met free Chapter 556 Leave a way out
Chapter 556 Leave a way out
The lead dragonfly ant hovered in mid-air, its compound eyes flashing intensely with golden-green light, like a lamp being blown about by a gale.
Looking at the people falling from the sky, those dark blue figures were like fallen leaves scattered by a rainstorm. Some struggled to get up on the ground, some had broken wings and could no longer fly, and some lay quietly in the dark red soil, the pale green light around them gradually fading.
Its whiskers trembled violently, and the buzzing sound revealed its despair at that moment.
These people, who came under orders, were all the elite of his tribe, yet they were all wiped out before his very eyes, and he was powerless to stop it.
It wanted to fight back, to tear the demon behind it to shreds.
However, bound by a layer of scarlet light, it couldn't even turn around.
Xu Si looked at the dark blue figures that had fallen to the ground. There was no pride in his starry eyes, only a very faint, almost imperceptible weariness.
He flipped his wrist, and the scarlet band of light binding the leading dragonfly ant tightened slightly, but just enough not to break its carapace.
"Can we talk now?"
"This is the realm of the gods... Aren't you afraid of incurring divine punishment...?"
The thought was much more blurred than before, like an echo coming from a distant place, carrying a sense of weakness after exhaustion.
The world consciousness also seemed to have been shaken by the impact just now.
Now that its countermeasures are ineffective, it can only be slaughtered at the mercy of others.
Xu Si hovered in mid-air, completely ignoring the warnings from the consciousness of this world.
"I only need a portion of the laws of life, not much, just half will suffice."
That thought remained silent for a long time.
The surviving dragonfly ants on the ground were still struggling.
Thousands of compound eyes shimmered with tiny lights under the deep purple sky, like a frozen sea of stars.
"...One-half..."
Do you know what that means?
"It means I might break down because of this, so I might as well fight to the death. Then the gods will avenge me."
Xu Si could roughly guess some of the consequences. Although the consequences might not be as severe as he described, it was still possible that the life level of this small world would be weakened.
He was just asking for an exorbitant price; there's room for negotiation.
"How much can you give?"
The thought fell silent for a while, as if weighing the critical point between life and death.
"...one-tenth..."
Xu Si shook his head slightly, the movement small, but it carried an uncompromising tone.
"...Not enough...one-third"
Xu Si's bottom line is one-fifth. He doesn't know if his little world can handle any more than that. One-fifth is a number he is relatively confident about.
"You've gone too far! Are you forcing me to summon a divine incarnation and fight to the death?"
This was the world's last trump card, but the price of using it was something it couldn't afford.
That would not only damage his very essence, but would also turn him into a slave planet, where he would never have the chance to grow again.
It doesn't want to come to this point unless it faces a life-or-death crisis.
"One-seventh! Any more and it'll be a fight to the death!"
Xu Si's attack made him realize that this mysterious man was now an uncontrollable force.
He didn't understand why its restrictions on outsiders had no effect on this mysterious man.
"...one-fifth..."
"I want one-fifth of all your laws of life. In exchange, I will cease any further plundering of your world, nor harm any of your subjects, unless they turn against me again."
"...You promise?"
"I promise."
Xu Si was actually quite eager to see the incarnation of a god, but he had no idea about the methods of gods, and it would be awkward if he couldn't escape.
Therefore, he didn't dare to push too hard.
Leave room for maneuver in your actions, so you can meet again later.
That thought fell silent once more.
"Alright... one-fifth. I will let my people leave."
"Can."
Xu Si hovered beneath the deep purple sky. On the battlefield beneath his feet, the surviving dragonfly ants were slowly retreating, their dark blue figures disappearing into the depths of the forest from the edge of the battlefield like receding waves.
He breathed a slight sigh of relief, looked down at his palm, and the star power slowly spread out under his control, covering the life laws that surged from the ground with a pale green light.
The laws of life, like mist and gauze, seeped from the ground with a rich aura of vitality, like a spring water that had been compressed for millions of years finally finding its outlet. It climbed upwards along Xu Si's star power and slowly flowed into the small world within his body that was slowly turning.
"ah……"
Xu Si took a light breath, and his body trembled slightly involuntarily.
The moment those life laws flowed into the small world was like the first sweet rain on parched land.
The fine cracks of law at the edges were enveloped by a layer of pale green light, and the cool touch was like spring water overflowing the parched land, inch by inch soaking into the cracks that were about to collapse.
He could feel his little world "healing" and coming back to life.
It's not the futile attempt of stitching up wounds with one's own flesh and blood, but a genuine process of drawing nourishment from the outside in to repair oneself.
This reminded him of Earth, which he had painstakingly repaired.
In a sense, his little world was somewhat similar to the situation on Earth back then.
After those life laws merged into the depths of the cracks, the edges that were originally covered with cracks began to emit a faint glow, like a lamp wick that had been relit.
As the laws of life were infused into him, he could feel his little world "breathing," as if a brand new life was being conceived within it.
"...Much more comfortable."
Unexpectedly, the life law had such an effect as soon as it was infused. If he absorbed all one-fifth of the life law, Xu Si was certain that his small world might really give birth to soil suitable for the birth of life.
That will be a completely new world.
All the dragonfly ants on the ground had left, and even the injured ones were dragged away by their own kind and disappeared into the depths of the forest.
The dark blue figures disappeared into the shadow of the giant tree, and the buzzing sound of their wings gradually faded away, like a sudden rainstorm carried away by a gale.
Xu Si sensed a faint connection from the world's consciousness within his own consciousness.
It didn't disappear; instead, it stared at me warily and wearily.
It may not let its guard down until I leave.
However, Xu Si didn't care.
After all, you can't be indebted to someone who feeds you, and you can't be obligated to accept their gifts
It's no wonder people don't treat Xu Si well, since he's always taking advantage of others.
Xu Si then began his eating spree.
There was no longer any disturbance from the indigenous people or resistance from the global consciousness.
The absorption of the laws of life became incredibly smooth, and Xu Si also absorbed some other laws incidentally.
After all, this is a relatively complete small world, and its various laws are relatively well-established.
In order not to incite a global uproar, Xu Si only extracted a symbolic amount.
As for quantity, it naturally cannot compare with the quantity of the laws of life.