I Can Gain One Skill Point Per Second Chapter 586: Entering the Hive—A Stunning Sight

While Nangong Su enthusiastically described to his fellow officers how Lin Yi backed his daughter by heading to the Nangong Family, the front-line security troops stood frozen in shock.

They were utterly stupefied.

Not due to Lin Yi's swift response, but rather his bold choice.

To journey via the passage connecting countless star systems straight to the Insect Hive Star.

What an insane choice—Lin Yi had surely gone mad.

Meanwhile, the Queen of the Insect Nest remained oblivious to the impending doom for the Insect Race.

Ever since their initial clash with Lin Yi, it had acted like a ravenous cat, suffering defeat after defeat without ever gaining the upper hand against him.

Inside the stone fortress on the Insect Hive Star, tens of thousands of insects in diverse shapes buzzed with activity.

Some looked like serpents, others like ants, all performing distinct roles.

Guided by the Queen of the Insect Nest, they had established a clear division of labor in society, even raising weaker creatures on this world to supply more sustenance to the Queen of the Insect Nest.

For thousands of years, day after day, heaps of varied beings captured by the Insect Race piled up before the Queen of the Insect Nest.

Typically, the Queen of the Insect Nest would devour endlessly and produce insect eggs to expand the Insect Race, gathering extra nutrients and genetic material.

Yet today, the Queen of the Insect Nest showed no interest in eating or laying eggs.

The swarm detected the queen's rotten temper, carrying out their duties with extreme care, terrified that one wrong move could enrage her and lead to being ripped apart.

The Queen of the Insect Nest's elite guards lay flat on the ground, heads bowed low, not daring to raise them an inch.

The Queen of the Insect Nest endlessly replayed its battles with Lin Yi in its thoughts.

It grasped a bitter truth.

After battling Blue Star humans for ages, a genuine archenemy of the Insect Race had arisen among them.

From his calm poise in combat, the Queen of the Insect Nest deduced that Lin Yi hadn't unleashed his full strength against it.

Had it been the true form instead of just a projection, it might no longer exist.

Luckily, this Insect Race foe opted not to push further into their core domain, or the Queen of the Insect Nest wouldn't know how to counter such a horrifying human.

Still, this realization did nothing to lift the Queen of the Insect Nest's spirits.

One fact stood clear: the Insect Race's quality was set to rise yet again.

And this round, it needed to factor in enhancing the Insect Race's smarts.

For the Queen of the Insect Nest, capable of altering genetic codes, ramping up its offspring's brainpower posed no issue.

But it knew well that smarter progeny would ponder far more matters.

Then, its unchallenged rule over the Insect Race would slip away.

Soon enough, the Queen of the Insect Nest would learn its fears were pointless.

It wouldn't be long before it faced its worst nightmare.

Exactly as the tales warned.

Upon crossing the Space Channel to reach the Insect Hive Star, Lin Yi's first try to use it for a return to Blue Star failed completely.

Though no clear reason appeared, Lin Yi instinctively knew he missed some key element blocking his access to the Space Channel.

A scan from the Eye of All-Seeing revealed a 96-hour analysis requirement.

Meaning, in four days' time, Lin Yi would pinpoint the missing piece and discover the path back to Blue Star.

A decent beginning.

He turned, surveying the full expanse of the Insect Hive Star.

Lin Yi discovered this world far exceeded his expectations.

He'd pictured the Insect Hive Star as a desolate waste.

Such desolation suited bugs with barely any brains.

Surprisingly, conditions here mirrored Blue Star closely.

Majestic peaks rose amid pristine rivers, with thriving woodlands everywhere.

Lin Yi even spotted data via the Eye of All-Seeing on numerous mammals dwelling in the thick canopy.

As Lin Yi deemed the Insect Race's might on the Insect Hive Star quite weak, the Eye of All-Seeing shot out a lengthy probe, seizing data that astonished him—the Insect Race had tamed vast mammals.

Amid the thick canopy hid all sorts of massive mammals in varied forms.

But a keen eye would spot the thick, resilient webs encasing these wooded patches.

Myriad enormous spiders lurked in every forest nook.

Those tough strands, spun by the spiders, confined the beasts' roaming space.

"No surprise the vocal Queen of the Insect Race has advanced to animal husbandry."

"Insects herding mammals—talk about a world turned topsy-turvy."

With that thought, Lin Yi triggered the mechanical wings on his back, rising gradually.

Mighty flaps stirred fierce winds.

The ascent's disturbance instantly drew several spiders' notice, who scuttled along the sturdy webs toward Lin Yi.

Seeing the scattered beast corpses reduced to bones on the ground, Lin Yi shook his head, pitying all non-insect life on this planet.

Thud, thud, thud~

Right then, ropes of dense white gooey fluid blasted toward Lin Yi.

The attack aimed to engulf him entirely.

Yet before the sticky white glop reached Lin Yi, a fearsome downward gravity erupted without warning.

The white goo halted dead in its tracks near Lin Yi, slamming hard into the soil.

The ground shook fiercely at once.

The ambushers arrived, but these mountain-sized giant spiders, dwarfed in threat by the tiny human before them, hesitated to act rashly.

Deep primal dread welled up inside them.

Without orders from the Queen of the Insect Nest, though, they refused to back off.

They circled Lin Yi, banking solely on their menacing presence.

Just then, the Queen of the Insect Nest got alerts from the passage guards—they'd hit a snag!

The psychic Queen of the Insect Nest instantly projected its mind into its subjects' views, beholding the dread-inducing foe—Lin Yi!

Facing off against this terrifying enemy left the Queen of the Insect Nest baffled.

It couldn't fathom why Lin Yi risked coming so deep, with no sure way back.

After clashing with humans for thousands of years, this marked the first such vexing foe for the Queen of the Insect Nest.

As it probed for Lin Yi's vulnerabilities, the planetary passage's insect sentries cut off contact with the Queen of the Insect Nest.

Evidently, Lin Yi had struck.

This sight felt all too familiar to the Queen of the Insect Nest.

For Insect Race members, only death severs the queen's grip.