Chapter 16: Encountering the Burrowing Worm

"Is this the 'lake' you told me about the other day? It might be more appropriate to describe it as an abyss. ”

The abyss in front of us is the junction of the two worlds, the gateway of the void to the material realm.

The shape looks exactly like Kane's muted eyes, like a one-eyed peering into the world underground.

When he saw the abyss, Kane was terrified.

And after hearing Keisha's words, he wondered if his eyes had become the door of the void.

But he quickly put the crazy idea down. If that's the case, your own body can't bear that majestic energy.

Just as Kane wiped his eyes vigorously, a strong sense of crisis enveloped him.

In the abyss, countless soulless black pupils condensed out of thin air, looking upward.

Spirals of pale matter form disgusting shapes, fixed into ugly creatures.

Rickets' spines stretch and flatten, swollen limbs stretch and elongate, hooked claws form from the liquid sea of madness, frantic evolution weaves into translucent monstrosities, giving them sharp, piercing newborn cries.

He only felt threatened now because these monsters had just been born!

Witnessing the birth of the Ethereal Spirit made Kane burst into oven-like heat. Keisha's body beside her trembled slightly, and she didn't feel much better.

Thousands of stumbling monsters emerged from the sea of madness, trying to get close to the two of them.

They come from the depths of the Earth's core, or beyond, and crawl through the gaps between the two worlds, crawling upwards to the surface. With an irreconcilable urge to kill, they never stop walking on the road of disintegrating and collapsing the world.

"Let's go!"

This time, Kane pulled Keisha away, and started running without taking two steps, trying to stay away from this dangerous abyss.

After staring into the abyss, Kane suddenly understood that the ethereal spirits he had encountered before were not completely static.

Their existence is given meaning.

It's their deep digging that has left the underworld in ruins, and the labyrinthine tunnels they walk through are their masterpieces.

The Underworld is far more dangerous than they see!

The sound of the rocks scraping was heard, and the monsters caught up.

Kane looked back, firing eye waves that only he could see to freeze them, then turned around and ran again.

But Kane's brainwave control has a range, as long as the distance is widened, the monster out of control will immediately take action and chase after it.

They hurried through several forks in the road, but the monsters always found their way correctly.

He didn't feel it when he used the radar to locate his prey before, but when he appeared in the radar of the predator, he felt that this ability was so ghostly.

Another fork in the darkness emerged, and the two ran praying that it would allow them to shake off the swarm.

Keisha is dominated by Kane, and it has always been up to him to choose which path to take, and his perception will prevent them from going to a dead end where monsters are dormant.

But there are exceptions, such as this time, he didn't feel the threat under his feet until he stepped onto the trap.

Kane made a move that Kesha didn't expect.

During the run, Kane suddenly flung off the hands held by the two like crazy, and then pushed Keisha away with force, and he also pounced on the other side with the help of the reaction.

All it takes is a moment of inadvertentity to be fatal enough.

A monster several times the size of two men emerged from the rock beneath its feet, its bloody jaw slamming into the air between them.

If Kane hadn't sensed the danger in advance and pushed it away in time, then at least one of them would have been killed.

Keisha lost her balance and fell to the ground, smashing her shoulder to the flying rocks, but such a minor injury was nothing compared to the worst outcome.

She quickly scrambled to her feet, angrily swinging her claws at the monster's carapace.

The claws leave deep nicks on the chitinous crust, but to destroy its heart, it's not enough!

Seeing that Kesha's claws couldn't break the carapace of the driller, Kane immediately withdrew his claws.

Keisha's claws had an extra layer of dark condensation armor than his, and if that couldn't even destroy the shell, then he wouldn't have to try.

He told Kaisha to quickly bypass the Driller and come to his side, as the Ethereal Swarm had already arrived on the battlefield.

But as soon as Keisha moved closer, the burrower bent its head toward her, and the eyeless skull had only a large mouth that stretched out, revealing a deep esophagus full of fangs, and a hose tongue that was looking for a protruding entrance.

The jaw snapped shut, and Keisha was forced to fall backwards, narrowly avoiding the fangs.

But with this delay, a terrifying number of ethereal insect swarms had already surrounded her.

"No!"

Kane's eyes widened in rage, and an abyss-like left eye rippled, and invisible ripples spread over the swarm's head, stopping the berserk swarm that had nearly eaten Keisha.

Hunger made them agitated, and he calmed them while some of the Ethereals turned to attack the burrowers.

Kane can control the Ethereal, but the stronger Drillers can't at all. Its massive and distinct body was stuck in the middle of the tunnel, and the two of them couldn't get close to each other without killing it.

The raging ethereal spirit pounced on the burrower's body, its fangs leaving marks on its carapace. Drilling into the ground and twisting his limbs frantically, he tried to shake off the ethereal spirit hooked on his body.

Golden opportunity!

Taking advantage of the fact that the Driller's attention was drawn to the Ethereal, Keisha seized the opportunity that Kane had created for her, attempting to cling to the rock wall to bypass the Driller and return to Kane.

But at the moment when it was about to succeed, the carapace of the burrowing worm suddenly popped open, turning out rows of slender but sharp stitches, comb-like rows of stabbing into the rock walls on both sides, like popping out bolts, directly locking the way back for Keisha!

It was only then that she discovered that the monster's feet were embedded in the carapace, and that it had not only feet, but also eyes......

The swarthy pupils were scattered on either side of its torso, one pair at each section, staring at her and Kane separately from the beginning, and as soon as the two showed intent to get closer, it would immediately launch a lightning attack.

The difficulties between the two grew more and more, and Keisha was so anxious that she burst into tears.

Suddenly, she noticed that the stitches were slender and seemed fragile, and she wanted to tear them apart and break through the obstacles to get back to Kane.

But she had just stretched out her claws, but Kane told her not to.

"Don't do anything stupid! It's dangerous! ”

The ethereal spirit he controlled could not kill the thick-shelled burrowing worm, and this obstacle had become an insurmountable obstacle between the two, so he could only reluctantly give the order.

"Keisha, you run. Run into the other fork first, I'll hold the swarm here, and when you're safe, I'll take the other fork in the road. Rest assured, I will find you again through my abilities. ”

As soon as the words fell, the dense swarm of insects around Keisha spread out a pathway.

His energy is depleting rapidly, and if he doesn't make a quick choice, neither of them will survive.

"But you can't get rid of the swarm!"

Keisha wasn't that stupid, she knew that Kane's actions would lead him into an endless hunt, maybe he didn't think so, but judging by the predictable results, his decision was already moving in the direction of sacrificing himself for her.

"It's the best way to go! You can escape, and I won't necessarily be overtaken. ”

Tears kept dripping from his sour eyes, and Kane felt that his eyelids were weighing more than a thousand pounds at this moment, and they could close at any moment.

But he didn't dare to let it close, he didn't dare to ......

He was afraid that in the blink of an eye, the runaway swarm would tear Keisha apart.

At the moment of fate, Kesha, who was only ten years old, listened to her instinct and made her own choice.

"I don't want us to be separated! I'm going to be with you! ”