470: Two nuclear bombs! Final words.
Rong City.
The rain had passed, and the sky was clear.
After Nie Fangping woke up, the first thing he did was check the percentage progress.
1.7%.
Then, he looked at his Insectoid Army.
Blade Worm: 570,000
Armor Worm: 250,000
Swarm Larva: 70,000
Nest Building Bugs: 60,000
Tool Worm: 10,000
Total: 960,000
The number of Blade Worm continued to rise under the incubation of the creep in the insect nest.
A number like 570,000 sounds terrifying.
But if these insects were gathered together, a slightly larger room could fit them all.
Compared to the swarm occupying the starry sky that Nie Fangping imagined, it was still far off.
"Continue to clear out the Zombies and cultivate new insects."
Nie Fangping planned this.
In the Central District of Rong City, the most terrifying Zombie he encountered was a Zombie that had evolved to the second stage.
Its physique was no different from a normal person.
What was terrifying was its speed, and a pair of arm blades sharp enough to cut through steel bars and walls!
Under its swift, slicing attacks, it killed thousands of Blade Worm in just a few breaths.
It was the Armor Worm shield, formed by one hundred thousand Armor Worm, that withstood the opponent's slashes.
And with this cooperation, the nearly infinite swarm directly wore down that second-stage evolved Zombie until it died.
Except for this second-stage evolved Zombie, the remaining evolved Zombies were all first-stage.
Under the onslaught of the Insectoid Army, not even bones were left.
"The Central District has been dealt with, so let's start radiating outwards towards the surrounding areas."
With this plan in mind, Nie Fangping issued the command.
Now.
He only needed to stay in place to see swarms of insects flying through the City, and the Zombies that disappeared as those swarms passed by.
It was like an eraser, rubbing away pencil marks, leaving traces, but also eliminating them.
As time passed, more and more insects, like an Army in the air, harvested Zombies.
Those Zombies were carriers of energy, and for the swarm, as long as there was energy, they could reproduce like a gushing well in a short amount of time!
This was the Insectoids!
As long as there were resources, their development speed was faster than a Great Power Reincarnation.
Having cast aside thoughts of revenge and fully immersing himself in this, Nie Fangping's swarm numbers had entered a phase of rapid growth.
Total swarm count: 1 million, 1.2 million, 1.5 million, 2 million...
When the swarm count surged to 2 million, Nie Fangping suddenly paused.
Total swarm count: 1.95 million.
Just a moment ago, his forty thousand Blade Worm and ten thousand Armor Worm had all died!
In just an instant!
His body rising, Nie Fangping looked towards the South District.
As if influenced by his swarm, a terrifying existence that had been hidden there slowly revealed itself from the cluster of buildings!
"This is... a Zombie!?"
Nie Fangping was startled.
With a body size of over ten meters, as the fleshy wings behind this dark figure slowly spread, it gave people a sense of covering the sky and blocking out the Sun.
Judging from the Zombie virus emanating from its body, it was indeed a Zombie.
But this guy was more terrifying than any Nie Fangping had ever seen.
This thing was still in the South District.
If it had been near the subway station before, Zhao Ling might have been blown away by one of its wings.
It was also clear that his deceased fifty thousand swarm were this guy's doing.
This was an extremely powerful Zombie.
Should he mobilize other insects to come over?
After a slight contemplation, Nie Fangping gathered the remaining Blade Worm and Armor Worm.
There was no harm in trying; it was a good opportunity to see the capabilities of these insects and their positioning.
The swarm was completely unafraid of losses; even if the swarm was wiped out, they could be reassembled after the Swarm Larva recycled the corpses.
This was also the confidence Nie Fangping had to try.
"Buzz buzz buzz~"
Millions of insects, like a natural disaster, approached the Pathogen in front.
The vibrating wings of the Blade Worm crashed against the opponent's skin, cutting into it.
"Pfft pfft pfft~"
The thick flesh began to break open under the cutting of hundreds of thousands of insects.
