200: Chapter 198: It inherited its father's stubbornness, but not its resilience.

"..."

The corners of Su Zhiruo's mouth twitched.

After witnessing the racial colonization methods of a High-Dimensional Hunter civilization and deducing the logic of cross-dimensional geopolitical maneuvering, the first thing Godzilla cared about was whether it could be eaten.

The mental world of a Planet-level king of monsters always revolved around the word "eat."

"It should be edible."

Luo Yu answered seriously, "The egg of a high-dimensional creature definitely has an energy density several orders of magnitude higher than an Abyssal Giant Beast. If you eat the whole thing, your evolution progress will definitely jump up by another notch."

Before he finished speaking, Godzilla's dorsal fins lit up completely.

The red light burned all the way from its spine to the tip of its tail, and the temperature in the entire hollow rose by sixty degrees within three seconds.

"However..."

Luo Yu changed the subject. Godzilla's red glow dimmed a notch.

"This thing isn't dead; there's something alive inside. No matter what it is, whatever hatches won't be weak. If you try to bite it directly, you'll have to break the shell first, and once the shell is broken, the thing inside will likely run away."

Godzilla's vertical pupils narrowed. Run away? Could something to eat actually run away?

"Roar!!" A low roar, deep enough to make the Earth's crust resonate, rolled out from Godzilla's throat. Translation: Then I'll smash it first!

"Wait." Luo Yu patted its scales. "Don't rush; I want to see what exactly is inside."

As he spoke, he took out the purple crystal that Ivy had picked up from his pocket and waved it in the direction of the egg.

"Pandora, can this waypoint react with that egg?"

Pandora hesitated for two seconds, then slowly unwound from Luo Yu's wrist, returned to its two-meter-long size, and coiled around the crystal. Its single eye stared at the runes on the crystal's surface, and its body glowed slightly.

Three seconds later, the runes on the crystal lit up. At the same moment, a crack appeared on the surface of the white egg sphere floating above.

The crack was not big, only a few meters long. But the moment the white-gold light poured out from the crack, Pandora was so scared it dove back into Luo Yu's sleeve.

"Hiss hiss hiss!! It's awake, it's awake, it's awake!!!"

Luo Yu's pupils contracted. That crack—it was expanding. Five meters, ten meters, thirty meters, fifty meters.

The surface of the white egg cracked like a shattered mirror, one crack after another spreading at an astonishing speed. White-gold light gushed out from every crevice, illuminating the entire underground space. The egg had begun to hatch.

It was not a natural hatching at a normal pace. It was a forced, frantic, reckless stress-induced hatching. This egg had sensed a threat.

The energy pressure released by the 1,900-meter-tall Planet-level king of the titans standing before it, that aura of an apex predator from the top of the food chain, triggered some internal defensive instinct. The thing inside the egg shell had no choice but to break out early.

"Interesting." Luo Yu's eyes lit up immediately.

"Luo Yu!!" Su Zhiruo grabbed his arm and pointed upward.

She didn't need to remind him. The cracks on the surface of the egg had already covered eighty percent of its area. White-gold fragments peeled off one by one, and every fragment that hit the bottom of the hollow smashed a pit dozens of meters wide into the purple rock layer.

Inside the egg, the mass of light and shadow that had been constantly changing shape had also stabilized. A humanoid. A humanoid silhouette over two meters tall, radiating white-gold light throughout its body, with long arms, sharp fingertips, and four translucent wings of light extending from its back.

Its head had no facial features, only a single eye like Pandora's, but the color was not emerald green; it was pure white, white to the point of transparency. A High-Dimensional Hunter (larva).

"Hiss hiss hiss hiss hiss hiss!!!"

Pandora's cries had turned into pure noise. The white-gold humanoid creature that had broken out of its shell hovered in mid-air. Its single eye scanned the underground space, its gaze sweeping over the giant beast skeletons on the rock walls, over the purple crystalline ground, over Mothra, over Su Zhiruo, and finally stopping on Godzilla.

Two seconds. Then it did something that even Luo Yu hadn't expected. It turned around and began to eat the eggshell.

Yes. Eat the eggshell. Those white-gold fragments scattered in the air were gathered back by an invisible force, flying one by one into the two-meter-tall humanoid creature.

It was eating. The speed of its feeding was ridiculously fast. The moment each piece of eggshell was swallowed, its body size expanded by a circle. Two meters—three meters—five meters—ten meters.

Within half a minute, the 500-meter-diameter eggshell had been eaten completely. And its size had grown from the initial two meters to eighty meters.

Luo Yu frowned. The system's notification sound rang in his mind.

