After just one encounter, the Zerg suffered heavy casualties.
For a moment, the entire corridor was filled with a strong smell of blood, and the roars and screams of the Zerg came one after another from all directions.
But there were still too many Zergs lying in ambush, and this underground safe house seemed to have turned into a temporary insect nest. With his gifted vision, Gu Qiongsheng saw many insects crawling out from the ground, continuously, and heading towards their direction.
...This won’t work!
Gu Qiongsheng gathered his five fingers together, and the silk thread instantly tightened, severing the two riftworms' waists. A torrential downpour of blood fell, gradually coating the smooth corridor tiles with a dark blue blood.
"Save them first!" she shouted, "Sister Zhou, save them first, let's retreat as soon as possible!"
As more and more Zergs came to attack, Zhou Feng immediately made a decision. He swept his long stick, crushing several bat insects and shouting, "Xiao Hunzi, help!"
Zheng Hun muttered angrily, "Can you please call me Lieutenant Colonel Zheng? I'm also a Lieutenant Colonel in Fanxing, on par with you."
"Besides, my teammates are all here, please give me some face!"
Although he complained, his hands did not slow down at all. He spread out the five fingers of his right hand and clenched them forward.
Something seemed to twitch in the darkness, and the space trembled violently.
The next moment, all the Zerg seemed to be imprisoned by an invisible force. A huge vortex seemed to appear in the narrow corridor, roaring and surging, as if to suck them all in and tear them into pieces!
Zheng Hun's spiritual power characteristic is water.
In terms of attack power, it was originally not as good as Zhou Feng's thunder power, but he flexibly used the fast flow of water to stir up invisible waves in the narrow corridor.
The vortex was like a huge millstone, strong and ferocious, advancing inch by inch towards the front of the crowd, destroying everything that blocked the way with a devastating force!
They managed to squeeze out a several-meter-wide path leading to a safe house amidst the Zerg encirclement.
"Tsk," Zhou Feng curled his lips, "Not bad, your years at Fanxing haven't been in vain."
After using this move, Zheng Hun was obviously a little exhausted, with beads of sweat oozing from his forehead.
He panted heavily and said unhappily, "Your bad temper hasn't changed at all over the years."
Zheng Hun waved his hand, and the soldiers, in tacit agreement, rushed forward along the passage leading out of the vortex. After entering the password provided by the researcher, the door to the safe house slowly opened with a click.
The interior was indeed a bright space with its own independent energy system, plenty of oxygen, and many supplies frozen in the corners.
But the people inside didn't know what had happened to them, and they fell all over the ground.
Zhou Feng rushed in first, helped up a person near the door, raised his hand and sniffed his breath: "...He's breathing, still alive!"
"Make way," Gu Qiongsheng ran over quickly from behind, "Sister Zhou, let me go!"
Healing light array, activated!
The safe house wasn't large, and the healing light array was just enough to cover everyone inside. After just a few seconds, the people who had fainted inside slowly regained consciousness, holding onto the wall one by one, and helplessly stood up.
"What happened?" Someone asked in confusion, "We remember there were Zerg, and then we hid..."
Zhou Feng said bluntly: "Yes, I am Lieutenant Colonel Zhou of the Federation Silver Glory Corps. We are here to rescue you."
"This is an emergency. There's no time to explain. Come with me."
"Be careful, there are Zerg outside!"
The researchers were stunned for a moment.
They were all smart people. After a few glances around, they immediately realized the current situation. Then, with grateful expressions on their faces, they quickly followed the soldiers' pace.
Gu Qiongsheng also threw out another "Healing Wind", and the 50% speed bonus buff was added. The group stepped on the wind, and the speed of evacuation increased again.
"No need to go back the same way," the researcher who started first said excitedly, "Let's go through the ventilation duct and turn left. We can reach the ground directly."
Seeing his colleagues who he worked with day and night being rescued one by one and unharmed, he was extremely excited.
When returning, Zheng Hun and Zhou Feng still led the way.
With the help of Gu Qiongsheng's healing skills, the two people's vortex thunder advanced straight forward and was unstoppable.
Fortunately, the ventilation duct had not been occupied by the Zerg. Only a few bat insects that had run the wrong way were spinning back and forth in the duct like headless flies. Zhou Feng was quick-eyed and quick-handed, and he chopped them into mud with a few sticks.
When I poked open the pipe outlet, it was already dark outside.
The starry sky remains unchanged, still shining faithfully in the sky, like countless crystal stones inlaid in the night sky.
With the help of the dim starlight, everyone crawled out of the pipe one after another.
Gu Qiongsheng landed a little further back. Just as he was about to get out, he heard someone in front of him whisper, "Excuse me, is this Therapist Gu?"
Gu Qiongsheng was slightly stunned.
Has her reputation spread here?
Even the researchers at the institute know about it?
Just as he was smiling helplessly and wanted to say something polite, Gu Qiongsheng raised his head slightly, but was caught off guard and met a pair of deep blue eyes.
Shrouded in darkness, the researcher above her had a half-smile on his face, with a faint blue light shining brightly in his eyes, as sharp as a blade and as cold as ice!
