My Husband, a Marshal: Conquering the Stars with My Culinary Arts-Chapter 680 - 229 Special Spiritual Power_2

It let out a low howl, the sound sharp and piercing, carrying a roughness that makes one’s ears ache. Even though Ke Lian and the others were prepared, the sudden scream made them halt for a moment. Fortunately, they had already run quite a distance, so this pause didn’t cause much delay.

"Stop!" Suddenly, the slope was cut off at one end, as if someone had chopped it midway. If Ke Lian and the others rushed forward, they would fall off this edge, underneath there was a long stretch of rocky ground; falling straight down might not kill them, but they would end up with broken limbs and heads.

Thanks to similar training at the Military Department, Ke Lian gave a command, and those who had already slowed down quickly turned around, pulled back their steps, and promptly stopped before the cutoff point.

Ke Lian and the others ran at the front; when they saw the cutoff point, they had time to "brake." However, the creature chasing them was behind, speeding up to catch Ke Lian and the others. Seeing that they had stopped, it instinctively tried to halt its running steps, but because of its large size, it couldn’t stop until fully satisfied after running. Due to inertia, no matter how hard it tried, it couldn’t stop at the cutoff point.

The creature let out a huge scream of agony, and even after falling, it kept emitting sounds of struggle. Ke Lian and the others crawled to the edge to look and saw the creature lying on its back on the rocky ground, surrounded by scattered fresh red blood stains, clearly left when it moved chaotically.

After waiting for a little while, the creature that was happily feeding before had stopped moving, its bloodthirsty mouth wide open, looking extremely painful.

Ke Lian and the others fell silent, feeling somewhat regretful. After all, if not for them, this creature might have lived for a very long time. It was so robust, eating its kin without mercy, obviously standing at a higher point in the food chain.

But now, because of their sudden disturbance, the creature had died so easily.

"Ah Lan..." Mo Feng felt the worst; if it weren’t for him getting a bit agitated earlier, the creature wouldn’t have discovered them, wouldn’t have chased them up the slope, and naturally wouldn’t have fallen, ending as a pitiful corpse on the rocky ground.

Ke Lian seemed a bit more composed. Maybe it’s because he’s seen too many comrades and the Insect Clan die; at this moment, Ke Lian was rather open-minded: "Life and death are part of the cycle. Every person, every creature must experience it. Meeting it was an accident, its sudden death was also an accident, not an intentional accident from you, so don’t dwell on it too much."

Although these words were indifferent, they were indeed correct. The dozen or so officers stood there saddened for a while, but ultimately, they didn’t take this matter too seriously. Seeing the sun gradually rising, they returned to the cave in pairs and threes.

Ke Lian and Mo Feng walked at the end.

"Ah Lan, are you thinking of doing something about the Insect Clan?" Mo Feng always contemplated this question. He felt Ke Lian wouldn’t suddenly see a creature that looks like the Humming Beast feeding and suddenly want to observe, wanting to use it as a breakthrough point for the Insect Clan. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

Unless Ke Lian always had this idea in mind, so he was able to immediately associate it with the Insect Clan. Mo Feng was always clever, and his random speculations actually hit the point.

Sure enough, Ke Lian didn’t hide at all; he nodded and said to Mo Feng in a low voice: "Actually, since Xixi started cooking, I’ve kept this matter in mind. And with the appearance of various edible creatures on the Primitive Planet, I have officially started researching."

"Pigs and Humming Beasts, chickens and Pecking Beasts, geese and Giant Laughing Beasts..." Ke Lian took a deep breath; his heart was actually very complex, but sharing with Mo Feng he felt the burden on his mind eased somewhat, "I suspect the Insect Clan is very likely evolved from those animals. They mutated into the Insect Clan under the influence of cosmic radiation."

"This speculation... Does Xixi and Your Majesty know?" Mo Feng’s mind was a mess; he was convinced Ke Lian’s speculation was correct because there are too many similarities between those animals and the Insect Clan. Thinking this way, it seemed the Insect Clan were "close relatives" of animals, yet stronger "close relatives."

"Xixi did speculate once, even planning to go to the Cultural Relics Bureau to look at Insect Clan meat, and Your Majesty... The creatures on the Primitive Planet were initially privately cultivated and planted by Your Majesty, and all the various ingredients currently used by All-Star are also products of the Primitive Planet under Your Majesty’s name."