Excavator 114
The two exchanged a glance, shock plain in both their eyes. The sound really was coming from underground!
"Don't tell me something else has mutated!"
They hurried into the air. As the sound drew closer, their hair stood on end. But just when they thought whatever was underground was about to break through the surface, the noise suddenly stopped.
A long silence settled over the jungle.
Pu Gaoshan gestured to Wang Mo, and the two turned and left at once, abandoning even the instruments they'd sent out.
Xu Huo and Zhou Yuanzhu, who were nearby, had heard the sound too. Unable to tell what it was, they slipped away as quietly as Pu Gaoshan and Wang Mo.
Avoiding Wang Mo's miniature surveillance devices without alerting him was a bit of a nuisance, so Xu Huo changed direction and headed toward Zhao Xiaofang and Cao Zheng, who were moving the other way.
Like Wang Mo, Zhao Xiaofang and Cao Zheng were planting something in the Alien nest—a specially made poison capsule.
They really were using Alien young to draw the attention of the Alien swarm and keep it from heading straight for Little River City, but they weren't capturing the young alive as they'd claimed.
"I don't know whether to call them stupid or dumb," Zhou Yuanzhu grumbled. "If we really did capture a young one and went to meet up with them, would they actually leave us behind and run?"
"Maybe they think we'll die trying to steal the young," Xu Huo said.
"They're all muscle and no brains. Otherwise, they wouldn't have ended up as wanted criminals." When Zhou Yuanzhu saw Xu Huo looking at her, she added, "I'm not looking down on the people of Little River City. I just can't believe these pests survived this