Chapter 170: Chapter 57:

Ji Heng patiently waited, hoping that Su Xiaocai and the others were safe and sound.

The laughter and playful banter of Hu Ping and Liu Xun lingered clearly in his mind; just moments ago, they were jokingly betting to see who could persuade more people.

He couldn’t accept anything happening to them.

No way, they have Su Xiaocai with them.

The recent collapse indeed startled Su Xiaocai.

At the moment of the ground shaking, Su Xiaocai threw out a Protective Device shaped like a triangular cage.

It enclosed the three bewildered people inside, while Su Xiaocai herself was thrown out of the building by the tremor.

As she fell, Su Xiaocai pulled out a hooked claw, grabbed the edge of a balcony, and jumped back to her original position.

She took out the Detection Ball from the Space Button once more, scattering hundreds of them around.

After finishing this step, the communicator vibrated, and an Insect Man rushed straight towards her along the building.

Su Xiaocai sighed, “Do I look that appetizing?”

She answered the call, put it on speaker, and with one hand drew her gun, aiming it at the multi-fanged mouth of the Insect Man.

Multitasking: “Hello? What is it?”

The red beam from the gun hit its target precisely, the Insect Man was repelled.

The building was sinking, and rubble fell from above.

She kicked off with both legs, jumped onto the balcony railing, and avoided the falling debris.

At the same time, she kicked away the skewed window to prevent the glass from shattering and hitting her equipment.

Standing with her body pressed against the wall, she tightly gripped the hooked claw rope, stabilizing her center of gravity to minimize the impact of the shaking.

The Insect Man wasn’t dead yet.

Its mouth was destroyed, but it wasn’t a fatal wound for it.

Quickly, it came back, swinging its claw towards her face.

Su Xiaocai ducked to avoid it.

The claws and its target swung to the wall behind her, leaving deep claw marks.

“Don’t worry, we’ll be fine.” Seeing the swarm of Insect Men surging from underground, Su Xiaocai could only comfort Ji Heng like this.

Deep underground in Huangyang City is the main base of the Insect Men.

The garrison digging deep into the earth to find the location of the queen probably wouldn’t dare to believe it, even if they were killed.

They dug too deep, clearing out the remaining area overnight, even Wisdom 03 couldn’t detect it.

The warriors backing them surely aren’t lacking in intelligence.

So many Insect Men, the queen has probably been hidden for a long time.

Su Xiaocai slid back and forth along the wall, avoiding the Insect Men.

The tremors haven’t ended, and Su Xiaocai quickly thought about what to do next.

Inside, under the protection, the three people were uninjured despite the ceiling collapsing, but they were rolling around, close to being knocked out.

“Ah, ah, ah…” rolling to the left.

“Ah, ah, ah…” rolling to the right.

Like a white ball in a game of billiards, being knocked around.

Even with equipment protection, they rolled until their backs and waists were sore.

Hearing the roars of Insect Men from Su Xiaocai’s side, mixed with the voices of Wu Qingqing and the others, Ji Heng understood their situation was still okay, lively and safe, and immediately felt a lot more at ease.

“We will get in touch with someone to rescue you immediately.”

“No need, you guys take care of yourselves first. I have a way to temporarily block their senses.” Su Xiaocai said, hacking off the tentacle of the Insect Man that was thrown onto the balcony due to the tremor.

The situation was very dire, the Insect Man’s tentacle regenerated within a short period of time.

A slight numbness in her palm made Su Xiaocai cautious.

Even with the equipment’s boost, her strength increased, yet she still had to exert seventy percent of her strength to cut off the tentacle.

The Insect Man dealt with on the Capital Star compared to the Insect Man in front of her seemed like two different creatures.

Before the Insect Man’s tentacle fully grew back, Su Xiaocai shot its other tentacles, then kicked it off the balcony.

It happened to be crushed under a heap of rubble, turning it into a bloody mass.

Luckily, the collapse wasn’t very fast, Su Xiaocai activated the hovering device under her feet, narrowly avoiding the final impact damage in the last two seconds.

The surrounding buildings were already in ruins.

Underground, the upheaval of dust obscured all light, a grey fog enveloped the area, with cries and pleas for help continuing in her ears.

But Su Xiaocai couldn’t worry about them now.

With the night vision capability of her helmet, she clearly saw a large number of Insect Men surging up from underground.

She squeezed into the ruined house, quickly opened the triangular protective device where Wu Qingqing was, and squeezed inside.

Then she sent a message to Ji Heng and Instructor Fan, “Don’t message unless necessary, stay safe, don’t worry, we need absolute silence here.”

Wu Qingqing and Hu Ping were about to say something.

“Shut up, don’t move, don’t even take a deep breath.”

The three of them held their breath, not daring to make a move.

The new equipment’s design is somewhat like the Space Miner Suit, with a certain thickness, once worn, as long as they didn’t take a deep breath, one couldn’t tell if a person was inside.

The positions of the four were very cleverly hidden in a dark corner, where a half-collapsed wall just covered the triangular device.

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