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"It seems that there was infighting here......"

Zero said, and the others acquiesced to his point of view. The blood-soaked cultivation room, and the traces of the battle in the hallway, were already indicated before they arrived. There have been one, if not many civil wars, within this pyramid. Perhaps, this is also the reason why the two powerful xenomorph beings outside fight for their lives as soon as they encounter. The hatred for each other makes them even blind to the invaders of Zero.

"Either way, it's probably a good thing for us. Let's go, we can use the gap below to reach the lower hallway. Zero came to the gap and asked, "Is there a safety rope?"

Haiwei took out a roll from her backpack and shook it: "This is the last one." ”

Visually measuring a length of about 100 meters, Zero nodded and said, "It's enough, I'll go down first." Wait for my signal, fix one end of the rope and throw it to me. ”

"Understood, head. Haiwei said succinctly.

The anti-gravity field opens, and Zero floats into the air, then slowly descends from the void through the gap. After a few moments, they arrived at the cultivation room on the lower floor, and floated in through a gap in the wall. This cultivation room was filled with a faint smell of Liuhuang, and there were many corpses in addition to the blood on the ground. The corpses were some xenomorphs that had not had time to take shape, or they had eight arthropods and heads like octopuses, or they were as big as hounds but resembled tyrannosaurs, and some of them were not known in appearance at all, but from the organs and claws that had not had time to grow, they were weapons of killing.

The corpse appears to have been broken into a cocoon, then flowed out, stopped growing due to lack of nutrients, and finally died in it.

The cultivation room was dim on one side, and a strange sound sounded in the depths of the shadows. Zero swept around with a searchlight, and everywhere the light went, there were thrilling traces of battle. Suddenly, the light seemed to pass through something. Zero quickly turned the light back on, and in the corner on the other side of the cultivation room, there was a figure with his back to Zero.

He looks like a man and wears clothes like a black owl. The black robe draped over his body was stained with blood, and his head hung so that half of his black hair was blocked by the grass. He picked up something on the ground and brought it to his mouth, followed by the sound of chewing "let's go, go, go". Zero glanced thoughtfully at the xenomorph corpses around him.

Perhaps feeling the light, the man froze. Then the hand hung down. The ten fingers of the hands had grown like beast-like claws, and some calloused crusts had appeared on the surface of the skin. He stood up and turned slowly, revealing a hideous face. Under the black messy hair, there was no reason on this pale, distorted face, only primitive bestiality.

The man has a surprisingly large mouth with a slit on each side of his lips that extends to the base of his ear, which makes his mouth open enough to swallow a xenomorph's foot alive. When the big mouth opens, it is not difficult to see that the mouth is full of sharp teeth. When he saw Zero, he spat out what he had chewed half in his mouth, then opened his mouth wide and let out a sharp whistling.

The invisible sound wave caused a fishy wind to roll up in the cultivation room.

Inside the pyramid, which was originally silent, there was a subtle, but dense sound. Something seems to have been woken up by this guy in front of him.

"Damn. Zero scolded.

The man stopped whistling, closed his mouth, and didn't even look as horrified as before. Except for some liquid on his face that was stained with yellow and red, if you remove these, it is not difficult to see that he has a handsome appearance. This inevitably reminded Zero of the Black Owl, the same feminine and handsome Shadow Clan Elder, and on closer inspection, this man and the Black Owl had other things in common.

For example, the thin ears that emerge from the black hair, and the eyes that look like black jewels.

Perhaps, the man in front of him is a ShadowClan. At least, it used to be!

The man leaned slightly, his mouth cracking open again, and a beastly menacing roar came from his mouth. A cloudy liquid came out of his mouth and dripped onto the floor, and it seemed that he had taken Zero as a fresh and tasty food. This made Zero very uncomfortable, and he frowned slightly. At this time, the man moved. He slammed his feet on the ground, causing the entire cultivation room to tremble slightly.

A powerful invisible impact swept around, causing some xenomorph corpses to roll up. The next moment, the man disappeared. He turned into a cloud of black mist, quickly swept along the ground to Zero's feet, and then suddenly turned in front of him. Slid up the wall, to the ceiling, and followed the figure to jump out of the black fog and fall behind Zero!

The whole process was faster than lightning, and it took no more than a second from the time he launched the charge to the time he entered the attack state, and it was completed in the blink of an eye. The claw-like hand slammed into Zero's back, and the man could even imagine the feeling of his fingers digging through the human body and touching Zero's warm, beating heart.

But he hollowed it out.

Zero disappears like air.

In an instant, it flashed out of the secondary space on the man's left, and a punch slammed into the man's cheek, shaking the entire cultivation room. In the dull sound of blowing, there was a "click" of fractures at the same time. The man's body swirled out, slamming into the wall and bouncing back to the ground, shaking the plasma that had solidified like viscose.

