"What are you afraid of? I'm still here." This was all Shi Yin could promise. As long as she remained, the Flame Dragon Nation would not perish.
Facing the apocalypse, Shi Yin dec...
The entrance is like a parking lot ramp, and you can feel the dampness even before you go in. It is spacious enough for several people to walk side by side.
As they went further in, the temperature dropped, and there was a strange smell. The strong zombie aura made Lin Beiyue and the others feel uncomfortable. Their aura as superhumans was almost incompatible with the zombie aura.
The dirt path was only a short distance long. With a "thud," Lin Beiyue, who was walking at the front, stepped onto the metal floor first. The sound suddenly echoed in the quiet space, sending chills down one's spine.
It's so quiet here, which makes it even more unsettling.
After walking a short distance, the group came to a fork in the road. Yun Ce nodded, indicating that there was plenty of oxygen here.
Not only is there plenty of oxygen, but there are even signs that the air conditioning was used here.
"The people here might not have been evacuated yet." Shi Yin's sudden voice startled everyone.
Fortunately, the team of superhumans were all professionals. Even though they were stunned, no one screamed. At most, they just froze on the spot for two seconds.
“The surrounding environment is very new; these signs of damage are no more than a month old.” Nan Zhu lowered his voice: “We arrived just in time; they may not have had time to retreat.”
"That's not how you judge it. The coolness here isn't a natural phenomenon; it's from the air conditioning." Shi Yin, standing at the back of the group, reminded them, "The air conditioning hasn't dissipated yet, which means this place was still running yesterday."
The group exchanged glances and walked forward more cautiously. Shi Yin, on the other hand, remained calm and strolled leisurely as if she were wandering in a back garden, but her footsteps were the lightest and made no sound at all.
Lin Beiyue carefully observed the surroundings while comparing them with the map. When the map was drawn, everyone was mentally prepared for the complexity of the place, but now, the complexity still exceeded everyone's imagination.
Along the way, they found two rooms. The space inside had been destroyed by tree roots, and fallen leaves were scattered all over the ground, making an unavoidable rustling sound. The papers on the table were stained with mud and were unrecognizable.
There were several petri dishes, but they were broken, and the strange smell was coming from there.
It seems that the signs of damage are inextricably linked to these things.
After walking for about twenty minutes, they hadn't seen a single person, let alone a zombie. Just when everyone thought that everyone had left, Freya, who was at the back of the group, suddenly stopped.
The information layered between combat suits allows humans to sense each other; if one person stops, the others can also sense it.
No one spoke, but Lin Beiyue turned to the side and gave them an inquiring look.
Freya remained silent, pointing to her feet. Yan Qi, who was closer to Freya, flicked a flame and shone it towards Freya's legs.
By the light of the fire, everyone noticed that Freya's shoes had something stuck to the soles, something that looked like glue or rope, and when lifted up, it was stringy.
Yan Qi frowned, pulled out his small knife and slashed down, trying to pick out a bit to see what it was, but found that the glue strands were very tough, not only did they not break, but they even stuck to the knife.
Yan Qi frowned, and a small flame flew out. This time it went very smoothly, and these things were turned to ashes in an instant.
Lin Beiyue and Nanzhu exchanged a glance, and their eyes met, revealing the command. Nanzhu's resonance was the most suitable ability to detect supernatural abilities.
Nan Zhu crouched down and, using the light from his combat suit, pointed to a white object not far away—the very thing Freya had stepped on.
The feel is strange; it's something I've never seen before. Nanzhu can't resonate with something it's never seen or understood. It needs to analyze what it is first before Nanzhu can interpret the resonance.
Lin Beiyue frowned upon receiving Nan Zhu's negative answer. She turned up the lights and shone them around, only then did everyone notice that there were white things not far away, mixed with traces of destruction.
“If we’re talking about silk-spinning insects, silkworms, spiders, bagworms, some special ants, and even aquatic beetles all fit the bill,” Nan Zhu finally spoke. “But the aura of zombies here is very strong; it doesn’t seem like an invasion by insects.”
"Could it be that some new world experiment did, fusing zombies and insects together?" Yan Qi asked weakly, then turned to look at Shi Yin, seemingly asking if what he said was true.
"Why can't it be an insect cloned from a zombie?" Shi Yin raised an eyebrow. "Who said mirror zombies can only clone humans?"
Everyone: "..."
Of course we guessed that the mirror zombies could do more than just clone people, but we just didn't want to accept that reality!
Could they barely handle a massive army of hundreds of thousands of zombies? What if they were hundreds of thousands of giant spiders, flies, and moths?
Help!
"Forget it, I'd rather the Earth were full of zombies." Yan Qi clutched his chest, heartbroken.
“This shouldn’t be determined by our will…” Shi Yin was saying when suddenly, a strange feeling came over her, and Shi Yin’s voice stopped abruptly. But in everyone’s eyes, it was a different scene.
As everyone watched, Shi Yin was talking when she suddenly leaped into the air. Her expression changed slightly as if she wanted to say something. Then, the space distorted, and she disappeared completely.
"Sister Yin?"
"Miss!"
"Don't panic! Stay where you are and maintain formation!" Lin Beiyue shouted.
Everyone quickly adjusted their mindset and huddled together back to back.
But nothing happened, as if Tokine and everything that had just happened were just an illusion. All around was quiet, nothing but darkness.
"No way, how could they teleport Sister Yin away without her noticing?" Yun Ce's heart clenched. "Does that mean the powerful enemy we're facing this time is on par with Sister Yin?"
That's so unlucky!
"It shouldn't be. Our current regulations stipulate that the use of superpowers cannot exceed 50%, and Sister Yin would use even less." Lin Beiyue denied, "In the past, when I saw Shi Yin make a move, her superpower usage was no more than 2. It's possible for her to launch a sneak attack when she was relaxed."
“While that’s true… Miss Lin, please forgive me for correcting you.” Nan Zhu’s expression was somewhat doubtful: “The degree of power used is no more than 50%, but a person’s alertness cannot be changed or controlled…”
Therefore, there are indeed unexpected enemies here.
"And, there's good news and bad news," Nan Zhu added.
"What's the good news?" Yan Qi asked curiously.
“The monster here shouldn’t be a spider; the spider web and these threads are composed of different things,” Nan Zhu said, illuminating an area with a light and pointing to the white, web-like structure on the wall.
"And what's the bad news?" Yan Qi asked.
“This thing is probably a ribbon worm, which is generally found in the deep sea, and a few live in freshwater or damp soil. It has a parasitic life,” Nan Zhu calmly explained. “Its long snout is sticky and contains a spicy liquid with neurotoxins.”
"Generally speaking, they are not harmful to people, but looking at the filamentous liquid on the wall, they have probably mutated, so it's hard to say."
"Moreover... this kind of silk is usually squeezed out from the body of ribbon worms, so these white nets..."
This means that for every piece of this silk-like web there is a worm, but if this piece of web is as big as an arm in diameter, then how big is this worm?
Did they enter a wormhole?