225 The Insectoid Who Traffics in Human Slaves [Four-in-One, Seeking Subscriptions!]

The Ghost Knight drew closer to the firefly ship. Only upon approaching did Lu Chen realize that this ice-encased star-insect vessel was covered in aberrant tumors and blood vessels. Its overall shape resembled a giant firefly, like a long-winged beetle with a lightbulb for a tail.

So... why could a firefly grow this large, and why would it sprout blood vessels and tumors? Lu Chen could feel that the firefly was still alive, locked in a state of deep, low-consumption hibernation.

"It seems this firefly ship is the target treasure."

The problem was that while the firefly ship was similar in size to the *New Leonin*, star-beast ships generally had far less internal space than ordinary long-range vessels of the same dimensions. It was impossible for the Ghost Knight to pilot its way inside for exploration. Lu Chen would have to go in on foot.

"Calculated wrong. I should have spent a fortune building a suit of steel armor; a Gundam is only good for combat, not exploration... I suppose my childhood dreams have sabotaged me."

Lu Chen first located the entrance to the firefly ship, situated on the creature's thorax. The entrance was already covered by dark red tumors and blood vessels, with another layer of chitin underneath. The actual airlock lay beneath the shell. Lu Chen was reluctant to force his way in, fearing he would damage the ship’s resale value and waste the entire trip.

After weighing his options, he asked Aili for her opinion. "I want to hijack this ship, but I don't want to destroy the hull. I’m thinking of using a drill to make a small hole, send in the bumblebee drone, and hack the flight control system. Is that feasible?"

In the cockpit’s light curtain, Aili and Golia were watching Lu Chen’s exploration in real-time. Aili, processing the information from the armor’s sensors, had a general understanding of the vessel. "This firefly has been asleep for many years; the flight control system cannot still be running, so we cannot command it to open the door automatically. Besides, the insect shell is extremely hard; it's difficult to drill into, and even harder to repair. My suggestion is to simply take the entire frozen firefly ship back to the *White Dew*. The *White Dew* has more professional equipment to handle it."

Lu Chen shook his head. "That won't do. What if the real treasure is inside? Isn't this just like gambling on raw jade stones?" In fact, he increasingly felt that the firefly ship might have been infected by a virus and lost control, meaning the real value lay within the hold.

Aili thought for a moment but had no better solution. "Hmm... then we have no choice but to wake the firefly ship first and then try to control it."

"You two come over as well and assist me in waking it."

Lu Chen immediately switched to manual mecha piloting. He extended his right hand, splayed his fingers, and pressed his palm against the ice layer on the ship's surface. The ice was not very thick, appearing as a murky dark red. The item identification displayed:

【A firefly-type star-beast ship with a disordered mind and mutated physique. There is still a humanoid survivor inside.】

"Someone is still alive?" Lu Chen was slightly disappointed, but saving a life while taking a ship that had lost control didn't seem too unreasonable.

"The ice on the surface seems to be condensed from the moisture evaporating from within the firefly. The tumors beneath are likely physical mutations used to retain heat," he said, pretending to be a professional biologist.

Aili had a different view. "The Captain's take on the ice might be right, but the tumors are too strange. Even if a firefly ship mutates, it shouldn't grow muscles similar to those of the Beast-kin."

Lu Chen nodded slightly, unable to refute this. Beside him, Golia speculated: "Maybe the firefly ate its crew, couldn't digest them, and spat them out to keep them warm."

The comment made Lu Chen shudder. "You should come down and explore with me."

Golia rolled her eyes and snorted coldly: "I don't want to. Bugs are the most disgusting!"

Lu Chen curled his lip and ignored her. He pressed his armor's palm against the ice and sent his divine sense inward. Then, he raised his hand and struck down, instantly unleashing the power of resonance!

*Boom!*

A continuous series of micro-tremors followed. Lu Chen's strike was heavy and powerful; the shockwaves spread instantly, easily shattering the ice covering the entire firefly. The ice cracked and splattered, pinging loudly against his armor. Lu Chen saw the frozen tumors writhing outward, emitting foul-smelling steam that instantly turned into frost in the vacuum of space, creating a white mist.

Lu Chen activated his left-hand chainsaw to clear the tumors from the entrance. Even though his movements were gentle, the saw sent bits of flesh and blood flying everywhere, splashing his armor. The armor’s defensive array quickly burned them away. Lu Chen became a chainsaw maniac, his scalp tingling as he sawed, feeling strangely relieved and stressed-relieved.

