Chapter Twenty-Three: Piercing the Heart

Gendina was now standing at the edge of the hole, unable to do anything while Jessica was lifted up and shocked. When the worm tossed Jessica aside and noticed her little girl, she tried to walk backwards, but when her foot stepped on the edge of the hole, she had to stop. "Wait, I surrender. Zhendina raised her hands, looking like she wouldn't resist, "You should be able to understand what I'm saying, why don't you look like you don't understand!"

The wormman held his staff and walked over to this side. Presumably judging that Zhendina didn't have any ability to fight, it didn't seem to be in a hurry right now, and it didn't scream. This kind of insect can't make Zhendina feel at ease, and its appearance doesn't mean that it's friendly now, and it may also mean that it thinks that Zhendina is not a threatening enemy, but a trophy. And this possibility is almost certain.

As the insect got closer and closer, it shook its cane, and the space began to move again. The anomaly does not come from the ground, but from the air. The strange moths that Jessica easily disposed of gathered on the side of the insect people, and the number of them increased. Not only that, but the black larvae everywhere on the ground are also approaching this side, as if they are listening to the command of the insect man, and the target is Zhendina.

Zhendina stomped and kicked a few larvae that were already at her feet—it looked like the larvae of the giant worm burrowing in the ground, for sure—as more and more larvae approached. If these things were just one or two, there was no threat, but if there were more and more of them in front of her, and they were about to turn into a wave, Zhendina didn't feel that she could step on them with her feet. It's not just the threat on the ground, in the air, the monster moths with their sharp claws, flapping their misshapen wings, are approaching this side, and there are only a lot more than Jessica had just dealt with. The crisis in front of him is no different from what he just now, but there is a big difference between Zhendina and Jessica. Zhendina didn't think she could clean up the disgusting bugs in front of her like this knight lady, and then drive the disgusting bug away, save her, and find a way to find Junia......

These tasks should not be true to Dina, nor can she be able to do them, and her biggest problem now is that she can't even guarantee her own survival.

The wormman emitted an orderly sequence of syllables instead of screaming. When Zhendina heard its voice, her body stiffened, and a wry smile appeared on her face, "Let me go, I'm just a burden who has no ability to resist at all, why can't I be arrested as a trophy, but become food for these bugs......"

Zhendina could understand what the worm was saying, just now because of the urgency of the situation, she didn't have a chance to say this to Junia and Jessica - but she thought that even if she said it, it didn't make sense, the other party did appear with malicious intent and murderous intent, and there was no possibility of communication.

Now, Jessica fell unconscious, and because she was still valuable to the Bugmen, she was not killed right away. But if you really want to be treated, it seems that she will have a different treatment. Covered in the sheer number of larvae and moths around her, she didn't think she could have a whole corpse left...... Or rather, it's no longer a question of whether you look good or not, but how painful it is. Being slowly gnawed, bitten, and sucked by these insects is definitely the worst way to die.

After confirming that the other party didn't want her to live, Zhendina ran. She stepped on the larva under her feet, covered her head with her hands, and ran in the opposite direction of the wormman, but her struggle did not last long before she fell to the ground...... Because the bugs are getting denser and denser. Zhendina fell to the ground, her hand pressed against something hard, not the carapace of a larvae, but a skull. It doesn't seem to be the only insect man here, but also the appearance of this thing as a companion - if the owner of this bone hadn't died with the pain of being eaten away, it would indeed be a good companion for the insect people. But Gendina didn't want to be a companion to these people, she didn't want to die here, and she didn't want to be the company of this disgusting bug-man.

If the dead old woman who brought them to this place was still there...... But Zhendina knows very well the character of that person, and will definitely not jump out at such a time and save the situation. She probably just didn't know where to go, watching it all unfold and let out a disgusting laugh.

Thinking of Lulunaka's smiling face, a fire rose in Zhendina's heart. "It seems to be a dead end now, if you don't struggle a little more, you will probably even be gnawed clean of the bones!" she trampled through the swarm of insects that were already approaching, and reached out to drive away the strange moths that kept coming down from her head. The bugs had already taken her as food, and they were the kind of prey they had to play with before swallowing her. Obviously it's just a bug, but it has the habits of a fierce beast, which makes the anger in Zhendina's heart burn more and more.

She broke through the swarm of insects that had already gathered enough, leaned her back against a broken wall, and watched as the insects continued to approach. She took an awl from her bosom, aimed it at her heart, and poked it gently. She wasn't looking for death, the tip of the awl pressed against her heart through the fabric, which made her a little nervous. Although she didn't poke it, but this time, it was destined to be inserted, but the position couldn't deviate too much, but she couldn't delay because she was too attached to the position, and the insects in front of her wouldn't wait for her to be ready to move.

The awl moved a few points around her heart, and she took a deep breath as it felt like it was pressed into the right place. "It's going to hurt, remember me, you piece of!" her eyes were bloodshot, staring at the worm who was already standing there and no longer moving forward.

Zhendina closed her eyes, her hand straining, and the awl slowly inserted into the place where her heart was, and the sound of the awl cutting through the flesh rang in her ears, but she couldn't hear it anymore—the pain of the heart made her scream.

Then, the swarms flooded the Gendina.

The insects watched as the bugs drowned the Zhendina, and the rattling sounds of the larvae and the moths sounded like they were enjoying a meal......

Then, the gathered swarm of insects appeared in the cracks. The crimson flames burned the swarm to the ground, and the wind of the flames blew in all directions, blowing away the remains of the larvae and moths, and carrying away the insects that were lucky not to be burned to death. The insects, which were still moving, were blown by the strong wind in the air, ignited again, and finally turned into the debris with the light of the fire, and fell to the ground.

The existence that burned the swarm to the ground no longer seems to be able to be called a true Dina. Standing in the original position of Zhendina was a ...... with a slender body Woman, if that can be called a woman, or gendered. The woman standing there, her skin chapped, revealing a series of red marks. On those tattoo-like marks, there are blood vessels beating and blood flowing inside, if that can be called blood. The direction of the blood vessels in her body is revealed on the surface of her body, and those blood vessels of different thicknesses are pulsating, which can make people clearly feel the performance of life in her, but this appearance is really undaring to look at it directly. Her face was no longer visible because of the dense blood vessels, and it looked like she was wearing a densely textured mask, and her hair, fluttering behind her, with a red glow, looked like blood vessels extending out of her body. Her slender limbs were no longer in the proportions of a human being, and her hands and feet were something else entirely. The fingers turned into sharp curved blades, dripping with blood-red liquid, and the soles of their feet were more like a hooked claw, gripping the ground tightly like the claws of a vulture.

The creature has a more prominent place, where her chest, her heart, is. There was a round sphere, and the large blood vessels that were supposed to be attached to the heart were inserted into the sphere, and they were beating violently, and the sphere was motionless, just shining brightly, and there were blood vessels that carried the liquid inside to the whole body.

The female creature with a slender, deformed body had no name, but at the time of her transformation, her name was Zhendina.