The Strong Female Lead Versus The Most Miserable Male Lead-Chapter 426 - 425: The Boss Who Plays to the Sky

Insect Race borderland.

Nian Shutong drove Shadowless to Border City by herself, strolled around to collect a bit of information, and then left the city alone.

The moment she stepped out of the city gate, she received the stares of the guards and a crowd of people leaving the city.

"Alone?"

"A woman?"

"What is she up to?"

"Can’t see her strength at all!"

The crowd buzzed with speculation, yet such chatter didn’t make Nian Shutong pause for even a moment.

Regardless, such composure indeed earned admiration from many people.

After Nian Shutong had left, she took out a map. The maps for sale had several most obvious routes, which were formed from the compiled information of those who had traveled back and forth before, creating a simple map of the Insect Race territory.

Naturally, many areas had never been visited by humans, but places that were frequently infested with Insect Race creatures were marked.

Even the types of Insect Race present were indicated.

Nian Shutong stood at a corner outside the city gate, completely ignoring the inquisitive glances of others, chose a path, and walked away.

"Hey? Where did she go?"

"Don’t know, doesn’t look like it’s one of the three main routes!"

"Should we warn her?"

"Probably not necessary, none of us here are fools, she studied the map for so long, could she possibly go the wrong way?"

"What if she’s directionally challenged?"

As soon as this was mentioned, someone really did consider warning Nian Shutong.

But where was she?

It hadn’t even been a minute, and she had disappeared.

At this time, Nian Shutong had already traveled far. She was here to fight after all, so she did not hide her abilities deliberately.

Playing possum had no place on the battlefield.

The battlefield meant one thing!

Fight!

Fight until they submit!

Fight until one side lives, the other dies.

Nian Shutong didn’t follow the mapped routes but chose a path less traveled by people or rather, no path at all.

She wasn’t interested in fighting small Insect Race creatures; she was after the formidable ones.

Only the formidable, the high-level ones, met the standards for Artifact Refining.

Nian Shutong’s steps were small, but her speed was indeed very fast. With each stride, a distance of over ten meters would disappear.

She didn’t even conceal her aura, sauntering brazenly onto a wasteland.

"Not a single tree, huh."

"We should share the burden equally."

Nian Shutong still had time to lament that nothing grew here, not even a single blade of grass.

While she wandered around the Insect Clan Battlefield, she took a moment to check out a livestream but ended up getting kicked out.

Nian Shutong didn’t want to go back in, so she simply turned off her Light Computer and was about to continue walking when a sound came from ahead.

"Roar—"

"Roar roar roar—"

A group of Insect Race creatures, whose voices arrived before they did, appeared.

"Eh? This sound is similar to that four-legged beast Insect Race from the Xiao He game."

Nian Shutong, in the game developed by Fu Yunhe, was the sole Insect Race player.

Whenever she felt like fighting, she would play for a while, encountering different Insect Race creatures each time, making her quite knowledgeable about them.

But every time Nian Shutong appeared, there would be a massive loophole in that day’s game.

And the people playing the game affectionately called her "Death Boss."

To date, not a single person has survived under the Insect Race character played by Nian Shutong.

While Nian Shutong contemplated these thoughts, a cloud of dust rose opposite her, and a group of creatures resembling tigers—but with no stripes, hairless, and of enormous size—appeared on all fours.

"Old acquaintances, indeed."

"We were once part of the same group."

Nian Shutong spoke, but naturally, those on the opposite side couldn’t understand.

She watched as the four-legged beasts charged toward her, her gaze precisely targeting their tails.

The tails of the four-legged beasts, measuring one and a half meters long, resembled steel whips with clearly defined, sharp segments.

"Four-legged beasts, collect one tail, ten contribution points."

"Thank you all!"

After a word of thanks, Nian Shutong brandished her sword and moved in for the attack.

One slash to decapitate and kill, another to sever the tail and earn contribution points.

When Fu Yunhe sent a message, Nian Shutong was in the midst of a delightful slaughter.

These herding four-legged beasts were also considered regional overlords.

Everyone who encountered them thought only of fleeing, and only the military could engage them in battle, but even then, casualties were inevitable.

But today, the four-legged beasts were baffled!

Who was this woman?

Why wasn’t she getting hurt?

Why were there only five brothers left... three... one.

It seemed to be my turn!

"A family should stick together."

"Swoosh!"

One slash to kill, and it was over.

Perfectly wrapped up the task.

As for the remaining bodies, Nian Shutong didn’t bother with them at all.

It was said that other members of the Insect Race would feed on those bodies.

As Nian Shutong made her way onward, she encountered several waves of the Insect Race; she kept the refining materials she needed and harvested parts from the rest to earn contribution points.

One person with one blade, she single-handedly carved out the fourth path on the map.

Occasionally other squads that passed by were shocked by the sight of the slain insect bodies scattered all around.

"There’s no third strike."

"None of them have it."

"This is the deed of one person."

"What kind of strength is this?"

"Could it be an S-level powerhouse has arrived?"

"I think that even an S-level wouldn’t be able to kill so effortlessly."

Some of the squads entering the battlefield began exchanging messages.

Suddenly, almost everyone knew there was an incredibly strong individual, alone, who had killed many of the Insect Race.

For some reason, several people thought of the solitary young girl at the city gates.

But on second thought, it seemed impossible.

Although there were not strong gender biases in interstellar society, most people still felt that men were a bit more formidable than women.

And the saddest part was, this was indeed the case.

Even if there were exceptional women, they could never reach the top position, for the most formidable were still men.

And this man, who Nian Shutong knew, was none other than the former Admiral Yun He, the only SSS-level Spiritual Cultivator in the interstellar domain.

If Fu Yunhe knew what everyone was thinking, he would definitely say: Do not doubt it, the most formidable person is definitely Nian Shutong.

At the moment, Nian Shutong had found a place to rest.

She had a premonition that moving further inward meant reaching a certain boundary, which meant more formidable members of the Insect Race lay ahead.

"Eat well first, then we’ll see."

Nian Shutong comfortably set up a tent for herself, lit a bonfire, and propped up a soup pot.

In the bubbling pot of hot water, Nian Shutong threw in a slab of bone soup jelly, prepared by Master Fan.

Then she added two packs of instant noodles into the pot, along with sausage, beef, eggs, and vegetables.

"Hmm, smells pretty good."

With a pair of chopsticks in hand, Nian Shutong occasionally stirred the contents of the pot, while in her other hand she held a stick with a bun skewered on it.

She kept toasting it over the fire; toasted buns to accompany instant noodles were her dinner and night snack.

When the noodles were ready, Nian Shutong took the pot off the fire and set it on a small folding table, with the crispy buns toasted just right.

"It smells so good!"

With chopsticks in hand, Nian Shutong took a mouthful of the piping hot noodles, huffing from the heat but still swallowing it in one gulp.

"Ah—satisfying!"

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