Suddenly, the firefly let out a shrill, low scream.

The firefly moved. It instinctively spread its elytra, swatting the Ghost Knight away. In the cockpit, Aili shouted: "Captain, look out!"

Lu Chen stabilized the mecha, unharmed, but dared not activate his offensive weapons. "Right, I must be careful not to hurt it."

As he spoke, the light at the tail began to glow. The light organ flickered on and off, and the firefly flapped its wings, rapidly putting distance between itself and the armor. Aili warned again: "Captain, watch out for the firefly's pheromones!"

"I'm in a sealed cabin, it shouldn't be a problem," Lu Chen said confidently. Besides, he had the Risk Avoidance Guide; he had every reason to be bold!

Lu Chen had expected the firefly to be grumpy upon waking and to attack him immediately. Instead, the firefly only swatted him away with its wing, stared at the armor for a moment, and turned to fly off.

"That's strange. Either fly away directly or attack me. Why stare at me for a while before leaving?" Lu Chen wondered.

Aili guessed: "Perhaps there is someone piloting it from inside."

"It does look like human behavior." Lu Chen immediately gave chase. Perhaps due to long-term freezing and a lack of food, the firefly’s flight speed was very slow. The flickering light at its tail left rhythmic afterimages that seemed almost hypnotic. He stared, feeling dazed, and in the blink of an eye, the creature had traveled a vast distance...

Lu Chen was reluctant to use his laser cannons and accelerated to catch up. "Aili, hurry and catch up. I'm preparing to forcefully hold the firefly's head. You use beast-taming or hypnosis to make it obedient, and we'll subdue it together."

But in his ear, he heard Aili say: "But Captain, why are you..."

The voice cut off. What "why"? She only said half a sentence. Lu Chen felt dizzy. He wanted to sleep...

No!

Lu Chen suddenly felt a chill run down his spine. A risk-avoidance prompt flashed before his eyes:

【The firefly ship is behind the armor the host is piloting, preparing for a lethal strike. It is recommended to dodge immediately.】

Behind him?

Lu Chen shook off his daze and found that the firefly ahead had vanished. In his ear, Aili was still shouting for him to dodge.

An illusion? No pheromones... could it be the light organ on the firefly's tail? A pure optical illusion? The last time Lu Chen had fallen for an illusion was with the white mushrooms on the Giant Grass Planet in the Zu'an Nebula. The reason was simple: he had become complacent because of the risk-avoidance prompts.

He had crashed again. Fortunately, it wasn't a major problem.

Lu Chen immediately ascended and did a backflip in mid-air. Only then did he realize the firefly hadn't fled at all. It had quietly circled behind him and was brandishing a dark green needle-tube. The tip of the needle was coated with concentrated dark green insect venom, which appeared to be highly corrosive. It didn't look like an organ a firefly should have, but rather an artificial weapon. The corrosive liquid on the needle seemed to come from the Interstellar Zerg.

Wait, Zerg...

"Didn't Lady August just ask me to capture a first-tier descendant of the Interstellar Zerg? Is there already a lead so soon?"

Meanwhile, Aili, having received no response to her repeated warnings, took it upon herself to pilot the *Leonin* and fire at the firefly. A level-50 laser cannon hit the base of the firefly's needle, but failed to snap it off. Seeing the firefly about to ambush the armor, Aili was already prepared to launch a nuclear warhead.

"Stop!" Lu Chen hurriedly stopped her. "...Didn't I say to be careful and not hurt the firefly ship?"

Golia mocked him from the side: "Heh, you lose your mind every time you see a bug, and you fell for an illusion again... Obsessing over bugs will be your undoing sooner or later."

Lu Chen looked; it was indeed a female insect. He couldn't argue.

Lu Chen immediately put the mecha into stealth mode, causing it to vanish. This time, the firefly panicked and finally thought about fleeing. But because it had been frozen for many years without food, its constitution was very weak, and its speed was sluggish. Lu Chen soon caught up.

He closed his eyes, afraid to look at the light organ on the bug's tail. After what Golia said, for some reason, he had a strong urge to take another look. He wanted to see if the female bug's tail could really make him unable to move. Fortunately, his reason prevailed.

