Chapter 335: Tactical Base Swap (Part 2)

The girl Aoi spent the entire day secluded in her weapon workshop, secretly debugging the Brilliant Light Mecha. A cup of tea, a blueprint, and she would sit for a whole day.

But today, it was different.

Outside the iron gate of the weapon workshop, a frantic knocking suddenly sounded.

“They’re here?” The girl Aoi was slightly taken aback, feeling both puzzled and a little happy. Could it be that they’ve returned?

She immediately activated her Mana Wheelchair and went to open the door.

However, as soon as the door opened, the person standing outside was not who she had hoped for.

It was an old guard from the Radiant Light Guild, an A-Rank Adventurer, powerful and formidable.

But at this moment, he was drenched in sweat, his expression grim.

“What happened? I can help too,” the girl Aoi asked.

“No!” the old guard immediately cut her off. “The Vice President gave strict orders before leaving to ensure your protection!”

“You must hide immediately, lock the door, and don’t open it for anyone, no matter who knocks!”

After saying that, he directly slammed the iron gate shut.

He even locked it from the outside.

The girl Aoi was stunned.

What on earth had happened to warrant locking her up?

Her weapon workshop was one of the most solidly built structures in the Radiant Light Guild, constructed like an iron-clad warehouse.

Inside, it stored a large number of precious weapons, ores, and ancient forging equipment.

But closing the door couldn’t stop her from seeing.

As a representative figure of black technology, such an obstacle was nothing.

She drove her Mana Wheelchair to a concealed workbench.

Activated a mechanism.

The wall clicked open, ejecting a hidden telescope.

This telescope was connected to another observation device on the roof.

The girl Aoi leaned in, and the scene outside was now fully visible.

The camp was in complete chaos.

A large number of middle-aged and elderly adventurers were gathering, forming temporary combat squads.

Everyone was heading towards the main gate.

The girl Aoi quickly adjusted the lens, looking towards the main gate.

“What is that?”

It would have been better not to look. Once she looked, her entire body instantly froze.

Outside the gates of Large Base No. 20, a massive something was hanging down from the sky.

From here, it looked like a rope, but that was just a visual illusion.

Its true size was probably even larger than a dragon.

The dangling end was continuously dropping things towards the ground.

Too far away to see clearly at first, but soon the girl Aoi saw it clearly.

It was insects.

A large number of insect people descending from the sky, just like falling rain.

Densely packed.

Cockroach wings, mantis blade-arms, pincer mouthparts.

Abyss Insects.

The camp instantly descended into greater chaos.

The teams originally heading for the city gate were forced to turn back, attacked from both front and rear.

Utterly chaotic.

But when the enemy could airdrop directly into the camp interior, all defenses had already lost their meaning.

The Abyss Insects landed directly inside the city, engaging in bloody slaughter with the adventurers.

No city walls. No defensive positions.

The defenders were instantly at a disadvantage.

The command system collapsed. Supplies were destroyed.

Each squad could only fight on its own.

Even self-preservation was difficult.

Gritting her teeth, the girl Aoi turned the lens towards the sky.

The next second, she almost fell from her wheelchair.

“Ah…”

It was a centipede of incomprehensible enormity.

Tens of meters in diameter.

Its entire body covered in thick exoskeleton.

Countless centipede legs frantically wriggling.

Just one look was enough to shatter one’s mind.

“That rope is its tail?”

If that were true, then the length of its body was unimaginable.

And this giant centipede was continuously spewing insect people from its mouth.

Even the massive overlord-level insect tribe was being directly deployed onto the battlefield.

In an instant, Camp No. 20 turned into hell.

Screams rose and fell incessantly.

Insects were everywhere.

Indescribable horrors were everywhere.

“The otherworld game of make-believe is over,” the girl Aoi murmured.

What was even more terrifying was that after these insects ate their fill, they would lay eggs within the camp.

Soon, a new batch of insects would be born.

As long as there was food, they could expand infinitely.

Before, they had been brutally slaughtered by the Radiant Squad.

But now, they had entered their home ground.

Here was their feast.

“Urgh…”

The girl Aoi couldn’t hold back any longer.

She fell from her wheelchair, vomiting all over the floor.

But soon, it was her turn.

Outside the weapon workshop, dense crawling sounds could be heard.

Insects had already surrounded the place.

The iron door was being struck repeatedly.

That sound was like a death knell.

She remembered those words, don’t open the door for anyone.

But now, the door was no longer under her control.

The girl Aoi scrambled up, climbed back onto her Mana Wheelchair, and began racing at full speed towards the underground level.

“I can’t die…”

“I can’t die yet…”

She still had one last trump card.

BOOM!!!

Just as she reached the first floor, the iron door was instantly pierced by two enormous mantis blades.

The monsters outside frantically tore at the door.

And at that very moment, the Mana Wheelchair was jolted and overturned during a sharp turn.

The girl Aoi fell heavily to the ground.

Her forehead was gashed. Blood flowed freely.

Her head swam with dizziness.

But she dared not faint.

Once she fainted, she would never wake up again.

She might even be eaten alive while conscious.

She could only crawl on the ground, little by little, crawling towards the final weapon.

CRASH!

The iron door was completely torn apart.

The girl Aoi looked back.

Her heart turned utterly cold.

A massive insect tribe overlord, like an earth dragon, slowly crawled into the weapon workshop.

Gritting her teeth, she continued crawling forward.

And just then, fate seemed to favor her for a moment.

This overlord was not responsible for reproduction.

Its appetite wasn’t as strong as that of ordinary insect tribe members.

It glanced at the girl Aoi, judging she was just a harmless weakling.

Therefore, it did not attack immediately.