Bottom of the deep pit.
The ghostly corpse, sliced in two by the [Extinction Tribulation Light], lay amidst the crumbling ruins.
"Well..."
Cough cough cough!
Several violent coughs broke the silence.
The other four trainees, who had been suspended upside down by the cocoon, finally awoke from their deep coma.
The moment they opened their eyes, they saw the corpses of the Ghost Brat scattered all over the ground, and the ghost that had been split in two.
Upon seeing this, they instinctively wanted to scream, but were so frightened by the figure with a long spear in front of them that they swallowed their voices.
Lu Zheng forcibly suppressed the tremor in his heart.
He quickly walked to a spot two meters behind Jiangnan and bowed his head respectfully.
"Thank you so much for saving my life, senior!"
"May I ask... which veteran of the China base are you?"
"This junior is Lu Zheng, a reserve member of the Tiger Squad from the Fourth Base."
"If it weren't for your intervention, we would all probably be dead here today."
It can instantly kill seven of these monsters, and even crush those with domain-specific abilities like chickens...
In Lu Zheng's mind, this level of combat power was definitely among the elusive veterans of various bases China!
However, Jiangnan didn't even turn his head in the face of Lu Zheng's fervent admiration.
He simply slammed the Godslayer Spear to the ground, then pinched two fingers of his left hand and stuck a note onto Lu Zheng's chest.
Lu Zheng paused for a moment, then looked down.
[Now that you're awake, get to work. Pack up this big ghost's corpse and carry it upstairs.]
Lu Zheng looked at the note, and the corner of his mouth twitched involuntarily.
He had expected this extraordinary master to spout some riddles from TV dramas, but...
Are they just using them as free labor?
But Lu Zheng didn't utter a single word of rebuttal.
A soldier's intuition and a trainee's instincts were both frantically warning him.
This senior must be a formidable character you shouldn't mess with.
If you anger him, he definitely won't mind burying them together with the Ghost Brat on the ground.
"Yes, senior!"
Lu Zheng stood at attention and saluted, then immediately turned around and acted as a foreman, yelling at Zhang Yan and the other four trial participants who had just woken up.
"Stop standing there! If you want to live, get up and get to work! Lift that monster's corpse!"
Zhang Yan and the four other trainees exchanged bewildered glances, none daring to utter a single word of dissent.
Even the monsters on the ground, any one of which could have wiped them out, were crushed to death by the man in black.
Compared to the other side, these people are probably nothing more than a dish.
Several people stepped forward cautiously, suppressing their nausea, and began to move the ghost's remains with clumsy hands.
"Wait a moment..."
As Lu Zheng hoisted the ghost's upper body, he suddenly realized a reality.
He looked up at the nearly vertical pit wall, which was more than fifty meters above the ground, and swallowed hard.
"Senior... this pit is straight, and all the footholds around it were shattered by your powerful aura just now."
"How... how do we get up there?"
Everyone stopped what they were doing, their faces full of bitterness.
They are now completely exhausted and have no chance of climbing up.
Just as everyone was staring at each other in disbelief, a rustling sound suddenly came from above.
A green vine hangs down from the edge of the pit, which is fifty meters high, all the way to the bottom.
Immediately afterwards, a thin figure awkwardly slid down the vines.
In the last five meters, he lost his grip and fell flat on his back.
The visitor was none other than Wang Ming.
He got up from the ground, and when he looked up, he met Jiangnan's cold eyes.
Jiangnan tilted her head slightly, questioning silently.
You're just an ordinary person, why aren't you up there, instead of coming down to your death?
Wang Ming patted the dust off his white coat. "Because at the bottom of this pit, there's something more important than my life."
Upon hearing this, Jiangnan narrowed his eyes.
He flipped his left hand, and another note flew out.
Are you using me?
The other party obviously knew what was down there, of course...
It wasn't referring to these Soul-Devouring Monsters.
Wang Ming looked at the note and did not deny it.
He looked directly into Jiangnan's eyes with composure. "If you believe it exists, then it does."
"After all... to be honest, to you, I'm nothing more than a lamb to the slaughter."
Jiangnan raised an eyebrow at Wang Ming's resigned and candid demeanor.
He threw out a second note.
[He does have some self-awareness, though.]
[What, you can't wait to examine the third-stage corpse up close?]
Wang Ming nodded, his eyes shining as he glanced at the ghostly corpse being carried by Lu Zheng and the others.
"Undeniably, this is one of the reasons."
"A complete specimen from the third stage has immeasurable academic value."
"But..."
Wang Ming changed the subject, turning his head to look at the giant ovary in the very center of the pit.
"More importantly, there's a second reason."
"I need to confirm a hypothesis."
He turned to Jiangnan and asked, "Could you please move that ovary aside?"
The atmosphere froze upon hearing this.
Are you kidding me?
Who is Jiangnan?
The factory manager of Great Love Factory!
He's always the one exploiting others; who in this world has the right to order him around doing manual labor like carrying bricks?
Jiangnan simply couldn't be bothered to pay any attention to Wang Ming.
He didn't even bother to write a note; he simply turned his head and fixed his gaze on Lu Zheng, who was carrying the corpse beside him.
Lu Zheng felt a jolt, and cold sweat instantly broke out on his body.
Did the senior even need to say anything?
That look clearly said:
What am I feeding you all for?
"Put it down! Put the body aside!"
With keen insight, Lu Zheng shouted loudly, immediately calling out to the other four trial participants and Zhang Yan.
"Come with me! Go push that giant egg away!"
The six people immediately surrounded the giant ovary base, which was over two meters tall, panting heavily.
"One, two, three! Push!!!"
Accompanied by the unified chants of the crowd, the roots connecting the base of the ovary to the earth were forcibly severed.
"Boom!"
The enormous ovary was finally overturned and pushed aside, kicking up a cloud of dust.
However, at the very moment the ovary was removed...
Everyone except Wang Ming was shocked!
A chilling, desolate wind howled out from where the ovaries had originally been.
Beneath that base, there was no soil or rock at all, but a huge gap with a diameter of ten meters!
It was an entrance that sent chills down your spine at first glance.
It doesn't belong to any category of architecture known to humankind; rather, it's the structure of some kind of biological organ!
The edge of the gap is supported by rows of skeletons.
Between the skeletons, there was dark red active tissue.
These flesh and tissues were still rising and falling, breathing!
A viscous liquid with a faint blue glow flowed on its surface, like bioelectrical signals traveling through its veins.
The most surprising thing was the gaping hole in the door.
It was a biological gate made of muscles.
At this moment, as the base was moved away, the muscle gate slowly contracted and opened in all directions.
A crimson passage leading deep underground was revealed.
This is hardly a monster's lair.
This is clearly the boarding entrance of a colossal biological ship buried deep underground!