Having the genes of a demon king, I never intended to be a kept man.

Yan Ji looked helpless.

She didn't understand whether Ye Ge was genuinely carefree or simply didn't grasp the seriousness of the situation.

"Clatter...rustle..."

Just then, a faint yet dense rustling sound, like countless tiny objects rubbing and flapping their wings, drifted in from the extremely distant horizon.

Xia Xiyao suddenly paused, her small ears twitched almost imperceptibly, and she subconsciously turned her head, her gaze fixed on the distant horizon at the edge of the forest, a hint of confusion and focus appearing in her clear eyes.

"Big Silly Yao, what's wrong?" Nangong Qiuyue asked curiously from the side.

Xia Xiyao frowned slightly and asked softly, "Did you hear... anything?"

"A sound? What sound?" Nangong Qiuyue listened intently, but apart from the sound of the wind and the faint echoes of the distant battlefield, there was nothing unusual.

Xia Xiyao remained silent for a while, her usually innocent and lovely face now showing a rare alertness and seriousness.

Danger!

And it is... an extreme, unimaginable danger!

"Hmm?" At the same time, Ye Ge seemed to have noticed something as well. He tilted his head slightly, his ears twitched, and his gaze fell in the same direction as Xia Xiyao's.

The faint rustling sound was becoming clearer and louder at an astonishing speed!

"Gararara..."

"Crunch, crunch, crunch..."

At first, it sounded like the soft rustling of wind through withered leaves...

However, it did not take long before it expanded into a bizarre harmony of billions of carapaces frantically rubbing against each other, bones twisting and squeezing, and wing membranes vibrating at high frequencies.

The sounds layered upon each other, rapidly amplifying until they soon transformed into a terrifying, overwhelming sonic wave! It sent chills down one's spine!

The soldiers of the allied forces from all races around them finally heard it too.

"What...what is that sound???"

"It sounds like insects..."

"The Zerg army is here again?!"

"But where are the enemy troops? We can't see them...!"

Some people looked warily at the surrounding forest, but did not spot any enemy troops.

"Up in the sky!" someone suddenly shouted.

The people of all races looked bewildered, instinctively raising their heads to gaze into the distance.

The next moment, the expressions on countless faces froze instantly, and all color drained from their faces!

"That...that is!??"

As far as the eye could see, the once bright sky in the distance had been completely swallowed up by an endless "blood-red wave"!

Hundreds of millions of Zerg took flight, densely packed, blotting out the sky!

They rose and spread out in an orderly fashion, like an army commanded by an invisible will. Moreover, every insectoid, regardless of size or shape, was surrounded by a dense, impenetrable layer of scarlet energy flames.

Billions of crimson rays converged, creating a vast, boundless, slowly writhing, and churning blood-red sky, carrying a chilling aura of evil, rage, and ruthlessness, dyeing half the sky an ominous dark red.

"As expected, it's the Zerg army."

"But what are these Zerg armies doing? Why are they all flying into the sky?" Nangong Qiuyue asked curiously.

Arthur said, "And why is the soul power on each of these insectoids blood red?"

"That's not the color of their own soul power."

Ye Ge's calm voice rang out. He looked up at the ever-expanding blood-red sky, his eyes reflecting the eerie crimson of the horizon, and slowly said, "That blood color is the color of their burning essence."

"what???"

Everyone was stunned.

Ye Ge gazed at the horizon, a strange glint in his eyes.

No way......

The Zerg... are they planning to go all out against them?

Nangong Ru frowned slightly: "So many insectoids... all burning their life essence at the same time?? What are they trying to do??"

Ye Ge was silent for a while, then slowly said, "It seems they really want to keep us all here."

Nangong Ru: "...What do you mean?"

"Blood Sacrifice Nest Annihilation Array," Night Song replied. "An ancient secret technique of the Zerg, an absolute forbidden art that requires the sacrifice of the entire Zerg kingdom to perish together with the enemy. To activate this forbidden art, at least three Queen Mother Zerg and a hundred trillion Zerg soldiers must be sacrificed. It is usually only activated when the Zerg are facing a life-or-death situation."

"!?!" Nangong Qiuyue was stunned, almost biting her tongue: "How much? A hundred billion???"

Ye Ge looked up at the sky, where six different insectoids were converging in the blood-red sky: "It seems that the six queen mother insects in the underground insect nest of the blood-red plain, including one of the golden queen mother insects, have all become sacrifices to activate the Blood Sacrifice Nest Binding Array."

"The sacrificial Empress Dowager Insects start from three. For each additional Empress Dowager Insect sacrificed, the power of the great formation will increase tenfold."

"If one of them is the Golden Queen Mother Insect, its power will be increased a hundredfold."

"!!!" Everyone around gasped in shock.

"Then...then..." Xia Xiyao counted on her fingers: "Those six Empress Dowager Mother Worms, how many times does their power increase?"

Nangong Qiuyue: "It's one hundred and twenty times."

Ye Ge glanced at her and corrected her, "No, it's ten thousand times. The increase is double the original amount, which was already doubled."

Nangong Qiuyue: "???!??"

"One...ten thousand times!?!"

“Yes,” Ye Ge said, “In the mortal realm, there is probably no being that can survive within the range of such a powerful array.”

Its power is probably far, far more terrifying than the nuclear bombs of my previous life...

Once this formation is truly activated... at that point, the entire Crimson Plain will likely cease to exist...

The people of all races around were stunned when they heard this.

“I have heard of the ‘Blood Sacrifice Nest Annihilation Array’,” Ye Bing said, frowning slightly. “But you just said that’s a forbidden technique that the Zerg would only use to perish together with the enemy when they were about to be wiped out.”

One hundred trillion Zerg soldiers, six Queen Mothers, including a Golden Queen Mother...

Moreover, if those Queen Mothers die in this way, all the Zerg creatures bred by the Golden Queen Mothers, as long as they have a soul connection with them, will die instantly, no matter where they are in the world!

Does this mean the Zerg are doomed after this war between all races is over?

Nangong Ru pondered: "Now that the main force of the Alliance of Ten Thousand Races is all in the Crimson Plains, this is indeed the best opportunity for Gene Company and the Extreme Yin Cult to win this war... Could it be that they want to sacrifice one Zerg to replace the entire Alliance of Ten Thousand Races?"

Yan Ji snorted coldly and said, "How could that be? Even if the Zerg Empress, Dream Butterfly, is a member of the Gene Company's board of directors, she must have her own selfish motives. How could she be willing to sacrifice her Zerg?"

“However, all six Empress Dowager Mother Insects have been activated.” Su Yanling said, “Among the Insect race, apart from the Empress, no one has the authority to give orders to the Empress Dowager Mother Insects. This means that the order was indeed given by Huanmeng.”

Su Yanling lowered her head in thought, completely unable to understand: "What is this Zerg Empress thinking? How could she issue such an order... Is she doing this simply to show loyalty to the company and to Sima Qing?"

Ye Ge remained silent.

This is obviously impossible.

There is absolutely no way Huanmeng would go to such lengths for the company.

In that case... unless...