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Upon hearing about the “gathering swarm of insects,” Du Shancheng, the vice-captain of the First Battle Group, leaped forward several times with a series of Rook Ascending Steps, and said urgently:

“Cheng Han, in the past, when encountering insect swarms, everyone would gather together for concentrated defense.

“When the Divine Banyan senses the gathering of Void Insects, it will automatically activate its internal defense mechanism, secreting large amounts of resin to block the swarm.

“As long as we persist in defense for a while, the insect swarm, fearing being trapped by the resin, will quickly disperse.”

Cheng Han calmly replied: “There’s no need to gather for defense.”

Du Shancheng became anxious: “The insect swarm will definitely have a War Insect with strength comparable to a warrior, and they can spray extremely poisonous barbs. A single squad cannot fight against them.

“In the past, most casualties in Void Insect clearing missions were caused by War Insects. The five battle groups must gather together…”

Cheng Han interrupted: “Follow my method, and we can encircle the insect swarm instead, and at least eliminate more than 90% of them.”

He felt that passive defense was a very poor strategy.

The insect swarm actively gathering was saving them the trouble of searching everywhere. Wasn’t this a merit delivered to their doorstep?

Du Shancheng’s expression changed, and he gritted his teeth: “Once an insect swarm appears, there will be at least a thousand insects, with no less than fifty War Insects.

“Sorry, I have to be responsible for the warriors of the First Battle Group. I choose to withdraw from this operation. Our battle group must gather together for defense.”

Cheng Han was stunned for a moment, and did not force him: “Alright.”

Soon.

There was more bad news.

Hu Liang, the vice-captain of the Fourth Battle Group, also chose to withdraw.

Cheng Han was even more helpless.

Before leaving, Hu Liang even advised the Third and Fifth Battle Groups to prioritize stability and not risk lives for merit.

Vice-Captain Tie Feng said indignantly: “Captain Hu, you just witnessed Cheng Han’s methods. Even if you don’t have confidence, why do you have to instigate other battle groups?”

Hu Liang said solemnly: “I have personally seen the power of the insect swarm, and I don’t think it is wise to confront them head-on.”

Tie Feng unceremoniously retorted: “You’re just incompetent yourself, and always assume others can’t do it either.”

Hu Liang’s old face twitched, and he left on his own accord.

Cheng Han did not explain, but remained calm.

On the other hand, the leaders of the other two battle groups took the initiative to express their attitudes.

Gao Jiuqing, the vice-captain of the Third Battle Group, spoke simply, but his attitude was very firm: “I believe in Cheng Han.”

Qin Tingshu, the vice-captain of the Fifth Battle Group, smiled and said: “I have also comprehended the Qingyuan Rune Imprint, but I can’t play it like Cheng Han. I’ll listen to Cheng Han.”

Despite this, the morale still inevitably became somewhat unstable.

Cheng Han sighed inwardly, and decided to go all out.

For the sake of these people’s strong support, he intended to let the two battle groups earn a large sum of battle merit points.

Cheng Han looked around at the faces, his voice as calm as ever: “Everyone, I have just researched a method to communicate with the Spirit Leaf Handle, so that we can grasp the movements of the insect swarm at any time.”

He immediately provided proof.

“Bang!”

Cheng Han stomped on the ground.

A wonderful change followed.

Strips of brown fine vines emerged from the ground, and quickly pieced together a long section of the Spirit Leaf Handle passage.

This was clearly a model.

The crowd stirred.

Because this model was too similar.

Tie Feng directly gave a thumbs up: “Awesome!”

The other two captains nodded together.

The passage was so complex that even ordinary warriors would have difficulty understanding the entire picture after walking through it once.

Yet this genius young man used some means to restore the entire passage. How could people not admire him?

“Pa!”

Cheng Han snapped his fingers again towards a luminous plant.

Many fluorescent dust particles floated into the passage model, spreading to every corner.

He used some special method again, and the dust particles floated into the pipeline, invisible to the naked eye, but everyone could easily sense it.

Cheng Han explained: “Each dust particle represents a Void Insect.”

This scene surprised everyone again.

Even a fool could understand the benefits of fully grasping the location of the insect swarm.

Cheng Han sighed a little regretfully: “I originally planned to annihilate this batch of Void Insects, but now that there are sixty fewer warriors, I’m afraid we can only kill half at most.”

If he had said this just now, most people present would not have believed it.

But now that there was a model in front of them, everyone believed it one hundred percent.

Tie Feng cursed directly: “Du Shancheng and Hu Liang, those two good-for-nothings!”

