Chapter 15: Have You Ever Faced the Zerg?

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Sana chuckled softly, “I heard from poor York that you’re actually searching for weapons against us and trying to contact the Federation government, risking exposing our identities.”

“Dear little Rui, this is the consequence of your attempt to fight us. I will turn everyone close to you into our kind, ha ha ha…”

No!

Rui broke down and rushed to York’s side. “York, what should I do? How can I help you?”

She pulled out some scattered medicine from her pocket, trembling as she forced it into York’s mouth.

“Do you need medicine? Will it cure you?”

The writhing beneath York’s skin became more pronounced, as if something was about to burst forth from his flesh.

Suddenly, York’s crimson eyes snapped open, gripping Rui’s wrist tightly.

“Kill me.”

His voice was hoarse and low, tinged with the unique clicking sound only their insectoid kind could produce.

His body was rapidly undergoing a mutation.

“No, no!” Rui panicked, clutching his arm desperately.

How could she do that? These people in the city were her closest companions; only because of their protection had she grown safely enough to awaken the genetic memories.

They were her family!

“There must be a way, right? Hold on a little longer. I’ll get the big guy to treat you—he can do anything, he’ll definitely cure you!”

“It’s no use.” York tried to smile at her, but the excruciating pain from the mutation made his smile more pitiful than tears.

“This is genetic mutation, irreversible. Kill us, please. Don’t let our bodies become those disgusting bugs.”

“Miss, leave here. You’re only seven years old. Seek help from the Federation government, find someone to adopt you. By the time you’re eighteen, you can access the Stellar Spirit clan’s funds, go to the Imperial Star, and live a life of luxury. Don’t stay mixed up with us lot.”

York struggled to pull a gun from his clothes and shoved it into her hand. “Do it.”

Sana giggled, stepping forward to gently pat Rui’s shoulder.

“End their suffering.”

Rui stood frozen as if turned to stone.

After a moment, her voice was hoarse. “Why can’t others see your true forms? You really are insects, aren’t you?”

The square fell into a deathly silence, waiting for Sana’s reply.

The insectoid methods were terrifying, and they wanted to know why only Rui could see them.

No, the giant could see them too!

A flicker of murderous intent flashed briefly in Sana’s eyes before vanishing.

“Dear, our disguise ability has evolved over thousands of years, fooling even the most advanced interstellar detection devices. Yet you can see through us—it’s truly baffling.”

“So as long as we don’t expose ourselves, no one will believe you. Haven’t you tried?”

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She laughed loudly. “Hurry up and do it. You’ll become an interstellar fugitive and have no choice but to come with us. Ha ha ha.”

The crowd in the square felt their hearts pounding with dread.

She was doing this on purpose!

To force Rui onto their spaceship!

Rui tugged at the corner of her mouth and chambered the gun.

She aimed at York’s head.

Pulled the trigger.

The bullet pierced York’s skull, and he collapsed, a look of relief lingering at the corner of his mouth.

Then she repeated the same for the others.

From her crimson eyes, it was clear these people were rapidly transforming into insects.

The human light in their eyes was fading; they struggled painfully.

At the moment of death, there was no resentment—only gratitude for freedom.

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“How could this be!” A shattered scream echoed through the sky. “So this was the truth? She did it to give them a quick release?”

A man knelt on the ground, clutching his head and crying hysterically, tearing his hair out.

He looked utterly broken, but no one mocked him.

Rui’s actions were the most merciful.

To die before becoming the insects they hated and abhorred was a kind of luck.

The man’s face was drenched in tears, his gaze vacant.

“But you told me yourself, you killed people! Why did you do this?”

Ruichu’s heart pounded violently as he stared fixedly at the screen.

Was his sister trying to protect him?

All these years, he had been bitter over her abandonment, still haunted by the excruciating pain when Rui disfigured him.

So, it was all a misunderstanding from his childhood?

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Throughout, the couple stood aside, smiling with satisfaction.

After dealing with the last person, Rui’s face was expressionless, as if these few shots had extinguished all her humanity.

Suddenly, a faint sound came from the door.

There, standing silently, was a child.

The child was so terrified he was frozen in place, unable to move.

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Sana gave Selvan a glance.

For the first time, beyond Rui’s line of sight, they saw the insectoid transformation.

Selvan’s human hand swiftly morphed into a scythe-like forelimb.

Rui stepped forward suddenly, blocking the boy’s view.

She was a head taller, casting the boy into shadow, her tone icy cold.

“You see now, right? I was the one who killed them.”

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“If you want to live, stay far away. Don’t tell anyone, or I will come for you.”

Rui’s cold voice from the screen overlapped with the hoarse, trembling voice of the man outside the screen.

He remembered those words for more than twenty years.

Over those years, he had nightmares every day, haunted by the devilish figure of Rui.

Sometimes, seeing her face on the StarNet program would scare him into hiding in his room.

Only now, hearing she was blown up in the insect nest, did he dare to leave the house.

All because of that sentence!

He had wasted over twenty years living like a cripple in that tiny room!

And now he was told this woman did it all to protect him?

How could he accept it?

How many times had he dreamed of being hunted by Rui?

“This woman deceived me all these years! Rui! You deserve to be targeted by the insects! You deserve to be despised by thousands! You deserve a miserable death!”

Tang Feng stepped forward and lifted the man with one hand.

Standing two meters tall, Tang Feng was a combat expert who had studied the insectoids for twenty years and fought them for ten, well aware of the terror of seeing them firsthand.

“Trash! What are you saying?”

“Have you ever seen the insects with your own eyes? Have you faced them? Do you understand how much Rui’s actions meant?”

Tang Feng’s cold voice echoed through the hall.

“They stand two meters tall, with powerful exoskeletons. They bear no resemblance to any creature you can imagine, far beyond your comprehension.”

“Of course, what I say now is but a fraction of the shock you feel when you truly face them.”

“When they stand before you, the fear floods through you like cold liquid metal, a shiver encoded in your genes.”

“You’ll suffer stomach cramps, bile rising, your throat tightening, legs feeling leaden—you won’t even have the courage to raise your weapon.”