Chapter 97 Human Top Skin
“Bang! Bang!”
Two black shadows crashed into the translucent shield one after another, making a dull sound.
Qi Huan gritted his teeth and pushed half of his body forward, barely holding on.
An ice-blue arc of light instantly wrapped around him, and suddenly burst out with a dazzling light. "Snap! Snap!" With two crisp sounds, white smoke suddenly emerged from the black shadows, and they fell to the ground one after another.
Through the shield, one could vaguely see that the two black shadows fell to the ground and there was no movement. It was unclear whether they had fainted temporarily or died directly.
The impact of the black shadow was so great that half of Qi Huan's body was numb and his head was buzzing. His right arm, which was against the shield, was completely unconscious for two seconds.
"Huanhuan, are you okay?" Diwuyuan was afraid that he would be injured by the shock, so he quickly placed the mini medical cabin on his arm.
Yao Yao took over the shield from his hand and continued to block the hole in the wall.
The turquoise light slid across his arms and shoulders, and Qi Huan seemed to be instantly full of blood and regained control of his body in an instant.
He tried to move his right hand, and it was as flexible as before. The Si family's medical cabin was a bit expensive, but the effect was really good.
Seeing him recover, Diwuyuan breathed a sigh of relief and was busy asking the mini bear to close the protective shield to protect the three of them. He regretted it very much at this moment. He was busy helping with various things on Feixing's side some time ago, and with Jiufang Yu and the owner always around him, he felt very safe and forgot to update the energy stones and equipment to raise the level of the mini bear's protective shield.
After the protective shield was sealed, Yao Yao also relaxed, releasing most of the strength of his body that was supporting the shield, leaving only one hand loosely supporting the translucent protective shield.
He looked worriedly in the direction of the mine through the shield, then looked at Diwuyuan and then at Qi Huan, and suggested, "Why don't we retreat first, go out and bring people back?"
“Clang! Clang! Clang!”
How could this be possible? How could one return empty-handed after visiting a mountain of treasures? The treasure-hunting rat on his shoulder was obviously unwilling to leave, and it protested loudly.
That hoarse voice made everyone restless and irritable.
Yao Yao reached out and pinched its mouth, manually muting the microphone. "What do you think?"
Diwu Yuan didn't say anything, and looked at Qi Huan in a tangled manner. He still wanted to stay here and wait for news from Xiao Bai, but it was only thanks to Qi Huan's quick reaction that no one was injured. The protective shield formed by the little bears is only A-level now. If there are really high-level dark beasts inside, they may not be able to withstand a few more similar attacks. It would be bad if Yao Yao and Qi Huan were injured because of his willfulness.
"Let's get two little bears to bring a message to Jiufang Yu, remind him about the soul-eating dark beast, and then retreat." Qi Huan agreed with Yao Yao's point of view.
"good……"
Before Diwuyuan could finish his words, a black shadow suddenly emerged from the ground and slammed into the protective shield.
"Bang!" Even though there was a layer of protective shield between them, the protective shield was still knocked flying by the huge impact. Yao Yao was caught off guard and was hit by the protective shield, staggering and almost falling to the ground.
"Boom!" Just as Qi Huan reached out to hold him, something even more frightening happened. Three or four black shadows broke through the metal wall next to them almost simultaneously and surrounded them from both sides.
“Bang!”
“Bang!”
“Bang!”
The black shadows hit the protective shield one after another, causing ripples of light to appear throughout the entire shield, and the three people inside shook.
Diwu Yuan happened to be facing a black shadow. When he saw clearly that it was a black insect as big as a chair back with its fangs and claws bared, he was so scared that he immediately took half a step back.
Several red rays penetrated the bodies of the insects from different angles. When the corpses fell to the ground with their backs facing up, their serrated mouthparts were still trembling slightly.
The basic design concept of the protective shield of the Fifth Base is the same as that of the original Base No. 3. The shield itself has only a simple protective function. When attacked, it needs to rely on ray guns to fight back. The reaction rhythm seems to be half a beat slower than that of the Si family.
