118: Chapter 118: Two Million Families Assemble, the Trojan Horse Plan Begins!

Lin Yuan's Mental Energy sank into his Divine Domain.

Deep within the underground insect nest, fungal mats carpeted the rock walls.

The rich scent of flesh and blood mixed with high-frequency mental fluctuations echoed in the spacious underground area.

Lin Yuan cast his gaze toward the central breeding zone.

In just five days, the implantation of the [Zerg Sovereign] trait had borne fruit.

Four thousand Platinum-tier Zerg elites, serving as the first generation of carriers, were wandering through the egg zone.

The crowns atop their heads exuded a unique class-based pressure.

Surrounding them, the newborn offspring were coiled in dense clusters.

Lin Yuan pulled up his Divine Domain panel to check the specific data.

Forty-two thousand.

This was the total number of offspring with the Dominator trait that the Mother Insect had bred in these few days, sparing no cost.

More than thirty thousand of them had defects.

The royal markings on their bodies were intermittent, and their bone crowns had only grown halfway.

Their class-based pressure was not very stable.

But the remaining ten thousand perfectly inherited the [Zerg Sovereign] concept entry.

Adding the initial four thousand first-generation elites...

In Lin Yuan's hands...

He now commanded fourteen thousand core Zerg guards with complete Dominator traits, as well as thirty thousand defective Dominator insects.

This was enough.

These forty thousand special individuals might not even make a splash on the vast starry battlefield.

But if these guys were thrown into the Zerg plane of Plane 093, they would be fifty thousand mobile "Trojan horses."

Lin Yuan withdrew his gaze.

He flipped his wrist, and a pale gold card appeared in his palm.

[Gold-tier Space Folding Card].

[Category: Strategic Logistics Vehicle]

[Capacity: Can accommodate up to two million units of standard-sized kin.]

"Violent Demon Race, assemble in full." Lin Yuan issued his divine oracle.

The Blood Abyss Sea boiled.

The tyrant let out a roar, and five hundred thousand Tyrant Demons trampled the blood-stained shoreline, voluntarily walking into the light gate projected by the Space Folding Card.

"Fire Spirit Race, assemble in full."

The Far North Volcano Group erupted.

Over two thousand Calamity Fire Spirits, bearing karmic fire bone rings on their backs, ascended into the sky and swept into the light gate.

Sky Ecological Zone.

Lin Yuan selected three hundred thousand Demon Vultures and four hundred thousand Infrasonic Bone-Blade Bats.

Lin Yuan allocated all the remaining spots to the underground Zerg.

Aside from the mandatory five thousand Dominator-specialized Zerg.

He selected a batch of elites from the Scythe Shadow Lurker Insects, Nether Uranium Heavy Armored Beetles, Corrosive Poison Burst Insects, and Psionic Plasma Insects.

The aquatic organisms, Scarlet Flying Blade Bone Fish and Oscillating Liquid Metal Crab, were left behind in the Divine Domain by Lin Yuan.

Plane 093 had no large-scale water bodies, so bringing them would only drastically reduce his combat power.

The two-million capacity limit was packed full.

Lin Yuan gripped the folding card as its light faded and withdrew his consciousness from the Divine Domain.

Dead Star, Myriad Worlds Trading Street.

The stall at the end of the street was still deserted.

The upperclassman with the bird's-nest hair was engrossed in reading that mosaic-covered book.

Footsteps stopped in front of the stall.

Without looking up, the upperclassman said, "Star Gate keys, clearly marked prices, no bargaining."

"Plane 093, give me one." Lin Yuan's voice was flat.

Slap.

The book in the upperclassman's hand fell to the ground.

He looked up, and after seeing Lin Yuan's face...

He recoiled half a meter, his back hitting the obsidian stall.

"Holy shit! How are you still alive... No, wait, why are you here again!" The upperclassman's eyes widened, and his voice went out of tune.

Lin Yuan raised an eyebrow: "What's wrong? Do I look like a ghost?"

The upperclassman looked Lin Yuan up and down, finally resting his gaze on Lin Yuan's left shoulder.

There were no traces of any injury there.

The upperclassman swallowed, his expression quite dramatic.

Five days ago, Zhu Tai from the Logistics Department's No. 3 launch pad had run to the trading street in person.

