Chapter 497: Support Arrives
The one they encountered before Xu Sa was a mutant python, several hundred meters long. Its crystal core was located too far away, so Lu Weiyi, who relied on detecting danger by detecting the energy of crystal cores, didn't realize he had entered the opponent's territory at all.
It was Li Ze who asked first, "Have you ever felt like you were being stared at?"
"Yes!" Han Fei held a dagger in one hand, with the long blade extending along his arm across his chest. He didn't know when his steps had slowed down.
"Three hundred meters away, there is an S-level mutant animal," Lu Weiyi said in a low voice, with a bad feeling in his heart.
"Young Master Lu, turn around, now!" Ai Pingli gave the order, and the other two immediately carried out the order, with Lu Weiyi following closely behind.
Just as he turned around, Song Xiao, who had been following them reluctantly, suddenly stepped on empty air, and half of his body sank into the ground covered with fallen leaves. The tension in the dark night, coupled with the fact that he had been injured and had been following them reluctantly all the way, made his spirits tense to the extreme at this moment. The sudden change made him scream out.
The surroundings seemed to have entered a moment of stillness. Everyone was observing the situation around them with bated breath. When they didn't notice anything unusual, they all breathed a sigh of relief silently.
"Fuck!" Han Fei cursed softly and immediately planned to go forward and pull the person out.
"Get out of the way!" Li Ze's voice suddenly exploded, and rapid gunshots rang out in front of him, along with the flash of fire and the sound of bullets hitting metal.
At the same time, a gust of wind carrying a fishy smell quickly approached the direction of the few people. Han Fei, who had already grabbed Song Xiao's arm, rolled on the ground and left his original position. When he stood up and attacked with his gun, he saw that Song Xiao, who had been shouting loudly just now, had only two legs left stuck in the ground, and his upper body was gone.
The surroundings returned to silence. If it weren't for the fishy smell of blood still lingering in the air, it would be hard not to suspect that everything that had just happened was just an illusion.
The remaining four people stood back to back, trying their best to use their special abilities to detect the surrounding situation, hoping to find the elusive creature.
"What...is it?" Han Fei asked in a low voice after a long while.
“I didn’t see it…”
"A...python." Lu Weiyi's words were squeezed out from between his teeth. He had tried his best to avoid the vibration caused by the sound, so as not to attract the attention of the animal above his head, "on...the top of the head."
The three people beside him raised their heads at the same time. The first thing that came into view was a pair of yellow eyes as big as a baby ball. They looked like lanterns hanging in the air, extremely eye-catching.
In front of such a behemoth, superpowers and levels have become less important. The size alone makes humans feel insignificant.
The sound of someone swallowing hard was heard beside them, and no one spoke. With the other party's extremely fast speed, there was no possibility for them to escape instantly.
There was deathly silence, sweat dripping from the forehead, and the two sides seemed to be stuck in a silent confrontation.
Just when Lu Weiyi was thinking about whether to take the three people into the space to hide and leave, or to give up on the three people, a circle of crackling lightning came from not far away, instantly attracting the mutant python above his head. Its figure hanging silently on the tree suddenly looked in the direction of the lightning, and disappeared like a gust of wind as it came.
"Leaving...leaving?" Han Fei asked in a trembling voice.
"Not far." Lu Weiyi recognized at a glance that the movement was caused by Xu Sa's supernatural power. While he was hesitating whether to go forward to support, a long whip made of flames was waving continuously in another direction.
"It should be a lure to lure the tiger away from the mountain. Let's go."
Several people quickened their pace and ran towards the direction where the fire appeared. After several hundred meters, Liu Rui's figure appeared from a protruding rock on the ground.
"Quick...quick..." He flashed and disappeared behind the stone.
When a few people came forward, they found that there was a cave entrance. The leaves in the woods were rustling, and the python that was led away seemed to be approaching this side.
Liu Rui's voice urged anxiously underground. The four people jumped down quickly. As soon as the stone blocked the entrance to the cave, they felt a sudden and powerful impact. The boulder instantly sank half a meter into the ground and was completely embedded in the entrance to the cave, blocking the small entrance.
The little green branch broke through the soil and glanced at the situation outside. Lu Weiyi immediately became alert and said, "Let's go first. The mutant animals can identify living creatures by the strength of the crystal core energy. The few of us gathered together are walking crystal cores."
After the mutant python above noticed that they had disappeared, it wandered on the ground sniffing the breath of several people and was preparing to attack.
Liu Rui didn't say anything and skillfully led them to run in one direction.
"Are you with Xu Sa?" Lu Weiyi asked.
"In..." Liu Rui started to pant after running only two steps. This was not the physical condition of an S-level mutant at all.
Lu Weiyi leaned over and tried to carry him on his back, but Han Fei, the biggest man, took the lead. He did not slow down at all and threw the gun he was carrying towards Li Ze beside him. He stretched out his hand to grab Liu Rui's arm and spun him around, then he lay on top of him.
