Down the hole

Facing these children, Rambo put his hand on Olige's shoulder. The little girl looked up and blinked, then quickly understood what he meant and ran lightly to the children.

The older children looked at her warily. The girl said innocently, "I'm Ollie! I want to stay with you. I'm awesome and can protect you!"

The children first looked at Fujiki's reaction, and when Fujiki didn't refuse, they nodded their heads cautiously. Ollie smiled and squeezed in, like a slender and delicate little swan squeezing into a group of dirty ducks.

The beautiful and silky skirt attracted a lot of envious looks. The youngest girl said enviously, "Your skirt is so beautiful."

"Your clothes are cute too."

Ollie wiped the man's face with her sleeve and said sweetly, "The stitches are very fine. It must have been made by someone who loves you very much."

"Really?" The little girl blushed, and then she didn't know what she was thinking about, her eyes dimmed. "My sister sewed it for me. She was only a little older than me, but she was amazing and could do everything. But she was captured by monsters to protect me..."

The children started talking at once. With her cute appearance and friendly attitude, Olih quickly blended into the group of children. Seeing how happy they were getting along, Amira was relieved to retract the vine and whispered the details to the others.

"I hope you can take them away and deal with the monsters. Although for bloodline people, only direct contact with the skin will cause parasitism. But a large number of insects gathered together is fatal to ordinary people."

"At first, the militia discovered monsters that weren't supposed to be around. After Mr. Oreius cleaned up the phantom spider, I checked the area where they encountered the monster and found the phantom spider's nest. But it was an empty nest."

"I searched the surroundings and found no new traces. Therefore, I concluded that this was a new nest and the parasitic queen had been killed. Afterwards, I reported it to the Viscount... To this day, I still regret this incident."

"I just searched the surrounding area according to the habits of the phantom spiders, but I didn't expect that this group of insects burrowed into the ground and mutated!"

As he spoke, scenes emerged in front of the bloodline: after the Baron's report, the invaded Ya'an City did not send a confirmation team. A few days later, a large number of insects broke into the town from underground.

Amira had to take the lead in protecting a group of people and leaving, and report the attack. Afterwards, the baron returned here and rescued the children who did not have time to leave from the last group of survivors.

"Unfortunately, I couldn't fight all the bugs alone. People died one after another. Do you remember the militiaman named Kao? The children had a good relationship with him, but he was still dragged away by a monster during a battle."

"In order for these children to survive, I had to use the last method, swallowing the pollution and transforming."

Amira was silent for a while before she sighed at her mistake.

"My roots have blocked the insects' path, but I can still feel them gnawing at me. I sent the Snake underground, and it has reached its limit. Ordinary people are too vulnerable to pollution."

Rambo and Osk discussed in a low voice for a while, and the former said: "Olih and I will take these children away."

The latter continued: "Shatlia and I will stay here and do our best to keep Amira sane and ensure that no new changes occur in the town."

The corners of Shaken's mouth twitched, and he pointed at himself and then at the people around him: "What should I do? I can't be with him, right?"

Mason looked back with a smile: "Are you dissatisfied with me in some way?"

The blond man said something that didn't mean what he meant: "I don't dare, I just think that you are very strong and I am also very strong, and it would be a waste of resources for us to be together."

Brainworm ignored his calculations: "This is the best plan after calculation. Olih can complete the task of taking care of the children by herself. Shatlia and the vine tree have a good compatibility. If there is a problem, she can comfort Amira in time. The underground must be the most polluted place. I think it is reasonable to let the strongest person and the person who is least afraid of pollution go there."

No one suggested an alternative plan, so Shaken had to admit that he was unlucky. Seeing that they had made a decision, Amira urged the children to get their belongings. Taking advantage of this gap, Orih took out a handful of red candies from his pocket and stuffed them all into his mouth.

She thought for a moment, then took out a small bottle and drank it all. The dark liquid gave off a strong smell of blood when it was opened, staining the girl's lips red.

Her skin split open, like a worm, and a new Ollie quickly split out from the old shell. The difference was that the latter had a pair of thin, transparent wings. When the children came back, there were eight or nine Ollie with wings on the scene.

The children opened their eyes wide in wonder, looking at these strange creatures. The Olihes waved to them with a smile, picked up a child each, and flew away.

"There is no time to lose. Let's start the transfer mission."

After making sure that the children would not touch any insect eggs, Rambo nodded to the others, holding Orih's original body, and walked back the way they came with the flying copies.

Looking at their backs, the angel hybrid placed his palm on the surface of the vine and comforted them softly: "Don't worry, they are very strong, the children will be fine."

"I hope so." Amira smiled bitterly. "I have been able to hold on until now largely because of the help of the townspeople. If I cannot protect the safety of these children, even if my soul goes to the black mist, I will not be able to see them again."

