I'm Really Not the Lord of the Abyss - Chapter 20

Inside the nest, which was more than half empty, a group of high-ranking Zergs were listlessly wandering around.

As if to add fuel to their already overburdened hearts, a terrifying aura suddenly came from afar at that moment.

Instantly, everyone’s minds went blank for a moment, and a subconscious fear spread across their cheeks. Their trembling lips uttered that dignified title.

“The Queen Mother…The Queen Mother has returned…”

For a moment, everyone’s gaze was focused on her.

—She was a complete insect-like monster.

She retained all the sharp features of an insect: antennae, exoskeleton, compound eyes, wings, limbs… Combining the most proud and powerful parts of many insects, she was like a grotesque and twisted combination.

However, what was strange was that when your gaze fell on her, at some moment, you seemed to see through her and saw a dreamlike beautiful woman. Then when you looked again, you would find the monster in front of you beautiful, charming, and the most perfect existence in this world.

You would be completely immersed in the illusion of the monster, hopelessly attracted like a moth to a flame.

However, those who had been living under the pressure of the Zerg Queen Mother only saw a monarch about to rage and their precarious lives.

The Queen Mother noticed something was wrong with the nest as soon as she returned.

She could feel that the aura of the high-ranking Zergs in the nest had decreased by a third, including even the strongest one.

“What happened?” The Queen Mother didn’t open her mouth, but a voice came out. The sound wave spread through her high-frequency vibrating wings, forming a shock like a sonic boom, piercing into everyone’s eardrums like a needle.

Her body was incredibly huge, and the rest of the high-ranking Zergs in front of her were like toys, not even as big as a segment of her insect leg.

A high-ranking Zerg with four wings immediately fell to his knees, and beads of sweat rolled down frantically.

“Big, big trouble, Queen Mother!”

He lay on the ground, looking up at the huge figure in horror, his voice trembling as he spoke.

“While you were away, a third of the high-ranking Zergs fled with Big Brother and a human, many brothers and sisters have left…”

The four-winged Zerg’s words abruptly stopped as the Queen Mother suddenly opened her eyes wide, and a terrifying aura spread from her.

The Queen Mother’s intimidation of the other Zergs was almost overwhelming. The others on the scene immediately felt their hearts pounding like drums, unable to move, watching as a group of low-ranking Zergs around the Queen Mother were instantly crushed by her pressure.

The blood that burst open splashed on them, and the Queen Mother, word by word, seemed to want to chew and swallow the person in her words, each word grinding over her tongue.

“Ji…Zhou————!!!”

The Queen Mother didn’t care at all about the human mentioned in the four-winged Zerg’s words. After all, humans were nothing more than ants in her eyes, not worth caring about!

Who would have thought – her most favored eldest son would do such a thing while she was on an expedition!

Good son! Truly her good son!!

How proud the former Queen Mother of the powerful talent he inherited as she now hated it!

“I want him dead—” The Queen Mother’s compound eyes widened, staring straight ahead, “Where is he now!”

The four-winged Zerg hurriedly replied, “He, he took the defected Zergs and went west…”

As soon as his words fell, the Queen Mother flapped her wings like a hurricane, and her huge body moved surprisingly quickly.

The insect army that had just returned with the Queen Mother immediately followed without stopping, disappearing from everyone’s sight in an instant, and chased out with a grand and spectacular scale.

Those left behind felt as if they had walked through the gates of hell and immediately collapsed.

“The Queen Mother, she seems very angry…”

It was more than just anger, they had never seen the Queen Mother so furious! They just thought they were going to be killed!

Fortunately, the Queen Mother was in a rage, focused on chasing Big Brother, and didn’t have time to vent her anger on them. It seems that Big Brother’s betrayal did bring a great shock to the Queen Mother.

“…Big Brother, he’ll be okay, right?”

“Shush!”

A Zerg had just started to speak when he was glared at by the four-winged Zerg.