After a few moments, he propped himself up from the plasma. The man's head was already tilted unnaturally, and it was clear that Zero had broken his neck with the punch just now. Not to mention ordinary people, even if the ability is hit by this heavy blow, they will die a long time ago. But he put his hands on his head as if nothing happened, and then turned it back. Then the muscles in his neck heaved, and there was a continuous soft tremor, and he looked at Zero like a bloodthirsty beast as if he were not hurt at all.

Zero knows that men use muscle tissue to fix the broken bones of their necks, which is no longer something that ordinary people can do. As you can imagine, something must have happened to this man.

The man's body exuded an aura of energy, and gradually formed an energy brilliance like a black mist. In Zero's perception, his power had risen to the level of the ninth order. The man's robe swelled, and then five or six octopus-like tentacles pierced, the ends of which were aimed at zero, each with a small mouthpart. These were all capture organs, and one of the tentacles stood like a snake and shot out with electricity. The black shadow broke through the air, pulling out a sharp whistling sound and stabbing it straight into Zero's chest.

Zero slipped sideways, but then, the tentacles behind the man continued to shoot at Zero like a machine gun. They are fast and powerful. And the length of the tentacles seems to be adjustable at will. Zero's figure flashed in the incubation room, leaving behind fragments. But no matter where he appears, the tentacles will always come at him, making Zero's test of his attack range a meaningless action.

Each time these tentacles slammed into a wall or the corpse of an alien, they left a fist-sized hole. Zero knew where the holes he had seen in the hallway above came from. Obviously, the man in front of him is the best explanation.

After a machine-gun-like attack to no avail, the tentacles suddenly stopped. They all floated back slightly, and after a flipped charge, they simultaneously shot at Zero not far away. Zero muffled, the figure did not retreat but advanced. Lean forward and let the tentacles land in the air. A stride, when he landed, he was already in front of the man. A faint golden glow shone from the fists, and then the fists flickered, and a howl like a heavy cannon breaking through the air resounded in the cultivation room.

The dull sound of breaking through the air continued to sound, and the fist wrapped in the heavily loaded bullet fell on the man's body at a frequency of five to six times per second. The man's body was constantly shaking, and he even got his feet off the ground at the high frequency of Zero's attacks. He shook like a puppet manipulated. With each shake, a mouthful of black-purple blood erupted from his mouth.

After the boxing that lasted for nearly half a minute, Zero's right fist flashed for the last time, pulling out four or five fist shadows in the short distance between the fist and the man's body, and then instantly overlapping and imprinted on the man's chest. A circle of pale golden ripples dispersed, sending a gust of wind through the cultivation room. The blood on the man's back spurted like a pillar, and those tentacles were blasted off by the energy impact that passed through his body, and as the blood flowers scattered to the ground, they still twitched.

The man fell to the ground and finally remained motionless. A broken hole of blood appeared in his chest, and the energy of Zero's final blow annihilated most of his body tissue, completely turning him into a corpse.

Zero finally breathed a sigh of relief, but suddenly the man's head moved. Then there was a slight bulge on the forehead, and then sharp knuckles pierced out of it, bringing up a few bone chips. The arthrop was pulled forward, and then three or four more of these things poked out of it, and then it was split on both sides, and the man's head was cut open from the inside out. A palm-sized insect crawled out of the man's head, creaked, and actually burrowed into the blood plasma, and suddenly disappeared.

He walked over and glanced at the man's head. There was no brain inside, only some unknown fluid flowed out. In this way, the man is actually dead, but the insect in his head controls his behavior, which is similar to some kind of parasitism.

After checking again to confirm that the incubation room was not in danger, Zero used the light to signal that it was safe. Haiwei fastened one end of the safety rope and threw the other end towards zero. Zero catches it and fastens it to the wall, thus forming a rope bridge. Haiwei and the others relied on the rope to glide through the void between the two cultivation rooms, and when they saw the empty head of the man's body, their faces were ugly.

"Be careful, there seems to be some kind of parasite in this pyramid. Zero reminded.

Moni crouched down next to the man's corpse and said, "This is the ShadowClan, why is he underground?" Haven't all the ShadowClans migrated to the outside world?"

"Who knows, but I'm sure the answer is not far off. Zero patted her on the shoulder and said, "Let's go, I hope the next road won't be broken again." ”

Leaving the cultivation room, there are still traces of battle along the way. Based on the traces alone, they could not tell that the battle was fought from above, but broke out in the underlying space and spread upwards. But as Zero said, the answer is very close to them. There was no attack that followed, and even xenomorph corpses were rare. But the comfortable time lasted less than three minutes, and a figure of an alien life wandering in the corridor crashed into everyone's sight.

In the light, it's a xenomorph that resembles a spider warrior. The upper body is human-like, and the lower body is spider-like. It's just that it's smaller, and its upper body looks like it's a patchwork of three people together. Three heads and six arms, talking about the monster in front of you. When it spotted the team, it screamed and pounced. Monie and Hyvi met at the same time, and the xenomorph had rudimentary sharp weapons on all six arms, and it had almost no dead spots to attack. The body kept spinning, and it swept Monie and Hyvi into it like a spinning top.

