Chapter 46: Law Annihilation and the Insect Race
The ladder was steeper than expected. At the exit above the fourth level, a layer of multicolored light film covered the opening.
As Su Xiao approached this light film, he clearly sensed the spatial force within it. He tried touching the film, and a pulling force appeared.
Light and shadow flickered before his eyes, and Su Xiao was forcibly drawn into the light film.
Thump, thump, thump...
After Su Xiao's vision recovered, knocking sounds came.
As his brain gradually adapted to the dizziness after the teleportation, Su Xiao looked around. He had arrived in a rest room.
The rest room was entirely constructed from a brown rock, with several benches fixed to the walls. A bloodstained rag lay discarded on the floor. The environment inside was somewhat damp, and there was a faint smell of blood in the air.
Drip, drip, drip...
Blood dripped. Not far from Su Xiao, a creature covered in blue-white carapace sat on a bench. It had a form similar to a human, but its legs and head were completely encased in carapace. Its arms were two carapace arm blades, and nicks could be seen on the blades.
Su Xiao examined this creature from an unknown planet. It looked somewhat like an insect race being.
"Gagagaga... (Unknown language)"
The insect creature spoke a lot, but unfortunately, the language was incomprehensible. No, it should be that the method of pronunciation was different. This insect didn't communicate with language; it used a special frequency of sound waves to exchange information.
"Gagagagaga! (Unknown language)"
Judging by the pitch of the sound, this insect creature seemed somewhat angry.
"Woof."
Bubu Wang barked, trying to use 'Canine Language' to negotiate with the insect creature.
"Gaga ga! Gaga ga! (Unknown language)"
The insect creature stood up, glaring at Bubu Wang. Bubu Wang's dog face looked bewildered.
"What did it say?"
Su Xiao was a bit puzzled.
"Woof."
Bubu Wang's eyes looked somewhat aggrieved, meaning it had just greeted the creature to show friendliness.
"It seems... it's not very friendly."
Su Xiao sat on the bench, leaning his back against the wall. He had just received a notification from Reincarnation Paradise: the fifth game was about to begin. In ten minutes, he needed to go get his number plate, after which the Void Arena would open. As for the detailed rules, he would know them then.
The insect creature stared at Su Xiao menacingly, its eyes behind a transparent membrane showing some anger.
"It looks very angry?"
Su Xiao signaled Bubu Wang not to bother with it.
"Gagagaga!"
As Su Xiao guessed, this insect from the Void was indeed very angry. The reason for its anger was unknown.
About ten seconds later, Su Xiao knew why it was so angry: because he had intruded into its rest room.
This Void insect had previously had a conflict with another race, got injured in the fight, and then returned to the rest room provided by the organizers.
After that, Su Xiao's sudden appearance made the already injured Void insect tense up. To be precise, the Void insect wasn't angry before; it was nervous and wanted to drive Su Xiao out of this rest room.
The language barrier caused Su Xiao to mistakenly think the Void insect was very angry.
Su Xiao felt this was an opportunity. If he participated in the Void Arena, his identity as a Law Destroyer would likely be exposed, even if he didn't use the Azure Steel Shadow ability. He could test it now: what exactly was the status of a Law Destroyer in the Void?
Su Xiao's pupils turned light blue. This was the color of Azure Steel Shadow, one of the most distinctive features of a Law Destroyer.
Seeing Su Xiao's light blue pupils, the insect brother froze, raised his arm blade to scratch his head, as if recalling something.
Two seconds later, the insect brother's body stiffened.
Five seconds later, the insect brother sat up straight, pressing his body tightly against the wall.
Eight seconds later, the insect brother's butt began to slide to the side, soon ending up in the corner. It was no exaggeration to say he was cowering in the corner, trembling.
"The reputation of the Law Destroyers seems... quite big?"
Su Xiao casually tossed away the cigarette butt in his hand. This seemingly casual action triggered the insect brother's nerves. He jumped up with a thud, holding both arm blades in front of him, the blades still trembling nonstop.
"What exactly did the Law Destroyers do in the Void?"
Seeing the reaction of this Void insect, Su Xiao had a headache. The creature's behavior was clearly the instinctive reaction of a victim, a instinct ingrained in its bloodline.
"Can you understand what I'm saying?"
Su Xiao tried to communicate with this Void insect.
The insect brother tapped the tip of his arm blade below his ear and nodded, indicating he could understand Su Xiao's language.
"Do you recognize me?"
The insect brother shook his head, then nodded. Bio-energy surged on his body, which seemed to express that he wasn't a magic-type but a biological evolution race?
Zzzzz~
The insect creature made a buzzing sound, like a radio with poor signal.
"Bank... is not... the Law's... enemy. Bank is... a life evolution race."
This insect creature named Bank spoke, though haltingly, at least they could communicate normally.
"Are you nervous?"
Su Xiao wanted to seize this probing opportunity. He would soon participate in the Void Arena, and it was important to understand the current situation of the Law Destroyers.
"Bank... is not nervous."
The insect brother's claim of not being nervous was hardly credible. He stood on the wooden chair in the corner, his eyes glancing at the rest room's iron door over a dozen times, ready to escape at any moment.
"Don't worry, I have no ill intentions for now."
As soon as Su Xiao finished speaking, something unexpected happened.
The insect brother Bank seemed to let out a long sigh of relief. He sat back on the bench, and his arm blades stopped trembling. Seeing this abnormal reaction, Su Xiao was puzzled.
"You seem to trust the Law Destroyers?"
"Of course. The Law... never deceives the insect race."
Bank had adapted to the language he was using and spoke much more fluently.
The Law Destroyers never deceive the insect race. There must be some hidden reason behind this, or perhaps a covenant passed down through generations.
Su Xiao suddenly realized that the Law Destroyers in the Void didn't seem to be enemies with everyone. Based on his understanding, the Demon race was an ally of the Law Destroyers, and a very close one at that.
Normally, to get something from a demon, one either became a demon's servant or paid with one's soul. However, when Su Xiao obtained the [Demon Mark], he didn't make any deal with a demon at all.
Not only that, when a powerful demon learned that Su Xiao had obtained the [Demon Mark], it immediately erased the original low-level demonic power within the [Demon Mark] and channeled high-level demonic power into it instead, without requiring anything from Su Xiao.
It seemed that letting Su Xiao possess a [Demon Mark] containing low-level demonic power was shameful for the Demon race. The implication was clearly a friendly boast to an ally, showing off how powerful their demonic power was.
How advanced the demonic power in the [Demon Mark] was now, Su Xiao didn't know. But during the War World, the demonic power in the [Demon Mark] completely suppressed the alien demonic power inside Carlos and easily devoured it. This showed that the demonic power clinging to Su Xiao's body was of a high rank.
In most cases, humans who mastered demonic power would suffer some degree of erosion from it. But Su Xiao didn't feel that way. To him, demonic power was a very pure, easily controllable energy.
Now, the relationship between the Law Destroyers and the insect race confirmed one thing for Su Xiao: the Law Destroyers didn't have enemies everywhere in the Void. They had many enemies, but also many allies.
For example, this insect brother, after learning that Su Xiao had no ill intentions, actually lay back on the bench, basically letting his guard down. He just occasionally glanced at Su Xiao, as if seeing some rare existence.