Global Survival: I Got the D-Rank Personnel Simulator Chapter 345: Underground Tunnel

Lin Ye watched the Mannequin Leader fall to the ground, its heart destroyed by the Compressed Spiritual Energy Blade. This was where it would die.

There were no surprises or unexpected turns.

"Admirable courage, but aningless."

Lin Ye turned to look at Ferrando. The Mannequin Leader, lying on the ground, suddenly sprang up and threw a mannequin's severed hand toward Lin Ye's location.

"Not bad, but still useless."

Lin Ye took a step back, glanced at the charging Original Mannequin, and used the Spiritual Energy Driving Technique to push aside Xiya, who was standing nearby.

The mannequin hand changed direction mid-air but failed to hit anyone.

The Mannequin Leader fell to the ground, completely losing its ability to move.

"You can get up now. We still need to get to the center of the ruins."

Having dealt with the Mannequin Leader, Lin Ye spoke to Ferrando.

"...Huh? Why didn't I turn into a mannequin?"

Ferrando let go of the now-motionless Fixed Mannequin, looking at his own body in shock.

He had prepared himself to beco a mannequin, yet no change occurred in his body.

"You defeated the other party in an unfair fight. Regardless of what it was before, this body is yours now."

During the fight, Lin Ye had also been paying attention to his teammates. Even though Ferrando had been focused entirely on his assigned direction, the consciousness within that mannequin had failed to overco Ferrando. So it vanished. This was probably the Fixed Mannequin's last chance to move.

To be precise, it was that very focus that defeated the opponent. ntal willpower can sotis be like a structure built from sand, crumbling at a touch, and other tis be as hard as steel.

Both sides were fighting desperately at the ti, but their goals were different.

"...Is that really okay? Even if I am a mannequin?"

Even now, Ferrando couldn't recall what happened before in the departnt store. But all the information he had gathered reminded him that he had stolen Ferrando's body.

"What are you talking about? Wasn't that just nonsense spouted by that bastard Mannequin Leader? Don't worry, no one believes what the enemy says."

Karan patted Ferrando's shoulder. If he had to choose between the real humans who attacked them and the mannequin who sacrificed itself to protect its teammates, he'd rather be friends with the mannequin.

"Right. I suggest you destroy that mannequin. Although we don't think you have a problem, it would be very troubleso if others saw it."

If she wasn't afraid that attacking the mannequin might cause issues, Xiya would have already taken action. She hadn't forgotten its earlier sneak attack.

"...I don't want to destroy it. Let's leave it here."

Ferrando was silent for a mont before speaking.

"If you don't want it, can I have it? These mannequin corpses have so research value, especially this Fixed Mannequin."

If his loot space wasn't full, Lin Ye would have wanted to take all the mannequin corpses here. They were excellent research materials and could also be used as spiritual energy materials to craft spiritual energy items.

"That's fine. But I'm not sure if it's dangerous."

As a doctor, Ferrando wasn't opposed to treating corpses as research material.

"No problem."

Lin Ye found a large woven bag, stuffed the Fixed Mannequin and the Mannequin Leader's corpse into it, and then left the departnt store with the other three through the safety window.

He didn't touch the Original Mannequins or the hand thrown by the Mannequin Leader.

"The subway entrance is downstairs. We can reach the center of the ruins through the underground tunnels. There's a subway entrance there too, but I haven't collected much information about this section of the tunnel. After all, taking this route requires passing through the departnt store to escape to the outskirts."

Karan looked at Ferrando. Very few survivors took this route;

Ferrando was one of them.

"...I'm not sure if my mory about the underground tunnels is correct, because I might never have actually been there."

Ferrando rubbed his head, frowning as he answered.

"That's true. I didn't even notice until you ntioned it... Then I have no other ideas. I only know it leads to the center of the ruins."

Karan had collected information about this place, but that information was all singular reports;

their truth couldn't be verified.

"Did your teleporting city bring the subway along too?"

Lin Ye suddenly interjected curiously.

"Yes. Before the teleportation, the underground was already the territory of so anomaly. After the teleportation, that anomaly seems to have split into several separate entities, so only so subway lines are relatively safe."

Xiya stood by the window and glanced at the distant center of the ruins. Through the spatial anomaly, she could only see a vague, massive shadow.

"Let's hope what's down there is a Safe Route."

The four of them went downstairs and entered the subway entrance.

This ti, Xiya took the lead. Karan hadn't been here before either.

Lin Ye still walked at the rear of the group. The four quickly reached the lowest level of the subway. Dim lights still flickered near the platform, while the tunnel was pitch black.

Karan took out the flashlights he had prepared earlier and distributed them to the others. Ard with flashlights, the four entered the subway tunnel.

Lin Ye used his ntal energy to sense his surroundings. The ground and tunnel walls here could block ntal perception;

he couldn't sense anything outside the tunnel either.

"This place seems to be a safe route."

Seeing no movent around them, Karan let out a sigh of relief and spoke.

"That's great."

Ferrando also sighed in relief. He didn't really like these pitch-black underground tunnels.

Just as Lin Ye was about to speak, he felt an extrely bad premonition.

A thick, dark-red spike pierced through the wall above, stabbing toward Lin Ye's head. As Lin Ye dodged, he heard a sucking sound from within the spike.

That wasn't a spike at all, but so kind of flesh-and-blood suction tube shaped like a spike.

Nurous flesh-and-blood suction tubes pierced through the walls from all directions. The three people ahead barely managed to dodge the tubes. Lin Ye used the Compressed Spiritual Energy Blade to continuously slash at the surrounding suction tubes, only to find that they seed to be increasing in number the more he cut, as if multiplying.

Lin Ye didn't stop. He didn't believe this phenonon could continue indefinitely. If he cut fast enough, he could clear out all the flesh-and-blood suction tubes here.

Although the other three teammates were in a very sorry state, with Lin Ye's help, they could hold on for a while longer.

The four of them advanced rapidly through the tunnel. Lin Ye simply took out the Cross Scepter to deal with the surrounding flesh-and-blood suction tubes. It was a pity the tubes didn't contain much blood, and they shot out too quickly. Otherwise, Lin Ye could have controlled the blood to handle these tubes.

Even so, he managed to collect so blood from inside the tubes. This blood was a yellowish-green color and looked extrely filthy.

As Lin Ye kept clearing the tubes, the frequency of the tube attacks finally began to decrease. However, at that mont, a faint sound suddenly ca from within the walls.

Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle...

The sound gradually grew louder. The surrounding walls and ground began to tremble slightly. It was as if they were inside the stomach of so creature.