Chapter 120: The Cage

"Three, two, one!"

The stout chariot was still hesitating in place, not knowing whether to fight hard or give in, and the countdown on Evan's side was nearing its end. Without any nonsense, he poked over with another claw, and the rain he brought up was between the two, forming a visible curtain of convex water, like an indentation left on the ground after the python swam away.

Brush β€”β€”!

With Evan's body as the center, the air within a radius of three meters was stirred, and the strong wind overflowed and crackled.

The chariot's eyes were squinted by the rain, and before he could react, he felt a sharp pain in his skull, as if it had been chiseled through by five steel hooks. Immediately after that, he was pulled from the ground by a huge force, and in a whirlwind, his body seemed to spin sideways in mid-air, and then he was thrown out violently.

Whoosh – poofβ€”β€”!

The chariot didn't even have time to shout a scream, it had already crossed a distance of more than ten meters, and then sat down in the dark blue lake.

Ivan didn't use any penetration when he caught the man, so he didn't lose consciousness and immediately began to flutter after falling into the water. Accustomed to buoyancy and balance, the chariot struggled to get out of the water, but did not dare to swim ashore, but stayed in the center of the lake with the waves.

In the meantime, the female qualifier, codenamed Meteor, was so frightened that she suddenly ran back into the coniferous forest, as if fearing that she too would be thrown into the lake and soon disappear without a trace.

"Seems to be fine. The seal couldn't help but say when he saw that the chariot was fine after being soaked in water for a long time.

"He's the second bait, and there's another one under the water. The white bear reminded in a whisper.

"Let them soak in the lake!" Erica scolded indignantly, holding the Eye Demon's cold hand and looking at the center of the lake with hatred.

"Huh!?"

The chariot's lips trembled from the cold in the lake, and when he saw Erica say this, his expression was suddenly extremely frightened:

"I didn't do it! I apologize, I repent! I shouldn't have offended you, and I shouldn't have insulted that lady. I beg your forgiveness for my foolish collision, it's not easy for the qualified to survive, there's no need to kill each other, is there!?"

"Okay, you can dive in and get the lightning out. Ivan readily agreed.

"Really?" he said, looking uncertain.

"That's right, dead or alive, as long as you dive down and fish out the lightning, I'll forget what happened before. Ivan replied in the affirmative.

"Then let's talk about it!"

Seeing that he looked serious, the chariot agreed with half a doubt.

As soon as the man was about to plunge into the water, he felt the water begin to shake lightly under the lake, and soon the surface of the lake began to shake and bubble like boiling water. Then came the intense humidity and heat, and there was a smell in the heat that made you want to vomit - like the rotten smell of countless sticky pieces of meat mixed together, and like the fishy smell of the internal organs of sea creatures.

"What's that!?"

The chariot panicked and stiffened, only to feel that an invisible force was surging up from the bottom of the lake. Looking down, there was a faint dark red light coming from the depths of the originally dark blue lake, which looked indescribably evil.

"Sure enough, there's something!"

Evan faintly felt a twisted malice surging up from the bottom of the lake, and the rainbow ring in his pupils contracted, and he immediately stretched out his hand towards the seal:

"Rope!"

"Give!"

The latter hurriedly removed the rope loop that had been around his neck and handed it to the other party.

One by one, one by one

"Help, help!"

The chariot could no longer care less, and while shouting for help, he flapped his hands and swam to the shore. As soon as he swam five or six meters, he felt a suction force under his feet, and then the whole person quickly fell into the lake.

In the process, his consciousness suddenly became trance-like, as if his soul had been pulled out of his body by that force. In the dark, the man's residual consciousness felt bad, and he instinctively struggled desperately, but he fell deeper and deeper. Suddenly, a rope flew over and wrapped around the chariot's waist. Then he jerked, dragging him out of the whirlpool that was constantly lowering in the lake.

Bangβ€”β€”!

The chariot fell heavily on the edge of the lake, and he almost rolled over with pain in his buttocks, but his face was a look of surprise for the rest of his life. He turned his head to look along the rope and found that the person who saved him was actually Evan, and suddenly showed an inexhaustible expression.

β€œ......”

