Chapter 263: I Have to Say, This Silly Bird Really Knows How to Show Off!
With the arrival of the End Bird, the sea of bizarre insects seemed to tremble, stopping their pursuit of the Chosen Ones.
This bird was as massive as a mountain, and when its wings spread out, they could reach up to a hundred meters wide.
Its feathers were as black as ink, and as it soared, its wings seemed to absorb all the light, plunging everything around into darkness. Saying it blotted out the sun and sky wouldn’t be an exaggeration at all.
As its wings swept through the air, countless creatures felt a powerful gust of wind, as if it could blow away everything in the world.
Some of the bizarre insects that had managed to escape were swept up by this wind and ended up who knows where.
A few of the Chosen Ones had to grab onto the railings by the reservoir just to keep themselves steady.
Those who were weaker were basically already knocked over by the wind.
Zhang Yangqing didn’t feel much of an effect though. Once the strong wind passed, he told his teammates to get out of there quickly.
If he wasn’t mistaken, the End Bird was about to launch an attack on the Mother Insect, because by this time, she would have definitely eaten the tangerine fruit covered in black mucus.
The one-eyed kid and his group had never seen such a colossal creature before, and they scrambled to run away from the abandoned reservoir.
Then they found a relatively safe place to watch the battle between these two giants.
Seeing this scene, many audience members stood up excitedly.
They crowded closer to the big screen, wanting to get a feel for the power of these terrifying behemoths.
In the sky, the End Bird’s wings flapped continuously, its overwhelming aura sending chills down everyone’s spines.
Its eyes kept shifting, as if searching for its precise target.
And at that moment, the Mother Insect seemed to sense the End Bird’s presence, but she didn’t want to provoke it. She hoped the End Bird was just passing by, staying out of each other’s way.
But when the End Bird found its target, it let out a piercing cry that resounded across the heavens, shaking the sky and startling all creatures.
As a top-tier force in this world, the End Bird seemed to be announcing to everyone that it was about to attack.
The sound of its cry already seemed to pronounce the Mother Insect’s death sentence.
That’s the pride of a powerful being.
The Mother Insect knew then that she couldn’t avoid the fight, and she grew furious.
Deep within the reservoir, a tremendous aura suddenly surged forth, causing the ground nearby to shake.
Another colossal creature rose up, appearing before everyone’s eyes.
Sand and gravel cascaded down from its body like a waterfall.
This massive, bizarre insect boss was tens of meters tall, with a body as huge as a small hill, and it was in no way inferior to the End Bird in size.
Its body was covered in a smooth, hard shell, like an ancient suit of armor, giving off a deep metallic luster. It felt indestructible and exuded a powerful, commanding presence.
The Mother Insect’s four front limbs were like four giant iron rods—strong and powerful. Their sheer length was enough to make anyone’s heart tremble with fear.
When these four front limbs swung through the air, the powerful gusts they created could instantly scatter nearby trees and rocks in all directions.
Its hind legs were even more terrifyingly strong.
These hind legs were almost twice as long as its front limbs, and each one seemed to be made of pure, muscular power.
At the ends of these hind legs were huge, sharp spines that could easily carve deep marks into any terrain.
Just this scene alone had already made many Chosen Ones start backing away, and audience members moved away from their screens, clearly frightened.
But this was only the Mother Insect’s opening move.
When she opened her mouth, the sound she made was like thunder, striking fear into all hearts.
This terrifying noise seemed to warn the End Bird that this was her territory, and she was the unchallengeable ruler here.
As if hearing the threat, the End Bird let out a series of strange cries in the sky.
It was as if it were saying: “That’s it? That’s it? That’s it?”
As the ruler of the world, the End Bird seemed to find it all a big joke.
“I’ve roamed this land for so many years, and I’ve always been the one who kills—never the one who gets killed. How dare you, a stinky bug, warn me?”
Even if the other creatures around couldn’t understand bird language, they could tell the End Bird was laughing wildly.
“I have to say, this silly bird really knows how to show off.”
