Chapter 130
"Is there anyone still alive?!"
Yuan Ling took a deep breath and ran towards the source of the sound.
The others followed her, with Song Yue among them.
The crowd walked around a blind spot and a dark cave appeared before them.
"I didn't expect there was a cave behind the camp!" Ran Yan's eyes widened. Seeing Yuan Ling about to rush in, she hurriedly raised her voice, "Sister Yuan Ling, be careful!"
Having said that, she rushed in without any hesitation.
Faced with the dilemma of life and death and saving lives, Song Yue saw that the investigators chose the latter without hesitation.
"Hello? Are you a member of the scientific expedition team? We are the rescue team sent by Gran Continent to rescue you. Please reply if you hear me!"
Yuan Ling's personal level is 8. His specialty is shielding. He has a strong ability to protect himself, so he has the courage to always be at the front.
Apart from her echo, no other sound was heard in the cave.
"Strange, did everyone hear the cry for help just now?" Yuan Ling turned around and asked, worried that she might be hallucinating.
However, as soon as she turned around, Shen Xin's shout was heard in the team.
"Be careful of Yuan Ling behind you!"
"Open the shield!"
After all, he is a senior investigator, and his reaction is not ordinary fast. After hearing Shen Xin's prompt, he opened the shield in an instant!
Then there was a bang!
Something hit the top of her shield hard!
What a great strength!
Yuan Ling supported himself on the shield with both hands, his expression looking a little strained.
At the same time, Chen Xin used a skill called Burning Sky. The flame shot out like a dragon and collided forcefully with the object pressing on the shield!
Puff——
The thing was burned by the flames, making crackling sounds.
Chen Xin: "I'll cover you, retract the shield! Come back!"
Yuan Ling retracted her hands, and the translucent shield covering her disappeared.
She rushed back and Ran Yan met her.
"Sister Yuan Ling! Are you hurt?!" Ran Yan's skill is healing, and she asked her teammates as soon as she saw them.
Yuan Ling took a breath and waved his hand: "No, I activated my shield in time."
If she hadn't reacted quickly, someone of a lower level would have been crushed into a meat patty by now.
Wait, what exactly attacked her just now?
Yuan Ling was stunned for a moment, then turned around and had the chance to look at the thing that almost took her life.
The pupils dilated instantly!
Evil creature...!
They actually encountered an evil creature!
Damn it, this time the star rating has actually been raised to four stars! See if she doesn't go back and settle the score with those blind reviewers!
Yan Zhuo also saw part of the thing clearly at this time. He frowned and stopped the two of them to the back: "Your skills can save your lives. Stand behind and assist Shen Xin and me!"
Without waiting for the two to agree, he rushed in front of Shen Xin and swung his fist fiercely!
The black hand tentacle that was originally planning to sneak attack Chen Xin was suddenly hit by this punch. The pain caused the tip of the tentacle to crack, and it retracted into the darkness with a whoosh.
Ran Yan and Yuan Ling were stunned.
Yan Zhuo introduced himself as someone who had no skills. It turns out that's because he's a pure tank investigator who can take down a monster with just a pair of iron fists! What skills do you need?
As for Song Yue? She was the one with no skills.
Since she was useless, she was placed in a corner as a mobile personnel since Yuan Ling was attacked.
At this time, Song Yue understood the manpower allocation of their team, which could be explained in gaming terms as follows:
Ran Yan focuses on treatment and is responsible for saving the wounded and dying teammates; Yuan Ling is considered a semi-support, and a shield can provide strong protection for himself and teammates fighting in the front; Yan Zhuo is a melee fighter and uses iron fists as weapons.
And Chen Xin is the output core of the entire team - the fire mage.
All three skills he introduced earlier were released.
Fire Wall uses fire as a wall to block attacks while also causing damage to monsters.
Burning Sky, a single-target fire attack skill, is shaped like a dragon and has extremely powerful attack power. It can burn the monster's tentacles to ashes in one move.
There is also a Purgatory Sea of Fire, a group attack skill. Just now, several tentacles emerged from the depths of the darkness and almost took Yan Zhuo away. It was Shen Xin's group attack skill that instantly killed the monster.
A burning smell wafted out of the cave. Song Yue raised her hand and caught the ashes falling from the sky. These were the ashes of the burnt monster.
