CHAPTER 548: CHAPTER 338: BLACK COCOON VS. BEE KING "QIAO

The Light-Eating Bee couldn’t escape this principle either.

For the Light-Eating Bee species, sunlight is an indispensable nutrient. Over time, absorbing sunlight has almost become an instinct engraved in their genes.

Even if they don’t actively consume food, sunlight is automatically absorbed through their skin. At this moment, as sunlight poured down like a flood from the red sun, it was fully absorbed by Qiao’s body, and his entire silhouette began to blazingly burn.

His exoskeleton cracked and shattered in the flames, yet his face remained expressionless.

A moment later, Qiao kneeled on one knee, quickly retracting the huge wings that blocked out the sky and wrapped himself with them, forming what seemed like a giant cocoon.

Under the illumination of the red sun, the cocoon was violently burning, with nowhere to hide.

Undoubtedly, the astonishing effect at this moment was due to Alexandra’s superpower—"Sun and Moon Together."

She could manipulate the powers of both "Sun" and "Moon."

The former aimed to create a red sun, where flames surge wherever the light shines;

The latter aimed to create a full moon, where the moon casts a single beam of moonlight, and any enemy illuminated by it would be immobilized for a short period.

But Alexandra had long been paralyzed by neurotoxins, her body unable to move, and she slumped motionlessly on the artificial Moon, let alone releasing her skills.

Thus, among everyone, there was naturally only one person who could accomplish such a feat.

At this moment, the Restraint Incarnation of Black Cocoon stood at the edge of the deep pit, looking down at Qiao.

Two minutes earlier, as the Restraint Incarnation rushed to the battlefield, he swung about with the restraint belt, flying among the rocky mountains, climbing layer by layer, finally reaching the artificial Moon of the Rainbow Wings’ Princess, Alexandra.

Afterward, he used the restraint belt to bind Alexandra, who was affected by the neurotoxin, and stole her superpower.

After temporarily suppressing Qiao with the "red sun," a huge artificial Moon slowly rose beneath Black Cocoon’s feet, and then a bright beam of moonlight was cast down, illuminating the cocoon in the center of the pit that was fiercely burning.

This was the second effect of "Sun and Moon Together"—using the artificial Moon to cast a moonbeam.

No matter who it is, once illuminated by this moonbeam, they would be deprived of the right to move for a full twenty seconds, rendered immobile like a vegetative person.

And this tactic was clearly effective against the Light-Eating Bee as well.

The next moment, Qiao’s four pairs of wings loosened and drooped to the ground, his figure exposed under the sunlight, at this moment unscathed, the deep red bones once again covered him, protecting his body entirely.

"My poor Bee King... you’ll be immobile for about 20 seconds next, considering the Light-Eating Bee’s resistance to human superpowers, let’s estimate it at 15 seconds, shall we?"

Black Cocoon sat on the artificial Moon, tilting his head as he spoke, "I suddenly feel like some magical girl, wanting to shout ’In the name of the Moon, I’ll punish you!’"

After finishing his nonsense, he opened the timer on his phone and saw that the numbers on the screen showed only 10 seconds left.

seconds.

"So what..." Qiao said coldly, "Even if given a whole year, your powers wouldn’t harm me in the slightest, not even scratch my exoskeleton."

seconds.

"I indeed can’t harm you in the slightest, but that doesn’t mean I can’t hurt you," Black Cocoon said wistfully, sitting cross-legged on the Moon, his mouth stretched wide in a grin.

The red sun disappeared.

Qiao’s body no longer burned violently but was still suppressed by the moonlight of the artificial Moon.

seconds.

Black Cocoon glanced down at his phone, "Well, my driver should be arriving soon."

seconds.

Suddenly, a deafening train engine sound echoed from the deep pit.

Qiao was startled for a moment, then turned following the direction of the sound.

In his dark golden pupils, a massive space-time rift suddenly opened, followed by a dark red train roaring out from within, the front of which bore a Demon’s face, with a crimson complexion and brows nearly furrowed together.

The arrival was Ke Qirui’s Train Demon.

At this moment, she stood atop the carriage of the Train Demon, a cigarette holder in her mouth, her brown trench coat billowing in the strong wind, her retro-style reading glasses on the bridge of her nose glinting with light.

A train appeared in the five-hundred-meter-deep pit.

The Train Demon charged forward, unhesitating, when suddenly another space-time rift opened right ahead of it.

Just as the Train Demon was about to rush into the rift, a cold gleam flashed in Ke Qirui’s lenses, and then a black-and-white film curtain appeared behind Qiao, swallowing his body.

The film curtain transported Qiao inside the Train Demon, placing him in carriage number 7.

Subsequently, the Train Demon charged into the open space-time rift, beyond which was a familiar time-space tunnel known to both Ke Qirui and Black Cocoon.

Meanwhile, inside carriage number 7 of the Train Demon, the film curtain flickered, and Qiao’s body appeared on the floor of the carriage.

He raised his gaze stiffly, just as the train flew into the time-space tunnel, through the window, he saw Black Cocoon’s expression.