When Zhang Yangqing said this, it scared the people nearby half to death.
The one-eyed kid and the others looked at Zhang Yangqing, then back at the “divine bird” in the sky.
They only relaxed when they saw the End Bird wasn’t looking their way.
The one-eyed kid thought to himself: Dude, I admit you’re tough, but can you not be so cocky right now?
This End Bird isn’t some low-level creature like those bizarre beetles. It’s a mythical totem bird of this world!
It’s the divine bird that judges all sins!
It’s way beyond the reach of ordinary people like us.
Other people would kneel just seeing this divine bird.
Can you please keep quiet? What if the bird hears you and casually kills us all?
The other teammates were also terrified. Only you, big brother, would dare call it a silly bird.
Zhang Yangqing had no idea what they were thinking. To him, watching this bird-insect battle was like watching animals fight in his own backyard—just a little entertainment after a meal.
The battle between the End Bird and the Mother Insect officially began.
A razor-sharp claw strike suddenly tore through the sky.
The End Bird might be arrogant, but it knew the Mother Insect was no pushover.
If it didn’t use some real skills, it wouldn’t be able to deal with her.
This world-shaking claw strike seemed as if it could tear the sky itself in two.
A huge ripple appeared in the air, like a crack stretching across several hundred meters!
“Wow, it’s going for a killing blow right from the start!”
The one-eyed kid was stunned. He couldn’t even imagine how he would die if that claw came for him.
Even being nearby, he’d probably be crushed to dust, right?
This was the myth of this world—the End Bird!
But Zhang Yangqing poured cold water on that thought right away.
“It’s not. That was just a probe. Look closely at the Mother Insect’s hind legs. She’s getting ready to dodge, and she’ll definitely make it.”
Before he finished speaking, the battle unfolded exactly as Zhang Yangqing had said.
The End Bird’s attack collapsed a large area near the reservoir.
But the Mother Insect dodged it with a single step back.
Here, the End Bird deliberately left an opening. It was waiting for the Mother Insect to attack it while it was on the ground. If the Mother Insect took the bait, the End Bird would grab her with its other claw and take her into the sky.
Once in the air, the Mother Insect would be doomed.
But the Mother Insect didn’t fall for it. She kept dodging, trying to tire the End Bird out.
She didn’t think she could land a single, decisive blow on a giant like the End Bird.
The End Bird wasn’t as good at ground combat. If it stayed on the ground too long, it could easily be killed. So it flapped its wings and returned to the sky.
As the king of aerial combat, the sky was its domain.
And then, a jaw-dropping scene unfolded.
The Mother Insect started roaring again, as if mocking the End Bird and messing with its head.
The onlookers thought the Mother Insect was incredibly brave, not afraid of angering the End Bird.
But Zhang Yangqing saw it differently. He thought the Mother Insect was very clever.
Since the End Bird wasn’t going to let her go anyway, she might as well make it angry and look for an opening.
Because one had feathers and the other had a hard shell.
Neither wanted to reveal their defensive capabilities too early, so they weren’t planning to tank each other’s attacks.
The End Bird’s advantage was its immense strength, especially in its leg muscles. If its claws got a grip, it could crush the Mother Insect.
And if that didn’t kill her, it could finish her off with its sharp beak.
That was the End Bird’s usual fighting style.
As one of the major bosses, the Mother Insect should normally lose to her natural enemy, the End Bird.
But don’t forget, she had a special buff: pollution.
She wanted to pass that pollution on to the End Bird without getting killed herself. That way, she might still have a chance.
The pollution on the Mother Insect wasn’t on the same scale as that on ordinary bizarre insects.
If a Chosen One was attacked by the Mother Insect, even a scratch would deliver a dose of pollution strong enough to instantly kill many of them.
Now, the End Bird seemed to remember it had other skills and started emitting sound waves.
The Mother Insect’s stats were high enough that she could withstand it, but the bizarre insects nearby exploded on the spot, their blood splattering everywhere.
Even the insects farther away started vomiting blood and became disoriented.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The End Bird, now enraged, dove down again.
