Chapter 313: Chapter 313 Going Deeper Into The Ground
Luckily insects seemed to be very sensitive to Earth’s magnetic field. Sometimes, it was almost as accurate as migratory birds’ navigational ability.
“The middle one!” Chu Yunsheng quickly sent a message to his companions.
Dumb Insect and Little Red ran into the tunnel in the middle first. They were followed by other insects. Chu Yunsheng was in the middle and Old Purple was still guarding the back.
All the insect were asked not to use their fire energy to prevent from exposing their current location
Luckily, the insect’s unique “sight” helped them a lot in the dark crack. Otherwise, Chu Yunsheng would definitely b.u.mp into walls many times.
The crack was getting narrower and narrower, it was also getting wetter and wetter. Without any reference objects, Chu Yunsheng could not tell if they were going up or going down.
Every insect was silently crawling in the crack. Since Chu Yunsheng saved Little Green, all the insects trusted Chu Yunsheng even more.
Water!
What originally just wet ground was now covered with water!
Looking at this situation, it seemed like they were getting deeper and deeper into the ground. But having water on the ground was not a good sign. It meant that the further side of the crack might be filled with water.
However, they had already crawled this far. He didn’t want to go back and change to other routes. Besides, insects didn’t need to breathe, their fire energy would just be suppressed when they were under the water.
As long as they didn’t encounter something powerful, it shouldn’t be a problem for them.
Moreover, he didn’t even know where other routes would lead them to. So to him, the rest of the two cracks were the same as the one he chose.
“Carry on,” Chu Yunsheng did not believe that only human beings could walk out of this underground maze, but they couldn’t.
However, they didn’t get very far.
“…Blocked…” The group stopped again and Dumb Insect sent a signal back.
‘Dead end?’
Chu Yunsheng was dazed for a second, then he crawled down from Old Golden’s back. He squeezed towards the front and noticed that the crack had become very narrow. Even a red-sh.e.l.led insect also couldn’t squeeze through, let alone other insects.
Just when Chu Yunsheng was trying to think of a solution, they suddenly heard some quiet noises as if something was constantly scratching the ground. Moreover, the noises were coming towards them from the other side of the crack.
Chu Yunsheng became alerted, and he immediately sent out signals, “something is coming! Get ready for a fight!”
At the same time, he quickly dragged Dumb Insect and Little Red back.
As the sounds were coming closer and closer, Chu Yunsheng was more and more anxious. It even made him forget that he was no longer a human being.
“Retreat!”
All the insects were ashamed by Chu Yunsheng’s signal. Since when were they scared of other creatures?
Although they trusted Chu Yunsheng, their real leader was Old Purple. So no one moved.
Just when Chu Yunsheng was trying to persuade Old Purple, a small shadow jumped out from the other side of the crack.
‘Mouse!’
Chu Yunsheng was speechless. Even he himself was also ashamed of his behavior this time.
All insects were enraged by the appearance of the mouse.
Before Chu Yunsheng even reacted, Little Red instantly charged forward and pinched several mice into halves.
In fact, the size of those three mice was enormous, they were almost three times bigger than the mouse in the age of light. To ordinary mice, they might be monsters, but to Chu Yunsheng, no matter how big they were, they were just mice.
The death of three mice scared away the rest of the mice. But they also provided Chu Yunsheng some information. Since so many mice could come from the other side of the crack, it meant that the crack they were in was not very dangerous.
He used his claws to check the soil and rocks around them. It was humid, and the rocks were not very hard.
‘Dig!’
‘It is possible to dig through this narrow crack without using the fire energy,’ Chu Yunsheng immediately decided.
He quickly asked Old Golden to widen the crack without using its fire energy. This order was also immediately approved by Old Purple without any delay.
As Old Golden started to move its giant pliers rapidly, Chu Yunsheng and the rest of the insects also started to move forward again.
They dug deeper and deeper, the number of mice they encountered also started to increase.
However, Chu Yunsheng was more and more confident now. He strongly believed that as long as they dug through this crack, they would arrive at an open area.
In terms of the mice they saw, they all ended up dead like the first three mice that Little Red had killed.
However, the fact soon proved that Chu Yunsheng was wrong. His companions were also wrong because they had forgotten a very important factor – numbers!
When they finally dug through the crack and reached an open area, and before Chu Yunsheng got excited, they realized that they had actually dug into a huge mouse nest.
They were no longer in the swarm, there were only seven of them, but there were countless mice.
Looking at all kinds of animal skeletons underneath those mice, Chu Yunsheng knew that this nest of mice ate everything. He even noticed a lot of the insect’s sh.e.l.ls as well.
But it was too late for them to turn around, the mice were squeaking loudly while flocking towards Chu Yunsheng’s group. Chu Yunsheng also noticed that there were mice glowing in green light like the mutant mice he had seen outside Jin Ling city.
