Card Room Book 2

CR: Chapter 230

On the 12th day of the secret room, the bugs gathered at the east bridge in accordance with the queen's instructions.

The assembled bug army didn't take any action. Sure enough, it was as Xiao Lou and the others had guessed. The more important purpose for the queen summoning the bugs was to find the 'bug traitors' who didn't obey instructions and eliminate them one by one.

For her, more than 99% of the city had been infected and it was the last step before completely occupying the city.

Since the bugs could have only one leader at the same time the bugs couldn't continue to upgrade after level 9 due to her existence. They would become her strongest subordinates once they obeyed her. If they didn't obey her, these high level bugs would become the greatest threat to her.

The current strength of the bug queen was something that could no longer be defeated by ordinary humans. The thing she feared most were the high level bugs who wanted to replace her. Therefore, she gathered the bugs willing to take orders from her to prepare for the final cleansing of the city.

Shao Qingge was now a level 9 bug and one of the queen's greatest threats.

After a day's rest, he had completely tamed the new bug in his body and his abilities were restored to their full state. Shao Qingge tried to scratch his arm with his nails and within a minute, they healed visibly to the naked eye.

Ye Qi reached out to gently touch the healed arm and sighed. "It looks human but I always feel like there is hard armour under this layer of skin."

Shao Qingge smiled and squeezed the muscles of his arms. "Yes, that is the armour of the bug race. Now ordinary trauma like knives or gunshots will find it difficult to pierce my skin. Besides, the bug's healing ability is very strong. Even if the sharpest knife cuts off their hands and feet, in theory, new ones will grow in a few minutes.

Ye Qi gave a thumbs up. "This ability is too strong!"

Xiao Lou added, "Chief Shao can be said to have an 'immortal' body unless he is burned."

Ye Qi asked curiously, "Are you afraid of fire?"

Shao Qingge shook his head. "I'm not afraid. I'm essentially a human now and my willpower has suppressed the willpower of the bugs, assimilating them. Bugs are naturally afraid of fire but I'm not. Of course, I can burn to death with fire."

Xiao Lou's eyes lit up. "In this way, we can try to use fire to deal with the bug queen. As long as she isn't formed from a human assimilating a bug, Shao Qinnge will have one advantage over her. He isn't afraid of fire."

Yu Hanjiang frowned slightly and touched his chin. "Will the bug queen be a challenger?"

Shao Qingge shook his head. "It is unlikely. If a challenger really assimilated and upgraded to a queen then she can issue other orders to let the bugs disperse or stop attacking, so that her challenger team can easily pass the instance. However, her first command was to have the bug army gather at the bridge and she has been sending signals to search for the bugs around there. I'm sure that the queen is still a bug."

Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang glanced at each other. They remembered that when meeting the challenger teams from Luoying Pavilion and the Eternal Kingdom in the supermarket, the captain of Luoying Pavilion mentioned that the bugs might produce a leader such as a 'queen.' It was a common setting in science fiction movies.

Who was it?

Xiao Lou thought carefully about the people he met initially. Was it the crazy woman in the hospital? The little girl? The intern next to him or a female respiratory patient who first developed the disease in the Second Hospital? Every one of them was possible or it might've been someone they hadn't seen.