Chapter 508: Chapter 508

A thunderous roar descended, shattering the front window of the fighter jet. The glass-like objects made of special metal came crashing down like a storm, stabbing at the four people inside the cabin.

At the same time, Qiao crouched at the front of the fighter jet, its long tail rising. It slowly lifted its head, with eyes indifferent in the shadows, yet glinting with a menacing golden light.

At that moment, Gu Qiye’s pupils slightly contracted. The black lightning turned into a thick substance merging into his blood, racing through his veins like wild horses, then transforming back into violent arcs of electricity, stimulating every nerve and bone in his body.

A fierce surge of heat flowed through his body, and instinctively he sprang up from his seat. His dark eyes fixed on the near-at-hand Great Bee Lord "Qiao", as a burst of black lightning suddenly erupted in his palm.

He lowered his body, lunged forward, raised his hand, forming a hand blade. Black electricity extended from his hand, turning into a sharp knife, then stabbed towards Qiao’s chest!

Qiao flinched slightly, seemingly not expecting a human to have such reaction speed. In its pupils reflected the fierce lightning and Gu Qiye’s cold, chilling face.

The next second, sharp fragments of the front window grazed Gu Qiye’s face, leaving a hideous wound from which blood trickled down. His right hand was already inches away from Qiao’s chest.

In that fleeting 0.1 second, Qiao finally came to its senses. Its expression sank as it swiftly raised its right hand. Five claws curled, pressing against its chest, then met the sharp black lightning.

With a "crack" that resounded, the layer of dark exoskeleton covering its hand shattered! Qiao’s hand was pierced through, but suddenly it grinned.

"So tough, is the body of the Light-Eating Bee race always this hard?" This was the first thought that came to Gu Qiye’s mind. His lightning hand blade had pierced Qiao’s hand but could go no further, only stopping just short of Qiao’s chest.

He had thought at such a close distance, this strike would be enough to penetrate Qiao’s chest and crush the heart of this humanoid creature. But he failed.

At this moment, Gu Qiye looked up, suddenly startled. On Qiao’s face, he saw a hint of frenzy and an expression of eager interest, as if... it was enjoying and relishing the moment.

This expression was like a child placing two beetles in a box, letting them fight each other, then resting their chin on their hands, watching curiously and happily at the edge of the box.

It was a condescending gaze, arrogant, leisurely... and dismissive. Tʜe source of this ᴄontent ɪs 𝗻𝗼𝘷𝗲𝗹•𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮•𝕟𝕖𝕥

"Do you consider yourself superior..." Gu Qiye frowned, noticing that Qiao’s other hand was already reaching for his heart. Thus, while pulling his left hand free from Qiao’s hand, he raised his left hand.

Black lightning gathered in his palm, instantly condensing into a perfect, tiny sphere.

To force Qiao back, he used his index and middle fingers to flick the black sphere forward. The ball, surrounded by countless tiny arcs of lightning, shot forward, aimed directly at Qiao’s chest—Gu Qiye’s target remained to destroy its heart!

Qiao retracted its pierced right hand, arms crossing at its chest, forming a fortress with its hard exoskeleton. As the electric ball approached and made contact, it shrunk to a nearly imperceptible size, then erupted wildly.

"Boom——!" Black lightning stormed out from within, creating a curtain that tore through Qiao’s exoskeleton, consuming its flesh and blood.

In the blink of an eye, Qiao’s two arms were cut down to half, emitting white smoke, yet the smile at the corner of its mouth grew brighter.

At this moment, Gu Qiye suddenly realized something was wrong, feeling like some strange liquid was flowing inside his body. Almost instantly, it surged through his entire body!

His pupils contracted, suddenly discovering his body was immobilized. No matter how his nerves trembled or how desperately he sought feedback from his body, it was still as if dead, unresponsive.

"Poison? Is this Bee Lord’s superpower spreading toxins that rob people of mobility the moment contact is made?" Gu Qiye thought sharply.

Qiao’s broken hands reached for him, as if to embrace. Gu Qiye’s body still couldn’t move, maintaining a forward-leaning posture, teetering in mid-air, seemingly about to fall toward Qiao.

In the blink of an eye, the entire exchange lasted only 0.5 seconds.

Inside the cabin, the metal rain formed by the broken front window barely grazed Gu Qiye’s body, pouring towards the three people behind him.

"Arrogant beast, coming here alone?" Oda Ehgo’s brows furrowed, drawing his tachi. The black long blade swept through the air, a flash of blade light obliterating all the fragments.

Garfield sighed, kicking the control panel, sending his body flying backward, landing at the back of the cabin to distance himself from Qiao.

During this, he picked up a walkie-talkie and shouted, "Hurry up and take us back, Ditto."

You Ruirui sat quietly at the back, raising her ice-blue eyes, expressionless.

Her gaze was fixed unmovingly on Gu Qiye and Qiao, as if only those two existed in the world. Because if she didn’t concentrate, with her dynamic visual ability, she might not keep up with Qiao and Gu Qiye’s actions.

You Ruirui knew, at this distance, releasing her superpower suddenly in such a confined space would most likely lead to collateral damage to everyone in the cabin, outweighing the gains. So, she had been waiting for an opportunity to strike.