【High-Dimensional Lifeform detected: Larval Stage】 【Level Assessment: Ninth-Tier Mid-stage (Growing rapidly)】 【Special Tag: Absorbing carrier information, abnormal growth rate】 【Threat Level: Low (Current) → Potentially Extremely High】

Ninth-Tier Mid-stage—Ninth-Tier just after hatching. And it was still growing.

After finishing the eggshell, that white-gold high-dimensional larva stopped expanding. Its eighty-meter-tall figure hovered in the air, its four wings of light slowly spreading and retracting. Its single eye moved away from Godzilla.

Then, a mental wave erupted from within its body, pouring into the consciousness of everyone present. Unlike the rough mental projection of that High-Dimensional Hunter in the Antarctic, this larva's mental transmission was much more refined, even carrying its own translation function. The message was short. Very straightforward.

"This world has been marked. It belongs to the superior beings. All low-dimensional beings, surrender or be destroyed."

The tone was exactly the same as that one in the Antarctic—arrogant. Too bad. What it was facing was a Planet-level king of monsters that had already beaten its "father" until it was wailing.

Godzilla blinked. The crimson flames in its vertical pupils flickered twice.

"Hiss." The tone pitched up a little, carrying a very subtle inflection. Luo Yu had been with Godzilla for so long that he knew exactly what every tone meant. The translation of this "hiss" was: Yo, the food has a temper?

And as the high-dimensional larva hovered in the air, its eighty-meter-tall white-gold figure was particularly striking against the reflection of the purple crystalline rock walls. Its four wings of light flapped slowly, each flap leaving a white-gold afterimage in the air. That pure white single eye was staring fixedly at Godzilla.

Eighty meters versus 1,900 meters. The size difference was over twenty times. But the high-dimensional larva's aura didn't shrink at all. Its mental waves continued to spread outward, the content repeating those same few lines over and over: "This world has been marked." "The will of the superior beings cannot be defied." "Surrender, or be eliminated." Looping playback.

After listening three times, Luo Yu reached a conclusion. This thing perfectly inherited its father's two major traits: First, stubbornness. Second, it wasn't very bright. Also, the reason the three kings of the abyss weren't acting likely wasn't because they were afraid of this larva, but because they were afraid of this larva's father and the high-dimensional world.

"The 'this world' it's referring to is the Abyss World, right?" Luo Yu turned to look at Pandora. Pandora poked half its head out of the sleeve, glanced at the larval member of its own kind with its single eye, and shrank back in.

"Mm... It inherited the instructions of its predecessors... Occupy the world it finds, establish an outpost... It doesn't know there are other enemies outside."

"In other words—that High-Dimensional Hunter didn't tell it about Earth at all?"

"The information in the eggshell is limited... Only basic survival instructions and target coordinates... No Earth."

Luo Yu leaned against Godzilla's horn groove and tapped its scales with his fingers. Things were simpler than he had thought.

After the High-Dimensional Hunter was beaten away in the Antarctic, it wanted to find the coordinates of Earth but couldn't, and by a stroke of misfortune, it stumbled upon the Abyss World. It didn't risk coming in personally again—the lesson from last time was profound enough—but instead threw in an egg. The larva inside the egg carried a hard-coded instruction: Occupy this place. The eggshell itself was an information carrier, containing part of the High-Dimensional Hunter's knowledge and ability inheritance, but the scope was limited, involving only basic information about the "target world." And the "target world" was the Abyss, not Earth. Therefore, the larva that hatched from this egg didn't know of Earth's existence at all, nor did it know what was on the other side of the wormhole. It also didn't know that the black-red mountain standing before it was the culprit behind its father being beaten to the point of having its limbs severed.

"Pretty good." Luo Yu's mouth twitched.

As it stands, the high-dimensional civilization hasn't truly locked onto Earth's coordinates; this egg is an accidental product, not a precision strike against Earth. The threat is controllable. The premise is not to let this thing continue to grow, and certainly not to let it trace back through the wormhole to find Earth after it finishes hatching.

"Su Zhiruo." "Yes." "Does the spatial signal structure of this thing have any connection to that waypoint in the Antarctic?"

Su Zhiruo's magic formation ran for five seconds. "Yes, but it's one-way. After the eggshell was eaten, the spatial coordinate information has already been transferred into the larva's body. If it is allowed to leave the Abyss World alive, it has the ability to rebuild the waypoint."

"Then it cannot be allowed to live."

The moment he finished speaking, the high-dimensional larva's mental waves suddenly intensified. It had heard. Not exactly "heard," as the perception method of high-dimensional creatures is different from humans; it didn't read the language itself, but the intent carried within the mental waves. The murderous intent in Luo Yu's words had been captured by it.

The eighty-meter-tall white-gold figure suddenly retreated twenty meters, its four wings of light instantly opening to their maximum extent, and dense white points of light condensed along the edges of its wings. Its single eye moved from Godzilla to Luo Yu.