But the benefits are also obvious. They can easily change the ray gun to active attack mode - after all, the person who can change the program is on the scene, so they can be half a beat faster than the Si family's.
Realizing the current problem, Diwuyuan immediately took out a small single-body optical computer, connected it to a little bear and started to modify it quickly.
However, the bugs next to them did not give them any time at all. In an instant, more than a dozen bugs continuously drilled into the holes in the wall and crashed into them like raindrops.
The bugs were hitting with increasing force, with a completely desperate approach. They even used their serrated mouthparts as weapons, attacking one position after another. Not only was blue-green mucus left on the protective shield, but it was also cracked.
Yao Yao used Qi Huan's shield to block, but it was also cracked.
"It's too unusable, isn't it?" Yao Yao complained while looking at the shield.
"The original design can only block three times." Qi Huan smiled bitterly, "I will give you feedback on the trial after we get out."
"No, these things are very high-level, and the protective shield can't hold up." Yao Yao threw down the broken shield, took out a few protective suits, and threw two of them to Qi Huan and Diwuyuan respectively, "Put them on quickly."
Qi Huan took a look and saw that it was also the type with acrylic rings on the neck and hands and feet, which could form a space suit-like spherical head cover on the head. In addition, there were several lighting sources on the protective suit, which were more convenient to use than the light source of the personal terminal.
"You brought an S-level protective suit, why didn't you give Jiufang Yu one just now?" Diwuyuan also began to worry about Jiufang Yu's safety.
"Didn't you think of it before?" Yao Yao touched his ankle that had been hit by the shield while putting it on, and his cheek twitched in pain. "Besides, he has a mecha in his hand, which is definitely more useful than a protective suit at a critical moment."
The treasure-hunting mouse refused to go back, so it shrank and stayed in his hood.
"That's right. He is a sentinel. He is more powerful than our three guides." Diwuyuan nodded.
The three of them were busy putting on protective clothing, and they could hear the sound of the protective shields shattering.
Almost at the same time when they put on their clothes, two holes were broken in the protective shield supported by the mini bear outside, and two bugs immediately crawled in.
Just as Yao Yao breathed a sigh of relief, a bug jumped onto the spherical hood above his head. The close visual impact made the treasure-hunting mouse inside shiver with fear. Yao Yao also choked and almost fell to the ground.
In a flash, golden light penetrated the insect's head, and blue-green mucus splashed on the protective shield.
By the time Yao Yao had wiped off the slime in front of his eyes, Qi Huan had already neatly dealt with the two bugs that had crawled in.
"Let's retreat first." Qi Huan looked at the swarm of insects swarming outside and knew that he couldn't protect three people with his level of skills alone, so he hurriedly said to Diwu Yuandao.
Diwuyuan nodded, took out the light computer and started to control the mini bears. Some of the bears carried ray guns and shot at the insects that were surrounding them from the outside, while some of them started to build a ladder upwards using the hole where Qiqiba and the others fell as a channel.
Qi Huan focused on dealing with the bugs that were crawling in through the hole.
His movements of drawing the knife were decisive and neat. The gold-removing dagger turned into handsome golden streams between his fingers. Any insect that got in would be chopped in half in a moment, without any escape.
Wherever the golden light goes, not a single piece of armor is left.
Yao Yao who was standing next to him was stunned. Wasn't Qi Huan a guide? How come he was more skilled and handy in killing insects than the people in the protection team around him?
So awesome!
"Hurry, you go first." Qi Huan pushed Yao Yao, who was looking at him in a daze, and signaled him and Diwuyuan to climb the ladder first, while he would cover their backs.
Yao Yao came back to his senses and looked to the other side. The light ladder built by the mini bear was already more than ten meters high.
Diwuyuan also put away his laptop, and the two of them ran to the ladder one after the other and started climbing up.
Qi Huan turned his back to the two of them, waving the gold-removing dagger to block the chasing insects, walking and retreating.
Rays of golden light swept across the sky, and the corpses of insects fell to the ground with a crackling sound.