"Don't be silly."

Facing the slightly angry girl, Amira wisely chose to keep silent. Osk, who had been silent all this time, turned his gaze to the remaining two people: "If you encounter a danger that you cannot resist, you can always come back for help."

danger?

Mason was immediately excited when he heard the important words. Good, this is a good opportunity for Oleus to improve his image! He thought about it for a while, and when he spoke again, his tone was relaxed and happy, like he was on a picnic.

"Don't worry, leave it to me."

Shaken next to him showed an expression of dismay: "So I really can't stay? I feel that he doesn't need me, and I'm really useless."

His shadow puppets were all being eaten by the enemy, and even his own shadows had defected to the enemy. What could he use to fight?

Shaken was very reluctant to get down, not wanting to reveal that he had been secretly beaten up, and wanted to say something. The red-haired young man looked at him sideways: "Are you afraid to go with me?"

Shaken's expression froze, and he became angry and said, "Impossible! I'm Shaken Luo! Nothing can scare me!"

"Then let's go."

Oleus said without turning his head: "Please show me the way, Mr. Amira, how do we get to the underground?"

The vines that fell to the ground made way for the two to go deeper into the town. The red-haired young man walked casually, while Shaken followed slowly. The deeper they went, the more luxuriant the vines grew.

The withered branches were dotted with twinkling stars, and the corpses stretched out their prying faces, quietly watching the newcomers. The sound of two people's footsteps, one in front and one behind, echoed in the silent air. After a moment, the person walking in front suddenly narrowed his eyes and quickly jumped to the side.

The moment he jumped up, the place where he was standing suddenly sank, and a dark mouth opened downward. But soon, new air roots extended and filled the gap.

This seemed like a sign of danger. The rest of the journey was like a thrilling jumping game. The ground might collapse if one stepped down. Although falling was nothing to the bloodline people, no one wanted to try to see what would happen if they fell down among the vines that were constantly repairing the ground.

Shaken dodged the traps one after another, and he did not forget to complain: "Have these spiders evolved into digging worms? They like to dig holes so much?"

“You never know.”

The man who answered the question gradually slowed down his pace and finally stopped. Looking over his shoulder, Shaken saw an astonishing scene ahead: the place that should have been the back of the town was replaced by a huge pit, and dense vines squeezed into the hole, filling it up one after another.

Just standing at the edge of the cave, one could hear a continuous rustling sound like spring rain coming from deep inside the pit. It seemed to have an unusual magical power, flowing into the ears of the listeners and turning into an invisible swarm of insects eating the brain. Shaken's face twitched unnaturally and he took a cautious step back.

"I don't recommend going down. There must be a massive swarm of insects down there. Even high-level bloodlines will try their best to avoid fighting with the rampant monster swarms. This is not worth it - Hey! Are you listening to me!?"

The red-haired young man obviously turned a deaf ear to his words. At some point, a long cut appeared on the back of his hand, blood soaking through the metal and wood, the red flesh was like a surge of blood, and in an instant it covered the silver-white steel.

Bullets with the same scarlet pattern were loaded into the wooden chamber one by one, which made Shaken's eyebrows twitch.

"You crazy guy, hey...! You don't mean to--"

"Okay, be quiet."

Oleus shook his index finger at him. Shaken frowned, but still kept silent in fear. The red-haired young man chuckled, wiped the blood dripping down his fingertips, turned around and politely greeted the vine: "Excuse me, please pass."

The vines, like a group of snakes crawling slowly, were silent for a moment, and slowly retreated to form a narrow passage. Without these thorny obstacles, the excited hissing of the insects vented out from it.

Before they could take a step forward, the red-haired young man aimed deep into the cave and fired six shots in quick succession!

"Bang bang bang bang bang bang!!"

Six scarlet bullets shot into the darkness and were silently swallowed by the insect swarm. But this was just a friendly greeting before the feast began.

[Aesthetics] A low roar emanated from the inside, and the alchemy array engraved on the surface was running at high speed. The sufficient blood supply greatly enhanced the speed of energy condensation, and translucent bullets flew out like a torrential rain, followed by bursts of hot flames.

The brilliant firelight illuminated the young man's stern face, and he pulled the trigger repeatedly without stopping until the powerful explosion of fire completely engulfed all the insects. Oreius whistled happily, and the wooden body pressed against his palm was almost overloaded and scalded to red.

The red-haired young man didn't care at all, and even flicked a wooden flower at his fingertips and calmly put it back to his waist. Under Shaken's mad gaze, Oleus turned around and made an inviting gesture to the blond man with the huge hole in the ground that was still emitting a wisp of white smoke as the background.

"That's all. Let's go."

He spoke in a lazy, light and matter-of-fact tone, with a relaxed look on his face.

"Don't be afraid, you can trust me to do things."