"What's going on?"
The trembling ground left Ye Rong a little bewildered.
Ye Feng also felt a little uneasy.
Only Thomas's expression changed slightly. Then he spoke urgently.
"My seismic detection module indicates that a large number of creatures are moving underground. A large number!"
By the end, Thomas's voice had taken on a mechanical quality, as if it were starting to distort.
"How many is 'a large number'..."
Before Thomas could answer, everyone soon understood what "a large number" meant!
A dense mass of Cockroach People swarmed out of the crevices and cracks on both sides of the canyon, like a dark cloud!
No one knew how so many Cockroach People had managed to hide in this seemingly unimpressive canyon.
It seemed they could squeeze through any gap!
With such terrifying numbers, there were also quite a lot of individuals capable of flight.
Their wings beat rapidly, filling the air with a buzzing sound as they surged toward the six figures in the sky.
They blotted out the sun!
The densely packed Cockroach brutes were enough to trigger anyone's trypophobia. Everyone shuddered with goosebumps, their faces filled with horror.
Had we stumbled into the Cockroach People's nest?!
Why were there so many?!
"How can there be so many?!"
"Run! Run!"
Without the slightest hesitation, Ye Rong turned and ran.
A single Cockroach Person wasn't scary. Forget Intermediate Partners—even ordinary pioneers could hunt one if they had the right equipment.
A dozen of them hadn't been any trouble earlier.
They wouldn't even have cared if dozens or hundreds had shown up!
Their team had come prepared, after all. They had taken into account the possibility of encountering trouble.
And the six pioneers in the sky, while not exactly allies, were at least on the same side when it came to