Saving the World in an Apocalypse-Style Text Game-Chapter 714 - 353 Beetle City, Full of Extreme Evil _1

[After learning of your intentions, ’Flandre’ suggests that you change your destination. Instead of wasting time on the road, it’s better to go to the nearest ’Beetle City’.]

[It wants to immediately enter hibernation to digest the Firefly Gene and enhance its strength.]

[During hibernation, it is at its most vulnerable, and it knows of a covert, safe location there...]

[Are you going to heed ’Flandre’s’ advice and head to ’Beetle City’?]

Lin Xun hesitated, knowing that his choice would alter the subsequent game process.

According to the standard process, without clashing with the Wet Nurse, he should continue exploring near ’Zhongsi City’. But choosing to take a hard stance now would unlock a new map of ’Beetle City’.

[After obtaining your agreement, ’Flandre’ controls the ’Military Mole Cricket’ to change its direction and destination...]

[...]

[Soon after setting out, the ’Military Mole Cricket’ arrives at its destination as its vibrational rumble subsides and the side membranes open.]

[Before your eyes is a deep underground space. The top of the stone wall is devoid of even a single luminescent fungus plant, yet the underground space isn’t so dark that you can’t see your fingers.]

[Beams of light filter in from a vast pit not far away, the range and depth of the pit is enormous, like a scene created by a meteorite crash.]

[However, the interior of the pit isn’t smooth; the manually excavated mountain road forms a spiral staircase that constantly descends to a small flat area at the bottom of the pit, forming an inverted cone shape overall.]

[The lustrous illumination is embedded in the pit walls, emitting constant, faint lights.]

[You notice many old, rusted mine cars discarded near the mountain road, along with scattered mining tools...]

[You have reached the ’Magic Zirconite Mine’!]

[’Flandre’ leads you and ’Jinmu’ into the large mine, constantly descending along the mountain road...]

[It tells you that the ’Magic Zirconite Mine’ is located in ’Beetle City’, very close to the center of the Divine Kingdom.]

[The mine has a precious ore called ’Magic Zirconite’ that can be used to manufacture soldiers’ Exoskeleton Masks; it’s an extremely important strategic resource.]

[After long periods of mining, the resources here have been almost completely depleted. The existing glow seen on the pit walls is from ores containing large amounts of impurities, and is not worth mining.]

[The ’Magic Zirconite Mine’ has been abandoned and no one comes here anymore. Using it as a hibernation place is quite suitable...]

[...]

[Before long, ’Flandre’ has brought you and Jinmu to the bottom of the mine.]

[Looking up from the bottom, countless shining ores embedded in the walls are dazzling and resemble a multitude of stars buried deep within the ground.]

[’Flandre’ continues to tell you, since this place is very close to the center of the Divine Kingdom, you should be able to obtain much information about the frontline of the war and the Wet Nurse by exploring near ’Beetle City’.]

[It will soon begin its hibernation to absorb the Firefly Genes. During this period, it cannot move or fight, so it seeks your understanding that it can no longer accompany you.]

[If you encounter an unresolvable dilemma, please do not hesitate and immediately use the ’Firefly Stone’ it gave you.]

[It will interrupt the gene fusion process and rush to your side as soon as possible...]

[Also, if you run into a ’Pilgrimage Angel’, remember not to clash with it. You must avoid it silently.]

[Because the ’Pilgrimage Angel’ is still under the control of the Wet Nurse’s ’Hive Mind’, it constantly spreads alien genes. If you clash with the ’Pilgrimage Angel’, the Wet Nurse will know instantly...]

[You now know the exact location of ’Beetle City’!]

[After you nod in acknowledgment, ’Flandre’ gives you a slight smile. Countless black silk threads grow and spread wildly from its body, wrapping and intertwining to quickly encase its body, forming a black cocoon.]

[The black silk threads don’t stop growing and spreading, continuously cocooning to enlarge the black cocoon from human size to a massive object.]

[You and ’Jinmu’ keep stepping back until you are dozens of steps away. The growth rate of the black cocoon starts slowing down, but it doesn’t stop.]

[You infer that the black cocoon will not stop growing until ’Flandre’ has fully fused with the genes. As for what lies inside the cocoon, you cannot tell...]

Based on the first experiment manual in the palace, it is known that Feathered beings can have two combat forms after perfectly merging with the Firefly Genes.

The first one is to maintain their human form, dominated by flesh-and-blood civilization, and the second one is the Feathered form, dominated by the Firefly Gene.

Judging from the power of the Wet Nurse and the Firefly, it should be the latter combat form that is more powerful. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

Flandre is currently evolving into a giant insectoid combat form...

[’Jinmu’ looks at the massive black cocoon, then at you, its gaze hesitant and a little lost.]

[You know it wants to stay here, to protect ’Flandre’, who is very vulnerable in its current cocoon state.]

[Would you like to invite ’Jinmu’ to accompany you to ’Beetle City’, or should it stay and protect the black cocoon in the ’Magic Zirconite Mine’?]

Lin Xun doesn’t hesitate to choose the latter.

Flandre is now his strongest ally. As long as it can complete the gene fusion, it will at least have the power of a top-tier Demigod, perhaps even stronger than a Clone, and may directly ascend to be a god.