Lu Chen kept his eyes closed, holding his light-sword hilt. Guided by his divine sense, he quickly approached the firefly ship from the side. He unleashed a blade of icy blue and white light, severing the firefly's stinger in one stroke! The spilled corrosive liquid splashed onto the mecha, but before it could touch the outer shell, it was incinerated by the defensive array. Instead, the liquid corroded the tumors and the outer shell of the firefly itself.

"That's Interstellar Zerg corrosive fluid!" Aili exclaimed.

The firefly twitched in pain, gritting its teeth as it flew! Fortunately, its shell was thick, and it suffered no major injury. Even so, the firefly couldn't pinpoint the Ghost Knight's exact location. It could only flap its elytra continuously while accelerating to prevent the armor from getting close for a sneak attack.

Lu Chen flipped over and landed on the firefly's back, delivering heavy blows to the back of its head, leaving it dizzy and disoriented. The firefly had no choice but to roll. It wasn't built for combat, and having some illusion abilities was already a specialty; now that its corrosive stinger had been severed by Lu Chen, it could only wail.

Until Lu Chen beat the firefly into a state of unconsciousness, even the light organ at its tail dimmed. Lu Chen immediately notified Aili.

"Aili, you can try the hypnosis now."

"Okay!" The *Leonin* immediately followed. Aili didn't dare to be careless. She changed into a blue-and-white spacesuit and stepped out of the ship, wearing a Spirit-Taming Amplifier on her right wrist. Dressed as an astronaut, she looked quite cute.

Lu Chen asked curiously: "Is it necessary for you to come out of the ship to operate?"

Aili nodded. "Yes, the firefly can cast illusions, and I'm not at ease with the Captain alone."

Aili then stood atop the firefly's head. She crouched down and reached out to sense the firefly's consciousness. "The firefly's spirit is very disordered, even mixed with human consciousness. Most of the crew inside are dead, and the few survivors are also in a coma... Both the firefly and the humans are very weak. They've likely been unconscious for over ten years."

"Over ten years, drifting here... It seems this wasn't a trap, but a genuine accident."

So saying, Lu Chen leaped down from the armor, holding a multi-functional folding military knife. It was three times the length of the Swiss Army knives from his previous life and even integrated a mini-flamethrower and laser emitter. This seemed to be the first time Lu Chen had entered space on foot.

At minus eighty degrees, it felt quite cool. In reality, the temperature in the Pangu Space Route was much higher than absolute zero, usually within minus one hundred degrees. Moreover, the deeper one went into the Morning Glow Route, the higher the temperature. For a level-47 practitioner like Lu Chen, minus eighty degrees was cold, but as long as he protected his body with spiritual energy, it was not an issue.

"Alright, you're the professional, come inside and explore with me."

Aili only saw the Captain moving his lips but couldn't hear him. "Captain, what did you say?"

Lu Chen reached out and placed his hand on Aili's head, establishing a vibration connection. "I said you're coming inside the firefly to explore with me!"

Aili knew it would be disgusting inside even before entering, but luckily she was wearing a spacesuit, which was much better than the Captain's situation. "Okay!"

The firefly was completely comatose and couldn't be controlled. Aili couldn't open the door either, so Lu Chen had to have his mecha pry the hatch open.

"If I had known, I wouldn't have bothered; I should have just pried open the frozen hatch from the start."

Aili shook her head. "This firefly is good at illusions. It’s safer to knock it out before going in."

"Fair point."

Lu Chen and Aili entered the ship's belly one after the other. Both turned on their wrist-mounted lights. There was no decontamination chamber at the entrance, just a tunnel as tall as a man leading straight to the main cabin. The walls of the tunnel weren't even sealed; they were just crudely separated by animal bones to hold back the insect flesh, and the insect fluids were plugged with special hemostatic cotton. This led to tumors growing wildly, which was very nauseating.

The firefly had been asleep for years, and the tunnel smelled of mold. Lu Chen held his breath. "I didn't expect this smuggling ship to be so unhygienic. If I had known, I would have worn a spacesuit too."

Aili said weakly: "Captain, for the next three days, please don't touch my head, okay?"

"...I'll try." Lu Chen was speechless. Even his sweet, caring Aili was disgusted by him.

The two tiptoed through the tunnel, feet hovering, inching forward. They spent several minutes navigating the three-to-five-meter tunnel, striving not to let any part of their bodies touch the rotting flesh or moldy cotton. After all, Lu Chen still wanted to pat Aili's head in the future!