Cheng Han smiled and comforted: “It’s okay, the Void Insects are still inside the Spirit Leaf Handle. As long as we spend a little more time, we can find them sooner or later.”

Gao Jiuqing said directly: “Cheng Han, time is of the essence, you give the orders.”

Cheng Han was not polite: “Good!”

He picked up his flower basket, and issued orders one after another, distributing batches of seeds.

In this battle, these seeds also played an important role.

*

At this moment.

Inside a cave hundreds of meters away.

The First and Fourth Battle Groups were united, shrinking into this place, intending to jointly resist the upcoming insect swarm.

The atmosphere in the cave seemed a little heavy.

Du Shancheng and Hu Liang, the two vice-captains, observed the movements outside while discussing in low voices.

“Such a large insect swarm of thousands is really not easy to deal with. I hope nothing happens to the other battle groups.”

“A lone Void Insect is completely different from an insect swarm. Cheng Han has experienced too little and doesn’t know the power of it.”

“Everyone sees him as a genius, so he’s probably a little inflated.”

The other warriors listened to the discussion with various expressions.

Some didn’t care, some were expressionless, and some agreed.

At this time.

A veteran squad leader who had comprehended the Qingyuan Rune Imprint, stretched out his right hand to stick to the cave wall, sensed the movements in the distance, and shouted: “The insect swarm is approaching!”

The cave instantly became quiet.

Du Shancheng waved his right hand and shouted: “Block the cave!”

Two teams of warriors quickly rushed forward, lined up in two rows, each holding a large black shield, blocking the three-meter-wide cave entrance tightly.

The remaining warriors didn’t need to be told, and raised their short spears, ready to attack at any time.

A few seconds later.

“Squeak! Squeak!”

A few strange insect chirps came over.

The insect swarm was approaching!

A few more seconds passed.

The chirping quickly expanded, turning into a tide.

“Squeak squeak! Squeak squeak!”

“Squeak squeak! Squeak squeak!”

Mixed with strange and angry shouts.

“Kill all the Wan Hao people!”

“Destroy the Banyan tree and take back our home!”

Soon.

The tidal insect swarm appeared below.

This cave was chosen very well. Its terrain was high, with only two beams leading to the cave.

However, the beams were bare and had no shelter.

If the insect swarm wanted to approach, they would inevitably suffer dense attacks from short spears, and would inevitably suffer huge losses.

Soon.

The insect swarm launched the first wave of probing attacks.

A batch of Void Insects with exceptionally large bodies, covered in spiky shells, suddenly rushed out of the corner.

Their tails were curled up like scorpions, and they sprayed a stream of pale green gas at the cave entrance.

“Woo~ woo~”

A sharp wail sounded.

A plume of black shadows instantly swept across dozens of meters, hitting a row of large shields.

“Clang! Clang!”

The sound was particularly dense.

It was poison stings.

Du Shancheng decisively shouted: “Attack!”

The Black Armor Army immediately demonstrated a set of exquisite cooperation.

The shields blocking the door suddenly opened.

At the same time.

A team of warriors seized the opportunity and waved their right arms together.

“Woo~ woo~”

A row of short spears flew out from the gap.

The next moment.

The shield wall closed again, just in time to block the second batch of poison stings shot by the insect swarm.

“Clang! Clang!”

Another burst of rain-like strikes.

There were no casualties on our side.

On the opposite side, three War Insects had their heads blown off, and another three were injured.

The warriors did not have any joy.

Because there were too many insect swarms.

The veteran squad leader in charge of “listening” reported the numbers with a serious expression: “Captain Du, the insect swarm surrounding us is probably no less than one thousand three hundred.”

Du Shancheng was taken aback: “So many?!”

Hu Liang’s face was also not very good: “The insect swarms attacking the other three battle groups will only be more. Does that mean there are at least three thousand Void Insects?”

The veteran squad leader reported another bad news: “The insect swarm is crawling up from below. It seems they plan to gnaw a path out of the cave wall.”

As soon as the words fell.

“Zzz~ zzz~”

The sound of gnawing rang out.

The sound was so dense that every warrior could feel the cave shaking slightly.

Du Shancheng tried to stabilize the morale: “The cave wall is so thick that they won’t be able to gnaw through it in a short time. The Divine Banyan will secrete resin in a while. Don’t worry, everyone.”

The veteran squad leader frowned.

This person had participated in several Void Insect clearing missions. When the Divine Banyan intended to secrete resin, the Qingyuan Rune Imprint would definitely sense it.

But at this moment, he didn’t sense anything.

How could this be?

Could it be that something happened inside the Spirit Leaf Handle?

