DreamersGN Chapter 122 Searching for the Source of the Insect Swarm
Chapter 122 Searching for the Source of the Insect Swarm
The next morning, in the backyard of the Haicheng City Lord's Mansion, Cheng Daxiong stood in the center of the courtyard with his eyes tightly closed.
His left eye socket used to be empty, now scarred and menacing.
At this moment, a new eye, radiating a faint starlight, is embedded in that empty eye socket.
The Eye of Exploration.
Top spiritual level.
After a night of adjustment, Cheng Daxiong was able to barely control the eye.
He opened his right eye, and at the same time, starlight shone in his left eye.
Two completely different perspectives appeared in his mind.
The right eye sees the normal world.
The world seen through the left eye is completely different.
That is the essence of everything.
He could see an underground river flowing beneath the bluestone slabs in the courtyard.
I saw a wisp of invisible spiritual energy drifting in the sky.
This feeling of "seeing through everything" made him dizzy.
"Take your time to adapt, don't rush." Xiong Chumo watched from the side, his face full of worry, yet also unable to hide his anticipation.
If used well, the Eye of Exploration can see the antennae of an ant dozens of miles away, and can find the source of an insect swarm without breaking a sweat.
If used improperly, mental energy will be rapidly drained, causing dizziness and lightheadedness in the user.
The extent to which a user can achieve the desired effect depends entirely on the user's mental strength and proficiency.
Cheng Daxiong took a deep breath, steadied his mind, and forcefully channeled his spiritual power into the Exploratory Eye in his left eye.
The starlight in my eyes suddenly brightened, then quickly dimmed, returning to its normal brightness.
He has already found a way to adjust.
The Eye of Exploration consumes a great deal of mental energy, and a balance must be found between the consumption and the recovery of mental energy.
He tested it for nearly half an hour and finally mastered it.
"Brother Ye Feng," he turned to look at Ye Feng sitting on the steps, his left eye gleaming faintly blue in the sunlight.
"When do we leave?"
"Now?" Ye Feng stood up and dusted himself off.
"Um!"
The two did not bring anyone else with them.
Ye Feng, carrying Cheng Daxiong, used the God-Slaying Wings to fly out of the City Lord's Mansion and head towards the southern mountains.
Cheng Daxiong opened his Eyes of Exploration, and starlight shone from them.
The Eye of Exploration has a detection range of fifty miles.
Within this range, no hidden creature or any trace of disguise can escape its eyes.
They searched in the mountains all morning.
Starting from Haicheng, we headed south, crossing more than a dozen mountains, passing through several canyons, and traversing several rivers.
Cheng Daxiong's eyes never closed.
But there were no insects, not a single one.
The hundreds of thousands of insects that besieged Haicheng seemed to have vanished into thin air, leaving not a single one behind.
"Is the direction wrong?" Ye Feng finally couldn't help but ask.
They searched in this direction all morning but found nothing.
If the source of the insect swarm isn't here, they're just wasting their time.
Cheng Daxiong closed his eyes and stopped the exploration with his Eye of Exploration.
He was exhausted, and his face was pale. He rubbed his throbbing temples to try and clear his head.
"Where else could they be?" he asked, somewhat frustrated. "Could these bugs have come from the ocean?"
Cheng Daxiong and Ye Feng exchanged a glance.
Ye Feng's pupils contracted slightly, and Cheng Daxiong's blue-glowing eye also suddenly lit up.
They had fallen into a misconception. Insects should live in the mountains, and strange beasts should live in the forests—this was "common sense" accumulated from decades of combat experience.
But what if this common sense is wrong? What if those insects came from the sea instead of the mountains?
What if that spatial rift wasn't in the southern mountains, but in the ocean?
"Let's go take a look." Ye Feng spread his God-Slaying Wings, grabbed Cheng Daxiong, and flew towards the sea.
Haicheng is nestled against the sea. Flying eastward from Haicheng, it takes less than fifteen minutes to reach the coastline.
Cheng Daxiong activated his exploratory eye once more. This time, he no longer saw an empty valley.
There were traces of insects crawling on the rocks along the coastline.
The marks were very fresh, no more than a day old.
Cheng Daxiong's heart started racing.
His inquisitive eye followed those traces all the way from the coastline to the sea surface, and from the sea surface to the seabed.
In a secluded bay, he saw the end of those traces.
A dark, dense mass, covering the entire seabed.
insect.
Countless insects.
They lay motionless on the seabed, as if they were dead.
Cheng Daxiong's Exploratory Eyes could see the faint fluctuations of qi and blood within their bodies.
They are not dead; they are either hibernating or waiting.
And deep within those insects.
In a trench at the bottom of the bay, there is a crack that is more than ten meters long and several meters wide.
Black light surged from the cracks, carrying with it an eerie spatial fluctuation.
Cheng Daxiong had seen a similar scene in a military training course; it was a spatial rift.
These spatial rifts all lead to an unknown spirit world.
"Found it." Cheng Daxiong's voice trembled, whether from exhaustion, excitement, or fear, it was hard to tell.
He had been tracking with his Eye of Exploration for a long time, and his mental energy had reached its limit.
That crack was the source of the siege of Haicheng.
As long as the cracks remain, the insects will keep pouring out, impossible to kill or drive away, and will never be eradicated.
"Brother Ye Feng," Cheng Daxiong turned to look at Ye Feng, "why don't you go back and report first? I'll keep watch here."
Ye Feng shook his head: "No need. Commander Cheng, you go back first. I'll go take a look inside that crack."
"Are you alone?" Cheng Daxiong asked anxiously. "No, it's too dangerous. We need to go together."
"You can't fly," Ye Feng retorted, shutting him down.
It's not a complaint, it's a fact.
Cheng Daxiong is a sixth-level martial artist, so his speed is limited.
It's far inferior to Ye Feng's God-Slaying Wings.
If there is danger on the other side of the crack, Ye Feng can fly away at any time.
He's not capable. Forcing him to come along won't help; he'll only become a burden to Ye Feng.
Cheng Daxiong remained silent for a while before finally nodding, his voice somewhat hoarse: "Then be careful."
Ye Feng escorted Cheng Daxiong to a safe spot on the coastline, then turned and flew towards the spatial rift.
He hovered above the sea, looking down at the dark water below.
The seawater is very deep, so deep that the bottom cannot be seen; sunlight can only reach a depth of tens of meters below the surface.
However, Ye Feng's mental power was unaffected by light. His mental power penetrated the seawater, passed through the sleeping insects, and reached the spatial rift.
The crack is about ten meters long and several meters wide, and is an irregularly shaped strip.
Black light surged from the crack, carrying intense spatial fluctuations.
Ye Feng took a deep breath, retracted his God-Slaying Wings, and dived into the sea.
A thin protective shield formed around his body, keeping the seawater out, and he slid down quickly like a fish, passing through the encirclement of those sleeping insects.
There were so many insects, densely packed and layered, stretching from tens of meters below the surface to hundreds of meters deep into the seabed. The smallest first-tier insect was only the size of a fist, while the largest sixth-tier insect king was as big as a small fishing boat.
They closed their eyes, their six legs tucked into their sides, and remained motionless.
Ye Feng walked through them, the closest ones less than a meter away. He could clearly see the strange patterns on their carapaces.
The crack was just ahead. Ye Feng quickened his pace and plunged into it.
After a brief period of dizziness, Ye Feng opened his eyes.
He stood on a desolate piece of land.
This land is so strange!