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Chapter 176 Filial Son x Brain Surgery
Chapter 176 Filial Son x Brain Surgery
Because of Su Wu's words, the ants present were a little... hesitant to take her to the queen's cave, fearing that she might actually kidnap the queen and keep her as a pet.
But the Queen's current condition... if we don't take people back to treat her, she'll die again.
Which is more unacceptable to ants: becoming a pet for humans or dying? This is a very difficult question.
"Take me there quickly..." Su Wu urged, her enthusiasm evident, even more eager than the other ants to rescue the queen.
"...Please...please follow us." The ants looked at each other, and the last ant stepped forward to lead the way.
They now appear weak, pitiful, and helpless, a stark contrast to their earlier performance of leading an army of ants to capture people.
It's like going from a dangerous monster to a domesticated pet.
This must be the legendary situation where someone becomes ten times stronger after turning evil, and three times weaker after turning good.
Of course, it's also possible that the stronger ones ran away long ago, leaving only these weaklings who, while not strong, are loyal to the Queen.
Compared to the palace the ant king found, the cave where the queen lived was as rudimentary as the cave dwellings of the Upper Cave Man era.
It was dark and narrow, yet interconnected.
Ants are also very good at digging holes and building nests.
Queen Chimera lay on an earthen bed, her life sustained by rudimentary medical equipment.
She didn't look human at all; she was more like a giant ant. Below her abdomen was a large, unhealed hole, through which you could clearly see her messy internal organs.
It looks a bit awful, and even a little ugly.
They look like cannon fodder characters who will die shortly after being released.
However, the fake queen from Meteor City, although quite beautiful, died rather quickly.
You can't judge a book by its cover.
"Can this guy... still have children?" Su Wu asked after examining him for a while.
Logically, there should be many eggs laid by the queen in her nest, but the number of ants seems to have not increased for a long time. They are being killed in batches and are becoming fewer and fewer.
Is the Queen infertile? If she's ugly and can't have children, then she doesn't even deserve to be a pet.
Why would he keep such a useless pet? At least it's good-looking, and it's not embarrassing to take it out.
"It's no longer possible," Alice said, stroking the lamb's ears as it bleated in her arms.
That's why the older brother took back the portion that had been given away; the infertile Chimera Queen was no longer of interest for observation.
At first, they just wanted to see if the Queen could change anything, but the result was somewhat disappointing.
"...Tsk." Su Wu immediately lost interest in the queen on the hospital bed.
Without hesitation, he crossed the other person off his list of potential pets. Incidentally, the siblings Amy and Alice were also on his pet list.
"You don't want to save her," Aimei said, looking at the impatient boy.
"I'm not a doctor, I can't save you. Let's wait for the doctor to come." Su Wu waved her hand.
Although, judging from what he saw, it was uncertain whether the Queen would even be able to wait for the doctor to arrive, this guy... was definitely going to die.
A wound torn from the inside, tsk.
Who entered the Queen's body and then tore her apart?
"So why was the wound torn from the inside?" Su Wu asked curiously.
"It happened when the King Ant was born. The King Ant, who couldn't wait to be born, tore open the Queen's abdomen and was born prematurely." Alice described the plot she had seen before in an objective tone, just like a viewer.
"Ah..." Su Wu hesitated, wanting to say something but stopping herself.
Aren't ants oviparous? If they hatch, they shouldn't harm the mother, right? Does this mean all other ants are oviparous, and only the queen ant is viviparous?
Is this also the reason why the Queen lost her fertility?
Without the queen giving birth to soldier ants to build an army, this battle would be impossible to win.
The Ant King, what a filial son! A human spy planted among the ants? Why has Your Majesty rebelled?
"Hahaha..." Su Wu laughed.
The ants standing nearby dared not speak, even though they felt that it was immoral and impolite for the other party to laugh loudly at this moment.
"Hmm?" Su Wu suddenly looked at the Queen.
Beneath her, a black hole silently appeared and slowly expanded, and then in an instant, the queen fell in and disappeared before everyone's eyes.
"Queen!" "Queen—" "Someone is attacking!" Several tiny ants were extremely anxious, jumping up and down as if they were standing on a fire.
"They've just been taken to the humans, what's the rush? Didn't you ask the humans for help?" Su Wu retorted.
Only ignorant people would make a fuss over nothing.
"I'm leaving. Oh, and remember not to go back. If you really can't, just stay with Maro and the others for now." Su Wu said this to Kate beside her before disappearing into the cave.
If we don't leave, are we just supposed to stay here and stare at these ants?
Amy and Alice exchanged a glance, held hands, and stepped back, their bodies passing directly through the wall behind them and disappearing.
Kate glanced at the ants still standing there, leaderless, and then left the cave.
There's no need to kill them.