The four-winged Zerg signaled the surroundings–although the Queen Mother had taken away part of the army, a part was still left behind.

Most of the Queen Mother’s army was also “insect-shaped” like her, they didn’t have the advanced ability to mimic, but they were absolutely loyal to the Queen Mother.

Inside were ear-reporting insects, which acted as the Queen Mother’s mouth and eyes, and had a monitoring effect, a very troublesome insect.

“…!” The high-ranking Zerg who was speaking hurriedly covered his mouth, indicating that he would no longer speak, and then exchanged glances with the other brothers around him without saying a word.

Then, the four-winged Zerg found that the returning Zerg army had brought back a special “prisoner”.

——Only to see a white-haired demon half-leaning in the cage built by the Queen Mother’s mental power.

The translucent chains bound the demon’s hands and feet, and there was a lot of blood on his body, most of which was Zerg’s from the aura.

Seemingly aware of the four-winged Zerg’s gaze, the white-haired demon’s drooping fingertips moved slightly, and then slowly raised his head.

At that moment, the Zerg seemed to fall into a sea of corpses and blood, seeing a beautiful and rotten flower.

The flower was surrounded by raging flames, surrounded by scorching magma, attracting countless people to reach it through thousands of hardships. But everything was just an illusion, it was a bone stripped off by the monster, carved out in hell. Behind that pure white, was the crimson of poisonous fire, the scrutiny of the monster that was about to wake up.

…Danger!

The four-winged Zerg’s heart shook, and the subconscious warning made him hurriedly divert his gaze, not daring to look into those eyes.

“Is this the demon who slaughtered the Zerg army on the other side of the abyss?” He asked in a terrified tone.

The ear-reporting insects affirmed with a hiss, and said that the Queen Mother had ordered them to first take the other party to the dungeon and wait for the Queen Mother to deal with the traitors before dealing with him.

“How did the Queen Mother capture him?” For some reason, the four-winged Zerg always felt that something was not quite right.

The ear-reporting insects didn’t care, and answered with a call, “He killed countless of our brethren, he must be exhausted.”

The four-winged Zerg could only skeptically take the other party into the dungeon.

He was on guard all the way, but the other party did not resist at all–no, it should be said that it was a kind of laissez-faire fatigue, a rather indifferent attitude.

And in the dungeon, this white-haired demon, who had always been listless, saw those who had already defected–a third of the Zergs mentioned by the Zergs earlier–in the cell next to his.

Those Zergs who were locked up immediately rushed to the cell door as soon as they saw the four-winged Zerg and others, shouting, “Quickly let us out, if the Queen Mother comes back and doesn’t see us…”

The special prison reinforced with mental power didn’t move at all.

“The Queen Mother has already returned, she now thinks you are traitors, and has gone to hunt down Big Brother.” The four-winged Zerg and others said.

——Yes, this wave was actually their superior strategy, a dove occupying a magpie’s nest.

At that time, after Jizhou asked if anyone wanted to go with him, after a hard struggle, two-thirds of the people on the spot expressed their desire to go with him.

Then, under Lu Mi’s signal, Jizhou had them lock up the remaining third who didn’t want to leave. This wave was naturally easy with more against fewer.

After they finished, they asked if they could hurry up and run away before the Queen Mother found out, but who knew that Lu Mi asked them to stay.

“We have other things to do, we need you to stay here and tell the Queen Mother the wrong hunting route, to delay time for us.” The silver-eyed youth calmly spoke.

“Stay? Then we will die! We will definitely die, right!” Their only courage actually came from Jizhou, as for Lu Mi, they didn’t understand his strength at all, naturally they didn’t want to bet their lives.

“So what?” The silver-eyed youth looked at them indifferently, “Doing nothing, just running away, living in fear of being found by the Queen Mother in the future, hiding–what’s the difference between that and your current state? It’s better not to do it, if you want to do it, do it thoroughly, and get rid of the trouble forever.”