Blood containing the virus original fluid flowed down, turning into a black mist that enveloped its body.
In just over ten seconds, the Blade Worm circled the Giant Beast, cutting it countless times.
With the Blade Worm's wings almost becoming blunt, wounds finally appeared on the Pathogen's body.
"Roar!"
As the Pathogen roared, its dark gaze looked at the insects before it.
Raising the fleshy wings on its back with little emotional fluctuation.
"Boom!" The wings suddenly flapped, creating a hurricane.
The Pathogen felt the loss of energy in its body and wanted to scatter the swarm.
However, the Armor Worm blocked the front at this moment, preventing the Blade Worm's formation from being disrupted.
Before Nie Fangping could praise the swarm's coordination, a ferocious giant hand directly smashed onto the shield constructed by two hundred thousand Armor Worm!
"Dong!"
The entire swarm shield was forcibly torn apart under the Pathogen's terrifying power!
Nearly ten thousand Armor Worm died and fell to the ground.
While Nie Fangping's expression was slightly solemn, a large number of Blade Worm seized this opportunity to attack the Pathogen again.
The single cutting attack still caused very limited damage to the Pathogen.
Seeing this, Nie Fangping already understood that these insects of his were completely incapable of doing anything to the opponent.
There were two reasons.
One was that the individual insects were too weak relative to this guy.
Two was that the swarm numbers were still too small; if there were hundreds of millions of insects, it wouldn't be a problem.
If either of these two problems were solved, this guy would become a piece of meat in the mouth of a Swarm Larva.
"It seems I can only wait for the Insectoids to develop for a while longer," Nie Fangping muttered to himself, while seeing that the swarm in front had been completely torn apart by that Pathogen.
Only a few tens of thousands were scattered around, unable to form an offensive.
After ordering the remaining swarm to retreat, Nie Fangping looked at the Swarm Larva collecting the insect corpses and then at the behemoth in the distance, feeling a slight doubt in his heart.
Did this guy really grow into this appearance after the virus mutated in a human body?
It had only been three months since the apocalypse.
In this World, how many such existences were there?
Or, were there even stronger ones?
It seemed that behind this Zombie virus, there was a deeper layer of information that he did not know.
After a brief thought, Nie Fangping looked towards Yishan.
"Perhaps, in the Humans' base, there is the information he needs."
The development method of the Insectoids could not be so reckless and ostentatious.
These things still needed to be combined with the truth behind the World.
Vaguely, Nie Fangping realized a path - the path of 'Gou' (lying low and developing).
"Woo woo woo!!"
Suddenly.
The distant sky was suddenly illuminated by a firelight brighter than the Sun, illuminating the entire sky.
They were two launchers emitting crimson tail flames.
And what these two launchers carried were... nuclear bombs?!
"Boom!!"
In the distance.
That Pathogen also seemed to sense danger.
Its wings vibrated, wanting to leave this area.
Nie Fangping was somewhat in a trance; he did not detect any tension, panic, fear, or other emotions in the pupils of that giant Zombie.
Compared to the evolved Zombies that sought advantage and avoided harm like wild beasts, it was more like a cold-blooded machine created by someone.
It could sense danger, but it wouldn't show emotion.
It was also possible that Nie Fangping himself was experiencing significant emotional fluctuations and had misread it.
After all...
There were mushroom clouds overhead!
And two of them!
Could he be calm about this?
The guy in front seemed to fly fast, but it couldn't possibly escape the range of the nuclear blast.
As for himself, it was even more impossible to escape.
With intense emotional fluctuations, Nie Fangping looked at the substitute doll that the Tool Worm had been carrying.
"System, I can only place my hope on the things you produce."
"At worst, after I die, guide me and let me reunite with my younger sister."
"Actually, I've already gotten revenge, so it can be considered an explanation..."
Nie Fangping said sentence by sentence, as if giving his last words.
Under the mushroom cloud, all beings are equal.
Unless the System transcends all beings, otherwise... there really isn't much hope!
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