Zerg Invasion: I Inherited a Billion-Bug Hive

After working all night on Monday, the apocalypse arrived on Tuesday.

Programmer Lin Mo thought he was hallucinating from exhaustion: a meteor shower tore across the sky outside his window, but what burst forth was a bloodthirsty swarm of insects. The subway turned into hell in an instant, his coworkers melted in fluorescent green slime, and he stumbled into an insect nest, where a strange beam of light struck him in the forehead.

When he woke again, a cold mechanical voice boomed in his mind:

[Overlord privileges transferred...]

The fleshy nest beneath his feet writhed. Zerglings crawled in swarms, while Hydralisks stood ready. He raised a hand and pointed. The swarm shrieked and surged forth, tearing apart every threat.

Once a 996 wage slave, now he commanded billions of insects!

Humans saw him as a monster; the insect race saw him as a traitor.

But Lin Mo smiled. “Fine, then...”

“Let the swarm devour the heavens and consume the earth!”

Creep spread through the city, Overlords blotted out the sky, and he surveyed all beneath him from his throne amid the ruins.

But in the depths of space, the true Overmind had already turned its compound eyes and fixed its icy gaze on him...