"Brother, where are we going next?" Aimei and Aili appeared in the open space.
"Go find the Ant King." Aimei looked in the direction of the palace.
What happens to the Chimera Ants next depends on what the King Ant does.
The two headed towards the palace where the Ant King was located, as if they were being tracked by some kind of radar, following the same paths the Ant King had taken.
The soldiers controlled by Neferpitou did not need to rest, and the ants themselves were very efficient at building nests. In just a few hours, the originally damaged palace had been almost completely repaired.
Their target, the Ant King, was sitting on his throne reading a book.
The siblings suddenly appeared in a corner of the palace, drawing the attention of Neferpitou and the Ant King.
"What are you doing here?" the Ant King asked, looking at the two figures that had suddenly appeared.
He knew of their existence while he was inside the Queen's body, and they often stared at him with strange, dangerous eyes before he was even born.
It seems like he's about to personally dig him out at any moment.
The Ant King couldn't understand why the one who gave birth to him would allow these two things to stay by his side.
It was because of their presence and their gaze that the Ant King could no longer bear it and ran out on his own, becoming a premature baby.
He had originally planned to kill those two guys the moment he was born.
But his plan failed; no matter if their heads were blown off or their limbs were broken, these two guys could regenerate.
Even if he eats the other person's body, the part that belongs to the other person's body will come out of his body on its own as if it has a consciousness.
It cannot be swallowed, digested, or killed.
It's a strange thing that's practically unsolvable.
"...The Queen is dead, and we have nowhere to go," Amy stated succinctly.
The queen, who was still clinging to life, was described as dead in their mouths.
"To die now? That's rather unexpected." The Ant King showed no grief over the death of his mother, who in a sense was dying; his words were merely tinged with amusement.
"But you are not welcome here," he said to the two siblings.
These two guys wouldn't fight him, they just kept getting beaten up, but they just wouldn't die. They also tasted terrible, he'd never eaten anything so bad in his memory. They were indigestible and couldn't provide him with any nutrition. They were such boring guys.
What he wants to eat most right now is—
It's that white-haired guy.
It must be an extremely rare item among humans. In my memory, rare items taste dozens of times more delicious than ordinary food.
Amy and Alice didn't speak, but they didn't leave either, acting as if they were oblivious to what was being said and going their own way.
So what if the Ant King beats us up? It won't hurt us much.
……
Night in the forest.
Xiao Jie was biting his lower lip, crying bitterly for his own weakness.
"For the first time, I experienced weakness and utter helplessness." He spoke each word with pain in his eyes.
Killua stood to the side watching, his eyes lowered.
"This is only the first time? That shouldn't be the case." A voice suddenly appeared, breaking the quiet and painful atmosphere, like a young animal licking its wounds.
"After all, you're so weak." A white-haired figure squatted on a tree branch, the slender branch not swaying at all, as if it didn't feel the weight at all.
"Isn't it just being beaten up all the time..." Su Wu said, then suddenly squatted down.
Oh, being beaten up shouldn't be a big deal for them. What really hurts Xiao Jie is probably being unable to do something because of his weakness.
"Never mind." Su Wu ended the topic abruptly, darted in front of Xiao Jie, and looked curiously at a purple doll on his shoulder. "Speaking of which, what's this?"
It looks like a plush toy, but it's actually a manifestation of Nen ability, similar in nature to Kate's Crazy Clown and Su Wu's own roulette wheel.
Su Wu reached out and pinched the doll, kneading it for a while. The feel was not much different from that of an ordinary doll.
Whose Nen ability is this? It's kind of cute.
At first glance, one would think that the owner of this Nen ability must be a strong man.
"It's... Nakuru's ability." Killua answered the question from the side. "Gon will maintain his superhuman state for thirty days."
Nen's ability, "I am the only one who can harm others in the world," is a kind of ability that allows him to lend money at exorbitant interest rates. Simply put, Gon went bankrupt because of loan sharks and was forced into a state of annihilation, unable to use Nen.
"Thirty days? Doesn't that mean everything is over?" Su Wu's face showed undisguised surprise.
Huh? Isn't this supposed to be a main character progression storyline? What does it mean that there's a 30-day plateau? Are they dropping the main character?
Are you really the main character, Xiao Jie?
"Looks like you guys can only play in the back." Su Wu shook her head, though she couldn't understand it, she stopped thinking about it.
Whether these two participate or not doesn't seem to have much impact.
"How's the situation at the front?" Xiao Jie asked.
"..." Su Wu didn't know what to say for a moment.
What are you saying? That the ants surrendered? That the ant king was a very filial son?
Gon and Killua interpreted his expression as "the situation on the front lines is not optimistic," and for a moment, both of them became somewhat withdrawn.
"Kate... I'm too weak..." Little Jie's tears fell silently.
