Chapter 16 (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

About a minute later, the blue liquid glob stopped squirming, and the strange sound subsided.

Those giant beetles started to communicate again, but Qin Hao could not understand any of them.

After a while, a giant beetle went up to the blue liquid glob and punctured it with its front leg.

Blue liquid that carried no electricity flowed out of the five-meter-tall blue glob.

Following that, a naked human dropped out of the glob. Using his extraordinary vision, Qin Hao could see that it was the poor guy from earlier who had been dumped inside the blue glob.

“He wasn’t devoured?” Qin Hao was puzzled. Judging from the sound earlier, that unknown creature should have eaten the human.

The snapping sound of a branch pulled Qin Hao’s attention back. His jaw dropped when he saw the man stagger to his feet.

More shockingly, that human was communicating with the insectoids using their language.

“What kind of black magic is this?” Qin Hao had no idea what was going on, but he knew that it was extraordinary. When he tried to turn on his body cam to record what was unfolding before his eyes, he found that it was out of commission. Apparently, the acidic bug blood had burned a hole through the camera during the earlier battle.

“What should I do?” He was sure that what he saw was important intel for the humans. But those people in the Federation Army were not going to believe a private like him.

Nicole and Lucia were a few hundred meters behind him. They had a battlefield camera on their bodies as well, but it was too risky to move back to them now because of his close distance to those insectoids. If those insectoids discovered him, none of them could get out of there alive.

Just as Qin Hao was hesitating, the naked human’s body suddenly convulsed and glowed with a strange blue light, which turned into electric arcs. He dropped to the ground as the electricity charred his body.

Those insectoids communicated among themselves again. Qin Hao had no idea what they were talking about, but he could sense their disappointment.

A while later, those insectoids began to disperse and disappeared into the dense jungle. Meanwhile, that human was eaten by those insectoids, leaving no trace of him behind.

“What was going on?” Qin Hao was perplexed. Those insectoids had sacrificed two plasma worms just to interrogate a human? They must not have extracted any useful intel from that human judging by their disappointed look.

He quietly pulled himself back out of the bushes and returned to the two young women.

“What was going on out there?” Nicole’s keen eye had noticed Qin Hao’s unusual expression.

“There are a bunch of insectoids out there. We have to make a detour!” Qin Hao did not tell them what he saw. It was just too unbelievable. With no proof, they were not going to believe him.

“Okay!” Nicole and Lucia suspected nothing; they completely trusted him after he displayed his extraordinary abilities earlier.

Using Nicole’s coordinate device, Qin Hao quickly decided on an alternative route and moved toward the High Ground Z3. This time, they did not encounter any threat other than an ordinary giant beetle. It was not a challenge for Qin Hao, who cut it in half with the alloy sword in his hand.

“Z3 is just one click away.” Qin Hao stopped behind a mound.