The perspective shifts down.

The entire root system of the giant tree is deeply rooted in the depths of Isidna's planet, continually extracting nutrients.

Beneath the gnarled and complex roots, spanning half of Isidna, are countless special pipelines excavated by the Earthworm Race.

Transported within the pipelines are naked human bodies with closed eyes.

Once these humans are touched by the tree's roots, they turn into a pool of blood, completely absorbed.

Underneath the countless roots, Lin Yi saw storage rooms similar to "honeycombs" in the layers of the earth.

Inside were disgusting insect eggs, but what hatched from these eggs were not Black Scythe Insects.

Instead, they were human infants, even young human children.

Lin Yi felt a tingling scalp.

For the first time, he realized just how humiliating and desperate it was for the human civilization of Isidna!

Endlessly enslaved, even their offspring—those innocent children—have become the predetermined food of the Black Scythe Insect Race from birth.

The insect swarm is like a cancerous tumor, parasitizing the human civilization of Isidna, not only gnawing on bones and sucking marrow but also seeking to utterly destroy the future of this civilization.

Just as Lin Yi was planning to continue using Soul Search to locate the Insect Mother, Lin You suddenly shuddered.

The next moment, the deep purple in her eyes vanished.

The image transmitted through empathy was completely interrupted, disappearing without a trace.

"What's going on?"

Lin You shook her head, "I just temporarily accessed the neural network of the entire insect swarm through its permissions, but a higher-level manager's consciousness detected my intrusion."

"So I got kicked out."

Lin Yi sighed inwardly.

The collective will of the entire insect swarm was too powerful; in fact, seeing just a momentary scene was already not easy.

"So, did you find the Insect Mother?" asked Sun Dachuan.

Lin Yi shook his head, "No, I only saw a small part of the scene."

"Then what should we do?"

Lin Yi pondered for a moment, looking at the distant swarm, recalling the dungeon strategies he had studied over the past three days.

Finally, he made a decision.

"Let's go to the Istena Resistance Army."

"Perhaps they know the location of the Insect Mother."

...

Thousands of kilometers away from where Lin Yi and Sun Dachuan were located.

In a natural canyon.

Ruined tents, the sound of hammers clanging, the groans of the wounded.

The entire camp was deathly silent.

Someone sat dejectedly on the ground, caressing the already severely damaged mecha.

Someone lay on the ground, covering their eyes with their hands, tears mixed with blood flowing down.

This was the ninth base of the Istena Resistance Army.

Just a few hours ago, they conducted a rescue operation targeting the insect swarm's "granary."

This operation was successful.

But it was akin to a failure.

In the tent of the ninth base.

A man tore off the black mecha on his chest that had already shattered beyond recognition and threw it on the ground.

Then he plunged into a bucket of water.

Opening his bloodshot eyes, the already less-than-clean water stung his eyes.

Yet he endured the pain, keeping them open.

As if the blurred reflection in the water could make him forget everything he had just seen in the "granary."

The man's name was Terence, the commander of the Istena Resistance Army's ninth corps.

Half a month ago.

Their last batch of scouts exchanged their lives for an important piece of intelligence.

A cultivation chamber storing as many as several thousand newborn infants.

Commonly referred to as the "granary."

Unlike the steam and mechanical technology tree of the Isidna people.

The Black Scythe Insect Race's technology tree focuses on genetic modification and biological cultivation.

The insect swarm continually reproduces and expands, now encompassing half of Isidna as its domain.

A large population, no, swarm population requires food supply.

Other native species on Isidna have been completely devoured by them.

In the end, they could only choose to use the swarm's cultivation technology to enclose and keep a large number of Isidna humans.

Then force these deprived-will individuals to become mindless reproduction machines.

Batch after batch of human newborns are born and then, relying on the swarm's cultivation technology,

within just three months, they can complete the developmental cycle that normally takes eighteen years and reach full maturity.

Terence intended to completely clear the swarm around this granary and rescue these thousands of human newborns from the swarm's grasp.

However, just half a day before, after sacrificing hundreds of comrades and finally exterminating the guarding swarm and entering the granary,

they broke the egg incubation chambers and released over a thousand newborns.

But the next scene that unfolded left Terence heartbroken.

Though the over a thousand newborns still maintained human appearance,

internally, they had completely turned into creatures no different from the swarm.

They were engaging in cannibalism among their kind.

You eat my fingers, I bite off your ear.

The blood flowed like a river, a complete scene of hell.

No matter what methods Terence and the other resistance members employed, they couldn't change this fact.

They had killed the insects.

But couldn't alter the fate of those newborns.

"Terence, get it together!"

"Terence! We still have hope!"

"There must be... there must be a way!"

"Have you forgotten the prophecy?"

"In the eternal night when the sun sinks into the western mountains and never rises again."

"At the peak of the swarm's proliferation."

"A Knight Tianqi who commands thunder and enslaves all insects will arrive."

"We must burn our last brilliance, transform into fireflies, fly towards the flames, clearing the mist and guiding the way for him."

"And then, the Knight of the Apocalypse will end all of this, bringing a new dawn to Isidna!"

Another man, also covered in blood, comforted.

He was Simon, Terence's adjutant.

Terence suddenly pulled his head out of the bucket, screaming hoarsely, "No more! There's no hope anymore!!"

"All our mechas are broken!"

"All our engineers are dead!"

"Five years ago, we had nine corps, now only three remain!"

"Our hundred thousand brethren now dwindled to less than a thousand clinging to life!"

"I can only watch them being swallowed by the swarm one by one, only hear them tell me not to give up, there is hope, before dying for me!"

"I refuse to accept this!!"

"I could die! We could all die!"

"I just want to carve out a path of survival for our descendants!"

"But today, I realized..."

"I can't do anything... I can't do anything!!!"

At the end, this strong man, Terence, collapsed on the ground, sobbing uncontrollably.

Simon, upon hearing this, also couldn't hold back his tears.

That night, the ninth camp removed all its concealment measures and destroyed all its steam mechas.

They abandoned resistance!

However, as the night passed.

When Terence opened his eyes again, a huge sense of loss filled his heart.

Why didn't I die?

Why didn't those insects come to kill us all?

Terence walked out of the tent, looking at the still pitch-black sky, then glanced at the time.

It's 10 AM.

Yet, the sun hadn't risen!

Terence was dumbfounded.

Because he discovered, the reason the sun hadn't risen was that the night sky was actually filled with a swarm!

The swarm covered the sky and obscured the sun but hadn't devoured them!

Subsequently, he even saw someone riding on two giant insects, slowly descending toward them.

Terence's mind went blank.

The day of prophecy had arrived!

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