The Mother Insect continued mocking and dodging, in no hurry to attack.
On the surface, the End Bird still had the absolute advantage.
The teammates were cheering for the End Bird. If it could take out the Mother Insect, the threat from the Insect race would temporarily subside.
But seeing this, Zhang Yangqing muttered, “This silly bird is going to get hurt.”
Hearing this, the female nurse didn’t doubt his words, but her face showed concern. “Is the End Bird going to lose?”
Zhang Yangqing shook his head. “With its abilities, losing is unlikely. But winning will be a narrow victory. If things go badly, the Mother Insect might manage a mutual kill.”
He had reasons for saying this. Just like in the last horror story, even the humans specifically created to counter angels had major flaws.
The normal outcome was for both the angel and the humans to die together.
If the End Bird was strong enough to dominate, wouldn’t it have won already?
The battle went on for about ten minutes, and the mountain range around the reservoir was mostly destroyed.
Good thing this area was still a distance from the city, or the fight between these two giants could have caused massive casualties.
As the End Bird’s movements became a bit sluggish, the Mother Insect seemed to start testing out some attacks.
But she only spat out some corrosive mucus or polluted silk threads, in no hurry to engage in close combat.
Still, the End Bird easily broke free of the threads, and the corrosive mucus couldn’t penetrate its feathers.
Among the onlookers, ordinary people couldn’t see the subtleties. They thought the End Bird was firmly in control.
But the superhumans all knew: the End Bird was getting anxious.
It was starting to take risks after failing to land a hit for so long.
Plus, each dive from the sky required a huge amount of energy.
The End Bird was beginning to struggle.
It wasn’t very obvious yet, but in another ten minutes, things wouldn’t look so good.
Unless the End Bird went all out with a desperate attack, it wouldn’t be easy to take down the Mother Insect.
As top-tier superhumans from Blue Planet, people like Greko could see what was really happening.
They wanted the End Bird to win so they could complete their mission.
At this level of combat, with only a fraction of their original strength, they couldn’t even get involved.
But just then, a faint rumbling sound came from the collapsed reservoir.
A strange insect, not crushed by the rubble, jumped out from inside.
The Chosen Ones weren’t too surprised; there were so many bizarre insects that not all of them could have died at once.
They just thought the patterns on this insect looked familiar, like they’d seen them somewhere before.
But the next scene shocked many of the superhumans.
This bizarre insect moved like a human—not using its other limbs, but two of them to brush off the dust, then hopped and skipped toward where the End Bird and Mother Insect were fighting.
That’s right, it walked exactly like the little girl from that couple. Nothing like a bizarre insect at all.
“Could this be the reason why the bizarre insect at the bridge had human-like behavior?”
Greko exclaimed, suddenly understanding.
So that place at the bridge was actually a small insect nest!
Everything here had a correspondence.
That meant, if he hadn’t destroyed those two eggs, then even if the Mother Insect lost, the End Bird would be too injured to stay and would leave.
That insect running over was a bizarre parasite. If it ate the Mother Insect or parasitized her corpse, it would become the new Mother Insect.
Then their mission wouldn’t be complete.
Having come this far, Greko didn’t want some bizarre parasite to ruin his SSSS rating.
Even with only a fraction of his strength, he had to find a way to stop that parasite, even if it cost him dearly.
But just then, a buzzing sound filled the air, along with several strong auras.
The human military forces from the city had arrived. Dozens of helicopters and armored vehicles came rolling in.
And there were several powerful presences among them.
If Greko were at his peak, he wouldn’t be afraid.
But now, at barely a tenth of his strength, he felt overwhelmed.
The most important thing was Rule 1: in this city, only doctors wearing purple armbands wouldn’t reject patients.
From the checkpoint at the gate, it was clear that the city’s defenses would kill anyone carrying the virus.
So, with his rational mind, Greko knew he had to run before they noticed him.
Other superhumans who sensed the approaching forces were also terrified, scattering and hiding in the nearby woods.