However, at this time, Evan was not in the mood to respond to the other party's gratitude, and the green tendons all over his body were tensed, squirming violently like a black snake. His eyes looked like a hungry tiger ready to attack before a hunt, and the dark pupils reflected the whirlpool of the lake, followed by a cold light like a needle tip.

Gollum...... Gollum......

The bubbles on the surface of the lake soon turned red, and the water gradually became dirty and turbid, like a sewage swamp deep in the dense forest that does not see the sun all year round. In just a dozen seconds, the sewage turned into a dark red and smelly slurry, and huge bubbles bubbled up from time to time, and the moment it burst, a disgusting and disgusting smell was permeated.

"There's something under the lake!"

"Goblins, or are they human mutations?"

"Looks like a big guy, should we retreat?"

Seeing this, everyone immediately raised their weapons and aimed them at the swirling whirlpool in the center of the Scarlet Swamp.

"Now that you know that there are monsters under the lake, you have nothing to fear!

Ivan took the high-temperature dissolving gun from the Eye Demon and aimed it at the center of the whirlpool: "Kill it first, steam the lake water, and then cross the tunnel to enter the shelter!

His words were equivalent to a war letter, and everyone no longer hesitated after hearing it, and planned to fight the monsters under the water to the death.

In the dim light, the 'Red Swamp' began to gurgle up, the surface of the viscous dark red plasma, slowly rising upward, as if some kind of behemoth was rising from the bottom of the water.

Erica held the cannon with one hand and covered her nose with the other, afraid that she would not be able to help but vomit. The seal's pupils trembled as he endured the disgusting smell that filled the air, and he watched the massive silhouette emerge from the 'red swamp', raising his submachine gun like a shuttle of bullets.

Boom Boom Boom Boom β€”β€”!

Not just the seals, but everyone, including Evan, and even the chariot that had just picked up a life, pulled out their hot weapons and blasted them at the bulging blood-colored slurry. The entire lake was immediately turned upside down, and after the firelight mixed with the red glow of the high-temperature dissolving gun flickered a few times, the blood-colored slurry was evaporated cleanly.

At the bottom of the charred and cracked lake, there are countless charred and blackened limbs and severed arms, wisps of green smoke. Like when there is a drought, the algae exposed to the sun clings to the scorched surface of the lake, showing a dry and distorted appearance, which makes people's scalp tingle from a distance.

"That's the end of it. The seal asked, gasping.

"Let's be a gatekeeper. ”

Evan replied with a fitting analogy. As he spoke, he took the lead in leaping forward, jumping down the steep slope of the lakebed, and beckoned to everyone on the shore after landing:

"There's no time to hesitate! I hope this loud noise doesn't attract the fish, let's go!"

The White Bear, Erica, the Seal, and the Eye Demon jumped down without hesitation, and the chariot stopped in place with a struggling expression, and after thinking for a while, he gritted his teeth and caught up with the pace of everyone.

One by one, one by one

The footsteps of the six men passed through the hollow tunnel on the east side of the lake bottom, and a series of empty sounds continued forward until the dark end of the tunnel. They walked down a deep, unglimmering underground tunnel toward the shelter. There are tools abandoned by the construction unit everywhere on the ground, and Evan picks up a flashlight, flips the switch and finds it useful, so he uses it to light the way forward.

The light of the flashlight cast a pale, faint spot of light on the ground, and apart from them, there was not the slightest breath of life in the entire cold and silent underground at this time. There was silence in the dark environment, and the only sound in their ears was the sound of their deliberately held breathing, and everyone could sense the increasing pressure from the sound of breathing.

After passing through two open metal doors and going about 500 meters deep, everyone was exposed to a mine-like underground world. The walls were made of the hardest reinforced concrete, and the dome was dotted with incandescent lamps that stretched all the way to the deepest part of the vault - I don't know if it was because of the power outage, none of the bulbs were lit.

Other than that, everything in the space is still in a rough state, like an abandoned mine, and the construction was obviously stopped abruptly before it could be perfected.

Ivan shone his flashlight on all corners of the vault and suddenly spoke:

"Seals, white bears, go out and close the closed door outside!"

