Escape the Infinite Chambers Chapter 176 - Ancient Remains (X)

Chapter 176 - Ancient Remains (X)

Editors: Humu & Kitty
The last thing imprinted on Xing Yan’s retina was a huge explosion that shook the heavens and earth.
He remembered that his team followed the alien all the way as they moved forward. In fact, he wanted to turn back to find Luo Jian, but he finally gave up. Xing Yan’s responsibilities forced him to be unable to leave his team and look for a newcomer in his team of unknown origins.
Now that he had decided to move on, Xing Yan would not be one of those people with indecisive and lingering personalities.
However, their team’s luck was not good in this chamber. Just as they were making a lot of turns with Noen, they were surrounded by insects, and thereafter, the hair-raising explosion occurred.
The explosion was not a masterpiece of Team Ghost Shadow or Noen. It might have been caused by the rise of some sort of mechanical air pressure of the space station because before the explosion, Noen said that the fire alarm on the space station rang.
Xing Yan lost consciousness for a short period during the explosion but soon woke up. When he woke up, he touched his clothes unconsciously and could not help but lament that alien technology was really incredible.
His protective clothing perfectly blocked most of the blast’s impact and protected him from some injuries. Although he might suffer some internal injuries, Xing Yan took out a few injections from his carry-on secret chamber and injected himself. His entirety felt much more relaxed after that.
Then he began to observe his surroundings. But after such an observation, even Xing Yan would also unbearably shudder with fear.
He found himself to have completely separated from his teammates in the explosion and seemed to have fallen into an unknown place that would play a decisive role in this chamber.
There was a huge hole over his head that had been widened by the explosion, but due to the space station’s self-healing properties, the hole was shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye.
What surrounded Xing Yan was thickly-dotted insect eggs.
These eggs were not small. Each one was the size of a football. The eggs were milky-white in colour and were translucent, oval eggs. They were crowded together and stacked up layer by layer. Hills and hills of eggs were piled up into a mountain that surrounded him in all directions.
And each egg was filled with all kinds of twisting larvae. It seemed that one egg could give birth to a swarm of insects. They appeared extremely sticky and disgusting. Seeing all this made Xing Yan feel nauseous.
He had fallen right into the insects’ nest.
One had to lament his luck. Was his lucky value bar hitting the maximum level or did he have E-rank luck?
Xing Yan got up from the pile of eggs because he had fallen directly into the hill-like pile of eggs. The eggs were surprisingly soft, so apart from the impact of the explosion, Xing Yan could be said to have been undamaged.
But that did not mean that he was not in danger. In fact, the perils he would face would place him in a much more difficult position than others.
Yes, since falling into the insect nest meant falling into the enemy’s headquarters, at any moment it was possible for him to be gnawed by these swarms of insects until there was no residue left of him. That was very likely, so Xing Yan had already postured himself appropriately and was ready to teleport himself out of here. However, after a while, he found that there were no insects attacking him.
Although the eggs were densely packed all around him and although the shells of these eggs were undulating, they would not hatch so quickly. So the small insects were still making their rounds around the eggs.
Although Xing Yan did not encounter any danger for a while, he did not relax his vigilance. He began to lower his back as he walked over the eggs of all sizes. Soon, he found that he was really in the insect nest, deep in the insect colony and in the queen’s unique spawning room.
Because in front of him, there was a…… something hard for him to describe. Her huge body was more than ten meters tall, and she looked like a hill because she was too fat. Her limbs andor antennae looked very thin in comparison. In her abdomen, there was something like a brood pouch. The bag was translucent and full of insect eggs.
This was the queen of the entire insect swarm.
It was inappropriate to measure how ugly she was because she was totally out of line with human aesthetics. Xing Yan guessed that this big bug might have not moved its body for a long time. She had been nesting here and laying eggs. After all, that was her only function and the embodiment of the meaning of her life.
If this was the queen’s personal spawning room, she should be protected by three layers of insects both internally and externally. However, there was an accident today and a hole was blasted in the ceiling, so Xing Yan fell right down.
The queen did not seem to notice the presence of Xing Yan. She snored and exhaled a painful moan. She rolled herself into a big ball, and her hand—which could be barely described as a hand—was holding onto something tightly.
Xing Yan boldly approached the queen. He raised his head to look at the huge monster. Following that, he placed his line of sight on the object held by the queen.
It would be fine if he did not pay attention to it, but when his eyes focused on it, the object appeared extremely bizarre.
This big bug was actually holding a cube the size of a human’s fist.
