy particles were hidden within the foul odor.
Lin Huang and the rest were True Gods. The Divine Fire in their bodies had a purifying function, so they were not affected.
However, cultivators below true god-level — even Virtual Gods — might be infected by the toxins and Abyssal energy particles hidden within the foul odor.
Seeing that the rest did not move, Lin Huang leaped onto the giant, rotten bug beast's back. He made a cut with the tip of his sword near its abdomen, then enveloped his entire body with telekinesis and crawled in directly.
Virtuoso and the rest did not argue when they saw that. They leaped onto the bug beast's back and crawled in one after another, hiding their auras …
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