The veteran squad leader sighed inwardly, and did not reveal the news.

But he knew that the news would definitely not be concealed for long.

After the “buzzing” sound rang for three minutes, someone finally noticed something was wrong.

“Why hasn’t the Divine Banyan secreted resin yet?”

“There’s a problem! With such a large insect swarm, resin should flow out in two minutes.”

The atmosphere became uncontrollably panicked.

Du Shancheng’s face became extremely ugly as he listened to the discussions.

Earlier, he decided to lead the team away in order to protect the warriors of the First Battle Group.

But from the current situation, doing so had instead put the battle group in a desperate situation.

*

On the other side.

Inside another cave.

The operation presided over by Cheng Han was a completely different scene.

He led ninety warriors and fought a guerrilla war with the insect swarm.

Logically speaking, this was impossible.

Void Insects could quickly crawl on the walls. In the complex environment of the Spirit Leaf Handle, they were more flexible than Black Armor Army warriors.

But Cheng Han did it.

Because he possessed—the real trick.

“Pa!”

Cheng Han patted the cave wall.

More than a hundred thick vines quickly descended, blocking a cave.

A batch of Void Insects chased from the corner, just in time to be blocked outside the vines.

Two teams of warriors responsible for the rear guard raised their right arms in unison.

“Woo! Woo!”

Short spears flew out from the gaps in the vines, accurately killing a small group of insects.

“Bang!”

Cheng Han stomped on the ground again.

The cave actually wriggled like plasticine, and the cave wall next to it decomposed into vines, revealing a large hole.

The large group of people around, although not seeing it for the first time, still showed surprise.

Several warriors who had comprehended the Qingyuan Rune Imprint also felt inferior.

The ability to manipulate and change the cave far exceeded their level.

These people couldn’t even imagine how it was done.

Cheng Han waved his hand: “Everyone, let’s go!”

He took the lead and walked into it, starting to transfer to the next place.

*

Ten minutes later.

Cheng Han stopped and smiled: “The trap is set!”

Observing from God’s perspective.

It could be clearly seen that a large insect swarm of more than one thousand four hundred insects, following the Black Armor Army in circles, was trapped in an area.

Cheng Han had quietly made many moves, greatly changing the terrain of the area, turning it into a maze.

Tie Feng couldn’t wait to ask: “Can we start?”

Cheng Han nodded: “Of course!”

He clapped his hands hard.

“Pa!”

This sound contained a strange power.

Inside the trap area, wooden caves, walls, and spiral pillars all began to secrete a translucent pale green liquid.

When the Void Insects’ feet touched the liquid, they instantly lost the ability to cling to the walls, and their walking began to slip from time to time, greatly reducing their flexibility.

Controlling the Spirit Leaf Handle to secrete oil was another key ability that Cheng Han had researched.

Other warriors could only wait for the wood to secrete passively, but he could control it autonomously.

And the ability to freely change the terrain and control oil secretion were the two trump cards that gave him the confidence to attack the insect swarm.

Cheng Han sensed for a moment and shouted: “Start killing the insects!”

He paused and added: “We only have ten minutes. Kill as many as we can. Then we have to go and rescue them, otherwise few of them will survive.”

A group of people responded in unison.

“Yes!”

“Understood!”

Cheng Han walked dozens of meters and patted the wall.

“Boom!”

This section of the wall actually collapsed.

A group of warriors were prepared and threw the seeds in their hands together.

The seeds exploded into large pieces of vine silk in the air, attacking the opposite insect swarm.

The Void Insects were caught off guard, and their mobility was greatly reduced, so most of them were wrapped tightly.

“Woo! Woo!”

A large number of short spears flew out, piercing the insects’ bodies.

A one-sided massacre began.

Under normal circumstances, it was completely impossible for ninety Black Armor Army warriors to fight against such a large-scale insect swarm.

But Cheng Han carefully laid out the plan, not only making it a reality, but also giving the Black Armor Army an overwhelming advantage.

Ten minutes later.

Over eight hundred Void Bugs had been killed.

The remaining bugs desperately gnawed out a few paths and fled.

Cheng Han issued another order at the right time: "Attention everyone, rescue the First Battle Group and the Fourth Battle Group!"

According to the result of his communication with the Spirit Leaf Handle, the situation there was not good.

The swarm had been frantically gnawing for more than ten minutes and was about to chew through the cave.

Two Black Armor Army soldiers had also suffered minor injuries.

Du Shancheng and Hu Liang were discussing whether to force a breakthrough.

The result of these two idiots' discussion actually leaned towards agreeing.

This would undoubtedly put more people in danger.