Qi Huan retreated to the side of the ladder, looked up, and saw that Yao Yao and Diwuyuan had already climbed four or five meters high. He felt a little more at ease. At this speed, the two should be able to reach the ground in about two minutes.
He took a deep breath, clenched the dagger in his hand and continued to swing, intending to hold out down there for another two minutes, then climb up in one go.
At this moment, something strange happened.
A slender black shadow rushed straight in from the mine, passed through the hole in the metal wall, and wrapped around Yao Yao's neck like lightning.
"Ah!!!" Yao Yao screamed as he was pulled down from the ladder by the huge force. He fell heavily to the ground and was dizzy.
"Yao Yao!" Diwuyuan grabbed the ladder with one hand and tried to pull Yao Yao with the other, but his efforts were in vain.
What entangled Yao Yao was not a bug, but the same strange vine that had previously entangled Xingqi and Jiufang Yu.
Now that the sneak attack was successful, it dragged Yao Yao all the way towards the mine.
"Help!!!" Yao Yao was strangled by the neck and dragged forward. He struggled desperately to grab something, but unfortunately there was nothing on the ground except insect corpses, gravel and sand, and he had nowhere to hold on.
"Run! Go and call for help!" Qi Huan killed another insect that pounced in front of him, roared at Diwuyuan, and chased after him without hesitation, holding the gold-removing dagger.
He ran all the way after the vine and tried several times to rescue Yao Yao, but unfortunately he was always four or five steps away from reaching him.
By the time he realized that he might have fallen into a trap, like a fat fish chasing the bait, he had already run quite a distance into the mine.
Thinking of this, he tentatively slowed down.
The vine dragging Yao Yao in front also slowed down.
He pretended to be exhausted, stopped, propped up his legs and gasped for breath in place, and the vines in front of him really stopped.
Qi Huan was so angry that he wanted to curse. This broken vine had a high IQ. Not only did it know how to make a feint to the east and attack in the west, sending those bugs over as cannon fodder to attract his attention and then launch a sneak attack, it also knew how to catch one to lure the other, and was so greedy that it was ready to catch both of them at the same time.
While Qi Huan was sorting out the situation, the vines were not idle either. A slender black shadow had silently crawled over from the top of the mine, winding down, gradually approaching his lower back.
"To hell with you!" Feeling the cold breath approaching from behind him, Qi Huan grabbed a bag of special chili powder from his storage bag, threw it towards the vines behind him, and then rolled towards Yao Yao.
He made it with the grinding peppers Jiang Huai brought over. It was extremely spicy, and could be called the interstellar version of the devil pepper. The sentinels around him didn't like this kind of strong flavor, so he ground the peppers into pepper powder and made some of it into pepper beast jerky, planning to give it to Quan Hai, who loved spicy food, the next time they met. He originally planned to make the rest of the bag into chili oil, but now he can only use it as pepper spray for self-defense.
The vine in the air was still for two seconds, and then it swung wildly like a sneeze, causing the one wrapped around Yao Yao to tremble as well.
Good opportunity!
Qi Huan tightly grasped the gold-removing dagger, steadied his breathing, and quietly moved closer.
Yao Yao's face was originally suffocating, but now the clamp on his neck loosened a little, and he breathed a few breaths in comfort. Seeing Qi Huan coming to save him, he subconsciously held his breath again.
Their eyes met, and Qi Huan's beautiful amber eyes turned to the right, indicating that he should run to the passage on the right after he escaped.
Yao Yao blinked to show that he understood.
Half a second later, the gold-removing dagger in Qi Huan's hand slid past like lightning, and the pulling force behind him was gone. Yao Yao climbed up and ran desperately in the direction that Qi Huan had just indicated.
There was a noise behind him. Just as he was about to turn around to look, he heard Qi Huan's voice, "No need to look, run!"
The chaotic footsteps of the two people echoed in a mess in the mine. After running for a long time, there was still no end in sight. Yao Yao gradually became exhausted, and his previously sprained ankle was hurting so much that his speed slowed down. Qi Huan could only drag him and continue to run forward.
