Everyone had already taken Shen Cong for a great hero—wholly unaware that, in Shen Cong's own vocabulary, "hero" was just a synonym for cannon fodder.

He watched the footage the drone relayed back, sunk in silent thought.

His mind spun fast, analyzing what harm these Eastern Theater Command forces might pose to him. Plainly, the ETC forces had been invited by Yu Minxia to deal with the Bug Warriors. But there was no guaranteeing they wouldn't scheme against him—that sort of thing was hard to say; there were more than enough people out to do him in.

Still, after a rational analysis, Shen Cong judged that these iron people couldn't keep him here anyway—after all, he'd now scavenged a great heap of Mushroom weapons.

In the Bug Warriors' hands, the Mushroom weapons had little effect on him, because the Hell Plant Armor now had a shield against the Activity light-wave.

But in his hands, they were an existence with lethal effect on evolved persons.

And the crux of it was that the ETC's objective on this trip very likely aligned with his own—wipe out the Bug Warriors.

Right now Shen Cong had cut down the bulk of Xu Yun's Bug Warrior unit, but plenty of Bug Warriors had escaped, and those runaways were absolutely a threat. Especially the Bug Warrior Republic's Secretary of State, the four-core Bug Warrior Zhang Xiao, who carried considerable menace.

"In sum: the Bug Warriors of the Bug Warrior Republic must all be exterminated. The other factions too—Xintai Stadium, the Dawenkou Tribe, Feicheng City—should be exterminated."

After several clashes with the Bug Warriors, Shen Cong had come to feel about them the way he once had about the Death Eaters.

Every last Bug Warrior deserved to die!

Cross Shen Cong, and it became a hatred that ended only in death—all the more so given that the Bug Warriors would actually plant bug cores in evolved persons, which made them the equivalent of a natural predator.

For Shen Cong, whose goal was to become the apex predator at the top of the food chain, this absolutely could…