The members of the expedition team hesitated for only a moment, and then they immediately remembered that Luke had run faster than them when he carried Wayland on his back.
Everyone stopped hesitating and ran towards the exit of the ruins while throwing things away. Only Willand and Stafford stayed behind.
No one dared to ignore Luke's reminder.
They all knew that this young man's courage and bravery far exceeded that of ordinary people, and there must be a reason why he was shouting so eagerly.
A group of people ran towards the exit with all their might.
Without the presence of the big boss Weyland, the strong team members quickly rushed through the remaining steps and returned to the entrance of the ruins.
The group of people started the lift without stopping and quickly returned to the ice surface.
Luke looked at the time again. There were about eight minutes left, so there was still plenty of time.
He kept his speed within the normal human limit. When he reached Weyland and Stafford, he carried the old man on his back and ran, saying, "There is an x-bomb down there that may destroy the ruins. Let's run quickly."
Wilander and Stafford said nothing.
Especially Stafford, he was using all his strength and had no time to talk.
Luke was not too panicked, he just took out the fake phone from time to time to take a look.
After the major changes in the ruins just now, the interference with the wireless signal has disappeared.
He threw a camera next to the black tablet and monitored it at all times through a fake mobile phone.
There is still half of the red dot on that thing, which means it will explode in five minutes, which is exactly what the Iron-blooded Warrior said.
He controlled his speed slightly, allowing Stafford to just keep up.
The two rushed all the way to the entrance of the ruins and saw the lift platform at the ice cave working.
When the three arrived at the cave entrance, the platform had just landed back at the bottom.
After getting on the lift platform, Stafford entered the password and the platform quickly rose up.
The platform continued to rise, and Luke looked at his multi-function watch. There were still three minutes left.
However, there were a bunch of heads looking down at the entrance of the cave. He immediately became furious and yelled, "What the hell are you looking at? Run the fuck away! The ice is about to collapse. Do you want to be buried?"
His shout was so loud under the echo that the head at the entrance of the cave disappeared instantly.
Three minutes later, when the platform was still dozens of meters away from the cave entrance, a muffled rumbling sound suddenly came from the ground.
Luke looked at his watch and smiled bitterly: "Ten minutes is exactly ten minutes."
Along with this muffled sound, the ground began to shake violently.
A few seconds later, a violent airflow blew in from the bottom of the cave, pushing the lifting platform upwards frantically.
The platform completed the last ten meters in a nearly flying posture, sprayed out from the cave, drew a parabola, and flew obliquely into the snow.
In mid-air, Luke grabbed the rope buckles on Willand and Stafford's backs with one hand each, trying his best to stabilize the three of them.
Before landing, he exerted force with both hands, threw the two people upwards a little, and then he crashed into the snow several dozen meters away with a bang.
The next moment, he exerted force with his legs, jumped out of the snow pit, grabbed the two people who landed lightly a few meters away, and ran away.
Wilander and Stafford were so dizzy that they had no idea what had just happened.
Luke's series of actions gave them the feeling of flying in the clouds. At this moment, both of them had stars in their eyes.
With a crackling sound, large pieces of ice behind the three people broke and began to sink.
No one could see Luke clearly amid the flying snowflakes, and he no longer concealed his strength.
Every time he stepped down with his legs, he would shake off the floating snow on the ground, causing the ice to crack, and he would rush forward madly on the snow with Weland and the other man.
Thirty seconds later, he stopped and turned to look behind him.
The entrance to the ice cave is more than 200 meters away. Now the three people are standing on the edge of the pit, which is where the expedition team placed the snowmobile.
The area within a hundred meters around the ice cave sank, forming a larger deep pit.
Luke saw a few bright orange dots in the snow below and felt relieved. "Okay, they seem to be fine. You guys rest here for a while, I'll help them up."
…
On the outer space battleship, a message in alien language sounded: "This hunting mission is over."
"All three participants died."
"The Alien Queen has been cleared, all Aliens have been cleared, all Facehuggers have been cleared, the mission site has been completely destroyed, and the cleanup work has been confirmed to be complete."
"The civilization on this planet has progressed beyond expectations, and the mission participants encountered low-level guardians that were too powerful."
"This planet is no longer suitable as a mission site and has been removed from the list of candidate mission sites."
"Immediately retrieve all landing ships and prepare to jump to the next mission site."
…
At the same time, a few kilometers away from the expedition team, several landing ships with sharp heads and petal-like tails soared into the sky and flew straight into space.
Luke looked at the night sky not far away with a sense of realization.
In the darkness, three long rays of light streaked across the sky and rose into the sky.
He watched the three rays of light disappear before he retracted his attention and continued the rescue operation.
More than half an hour later, the others slowly climbed up, and Luke also brought back four slightly injured explorers who had sprained their feet due to the shock.
But they are already very lucky. At least they can go back and recuperate for a few days and then be able to be alive and well again.
The original expedition team had a total of more than 80 people, but now, including Luke, Willand, and Stafford, only 15 people are alive.
The rest of the team was buried deep under the remains of the collapsed ice.
Stafford had already arranged the remaining manpower and drove six snowmobiles over from a nearby location.
After some distribution, two to three people were assigned to each car, and everyone started to return.
There were more than twenty vehicles and more than eighty team members when they came, but there were only six vehicles when they returned.
This expedition resulted in heavy losses.
In the snowmobile, Stafford drove forward silently. Luke looked at the depressed Weiland and said, "Mr. Weiland, will you handle the follow-up matters on your own?"
Weiland hummed, "Yes, I will take care of everything."
The car fell into silence again.
Luke pondered over what had just happened.
Those iron-blooded warriors had no mercy on humans, and among those who escaped alive, there were no people left on the ground.
When flying out of the cave, Luke smelled a strong smell of blood. It was obvious that all the people left behind were dead.
In the end, the caped predator seemed to be fairly friendly towards Luke, but that was more out of respect for his strength, not respect for humanity.
The reason why Luke did not fight with the group of Iron Blood Warriors who were transporting corpses was that he found that the equipment on these Iron Blood Warriors was obviously much more advanced.
Thinking about what the cloaked Iron Blood Warrior said, he roughly understood that the three Iron Bloods who were in the ruins before were here to perform some kind of hunting ritual.
The equipment of those three Iron Bloods, compared with the equipment of the corpse-carrying Iron Bloods, is like the difference between hunting tourists and special forces.