In the arena.
The Type 92026 robot was still exchanging blows with an officer.
As they traded punches and kicks, thunderous sounds exploded upon impact, causing the ground to tremble.
Dust fell like flowing sand from the ceiling.
In a corner.
The escapee inside the iron box continued to speak:
"The more people who Awaken, the more stringent the world’s punishnt chanisms beco."
"If the number of Awakened humans in the prison reaches a certain level, various guardians will appear. They will try every ans to eliminate all Awakeners, and even those humans who have not Awakened will face this purge."
"—Just like these monsters swarming everywhere."
"The Type 92026 robot saw that all my preparations were for escaping, and so did the Death God, which is why I must escape imdiately."
The iron box slowly sank into the ground, finally saying, "Next, I will face many dangers before I can successfully escape..."
"Anyway, I hope we can et again."
As the words fell.
The iron box disappeared.
Wu Xiaode no longer hesitated, he imdiately rushed to the team leader’s side, grabbed her hand, and quickly drew a Tao sign:
"Run!"
The team leader had also been montarily stunned.
She couldn’t help but look back, only to see the Type 92026 robot’s body was badly damaged but still engaged in the fight with the human officer.
—The robot won’t be able to hold on much longer!
The team leader stepped forward, following Wu Xiaode as they ran outwards.
...
The General was also running frantically.
At this mont, the General was passing through a long corridor when a sudden noise ca from behind.
"Who?"
He drew his gun and called out loudly.
"Reporting to the General, we are mbers of the Second Scout Team!" Wu Xiaode spoke.
—How could the General’s speed compare to that of Wu Xiaode and the team leader?
So, they quickly caught up to him.
Relieved, the General said, "It’s you guys, I rember you, co out."
Wu Xiaode and the team leader appeared before him.
"How co you didn’t—wait, what’s the situation up there?" the General asked.
"Extrely terrifying monsters are continuously descending upon us; all our comrades are dead, only we two survived," Wu Xiaode said.
The General visibly trembled, but he tried to appear calm and said, "It looks like we’re the only ones left alive. Now I order you to follow !"
"Yes, General!" Wu Xiaode and the team leader responded.
The General led the way, running ahead and continuously shouting, "Hurry! Hurry! We don’t have much ti; we must start digging imdiately!"
Digging?
What could you possibly be digging for so deep underground?
Could there really be so treasure here?
Wu Xiaode had a vague suspicion.
The General was the most powerful person here, and if anyone knew any secrets, it would be him.
Now, with no other reliance, the ultimate secret was about to be revealed before his very eyes.
Wu Xiaode felt a surge of excitent.
He glanced at the team leader and saw she wore the sa expression.
The three of them continued to run along the pitch-black tunnel, passing countless crossroads, many of which weren’t even marked on the underground tunnel map.
No one knows how long they ran for, but the sound of the robot fighting the Death God was no longer audible.
Darkness surrounded everything.
Finally.
The General gradually stopped.
He switched on the flashlight on his phone, shone it ahead, and said, gasping for breath:
"Up there, start the machine, dig now!"
Wu Xiaode looked in the direction illuminated by the light and saw that it was the end of a tunnel.
A large excavator was parked on the side of the road.
Another excavator.
There was one at the end of Tunnel T5 as well.
What exactly was going on?
"Here’s the key. You’re mbers of the Scout Team, don’t tell you don’t know how—start digging now, we can’t delay any longer!" urged the General.
Wu Xiaode took the key and exchanged a disbelieving look with the team leader.
Start digging now?
—Has this man lost his mind?
Does he really expect to dig out a route to avoid those terrifying monsters?
"General, all of our comrades have sacrificed themselves, why are we digging here now—fine, fine, we’ll dig if you say so." Wu Xiaode was cut off as the General drew a gun and pointed it at him.
He had no choice but to shut his mouth.
The team leader glanced at him, then peered at the key in his hand.
—Can you do it?
Wu Xiaode shook his head slightly.
—How could a streetwise pretty boy like know anything about this?
The team leader stepped forward, took the key from his hand, and strode toward the excavator.
It wasn’t long before.
The excavator roared deafeningly to life.
The machine’s searchlight flicked on, illuminating the dirt in front of it.
Now one could see that the soil seed to have been dug many tis before, with excavation marks everywhere.
The team leader controlled the machine and slowly started moving towards the end of the tunnel.
"Quickly! Let’s keep up!"
After saying this, the General ran over to join in.
Wu Xiaode followed slowly behind, feeling that the situation was too bizarre.
After all, what could you possibly unearth so deep underground?
Rare minerals?
Treasure?
The dead?
Or perhaps——
Thud!
A heavy tallic clanging sound ca from ahead.