“…What do you mean?” The four-winged Zerg couldn’t help but swallow, his heart beating faster because of this moment’s conjecture.

The silver-eyed youth just naturally looked at them–

“Kill your Queen Mother.”

Under the gaze of all the Zergs, he calmly looked at them one by one, their suppressed emotions suddenly exploded under such a gaze, they could hardly help trembling all over.

“Don’t you think so?” He said.

——So bold!! At this moment, the other Zergs seemed to suddenly understand why their Big Brother would be willing to follow this person, just this courage and boldness…! Even they, who were used to oppression, probably couldn’t muster it in their lifetime.

Both fear and excitement. The two sides were tugging at each other in their hearts, and they couldn’t tell which side was more.

So in the end, everyone’s heads heated up, and they actually agreed to join this audacious betrayal plan.

Although afterwards, they quickly realized that courage and strength were two different things, and suspected that they had been fooled into making a big death.

Some people even started to regret, why didn’t they run away on the spot…

But once you’ve shot the arrow, there’s no getting it back, now they have no room for regret, they could only hope that the Queen Mother found out they’ve been tricked later.

“…How dare you!? How dare you deceive the Queen Mother?!!”

Back in the dungeon, upon hearing the four-winged Zerg’s answer, the one-third of the Zergs who were locked up immediately showed expressions of utter shock.

The reason they didn’t defect was because the awe and fear of the Zerg Queen Mother had long since penetrated their hearts, and even the sense of security brought by Jizhou, whom they relied on the most, could not offset it.

Now it’s good——!

Clearly, the four-winged Zerg and others were the traitors, who took advantage of their numerical superiority to lock them up, and at the same time openly and nonchalantly occupied the nest, and turned them into traitors.

Now it seems that the Queen Mother still believes it! Maybe even the direction of the hunt provided is completely wrong!

[Things seem to be getting interesting…]

The white-haired demon looked at the scene in front of him that even he hadn’t expected, slowly withdrew the power he was about to unleash from his fingertips, and instead quietly watched from the side.

He was leaning against the cold wall of the cell with his head slightly lowered, his white hair covering most of his expression, looking quite weary.

Originally, he was tired of killing insects in the abyss, and for some reason, that Zerg Queen Mother just couldn’t be killed, which was very annoying.

So he thought it might be better to infiltrate the enemy camp and do something big. As for whether he would be executed on the spot after being captured…anyway, that person wasn’t there, so he didn’t bother to think about those troublesome things.

But looking at the scene now, even without him, there were already other people who have turned the Zerg base camp upside down–he was somewhat curious about the person who dared to do these things.

“You guys can’t really be expecting,” on the other side, the Zergs who were locked up began to mock in a resigned manner, “thinking that someone can defeat the Queen Mother? This is something that even Big Brother can’t do, what are you hoping for!”

The four-winged Zerg and others fell silent, they didn’t refute, because this also seemed like a remote possibility to them.

But they still said, “We just want to experience…freedom without oppression…”

It just so happened that someone did it first–the human who reached out to Big Brother must have touched some part of Big Brother’s heart, which made him risk his life to try it once.

Even if it fails, it doesn’t matter, they’ve had enough, this day after day of living in fear, one carelessness and won’t be able to see tomorrow…

What no one saw was that, just above the sky of the Zerg nest, at a place even higher than the clouds, a huge dragon shadow was slowly roaming.

It would descend from the high sky after the white-haired demon sent a signal, heading towards that huge nest.

At this moment, every side’s troops seem to have their own plans, and by coincidence, they gather together directly or indirectly.

And on the other side of the stage, as the four-winged Zerg said, Lu Mi and others who left were heading towards the abyss rift, with only Jizhou, Grant, and Salien.

Jizhou was leading the way in front of the aircraft, Lu Mi didn’t stay in the aircraft, but sat on the top of the aircraft outside with his knees bent.

“Are you worried about those Zergs who stayed behind?” Lu Mi, who was supporting his chin and looking down at the blue sea below, suddenly asked.