And this cube was emitting glimmers of light. How magical. It seemed that this cube held a mysterious power. Centered around it, a naturally spherical barrier formed around it, making it look like a huge glass ball with a small little cube inside.
The queen grasped the cube. She couldn’t touch the cube directly. She could only hold the thin ball of light outside the cube. The queen plastered her face right outside the ball of light as if she was drawing strength from the cube.
If one was an ordinary player, one might not be interested in this cube and would only try their best to think of a way to escape this huge spawning room. Unfortunately, Xing Yan…… was not an ordinary player.
He did not know why he was interested in such a cube. Although the light emitted by the cube seemed to tempt Xing Yan to approach her, he never found that he was placed in such a situation like now, where he had no control of his body. He felt like a puppet under control. He could not help but step forward and even climb directly onto the queen’s body.
The queen did not respond but painfully moaned as a response. Although she trembled slightly, her movements did not affect Xing Yan’s climbing. Therefore, Xing Yan smoothly climbed all the way up to the cube.
The cube was suspended in the center of the light ball. The material seemed to be made of some kind of stone. It could not truly be considered a ‘cube.’ It was just that nine grids were carved into the six sides of the cube. Each grid was carved with mysterious patterns, and light radiated from the patterns and scriptures.
Unfortunately, there was a corner missing from the cube. It appeared as if it had been violently destroyed by something. One of the six corners of the square was chiseled off, and the light emitting from the scriptures on its patterns was also incomplete due to the missing small angle.
But it still possessed unparalleled power.
Xing Yan felt that there was a voice in his head that was whirling around.
The voice called: Go over, go over…… Obtain it, take it away.
Xing Yan could hardly control himself. At that moment, he might be defeated by fate again, so he stretched out his finger. Unlike the queen, who could only touch the round outer wall of the cube, and under the influence of unknown forces, his hand penetrated the transparent light ball outside the cube, and he directly reached into the insides and touched the cube.
It felt cool and slightly cold to touch.
Xing Yan did not continue deliberating any longer. He grabbed the cube and pulled it out of the ball of light and directly stuffed it into his pocket. But the moment he took the cube, the queen woke up.
The queen felt for the first time that the thing belonging to her had been seized. She quickly lowered her head down to look at the cube in her hand, but the cube had disappeared, and the light ball outside the cube gradually disappeared. The disappearance of such a power source made her feel weak in that instant.
She howled angrily, and shortly after, she felt Xing Yan, who was still hanging on her body.
In fact, in that instant, he was extremely confused. Truthfully, when he saw the cube and when he could not help stealing it, Xing Yan always felt that his consciousness was extremely dazed. Until the cube was really in his hand, he felt that his consciousness cleared up in that instant.
But when he woke up, he had to face a furious insect queen.
However, this was not something difficult for Xing Yan. Xing Yan jumped down from the queen flexibly and straightforwardly. She was huge and slow in movement. She merely laid eggs constantly and possessed no fighting ability.
The queen did not pose a threat, but the queen’s call could.
In the spawning room, the queen’s call was immediately sensed by the insects surrounding the perimeters. Almost in the next second, countless insect swarms swarmed in from all directions. Could you imagine the sight of insects densely flocking into your vicinity from all directions? Xing Yan had seen that at that moment.
Aware that he was in danger, Xing Yan immediately drew his weapon and was ready to make an instant teleport to escape this area.
However, to his horror, Xing Yan found that he could not use his skills.
In the past, he was always able to move freely in any place. Although in this futuristic background, his ability had been greatly weakened, it did not mean that he could not teleport.
But why couldn’t he use his abilities?
Xing Yan’s experience enabled him to keep calm, but cold sweat still covered his forehead. However, he was not like John, who was so dependent on his weapon and skills. Now that his weapon could not work, he had already thought of what to do next. He turned his head and focused on the huge queen.
The biggest weakness of the insect swarm lied in front of him!
Xing Yan drew his knife out and was ready to pounce on the queen. No matter how intelligent these insects are, the queen always had the authority to command them. Under the threat of losing the queen’s life, he could always think of a way to drive back these disgusting insects.
But to Xing Yan’s surprise, instantly after his weapon stopped working, he began to be unable to move his body.
Motherf*cker, what was going on?!
Xing Yan rigidly stood in place, and the insects around him gradually surrounded him, but he was unable to move now. He gradually stopped sensing his limbs. His body was out of control and refused to budge. Thereafter, a kind of inexplicable panic gradually took root in his mind. Xing Yan was not afraid of death, but in that moment, he suddenly remembered how Luo Jian looked like when he was quietly nesting in his embrace.
Damn it, I still end up regretting it.