Ran Yan and Yuan Ling breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately ran forward, hurriedly asking if Shen Xin and Yan Zhuo were okay.
Yan Zhuo loosened his wrist and waved his hand: "It's okay."
Chen Xin also retracted his palm: "It's okay, it's just a level 1 evil creature."
Evil creature...
Song Yue murmured in her heart.
It turned out that this was the "other species" that Yan Zhuo had mentioned before. It looked like a bacterium magnified tens of thousands of times, with countless freely retractable tentacles, black in color, constantly wriggling, and extremely twisted.
After hearing what Shen Xin said, Yuan Ling felt relieved: “Fortunately, it’s only level 1, we can deal with it.”
After a pause, he suddenly felt angry and said, "It seems like it really is four stars!" They were not wrong.
Ana Shen frowned slightly: “Well, I will report this to the contact person later.”
Although there is only one level 1 one, according to the star rating rules, as long as evil creatures are found during the mission, no matter how many or how high the level of the evil creatures is, they will all start at four stars.
"So, those corpses hanging outside were eaten by that evil creature?" Song Yue asked at the right time.
Shen Xin frowned and said, “Yes.”
"The evil creature feeds on human flesh. I'm sure it devoured the scientific expedition team members in the camp that way."
Song Yue pondered, "What about the pilot in the crashed plane?" After being eaten, there should be bones left, right? But I didn't see any.
As soon as he finished speaking, suddenly, the sound of people talking came again from the depths of the cave.
"...Is there anyone outside...? Are they here... to save us..."
"...Great...Save us..."
Everyone was shocked!
Still alive!
Yuan Ling wanted to rush forward again, but was stopped by Yan Zhuo.
"What's wrong?" Yuan Ling turned around and looked at him in confusion.
Yan Zhuo: "Let me go, you assist me."
Yuan Ling wanted to say that there was no need, she had a shield and could not die, but before she could say anything, Yan Zhuo took action first.
Forget it, she thought, it doesn’t matter who goes, so she followed Yan Zhuo three or four meters behind to protect him.
Chen Xin was behind the two of them, guarded by Ran Yan. It wasn't that he was afraid to move forward, but his skills were more focused on long-range combat, and close combat was ineffective.
Song Yue still serves as a mobile member of the team, but she knows that she is just a transparent person who is filling in the numbers. In this critical link of saving people, she is not asked to make any contribution, but to not be a drag.
The group advanced cautiously.
As we walked further in, the light became dimmer.
Shen Xin used his skills to light a few clusters of fire, and the small fireballs immediately illuminated the road ahead.
Yan Zhuo spoke tentatively: "We are from the rescue team, where are you?"
Just like before, the question was like a stone thrown into the sea, and no response was received.
"Maybe he's too weak to speak anymore?" Ran Yan whispered from behind.
After all, I've been sleepy for at least half a month, and my physical strength should be almost exhausted.
No one answered Ran Yan, but everyone had this thought in their hearts.
The cry for help drifted into my ears for the third time.
Compared to the second time, this time the sound was obviously closer to them.
“…Save me…Please…Save me…”
Song Yue listened to the cries for help surrounding her ears, and her heart inexplicably beat like a drum.
It’s a bit strange. Why can I only hear the sound but not see the person?
They were clearly very close, but they still didn't see a single person.
Song Yue held his breath and concentrated, his eyes constantly scanning the surroundings.
There is an echo in the cave, making it difficult to distinguish people's location. Thinking about it from another perspective, is it possible that those people are not in the cave, but were accidentally missed by them and passed by them?
With this idea that even she herself found absurd, Song Yue turned her head as if possessed by a ghost.
The result was that this turn made her heart stop suddenly!
“Chen Xin, don’t go any further…”
She reached out with one hand and grabbed Shen Xin's shoulder.
Shen Xin and the other three stopped and turned their heads suspiciously.
They wanted to see Song Yue and find out what she was going to do.
But the next moment, all his gazes uncontrollably passed through the top of her head and went straight behind her.
The temperature dropped suddenly and the cave turned into an ice cellar.
Yuan Ling opened her mouth blankly, her body stiff. She tried hard to regain her composure, then spoke hesitantly.
"...Chen Xin...can we...still go back?"
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