Chapter 10 Survivors

"Survivors!? How did he get out!?" Li Cheng頤 was overjoyed and quickly asked.

"He was rescued. The official earthquake rescue team found him. He was already mentally unstable when he was found. We wouldn't have found him if you hadn't given the name. Wait, let me check. The company is also investigating!" The signal on Ding Chongyi's side improved significantly, obviously the inside and outside of the gap were very different.

While waiting, Li Cheng頤 vigilantly paid attention to the surrounding movements.

Soon, Ding Chongyi's voice came again.

"There is very little information on this person, it seems to have been processed. But... wait, found it! Found the address! You can come out now, he's still alive! This is likely to be the only core clue to escape Griuth!" Ding Chongyi said quickly.

"Okay, I'll come out immediately!" Li Cheng頤's spirits lifted, and he quickly jogged back in the direction he had come from.

He always felt that something was wrong with this place. The inexplicable disappearance of the engineering spider just now made him feel even more uneasy.

He should get out first.

"Be quick, Song Ran hasn't returned yet, and contact has been lost. I suspect he was deliberately lured away. You..."

Suddenly, a deafening explosion interrupted Ding Chongyi's words.

The AR communication was filled with buzzing, and nothing could be heard clearly.

After a few seconds, the buzzing slowly dissipated.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry!! Come up quickly, someone is going to blow up the cave!!" Ding Chongyi's voice came intermittently, extremely anxious, as if the signal there was severely disturbed.

Li Cheng頤's heart sank. The long period of tension and exercise had left his underwear almost soaked.

But more than a month of training had made him less fragile and easily tired than before.

Fortunately, this time he left without encountering any trouble.

He quickly exited the Griuth parking lot and followed the black hole back to the original vertical cave that had been opened up.

He re-tied the rope around his waist and gave a thumbs-up gesture in his AR vision.

Hiss.

The rope began to contract automatically, pulling him upwards.

Crack.

Suspended in mid-air, Li Cheng頤 suddenly heard a crisp sound coming from below.

He hurriedly looked down.

He saw a pale hand at the entrance of the black hole, grabbing his remaining engineering spider and slowly retracting it into the hole.

The white light went out.

At this point, both engineering spiders had disappeared.

Li Cheng頤's pupils shrank, and he bit his teeth without saying a word. He allowed the rope to continue pulling him upwards.

He didn't know what that hand was, and he didn't know if he could deal with it. The key now was not to fight the unknown existence in the darkness, but to get to the ground as soon as possible.

Without the spider's lighting, his surroundings were dark, with only the faint green indicator light on the AR flickering.

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Ground.

The two machines at the construction site were now emitting thick black smoke, obviously destroyed again in the explosion just now.

This time, the damage to the excavation machine was significantly higher than last time. The tracks were blown off, and the metal casing on the side of the machine was also deformed.

The construction site was empty. Several corpses of workers wearing yellow hats were lying on the ground. In addition, there were several corpses of gunmen wearing gray clothes and baseball caps.

Obviously, the attackers were not without casualties.

The remaining survivors were hiding in various corners.

The only activity was the occasional gunfire and impact sounds coming from a distance, mixed with some roars and angry shouts.

Ding Chongyi hid behind a tin house, using some weeds as cover to look outside.

The sun was setting, completely falling below the horizon.

The only light source was the bright clouds in the sky.

On the construction site, several scattered gray-clothed gunmen, all wearing baseball caps and black masks, were constantly approaching.

The leader was a bloated man, wearing dark blue AR glasses, holding a short knife in one hand and a fire-red pistol in the other, with dark skin and dirty braids, looking very gaudy.

"Damn it! So many guns!? How is this place so chaotic!?" Ding Chongyi felt a chill in her heart.

This was only in Iguo, if it were in Bai Xing, the company would never have been suppressed by this group of local gunmen.

Such an arrogant but stupid approach could be solved by just one elite gunman.

But unfortunately, Song Ran, the only one who could be considered elite, had been lured to other places by another group of people, and contact had been lost.

"Trouble!"

Ding Chongyi unconsciously looked towards the cave. Li Cheng頤 should be coming out now. What if he just came out and ran into this group of people...

"There are people outside, be careful. They have guns!" She quickly reminded in the AR in a low voice.

After giving the instructions, she slowly retreated.

Some ARs have infrared detection functions. She knew very well that continuing to hide was not a solution. She had to evacuate.

Immediately, she used the AR to notify the yellow-hat workers still in the vicinity to evacuate.

At this time, in the construction site.

The fat man with dirty braids looked left and right, and after confirming that there was no movement, he grinned and sneered.

He tugged at a string of large pearl necklaces around his neck and scanned the surroundings.

"Wiegell is quick and strong. I can't compare to him, and I don't want to compete with him in that."

He put the knife back into the sheath at his lower back, took out a crumpled yellow paper cigarette, bit it in his mouth, and had one of his men light it for him.

"That guy only knows how to kill people, but for us, as the boss's confidants, getting things done is the most important thing. If he doesn't understand this, he can only be a thug forever."

