Chapter 30: Vegetable Market
“Run!”
Zhou Ye's scalp tingled as he watched. This Jackal Gang was too cruel and ruthless. This place was simply the headquarters of Xu!
Cao Fei, Su Shuang and others were also terrified and turned around and fled.
Xu Shen had been standing at the back. When he heard Zhou Ye's roar, he immediately turned around and rushed back, as if he was ready to escape at any time, with all his strength concentrated on his feet.
whoosh!
Xu Shen's figure moved quickly, and in a blink of an eye he was running dozens of meters away.
However, the cave in front of him had changed. The previously unobstructed retreat route had disappeared, and a series of narrow passages had appeared. The structure of this world had actually shifted.
"The previous monster was deliberately luring us..." Xu Shen understood the purpose of the monster that Su Shuang saw.
He turned around and saw Zhou Ye and others catching up with him, and behind them were a dozen or so Xu climbing along the wall of the passage.
A figure rushed past Xu Shen. It was Cao Fei. His face was full of panic and he went straight into a passage.
Just as Xu Shen was about to catch up, He Ming went towards another passage, looking panic-stricken.
Xu Shen's face changed, and he immediately understood the purpose of these branching passages, which was to disperse them!
The Xu here... is very smart!
"Captain!" Xu Shen wanted to walk with Zhou Ye.
"Hurry in and I'll cover you!" Zhou Ye yelled.
Xu Shen looked at the approaching ruins and had no choice but to choose He Ming's passage. He ran forward, but after dozens of seconds, he felt no movement behind him.
Zhou Ye did not follow.
Xu Shen's face darkened, and he looked back, only to see a dark shadow climbing quickly in the cave...along the dome.
That's definitely not Zhou Ye.
Xu Shen's scalp tingled and he could only keep his head down and rush forward.
Not long after, three branching passages appeared in front of him.
Xu Shen didn’t know which path He Ming chose, so he could only hurriedly choose one and rush in.
In the dim passage, Xu Shen had no flashlight and could only grope forward. He pricked up his ears, listening to the movements behind him, and found that there was no figure chasing him.
Maybe, Naxu also chose another passage?
Xu Shen breathed a sigh of relief and groped his way forward, only to find that the walls were sticky, like some thick saliva.
"What are you doing going around in circles here?"
After walking for a few minutes, Xu Shen heard Maeve's figure. She had followed him from the door at some point, and was now floating in front of Xu Shen, with half of her body in the passage and half outside it. But the strange thing was that Xu Shen could see her clearly.
She seemed to be radiating light, unaffected by the material of the passage.
"Your 'mom' often comes here to buy groceries. Now you're here too, don't you want to eat by yourself?" Maeve asked curiously.
Xu Shen's heartbeat quickened slightly.
“Mom” often comes here to buy vegetables?
Those delicacies...are all hunted from here?
No wonder there are so many ruins here... maybe there were more in the past!
Now, Xu Shen came to the "vegetable market" by himself. The stench and the dishes here made him want to leave quickly.
Looking at Maeve in front of him, a thought suddenly flashed through Xu Shen's mind like an electric shock.
After arriving in the world of ruins, reality becomes illusion.
As for the deeper world, the place where he is now is also illusory.
Just like the world where Maeve is now, it must be at an extremely deep level. In her world, there is no cave in front of her, so she is not affected.
Maybe she was standing on some other world structure, looking down at herself.
In other words... as long as you step into the deeper realm of the ruins, you can walk out from the deeper realm of the ruins, ignore the blockade of the cave, and leave this place!
"But if that happens, we will encounter deeper ruins... But I can see that there are no other ruins around except Maeve!" Xu Shen said secretly in his heart.
Stepping into the deep ruins world means disturbing the ruins in the deep ruins world. If you are on the same level as the other party, you will be attacked regardless of whether you pretend not to see the other party or not.
This is like the weakest E-level Xu, wandering in the shallow layer and reality. Even the invisible fog people will be attacked because Xu is already on the same level as you...
Xu Shen thought as he walked forward.
If you want to enter the ruins world, you usually have to rely on the ruins-breaking device.
The ruins-breaking device can isolate the surrounding reality and enter the shallow ruins world.
However, the deeper ruins cannot be broken through with the current ruins-breaking equipment, so ruins of that level often require stronger ruin-breaking personnel to resolve.
This is also the reason why ordinary Zhanxu personnel cannot come into contact with B-level existences.
Because those beings live in the deep, they cannot be seen or sensed at all, unless the other party lowers its own level and comes to the shallow level to hunt.
But the probability of this is extremely low.
Just like animals hunting, they only move in areas that they are comfortable and accustomed to.
If you want to enter a deeper level of the Xu world, you must transform the quality of your Xu power and make it more concentrated...
Xu Shen tried to concentrate his strength in his arms and reached towards the cave, but found that he could still touch it. It seemed that the quality of his strength was not enough to go deeper.
Am I not focused enough...Xu Shen continued to try, but at this moment, a weak wind suddenly came from behind.
