Reincarnated as a Mosquito, I Sucked the Reborn Empress to Tears - Chapter 219: The True Beast Tide Arrives, the Philippines’ Conspiracy
Chapter 219: Chapter 219: The True Beast Tide Arrives, the Philippines’ Conspiracy
Shadowland.
Gu Yuexi moved like a bolt of lightning, speeding toward the epicenter of the tremors.
The deeper she went into the core area, the more violent the ground shook. The air was thick with a nauseating, foul stench and a furious fluctuation of Demonic Power.
Soon, she crested a highland and stopped to look.
And she saw!
In the wide valley below, dust and smoke billowed into the sky. Over a hundred massive Sixth-Grade Demon Beasts of all shapes and sizes, their eyes as red as blood, were stampeding madly toward the Secret Realm Exit!
They trampled everything in their path. Ancient trees shattered, and rocks were ground to dust, forming a torrential flood of death and destruction!
The overwhelming Demonic Power surged toward her!
Even Gu Yuexi couldn’t help but feel a little startled by such a scene.
A beast tide!
In her past life, she had faced many beast tides, some even larger than this one, but that was all after she had advanced to the King Realm.
Right now, however, she was only at the Fourth-Grade Early Stage, yet the beast tide before her… numbered over a hundred, and every single one was at the Sixth-Grade or higher!
She could even faintly sense the aura of a Seventh-Grade Demon Beast within the dust cloud.
This was a difficult situation to resolve.
Gu Yuexi frowned. ’Surviving this on my own won’t be a problem,’ she thought, ’but stopping this beast tide will be incredibly difficult.’
Just then, Chu Sheng, who was perched on Gu Yuexi’s shoulder, suddenly hissed and vanished into thin air.
The Spirit-Devouring Worms that Chu Sheng had sent out had found the fleeing students from the Philippines!
…
Deep within the Secret Realm, in a dense forest.
Several students from the Philippines were hiding in the trees, talking in low voices:
“Jibber-jabber, jabber-jibber…”
Their expressions were quite excited, as if they were thrilled about the successful completion of their mission. They didn’t notice two Spirit-Devouring Worms quietly watching them from a nearby treetop.
One of the students from the Philippines was in the middle of saying something when his expression suddenly changed, as if he had seen something terrifying.
“Cockro—”
The next second, as if struck by something, he fell heavily to the ground. The others had just turned their heads when they too were violently knocked down.
BOOM!
“Argh!”
A few short, miserable cries rang out.
“HISS HISS! (What the hell are you ’argh-ing’ about! If you’re hungry, go eat!)”
By the time Gu Yuexi flew over, all the fleeing exchange students from the Philippines were on the ground, their limbs twisted at unnatural angles. Chu Sheng had clearly broken them with extreme speed.
Gu Yuexi landed on the ground, her gaze as cold as frost. She wasted no time with words:
“Speak! Who sent you? What is your objective?”
The students’ eyes flickered. They exchanged a look, then suddenly clenched their jaws.
A cold glint flashed in Gu Yuexi’s eyes as she suddenly slapped them across their faces. They immediately spat out blood, along with several teeth embedded with poison sacs.
’So they’re suicide soldiers,’ Gu Yuexi realized. ’They were prepared to kill themselves from the start?’
“Trying to die?”
“Even if you die, I… I can still pry your secrets from you!”
Gu Yuexi snorted coldly. She lifted her jade-like hand, and a strange, ethereal light gathered at her fingertip before she tapped it directly onto one of the student’s foreheads.
Soul Summoning Technique!
Instantly, the man screamed in agony. It was as if the most fragile part of his soul was being repeatedly struck.
Gu Yuexi’s expression was blank as she said:
“Tell me, what is your plan?”
Two minutes later, the students from the Philippines collapsed to the ground, dead from the agony.
And Gu Yuexi and Chu Sheng had learned their entire plan:
These people had infiltrated as special guest students to poison the others, destroy the Secret Realm Exit, and use an Eighth-Grade Top-Grade Spirit Grass, the “Bloodthirsty Gu Flower,” to trigger a beast tide. Their goal was to kill all the geniuses inside the Secret Realm.
’What’s the purpose of killing all these people?’
Before dying violently, the men managed to utter just four words:
Ancient Sunken Star Vein!
