Chapter 496: The Cave
It instantly plundered the water gathered around Ai Ping and turned it into its weapon based on its feeling. Before Ai Ping could resist, it suddenly shrank and covered him completely.
It was like being in the deep sea of a lake. The pressure brought by the water on his body gradually increased, and the feeling of suffocation came bit by bit. Aiping tried hard to regain control of the water element, but he was no match for the mutant ape who was crushed by his level.
Except for Lu Weiyi, the other three people around him all have wood-related abilities. Even if Li Ze noticed and wanted to rescue him, his green plants would pass through the water film and hit Ai Ping, which would be completely useless. It even left marks of being whipped on Ai Ping's body.
This made Han Fei immediately withdraw his supernatural power without punching. The two of them watched helplessly as the water film completely adhered to Ai Ping's body and covered him all over, even tightening continuously.
The training in the army prevented him from suffocating immediately, but the huge tightening pressure made his face gradually show pain. He struggled with his arms outward, but the water film was like clothes worn against the skin and was not affected at all. If he continued like this, sooner or later he would be compressed into a ball of flesh by the pressure.
Lu Weiyi used his mental power to continuously observe the mutated ape underground, and when he realized that the other party was already risking everything, the idea of leaving immediately disappeared.
It may regard their crystal cores as its life-saving straw. At this time, it would rather die than let them leave so easily. It can only take a chance.
No one knew where the underground cavity extended to. Although the ground where they were standing seemed safe, there was actually a cavity a few meters away. If large weapons were used, they would probably be buried together.
Without too much time to think, Lu Weiyi quickly used his mental power to cover the entire mutant monkey, forming a barrier, isolating the other party's continuously released supernatural powers, and temporarily saving Ai Ping from the crisis.
The water around him lost control and fell to the ground with a splash, forming a puddle. Ai Ping covered his neck and coughed violently. Han Fei stepped forward to help him move his limbs. Li Ze was alert and guarded his surroundings.
If you want to leave, now is the best time, but...
Lu Weiyi used his mental power to observe the mutant ape underground. The ground around its body was already soaked with blood, attracting many bloodthirsty insects. Many of them were beaten by it and left with corpses. Its legs were pierced by protruding stone spikes, making it almost impossible for it to leave. This was the best time to kill it.
Li Ze understood what Lu Weiyi meant, "Otherwise wait until you die, and we will try again."
"The blood is constantly attracting animals. Who knows, before you die, the crystal core may be picked up by some animal."
An S-level mutant animal crystal core is really a bargain. If you miss this opportunity, you will have to fight hard to get it. It is a rare opportunity for both him and the entire Yuebanwan base. There is no reason for Lu Weiyi to give up at this time.
Lu Weiyi scanned the space, slightly adjusted the supplies in the static space, cleared a large area, and said to the people behind him, "You go further away, I'll go down and deal with him as soon as possible."
"I'll help you," Li Ze said.
"No, I'll call you when I need you."
Li Ze thought for a moment and nodded, "Ten meters away, we'll support you at any time."
"good".
After the few people retreated far away, Lu Weiyi turned off the searchlight on his forehead. In the darkness, he relied solely on his eyes blessed with supernatural powers to see things. He quietly stretched out the small green branch and silently touched the mutant monkey.
The mutant monkey did not appear in the position specially left in the space as expected. Instead, it was discovered by the mutant monkey and slapped. Fortunately, the small green branch was as thin as a hair, so it had no effect.
No matter whether Lu Weiyi encountered high-level mutated animals or plants or zombies, the first thing he would do was to fight directly. On the one hand, it was used to practice actual combat, and on the other hand, it was used to improve the team's combat experience. It had been a long time since he had directly put the zombies into a static space for further processing.
The first time I encountered the situation where I couldn't retract it, I was quite surprised.
He retracted the small green branch, swung his hand around a branch, swung himself over, and quietly went underground. Even though he had held his breath, the mutant ape still noticed his presence at the first moment, and this was under the premise that the mental barrier was still covering its body.
The deformed arm had already reached out sharply when it was still several meters away from it. The grasping posture of its five fingers looked like Tathagata reaching out to grab Sun Wukong. Fortunately, the size contrast was not that great.
If he was really caught, the calf-length section might be shattered into pieces. Lu Weiyi dodged flexibly and reached out to grab it.
The moment he touched the mutant monkey's arm, he mobilized his mental power to cover the entire monkey and helped him enter the space.
The moment the whole ape was taken into the space, Lu Weiyi felt as if his brain was hit by an excessively huge energy from within. It felt as if an exploding bomb was placed inside his body, and energy exploded in all directions.
This was the first time that he clearly felt the energy rich in the S-level crystal core being completely absorbed. Even though he was SS-level, he was still knocked to the ground by the impact of this huge energy and fell into the ground that was already soaked with blood.
