The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen-Chapter 285 - 187: Unexpected Sacrificial Gain (6k)_4

He didn’t know when it started, but around him, it seemed like all sound had ceased.

Occasional insect chirps in the woods, even the breeze seemed to have stilled...

It was as if, after he slowed down, the world around him had become this silent; he had just been too anxious before to notice.

Although he didn’t know what had happened, he had his suspicions about the outcome.

Sure enough, in just over ten seconds, the trees around him began to show anomalies.

A layer of pitch-black Shadow began to creep overhead, then it spread to the low shrubbery, and lastly enshrouded everything around him in darkness.

Not until the Shadows drew close did he see clearly that they were not Shadows at all, but rather layers of black writhing Blood Flesh!

"Hello, nameless sir, I invite you on behalf of the Grand Judge of Eternal Life City to be our guest."

The sudden voice from behind, already filled with terror, startled him, and he quickly turned around.

But in just a few seconds, a vast expanse of dark eyes had appeared behind him.

And in the center of those eyes stood a tall, stern, and indifferent cat-eared girl holding a slightly crooked scale.

At that moment, he felt he understood many things. freewebnσvel.cøm

Like why he was the only one who had managed to run away, and why, surprisingly, he hadn’t been pursued...

However, the scene before him made it clear that he no longer had a choice.

Before the other’s patience wore thin and they prepared to take compulsory action, he took the initiative to say:

"I, I’ll go with you."

......

South side of White Poplar Mountain, Eternal Garden

Having completed the experiments early, Bai Yi was enjoying dinner under Hatti’s care just as night fell.

He spent the whole day upgrading the genes of the Tree-man, along improving You’s abilities, leaving Bai Yi in a rather good mood.

Even because of today’s smooth research, Bai Yi had specially created a spore infection exclusively for Tree-man, granting them the ability to infect their kin with updated genes.

This was also due to the results of the recent genetic improvements of Tree-man.

Since the essence of plants had slowly been altered and their metabolism quickened, their compatibility for spore infection increased as well.

After infection, they could quickly renew their cellular structure, instead of taking a day or even several days to update like before.

Right after the cultivation was complete, these spores had been sent to various Tree-man habitats.

Including those in the Battle Zone and those within White Poplar Mountain’s territory boundaries that served as Tree-man.

However, considering the upcoming Tree-man updates, he couldn’t help but recall the thoughts that had arisen during the research break today.

Should he transform all the Banyan Trees within White Poplar Mountain into Tree-man?

Now with the spores, this wasn’t impossible.

Though the infection speed of ordinary trees might be slow, her Metalization research also needed time.

By the time her research concludes, these Tree-man would have nearly completed their transformation...

Today’s Tree-man are not like in the early days when they first ventured; they didn’t need to have gigantic bodies to ensure their newly born natural thinking organs had intellect.

She, able to directly integrate organ-level genes, could now simply implant a brain into Tree-man.

Even ordinary-sized Tree-man could possess the ability to think and connect to the network.

Feeling there was potential, Bai Yi set her plan in motion through the network.

Since she was already there, and since today’s work was done, Bai Yi checked the network for information worth noting today.

The first item on the to-do list was a message from the Battle Zone.

— In fact, the second message was as well, and from the same witch team.

"Exchange a first-generation Power of Faith weapon for firearms handling experience and improvement suggestions?

That’s actually okay. It’s a first-gen weapon, and now with improvement suggestions, it might become obsolete tomorrow. Getting this knowledge is a fair deal.

Ssh...

Does this feel like the marketing strategies of those phone shops?

First, they give you a worthless phone, creating a need, then they offer various plans?

My weapons, however, are no deceit; they still pack a punch."

After teasing the witches’ tactics, Bai Yi continued to the second message, which immediately drew her attention.

"This man’s ability is interesting..."

Looking at the details of the man’s abilities in the network captured through Spiritual Ability to read thoughts, Bai Yi suddenly felt like experimenting.

She sent out a message in the network, and Hatti had already vanished.

To bring her this sacrifice to where he was meant to be.

......

Buzzing III Type Assault Rifle (5th level/Gold): One of the III generation Power of Faith weapons, after two iterations, the final masterpiece of the Buzzer firearm line. Following this, the Buzzer Assault Rifle was completely discarded and no longer appeared in research and production. After being sold and destroyed, fewer than a hundred remain, becoming collections in museums and witches’ homes...

[Note: Truly the tears of an era; completely outclassed by automatics in every parameter, most Little Witches probably know about it from virtual games now.]

[Note on the note: Buzzer? Dogs wouldn’t even use it! Got shot to 1/17th health with one last night! What a trash weapon!]