"Brother Grennan is wise." A gunman next to him said with a smile, "It looks like everyone has run away from this place. The machines have also been blown up. Are we okay now?"

The fat man with dirty braids looked around, his gaze sweeping over the location of the cave.

"Almost, those foreign dogs have all run away, let's withdraw."

They had dropped bombs in this cave before, which should have collapsed it. No big deal.

He took a deep puff of cigarette, blew out a large smoke ring, dropped it to the ground and stomped it out with his foot.

"Let's go, the mission is complete, let's go to the boss to collect the reward!"

The surrounding gunmen immediately cheered and shouted.

The group fired a few shots randomly into the sky, vented their anger, turned around and left into the distance.

Before long, the people had scattered and disappeared into the palm forest not far away.

The construction site was quiet and empty. Ding Chongyi and the yellow-hat workers had also quietly evacuated from the other side.

About two minutes later.

A fat figure reappeared on the construction site, it was the leading fat man with dirty braids.

He scanned the surroundings with his AR glasses, and after confirming again that no one was hiding, he slowly lowered his gun and retreated into the distance.

After retreating a few meters, he suddenly focused his gaze on the cave, and confirmed again that there was no movement.

Then he turned around again and walked into the depths of the forest.

Click.

Suddenly.

The fat man's soles made a piercing sound, and he turned around sharply, rushing towards the cave at full speed. At the same time, he took a homemade grenade from his waist, pulled the pin, and threw it into the gap in the cave.

"You thought I didn't see you?? Idiot! Die!" His face, full of fat, squeezed out layers of hideous laughter, and he threw it out with a big hand.

The black, round grenade immediately left his hand and flew towards the gap in the cave.

The grenade, with its mottled and rough texture, was like a black mangosteen, tumbling and turning in mid-air, its indicator light gradually changing from green to red.

Clang!

In an instant, the cave cover burst open.

A purple figure broke through the cover, knocked the grenade away, and crashed into the fat man with a speed beyond ordinary people's imagination.

Boom!!

The grenade exploded in mid-air, turning into a ball of red fire.

Under the light of the fire.

Li Cheng頤's right hand was stuck around the fat man's neck, smashing him to the ground.

Poof!!

He pressed the fat man's head hard and dragged a yellow dirt pit on the ground.

"Who!?" The fat man Grennan was covered in blood, his head was dizzy, and his eyeballs were almost squeezed out of his sockets.

What came into his view was an unfamiliar humanoid wearing purple-black, hideous armor.

The surface of the armor was covered with ionization line-like floral patterns, and there were dense purple-black barbs everywhere on the shoulders, elbows, and palms.

The face shield helmet was fully protective, leaving no skin exposed.

"Modified human! Fully modified human!!" Grennan roared, his voice horrified.

Bang!

A gunshot exploded in the distance, and a spark of fire splashed on Li Cheng頤's back, then bounced off and disappeared.

He suddenly grabbed the fat man's throat, lifted him up, and turned around to charge out as a shield.

Bang! Bang! Bang!!

With continuous steps, he rushed into the forest behind him at high speed, and in his vision, a gray-clothed gunman's figure holding a gun appeared.

In the gunman's horrified and twisted eyes, a purple-black metal monster rapidly approaching and enlarging was clearly reflected.

Poof.

A sharp arm pierced into the gunman's chest and came out from behind.

Everything returned to calm.

Li Cheng頤 froze, slowly straightened up, pulled out his hand, and wiped it casually on Grennan's face.

"Sorry... I just wanted to knock you out..."

He stood in the forest, looking at the gunman who was slowly falling to the ground, and felt an unspeakable feeling in his heart.

He didn't want to kill people. Really.

He really just wanted to raise his hand and knock the other party out.

But the evolved armor increased the speed too quickly. He had only raised his hand halfway when he reached the other party's chest, and then his hand just went through like that...

'Fortunately, there's still one in my hand.' Li Cheng頤 was glad that he hadn't been too ruthless just now, so he could interrogate the other party and find out the mastermind from his mouth.

He picked up the fat man Grennan he was holding in his other hand.

But... Grennan's head was tilted to one side, his eyes were white, and his mouth was full of blood foam. He was already dead.

His entire neck had been completely broken in the high-speed emergency stop just now.

Li Cheng頤 fell silent. He lightly let go and let the corpse fall to the ground.

"Now what should I do?"

He was a little dazed...

The evolved Flower Scale Armor still consumed a lot more energy than before, but his physical strength and spirit had also increased a little. This increase seemed to be not only the result of his own training, but also the Flower Scale Armor itself was strengthening him in some way.

At least now he felt that he could wear it for another twenty minutes without any problems.

Bang.

A few more gunshots came from a distance.

'A fully modified human... I do look like one in this armor.' Li Cheng頤 turned to look in the direction of the gunshots.

'Maybe I can keep pretending to be a modified human in the future?'

He strode towards that direction.

"Forget it, since I've already made a move, I might as well clean them all up."

He just wanted to find a way out before entering the blind spot next time.

Just such a simple purpose.

And whoever tried to stop him.

No matter who it was, they had to die.