The sparks of iron staggering and rubbing, and the muffled sound of fists hitting the body, kept coming. After a sharp attack, Moni's death assault floated up, slicing off the other two heads of the xenomorph. But it was still dying, and Hyvi pounced. The girl leaped into the air, her legs contracted. After a sudden pause in mid-air for half a second, he suddenly stepped on the xeno's chest.

There was a sound of broken flesh cracking, and the xenomorph's chest collapsed, and it was kicked by Haiwei's burst of force, shattering the walls of the corridor. With the rubble, it fell into the dark void, screaming faintly before disappearing into the darkness.

"I'm a fast learner. Zero walked over and patted Hywei on the head.

The girl proudly showed a row of shell teeth, the move just now was naturally stolen from the battle between Zero and Berry Gaoge not long ago. Although Haiwei's strength cannot be compared to zero, she has learned a lot of power skills, and this girl's talent in martial arts is indeed outstanding.

Next, Zero encounters more and more xenomorphs. There are more and more of these things going down the floor, but they all appear to be juveniles. Not only is it not as good as the ShadowClan who is parasitized by insects, but even the ordinary Batmen and Deep Blue Giants outside the pyramid are far behind. It's not difficult to fight them, it just takes time.

The largest wave of xenomorphs, hundreds of them blocking the front of the corridor, frowned at it. But when you get here, you're not far from the ground. Looking through the gap in the wall of the hallway, you can already see an open field like a square below. Zero simply kicked through the floor of the hallway, opened a gap and jumped down, and went straight to the plaza on the ground floor. But at the edge, you can see another corridor that stretches to a deeper level.

Immediately after Zero, Leah and the others also descended from the gap to the square. A few xenomorph creatures jumped down as well, but they were killed in the air by Yaryu and turned into splinters. Descending to the ground, Kim and Alice teamed up to close the breach, so that it would take some time for those xenos to catch up. Zero They have not been attacked for the time being, and if you look at this square, it is surrounded by walls on all sides, and the ground of the square is covered with regular lines, and I don't know what it does. There are also xenomorph corpses here, but in relatively small numbers. But the xenomorph corpses here are all mature beings. In it, Zero sees the corpse of a giant.

Its biological armor remained, but the flesh and blood within had long since melted, leaving only a skeleton. The bones are thick, densely streaked, and somewhat metallic reflective. The bones of these giants have been infused with a small amount of metal, making their skeletons stronger enough to support their own weight.

Zero checked around and saw nothing of note, gesturing, and the team headed for a corridor on the edge that led to the bottom. At this time, there were already xenos coming down the corridor on the other side. They howled and charged, and the capable struck out. Kim's ground thorns, Alice's ice chips, and Yaryu's energy threads form a deadly line of defense.

Once the xenomorphs enter this line of defense, they tear various abilities to shreds in an instant. The attack didn't stop there, but suddenly, all the xenomorph hatchlings stopped moving, and then slowly retreated, as if they were afraid of something. At this moment, a delicate voice came from the corridor they were about to enter: "Help me, help me......"

It turned out to be human language!

Zero turned around and gestured for everyone to stay behind. Then, a small figure emerged from the hallway. It was a girl, about twelve or thirteen years old. The delicate face and pale complexion almost made Zero think that he had seen Monie back then. But this girl, with dark eyes and long pointed ears, is also a member of the Shadow Clan.

Her delicate little face was mixed with several expressions such as fear, pity, and surprise. With that small figure, it is calling for everyone's desire to protect. Leah couldn't help but take a step forward, but Zero was caught. Zero said coldly: "Yeliu, do it." ”

As soon as the words fell, several interlaced black silk threads suddenly appeared on the girl's body, and then shallow but long wounds appeared. The wound cracked open, and black and purple blood flowed from it. The little girl's face was full of confusion, as if she didn't understand why Zero was doing this. As the wound suddenly expanded and broke, the girl's body spread out like a toppled building block, turning into several pieces of corpse.

"Head ......" Haiwei couldn't help but say something.

"Don't be fooled by her appearance, as soon as she appears, the xenos look scared. Apparently she's not as harmless as she looks, and if I'm guessing correctly, this ShadowClan is also parasitized. Zero said.

As soon as she finished speaking, the little girl's head exploded, and another palm-sized insect crawled out. This time, there was no plasma to hide, and the insects slashed at their claws, catching a little spark on the ground and wanting to flee. Zero looked at Alice, who pointed at the worm, and a blue light shot out from her fingertips. The frost ray pierced through the insect and froze it in passing.

After watching the insect turn into a cloud of ice, Zero walked over. The insect has lost its life information, and the frost ray instantly freezes its life. The bug is capable of parasitizing living organisms and retains their original strength and abilities, and can even give birth to biological organs like tentacles. However, the body is surprisingly fragile, a wonderful balance of nature.