Clown Game
Chapter 325 - 312 Mother Bug

Chapter 325: Chapter 312 Mother Bug

Yes, you should have thought of it, the person who just screamed is the poor guy who initially planned to rob the bank with Chen Xiao.

At that time, Chen Xiao had only 20 minutes, so busy, how could he possibly find the time to stab someone to death. So naturally, he had his plans...

Of course, as Bai Xiong said, his plan wasn’t so reliable.

Originally, Chen Xiao had several pre-planned scenarios.

The first was the simplest one, a violent breakout, relying on the equipment currently available to him, he should be able to withstand the ants for a while. However, considering the number of ants, plus being deep underground, a grenade going off would directly bury him alive among other factors... All in all, it means, playing this way is exciting! But the result would definitely be that everyone would perish there. Chen Xiao had recently met so many interesting people, and he had also found clues to recover his memories, he definitely wouldn’t let himself die here.

The second was to destroy the entire "Collective Consciousness World." Setting fires, shooting, blowing up gas pipelines, basically kill as many people as you can, trying to wake everyone up, creating tremendous chaos, and ideally, even threatening the insect colony consciousness itself, turning all the ants into brain-dead... But the downside to doing this is very big, it’s basically impossible to estimate what the ant colony would become after killing so many, and if they are still vigorous or even get enraged, starting to bite at the sight of humans, that would really be a shock.

The third option, which is the safer method... yes, you heard it right, safe, Chen Xiao was no longer that ignorant, aimless man, he had his own goals, so he did consider the "survive" factor to some extent, Chen Xiao is Chen Xiao, he is not the pure madman living inside his own head, well... although he usually isn’t very normal either.

So what was this method? It involved Chen Xiao catching the attention of the "Mother Bug," the "Mother Bug."

No matter how much the ant colony had evolved, they couldn’t abandon their origin, just like humans wouldn’t easily turn themselves into a group of oviparous animals no matter how much they evolved, it’s a restriction from their own genetics, hard to change.

So it isn’t hard to imagine that if the entire colony shared a single collective thought, then the center of this thought should be the "Mother Bug." Chen Xiao even suspected that this collective had reached an extreme "unified" mode, meaning every insect in the colony, like the limbs of the Mother Bug, were extensions of its thoughts, so if the Mother Bug was killed, the entire colony might collapse.

Oh, right, there was one last plan, which was the most conservative method... This group of controlled humans always had to go out to work, so with the capabilities of the three of them, they would always wait for an opportunity to escape. Then after getting out, just make a call, ask for a few bombers to level the area with the nest included, and it should be fine, that probably would be the thought of most people.

But after all, they were infiltrating an unawakened crowd, if discovered, they had only death waiting for them, and Chen Xiao wasn’t planning to do it this way because if it was just quietly waiting for an opportunity to escape... it would be too dull... well, it seems his reckless nature couldn’t be changed overnight.

Enough talk!

Chen Xiao naturally had already calculated the time it took for the soldier ants to arrive. With Song Xuan’s speed, they could kill the poor guy who had just woken up before they arrived. In fact, almost the next second after Song Xuan had disappeared, without waiting for the gust of wind to dissipate, Song Xuan reappeared in the cave, making absolutely no sound during the process, just as if she had flashed in place, not even a drop of blood on her blade.

Yes, she just casually killed an innocent person... I don’t know if everyone can accept this kind of action, but in Song Xuan’s eyes, human life is really cheap, she even feels, if relying on this corpse can help her escape the predicament, then this person would be worth more dead than alive... It’s hard to judge this kind of view as right or wrong because almost all life forms put themselves above everything else, it’s an instinct, the more a person sees life and death, the more they understand the value of life. This also results in this book probably not having any scene like "Foundation field agents sacrifice their lives to save trapped people."

Unless they absolutely have no other choice.

...

Soon, the two ants gathered beside the corpse. Normally, one of them would touch the person with their antennae... but there was no response.

Without thought, there was naturally no control anymore.

Then the two ants did not show even a hint of bewilderment, as if following a step-by-step program, they determined that this human could no longer labor. One ant started stuffing an arm of the corpse into its mouth with the mandibles below its jaws and began to chew rapidly.

Hmm, it was feeding.

This is a habit that almost all similar species would evolve.

The ant colony would first control humans, sustain their lives with their own excretions or secretions, exhaust them through prolonged labor until every last essence was drained, and then the remaining corpses would become food.

It was cruel but evidently the most effective method of survival. In fact, human survival is much more ruthless. We almost advance by stepping on the debris of everything around us, and our path is no longer evolution but transformation. We are out of sync with nature and even run counter to it. If one day a voice tells me that humans are the most terrifying creatures in the entire universe, I certainly wouldn’t be surprised.

You might think this statement is off-topic, but, in fact, it’s not.

Let’s drag our gaze back to that corpse. The two soldier ants merely ate simply and then stopped, just as previously mentioned. They were just one of the Mother Bug’s thousands of limbs, and eating was like applying hand cream to maintain basic health. This, in turn, would ensure that all the food was transported to the Ant Nest. The food that could be stored would accumulate, ready for when needed, while food that couldn’t be stored or would rot quickly was fed directly to the queen ant.

Thus, one of the ants soon picked up the corpse, presumably to deliver it to the queen ant’s nest. The other ant also shook its antennae and returned to its designated post.

Everything quieted down again.

And at that moment, Chen Xiao, hiding in his den, pulled out his cellphone and activated the location feature for his team members.

This type of cell phone came equipped with a module that didn’t require the Foundation’s satellite; it could send out signals on its own.

So, on the screen, a red dot kept blinking rapidly, sketching out a jagged line.

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(I went back and checked—the last Chapter seemed to have omitted to mention that Song Xuan had stuffed her cell phone inside the corpse, which I have now included. Also, there are just a few more subscribers needed for the premium content, support from brothers against piracy is appreciated.)