Fortunately, the surrounding stone thorns pierced into the mutant ape's body and entered the space with him, which saved Lu Weiyi from being pierced into a sieve by the stone thorns.
His brain, which could explode at any time, put his mental power on the verge of going out of control, making it extremely difficult to control. This made the originally easy act of killing the mutant ape extremely difficult.
After Lu Weiyi completely took out the S-level crystal core from the mutant monkey's body, the noisy energy in his brain completely subsided. Lu Weiyi seemed to have experienced a life-and-death battle without the smoke of gunpowder, and lost consciousness holding the crystal core.
It was Zhuang Aiyi's voice that woke him up. The child kept calling him in a crying voice, wiping his face with a wet handkerchief and covering his nose from time to time. If he was not his own son and was crying so miserably, Lu Weiyi would have suspected that the little thing was planning to kill him.
"Ai Yi" Lu Weiyi pulled his hand away, and what he saw was space.
"Little daddy, what's wrong with you? Your brother said you were hurt." Zhuang Aiyi used all his strength to try to help the man up.
It was only after Lu Weiyi exerted effort silently that he was able to sit up.
He looked at the time. It was only an hour before they took action, so it should still be midnight.
"It's okay, Dad was slightly injured, but he's fine now." The crystal core that he originally held in his hand had been completely absorbed.
An S-level crystal core, even if it is not from the same series, still greatly improves his supernatural powers. If he has enough crystal cores to replenish it, he can probably upgrade at any time.
The current situation would indeed be smoother after the upgrade, but he had never experienced an SSS-level upgrade in his previous life, so he didn't know what would happen.
As far as I can remember, Zhuang Mingxu, the only one who successfully upgraded, was in a coma for a whole month and was declared brain dead by many healing psychics. He never said why he woke up in the end, and he didn't even mention the feeling of the upgrade to anyone. Not long after that, he died in a group of zombies.
This made him afraid to escalate under such circumstances.
"Dad is fine, you guys go back to sleep, I'm going out to find your godfather."
Zhuang Aiyi bit her lip for a while, nodded reluctantly but obediently, pulled her brother to leave, and advised in a crying voice, "Daddy must be fine."
"Don't worry, Dad will take good care of himself."
Watching the two little kids leave the space, Lu Weiyi also slipped away.
The place they came out of was where the mutant monkey disappeared. Without the pressure of this S-level mutant monkey, the number of mutant animals around had obviously increased. They shuttled through the jungle on land above, making various noises from time to time, which sounded creepy in the dark.
"Master Lu, where have you been?" Han Fei's voice came from the gaps between the dense stone thorns, and a faint light penetrated the darkness and blinded his eyes, "Li Ze, Ai Ping, we found it, come quickly."
Suddenly, footsteps were heard from a slightly farther direction, and someone emerged from the stone spikes with difficulty. Seeing that they were all looking for him, Lu Weiyi apologized, "I'm sorry, I have consumed too much mental energy, and I was protecting myself and absorbing the crystal core, so I didn't notice anything else."
"I'm glad you're okay. We didn't wait for any movement and found that you and the mutant ape were missing. We thought something happened to you." Li Ze said as he approached and raised his eyebrows. "Do you... feel uncomfortable?"
"Um?"
"You are bleeding from all seven orifices." Ai Ping condensed a group of bubbles and wet the towel for him to wipe it.
Lu Weiyi took out a mirror directly. He didn't notice anything until he looked at himself. Then he found that his face was covered with blood. It was probably because he had been wiped with Zhuang Aiyi's handkerchief before, and the blood became more evenly smeared. If he looked from the side, he could even see the traces of blood flowing from his ear.
I didn’t expect that the S-level creatures would bring such a huge impact after being taken into the space.
Fortunately, the energy had stabilized at this time, and his mental strength no longer showed signs of running wild, and returned to normal.
"I feel fine." Lu Weiyi simply wiped it and looked around, "How big is this place?"
"I haven't seen the end." Li Ze shook his head. Looking from below, he found that there were not only protruding stone spikes on the ground, but also hanging stone spikes. They were formed naturally like stalactites, and looked like they could fall down at any time. "This should be a cave that existed before the end of the world. It's hard to say where it leads to."
"Have you noticed that there are no mutant creatures underneath?" Han Fei asked.
"Isn't this it?" Ai Ping lowered his chin towards the worm that was still wriggling in the pool of blood and sucking blood.
"I think it must have fallen from above. I didn't find any mutant creatures around, not even a rat," said Han Fei.
"It seems... indeed," Li Ze frowned and thought for a while before replying.
"Never mind him, let's go up and continue looking for people, so as not to delay the meeting with the rescue team later."
"Indeed, let's go."
It was very easy for several wood-type ability users to climb to a height of several dozen meters. Even the injured Song Xiao did not show much difficulty. After finding the message left by Xu Sa, they hurriedly set off again.
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