“Shhh——”
In an instant, the clothes on his back were torn apart, and eight sharp spider thorns were deflected.
The moment of reaching the ground is the most relaxing moment for everyone.
The parasite hiding among the researchers seized this opportunity and poked the wall with its stinger.
With the help of his powerful jumping ability, he collided head-on with Gu Qiongsheng, and several of them rolled down the ventilation duct in an instant!
The ventilation ducts are cleaned regularly by robots and are naturally smooth and clean.
At this moment, Gu Qiongsheng was shocked to find that the pipe walls around her had been covered with sticky liquid, making the already smooth pipes even colder and more slippery, making it difficult to support.
Along with several soldiers behind her who hadn't had time to climb out, they fell rapidly. Zhou Feng's shouts were fading away from above, and someone was pulling hard at the climbing rope.
“Crack.”
The rope was cut by the spider's thorns.
Gu Qiongsheng tried hard to calm her mind. Even though she couldn't stop the downward trend, she still threw a purifying flash at the person in front of her.
The parasite that was pouncing on her with a laugh suddenly froze.
The next second, he covered his mouth and vomited a large mouthful of blood uncontrollably: "Ugh..."
Gu Qiongsheng pulled again with his right hand!
The silk thread gathered together and instantly tightened between the two people, and an invisible net quickly spread out.
Falling was her disadvantage, but she could also turn it into an advantage because the wall was slippery and she couldn't stop her falling body, and neither could the opponent.
If they maintain this falling speed, they will just fall back to the bottom of the ventilation duct, but the other party will be cut into pieces layer by layer by the sharp silk threads!
In the dark corridor, the falling gravity brought up the blowing wind.
In the corner of the searchlight's eye, Gu Qiongsheng saw the parasite curl up the corners of his lips and smile wantonly.
"You're so funny," the other man murmured, coughing up blood. "Don't you know that silk webs are a specialty of spiders?"
As he spoke, he spread out eight spider thorns, and his body flipped lightly in the air. Like an eight-legged spider, he landed steadily on the spiritual power thread spread out by Gu Qiongsheng.
Gu Qiongsheng's invincible mental thread now became the opponent's foothold.
In this way, the distance between him and Gu Qiongsheng was slightly increased, and the impact of the purifying flash was much weaker.
The parasite wiped the blood from the corner of his lips, and the pain between his brows quickly disappeared. He raised his hand and waved at Gu Qiongsheng from a distance, his voice echoing in the dark corridor.
"Don't be so nervous," he smiled, "that person just wants to give you a small gift in this way."
"Keep going down, deeper underground than the safe house, and you will see the truth about Xiling Star."
Gu Qiongsheng pursed his lips tightly, and the sound of whistling wind came to his ears.
It seemed like someone on the ground jumped down cursing angrily. Judging from the tone, it should be Zhou Feng.
Unfortunately, it was too late. The eight spider thorns of the parasite pressed against the wall, and invisible waves were transmitted quickly. The entire pipeline and even the entire underground area of the research institute began to vibrate. Debris fell and closed the hole in an instant!
At the same time, the deep underground seemed to sense something, a huge tremor suddenly spread, and the ceiling trembled -
A new round of earthquakes is coming.
Looking at the ventilation duct completely blocked by rubble, Gu Qiongsheng wiped the dust from his face, licked his back teeth and said, "Let's hide first and avoid this earthquake."
I don’t know whether this is a small-scale aftershock or a large-scale earthquake like the one when Xiling Star just fell.
...Judging from the timing chosen by the parasite, it is most likely the latter.
If this happens, the institute will most likely continue to collapse, and the remaining people will inevitably be crushed to death by the rubble.
Damn it! Gu Qiongsheng clenched his fists.
The damn parasite was mixed in with the researchers waiting for rescue. The Zerg were guarding the periphery just now and the situation was so urgent that they had no time to distinguish carefully, which fell into his trap.
But now, I have to find a way to survive.
Gu Qiongsheng's mind raced, and he turned back and said firmly, "Let's go back to the safe house."
First get through this wave of aftershocks, then find a way to find an exit, or wait patiently for rescue.
…
On the way back to the safe house, Gu Qiongsheng was on high alert and prepared to fight all the way.
However, they never expected that this corridor was even cleaner than when they came. Not only had the besieging Zerg disappeared without a trace, but even the bodies of the dead Zerg had been cleaned up by something unknown.
Looking at the extremely empty corridor, Gu Qiongsheng frowned.
It seems that the parasite also has the ability to control other Zerg.
The previous sneak attack at the door, including the subsequent siege, was all to create a sense of crisis, making it easier for the parasite to sneak into the rescue team silently.
But Gu Qiongsheng still had many doubts in his mind.
If the other side continues to arrange Zerg to block this corridor, it will definitely slow down their escape and drag them to death in the aftershocks.
But the strange thing is that the other party doesn't seem to simply want to kill them?
What exactly do the so-called "that person", "gift", and "the truth about Xiling Star" mean?
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