In the dense forest, a strange light flashed in Gu Yuexi’s eyes when she heard those four words. She took off the camera on her chest, glanced at Chu Sheng, and said:
“Let’s go, you damn mosquito. We’ll go take another look at the beast tide.”
“Hiss hiss? (What the heck is this ’Ancient Vein’ thing?)” Chu Sheng was completely bewildered. ’How did this get so complicated?’
…
「Meanwhile.」
Outside the Secret Realm, on the Central Playground.
Everyone had witnessed the terror of the beast tide and heard the confession of the students from the Philippines through the first-person view transmitted from the camera on Gu Yuexi’s chest.
The feed came to an abrupt halt the moment Gu Yuexi took off the camera.
The playground fell silent once again.
They had experienced so many conflicts and twists today, but none were as shocking as the scene they had just witnessed.
The terrifying horde of beasts had left a tremendous impact on everyone.
After a long while, someone finally spoke with a trembling voice:
“It’s over.”
“They’re all going to die!”
On the main platform, the deans of several colleges had gathered with the headmaster, every one of them with a grim expression.
“So it really was for the Ancient Sunken Star Vein. Those people from the Philippines are despicable, completely devoid of integrity!”
“Heh, the Philippines? As if they have the right. It’s obviously the Island Country and the Goryeo Kingdom pulling the strings from behind! In the last two years, even the White Eagle Empire has gotten involved. If it weren’t for these countries backing them, would the Philippines and Yue Country even be qualified to compete with us?”
The Ancient Sunken Star Vein.
It was a Secret Realm on a lone island in the Outer Sea Region. This Secret Realm was extremely special, containing the ruins of an Ancient Sect and an immense wealth of resources.
Because Sunken Star Island is located between Great Xia, the Philippines, and Yue Country, it has been a source of constant dispute for decades. All Three Kingdoms want to seize control of it.
In reality, the Philippines and Yue Country are both supported by the Island Country and the Goryeo Kingdom, respectively. This is the only reason they have the means to contend with Great Xia.
Ultimately, the Three Kingdoms drew up an agreement for the joint development of Sunken Star Island. Each year, a grand competition would determine the amount of time each nation could occupy the Ancient Sunken Star Vein.
And the next Three Kingdoms Grand Competition was just around the corner.
Hong Kong Island represents Great Xia, and its people are the ones who participate in the grand competition every year. All resources obtained from the Ancient Sunken Star Vein belong to Hong Kong Island, making it one of its most important sources of resources.
Furthermore!
The Ancient Sunken Star Vein has another unique characteristic: only those under the age of twenty-two are allowed to enter. Therefore, the annual Three Kingdoms Grand Competition is, in fact, a battle between the young prodigies of the three sides.
Thus, the objective of those special guest students from the Philippines inside the Secret Realm was obvious:
If they killed all of Hong Kong Island University’s most talented geniuses, who would the university send to participate in the Three Kingdoms Grand Competition?
Unless Hong Kong Island requested support from the Continent, it would completely lose its rights to excavate the Ancient Sunken Star Vein for the next year!
For Hong Kong Island, this would not only be an immeasurable loss but also a great humiliation!
And besides.
Putting the matter of the Ancient Sunken Star Vein aside, even without the Three Kingdoms Grand Competition, the death of all their geniuses in the Secret Realm was something Hong Kong Island University absolutely could not accept.
For a university, such a major incident would be a catastrophic disaster. Hong Kong Island University would instantly fall from a first-rate institution to one that nobody would even consider attending!!!
At this moment, the expressions on Chen Shouzheng and the deans were so dark they looked like they could drip water.
“They’re trying to sever the very foundation of Hong Kong Island University, and of all of Hong Kong Island!”
“What’s the status of the Secret Realm entrance?”
Chen Shouzheng asked in a low voice.
A teacher shook his head:
“It’s no good. Forcibly breaking through might cause the Secret Realm entrance to close permanently.”
“Right now, our only option is to wait for the spatial turbulence at the entrance to subside. We’ve already sent for powerful experts who have comprehended the Spatial Realm. With their help, we might be able to speed up the process.”
Chen Shouzheng clenched his fists:
“What’s the fastest we can do it!”
“Three hours!”
’Three hours…’ he thought. ’Can the people inside the Secret Realm hold out that long?’
