Chapter 251

Chapter 251

The viewers present were also a bit dumbfounded. The star network’s protection system would kick people offline during fights, but it was mostly adults who got kicked. The cubs generally didn’t have enough attack power. Most cubs were kicked offline because they exceeded their healthy online time. It was rare for cubs to be kicked offline due to intense fighting.

From the moment the cubs from both sides met to the sudden outbreak of fighting, the entire process took less than three minutes. All the fighting cubs were forcibly kicked offline, with nearly fifty cubs disappearing at once. This was the first time such an event had occurred in the history of the star network.

How intense did it get to make the system kick everyone out?

The masked man narrowed his eyes as he observed everything, estimating the combat strength of the dragon cubs. Even in that brief minute, the strength of these young dragon cubs really surprised him.

In his plan, these dragon cubs should have been suppressed by his chieftains from the start.

Now, both sides were evenly matched.

He glanced at the dozen stunned chieftains left in the crowd. These were from the third tier of strength, aside from the twelve chieftains and vice chieftains. They hadn’t participated in the earlier fight and could only watch as the more powerful chieftains in front of them erupted into intense battle.

They had never imagined that human kids their age could match their top twelve leaders.

Their twelve chieftains were the strongest beings next to the emperor and princes. They were destined to lead all the armies of their bug clan in the future.

The masked man, seeing the expressions of the cubs, focused his gaze. Without much time to think, he received a message from Tan Lang, asking him to go offline due to a situation that had arisen.

After going offline, he received a call from Tan Lang. As soon as the connection was made, he saw Tan Lang frowning. Before Tan Lang could speak, angry roars reached his ears. Following the direction of the sound, he saw more than twenty bug cubs behind Tan Lang who had reverted to their original form, their front insect bodies raised high. Their wide-open mouths revealed sharp serrated teeth, and the spines on their bodies stood upright and trembled violently, clearly in a state of intense battle.

The fight on the star network had actually affected them in real life. It had taken a lot of effort recently to keep them in human form, but now it was undone in an instant.

Did they really harbor that much hostility towards the dragon cubs?

At that moment, Bai Xiaoyu also received a call from Xiao Lü. The dragon cubs were in a forbidden area of the dragon den. At a glance, he saw wyrmling dragon cubs about two to three meters tall, baring their teeth and roaring towards the sky. Half of them were bug cubs with their front insect bodies raised high, exposing their serrated teeth and roaring.

Moreover, both the dragon cubs and bug cubs were in an unstable state. One moment it was a dragon cub, and the next, it suddenly transformed into a bug cub, which explained what Bai Xiaoyu was seeing now.

The dragon elders, pale-faced, glared at the dragon cubs—especially those from the bug clan. The murderous aura around them rose again and again, only to be forcibly suppressed each time.

After all, they were the dragon cubs’ elders. They hadn’t expected their fathers to just pick a fight.

At that moment, Xiao Lü, feeling a bit frightened by the elders' aura, turned to Bai Xiaoyu anxiously and asked, “The dragon cubs suddenly became like this. The elders asked me to find out what’s going on.”

They also had people specifically watching the cubs and knew what had happened on the star network. However, in their view, the only difference this time was that the dragon cubs had fought an evenly matched battle.

Fights were a daily thing for the dragon cubs. On the star network, it was fine, but at other times, they were constantly chased and beaten by the adult dragons, usually in one-sided defeats. Even so, there had been no abnormalities with the dragon cubs.

Now, when they met equals, they lost control?

The cubs from both sides had strong reactions and even wanted to go back online. However, the protection system of the optical brain detected that their emotions were not only unstable but even more intense than when they were fighting. Naturally, they were unable to log back on.

At that moment, Bai Qi on the star network looked at his defeated youths. It was understandable that the dragon cubs could easily throw these youths around, but how could the other cubs fighting against the dragon cubs manage the same?

Bai Qi looked furious. He turned to the people next to him and said, “Investigate. Find out everything about the other group of cubs.”

His subordinates responded and left to carry out the order, while Bai Qi, watching all the dragon cubs go offline, gritted his teeth in thought. It was probably for the best that they were gone. Now, his dispatched cubs could quickly clear the levels. After all, ‘getting stronger to protect my brother’ had already passed nearly 500 levels.

Currently, the gap between his 3S cub and the opponent’s was less than 100 levels. The opponent’s record was very impressive, with consecutive wins, and the total points for all cleared levels were not inferior to his cub’s points at the same levels.

While waiting for his team to investigate, Bai Qi could only watch his youths progress through the levels and wait for the report from the cubs sent to join the dragon cubs' camp.

Similarly, someone else who sent people to check the information was Bai Qing. Cubs who could match the dragon cubs in strength—one was understandable, but a group…?

This was definitely cultivated by a certain faction.

Cultivating so many gifted dragon cubs, even the royal family couldn’t produce such a group all at once.