"Just show me the way."
"North... north..." Liu Rui said, pointing his hand in a direction.
Lu Weiyi's mental power spread around along the underground space. The surrounding area was a natural cave with strange rocks and twisted passages. There were strangely shaped stones standing there, and one might bump into them if one was not careful.
The widest area is more than ten meters wide, and the narrowest area is only half a meter wide. You need to turn sideways to barely pass through. The ground is uneven, sometimes sloping upward, and occasionally winding downward.
After walking a few hundred meters in a hurry, they heard footsteps in front of them. Several people immediately stopped and held their guns for defense.
"Sa...Brother Sa" Liu Rui shouted first.
"It's me! Did you get it?" Xu Sa's voice echoed slightly in the cave. He appeared in sight in an instant, looked around at Lu Weiyi, and said with a smile, "I knew you were okay."
"Why are there only a few of you? Where are the others?" Xu Sa led them to a slightly larger cave where there was a burning fire on the ground and the air was filled with the smell of meat.
"What have you eaten? Is there any more? Give me some." Han Fei put Liu Rui down.
Xu Sa immediately took out a pot of stewed meat from the space, opened the lid, and the smell immediately made several people swallow their saliva unconsciously, "It's safe here, you guys eat something first."
"Liu Rui was seriously injured. I accidentally fell here while carrying him. I found out there was no danger, so I decided to take care of him for a few days before leaving." Xu Sa briefly described their situation and looked at other people.
After Lu Weiyi investigated, he found that this place was at least ten meters above the ground. No wonder he didn't notice it when he was flying the plane in the air before.
After a brief conversation among the few people, the whole pot of meat was eaten up.
Xu Sa knew that they were being plotted against and was furious, but Song Xiaoren was already dead, so he couldn't say anything.
"The rescuers from the base may arrive soon. We should hurry up to meet them and find other people," Lu Weiyi said after a short rest.
"Okay, but the surrounding area is the territory of the mutant python..." Xu Sa looked upset when he mentioned that thing, "I don't know how it mutated. Its scales can't be penetrated by its special power, and the crystal core gun can't leave any trace. I have come into contact with it four times, and except seeing it open its mouth to eat, I haven't seen any other abilities of it."
"I don't know whether I have any special abilities or not. After that, I just hid underground and only went up to hunt occasionally."
"If I hadn't accidentally heard the gunshots coming from above, I would have planned to take Liu Rui along this passage and walk out of its territory before leaving." Xu Sa said here, looking at Lu Weiyi with burning eyes, "I feel that its level is not low, how about we join forces to kill it?"
Their base is full of high-level psychics, so high-level crystal cores are naturally in short supply at all times. Normally, they would even count the number of high-level mutant zombies around the base and collect them purposefully. Now that they encounter one, they naturally don't want to give up, especially when they hear that they have support on the way.
"We encountered a mutant monkey two days ago. I felt that its level was not low. Liu Rui was seriously injured at the time, and I was in a hurry to leave, otherwise I would have wanted to take that monkey in." Xu Sa touched his chin with a look of regret.
"It's already been taken away by me. Let's not fight with this mutant python for now." Lu Weiyi was worried that his superpowers would be over-shocked and he would lose control and upgrade on the spot. "Let's walk along here first and see if we can avoid it."
When Xu Sa heard him say this, he immediately realized that something was wrong. If it were any other time, Lu Weiyi would definitely advocate leading his teammates to rush forward. Whether it was for training everyone or for the crystal core, he would never choose to avoid it.
He responded calmly and looked around. Apart from looking a little disheveled, he didn't find any serious injuries, so he felt relieved.
After a short rest, several people set out again. It was pitch black underground, but there was no danger. Even the rats that ran by from time to time had not changed in size. They hurriedly dodged when they saw humans. Fortunately, there were some mutant animals that accidentally fell down and needed to be dealt with, which reminded them that this was not the end of the world.
The cave continued to extend. After more than an hour, the group had climbed over a hill. They felt that they should leave the mutant python's territory, so they chose a place close to the ground and artificially dug an exit.
Good luck came when they left the cave and the sound of an airplane could be heard in the sky.
"Are they coming?" Han Fei excitedly climbed the big tree next to him and jumped towards high place, not forgetting to turn back and call Xu Sa, "Someone come here, my supernatural power will be regarded as an attack when I go up there."
Xu Sa has been taking care of Liu Rui alone and has not dared to sleep. He really doesn't have the energy to do that at this moment. "See if it's a plane. If it is, I'll release lightning directly to alert them."
"Yes." Before Han Fei could answer, Lu Weiyi's mental power had already given feedback first. Passenger planes with the Yuebanwan logo and fighter helicopters were lined up in a formation and were flying overhead.
Xu Sa immediately released a ball of lightning upwards through the gaps in the dense forest. The crackling lightning rose into the air and exploded at a height of several dozen meters. It was particularly obvious in the early morning sky like a thunderstorm.
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