"No problem!"

The seal turned around and walked away immediately, then showed a puzzled look, and just raised his right foot, he suddenly lowered it again: "If we close the door, in case there is danger here, won't we have no way out?"

"Your nickname is Seal, and your IQ is also a Seal!?"

The white bear grabbed his arm and dragged him to Yongdao quickly: "If you close it, you will face the enemy on one side, and if you don't close it, you will attack back and forth!"

"These two guys ......"

Evan heard the voices of the two go away, handed Erica the flashlight, and walked alone to the center of the shelter hall, where he found a sculpture covered with a curtain.

And the moment he approached the sculpture, an awe-inspiring chill hit him from behind the curtain. The cold was completely different from the cold that he had experienced in the extreme training room, which froze his blood from the outside in, and a vicious thought hit the bottom of his heart, which was terrifying.

"What the hell is this?"

Ivan sensed that something was wrong with the sculpture, and a cold light flashed in the depths of his eyes, and he raised his leg and kicked on the sculpture. The toes first stepped on the heels, and the sculpture was torn apart through the curtain.

And at this moment, with the sound of falling rubble, the surrounding scenery suddenly changed.

β€œ......”

Ivan suddenly found himself standing in an extremely wide square, surrounded by dim light and fog. The square is covered with silt, sediment from the seabed, and buildings that look mysterious and eerie in the dark. The shapes of the buildings were horrific and distorted, and the shadows were scattered in the depths of the mist, like the malice of the Creator, giving people a feeling of extreme resentment and madness.

The seaweed-strewn boulder buildings resembled large incense burners, a gray and black mist spilling outward, and through the dark miasma of distorted light, Ivan saw a distorted dark green sun hanging high in the sky.

Brush Brush Brush β€”β€”!

Fine raindrops fell in the sky, and the rain hit the ground of the square, and it turned out to be blood-colored, dark red, as if it were alive, and gathered together, meandering and twisting and flowing. As the rain increased, the blood that flowed became heavier and thicker, and finally broke down into countless blood-colored, disgusting 'earthworms' that spread towards Ivan.

β€œ......”

Ivan subconsciously prepared to dodge, but found that his body seemed to be filled with lead, and he couldn't move heavily.

Soon, even the rain that poured on him turned into blood-colored poisonous insects, drilling the skin one by one, deep into the flesh. Evan's body stiffened, and his heart kept beating wildly, like a sledgehammer was pounding his heart.

Knock knock knockβ€”β€”!

The heartbeat is getting faster and faster, breathing is becoming more and more difficult, and the internal organs are also cramping with the invasion of poisonous insects.

"...... from my head"

Evan calmly closed his eyes, forced himself to take a deep breath, and urged the qi and blood of his whole body to pour directly into his brain. In the process, a swirling water vapor quickly rose above his head, and his temples bulged like a thin snake. After gathering all his consciousness and energy, his eyes widened sharply, and he opened his mouth with a loud roar:

"Get out!"

The huge sound wave is like a tangible substance, rolling and scattering, everywhere.

The blood-soaked plaza shattered in an instant, and the scenery turned into a hall of refuge as if nothing had happened.

"Is it an illusion? Is this sculpture a medium?"

Ivan muttered to himself and looked around, only to find that everyone was covering their ears and looking at him dumbfounded, as if they were startled by the roar.

"Are you alright?, what just happened?" Bai Xiong saw that his expression was wrong, and hurriedly stepped forward and asked.

"Something hit me...... It should be right here. ”

Ivan glanced down at the stone carving fragments on the ground, then crouched down to carefully observe the shape of the fragments: "Could it be that this is the culprit? No, it's an illusion that I only had after I destroyed it." ”

"You've just been attacked...... And then he was locked in a hallucination, and the roar he just yelled was to break through the illusion?"

"yes, that's it. ”

Evan looked up at him, saw that the seal had also walked back into the hall, and asked:

"Have the double doors been completely closed?"

"It's absolutely closed!"

The seal nodded firmly, and then said with a relaxed face: "The double door is 80 centimeters thick, and it is divided into two layers, and the material is also special steel." Even if those stinky fish find here, they can last for a long time!"