Everyone looked in the direction the sound ca from, their expressions growing serious.
"Sothing’s coming, line up according to the previous arrangent!"
Li Zheng shouted, overpowering the drum-like footsteps, and stood at the back of the team with Xiao Siyuan, tightly holding the Desert Eagle.
Xiao Siyuan listened for a mont and shouted, "About three hundred ters away, at least fifteen ters tall! Be careful, it’s fast!"
"Impressive!"
Li Zheng couldn’t help but glance sideways, amazed that just by listening to the footsteps, one could judge the distance and height of the opponent. Truly worthy of military training experience.
Li Zheng wasn’t sure if military training included such skills, but if not, it indicated the opponent had so unique talents in certain areas.
"Fifteen ters?"
Phoenix Mountain looked up and realized the tal passage was just over three ters high, startling him: "If that thing doesn’t approach the passage but instead stays outside, won’t it just tear down this place?"
"But this is the Matrix; these walls shouldn’t be destructible!"
Yan Guang was slightly puzzled. She had tried several rounds of continuous bombing, and the entire tal room’s walls only showed slight inconspicuous deformations. The most serious damage was just the useless machines on the surface being wrecked.
Phoenix Mountain suddenly turned his head and stated word by word: "Did anyone ever say that this passage we’re in is the entire ruins?"
"Yeah..."
Everyone was taken aback. Since entering here, they all assud this tal passage was the so-called Ancient Ruins.
As their exploration progressed, the discovery rate of the ruins was slowly increasing, and the tal passage seed to go on endlessly.
Nobody had considered that outside the passage, there might be an even more expansive space.
"Boom!"
"Clang!"
The two loud noises sounded almost simultaneously. Li Zheng was terrified when he saw a section of the tal passage ahead suddenly collapse, with the entire passage being compressed and rging seamlessly with the ground.
"Damn!"
Li Zheng yelled, "That damn thing isn’t trying to co in; it’s trying to stomp us flat!"
"Zhan Zhouzhou!"
"Leave it to ."
The girl nodded, leaping up suddenly, with a Light Saber materializing in her hand, swinging it forcefully.
"Zzzlap."
The electric light flashed, cutting a slit in the passage’s ceiling.
"Zzzlap."
"Zzzlap."
Repeating the sa trick, Zhan Zhouzhou consecutively leaped up twice, expanding a slit into a "凵" shape.
The wiring connected to the lights at the top was severed, dimming this section of the passage, and Li Zheng shouted, "Everyone, get clear!"
Everyone except Zhan Zhouzhou leaped aside a short distance, avoiding being directly below.
"Zzzlap!"
The final slash was delivered, and a piece of the tal ceiling fell synchronously with Zhan Zhouzhou’s form.
Crash.
Li Zheng looked up and found light outside; without further thought, he leaped forward, easily jumping three ters and passing through the "skylight."
"Boom!"
"Clang!"
Following the direction, Li Zheng saw a giant chanical being about twenty ters tall, walking step by step along the tal passage, surrounded by countless flying chanical sword mantises.
At least a hundred of them!
At this point, the opponent had already noticed him.
A huge, bulb-like single eye appeared on the face of the chanical giant, revealing a very human-like gaze, staring at him.
"Buzz~"
The chanical giant made no visible action, but the dense mass of chanical sword mantises around it surged forward like a swarm of locusts.
"Damn! So many!"
The sight made Li Zheng’s scalp tingle. Phoenix Mountain was the second to jump up to the "skylight," but because he wasn’t quite as strong, he couldn’t jump directly out and clung to the edge with both hands.
Peeking out, the overwhelming scene scared him so much he let go and fell back inside the tal passage.
"I’ll distract these chanical sword mantises; you guys hurry up!"
Li Zheng quickly shouted, giving a shoulder shake, and Xiao Sakura imdiately understood.
"Eep eep!"