She watched Gu Qiye’s hand blade pierce through Qiao’s right hand, watched as Gu Qiye’s left hand released an electric ball, Qiao’s arms crossing to block the electric light with dual layers of exoskeleton.

But then, an inexplicable scene unfolded before You Ruirui’s eyes—Gu Qiye suddenly froze, just like a puppet with its strings cut, his body leaning forward, falling toward Qiao.

Qiao spread its blood-soaked arms wide, as if to embrace Gu Qiye, or maybe intending to crush his body altogether, which was an easy feat for it.

"Is he... controlled by the enemy’s power?" As this thought flashed in You Ruirui’s mind, the surrounding ice dust suddenly solidified, layering upon each other to encase Qiao’s inner arms, preventing it from moving further.

Through Qiao’s wounds, the ice dust then seeped into its blood vessels, running along them as if intending to freeze all its blood! In this way, even a Light-Eating Bee would become no different from a vegetative state.

The moment Qiao came to, before the blood vessels in its legs could freeze, it stomped fiercely on the front end of the fighter jet, creating a web-like dent, and plummeted straight down from a kilometer above, toward the brightly lit hive.

The Bee Prince "Cameron" unfolded gigantic wings made of gathered bird feathers, shooting up into the sky in an instant to catch the falling Qiao.

She licked her lips, looking up at the wobbling fighter jet.

In that second, all the Light-Eating Bees that had been absorbing sunlight reacted simultaneously, the deafening buzz of their wings resonating, as they all unfolded the pair of thin wings on their backs! They flapped their wings, flying towards the fighter jet in the sky.

With the Bees no longer absorbing sunlight, the sun’s rays could now pour over this perpetually shadowed Deserted Island.

Sunlight bathed the island, allowing the four people on the fighter jet to clearly see the island’s scenery.

They watched the midsummer island as thousands of Light-Eating Bees, like wild dogs spotting prey, spread their wings, stirred their wings, stomped the ground, and then took off one by one, chaotically rushing towards the fighter jet! The sheer number and chaotic disorder of them twisted into a golden tornado, sweeping up into the sky.

The overpowering buzz of the bee wings covered everything, the massive noise blanketing the world as if a real tornado had appeared on the island, howling wildly.

In the sky at this moment, Oda Ehgo stood at the front of the fighter jet, holding a black tachi, his black kimono billowing fiercely in the wind.

He frowned, staring at the innumerable swarm of bees, and looked through the gaps towards the hive; the remaining three Great Bee Lords remained unmoved, seemingly believing the intruders would be devoured by the Light-Eating Bees without needing to intervene.

"Arrogant insects..."

Oda Ehgo stood straight, his pale hair fluttering in the wind. He swung the tachi, drawing a slow black circle in the sky.

In the next moment, a black void appeared directly above the fighter jet, the surrounding air suddenly contracting inward, and the enormous suction pulling in the sweeping Light-Eating Bees, as well as the fighter jet, into itself, then the black opening closed.

A total of over a hundred Light-Eating Bees were swallowed into the void, leaving the remaining ones to hover dumbfounded in mid-air.

And just seconds before, at the moment Oda Ehgo drew a black void with the tachi, the diamond-shaped marks on Rainbow Wings’ wrists burst into a deep blue glow simultaneously—Urushibara Ryuri activated her superpower, transporting them back to the island’s edge kilometers away, leaving the fighter jet empty.

At the entrance of the hive at this moment, the Four Great Bee Lords raised their heads, quietly watching the scene in the sky.

"A power user of the Space Series." Cameron licked her lips, watching the black void slowly disappear, "Can he create spatial rifts by wielding a sword?"

Qiao slowly sat up, "That white-haired human woman used ice, she briefly froze my blood..."

As he spoke, he clenched his claws, observing the healing wound, "But the one using electricity was more dangerous, his speed outmatched even mine. Unfortunately... I paralyzed his body with neurotoxins, but didn’t get a chance to kill him."

"To think there are humans faster than you, this species is truly diverse," Cameron remarked.

"Malvite, you bastard..." Guli fumed, speaking to the Four Bee Lords, "Bullying me because I don’t have wings, yet you won’t take me into battle."

Malvite shrugged, "I just thought by the time I bring you over to that plane, those people would either have run away or been dealt with by Qiao."

"What did you say..." Guli’s muscles bulged, the giant hammer embedded in his tail swung upwards.

"Blame yourself for not having wings." Malvite scratched his ear, "Qiao, Cameron, our enemies are very strong... If I’m not mistaken, there’s an organization in human memory that matches their abilities."

"What organization?" Cameron turned her head, her ocean-blue eyes curiously gazing at him.

"Rainbow Wings, huh..."

Qiao searched his memory, the Light-Eating Bees could inherit memories from devoured humans, so naturally, he knew this renowned name in the human world.

"Yes, Rainbow Wings." Malvite nodded, "There are twelve of them in total, and if they’re coming for us, we need to prepare; next time... there won’t be just a few."

Qiao looked down at his fully healed arms, the exoskeleton covering them once more.

Expressionless, he turned and walked toward the hive’s interior, his figure gradually swallowed by the shadows at the end.