Reincarnated as a Mosquito, I Sucked the Reborn Empress to Tears

Deep within the Western Grand Canyon, in a small, abandoned Secret Realm.

Inside a karst cave, Chu Sheng found the most comfortable position he could, curling up his six legs as the light in his compound eyes gradually dimmed.

[Ding! The seventh complete evolution has officially begun.]

[This evolution will consume 100,000 Evolution Points and is estimated to take seven days and seven nights. Confirm?]

’Confirm.’ Chu Sheng affirmed in his mind without a moment’s hesitation.

The next second, an indescribable wave of drowsiness washed over him, instantly drowning his consciousness.

BZZZT—!

The instant his consciousness faded, a brilliant golden light materialized from thin air. Like flowing liquid gold, it gently enveloped his body.

The golden light layered upon itself, finally forming a golden cocoon half a man’s height, which hovered silently in the middle of the cave.

Then, the light retracted inward.

The once-brilliant Golden Cocoon gradually became simple and unadorned.

Time ticked by, moment by moment, in the silence.

One day, two days, three days…

This abandoned, Low-Tier Secret Realm was usually completely deserted, save for the occasional Low-Tier Demon Beast passing through.

Until the fifth day of the evolution.

The tranquility of the Secret Realm was shattered.

A series of hurried and panicked gasps, accompanied by stumbling footsteps, rang out across the Grand Canyon’s rubble-strewn flats.

It was a little girl who looked to be only six or seven years old.

She had a waterfall of long, golden hair and skin so fair it was nearly translucent, like a little angel fallen to the mortal world, or an elf from the forest.

But at this moment, this “little angel” was in a wretched state.

Her white dress was torn in several places by thorns, her once-rosy little face was smeared with dirt and ash, and her large, azure eyes were brimming with terrified tears.

A few dozen meters behind her.

ROAR—!!!

A foul-smelling roar echoed from behind.

A one-horned hyena, the size of a calf and covered in mangy skin, was drooling as it stared intently at the prey ahead.

This was a Third-Grade Demon Beast, a Bloodthirsty Hyena.

In this abandoned Secret Realm, a Third-Grade Demon Beast was already the apex predator.

And for this seemingly helpless little girl, it was an insurmountable nightmare.

“Don’t… don’t eat me…”

The little girl sobbed, desperately pumping her short legs.

In her panic, she scrambled into the karst cave ahead without looking where she was going.

However, the cave was a dead end.

She hadn’t run far before her path was blocked by a pile of rubble.

“Ah!”

The little girl’s legs gave out. She tripped over a jutting rock and fell heavily to the ground, instantly scraping her knee and drawing blood.

The scent of blood further enraged the Demon Beast behind her.

CLACK. CLACK. CLACK.

The dreadful sound of the one-horned hyena’s footsteps drew near.

It stood at the mouth of the cave, its greasy green eyes gleaming with a cruel light as it advanced step by step toward the little girl cowering in the corner.

The little girl shut her eyes in despair, her hands grabbing blindly at anything around her, trying to find some sliver of security.

Her hand touched something warm and hard.

She opened her eyes.

’Is that… a strange, big stone egg?’

It was none other than Chu Sheng’s Golden Cocoon in its disguised state.

The little girl instinctively shrank behind the Golden Cocoon, as if this silent, great stone could offer her protection.

ROAR!

The one-horned hyena seemed to have lost its patience. It kicked off powerfully with its hind legs, opened its gaping, bloody maw, and lunged viciously toward the little girl and the Golden Cocoon!

’It’s over.’ The little girl’s heart stopped.

However, just as its foul-smelling maw was about to touch the Golden Cocoon…

BZZT!

The previously silent Golden Cocoon suddenly trembled slightly.

There was no sound, no earth-shattering explosion.

Just an extremely faint glimmer of golden light, nearly invisible to the naked eye, flashed from the patterns on the cocoon’s shell and vanished.

PFFT.

The one-horned hyena, still in mid-lunge, suddenly froze in the air.

Its eyes still held the same cruel and greedy look, as if it hadn’t even registered what had happened.

The next second.

Its body, as if drained of all bone and flesh, instantly shriveled up before turning into a handful of fine ash that scattered on the ground.

It didn’t even have time to let out a scream.

It was as dead as dead could be.

The little girl, who had her head in her hands, waited for a long time, but the pain she expected never came.

She cautiously opened her eyes a crack.

There was no monster.

Only a pile of dust on the ground.

And… the “strange stone” that still stood there silently.

“Did… did you save me?”

The little girl blinked her large, tear-rimmed eyes, reached out a grimy little hand, and gently touched the Golden Cocoon’s shell.

It was warm, as if it were alive.

“Thank you, big stone.”

Although she didn’t know what it was, the little girl had a gut feeling that this thing had protected her.

She looked around, then glanced at her own empty pockets.

“Mommy said that when someone helps you, you should give them a gift.”

The little girl bit her lip, looking troubled.

The few worthless herbs in her medicine basket definitely wouldn’t do.

Suddenly, as if remembering something, she pulled a red string from around her neck.

Hanging from the red string was a transparent, irregularly shaped stone about the size of a fingernail.

The stone looked unremarkable. It had no Spiritual Qi fluctuations and no luster, just like a common shard of glass.

But when the little girl held it in her palm, the very air around it seemed to thicken slightly.

“I found this when I was little, and it’s been with me ever since.”

The little girl stroked the stone, a hint of reluctance in her touch, then broke into an innocent smile.

“You look so lonely here, and you can’t even move, so I’ll leave it with you.”

“I hope it brings you good luck.”

With that, she carefully placed the small stone into a groove on top of the Golden Cocoon.

After doing all this, she hoisted the medicine basket, which was even bigger than her own body, onto her back and began to limp her way out.

She had to get home quickly, or her mother would worry.

However, just as she turned and took a few steps away…

The Golden Cocoon trembled once more.

A soft golden light shot out silently, instantly sinking into the back of the little girl’s head and entering her Sea of Consciousness.

The little girl only felt a sudden cooling sensation in her head. Her exhausted body was instantly filled with strength, and even the scrape on her knee no longer hurt.

“Huh?”

She glanced back, but the Golden Cocoon was still standing there silently, unchanged.

“It really is a lucky stone!”

The little girl smiled happily and skipped out of the karst cave.

…

Inside the karst cave, a deathly silence returned.

But inside the Golden Cocoon, things were far from calm.

Not long after the little girl left, the small, transparent stone she had placed on top of the Golden Cocoon suddenly began to melt.

It didn’t turn into a liquid, but rather into wisps of colorless, formless vapor that slowly seeped into the Golden Cocoon’s interior.

BZZZ—

As this vapor merged with it, an extremely bizarre phenomenon occurred in the one-meter Space around the Golden Cocoon.

The dust motes floating in the air suddenly froze in place.

Even the halo of light that had been slowly flowing across the Golden Cocoon’s surface seemed to have been paused.

Time and space had frozen!

[Ding! A small number of Time Origin Realm fragments have been detected…]

[Absorbing…]

The system’s cold, mechanical prompts rang out in the depths of Chu Sheng’s consciousness.

However, Chu Sheng, deep in his evolutionary slumber, was completely unaware of any of it.

He only vaguely felt that he was dreaming.

In the dream, he was swimming in a long river.

The river had no end and no source. At times, its current was slow; at others, it was astonishingly fast.

He was doggy-paddling in the river, and it felt… incredibly comfortable.

Sometimes, fateful opportunities arise just that coincidentally.

But behind this coincidence, the Law of cause and effect was also quietly turning its wheels.