His side moved faster than Bai Qi's, and before long, the information was in hand. It was discovered that the identities of these cubs appeared to be without issue, so he had to send people to investigate further.

However, during the deeper investigation, they found that a certain force was hindering them.

When Bai Qing received the message and reviewed the investigation, his expression turned sour.

For this reason, he even went to a vast starry sky within the star network and spoke to a star that flickered in the sky, “Did you secretly make a move?”

At that moment, the starry sky flickered, and in the next second, several meteor-like objects fell and circled around Bai Qing a few times, causing the entire starry sky to flash. Then these meteors turned into several large characters in front of Bai Qing, saying, “It wasn’t me.”

Bai Qing frowned, “If it wasn’t you, then who could block our investigation?”

The starry sky flickered again, “There are others of our kind who made a move.”

Bai Qing was startled, and then his face darkened, “Your kind, you mean other main brains? You actually let it escape and grow into something significant?”

He had only come to observe the strength of the dragon cubs and hoped to witness the long-awaited rematch between Little Hundred and One Hundred and Two, but now he got more than he bargained for.

There can only be one main brain in the entire star network; otherwise, chaos would ensue. If the main brains fought each other, not only would a large amount of information and data be destroyed, but everyone's optical brains, various industries, and even military equipment would become unusable. By then, the entire star network might collapse.

Moreover, this main brain had been with their ancestors when they established the empire. It was through absorbing other main brains that they ended the fragmented state of the star network back then.

Since then, the empire and the main brain had always guarded against the birth of new conscious main brains. There had been no issues for tens of thousands of years, but now one had actually escaped?

Bai Qing asked, “Are you just going to sit around instead of finding it?”

The starry sky flickered again, “I’m looking for it.”

The masked man seemed to receive an urgent message. He glanced at the bug cubs still baring their teeth and said to Tan Lang, “I won’t contact you again for a short period. Oh, and tell them to shut down their optical brains. Don’t go on the star network until I notify you.”

After cutting off the communication with Tan Lang, his optical brain displayed a semi-transparent blue bug cub, similar to the newborn form of the great chiefs, wriggling on the screen.

The masked man asked, “The main brain controlling the entire star network is after us. Can you hide?”

The bug raised its head, “Yes.”

They could hide in any instrument or device with a system, from mechs and aircraft to even children’s smart toys. Not to mention, they had countless shapes and forms. Although they couldn’t confront the main brain head-on, it wouldn’t be easy for the other side to find him either.

He wasn’t a novice main brain just born there. He was very experienced in escaping and hiding.

The masked man nodded. After so many years, he still trusted this young main brain’s abilities quite a lot.

This was something he had found in the star network when he first arrived.

According to the original timeline, twenty or thirty years later, Bai Chen would encounter this main brain in the star system and make it the core of his mech, with even greater future potential.

He had gone there earlier than expected, not really hoping for much since the time hadn’t come yet, but unexpectedly, he actually encountered one. It just wasn’t quite like the blue data egg described in the plot.

This one didn’t have a fixed form and had only recently transformed into the shape of a bug cub.

Regardless of the form, getting a newborn main brain was good enough.

Over the years, he had relied heavily on this young main brain to achieve many tasks.

They had always been very careful in the past, staying under the radar of the main brain. This time, he didn’t expect his top leaders to react so strongly upon meeting the dragon cubs. Now, they’re likely being watched, especially by the royal family.

So they had to be careful and not get caught by the main brain. If they get caught, everything will be exposed.

While several parties were busy, Bai Xiaoyu finally approached the first purple Blood Fury Tyrant Dragon cub that had calmed down. He reached out to touch the purple dragon's head. There were already small bumps on both sides, where the horns would soon grow from.

But he couldn’t touch it since he was just a projection from the call. The little purple dragon saw him and tried to nuzzle his hand, but missed. It then looked up and asked, "White Papa?"

This call brought the other cubs over, who gathered around Bai Xiaoyu, rubbing against his projection.

Bai Xiaoyu patted each one and saw that they had all calmed down. He asked, "Is there a good cub who can tell me what happened just now?"

The cubs all eagerly answered, "When we saw them, we just wanted to fight. It’s either them or us."

"Yes, I wanted to devour the one who fought with me."

Bai Xiaoyu was surprised, "That serious? I thought you usually liked to recruit strong cubs as your underlings?"

At this point, all the cubs shook their heads, baring their teeth and extending their claws, looking extremely fierce.

"They’re strong, and we’re not sure if we can beat them. But we definitely won’t be their underlings. They want to devour us, and we want to devour them too."

Bai Xiaoyu didn’t quite understand why the cubs were behaving like this, so he asked them, "You usually don’t act like this. What’s different this time?"

The cubs all shook their heads. They didn’t know either; it was just an instinct the moment they encountered the other.

If they were to meet in the future, only one side could survive in the end.