Chapter 220

Chapter 220

Little Bai was next to Little Prince, and the little guy was also excited. Although he wasn't as obviously disgusted as Little Prince, he naturally preferred the larger territory when he saw it.

Both cubs could see their surroundings through the black dots at the front of their other limbs. Their limbs deliberately released their aura the moment they came out, but it had since returned to normal. They repeatedly confirmed whether the medicine layer on their limbs was fully covered.

Now, as long as they didn't actively break the isolation layer and release their aura, they basically wouldn't be recognized.

Little Prince's limb shook the optical brain, dried off the medicine stuck to it, and stored the huge container filled with medicine in the optical brain's space. Then he secured the optical brain around his limb's neck. After doing all this, the two limbs quickly darted out.

At this moment, all the cubs on the planet were a bit confused. Some calmed down and tried to feel the presence of the prince's arrival, while others looked around, trying to find the prince. The cubs' usual hissing paused for a moment, then erupted into even more excitement.

Many parents and warriors were also puzzled by the cubs' abnormal behavior and got no answers when they asked. Almost all the cubs chose to remain silent simultaneously, which caused a big headache for everyone. Fortunately, the cubs returned to normal after half an hour, acting as usual, but today, no cubs fought over territory.

After all, cubs often fought. Especially recently, when they could only go to the neighboring planet for two or three hours of activity, their pent-up energy made them either fight or be on the verge of fighting.

But now, they weren't fighting.

Amidst the confusion of the parents and warriors, the two limbs quickly dashed to the wormhole they had spotted earlier. At this time, cubs were still coming and going through the wormhole. The returning cubs looked reluctant and moved slowly. In contrast, the cubs heading out were extremely fast, as if they were racing against time and didn't want to waste any moment on the road.

The cubs needed to hand over. After they returned through the wormhole, they touched heads with the cubs waiting in line at the wormhole. This way, the mental energy threads that White Papa left on them would transfer to another cub.

Little Prince and Little Bai weren't surprised to see this. Whether it was the two of them or the two tiger cubs, they also had one such thread.

It was just that White Papa hadn't prepared one for their limbs this time. Little Prince pouted. So many cubs had one; what difference would two more threads make?

None of the cubs noticed the two limbs, but White Papa saw them through the cubs and couldn't help but twitch his mouth at the sight of the limbs slapping the ground.

Who upset White Papa this time?

As he was controlling the mental energy threads to transfer, a familiar dark blue limb suddenly jumped up and intercepted his mental energy thread midway.

White Papa's mental energy thread transferred to the small limb and almost immediately felt the mental energy antenna that Little Prince had left inside the limb humph at him.

Before he could react, Little Bai also intercepted a mental energy thread. The small mental energy antenna touched his mental energy thread and said, "White Papa forgot about us."

White Papa: "Sorry, I forgot. But you’ve got the optical brain, so we can still talk."

Little Prince: "The optical brain is one thing; it's not the same."

White Papa: "Alright, Little Breaker, I'll give you a few more threads next time."

Little Prince reluctantly accepted. The two limbs received the mental energy threads and directly dashed into the wormhole. The two cubs who were cut in line were a bit dazed. In normal times, they would have charged up for a big fight, but not only did they not have such thoughts now, they were even excited to be chosen and obediently waited for the next cub to hand over.

At this moment, White Papa saw the two limbs entering the wormhole, which didn't surprise him. But shortly after they entered the wormhole, within a few breaths, they reached the exit. This instant teleportation caught him off guard.

By now, Little Prince and Little Bai had come to White Papa's side. Seeing his surprised expression, Little Prince was somewhat proud. "Fast, right? No need to be so surprised. It's related to our speed, and of course, because our limbs are fully grown Bug forms, we're more suited to traverse wormholes than the hybrids."

White Papa pulled his hand back from the egg. "So that's how it is. But will it affect the cubs?"

