Chapter 102 Hole-in-One
Qi An was stunned for a moment, and then another tentacle wrapped around her other ankle, and then a strong force pulled her backward!
Qi An's petite body was tossed into the air and then fell heavily to the ground, crashing into the sandbags at the ventilation opening.
The entire sandbag, along with the old steel plates and bars welded to it, suddenly shuddered!
Gu Liansheng had already pounced over, Zhuang Xiao followed closely behind, and Chen Xi, who was hundreds of meters away, also took off and rushed over!
Lin Jiaran, sitting on the cinders further away, stared wide-eyed.
As Qi An was slammed onto the sandbag, more tentacles emerged from below, grabbing every gap and point of leverage in the steel bar and pulling it down hard!
The hundreds of kilograms of steel plates and bars and sand were loosened by pulling them apart—it seemed that there was an almost invisible cutting line on the edge of those steel plates and bars!
Several layers of objects blocking the hole, along with Qi An, fell down together!
But Gu Liansheng arrived first and grabbed Qi An's arm. Zhuang Xiao followed closely behind and pounced on him, yelling as he poured bullets down through the gaps in the falling "manhole cover"!
Heavy objects fell, some bullets hit the steel plate, and some hit the dark ground.
But the tentacles that reached up from the ground did not loosen at all, and when Zhuang Xiao fired the first shot, two more incredibly long tentacles flew out and stabbed at the eyes of Gu Liansheng and Zhuang Xiao respectively!
At the same time, a sharp cry came from the underground insects.
The coal ball, which had already softened into a puddle of mud, also emitted a faint chirping sound at the same time. The two sounds intertwined and created a powerful, polluting effect!
Gu Liansheng reacted extremely quickly, dodging the vicious attack that pierced the eye, and used his free hand to grab the tentacle.
But as soon as he made that cry, his hand trembled, and he was wrapped around the neck by incredibly nimble and swift tentacles, and he fell headfirst into the cave!
Even though Gu Liansheng's veins bulged as he tore the tentacle off, his massive body still managed to slam Qi An to the ground, causing him to fall even further.
Qi An's body had almost disappeared into the darkness!
Chen Xi, who had arrived like a gust of wind, was caught in another hole he passed along the way—not an original ventilation shaft in the mine, but a hole dug by the fallen insects themselves. He was tripped by a tentacle that suddenly emerged from this hole, its tip flat and scalpel-like!
The moment the tentacle made contact with Chen Xi's leg, his sturdy military boot was slashed open. Then, as he exerted force to run, the tentacle grazed through the wound, causing him to kneel on the ground the next second!
The thin cut reached his ankle bone!
Chen Xi also drew his sword with a backhand and slashed at the tentacle, but he only made a loud noise when his sword collided with the sharp tip of the tentacle, and he did not cut it off!
Then the tentacle retracted into the cave, and there was no more sound in the cave.
However, those few seconds of delay caused Chen Xi to lose the chance to rescue Qi An. By the time he arrived, Gu Liansheng had already reached the level of Level 3 mutation!
The man's body was too large, and he got stuck in the cave entrance. Chen Xi had to pull him out first before continuing...
Below, only darkness and dust remained, along with two lines of bloody fingernail scratches on the rusted metal of the cave wall.
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Qi An spat out the small piece of compressed rations he had at noon onto the yellow-robed priest's head.
Because of the force of her fall onto the sand pile, she experienced severe abdominal pain and was unable to suppress the urge to vomit.
As she fell, the gun in her hand did not slip from her grasp during the impact. She tried to fire, but due to weightlessness, she lost her bearings and the bullet bounced wildly through the pipe, injuring herself.
As another impact struck her abdomen, she vomited, the vomit landing on the head of the yellow-robed priest below.
The yellow-robed priest seemed to be enraged, for his scream even changed tone for a moment.
But it didn't stop its swift movements. The two long tentacles it had taken from Gu Liansheng and Zhuang Xiao supported itself on the surrounding pipes, while the remaining short tentacles tore off Qi An's gun and then rolled her into a cocoon.
Qi An was carried on the back of the yellow-robed priest, descending through a dark, damp, and foul-smelling pipe.
Less than 10 minutes later, light appeared below, and they entered a space of about 2 or 3 square meters through the narrow ventilation duct.
The walls of the space are half mottled metal and half water-permeable rock.
Many fungi emitting various colors of fluorescence grow in the crevices of the rocks.
These are the light sources in this space; those point-like lights are both serene and fantastical.
However, Qi An's mind cleared up in those 10 minutes, and she only paid attention to these beautiful glowing plants for a second before looking at the wisdom insect in the center of the space.
The wisdom insect is long and thin, basically humanoid in shape, with a head that has distinct facial features, as thin as a hair, large tentacles hanging down behind its head, and two thick tentacles that resemble arms...
It was almost a person! Except that the "person" had large, completely black eyes and showed strong features of a different species.
This shouldn't be a yellow-robed priest, this is... a white priest!
The yellow-robed priest who dragged Qi An down was almost identical to the yellow-robed priest they had instantly killed during their reconnaissance. They didn't know if it was a pair of twins that had mutated.
It wasn't ugly either; it looked a lot like the little elves depicted in pre-apocalyptic children's books.
While still binding Qi An, the little elf used its remaining tentacles to scrape some of the vomit off his head, looked at it, and then ate it.
have eaten! !
Qi An was stunned, and then his stomach churned again.
While Qi An was in a daze, the white priest approached and looked at her with some suspicion.
Qi An wondered whether it wanted to kill or bury her after kidnapping her. The White Priest had already raised its thick tentacle, which was as thick as its left arm, and stuffed the soft tip of the tentacle into Qi An's mouth!
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