He had lectured every single Shopkeeper selling Star Gate keys.

Zhu Tai's original words at the time were: "You money-grubbing bastards who don't care about your lives!"

"That freshman who bought the one-way key to 093 just had half his body chewed up by the Void Realm Law, and he crashed right onto my launch pad!"

"If he hadn't been tough, my safety bonus for the last half-year would have been completely deducted!"

"From now on, anyone who dares to sell high-risk coordinates to these reckless bastards, I'm reporting you to my superiors."

The upperclassman had broken out in a cold sweat after hearing that.

He sold keys to make a little money, not to murder a junior.

Although Starry Sky University did not prohibit life-and-death encounters, if a freshman were to die miserably because he concealed the danger level of a plane, the school's disciplinary team would definitely invite him for tea.

"Junior," the upperclassman rubbed his hands, forcing a smile that looked worse than crying, "turn back before it's too late."

Lin Yuan looked at him without speaking.

"You're not even nineteen, right? You have your whole life ahead of you, why are you hell-bent on fighting a bunch of bugs?"

The upperclassman spoke earnestly, his tone full of sincerity.

"It's not shameful to be unable to defeat an alien plane."

"Really, the failure rate for freshmen is as high as eighty percent; this is the norm."

The upperclassman gritted his teeth and pulled three keys of different colors from his storage ring, slamming them on the table.

"Fine, I'll take a loss today. These three Silver-tier alien plane keys, I'll give them to you for free!"

"Go fight them, fight them all you want, if you break them, it's on me!"

"Take a senior's advice: stop messing with Plane 093."

"And don't actually get yourself killed on the launch pad."

"If you die outside, no one cares, but if you die on the Dead Star, we businessmen can't take the blame."

Lin Yuan's expression remained unchanged after listening to this long speech.

He had roughly guessed why the other party was acting this way.

The fat man from the Logistics Department had likely issued a warning in advance, fearing he would be held accountable.

"Are you selling it or not?" Lin Yuan's voice turned cold.

The upperclassman was choked by these words.

Looking at Lin Yuan's serious eyes, he knew his previous words had been a waste of breath.

"If you aren't selling, I'll find someone else." Lin Yuan turned and walked away.

"Hey, hey, hey! Don't go!" The upperclassman quickly called out to stop Lin Yuan.

He felt miserable inside.

This kid was a pure lunatic.

It's hard to persuade a man who is determined to die; if he didn't sell it, the kid would definitely find other channels.

He might end up getting scammed even worse, or even lose his life.

"Zhu Tai, oh Zhu Tai, this isn't my fault," the upperclassman muttered silently to the fat man, "I'm running a legitimate business."

"If he insists on seeking death, what can I do? I'm just satisfying a junior's thirst for knowledge."

Once his psychological preparation was complete, the upperclassman put on his profiteer face again.

"Ten million faith points, no credit."

Lin Yuan transferred the points readily.

After receiving the star key with the coordinates engraved on it, Lin Yuan headed straight for the launch area on the edge of the Dead Star.

No. 3 launch pad.

Zhu Tai, the fat man from the Logistics Department, was lying on his chair, happily playing a virtual game on his personal terminal.

"Senior, I'd like to rent a shuttle."

A familiar voice rang out outside the fortress window.

Zhu Tai's finger twitched, and the character in his game screen was slapped to death by a monster.

He hurriedly looked up.

When he saw Lin Yuan's face, all the fat on Zhu Tai's body trembled.

He propped himself up on the windowsill with both hands, almost kneeling down.

"Ancestor! I'll call you ancestor, okay!" Zhu Tai's voice was trembling.

"I beg you, stop thinking about conquering alien races! Staying alive is the most important thing!"

Zhu Tai gripped the edge of the windowsill tightly: "Do you have any idea how scary you looked five days ago?"

"That level of Law backlash would have put a sophomore in bed for half a year!"

"How are you running around alive again?"

Lin Yuan pressed the star key onto the console: "To Plane 093."

"No way! Even if the sky falls, I won't fly a shuttle for you!" Zhu Tai shook his head like a rattle-drum.

He began to find all sorts of reasons to persuade him: "Junior, are you afraid that the half-month deadline is coming up and you'll be expelled from school for not having enough credits?"

"Or are you afraid that your homeroom teacher will scold you?"