Xu Shen became alert instantly, his hair standing on end.
He turned around and saw the crawling creature opening its huge mouth and pouncing towards him to bite him.
Is it a deep ruin or a low-level one?
Xu Shen had a blank expression on his face, but his heart was tense.
Although the opponent made an attacking gesture... Maeve often teased him like this, pretending to throw herself into his arms. If he really reached out to catch it or dodge, then the opponent would have tested it.
But he chose to ignore it, and the other party would just pass through his body.
Getting closer, getting closer...
The beast in front of him was getting closer and closer to Xu Shen, but Xu Shen remained unaware until the beast rushed to within one meter in front of him.
At this speed, it would only take 0.1 seconds to cross this distance.
For others, even if they reacted at this distance, it would be too late.
But the next moment, Xu Shen suddenly moved.
Draw the sword and slash!
Eight hours of training every day, tens of thousands of sword-drawings and swings, have been ingrained into the bones. At this moment, everything has become extremely familiar and as fast as lightning.
The sword flashed and slashed on the head of the monster. The sharp blade swept past, and with the help of the monster force that Xu Shen had concentrated all his strength on in his arm, it actually tore its body apart directly.
At a distance of one meter, Xu Shen sensed that the other person was at the same level as him.
This is different from the feeling of simply seeing the deep ruins.
Especially under Maeve's teasing, Xu Shen understood this feeling even more deeply.
It was just a deep contact and overlap. Apart from being able to see it, his body didn't feel much. He just felt a little cool, like a cold wind blowing.
But at the same level, he could fully feel the strong aura within one meter, and it was real around him.
puff!
Xu Shen struck another sword and only breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that the beast was completely dead.
"Looking at the speed, it's only E-level. It seems that not all of the ones here are D-level..." Xu Shen looked at the ruins at his feet and suddenly felt that his previous thinking was a bit far-fetched.
Leaving this place from the deep world is far, but it seems impossible for him at the moment.
On the contrary, killing these ruins... is easier.
Xu Shen was about to leave when he suddenly remembered something and stabbed the corpse of the beast with two more swords, making it look like it had been through a fierce battle.
As he was leaving, he was lost in thought and glanced at the chest of the creature.
…
Somewhere in a hole.
This is a cave, not as big as the previous one, but there are seven or eight people tied up here, and there are scattered bones on the ground.
When Su Shuang groped her way here through the passage, she already regretted stepping in.
She didn't know whether she was unlucky and chose the wrong road, or whether there was a D-level monster nest waiting behind every passage.
The passage is like a spider silk, extending to the end of the ruins.
Their escape seemed more like they had offered themselves to the enemy.
"Help, help..." When the few people on the ground who were entangled by the dark red tissue saw Su Shuang, they immediately revealed hope and surprise in their weak eyes, as if they had seen a savior.
From Su Shuang's clothes, it can be seen that she is from that department.
Even if what happened here is exposed and they are rescued they will be severely punished, but it is still better than... watching their bodies being slowly gnawed and eaten here.
When Su Shuang heard the scream, her face darkened and she looked nervously deep inside.
There lay a middle-aged man with disheveled hair, sleeping soundly. He slowly raised his eyes, his lower body was like an insect, and his eyes gradually turned into vertical pupils.
“Save us…”
Several people on the ground cried out for help.
"D-level ruins..." Su Shuang's heart sank. She hated these people's requests for help. She should be the one asking for help now...
Although the second echelon can deal with the D-level ruins, that is a team effort. Except for the team leader Zhou Ye, none of them have the ability to fight alone.
In terms of combat experience and strength of the city, they are slightly inferior to those of D-level cities.
When Zhongnian Xu saw Su Shuang, his mouth suddenly opened as if he was laughing.
"What a delicious scent..." He slowly crawled towards Su Shuang.
Su Shuang turned around and ran away.
Rescue the survivors? Screw you!
With a whoosh, several spider-like dark red lines flew over and blocked the entrance behind her.
A child with a spider-like lower body slowly crawled down from the wall next to him. His eyes were smiling like crescent moons, and his mouth opened and closed like a black hole: "Dad, I caught it..."
"Okay, let her be your mother..." Middle-aged Xu said in a kind voice.
This scene of a loving father and a filial son is extremely heartwarming.
Su Shuang was shocked and angry, and hurriedly swung her sword to cut the red line. At the same time, the child kept vomiting, and Zhongnianxu also laughed: "Don't run, my child has taken a fancy to you..."
"roll!"
Su Shuang swung her sword to counterattack, but was deflected by the middle-aged man's thorny arm. The huge recoil force made her wrist slightly numb, while the child crawled along the wall to the entrance of the cave and blocked the passage.
Su Shuang’s face turned pale and his eyes looked around, trying to find a way to escape.
"Sister Su, you are here!"
Just then, a surprised voice was heard.
Su Shuang turned her head and quickly shone the flashlight in the direction, and saw a figure running towards them in the passage. It was Xu Shen, the newcomer to the team.
