thefictionvixens Chapter 59: Thanks to our interstellar friends for their voluntary free gift of the Star Destroyer.
Chapter 59: Thanks to our interstellar friends for their voluntary free gift of the Star Destroyer.
The galaxy before my eyes has transformed into a bizarre insect hive.
As far as the eye can see, endless swarms of insects cover the planet's surface and traverse the asteroid belt, devouring everything visible—rocks, metals, and remnants of civilization.
What made Qingyuan frown even more was that, in her perception, all the remaining life signals in this star field had their soul fluctuations distorted to be no different from those of these insects, as if they had been assimilated by some kind of force.
The swarm of insects quickly discovered her as an "outlier".
They converged like a tide, surrounding her completely. Their compound eyes gleamed with greed and instinct, yet strangely, they did not attack immediately. Instead, they fluttered restlessly, as if...observing?
Qingyuan tilted her head and thought about her "setting" in this world. Then, a wisp of pure "breeding" destiny power flowed from her fingertips, like a silent command.
In an instant, the swarm of insects calmed down. They became unusually docile, even displaying a kind of bewildered "obedience".
They're so obedient, they're incredibly obedient.
A sense of joy, as if she had rid the world of a scourge, welled up in Qing Yuan's heart.
She casually conjured a shimmering baton with her energy and cleared her throat.
"Come on, children, line up." She waved her baton gently.
The swarm of insects, like a well-trained orchestra, began to dance clumsily yet in perfect unison to the rhythm of her baton.
"Very good, next program—'Moths to a Flame'!" The conductor's baton pointed to the burning star in the center of the galaxy.
The swarm immediately changed formation, each group maintaining a dancing posture, orderly and like a pilgrim, accelerating towards the scorching sun, turning into brief streaks of light at the moment of contact.
Just as Qingyuan was having a great time, feeling like she was a cosmic-level environmental pioneer and a genius artist—
Swish!
A massive, high-energy capture net shot out from the shadows without warning, precisely enveloping her!
The network cable flashed a dangerous blue light, containing enough energy to imprison a small warship.
Qingyuan looked down at the net covering her body, then looked up at the crudely designed spaceship that had quietly appeared in the distance, and blinked.
The strength of this net... for her, it was probably about the same as a spider web trapping Godzilla, purely comical.
But she didn't break free immediately. Lately, she's been playing with the sun or bugs all the time, and she's getting a little tired of it.
This ship seems to be the first "living people" she has encountered since coming into this world?
"Interesting..." She smiled slightly.
With a thought, light and shadow swirled around her, and a tiny, chibi-style "Azure Kite" split off from the tip of her hair, silently slipping into the interior of the spaceship.
Inside the spaceship cabin, several people dressed in white coats were staring at the monitor screen, which displayed the trapped Qingyuan.
"There's no mistake! The way she commanded the swarm just now was just like the Queen of the Swarm commanding her own limbs!"
She is absolutely a rare, perfectly anthropomorphic "Queen Insect"!
A one-eyed doctor growled excitedly.
"But...Master, she clearly looks like a human, and her energy readings are strange. What if she's not a Queen Worm..." a slightly timid voice questioned.
"Isn't that even more valuable?!" The one-eyed instructor slapped the student on the head. "Who cares what she is!"
Creatures capable of commanding swarms of insects are absolutely priceless on the black market!
"Catch them and they'll fetch an astronomical price!"
Upon hearing this, the chibi version of Qingyuan, who was hiding in the shadows, immediately fell down, her cheeks puffing out in anger.
The chibi version of Qingyuan is unhappy!
Very serious consequences!
Her petite figure flashed and merged into the spaceship's data stream, quickly reviewing the past and thought fragments of all the crew members from the perspective of "memory".
The result was regrettable—they committed arson, murder, looting, and human trafficking, and their souls were filled with black mud; not one of them deserved the title of "good person."
Especially the students, who are exploited like cattle and horses, yet they don't run away?
……
Outside, the "performance" next to the stars continues.
The swarm of insects continued to line up, resolutely throwing themselves into the star.
However, there was a slight difference from before—hundreds of exceptionally strong insects were now "hanging" on the churning solar prominences on the star's surface.
Each insect tightly "hugs" a crew member "invited" from the spaceship with its arthropods, allowing them to experience a cosmic "sunbath" in the most "intimate" way.
"The power of fate is truly amazing! It's amazing that I can still 'live' even after all this."
Qingyuan sighed sincerely in space, as if she were admiring some interesting scientific experiment.
We've had enough fun; it's time to get down to business.
Qingyuan raised her hand and summoned the mercenary ship to her uncontrollably. At the same time, she also summoned all sorts of insect swarms to become her materials.
Her fingertips shimmered with light, and the power of imaginary numbers and destiny seeped into every part of the spaceship, carrying out incredible modifications and upgrades.
Before long, a small ship with smoother lines and a faint blue glow, which she named "Blue Kite", was completed.
The warp drive is activated, target—
First stop: the nearest interstellar black market.
The masked Qingyuan "politely" borrowed (or rather, had the black market merchants "voluntarily donate") a large amount of rare materials to further upgrade her "Qingyuan".
Before leaving, they also "unexpectedly" received a mountain of enthusiastic "gifts" from "kind people" - mainly credit points.
Second stop: Company headquarters, Pierpoint.
She remained masked and found the aloof "Diamond" gentleman as if he were in an empty house.
After a brief and "friendly" sparring session (with Diamond getting beaten up unilaterally), Qingyuan regretfully discovered that her main target—Oswaldo Schneider—was not there.
"What a pity." She shrugged and casually tossed the diamond back into his luxurious but now messy office.
Finally, she brought a group of poor people who had been trafficked or coerced, whom she had casually "rescued" from the black market (mainly because she felt they would take up too much space on the spaceship), to Pierpint.
"Please help settle these people in."
She said this to the stunned company employees who rushed over upon hearing the news.
As for whether the company will hold a grudge against them?
"Then it's not my problem."
Qingyuan tilted her head and thought, "I've already been very, very friendly by not leaving them and those black market merchants on the surface of the star to 'sunbathe,' haven't I?"
At the company, the newly upgraded and revitalized "Azure Kite" transformed into a streak of azure light and disappeared into the depths of the starry sky.
Only a group of company employees were left staring at each other in bewilderment.
Next stop, Black Tower Space Station, waiting for the Star Train!