Zhu Tai slapped his thigh and said confidently: "You don't have to worry at all! I know your class's Instructor Wen Muxue very well!"

"She's the type who has a sharp tongue but a soft heart! Really!"

"She looks cold on the surface, but in reality, she is a very gentle and intellectual woman."

"She won't make things difficult for you just because you couldn't conquer a high-risk plane!"

The fat man was already talking nonsense to stop Lin Yuan.

Gentle and intellectual?

Lin Yuan's eye twitched.

The scene from the first day of class flashed through his mind.

That woman wearing high heels, with impatience written all over her face, who kept saying things like "If you die, you die" and "No one will collect your corpse."

She spoke for less than ten minutes from start to finish and left faster than the bell.

Aside from her appearance fitting the description of "gentle and intellectual," nothing else was remotely related.

This fat man was even making up such nonsense to discourage him.

Seeing the fat man's attitude, Lin Yuan knew that if he didn't give him some reassurance, he wouldn't be able to board the shuttle today.

"Don't worry, Senior." Lin Yuan's tone softened slightly, "I'm prepared this time."

He pointed to his intact left shoulder: "Does it look like I'm going to my death?"

"Even if I really can't beat them, I promise I won't die on the launch pad. You can rest easy."

Zhu Tai stared at Lin Yuan for a while.

He discovered that not only had Lin Yuan's aura not weakened, but it was even more profound than five days ago.

The pressure faintly radiating from him made even him, a seasoned junior, feel a bit of pressure.

Zhu Tai sighed.

He knew that anyone who got into Starry Sky University had a bit of stubbornness.

Someone like Lin Yuan, who wouldn't even blink to buy six or seven keys just to fight a plane to the death, was the best of the stubborn bunch.

He definitely couldn't persuade him.

Zhu Tai reached under the console and fumbled for a while.

A moment later, he took out a silver-gray metal disc and handed it to Lin Yuan from the window.

"Take this." Zhu Tai said grumpily.

Lin Yuan took the disc and looked down at it.

The surface of the disc was engraved with spatial arrays, and a high-purity Void Realm Source Crystal was embedded in the core.

"What is this?"

"A special supply from the Starry Sky University Logistics Department, a Directional Spatial Traction Device." Zhu Tai sat back in his chair and took a sip of tea.

"It's good internal stuff, you can't buy it outside."

"This thing connects directly to the main array of the school's main star."

"No matter how strong the spatial interference you encounter in an alien plane, as long as the plane's will hasn't reached the True God level..."

"Crush it, and it will forcibly pull you back to school within three seconds."

Zhu Tai pointed at Lin Yuan: "It's a hundred times better than those pieces of junk you buy outside."

A flash of surprise crossed Lin Yuan's eyes.

Starry Sky University's foundation was truly deep.

A life-saving tool that could ignore high-intensity spatial interference was already a very good treasure outside.

This fat man actually just gave it to him.

It seemed there were still many unknown hidden benefits in this school.

Lin Yuan did not decline and put the traction device away quite readily.

"Many thanks, Senior." Lin Yuan's tone was serious.

"Get lost, get lost, don't die on my watch and that'll be enough thanks for me." Zhu Tai waved his hand, looking disgusted.

Lin Yuan transferred the 200,000 faith points for the fare using the star key.

The isolation door of the No. 3 launch pad opened. Lin Yuan sat into the shuttle.

The cabin door closed.

"Jump countdown: three, two, one."

The tail of the shuttle spewed a deep blue flame and plunged into the spatial turbulence above.

A familiar pulling sensation came.

When everything calmed down, the shuttle's cabin door popped open automatically.

Lin Yuan stepped out of the cabin, and the shuttle quickly disassembled and dissipated behind him.

A gray, gloomy sky, thick fleshy clouds, and dark purple fleshy mucosa under his feet.

The air was filled with a more intense, more manic, acidic, and rotten smell.

Plane 093, he had arrived.

Lin Yuan stood in place, feeling the fluctuations of the world's power remaining in the air.

Five days ago, he had fled in a sorry state right here, his shoulder pierced by the Mother Insect's strike.

But now.

Lin Yuan raised his right hand.

The [Space Folding Card] appeared between his two fingers.

"Let me see what else you can use to stop me."