A extremely faint, yet stably welded into the void, light pierced through the thick, dark curtain of mud.
That was by no means a natural creation.
There was no life pulse of deep-sea phosphorescence, no chaotic heat of hydrothermal vents.
It was cold, constant, precise, like a monitor lens from another dimension, emitting a sense of spatial distortion that made nerve endings tremble.
“Hiss—!”
A silent but sharp mental pulse, like a high-frequency particle beam, instantly pierced into the neural core nodes of the ninety-nine He Bo Insects under his command.
The order was clear, cold, and unquestionable.
The four He Bo Insects that were called out instantly had the faint blue biological energy patterns on their tails glow bright like miniature engine nozzles.
Their muscle fibers tensed like fully drawn strong bows, about to tear through the water, transforming into four death rays shooting towards the contact point.
Just as they were about to release a high-pressure water pulse to probe the edge of the light hole, a thunderous roar erupted!
The seabed beneath them.
That area covered with dozens of meters of soft, viscous mud, like decaying internal organs, and jagged, broken basalt—without warning, as if a billion tons of explosives buried in the Earth's Core had been detonated, suddenly arched upward and exploded.
It wasn't a localized collapse, but a violent, destructive, plate-level disintegration of the entire three-hundred-meter radius of the seabed.
Heaven and Earth collapsed!
All things returned to Chaos!
Tens of thousands of tons of humic mud accumulated over hundreds of millions of years, house-sized sharp black basalt, and bone-chilling heavy water were instantly swept away by a terrifying force, seemingly from the Earth's Core furnace, that was impossible to resist!
The turbid mud waves were like a torrent of filth erupting when the gates of Hell were kicked open with immense force.
They instantly formed a towering, hundred-meter-high, sky-obscuring mudslide giant wall, carrying the might to crush everything, sweeping over the entire He Bo Insect squad along with the surrounding seawater, light, and perception, completely devouring them.
Vision instantly dropped to zero, perception completely stripped away by the violent water pressure impact, the dull thuds of rock fragments hitting carapaces, and the viscous, clogging sensation of mud filling joint crevices.
At the very core of this destructive Chaos mud wave, the origin of the energy outburst, a colossal, twisted, life-defiling shadow—the Stitched Beast, Breaker.
Carrying destructive kinetic energy and the pungent stench of sulfur mixed with ozone, like an ancient beast breaking free from a nightmare, it burst out of the ground!
Timing!
Angle!
Power!
Perfect to the point of despair!
The Breaker's massive sixty-meter-long body was fully revealed!
The dark grey biological armor plates covering its entire body were rough and heavy, covered with rivet-like bone protrusions, and against the pale light of the hole behind it, it looked like a moving mountain covered with countless corpses!
Its giant pincers, which replaced its forelimbs, were as thick as the load-bearing pillars of an ancient temple.
Covered with jagged bone spikes like a mace and razor-sharp serrations shimmering with cold light, they swept horizontally with a silent scream that tore through space, fiercely and precisely towards the densest part of the He Bo Insect swarm, which was completely obscured by the mud wave and whose formation had instantly collapsed!
“Pfft! Crunch! Crunch—!!”
Head-splitting, bone-chilling sounds of hard armor shattering and bones grinding exploded in the turbidity!
The deep blue bio-alloy carapaces of the five He Bo Insects closest to the explosion center, which were strong enough to withstand the impact of a close-range heavy torpedo.
In front of the giant pincers that struck like a planetary collision, wrapped in an eerie black light, they were instantly flattened, torn, and pulverized like shoddy plaster artwork!
Dark blue blood mixed with fragmented organ tissue and splashing carapace, like berries crushed by a ten-thousand-ton hydraulic press, sprayed violently into the turbid water, instantly staining an terrifying, continuously spreading blue-black death stain!
They couldn't even emit a mental wail; their broken bodies, like rag dolls, were swept by the violent mud wave and hurled into the endless dark abyss.
“Screech—!!!”
The He Bo Insect Commander's mental core erupted in an enraged shriek.
This was not fear, but the furious battle roar of a territory guardian whose domain had been violated and loyal warriors who had been treacherously ambushed.
Its mental fluctuations swept through the entire mental link like a supernova explosion, instantly dispelling the temporary sluggishness and confusion caused by the mud wave impact and sudden attack on its squad members.
The remaining ninety-four He Bo Insects instantly lit up their compound eye arrays with dazzling, molten-lava-like crimson death rays.
Cold killing intent overwhelmed everything.
Counterattack!
Until death!
“Puff, puff, puff, puff—!”
The mouthparts of over forty He Bo Insects opened wide like ultra-high-pressure ion cannons.
Highly compressed, viscous like liquid mercury, and with surface shimmering with faint blue bio-luminescence, super-energy spider silk shot out.
This was not a physical ejection, but an energy-matter composite binding cable instantly secreted by special glands within their bodies and shaped and guided by a high-energy biological field.
In the turbid seawater, they were like living, poisoned deep blue giant pythons, ignoring water resistance, precisely coiling around the Breaker's massive body joints, the base of its pincers, the fragile connections to its torso, and even the writhing folds at the edge of its abyssal maw.
As soon as the spider silk touched its target, its surface instantly hardened into countless nano-scale barbs, like billions of miniature fishhooks, deeply embedding themselves into the armor crevices.
At the same time, potent neuro-paralytic toxins were frantically injected, and viscous biological glue solidified like powerful super glue.
The Breaker's massive right pincer joint was instantly locked tightly by three thick spider silks.
At the same time, the He Bo Insect Commander's giant scythe-like forelimbs, like a conductor's baton, drew an arcane trajectory containing the power of the tides in the water.
All He Bo Insects vibrated their tails at high frequency, emitting ultrasound, and their scythe-like forelimbs stirred up violent turbulent vortices in the water.
Talent—Water Domain Control!
Activated.
The chaotic undercurrents were forcibly subjugated.
An invisible biological force field suddenly formed with the Breaker at its center.
This was not a simple vortex, but an invisible super-heavy water pressure cage in the deep sea.
Tens of thousands of tons of water pressure were forcibly guided, converged, and pressurized to the limit from all directions.
The water flow was molded into billions of tough liquid shackles, complementing the super-energy spider silk's energy binding field, tightly coiling around the Breaker's massive body, which had just broken free from the seabed's restraint and had not yet fully exerted its strength.
Its thick siege tail hammer strikes and the tearing of its left pincer became like being trapped in a solidified amber pool under this dual energy-physical restraint.
Each struggle stirred up violent water surges and energy turbulences, emitting dull rumbling sounds like muffled thunder, yet it was difficult to shake this death cage woven by the mighty power of water and the biological technology of the Zerg.
“Creak… creak… creak…”
The tough super-energy spider silk stretched to its physical limit under the Breaker's terrifying strength, emitting a grating metal fatigue groan, and its faint blue light flickered violently on the surface.