After Ethan and Christina were dragged down, they fell for a while, but the face-eaters were not affected. They bared their teeth and claws, gnawing at the underground Clawrence, and the piercing sound of grinding reached everyone's ears.

The cheekeaters' jaws may not be enough to bite through the 15 mm thick alloy shell of the Type 1 armor, but they secrete a corrosive liquid that destroys the prey's outer skin tissue and defenses, killing the prey.

Lawrence was now overwhelmed by countless face-eaters, and the terrible weight on him alone was too much to breathe.

"Huh" After Adeline adjusted the movement mode of the ant machine to the highest level, several waves of heat rose, and she drove the ant machine towards Grass on the ground, the whole mecha seemed to be suddenly smeared with oil, and the flexibility and agility of the movement were greatly improved.

After vigorously pulling away the face-eaters that were clinging to Lawrence's body, those face-eaters seemed to be enraged, and after being thrown away, they pounced on the ant machine, and frantically secreted mucus to corrode the ant machine.

On the other side of the cave wall, an endless stream of face-eating insects flew out of the hole, making a sparse sound that made the scalp tingle like pouring beans.

"Ethan! Get out of here. Others, escorting Ethan, to the target location. Dora commanded.

On Team 5's screen, a green target spot appears behind a dense red dot, which is the direction away from the hive.

At this time, Ethan had already stood up from the ground, and a face-eating insect on the edge found Ethan and tried to attack him, but Ethan took up his knife and cut off two insect feet with one sword.

The long sword in his hand flashed with a silver light in the dim cavern, and it was no longer the standard weapon with no attributes used in the first mission.

[Double-Sided Blade] +1 (Strengthens equipment after becoming a forger)

weapons

Quality: Good

Attack: 2-23

Durability: 18/18

Value: 102 gold

Since this time I was going to lead the team to complete the task alone, the danger factor increased, so I deliberately found a piece of equipment with good attributes in the warehouse.

There was no time to dwell too much with the bug, so Ethan and Christina went into the sea of bugs and cooperated with Adeline to fish out Grass.

The inky turbid liquid continued to corrode on Lawrence's outer armor, and white smoke had even emitted from some of the less protected parts, which meant that the corrosive fluid had penetrated the outer layer of armor and caused erosion to the inner layer of radiation protection clothing.

Ethan carried Clarence in one hand, danced the sword in his hand with the other, and the quicksand technique was immediately activated.

This was the first time Ethan had started quicksand on the sandy ground, and the surrounding gravel, broken insect limbs, and even the fluff and slime from the face-eating insects were all absorbed, like a tornado.

However, the effect is also quite obvious, the sand and gravel that is absorbed can be like a small sandstorm, although it will not cause much damage to the faceeaters on the ground, but at least temporarily affect their senses.

"Let's go!" Ethan's right arm slammed out the dust that surrounded him like a cannon. After training a few days ago, he was already able to control the suction and repulsion of his whole body to condense into one point, making the quicksand technique have a little long-range killing ability.

The sand and debris formed a smoke bomb that buries the faceeater inside. The smoke and dust drifted away, making them a little dizzy for a while.

Ethan and Christina both had one or two face-eating worms on them, but they only bothered to rush forward with their heads covered, and they didn't care about them at all, so they had to let them bite.

Adeline, who was in the sea of insects, jumped out in a few big steps, and pinched and exploded the insects lying on the hatch with one hand, but the turbid liquid that was sprayed was stuck on the hatch. With a simple touch, the ant machine shook off the face-eating insect on its body and followed Ethan's direction.

"The observer has been deployed." On the ground, Jean set up the stand and said.

"Joestar, Jack, you two keep an eye on the observer, and keep me informed if anything happens." Duo stretched his neck and said to the informants of the bottom group and the second group.

"Yes!"

"Jean, return to the hillside and set up a makeshift shelter to pick up Ethan."

"Roger!"

In front of the screen, Jeff, as an informant, felt extremely nervous, biting his fingers, and all kinds of thoughts were racing in his head.

Judging from the data displayed on the current detector, there are more than 100 face-eating insects that have gushed out of the cave wall, and the other side of the cave wall seems to be connected to the wormhole, and more than 300 signs of life activity have been marked. Ethan and the others were like poking a hornet's nest, and as soon as they entered, they were "lucky" to come to the core area of the hive.

Their current situation can be said to be the worst situation, although the individual combat power of the face-eater is not too strong, and the face-eater is a breed that moves relatively slowly. If it were on the plains, Ethan and the others could completely nibble away at them little by little. But now in the insect path, the space is relatively narrow, once the face eater worm along the cave walls on both sides of the crowd from all directions, squeezed with quantity and weight, Ethan and the others will not be able to wield their weapons in the narrow space, and then be corroded little by little.

The idea of going away from the core area of the hive avoids most faceeaters, but the direction away from the hive usually does not lead to the surface, which means that if you go in one direction, you are likely to end up at a dead end and eventually be trapped in the hive due to going deeper and deeper into the ground.

Jeff tried his best to search for information in his mind about the weaknesses of the Ferent Eater, the King of the Eater Worm, and the habits of the mutated Eater Eater, but at this time, his brain was already occupied by anxiety and worry, and the so-called concern was chaotic, and his brain was in a mess, and he couldn't think of any effective plan for a while.

Glancing in the direction of the other three exploration teams, the first team closest to the transit station would have to take at least 2 hours to return to the transit station, plus it would take another 30 kilometers to reach the location of Ethan and the others after being transported from the transfer station to the fourth transfer station.

Jeff felt his heart pound violently, and he was scared, worried that Ethan wouldn't make it to that point.

"Esango, come on!" Jeff clenched his fists and cheered Ethan on his heart.

Inside the hive, Ethan carried Grass, and the sword in his hand flew away, picking away the face-eating insects that were only blocking in front of him.

"Esango...... Sorry ......"

"You shouldn't have saved me, it's all my fault, I'm sorry......" Grass's emotions were uncontrollable, and he said intermittently with tears.

The previous fall in mid-air caused Lawrence's left leg to fracture, and in addition, during the few seconds of siege by the faceeater, he also suffered impact injuries in various parts of his body, and his armor was not lightly damaged.

"No, Lawrence, don't say that, if I hadn't fallen in, you wouldn't have jumped down to save me, and you wouldn't have become the way you are, it's my fault."

"If anything, the responsibility is on me." Ethan said, no trace of panic or worry about the imminent death in his voice.

The road in front of him gradually reached the end, and sure enough, as Jeff thought, this was not an entrance to the surface, but an underground spring.

Ethan came to his feet at the end of the corridor and dropped Flowerance on his shoulder.

"But, hehe, it's just a few little bugs. Rest assured, we still have a long way to go and it won't end here. Shine your guard, Laws! Ethan flicked his sword, and the foul smell of turbid liquid spilled on the wall, and he raised his voice.

Tears welled up in Lawrence's eyes, and a feeling of trust and expectation flowed into his heart, turning into a full of blood.

He overcame the sharp pain coming from his left foot and all parts of his body, took off the shield behind his back, drew the machete at his waist, half-squatted in front of the team and said proudly: "Yes! Captain! ”