Entering the firefly's cabin was even more absurd. There was no division, just one long cabin. It looked like it had been converted directly from the firefly's stomach. It was pitch black inside, the walls covered in folds of flesh, sticky with various fascia, blood, and vessels, all tangled in a mess, exuding the stench of a corpse and a faint sour odor.

However, the storage space was larger than imagined. Inside, there was even a cage like a prison, over twenty meters on each side. Inside the cage, besides more fascia, vessels, and flesh, one could see human skulls and white bones. It was a hellish scene of blood and gore.

Aili suppressed the nausea in her heart and explained seriously: "Captain, the humans held here were all digested via remote space... this often happens with unprofessional star-beast ships."

"It seems Golia was right again," Lu Chen sighed. Fortunately, he hadn't opened the communication screen, so Golia didn't get a chance to show off in front of him.

Aili's expression was grave as she speculated: "Captain, this is likely a slave ship."

Lu Chen nodded. "Yes, smuggling ships are mostly for slave trading. Although they deserved this fate, it's a pity that all the slaves are dead."

However, his mind wasn't on the slaves. Lu Chen searched around the flesh-filled cabin. When he reached the position corresponding to the needle weapon, he found a beast's stomach filled with insect fluid. The amount of fluid was small, and its spiritual energy had dissipated, leaving only its corrosiveness. Even through the stomach membrane, it emitted a pungent stench.

Item identification displayed:

【Insect fluid from a first-tier descendant of the Interstellar Zerg. Its spiritual energy has been completely absorbed by the firefly itself, but it remains highly corrosive.】

Lu Chen was shocked. A first-tier descendant of the Zerg—wasn't that exactly what Lady August had asked him to find? Could this be the target shown on the treasure map? The fluid was certainly expired and useless, but it was a lead.

"The insect fluid didn't come from this firefly, but from a descendant of the Interstellar Zerg... It can't be bought on the market. We'll wake up the survivor in the cockpit and ask where they got it."

Aili was slightly surprised. Even she hadn't recognized that the fluid came from a first-tier Zerg descendant; how did the Captain know?

Lu Chen walked to the front of the cabin. It was an extremely primitive cockpit. Seven insect-people of unrecognizable race were slumped over a huge black stone platform. Their heads and blood vessels were fused with the flesh and fascia, connecting them to the star-insect and the black stone.

"Too primitive. This ship... uses a black stone platform covered in spirit patterns to build a neural network, connecting to the internal spirit patterns of the star-insect," Lu Chen observed.

Looking closely, the six people slumped on the platform had completely lost independent vital signs, having fused with the firefly. Once the fleshly connections were severed, they would surely die. Of course... they might already be dead.

There was one insect-person with level-39 cultivation. Although in a deep coma, the soul was still struggling; it hadn't fully fused with the firefly and still had a glimmer of hope.

Aili observed for a while and reached her own conclusion. "These insect-people are not of the same race. They've likely been unconscious for over twenty years, and their cultivation is dropping. Their spirits fused with the firefly, which is why the firefly has a certain level of intelligence."

"Hmm, the tumors come from human slaves, the intelligence comes from the insect-people's souls... the roles of predator and prey have reversed!" Lu Chen sighed.

Aili nodded. "This firefly star-beast ship was built very crudely. Only the inner wall of the shell was inscribed with control-type spirit patterns. No wonder that after falling into a coma, flesh began to grow wildly, absorbing human blood energy and sprouting many muscles and vessels similar to humans."

Lu Chen asked her: "Can you tell how the firefly lost control?"

Aili guessed: "It might be related to the firefly's illusion abilities."

"Since they used a firefly to build a star-beast ship, the builders must have been well-versed in the firefly's illusions. I feel it might have something to do with this spirit-patterned black stone. Although it looks ancient, its technological level is far beyond that of a star-beast ship."

As he said this, Lu Chen reached out and placed his palm on the black stone platform. The surface was extremely cold, as if something were scurrying into his palm prints. He raised his hand to check, but it was just an illusion.

Item identification displayed:

【An old-model neural network server from the Shanzhai Empire, containing an anaerobic psychic bacteria culture dish. It can connect humans and star-beasts, allowing perfect control of star-beast ships even without a high-level beast-tamer. Because the connected firefly frequently used illusions, the psychic bacteria mutated and lost control, causing the neural network to collapse.】

It seemed his guess was correct. Aili's theory wasn't wrong, either.

