The pioneer team has been chasing the scythe bug for ten hours in the third-floor base, relying on various obstacles since they encountered the scythe bug. From the initial encounter with the insect nest in the main passage to wandering around other places inside the base, the pioneer team has deviated from its original position by nearly a kilometer.
On the route that the pioneer team passed by, there were countless corpses of sickle insects and larvae, as well as the corpses of several members of them. It was a very brutal fight, and the team was under tremendous pressure every moment. This is also thanks to Anthony's ability to scan areas, which allows him to always see through the sickle bug's attack route first, and can often find a hiding place for the team to rest for a short time. Otherwise, the pioneer team would have died long ago.
Now, the ammunition they had worked so hard to keep from the beginning was nearly exhausted. The team has changed from the original five people, but now only Anthony and Luca are left. The tragic battle reduced the team members sharply, and among the team members who died in the battle, Auram died the most tragically.
Anthony couldn't forget the tall figure surrounded by bugs, and finally detonated the high-energy gun brazenly, killing himself and hundreds of bugs.
Up to now, Anthony's spirit is like a tight string, which may be broken at any time. And Lucca's already incomplete sword is now only half left. If the scythe bug attacks for a while, the two of them will become the bug's belly without any suspense. But at such a critical moment, the sickle bug retreated, with a hint of escape.
The entire base was shaking slightly, as if an earthquake was happening underneath. Anthony frowned, using the little mental power left to drive the ability to scan the area. It's just that he compressed the scanning method from the surface to the line. Once the Tathagata comes, the spiritual power will become a spiritual thread thinner than a needle, with a high degree of penetrating power. In this way, Anthony drove his mental power straight into the ground to perceive what happened underground.
Naturally, the scans used in this way are not as detailed as the normal way. Anthony can't "see" specific things, he can only roughly perceive some vague light and shadow.
When the spiritual thread penetrated the following four bases and directly entered the fifth base, Anthony saw a vague shadow and two bright energy rays. With just a simple touch, the end of the spiritual thread immediately cracked and shattered. Anthony turned pale with fright, if all his mental threads were shattered, he would become a lunatic.
But at this time, the division of the spiritual thread continued, and it disintegrated in a short period of time. Anthony stopped scanning immediately, and when the mental thread bounced back, he saw a blurry human face again. Even though it wasn't clear, he recognized that it was Zero's face!
When all the mental power was withdrawn, Anthony's whole body shook, and two blood mist sprayed out from his nostrils instantly. He only felt that a sledgehammer hit his head hard, and his whole headache felt like it was about to explode. Anthony held his head and his identity was shaking. Luca, who was next to him, continued to support him, and asked nervously, "Are you okay?"
After a while, the pain in Anthony's head gradually subsided, but his whole body seemed to have collapsed, and he couldn't even stand still, all thanks to Luca's support. Anthony said weakly: "Go quickly, a battle beyond our imagination is happening underground. The battle will soon spread here, let's leave!"
Seeing that Anthony, who had always been calm and steady, had a taste of exasperation in his words, Luca's face tightened, and he immediately helped Anthony to walk back along the bloody road they fought all the way. On the way to the exit, Anthony, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said, "I'm not reconciled, Luca."
Luka didn't speak, his eyes silently looked at the darkness ahead. The darkness was not calm, whether it was adult sickle insects or larvae, they were rushing across the ceiling, the wall, or around the two of them, scrambling to the exit. At this moment, the sickle bugs no longer cared about Anthony and the two humans. They even jumped over the heads of the two without stopping to attack them.
When he came to the rest area, Anthony suddenly pushed Luka away. Losing his support, he immediately fell to the ground. Luca ran forward two steps and then stopped, then walked back towards him.
"Leave me alone!" Anthony yelled. He struggled to get up and continued: "Luka, let's go!"
"What about you?" Luca asked quietly.
"I'm not leaving." Anthony seemed to have made up his mind and said, "If we just go back like this, the sacrifices of Oram and the others will become worthless. Zero and the others are also on their way here, I want to try Try it. Whether you are unwilling or for the sake of Oram and the others, I want to try again!"
"What do you want to do? Snipe Zero? How do you know that the experimental diary will be on Zero, what if it's not there?" Luca said with a fist: "Enough, enough people died in front of my eyes today. Listen to Anthony , to be honest, I don't like you very much, but I don't want you to die like this."
Anthony smiled: "What if the diary is on Zero? In short, I don't want to let go of any possibility. You go, Luka, this is my battle and my insistence, and you don't want to get involved."
Luka was silent, and bugs kept passing by his side. Their speed is so fast that they leave shadows in the air. In the shadows, Luka walked back, but suddenly punched.
