Reincarnated as a Mosquito, I Sucked the Reborn Empress to Tears - Chapter 378: The Empress Emerges from Seclusion, the Damned Mosquito Cornered by an Emperor Realm Powerhouse?
While Chu Sheng was comfortably sleeping and having sweet dreams in the abandoned Secret Realm.
The outside world, especially the White Eagle Empire, was in an uproar.
「White Eagle Capital, the White House.」
Inside the President’s office, the atmosphere was so tense you could cut it with a knife.
“BANG!”
It was a loud crash.
The current president of the White Eagle Empire, a middle-aged man with white hair, slammed a thick file hard onto his desk.
His face was flushed, veins bulging on his neck, as he roared at the men in black standing before him:
“Can anyone tell me what the hell is going on?!”
“Half a month! An entire half a month!”
“Our Grand Canyon mining vein was destroyed! The Royal Garden is bare! Even our most important strategic-level Demon Beast breeding base has become a ghost town!”
“The losses exceed thirty trillion! Thirty *quadrillion*! You bunch of useless fools, what the hell are the taxpayers paying you for?!”
The president trembled with anger.
It wasn’t just the economic losses; more importantly, it was the loss of face!
The world’s number one superpower, thrown into chaos on its own turf, and you haven’t even caught a single hair of the culprit?
If word of this got out, where would the White Eagle Empire’s prestige be?
At his desk.
The current Director of the FBI, an Emperor Realm Powerhouse named Smith, was awkwardly wiping the cold sweat from his forehead.
“Mr. President, please calm down.”
Smith steeled himself and took a step forward, opening a holographic projection:
“We haven’t come up empty-handed.”
“Thanks to the tireless efforts of our key personnel and the use of our highest-clearance Sky-Eye satellite system, we have finally pinpointed the source of this disaster.”
“Oh? You found him?” the president snorted. “Who is it? An agent from Great Xia? Or some Cult Organization?”
“Er… neither.”
Smith’s expression was a little strange as he pointed to the image on the projection:
“The culprit… is a cockroach.”
“What?”
The president was stunned, suspecting he had misheard:
“Are you saying that the one who turned half our country upside down is a… cockroach? Are you kidding me? Is it April Fools’ Day?”
On the screen was a surveillance video—a bit blurry, but still clear enough.
The video was filmed in a corner of one of the looted Secret Realms.
In it, an enormous, brown-shelled cockroach was standing upright. In a shockingly human-like gesture, it put its two front claws on its hips and wiggled its rear end at the camera.
“This…”
The president’s eyes widened. He pointed at the extremely arrogant cockroach, speechless for a long moment.
’What the hell… It really is a cockroach?’
’And why does this cockroach look so damn punchable?’
This cockroach was, of course, none other than the New Roach Battle Treasure. When Chu Sheng was committing his crimes all over the White Eagle Empire, he was using this long-unused alias.
“I don’t care if it’s a cockroach or a flea!”
The president took a deep breath, a vicious glint flashing in his eyes:
“Now that we’ve found it, things are simple.”
“Where is it now?”
Smith immediately replied:
“According to the latest Energy fluctuation tracking, we’ve found that after looting the last resource point, it hid in a small Secret Realm in Nevada. It seems to be recuperating.”
“Excellent!”
The president slammed his hand on the desk:
“Lock it down! Lock down that Secret Realm immediately!”
“Smith, you lead the team personally!”
“Take the most elite Superpower Squad, take heavy weaponry, and whether it’s dead or alive, you must bring this damn pest back to me!”
“I’m going to turn it into a specimen and hang it in a White House bathroom!”
“Yes, sir! I guarantee the mission will be completed!”
Smith saluted, his eyes glinting with a sinister light.
’To think that I, a dignified Emperor Realm Powerhouse, would lose all face because of a cockroach!’
’This time, I must avenge this humiliation!’
…
Just as the White Eagle Empire was mobilizing its forces to hunt down the “Cockroach Thief”…
「In a quiet manor hotel in Newark City.」
BOOM!
An immensely powerful wave of Mental Power, like an invisible storm, instantly swept through the entire room.
The tightly shut windows rattled violently, and the flower vase on the table shattered instantly.
