After he finished speaking, I thought the owner of the voice would be furious, because no matter how you look at it, those things on the ground were the other party's "relatives".
To Cen Yu's surprise, the voice laughed after hearing Cen Yu's words—
I like your answer.
“?” Cen Yu sensed something was wrong.
But he could already feel the heat, so he had to run even faster!
He didn't have time to think more deeply about the meaning of the voice, and rushed to the ground in one breath.
...
Li Chonghe and Wen Xihe also heard the explosion and tremors coming from underground.
They naturally guessed that it was related to Cen Yu. At this moment, the exit was already close by, so Wen Xihe simply took the opportunity and pulled Li Chonghe to the exit.
The moment Wen Xihe crawled out of the exit buried in the desert, he saw a familiar standard-issue mech.
"It's me."
The unresponsive communicator suddenly started working again at that moment.
Chi Jiazhen's voice came through the communicator, "Where's Cen Yu?"
"He's in the back." Wen Xi said briefly, handing Li Chonghe to Chi Jiazhen. "Why are you here? Where are the others?"
Chi Jiazhen immediately recounted what had happened at the location of the Blue Faction, including how he had decided to guard the entrance of this mysterious underground building because he was worried about the three of them.
"What happened underground?" Chi Jiazhen asked cautiously. "I think I heard an explosion."
“We need to report this.” Wen Xi took out a bottle of purified water and took a sip.
"Let's wait for Cen Yu to come out." He had his back to Chi Jiazhen, looking at the entrance to the desert, a little worried that Cen Yu wouldn't have enough time to escape. Just as he was about to jump down to find him, he heard Cen Yu's voice below—
"Run! Run! Run! Run!!!"
Cen Yu shouted and tried to crawl out of the hole.
Wen Xi reacted quickly and pulled him out immediately. Then there was another explosion, accompanied by a violent tremor.
Suddenly everyone started swaying on the ground...
Cen Yu sat on the ground, not wanting to speak; he felt like his mouth was full of sand.
Wen Xi tossed him the bottled water in her hand, "Rinse your mouth."
Cen Yu took it, immediately took a sip, rinsed his mouth carefully a few times, and then spat out the sand in his mouth along with the purified water.
"What did you do?" Wen Xi asked.
"It's nothing," Cen Yu thought for a moment, "just blow up the place below."
"?" Wen Xi looked at Cen Yu as if he were an alien. "...Why did you blow it up?"
"Don't you think those jars are sinister? I always feel like monsters might pop out of them."
Although Wen Xihe felt that Cen Yu's words made sense... he glanced at the recorder on his chest, then crushed it in one swift motion, before looking at Chi Jiazhen.
Chi Jiazhen had already emerged from the mecha. Upon seeing Wen Xihe's gaze, she hurriedly removed the recorder from her chest.
Wen Xihe walked over and crushed Chi Jiazhen's recording device... Then he turned to look at Cen Yu, "This was all an accident."
"An unexpected incident occurred during the battle."
If there really is something wrong with this underground laboratory, Cen Yu's act of blowing it up is somewhat suspicious of destroying evidence. Although Wen Xihe did not want to make malicious speculations about those high-ranking officials, she felt that this was the most likely outcome.
So everything was an accident.
Everyone present understood Wen Xihe's meaning.
But Cen Yu harbored another suspicion in his heart—
This underground laboratory has been without any problems for ten years, so why would a half-human, half-insect monster reappear after ten years?
Rather than saying that this thing woke up naturally, it's more accurate to say that someone deliberately restarted the plan.
Since that's the case, why don't we just blow up this underground laboratory now?
The group stood or squatted in the desert, while the green faction members emerged from underground due to the inexplicable explosion...
"Let's get someone to check Li Chonghe's wounds first." Cen Yu glanced at Li Chonghe sitting on the ground. "I'm worried he might have died."
Li Chonghe gave a wry smile and touched his neck. "Fortunately, the bleeding has stopped now."
"Can you still pilot a mecha?" Wen Xi asked.
“I’m afraid that won’t work.” Li Chonghe answered with surprising calm. He looked at Wen Xihe, then at Cen Yu, “My spiritual power… can’t sense it anymore.”
Even though they had suspected this beforehand, they were still somewhat surprised when Li Chonghe said it so calmly.
Chi Jiazhen seemed not to understand what had happened. He looked at Li Chonghe and asked, "Is it because you are injured and unable to use your mental power?"
“No.” Li Chonghe struggled for a moment and stood up from the ground.
His back and the area around his glands were in excruciating pain, and his mental energy was completely depleted, with nothing left.
"My glands are injured."
Although there is still no definitive conclusion on what exactly is related to the birth of spiritual power, the prevailing mainstream view is that it is related to glands.
A real-world example is that, whether Alpha or Omega, those with special glands are more likely to possess stronger mental power than those with undeveloped glands in Betas.
Li Chonghe was an exception because he had strong mental strength before.
He reached up and touched his neck. Since the gland had been dug out by him, he could feel that a piece of "flesh" was missing from the back of his neck. Li Chonghe withdrew his hand and looked at his blood-stained fingertips.
What he didn't say was that in that underground space, he seemed to hear rustling whispers.
He simply couldn't determine what language it was.
But his mind was telling him otherwise.
That's them calling out to him; they feel he's family, a part of them.
They are all children of the same mother.
...
Huo Shen and the other leaders never expected such an unexpected turn of events.
When the explosion occurred near the green camp, no one expected that such a large-scale event would occur before the competition had even officially started.
"Did someone plant explosives?" someone speculated.
Huo Shen looked at the screens that could be observed.
He knew that after Wen Xi and the others left, only two people from the team returned to the blue camp. It was said that Cen Yu's signal was interrupted and some accidents occurred during the raid on the underground fortress near the green camp.
However, as time passed, Wen Xi and the others still hadn't returned to the blue camp.
Huo Shen felt that given the opponent's skill level, problems shouldn't have arisen so early in this competition.
Meanwhile, the school's higher-ups were worried about something else—
For example, the second prince who disappeared with him.
Finally, in the projection, the two teammates who remained in the blue camp received Wen Xihe's message. Unfortunately, both of them looked terrible. They exchanged a glance and immediately reported it.
At the same time, the instructors also received the message.
Emergency rescue is needed; Li Chonghe has encountered an accident and suffered glandular injury.
The blue faction also discovered an underground building containing secret experiments.
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