Chu Yunsheng didn’t dare to test out if those mice had the ability to kill them or not. It was the dark age, everything was possible.
At this moment, they could no longer hide their abilities anymore. He immediately ordered Old Golden to breathe fire and burn the mice that ran to them the first.
The body sizes of Old Purple and Old Golden were very big. So while the first batch of mice was burned by Old Golden’s fire breath, Old Purple took the opportunity and quickly swapped the position with Old Golden.
Then it instantly unleashed it’s purple flames to cover all its body and used its body to block the crack they dug.
The mice were still charging towards Old Purple. But all of them were burned into ashes when they approached the purple flames.
However, the mice were born with the ability to dig holes.
Just when Chu Yunsheng thought that Old Purple was able to block the mice, many mice started to dig their way into the crack from both sides, the top, and below of the crack.
Chu Yunsheng was not scared of the ordinary mice, However, those mutant mice were constantly casting out icicles attacks. Ice energy was able to suppress fire energy. Although these mice’s ability was very weak, they had numbers, and they were everywhere. So within just a few minutes, they almost froze the entire crack.
The white worm was the first one that could not withstand the attack. Its defensive ability was the weakest amongst them. At the moment, it was already covered with the mice and constantly squeaking in pain.
Chu Yunsheng’s heart dropped. Although it was the weakest in their group, it had a very important role in their group. The white worm was the only source of energy supply they had in their group at the moment.
So Chu Yunsheng quickly used his claws to carefully and quickly sweep mice away from the white worm’s body. Then he picked it up and held it underneath its chest. At the same time, it was constantly spitting the corrosive liquid to kill the rest of the mice that came into the crack.
However, more and more mice started to crawl into the crack, but the crack was too narrow for Chu Yunsheng and other insects to move around. If he could not think of a new solution, sooner or later, they would have casualties!
They could not retreat, because they did not know if the enemy from spore forests was behind them or not. They also could not dig into the ground again, since those mice were also able to dig into the ground, and with the number they had, it was definitely much quicker than Old Golden.
They had to move forward! They had to move into an open area, so they could easily move around.
There might also be another route in this nest.
Chu Yunsheng quickly sent a signal to Old Purple, “Old Purple, quick, unleash your energy ripples to kill them!”
The reason why he did not dare to ask Old Purple to use its strongest attack earlier was that with that kind of attack, it might even make the entire crack collapse.
Although the insect’s body was very strong, it was not invincible. If the crack collapsed, with the amount of soil above them, they would be crushed into minced meat immediately.
However, he had no choice now. If they carry on like this, Old Purple and Old Golden might be able to survive, but the rest of insects, including himself, would die.
Old Purple did not have enough brain cells to process information during combat. Without Chu Yunsheng’s order, it would just fight blindly like other insects. Fortunately, its subconsciousness immediately accepted Chu Yunsheng’s order.
In the next second, the first round of energy ripple was unleashed into the nest and made a b.l.o.o.d.y way in the nest.
“Go!”
Chu Yunsheng screeched loudly to order all the insects to follow Old Purple!
“Boom! Boom! Boom!”
As they were running out of the crack fast, Old Golden was constantly breathing fire to blow away the mice that were chasing them out of the crack.
“BOOM!”
This time was Old Purple. It unleashed another round of energy ripples again to blow up another crowd of the mice in the center of the nest.
The eyes of many mice were quickly changed from green to red. It seemed like they were enraged by the action of Old Purple. Just when they were about to charge toward Chu Yunsheng’s group again, a crispy and ear-piercing cracking sound appeared in the nest.
As all the creatures in the nest raised their heads, they noticed that there was a crack spreading across the top of the nest like a twisting lightning bolt, and it was getting wider and wider.
All the attacks stopped all of a sudden. All the creatures in that nest were not moving. Every animal had an instinct to predict a devastating disaster. So almost every creature in the nest knew what was going to happen.
“Crack!”
As if something was finally broken!
The nest began to collapse.
“Fu…” before Chu Yunsheng was able to curse it out, he instantly felt like he was crushed by something very heavy and then everything went black all of sudden.
‘It is over…’ Chu Yunsheng’s heart dropped.
‘What a stupid order I just gave!’ He thought.
Suddenly, he did not feel any pressure on top of him anymore. Then he felt like he was falling.
………
Above a huge and quiet underground lake that no one knew how long it had existed, a crack suddenly appeared. Then within a few seconds, its entire top was collapsed. Countless mice mixed with some insects and a lot of soil were falling directly into the lake.
“Splash…””Splash…””Splash…”
A lot of water splashes in various sizes appeared everywhere on the originally calm surface of the lake, along with many sounds of objects falling into the water. The old and seemingly dangerous foggy lake was no longer peaceful anymore.