ASTRP -Chapter 207 Because Feng Jingge and the Prince Got Into Trouble

The two armies had chosen the mountains as their battlefield.

But because the gu insects had suddenly gone out of control and escaped the people of Wu Xing Kingdom, large numbers of them spread among the commoners.

Meanwhile, the people of Jing Kingdom fought while also dealing with the disaster.

Because Jing Kingdom wanted to conquer them—

but the civilians were innocent. In the future, the citizens of Wu Xing Kingdom would still become citizens of Jing Kingdom.

“This time… this time it really was our mistake.”

“Later, the person responsible for collecting the gu insects got eaten alive.”

“That thing devoured her brain!”

“It even replaced her brain and kept talking to us afterward.”

“The first dozen people who entered all got attacked because of that person.”

“My god…”

Just hearing it made Feng Jingge’s scalp tingle.

The woman continued saying that afterward, the creature devoured more and more people, growing larger and larger.

It began spewing poisonous mist, causing everyone who entered to kill each other.

And they had tried escaping too. Some people had actually managed to regain a sliver of consciousness and reach the edge of the mountain.

But for some reason, it was as if the insect always knew.

It would immediately rush over and drag the person back.

“That’s still considered an insect?”

“It’s that intelligent…”

“My god, it’s even smarter than Xi Liyue.”

Xiao Jinghan chuckled.

“This prince feels that any living thing is smarter than Xi Liyue.”

“You two still have the mood to joke around…”

“That monster’s poison isn’t very strong, but it’s extremely aggressive.”

“We can’t get out. There’s no chance of survival anymore…”

“If you two die here, then our Wu Xing Kingdom is finished too!”

Feng Jingge curled her lips.

“We won’t die.”

She rested her chin on her hand, but very soon, movement sounded behind them.

Feng Jingge’s brows furrowed. She glanced at Xiao Jinghan.

Then she suddenly dodged forward and grabbed the woman as they ran outside.

Encircling the cave entrance was a huge fleshy body—the body of the insect.

Its head slammed violently into the rock wall, hard enough to crack the stone.

“It’s pretty cunning.”

“After eating human brains, did it gain human intelligence too?”

Feng Jingge thought that luckily her hearing was sharp and the creature was huge enough to make noise.

If this insect knew martial arts, they’d definitely be finished.

But she had already concealed her presence, so was it using smell?

Yet…

Her sachet had fallen there, but the insect acted as if it hadn’t smelled it at all.

Xiao Jinghan said that back when he was in the army, he had researched gu insects before and concluded that they weren’t sensitive to scent.

He had even deliberately tossed his clothes far away.

Not only was this giant insect poor at smelling, its vision was poor too.

When the clothes were thrown over, it didn’t even dodge.

“Then how is it finding us?”

Feng Jingge lowered her head and noticed yellow liquid on her white boots.

Looking again at the woman, she saw yellow liquid on her clothes too.

Egg fluid…

Feng Jingge pursed her lips.

“No matter what kind of creature it is, reproduction still requires both male and female, right?”

She licked her lips lightly.

“This gu insect can lay eggs, which proves it’s female. But there aren’t any male gu insects here.”

“In other words, this thing is so huge—what male insect could even match with it?”

“So those eggs are basically like ordinary chicken eggs in our daily lives, not the kind that can hatch chicks.”

Xiao Jinghan picked up her train of thought.

“If they can’t hatch chicks, yet it lays so many, then the only use left is for tracking scent.”

Feng Jingge and Xiao Jinghan exchanged a look.

“You there…”

Feng Jingge pointed at the woman.

“Take off that outer robe.”

“We’ll cover you while you escape. Go out and tell everyone what’s happening here. Bring a huge rescue force.”

“You’ll cover me?”

“Oh, just go already!”

Feng Jingge directly stripped off the woman’s outer garment herself.

Xiao Jinghan smashed one of the eggs and smeared the egg fluid onto his own boots.

Sure enough, the insect slowly emerged from hiding, turning left and right as it searched.

Because Feng Jingge and Xiao Jinghan stood on opposite sides.

The woman ran toward the edge, and as expected, the insect didn’t chase her.

Instead, it chose one of the other two directions.

“Wife, it’s heading your way!”

Xiao Jinghan shouted in a low voice.

Feng Jingge flipped through the air, and amid the chaos, she actually landed atop the insect’s head.

“Holy crap…”

She grabbed a nearby branch and tried stabbing it into the insect’s head.

But the creature’s shell was too hard.

The branch snapped instantly.

Feng Jingge barely hesitated before pulling out her golden fan and stabbing downward at its head.

Puchi!

Seizing the opportunity, Xiao Jinghan grabbed the giant insect’s tail and climbed upward along its body.

“Prince, why stab its head? Stab its eyes!”

“My wife makes an excellent point!”

The woman finally escaped.

She rushed straight into Prince Shen Nan’s palace chambers.

By now, the sky was already bright.

Shen Nan sat there blankly staring out the window.

A Zan remained by his side the entire time.

“This is bad… something terrible has happened!”

A Zan kept frantically signaling her with his eyes.

But the situation was too urgent.

“There’s… there’s a monster inside Wu Gu Mountain…”

“The Regent Prince of Jing Kingdom and his princess protected me and sent me out to bring reinforcements…”

A Zan froze.

He turned to look at Shen Nan.

But Shen Nan’s hand was gripping the armrest tightly.

Feng Jingge’s face kept flashing through his mind.

At last, his eyes blinked faintly, squeezing out tears.

He cried.

“Bring troops… I’m going too…”

A Zan hurried to support him.

“Your Highness, with your body condition, you really shouldn’t go…”

But the woman said:

“Your Highness, that gu insect has already grown to half the size of a mountain.”

“Calling it an insect would be inaccurate—it’s more like a snake!”

“And it tracks prey using egg fluid. We really… really need the Gu King inside your body.”

A Zan anxiously protested.

“Don’t disturb His Highness!”

Shen Nan waved him off.

“I’m going to save her…”

“The heart may not belong to little Feng Jingge anymore, but the face is still hers.”

It turned out that the reason Shen Nan had always been so frail—

and why raising gu insects caused him to cough blood—

was because the Gu King, passed down through generations of Wu Xing emperors, lived inside his body.

Unlike the gu insects raised in the mountain, this one could only survive within blood from the moment of birth.

But it was incredibly powerful and extremely hostile toward other species.

The emperors of Wu Xing Kingdom had never wanted such a powerful gu insect lineage to die out, so each generation used their descendants to continue nurturing it.

When Shen Nan arrived at the mountain entrance, things immediately felt different.

Because of his health, he hadn’t come here for a very long time.

As he ventured deeper, the foul stench of egg fluid indeed became overwhelming.

Standing there, Shen Nan shouted:

“Feng Jingge!”

“Feng Jingge, can you hear me?!”

“I won’t gamble with you anymore… I’m sorry… I killed you… I didn’t know it would succeed…”

The man clutched his abdomen.

He was still far too weak.

A Zan also helped search everywhere with Shen Nan.

But they couldn’t find any trace of Feng Jingge.

Not even the Regent Prince.

“Feng Jingge… even if it’s only your face, I still don’t want to lose you.”

“I want to switch you back… even if it costs my own life!”

“Feng Jingge! Did you hear me?!”

“I was wrong… I was wrong…”

Then some guards discovered the princess consort’s torn sleeve and the outer robe Xiao Jinghan had been wearing.