Accompanying the flames tearing through the sky, Firefly descended from above.
The moment she landed, before anyone around could speak, Firefly looked at Pei Guang worriedly.
"What's going on here? Why is the Propagation swarm here, and these bugs..."
Firefly looked at the swarm, but as she looked at them, these bugs also turned their heads to look at her.
The queuing bugs sensed a different power in Firefly.
It was Propagation yet not Propagation, and besides Propagation… there was also a threat to Propagation?
At this moment, all the True Stings queuing up to breed themselves to pleasure locked their gazes onto Firefly. Their brains didn't work well; or rather, apart from the King Bug, whether the other bugs had brains was questionable.
Although they had no brains, their instincts were rock solid.
Firefly gave the bugs the impression of top-tier stats and maxed-out damage.
More importantly, in their instinctual perception, Firefly seemed to have a grudge against them?
As True Stings who only knew "Breeding! Awesome!", after receiving the message from their kin about dying of pleasure, they had firmly established a belief: whoever prevented them from dying of pleasure was the enemy.
They weren't the Aeon of Propagation of the past. The Aeon of Propagation had some 'thoughts' of fearing death, but as consumables, being able to breed until death from pleasure meant naturally not dying in battle.
Compared to everyone else present, whose physical fitness and energy reactions were so weak they could be blown away by a single self-explosion, Firefly's existence was like fluorescence in the dark night, making them uncontrollably want to eliminate her.
Sensing the bugs' gazes, Firefly prepared for battle.
Pei Guang, however, calmly stood in front of Firefly and spoke: "Lord Bugs~ Please don't be afraid. Enjoy breeding in peace; no one will disturb your breeding."
Although the bugs didn't have enough brains, they sensed the kindness from Pei Guang. These bugs, who already possessed Order, pondered with their non-existent brains for a moment.
After an instant of brainless communication within the True Stings, they made a decision compliant with their Path.
Fighting! Not awesome!
Breeding! Awesome!
After confirming that Firefly temporarily had no desire to fight, the True Stings chose to follow their instincts and enter the room to have a good time.
One had to know that starting from the first True Sting, their internal network had been constantly transmitting the simple and crude message of 'awesome' from other True Stings.
Watching the True Stings queue up again, Firefly felt her face go numb.
When it came to fighting bugs, she didn't dare say she was top-tier in the universe, but she definitely had rich experience.
But among so many experiences fighting True Stings, none had ever been like this!
Which time did these bugs not charge madly? From childhood to adulthood, she had never seen them queue up so neatly.
If not for hearing the explosions of True Stings inside the room, she would have even suspected if Pei Guang had defected to the Swarm.
Although Pei Guang had brought her enough shocks in Penacony, looking at these bugs now, she still spoke up.
"What... did you do?"
Pei Guang: "Didn't do anything? I just gave them a restriction: breeding is prohibited in public places. And the breeding instinct will make them find non-public places to breed, so I built such a special place.
You know how these bugs have no brains right? Apart from eat, eat, eat, it's breed, breed, breed. And eat, eat, eat is essentially for breed, breed, breed. Now that breed, breed, breed is restricted, they definitely want to find a place in the world to breed. I provided them with this location and let them pleasure themselves to the sky. Look! I'm a good person."
Listening to Pei Guang's explanation, watching the swarms queuing neatly for breeding, and hearing the sounds of exploding from pleasure inside the room, Firefly shivered.
Bugs indeed deserved to be killed, but Pei Guang's method of killing seemed a little scary to her.
Seeing Firefly in this state, Pei Guang patted her shoulder to comfort her: "I'm a good person, don't be afraid."
Stelle on the side: "You're a good person?"
March 7th: "Hehe."
Pei Guang said proudly: "Of course I'm a good person! Because I wiped out everyone who thought I wasn't a good person, so don't the remaining ones think I'm a good person?"
Seeing Pei Guang in this state, everyone rolled their eyes at him simultaneously.
Firefly: "So that's it. Then where did these bugs come from?"
Pei Guang: "While we were having fun with the Dreammaster, Little March jinxed it, and it happened. Look, over there, the King Bug is hatching. Don't know if what hatches will be an Emanator of Propagation or the Aeon of Propagation. Who knows? Doesn't matter what it is, just kill it when it comes out."
Firefly: "?"
Wait, is the appearance of an Emanator of Propagation, or even the Aeon of Propagation, such a trifling matter? And kill the Emanator?
Is this sentence really serious? She's here to fight an Emanator of Propagation?
Firefly blinked.
She didn't know what to say now: under these circumstances, she could only smile. Facing Pei Guang with a smile, just smiling was enough.
Honestly, when seeing the Propagation swarm, Firefly felt like she was going to have an episode, but when Pei Guang said he wanted to eliminate Propagation, she instead felt a marvelous sense of reassurance.
Firefly: "Do you need me to do anything?"
Pei Guang shook his head: "Not at all. Just wait; it won't be born anytime soon. Before it's born, I'll come up with a few more policies first. I've figured out this boss fight:playing with the Dreammaster was playing house. The real enemy is this Propagation Bug King.
I need to formulate effective policies to weaken its abilities and strengthen our team. If we wanted to challenge high difficulty, we could also use these policies to increase the difficulty. Pretty good, custom difficulty. If there was a save file, I would say let's try max difficulty to see what it's like, but now~"
First playthrough, no save file, and knowing the enemy is ridiculously strong, Pei Guang just wanted to ruthlessly weaken the opponent.
Now it was prohibiting breeding while utilizing their characteristics to create a breeding mob grinder, ruthlessly eliminating some Propagation swarms.
These bugs' paper stats were still a bit strong. Although resurrection was possible in Penacony, if possible, Pei Guang still hoped for a no-damage run.
As a player, whether killing monsters with fists or with top-tier weapons, in Pei Guang's view, it was no different from slash-and-burn primitives.
A true gaming expert makes the monsters go die at a designated location by themselves. Even if it can't be fully automated, it should be at least semi-automated.
Industrialization and mass production were the ultimate dreams of this technical player.
Besides, making True Stings queue up to die was much more efficient than fighting.
With the power of Order, these bugs had learned to arrange themselves in formation. If the people here went up, they would likely be corpse-camped by this bunch of bugs. Under these circumstances, letting them voluntarily go to their deaths, and doing so from strongest to weakest, saved a huge amount of trouble.
Thinking of this, an excited light flashed in Pei Guang's eyes.
Firefly saw the light flashing in Pei Guang's eyes, and for some reason, at this moment, she remembered the past.
While Firefly was reminiscing about the past, Pei Guang also received a prompt from the system.
[Recognition has reached 30%]
[New policy slot unlocked. Please formulate a new policy, Player.]
Looking at this prompt, Pei Guang revealed a happy smile.
"Very good, I've already decided what the new policy will be! The rule of victory has been established."
Pei Guang really wanted to directly add a policy that all True Stings would die, but regrettably, this didn't fit Penacony's basic characteristics.
To make a policy effective, it must conform to Penacony's existing characteristics.
For example, resurrection after death: this characteristic wouldn't work elsewhere, but in Penacony, it was completely fine. Because one doesn't die in Penacony's dreamscape, and those who are sober can enter the dream again.
So adding resurrection after death on top of this basic characteristic met the most basic rule requirements.
Plus, the True Stings currently hatching were too powerful. Adding some rules to restrict them was fine, but adding something to directly kill them didn't meet the characteristic requirements, nor could the overall power of the world of Penacony achieve it.
But it didn't matter: Pei Guang had already added a new policy with an absolute advantage.