On the bed, Gu Yuexi slowly opened her eyes.
At this moment, her aura had undergone a world-shaking change.
If before she was a sharp sword hidden in its sheath, her edge concealed.
Now, she was like a bright moon just cresting the ocean’s surface—aloof, noble, and impossible to gaze upon directly.
Her eyes were as deep as a starry sky, with faint streams of light swirling within.
“Huuu…”
Gu Yuexi gently exhaled a breath of turbid air. That breath was like a white ribbon, solid and un-dispersing, shooting out more than a meter into the air.
“Seventh-Grade Early Stage…”
She clenched her fists, feeling the vast, ocean-like Mental Power within her, and the corners of her lips curved into a satisfied smile.
“The Nine Heavens Star Flower truly lives up to its name.”
“As expected of a Ninth-Grade Spiritual Plant, in just half a month, it allowed me to cross the great chasm between the Sixth-Grade and the Seventh-Grade.”
What did the Seventh-Grade Early Stage represent?
The Seventh-Grade was the leap from the Middle-Grade Realm to the High Grade Realm!
Even for an ordinary Cultivator, it was a huge improvement.
Not to mention for someone like Gu Yuexi, the Reborn Empress!
The current Gu Yuexi could now finally be considered capable of using some… Emperor Realm techniques.
“I should barely be qualified to enter that King-level Secret Realm now.”
Having successfully broken through, Gu Yuexi was in a great mood.
She got out of bed, washed up briefly, and changed into some casual clothes.
“Right, where is that dead mosquito?”
She suddenly recalled that before entering seclusion, she had warned a certain mosquito to behave himself.
’It’s been pretty quiet for the past half-month. Looks like that guy was actually obedient?’
Gu Yuexi released her Divine Sense and swept it across the manor.
She couldn’t find him.
She couldn’t even find a trace of Chu Sheng’s aura within a few kilometers.
“Where did he run off to?”
Gu Yuexi’s brows furrowed slightly.
She took out her phone, planning to check the latest news and catch up on what was happening in the outside world.
However, the moment she opened the largest news website in the White Eagle Empire, a glaring red pop-up that took up almost the entire screen appeared.
[SSS-Level Wanted Order!]
[Territory-wide Manhunt! The main culprit behind the ruin of the White Eagle Empire—the “Doomsday Giant Cockroach”!]
[Dead or alive, bounty: one billion US Dollars!]
The accompanying image was a large, high-definition picture.
A large, brown cockroach had its claws on its hips, shaking its butt at the camera in an extremely sassy manner.
“…”
Gu Yuexi stared at the photo, completely frozen.
That pose.
That expression.
That punchable aura you could feel right through the screen.
Who else could it be but that shameless guy, Chu Sheng?!
Wasn’t this the same “Divine Locust” disguise the dead mosquito used back on Hong Kong Island!
Gu Yuexi could feel a vein throbbing on her forehead.
“This is what you call behaving yourself?!”
“An SSS-Level wanted order… heh. Not just anyone could manage to get one of those!”
Scrolling down, she saw the list of Secret Realms that had been looted clean, and the damage statistics totaling as high as three trillion.
Gu Yuexi was both exasperated and amused.
’That guy, he’s really… plucks a feather from every passing goose, leaving not even a blade of grass behind.’
However, when she saw the latest news alert, her expression instantly turned grave.
[Latest News: FBI Director Smith is personally leading the team and has locked onto the target in Secret Realm X-79 in Nevada!]
[Emperor Realm Powerhouse takes action, vowing to exterminate the pest!]
[Live broadcast has begun! White Eagle officials are determined to give the public an answer!]
“Emperor Realm…”
Gu Yuexi’s gaze sharpened.
She vaguely remembered Smith’s name. He was a veteran powerhouse of the White Eagle Empire, his strength unfathomable.
If Chu Sheng was really cornered…
“That dead mosquito. He really is a handful.”
Although she was cursing him, her movements weren’t the least bit slow.
She immediately pushed open the window, and with a flash, her figure turned into an afterimage and vanished on the spot.
No matter what.
’No one touches my Contracted Beast!’
’If he’s going to get a beating, it’ll be from me, after I save him!’