Even if they were reluctant, if they got caught now, they’d be dead.
But on the big screens in the Dragon Kingdom, a very different scene was playing out.
Zhang Yangqing saw a crowd gathering around him, but his eyes were still on the fight between the End Bird and the Mother Insect.
He seemed to be at the best part and didn’t want to leave.
When someone blocked his view, Zhang Yangqing waved his hand and said, “You don’t need to welcome us. Go set up your defenses ahead, just make sure those weird bugs don’t get through.”
His words left everyone on site stunned.
Zhang Yangqing might not have noticed, but the atmosphere was extremely tense.
Over a hundred patrol team members had surrounded them. Three helicopters hovered overhead, all equipped with heavy weapons.
Around them were seven or eight armed pickup trucks, with people in the back pointing machine guns and other weapons at Zhang Yangqing’s group.
Many more people jumped off the trucks, maybe a hundred of them.
Every single one wore a crow mask and was fully armed.
The clothes they wore were the same as those worn by the patrol team—Zhang Yangqing and the one-eyed kid had seen them before.
The few people leading the group had powerful auras. Especially the one in the white patrol uniform, whose body was covered in a layer of mist. His presence was incredibly oppressive, making it hard to breathe. He felt like a human boss at full strength.
He was the commander of the patrol team and the top fighter in this area.
After jumping out of his truck, he was going to yell a few questions and then find out what was going on.
That was his standard procedure.
Who would have thought that Zhang Yangqing’s one sentence would completely short-circuit his plan and leave him dumbfounded?
And here’s the thing: everyone else in the surrounded group looked scared and timid—that’s how normal people would react.
But here was one guy who wasn’t scared at all. Instead, he was looking into the distance, as if watching a cricket fight?
Being ignored made the white mist around the patrol commander grow thicker.
He wanted to use his terrifying aura to put that disrespectful guy in his place, to make him look scared and shift his attention back to him.
But even when his own subordinates backed away in fear, the guy ignoring him just kept watching the fight.
It was like nothing in the world could interest him except for the bird versus bug battle.
And hey, I’m the commander here. You don’t get to boss me around!
All of this made the patrol commander furious. Even with his mask on, everyone could tell he was absolutely livid.
The one-eyed kid and the others were sweating bullets, too. Facing something so unexpected, they had no idea what to do.
When he turned to look at Zhang Yangqing, he saw that this guy was still above it all, completely unfazed by anyone’s presence.
The situation was incredibly awkward.
Just then, an adjutant next to the patrol commander walked over and said, “They have purple marks on their necks. Looks like these patients took advantage of the chaos from the divine bird’s fight to sneak in. How do you want to handle it?”
Hearing this, a smile curled at the corners of the patrol commander’s mouth.
If they were ordinary citizens, he couldn’t be too rough.
But patients? That meant he could do whatever he wanted.
The Lone Wolf brother saw that none of the other teammates were speaking up, so he bravely stepped forward to explain. He told them that they had discovered the insect nest and the Mother Insect, and then summoned the End Bird to attack her. Surely that counted as some kind of merit, right?
To stay alive, he had to be humble.
But the patrol team had its own rules: any patient who entered the city, if discovered, had to be executed immediately.
That’s what the rule implied, and it was why the other Chosen Ones had run away when they saw the patrol team.
Unsurprisingly, the patrol commander couldn’t be bothered to listen. He said dismissively, “Ridiculous. You sneaky little fools sure know how to inflate your own egos. Guards, execute them.”
His tone was incredibly arrogant, like a judge passing a sentence.
The teammates felt a pang of anger: We saved you people, and this is how you treat us?
But with his overwhelming aura, they didn’t dare say anything more.
Just as Lone Wolf was about to keep explaining, the one-eyed kid stopped him.
“Why are you wasting so many words on him? He was dead the moment he said that.”
Lone Wolf gave him a surprised look, as if to say: You’ve been hiding some skills?
The one-eyed kid shrugged, as if answering: I don’t have any skills, but the big brother standing next to us has had enough.