Little Prince: "What effect? Just slower, that's all. If they weren't half-Bug, they'd be even slower, or they might not even make it through."

White Papa had studied this before. Apart from his mental energy being able to follow the cubs through, his human body couldn't. The star system had never given up on researching wormholes, discovering that many non-living things without life, such as black minerals and medicinal herbs, could be brought back by the cubs through the wormhole. Large living humans couldn't go through, but cubs dragging other non-Bug prey they had bitten to death, like the various livestock on this planet, could all reach the other side smoothly. This was also one of the Bug race's most commonly used methods to supply materials for the battlefield, often catching the warriors off guard.

Wormholes were also one of the most troublesome issues for legions during war, but no one had found a way to control them.

White Papa didn't have many leads for now. The human-Bug cubs capable of constructing wormholes were still too young, and the wormhole interfaces they built were unstable. Recently, cubs have been flooding out of the wormholes every day.

He temporarily set this issue aside because, by now, the two limbs had dashed out and taken down a large, eight-legged brown insect in front of them. In an instant, only scattered debris was left on the ground.

Bai Xiaoyu watched as the two tentacles hunted and killed hundreds of bugs, eating until the tentacles were as thick as his arms and had turned bright red. Once they were full and satisfied, the two tentacles began exploring the planet.

Through the two tentacles, Bai Xiaoyu also got a glimpse of the situation on the entire planet. The area controlled by the human-bug cubs was just the tip of the iceberg, and the bugs they encountered were relatively weak. As he ventured deeper, he realized just how astonishing the number of bug larvae on the planet was, with hundreds of millions spreading across almost the entire planet.

The territory of the human-bug cubs was in a remote area, with low plant coverage and nearby deserts, resulting in fewer bugs coming and them arriving late. In other areas, bugs had arrived much earlier, and he had already seen some that had undergone a second or even third transformation.

The closer they got to the richest hunting grounds on the planet, the stronger the larvae training there became. Larvae that had undergone three transformations could no longer be called larvae; their size was as large as a small elephant, with various shells appearing on their bodies.

It seemed that after the third transformation, the bugs would begin to differentiate within their species, and their strength would increase dramatically. A bug that had undergone three transformations could take on ten that had undergone two. The bugs seemed to leave their larval stage at this point, with significant changes in both form and strength.

If they encountered these powerful third-stage bugs, their human-bug cubs wouldn’t even be enough to fill their teeth.

Both Little Prince and Little Bai saw all of this through the tentacles and became dissatisfied.

Although these bugs weren’t very strong, their own cubs were even weaker.

As there were comparisons between Insect Emperors in various aspects, it naturally included the newborn larvae.

With only tens of thousands of human-bug cubs on our side and billions of Bug larvae on theirs, the numbers were overwhelmingly against us. Others had more third-stage larvae than the total number of cubs on our side.

Okay, so they were outnumbered, but they could produce elite individuals to win by strength. However, there were no cubs that had undergone a third transformation on their side, not even a second transformation.

Little Prince recalled the star map from before; Bai Xiaoyu only had one planet, while others had tens of thousands of greyed-out planets.

Looking Bai Xiaoyu up and down, he thought, if this guy were an emperor, he would be the weakest emperor currently. Even as a young emperor, he couldn’t find another weaker one.

With such a weak young emperor, how could he compete with the current Insect Emperor? He’d be gone as soon as they met.

How could Bai Xiaoyu be so weak?

Bai Xiaoyu had grown used to Little Prince looking at him like he was a weak chicken from time to time. “Little Breaker?”

Little Prince snorted, turned his head away, and said, “No wonder you’re worried about those guys. With such a small number, even a hundred million larvae as cannon fodder wouldn’t be as big a loss as one of your cubs. It seems this small matter will have to be handled by us.”

Bai Xiaoyu pinched his puffed-up cheek, “So, what’s the plan, Little Breaker, with Little Bai’s help?”