"The firefly ship is too crude to sell for a high price, but this black stone is a neural network server, which should be worth something... Besides that, I want to find the first-tier descendant of the Interstellar Zerg. We must wake this person up." Lu Chen pointed to the only insect-person who still had an independent soul. "You are responsible for using the Spirit-Awakening Technique to slowly wake him; I'll handle severing these fleshly connections."

"Okay!" Aili immediately formed a seal and cast the Spirit-Awakening Technique. The spell wasn't very polished, and the effect was slow, but it was gentle and non-irritating.

As the insect-person regained slight consciousness, he slowly lifted his head, his eyes blank. Lu Chen said to him: "Don't be nervous, we're here to save you... Your spirit has been half-devoured by the firefly. You need to be calm now; I'm going to tear away the flesh connecting to your head."

The insect-person didn't react. Lu Chen held his Swiss Army knife and cut down. It didn't cut through...

"Aili, use a spell to hold him down." As he spoke, Lu Chen made a few more cuts, even activating the flamethrower and laser to burn through the connections. It took quite some effort to finish. The insect-person struggled frantically, his voice becoming hoarse. Fortunately, the firefly was completely comatose and unaffected.

"Alright, quit the screaming, I'm saving you!"

The insect-person was fully awake. He was drenched in sweat, extremely weak. He rose from the stone platform and stared straight at Lu Chen and Aili. Lu Chen looked closely. This was a male insect-person with a face like a young boy, snow-white skin, and two horns on his head. He wore armor made of insect shells; his hair was gone, and his blood vessels hadn't fully stopped bleeding. His complexion was deathly pale, his breathing weak, and his heartbeat rapid—no different from a dead man.

Aili tossed him a Spirit-Healing Pill. After swallowing it, the insect-person regained a hint of color. He looked around at the hellish scene—his friends, his teammates, his slaves, all dead! His face turned white instantly, and he was struck dumb with grief.

"Xiaoqiang, Fike... dead, they're all dead. How could this happen... the human women are all dead too. It's over, I'm going to die too."

Lu Chen said coldly: "Calm down. You were already half-dead; we brought you back."

The insect-person asked with some wariness: "Who are you?"

Lu Chen replied: "Adventurers from the *White Dew*."

"*White Dew*?" The insect-person froze. He remembered the nearest interstellar giant ship was the *Jingzhe*, and the *White Dew* was planned to be built in thirty years. "Wait, why is my cultivation only level 39? I remember it being level 48. How long have I been asleep?"

Lu Chen opened his wrist light curtain to show him the time. The insect-person was instantly stunned, then clutched his head in pain as he vaguely recalled some details. "I've been in a coma for twenty-seven years... damn firefly, it killed all my teammates!"

Lu Chen shook his head. "Blame it on the shanzhai neural network server you used. It collapsed from the frequent use of illusions, causing the firefly to have a stress reaction until it mutated and its will was devoured."

The insect-person stared at the black stone covered in red patterns in shock. "Shanzhai version? Don't tell me... someone was trying to harm me?"

Lu Chen couldn't be bothered to talk more and went straight to the point. "What's your name, where are you from, and what do you do?"

The insect-person, his memory slowly returning, recounted: "My name is Feisheng. I'm the captain of this firefly ship. I come from the New Federation's Sengu star system. Midway, I was backlashed by the firefly's illusions and fell into a deep sleep. I never expected to sleep for twenty-seven years."

Feisheng. The name was quite pleasant.

"The black stone system collapsed and devoured the firefly's will; it's the culprit... You aren't even a beast-tamer, how did you dare to sail?"

The insect-person fell into deep thought. "So, the black stone system collapsed... Could it be the Galaxy Heart virus?"

Lu Chen stared at him, feeling that this insect-person actually knew a thing or two about spirit patterns.

The insect-person quickly explained: "Cough, cough, I am indeed not a beast-tamer, just an information officer. I bought an ancient neural network server at a low price from the second-hand market and bought this level-50 firefly to build a star-beast ship. I came to the Morning Glow Route for slave trading, taking female humans from human adventurers to sell back in the Sengu star system."

Lu Chen had already guessed it, but hearing it confirmed, he couldn't believe an insect-person would actually trade in human slaves. "You're a slave trader?" Lu Chen's tone turned cold. After all, Aili was a victim of the slave trade.