A strong wind blew behind his ears, and Qi Huan quickly grabbed Yao Yao and rolled on the ground, avoiding the first attack of the vines.
But Yao Yao's foot was badly injured. He had been holding on by his last breath before, but now he fell to the ground and couldn't get up for a while.
"Go away and don't worry about me." Yao Yao, who was sitting on the ground, sighed and said to Qi Huan.
Because of the previous dragging, his protective suit was covered with dust and mucus from the insect corpses, and he looked very disheveled.
"No, get up quickly, let's go together." Qi Huan clenched the gold-removing dagger in his hand and stared at the vines that were ready to attack. "If I leave you here, you will hate me for the rest of your life."
"He probably wishes I were dead. I'm the only one forcing him to be my brother." Yao Yao took something out of his storage bag and held it in his hand.
"Don't talk nonsense. Didn't you see how worried he was about you just now?" Is this the time to be hypocritical? Can we talk about it after we are out of danger? Qi Huan was so angry that he almost kicked him, but he noticed from the corner of his eye that Yao Yao had an egg-shaped object in his hand, which was covered with lattice-like anti-slip patterns like landmines.
"What?"
"Energy bomb."
Qi Huan: ???
"The reason why things like stone beasts and dark beasts coexist in gem mines is because they all need to absorb energy. They are naturally unable to resist the attraction of energy. So if you give it a large amount of energy that it cannot bear in a short period of time, it will explode and die."
Qi Huan: ...
I'm afraid only a wealthy and inhumane family like yours could come up with such an extravagant method.
"When I shout 3, 2, 1, run when you hear 1. Don't worry about me."
"No..." Qi Huan turned back anxiously and wanted to argue with Yao Yao, but the vines on the opposite side took advantage of his distraction and rolled over like lightning.
Yao Yao was so frightened that his eyes widened, and he subconsciously activated the energy bomb in advance to attract the vines' attention to himself so that Qi Huan could take the opportunity to escape.
At the critical moment, a red light suddenly appeared and cut off the vines that were reaching towards the two of them.
The moment the broken vines fell to the ground, a tall and slender figure appeared beside Yao Yao and Qi Huan.
"How did it become like this? Where is Diwuyuan?" Jiufang Yu held the halberd in one hand and quickly took a look at the two embarrassed people. He was slightly relieved when he saw that they were wearing S-level protective clothing.
"He should have gone out. It's a long story." Qi Huan sighed and helped Yao Yao, who was still stunned, up. "By the way, Yao Yao said that this thing should be a soul-eating dark beast that likes to attack human souls."
Qi Huan briefly and concisely repeated to Jiu Fangyu the situation they had previously speculated.
Jiufang Yu frowned, "No wonder it attacked you."
Qi Huan paused, and realized what Jiu Fangyu meant. It was not a coincidence that the vines attacked Yao Yao but did not catch Diwuyuan. They were targeting the treasure-hunting rat! Diwuyuan's spirit body had been captured, so it was not interested in him.
"Oh, right," Qi Huan recalled another piece of news when he talked about treasure-hunting rats. "Treasure-hunting rats are extremely excited, so the gems in this mine are likely to be SS-grade."
"That's bad." Jiufang Yu frowned. This vine had been absorbing energy underground for who knows how many years. If the mineral deposit is SS-grade, then this troublesome vine that could not be seen from the beginning to the end might also be SS-grade.
Today, it will be easy for the three of them to get in but difficult to get out of the mine.
He reached into the storage jade ring and took out a round object the size of a star coin. He placed his index finger and thumb in the middle and gently pinched it. A tall and majestic black mecha suddenly appeared in front of the three people.
The mecha was completely black, with sharp and smooth lines full of the unique sense of power of mechanical products. The outermost layer of the metal shell was transparent and flawless, as if it was wrapped in a layer of light gold crystal coating. Under the light source, it flashed with golden light as bright as gems, which was domineering and cool.
Qi Huan's breathing suddenly stopped for a moment.
Mecha! Epic human top skin!
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