Too weak to avenge Kate.
"..." Su Wu scratched her cheek with her index finger.
Shouldn't he have said Kate was dead? That would have been too much of a blow. He should have left some hope, like saying Kate is dead, but not quite dead yet?
Oh, right, that ability of cats to be like ants.
If the other side can control the soldiers in the palace, they can certainly control other things as well.
"Actually, Kate isn't dead," Su Wu cleared her throat and said.
Xiao Jie looked up with hopeful eyes wide open. "Really? That's great!"
"But he was living a life worse than death," Su Wu continued.
Xiao Jie's face also turned pale, filled with worry. "How could this happen?"
"There's an ant, the one you encountered, that has the ability to control people's bodies. She's taken control of Kate's body and tortures him in different ways every day." Su Wu began spreading rumors with practiced ease, and his expression was so natural and his arguments so logical that it was hard not to believe him.
It's impossible to tell it's fake.
"..." Xiao Jie didn't speak, but his clenched fist trembled from the force of his grip.
"It would have been better if he were dead." Su Wu sighed dramatically. "I originally wanted to save him, but..."
Su Wu got a little stuck here.
How can I make it sound like he's powerless, rather than gloating?
Saying the Ant King is too strong? Please, isn't that just admitting you can't beat him? That's embarrassing, okay? Their fight was clearly a draw. If you insist on a life-or-death battle, well...
Anyway, he definitely won't lose, after all, he has the Limitless and Reversal Spells. Even if his mana bar is really low, he can still draw cards. His mana regeneration is continuous for 24 hours, which can support him to unleash his ultimate move indefinitely.
At most, when the time is up, you'll have to fight while bleeding from all seven orifices due to the debuff...
"But Kate is like this because of you. I thought it would be better if you rescued him yourself..." He forced a way to justify his statement.
"Unfortunately, you can't do it." Su Wu shook her head with a sense of melancholy.
"..." Xiao Jie squatted on the ground, seemingly lost in his own thoughts.
Su Wu outwardly feigned regret, but her hand was itching to pull out the Heavenly Reversal Plug and poke the doll that had plunged Xiao Jie into despair.
After thinking about it, he still didn't make a move. The girl was too small. He decided to try someone else.
Actually, what he really wanted to stab was Kate's crazy clown, because the other guy could talk and said really annoying things.
Kate herself seems quite interested in giving his Nen ability a good beating, and she might actually agree if she discusses it with him.
"Then I'll be going now," Su Wu said, and turned to leave.
"Wait a minute." Killua called out to him urgently. "Come with me for a moment." He looked at the person who obediently stopped and turned to look at him.
Su Wu raised an eyebrow, said nothing, and followed the other person to the side for a distance.
"Can you let me feel your full power?" Killua stopped and turned to look at the figure opposite him who was a head taller than him.
"Have you suddenly developed some strange hobby?" Su Wu rubbed the other person's head for a while, like petting a cat.
"No way!" Killua shouted in a low voice.
Does anyone have strange hobbies?
"I just..." He lowered his eyes, his gaze looking somewhat melancholy.
When faced with a formidable foe, the instinctive urge to escape always remains the same, no matter how many times it happens.
It's like a flaw that can never be overcome.
But if he can't overcome this, how can he stay by Xiao Jie's side forever?
Thinking of this, Killua couldn't help but shed tears.
Two teenagers, one squatting there crying, the other standing in front of Su Wu with a blank expression and tears streaming down his face.
Su Wu found this scene quite strange—tears streaming down her face without any expression. In a movie, the director would have given it a full-screen close-up shot.
Su Wu had never cried, nor could he understand why the two of them were crying. Of course, he was too lazy to understand. He knew that the two of them were crying because of so-called feelings.
But emotions are a boring thing for him.
"I just don't want to run away anymore," Killua said in a low voice.
"Ah..." Su Wu looked at Killua's head and suddenly realized.
Illumi's use of the magic needles inserted into Killua's head must have had this effect; Killua can't take it anymore.
"It's very simple, all I need to do is perform a brain surgery on you," Su Wu said, her tone seemingly joking yet also quite serious.
"...Are you serious?" Killua stopped crying and looked at the other person with a confused expression.
What kind of brain surgery is this?
"Believe it or not." Su Wu shrugged. "Don't worry, it's not a big problem, it'll be fine." He patted Killua's shoulder dismissively.
"Of course, if you really can't wait..." he said suggestively.
His face practically screamed, "If you can't wait, I can perform brain surgery on you."
Killua silently took a step back.
Who would perform brain surgery on themselves for no reason? Wait, why would this guy bring up brain surgery?
What does his condition have to do with the craniotomy? Or is there something in his head?
Killua seemed to have thought of something, and his expression turned very ugly.
(End of this chapter)