The insect-person looked at the little wolf-girl in the spacesuit. She looked as obedient as a slave. His tone hardened as well. "What? Only humans are allowed to trade in humanoids, but humanoids aren't allowed to trade in humans?"

"Don't get it wrong, Aili is my teammate, not a slave!" Lu Chen asked with a straight face: "Why do you only sell women?"

The insect-person's momentum weakened. "Of course, it's for that kind of thing."

Lu Chen was curious. "I remember that humanoids in the New Federation dislike human women because they lack 'scent' and are very repulsed by them. Who do you sell human women to?"

The insect-person sighed. "It's complicated. My buyers like to use human women as breeding machines, fusing them with directionally-bred insects to mass-produce the next generation... Humans who can operate in the Morning Glow Route are all elites; their offspring shouldn't be bad, right?"

Lu Chen was dumbfounded. Were these insect-people idiots? Human women had many "fairies"—if they accidentally caught one, wouldn't that improve their gene pool? Come to think of it, did insect-people have a population problem, too?

Thinking this, Lu Chen's face remained as cold as frost. "I'm a human too. Aren't you afraid I'll kill you?"

The insect-person was frightened and quickly explained: "I'm just a small middleman. I haven't been in this line for long. Besides, the human women weren't caught by me, nor am I the one using them! If there weren't middlemen like me selling human women, only the few pretty ones among the humans who lost in team battles would survive, right? After you have a big battle with other adventure ships, the losers are supposed to die. Normal people just kill them; only kind people sell them. Since these women dare to adventure in the Pangu Corridor, they are prepared for such an outcome. Don't talk about us; even in the star-giant ships of the Adventurers' Association, there are shops that secretly receive slaves—humans, humanoids, and even products from laboratories. This is the social reality of the Galaxy. I'm just the smallest link in the evil chain."

Lu Chen's eye twitched; he couldn't refute this for a moment.

Aili said coldly: "That's not necessarily true. If it's known that there are slave traders paying high prices for human women, adventure groups will specifically go to the Imperial Star Domain or the Pangu Corridor to target innocent human women."

The insect-person was rendered speechless.

Lu Chen struck while the iron was hot, his face stern. "No need to explain. You deserve to die... but I will give you a chance to redeem yourself."

The insect-person breathed a sigh of relief and quickly said: "Even if I deserve to die, you two saved me, you are my parents in this life. No matter what you ask me to do, I, Feisheng, will go through fire and water for you."

Lu Chen was stunned. The insect-person's shift in stance was too skillful. It seemed he needed to re-evaluate the intelligence of insect-people.

"Where did the corrosive needle-tube weapon come from? Even in the New Federation, there's rarely anything like this for sale."

"This..." The insect-person looked troubled.

Lu Chen's aura turned cold, and murderous intent appeared in his eyes. The insect-person was terrified and hurried to explain: "No, my weapon came from my human woman buyer. He gave me an advance payment and provided the weapons and gear so I could trade in women. Who would have thought this would happen? Over a hundred human women are dead; I'll definitely be killed if I go back. Moreover, this level of insect fluid is a scarce, non-sale item. He wouldn't sell it to you."

Lu Chen said softly: "Slave owners should be killed by everyone. Why would I want to buy it... How strong is he?"

The insect-person's face turned pale. "I remember, twenty-seven years ago, he was already level 59. He was much stronger than you two, let alone today... Even male humans, if their genetics are particularly excellent, are targeted by him to be used as breeding tools."

Do you think I was scared into growing up? Lu Chen shrugged and said nonchalantly: "What is his race and age?"

The insect-person shook his head helplessly. "He is a 300-year-old Rot-Nose Insect-person."

Lu Chen felt relieved. "Only level 59 at 300 years old? His potential is limited. He's at most level 60 now. Besides, we have powerful outside help!"

A level-60-something insect-person could be defeated by Golia in a single fight; it wasn't a big problem. He and Aili just needed to handle the insect-person's army.

The insect-person felt his head ache, feeling that he had just been saved only to go to his death. "Can we do this: I'll lead you to him, but I don't want to see him again. I just want to change to another star domain to make a living."

"Let's go. We'll talk when we get there." Lu Chen didn't refuse directly. He planned to take the firefly ship to the *White Dew* to sell it first, then take the insect-person to the Federation star domain to find the first-tier descendant of the Interstellar Zerg.

"Speaking of which, I haven't been to the Federation's star domain yet!"