On the way, there was only the whistling wind around and the waves below. If it was usual, this scene would undoubtedly be very beautiful. It’s just a pity that the timing was wrong, now it only made people feel like the calm before the storm.

Jizhou was silent for a moment, then shook his head, “According to the Queen Mother’s temperament, the one she wants to deal with the most now is me, they are temporarily not in danger.”

“Your Queen Mother should have started to search for our traces from the west in a thorough search according to the wrong information they provided, but the direction we actually left is actually the east.”

Lu Mi’s posture was very leisurely, which made Jizhou take a look at him.

Probably because he had been a brother to others for many years, Jizhou’s expression was somewhat helpless, “According to your request, the high-ranking Zergs who stayed behind will take the opportunity to transfer the hostages in the nest.”

Those humans were previously captured from other places, serving as reserve food for the Zerg Queen Mother. If it weren’t for this earth-shattering development, they probably would never have had the chance to leave the nest in their lifetime.

Who knows what those humans’ reactions would be when they saw that it was the Zergs who came to save them.

Who knows what the reactions of the people on the giant ship of the auction would be when the high-ranking Zergs, according to the address provided by Lu Mi, sent the people to take refuge on the giant ship–they would probably be scared to the point of heart palpitations.

Lu Mi was somewhat regretful that he couldn’t see the developments over there, but he had more important things to do right now.

In a flash, Jizhou, who was leading the way in front, suddenly stopped.

And without Jizhou speaking, Lu Mi knew they had arrived–

Just seeing in the distance of the horizon, a hundred-meter-wide gap was hanging in the sky, like a dark eye, and like a mouth about to swallow the world.

This was the abyss rift.

The size of this rift was incomparable to the one underground in the Blue Steel Empire, saying it was a hundred times larger wouldn’t be an exaggeration. No wonder the Zerg Queen Mother could directly bring her army through it.

“This rift will continuously supply the Queen Mother with military supplies. As long as there are Zergs around her, she can obtain endless energy, and no one can pose a threat to her under such circumstances.”

Jizhou looked at the insects that were still flying out of the rift with a serious face.

These low-ranking insects wouldn’t know what had happened, and because of the pressure of a high-ranking Zerg on Jizhou, they respectfully avoided him and didn’t dare to approach.

Lu Mi calmly said, “That’s why we need to cut off her supply first.”

If you use the monster killing in the game as a metaphor, the Zerg Queen Mother is like a big boss who can constantly devour small monsters and recover health crazily. Before the boss fight, of course, you have to cut off the most troublesome arm of the other party first!

“…I can let my brothers help, and let them block here to prevent the swarm from flying out when the time comes.”

Jizhou himself couldn’t stay here, because he had to assist Lu Mi in dealing with the Zerg Queen Mother. In fact, when he made this decision, Jizhou had already prepared to sacrifice himself.

He didn’t doubt Lu Mi’s strength, he was too clear about the terror of the Zerg Queen Mother.

“Don’t show such a pessimistic expression.” Lu Mi miraculously read the other party’s emotions from the man’s silent face, which was somewhat unbelievable even to the man himself.

Jizhou couldn’t help but look at him, but Lu Mi didn’t say any comforting words.

Anything said now was empty, this shadow accumulated over time, only by violently shattering it, such as punching the Zerg Queen Mother’s face in front of them.

Zerg Queen Mother: Aren’t you polite?

“What do you plan to do?” Jizhou was somewhat curious about how Lu Mi would handle it.

Lu Mi lightly “hmm”ed, “The old way.”

He looked around, for spatial balance, this time it’s better not to hide the rift in the shadow, then…

His gaze settled on the azure sea surface.

——Just put it in the mirror.

Isn’t this boundless sea surface the largest mirror in the world?

Inside the mental space, the Book of Keys quietly turned to the first page.

The silver-eyed youth waved his hand and summoned the silver spear, calling out, “Enchant.”