A new mental wave came, much more urgent than before. "You—a servant of the superior beings? No, you are... an indigenous inhabitant of this dimension? You... you know of the superior beings?"

It had captured some fragmented information about the High-Dimensional Hunter from Luo Yu's mental waves. Then it was confused. The reason for the confusion was simple: in the knowledge system it inherited from the eggshell, the indigenous inhabitants of low-dimensional worlds shouldn't possess the power to threaten superior beings. Its "father" was an intermediate hunter, the kind that could rank in the top thirty in the high-dimensional world. Low-dimensional carbon-based organisms should be no different from dust in front of it. But the energy fluctuations emanating from the carbon-based organism before it... and the black-red giant beast beneath its feet that occupied its entire field of vision... Something was wrong. Very wrong.

But the pride in the bones of a high-dimensional creature meant it didn't choose to retreat. The instructions in the eggshell were still roaring in its mind: Occupy this place. Occupy this place. So it chose to release its pressure.

White-gold radiance exploded from within its body.

Luo Yu had to give it a fair assessment: for the level of Ninth-Tier Mid-stage, this wave of pressure wasn't bad. The energy quality of a high-dimensional creature was indeed a notch higher than an Abyssal Giant Beast of the same level, and the mental impact was stronger; it wasn't large in volume but had high density. Change to another opponent, like a Seventh-Tier Abyssal Giant Beast, and after being enveloped by this wave of pressure, it would likely experience a brief mental trance. But who was standing opposite it?

Godzilla sneezed. "Hah—choo!"

It was just... purely because it was shined upon by the light, its nasal cavity was uncomfortable, and it sneezed. The airflow caused by the sneeze blew the high-dimensional larva, making it flip three times in the air. After finally managing to steady itself with its wings of light, what was reflected in its single eye were those golden vertical pupils of Godzilla. There was no hostility in the vertical pupils. Something more despair-inducing than hostility: indifference.

"Hiss." Godzilla tilted its head and blew two puffs of hot air from its nostrils toward the high-dimensional larva. The action was exactly the same as when it was sniffing a plate of shrimp chips in the East Sea cafeteria. It was savoring. Tasting whether it could be eaten, whether it tasted good, and whether it was worth eating.

The high-dimensional larva's single eye contracted. What kind of look was that? Why did this low-dimensional creature look at it the same way it would look at a dish of food? Mental waves erupted again, carrying anger and confusion. "You... you are looking down on the offspring of a superior being? The main body will devour the myriad worlds, you low-dimensional..."

"Godzilla." Luo Yu interrupted its speech.

"Hiss?"

"It's only Ninth-Tier; just use your mouth, don't raise your arms."

This meant: don't use your breath, don't use your skills, just biting is enough. Godzilla grinned. Its mouth opened. For a 1,900-meter-tall giant beast, the act of "opening its mouth" was itself a visual violence; the distance between the upper and lower jaws was over four hundred meters, and each tooth inside was fifty meters long, arranged neatly. Inside the mouth was dark red, with light in the depths. Not the light of its breath, but the afterglow left by the nuclear reactor operating year-round. The eighty-meter-tall high-dimensional larva was truly too small to even get stuck in the teeth before that big mouth.

"No... no... you..."

The mental waves shattered into dust. Pride was no different from paper in the face of an absolute difference in scale. The high-dimensional larva finally realized: the thing in front of it shouldn't exist in a low-dimensional world. It was over twenty times larger than itself. The energy concentration it emitted was two dimensions higher than its own. It was even more exaggerated than the upper limit left in its father's memory in the eggshell.

Escape. Must escape. Its four wings of light flapped frantically, and the high-dimensional larva dashed at full speed toward the top of the hollow, the white-gold trajectory carving a sharp, meteor-like arc of light in the purple space.

The speed was fast. A full-speed dash of a Ninth-Tier Mid-stage was already faster than the instantaneous speed of most Ninth-Tier Giant Beasts in the Abyss World. But it forgot one thing. The height of this hollow's dome was 3,000 meters. And Godzilla's height was 1,900 meters. It was looking up at the ceiling. The tip of Godzilla's horn on its head was less than 1,100 meters from the dome.

Less than two seconds after the high-dimensional larva rushed out, it crashed into the shadow of the front claw Godzilla had raised. The claw closed. It grabbed it. The eighty-meter-tall white-gold creature was held in the palm of a black-gold giant claw over three hundred meters wide; its wings of light were crushed and deformed, and its single eye struggled desperately between the fingers.

Su Zhiruo subconsciously looked back, not at the captured larva, but at Luo Yu's expression. Luo Yu's expression was very calm, no different from watching Godzilla catch a mouse.

"Alright," Luo Yu said to Godzilla's vertical pupils, "Stop playing, let's eat."