A solid punch hit Anthony on the cheek, and Anthony was punched by Luca. After he fell to the ground, Luca walked up to him and picked Anthony up again. Looking at Anthony with swollen cheeks, Luca said in a deep voice, "I can only say that you are a bastard and a fool at the same time. However, I don't seem to be very smart. Let's do it together, for honor!"
Anthony clenched Luka's strong arm, and said in a deep voice, "For honor!"
The bug swarm was still flying back, and soon, the shadow of the bugs covered the place where the two were. When they left again, Anthony and Anthony had already disappeared on the spot.
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"Put me down, Mapei, I think I can go by myself."
After Mapei carried Zero and ran out of the exit of the passageway on the third floor, Zero spoke on the shoulder of the black man.
In the fifth-floor base, after Angie Gullit, who was in trouble, was stopped by Valkyrie and Cario, Zero, Eva and others met at the exit and quickly left the fifth-floor base. At the exit, Zero saw a lot of corpses of strange fish. It seemed that in order to attract the youngsters like Angie Gullit, Eva and the others had to kill them a lot. In addition to the initial traps, various tactics were used again and again to harvest the lives of monster fish. By the time Ling returned, at least hundreds of strange fish had died at the gunpoints of several people, plus the initial income from the trap, but in just a few hours, Anji Gullit lost more than a hundred young children. No wonder the crypt lord was furious.
Now, everyone has evacuated to the third floor base. From the passage, the wailing of the Nemesis kept coming, and now the fourth-floor base was submerged by ground water for a little bit. Following the spread of the ground water, Anji Gullit's youngest son also swam to the fourth-floor base with the water. In this way, the Nemesis, who is large and slow to move, becomes the best target. With the monster fish's inherently fast movement speed, coupled with the way of movement that can be accelerated by jetting at any time, it is difficult for Nemesis' biological bomb to hit them. What's more, strange fish are very smart, they will not gather together in groups, so as to give Nemesis a chance to kill in groups.
When Zero and the others passed through the fourth-floor base, they witnessed a Nemesis being besieged by hundreds of strange fish, and the body was quickly bitten, and the internal organs and flesh were eaten.
In the third-tier base, the scythe bugs had almost run away. But the Man Faced Moth and a few Nemesis are trying to squeeze out of the safe passage to escape, and the few people are still surrounded by bugs, but now neither the Man Faced Moth nor the Nemesis have time to pay attention to them.
Zero, who fell back to the ground, took a deep breath in the helmet. Valkyrie allowed him to restore 5% of his strength, and with Mapei doing it before, Zero rested on his shoulder and restored a small amount of strength at the same time. Although he is still unable to fight, the recovered strength is enough for him to move normally, at least it won't slow down the speed of the team.
After confirming that Zero could act on his own, the team moved again. It was only after reaching the middle of the base that the entire ground shook again. It seemed that the battle between Valkyrie and the Crypt Lord was not easy. Zero frowned secretly, but his pace quickened a lot. They came to the rest area following the worm flow rolling towards the exit, and as soon as they stepped into this area, Zero stopped immediately.
A seemingly invisible sense of crisis lurks in this insect stream, and stretches out the dangerous tentacles towards Ling few people. He obviously couldn't see anything in front of him, but Zero's intuition told him that danger was approaching.
At this moment, the sense of crisis suddenly intensified significantly. Then a gun flame appeared in the darkness, and a ray of fire passed through the stream of insects, and all the insects on the path of the fire were pierced by the fire. And at the end of the flame trail, there is Mapei's broad chest!
Zero standing next to Mapei subconsciously slammed into Mapei. The force of the zero-one collision was so great that it directly knocked Mapei into the air, causing the black man to fall into the swarm of insects. A few human face moths were startled by the sudden disturbance and flew away, but quickly changed direction and flew away. The speed of the insect flow was not affected, and only Zero's team was affected.
Zero knocked Mapei away, but threw himself into someone else's shooting track. When the bullet sank into his left chest, Anthony's smiling face suddenly appeared in Zero's mind. In an instant, he knew that this attack was a trap carefully prepared for him!
The kinetic energy of the bullet lifted it off the ground, and then fell back. At this moment, the sound of a sniper rifle came from a distance. Of the few people in front, Eva's reaction was the fastest. Instead of jumping at zero, she rushed towards the sniper rifle firing array. The speed of Eva's charge is so fast and the power is so great. So much so that the moment she rushed out, dozens of human face moths that accidentally bumped into her suddenly bounced into the air, and exploded one by one along with their bodies.
Feng and Su, who were behind, rushed back to Zero, and Zero had already fallen to the ground. Ye Shen's tactical suit was torn apart by sniper bullets, and blood was flowing out of Zero's chest. But what was more serious was that when Feng took off Zero's helmet, he found that Zero's eyes were wide open, but his pupils lost their spirit, as if they were about to slacken at any time. Even the golden flame in that golden right eye was so dim that it seemed about to go out!