After letting Bai Xiaoyu pinch him a few times, Little Prince found that he still hadn’t stopped and was about to continue endlessly, so he snorted and slapped away the claws, “On one hand, these guys need to undergo human training, just like the two furry guys around you, undergoing physical and weapon use training simultaneously. On the other hand, it’s up to me and Little Bai. I’ll lead them to advance along a specified route, encountering opponents of comparable strength, each stronger than the last. How far they can go depends on them.”

Little Prince and Little Bai had no intention of intervening, such as dealing with the strongest batch of bugs. They didn’t need to devour these low-end larvae to evolve. The eight-legged brown bugs and Green Shell Bugs could only be considered snacks.

After their first transformation, the cubs would be equivalent to three years old, which is when they can start handling weapons. These optical brains help the cubs learn various skills and knowledge. Warriors had started training the human-bug cubs, but most of them preferred fighting and devouring on the neighboring planet over following the training regimen.

With billions of larvae on the planet, if this continues, the surviving larvae might not include any of their cubs.

Bai Xiaoyu nodded and praised the two cubs, “Little Breaker and Little Bai have come up with a great plan, but these cubs aren’t very obedient to the warriors and currently aren’t very interested in this aspect…”

Little Prince paused. “You can’t even handle something this simple? Fine, I’ll take care of it.”

Soon, the two tentacles returned, arriving during a training session where the warriors were teaching the cubs. At this point, the cubs were eager to finish class and rush to the other planet to claim territory and fight, all of them distracted.

The cubs were in all sorts of crooked positions, a completely different mental state from the blood cubs trained by the warriors.

Little Prince and Little Bai didn’t expect these guys to be so bad. The deep blue tentacles emitted a special sound wave, “All of you, pay attention!”

The cubs shuddered, sensing the king’s presence once more, and immediately stood at attention, their small eyes fixed on the two blue, ribbon-like tentacles hanging from the tree above the training camp.

How did these little guys suddenly change their behavior?

The warriors followed the cubs' gaze and spotted two deep blue 'toys' hanging from the tree. Although they had received a notification from Bai Xiaoyu about this, these two tentacles clearly weren’t ordinary toys.

More importantly, they resembled the tentacles of a Bug prince!

Though they hadn’t joined the marshals on the front lines of that great battle, they had seen the overwhelming tentacles on the battlefield. Even though these tentacles now looked more rounded and cute, the sense of crisis they gave off hadn’t diminished. The cubs' enthusiastic response further confirmed their suspicions.

Besides, what kind of toy comes with an optical brain attached?

The warriors were ordered to leave it alone and not expose them, while also providing cover for the tentacles.

For now, they pretended not to notice, but soon the cubs performed a full set of boxing moves, despite their earlier wobbly stances, which left the warriors impressed.

In the following lessons on various larvae and the weaknesses and attack methods of Bug larvae at different stages, the cubs learned quickly. They were no longer clueless, and though their answers weren’t 100% accurate, they were more than 50% correct.

Compared to before, it was like they had gone from slackers to straight-A students, and it might have only taken two blue, ribbon-like tentacles to make that happen.

At this point, the Little Prince looked smugly at Bai Xiaoyu, "See? It’s pretty simple, isn’t it?"

The Little Prince knew that Bai Xiaoyu could see this as it was being live-projected through the optical brain.

The cubs being trained here were those who had completed their first transformation. They now stood up straight, looking more like proper students than the little bullies who went out to fight every day.

Naturally, Bai Xiaoyu praised the two little guys, and the Little Prince and Little Bai soon led these cubs through the wormhole to another planet. They instructed them to bypass their original territories and follow the offensive route they had planned.

Facing billions of opponents put immense pressure on the cubs.

But it was also a great boost for them.

Go on, little weaklings, don’t embarrass Bai Xiaoyu on this large battlefield...

In other words, don’t embarrass him and his little tail.