As the sound of the airbag continued to leak air, the entire airship seemed to begin to shake.
"Hurry to the top! Repair the air bladder. If something goes wrong with it, our mission will fail!"
The leading female believer gave the order, and the five crew members on the deck flew towards the airbag.
Not long after, the sound of the airbag leaking air disappeared.
Although the crisis of ship crashing had disappeared, Charles knew that it was not over yet.
He stood on the edge of the boat, holding the rope that tied the air bag with his hands, with most of his body hanging outside the boat, looking around.
The light pollution in this place was so serious that it was white everywhere. Charles couldn't see where the enemy who had just attacked them was.
"Damn, what the hell is that?" Charles tensed his muscles tightly, preparing for the upcoming battle.
Suddenly, a black shadow flashed again from the sky, and the next second, half of the body of a believer of light slid down in front of Charles with blood gushing out, falling downwards.
When the agile Charles climbed up the airbag along the rope, he found that the thing had disappeared, leaving only a few believers who had just come up.
Wiping the sweat off his face with his sleeve, Charles asked them, "Did you see what that is?"
“It’s so big it feels like a bug.”
Before Charles could ask any more questions, the Shengzhan below began to shake violently and the thing ran down.
Charles leaped off the airbag.
"Crack, crack, crack" As the grappling hook on the prosthetic limb instantly shot onto the deck, Charles swung to the bottom of the ship with the help of the chain. The monster hanging upside down on the bottom of the ship appeared in front of Charles for the first time.
This is a huge creature, six meters long, and looks like a praying mantis covered with barbs. Its swollen abdomen and sickle-shaped forelimbs are very similar to those of a praying mantis, but the place where its head should be has become some kind of flower bud.
This thing has no eyes, but it can sense Charles's arrival, and it rushes towards Charles at an extremely fast speed.
"Bang! Bang bang!" Gunshots continued to ring out and purple blood holes appeared on its body, but this thing seemed to be unaffected and moved freely.
The monster's flower bud has opened, and inside is not a mouthpart, but a grayish-white, sticky, amorphous blister.
The chain turned rapidly, and Charles' body suddenly rose a section, avoiding the approach of the monster's swollen bubble.
"Clang!" The monster's sickle-shaped forelimbs chopped down from top to bottom, first easily cutting off the chain hanging on the deck, and then chopped towards Charles' body.
The blade was extremely sharp. Charles just blinked his eyes slightly, and the sickle reflecting the cold light was already in front of him.
At this critical moment, Charles moved his right fingers slightly, touched the finger ring, and the translucent tentacles quickly stretched out and turned towards the blade.
"Crack", Charles felt the phantom pain of a broken finger on his hand.
Although the invisible tentacle was also cut off easily, Charles used this to move his body in mid-air, and the bone blade only took away a small section of Charles' bangs.
Its attack ended and Charles' counterattack began.
Charles took it with both hands, grabbed the back of the sickle and swung down. When the sickle approached the monster's swollen abdomen, Charles put his hands on the back of the knife and controlled his figure to rush towards the abdomen.
He slapped the barbed insect shell with his left hand and caught it directly. The next second, Charles took out his thunder staff and fired it instantly at the insect's abdomen.
"Ziziziz" electric arcs kept jumping on the monster's body, and smoke began to come out of Charles and the thing at the same time.
Faced with the powerful electric shock, this thing obviously couldn't bear it. The insect limbs hanging on the bottom of the boat slowly loosened, and a man and a insect fell towards the dark sea below.
The believers on the Shengzhan fell down quickly, carrying Charles and flying towards the ship.
When Charles was put on the deck, his body barely regained consciousness. He knew that the battle just now was very thrilling. If he had taken just a step wrong, his body would have been broken in two.
"It's a good ending. No matter where this thing came from, it's finally solved."
He stood up tremblingly and looked around. Compared to his injuries, a male believer on his left was not so lucky.
His left leg was rapidly festering with bubbles and his body was twitching constantly.
Charles judged that he must have been touched by the monster's strange mouthparts.
Seeing that the festering had spread to his chest, Charles said to the believer who was taking care of the patient nearby: "Don't let him suffer. You do it or I do it?"
Seeing him turn his head, Charles raised his revolver and shot him in the head, ending his suffering.
After quickly counting the number of people, Charles found that the loss was not small. Three believers died and two lost their combat effectiveness.
"I hope the road ahead will be smoother, otherwise there won't be enough people to die."
The believers recovered quickly, cleaned up the bodies quickly, and crawled towards the crevice again.
When entering the gap, the light above became stronger and stronger.
In such bright weather, Charles discovered that the surrounding rock walls were not smooth, and there were some underground buildings and tunnels between the potholes.
The scale made Charles feel like he was seeing a modern underground parking lot and subway tunnel.
Charles stopped looking after a while. The environment outside was too dazzling. Even if he closed his eyes, everything in front of him was red.
Just as Charles covered his eyes softly, a voice came from the side. "Pastor, what is that??"
Charles quickly opened his eyes and looked in the direction of the sound.
A giant white flower with a diameter of thirty meters hung on the wall, flickering with some kind of rhythm.
The priest next to him shook his head. "I'm not sure. Maybe all the flowers in the Land of Light grow like this."
As they continued to climb, more and more huge flowers appeared on the walls around them.
"Am I dazzled?" Why do I feel like this thing is moving
Charles shook his head, "No, this thing is moving."
He looked at these flickering flowers and felt a sense of familiarity, as if he had seen them somewhere.
Suddenly, the petals of the giant flowers around were quickly covered by green barbed insect shells, and they quickly turned around, revealing the hideous sickle-heeled and strange buds that had been hidden before.
Just when Charles thought they were about to start attacking, all the mantis monsters began flapping the transparent insect wings on their backs. The flapping sounds of the wings in various rhythms intersected with each other, and finally formed a language of the Earthsea.
"Bald people, get out of here! You will only bring disaster if you go up there!"
(End of this chapter)