The battle in the underground ancient ruins had gone on for who knew how long. At that moment, the investigation team was still locked in fierce combat with those metal skeleton monsters. None of them knew how many corridors and green-glowing ruin halls they had blasted through.
In any case, under the assault of those seemingly endless metal skeleton monsters—things even more terrifying than Warp Daemons—they could only grit their teeth, Charge forward, and keep hacking their way ahead behind the tiny back of their leader. None of them dared stop for even a moment.
Because anyone who stopped would die—and be directly disintegrated, without even needing to collect the corpse afterward!
Those metal skeleton monsters were different from the Warp Daemons, who preferred fighting with swords, axes, and other melee weapons and rarely used ranged weapons. Nearly every one of the skeletons carried a ranged weapon, and they were all vicious, powerful, and deadly. They could also easily overload the team's enhanced shields. If anyone was careless, the consequences would be far more terrifying than being surrounded by a horde of Warp Daemons and forced into melee combat.
After all, when facing a horde of Warp Daemons, any one of their twelve members—even the weakest, Liu Li and Wang Qing—could more or less exchange a few blows with an ordinary Bloodletter or Flesh Hound and emerge victorious. At worst, they would kill several before being overwhelmed, hacked into minced meat, or having their heads bitten off. But against that horde of metal skeleton monsters, if someone reacted even half a beat too slowly when a volley of Gauss disintegration particles focused on them, then in the next second, not even their skeleton would remain. Those enhanced shields could not block it at all!
But honestly, even though everyone was