The General imdiately shouted, "Quick, dig around it and see what it actually is!"
The squad leader skillfully operated the excavator, beginning to dig the soil around the area.
In no ti at all.
The soil was dug out, and the excavator dragged sothing out.
The chanical arm of the excavator stretched out, tilting high and moving backward.
The squad leader adjusted the spotlight on the excavator so it illuminated the object, making it possible to see what it was in the dark.
Wu Xiaode saw it the mont it was revealed.
He just couldn’t believe his eyes.
It was actually a refrigerator.
Hundreds of ters underground, in an unexplored tunnel, within the rocks and soil beneath the earth, there was a refrigerator hidden.
He walked over and gently tugged at the door of the fridge.
The fridge was already damaged, the door opened directly, revealing the empty inside.
It really was a refrigerator!
"Dig again! Keep digging!"
The General shouted loudly.
He then pointed at Wu Xiaode, "You, co with . We’ll drag it aside, don’t block the way."
"Okay."
Wu Xiaode and the General lifted the refrigerator and moved it aside.
The excavator advanced once more.
It dug furiously into the mud, digging and digging, until it finally hit sothing again.
The excavator hooked onto sothing and pulled it back.
—It was a broken piece of tal with the inscription "Satellite No. 7071, Seri."
The tal after the word "Seri" had clearly broken off, its whereabouts unknown.
But this did not prevent Wu Xiaode from recognizing its identity.
—This was a fragnt of a satellite.
Wu Xiaode steadied his spirit, feeling that although he had the ntal enhancent of "arcane knowledge," he no longer knew how to conjecture about this matter.
"Never mind it, keep digging, we don’t have much ti!" the General shouted loudly.
With one foot, he kicked the tal fragnt to the side of the road, making way for the excavator.
The squad leader, sitting inside the excavator, exchanged a glance with Wu Xiaode.
Both understood each other’s thoughts.
It was too unbelievable.
This was hundreds of ters below the ground.
There must be an astonishing secret deep under the earth.
This secret had always been hidden by the human elite, but now, it seed about to unfold before the two of them.
The squad leader operated the excavator again, digging into the mud and sand at the end of the tunnel.
A muffled thud.
It seed to have hit sothing again.
"Quick, quick, quick! Drag it out!"
The General shouted loudly.
The excavator dragged sothing, straining as it moved backward.
Wu Xiaode heard a long tallic sound as that thing dragged across the ground.
Without waiting, the General grabbed a hose from the wall, washing away the mud on the surface of that object.
It was a hand.
A steel hand approximately two ters long and one and a half ters wide.
Wu Xiaode’s heart skipped a beat.
Mobile Battle Armor.
There was no mistake, this was the hand of a Mobile Battle Armor.
The General clasped his head with both hands, sighing in frustration, before suddenly roaring again, "This is wrong! Keep digging! We haven’t found the right spot yet!"
The squad leader started up the excavator and continued heading toward the end of the tunnel.
A shadow suddenly crossed Wu Xiaode’s mind.
This shadow gave off a feeling identical to that of the sighing wall in the Book of the Dead.
It was death.
Wu Xiaode’s brow furrowed as he shouted, "Squad Leader!"
Mist billowed from his body as he rushed toward the direction of the excavator with all his might.
The door of the excavator opened, the squad leader fell to the ground, pushing off with his feet and rushing towards him at the fastest speed.
The ground shook.
Countless black tentacles hung down from above in the tunnel, piercing through the General’s body in an instant, sucking his flesh and blood dry until only a white skeleton remained on the ground.
anwhile, Wu Xiaode had already grabbed the squad leader, and the two of them, swift as a shot, left the excavator behind and stood motionless against the wall on the other side of the tunnel.
Around them dangled several long tentacles.
These tentacles moved sluggishly in the silent Demon Mist, oblivious to the presence of two living humans standing beside them.
Wu Xiaode dared not move.
The squad leader was also still.
These creatures needed but a mont to deal with people.
Ying and the General were both vivid examples.
Ti slowly passed.
The tentacles near Wu Xiaode shifted slightly, creating a small gap.
He imdiately took the squad leader’s hand and silently slipped through.
The two of them moved slowly through the jungle of dense tentacles.
After not more than several dozen ters, behind them, a tentacle began to tremble violently.
It vomited out a person with force.
It was that human officer.
—No, this was the Death God!
The human officer slowly stood up from the ground and said, "Co out, I know you’re hiding here."
No response.
The human officer continued, "Young deceased, hand over your Book of the Dead. As the Death God, I promise you, you will never die again, you will live eternally in this world."
—Immortal my ass!
The Book of the Dead is my power, it’s my foundation. Why the hell should I give it to you!
Wu Xiaode cursed silently.
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