Activating Fast Flight, Xiao Sakura’s speed was no slower than those chanical sword mantises. After circling in the air, she began launching Flying Rock Bombs continuously with the Earth Elent Gene Ability.
Just like during the battle with the Intelligent Humanoid, in this situation, the little one didn’t even need to aim; she could randomly hit a target with her eyes closed.
"Pitter-patter!"
Like a machine gun, the little one used up all her Geneic Force, attracting three chanical sword mantises, then focused on flying, kiting these three pursuers.
On the other side, Li Zheng jumped down from the tal passage, landing in an open hall. He sprinted, attaching the Fire Elent to the Desert Eagle, and began shooting.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh..."
Running wasn’t suitable for the usual shooting mode, so within seconds, Li Zheng emptied a magazine without caring how many chanical sword mantises he hit, focusing on reloading.
With a physique of Bronze , his speed was slightly faster than the chanical sword mantises, and in the short term, he wasn’t worried about being caught.
"As long as I’m not surrounded, I can exhaust all the chanical sword mantises!"
Li Zheng was very confident about this.
However, the number of chanical sword mantises outside the passage was overwhelming, and it was just a matter of ti before he got surrounded.
...
Inside the tal passage, Phoenix Mountain and the others huddled in the shadows under the "skylight," watching a large number of chanical sword mantises flying above, their hearts pounding.
With such a large number, even Zhan Zhouzhou, if alone against them, risked getting sliced up; they dared not jump up rashly now.
"This scene is seriously buggy, isn’t it?"
Phoenix Mountain and others whispered among themselves, discussing strategies for after they went out.
"Boom!"
"Clang!"
The loud noises behind them continued, slow but steady.
This indicated that the entity flattening the tal passage wasn’t chasing Li Zheng.
"No worries, it’s ti for to take action. Once we’re out, just watch perform."
Yan Guang patiently awaited the swarm of chanical sword mantises to fly over the "skylight" before speaking in a low voice, "Once I go up, Zhan Zhouzhou will follow, helping cover . As for you two..."
She glanced at Phoenix Mountain and Xiao Siyuan, "Just stay safe, especially you, Phoenix. Don’t drag down."
Her remarks, laced with barbs, reflected her unresolved issues, with almost every interaction between them slightly confrontational.
"Tch!"
Phoenix Mountain ignored her, instead asking Xiao Siyuan beside him, "Old Xiao, how are your shooting skills?"
"Not practiced regularly, but decent now."
Xiao Siyuan replied modestly.
"Decent is good enough. Once we get up there, I’ll cover for you; just focus on shooting the enemy." Phoenix Mountain glanced at Yan Guang, "How can we let ourselves be outdone by a woman?"
"..."
Xiao Siyuan looked at them both and tactfully avoided the topic.
"Heh~"
Yan Guang smirked, nudging Phoenix Mountain with her toe: "Phoenix, how about a bet? After we go out, let’s see who takes out more chanical sword mantises?"
"No!"
Phoenix Mountain replied with a serious face, "I can never align with gambling or drugs!"
"Really?!!"
Yan Guang suddenly beca excited, her eyes roving up and down Phoenix Mountain’s body.
"Gulp."
Her intense gaze made Phoenix Mountain swallow hard, hurriedly adding, "And porn!"
"La!" Yan Guang grumbled in disappointnt.
At this mont, Zhan Zhouzhou, who had been watching outside the skylight, interrupted the two, "It’s about ti, we can go up."
"Alright."
Yan Guang put aside her playful thoughts, regained her seriousness, and with a silver-white left arm, grabbed the edge of the skylight, easily vaulting herself above.
"Let’s start, and help Li Zheng solve these little nuisances quickly. There’s still a big guy waiting for us to handle."
Zhan Zhouzhou followed closely, landing beside Yan Guang, her Light Saber ready for action.
"Then let show you the charm of firepower coverage." Yan Guang raised her left arm, revealing the silver-white chanical arm with segnts of square tal plates unfolding, displaying a dark barrel beneath.
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