"Run!"
A strange woman's scream echoed from deep beneath the ruined high-rise in front of Fang Yi.
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The sudden human shout made Fang Yi furrow his brow.
"There are actually people here? Looks like I'm not the first to discover this group of Crystal Long-tailed Scorpions... Someone got here before me and has already gone deeper inside."
As he thought, Fang Yi quickly dismantled the scorpion's tail and put it in his backpack.
Then he immediately ran deeper into the ruins.
A few seconds later,
he arrived at the source of the sound. Someone had opened a huge hole, five meters in diameter, in the floor.
It was pitch-black below, without a trace of light. It seemed to connect to the basement of this ruined building.
"The sound came from below this hole. And a secluded place like this is the perfect habitat for monsters. With an entire high-rise to hide them, they don't have to worry as much about being spotted by humans."
Without hesitation, Fang Yi turned on his light and jumped inside.
Inside the hole,
Fang Yi landed steadily, illuminated by his light.
He was roughly on the second basement level, more than ten meters below the ground above.
His light swept across the surroundings. He was in an underground parking garage, with quite a few vehicles that had been abandoned for years.
Looking closely at the floor, he could also see many tracks left by Crystal Long-tailed Scorpions.
"Judging by these tracks, there are at least seven Crystal Long-tailed Scorpions here... This has to be their nest."
Fang Yi immediately followed the tracks at a quick pace.
Before long,
the sounds of fighting and hurried, chaotic footsteps grew clearer.
Fang Yi instantly surged forward at full speed, racing deeper inside as fast as he could.
Soon,
he reached the collapsed third basement level.
Not far away, several underground lights flickered erratically. Three figures dashed along the edge of their glow.
A woman in combat gear, carrying an injured teammate on her back, ran toward Fang Yi in a panic.
Behind her, two male Martial Artists were fighting a massive Crystal Spined Scorpion. Crystal spikes had grown from its pincers, legs, and stinger.
It was entirely different from the Advanced Beast Soldier Rank Crystal Long-tailed Scorpion he had seen earlier.
That meant this Crystal Long-tailed Scorpion had reached the Elementary Beast-General Rank, and ice spikes had already begun to form on its body.
Fang Yi's eyes lit up, and a smile appeared on his face.
"Just as I thought."
Fang Yi looked at the four of them. Judging from their running speed and the way they fought the Crystal Spined Scorpion, he could guess that their strength was around the Advanced Fighter level at most.
The injured man seemed to be only an Intermediate Warrior.
As they drew closer, Fang Yi noticed that the blood vessels along the man's neck had turned a deep purple. He was clearly poisoned.
He showed no signs of life. There was no saving him.
"This team's only average. Their strongest member is an Advanced Fighter, and they don't have a War General to lead them. Entering a nest with a Beast General on a whim is dangerous."
If several people fought a Primary Beast General together, they might still have a chance of winning. But going into its nest was another matter entirely.
After all,
that meant facing not just one monster, but a whole group.
After thinking it over, Fang Yi realized the team must have had some information and decided to take the risk, believing they could pull it off.
But now, something had clearly gone wrong.
At that moment,
the woman carrying the injured man looked up and spotted Fang Yi near the entrance to the second basement level.
Seeing another Martial Artist there, a glimmer of hope appeared in her confused, despairing eyes!
"Hey, help us out!"
"I've got an injured man here. We need to get out of here quickly. There are more of them deeper in the nest..."
Before she could finish,
two figures flew past her and slammed into a concrete pillar nearby.
"Bang!" "Bang!"
She looked closely.
They were the two teammates who had stayed behind to cover their retreat.
Cracks had appeared in their combat gear. Both men had been sent flying into the concrete pillar, leaving several fissures in its surface.
"Pfft!"
They both spat out a large mouthful of blood.
Blood spread across the fronts of their combat suits and dripped from their chests onto the ground. Pain and the terrible feeling of suffocation overwhelmed them.
"Captain... Run..."
They were in no condition to fight back.
Their injuries were severe. The fact that they could still speak and barely stand showed they were pushing themselves to the limit.
The female Martial Artist stared in disbelief.
Her breathing grew ragged, partly from the long sprint, and partly because her teammates were in danger while she could do nothing to help.
"Please, help us!"
"Help me get my teammates out. If I make it out alive, I'll reward you handsomely!"
With her brows furrowed, the woman looked at the young, inexperienced-looking Fang Yi and made her decision.
Because Fang Yi looked so young, she assumed he was around the Intermediate Warrior level at most, or, at best, an Advanced Fighter like herself.
He was so young, so he couldn't have much combat experience.
He clearly wouldn't last long against what lay ahead, but getting her teammates out would be enough!
Hearing her words, Fang Yi glanced at the Crystal Scorpion closing in on her. Its shell was covered in marks, but none had penetrated beneath the surface.
Their attacks had clearly been effective, but they hadn't come close to killing it or even seriously injuring it.
Still, they had managed to inflict some real damage.
But something about that seemed off. After all, several Advanced Fighters surrounding a War General-level monster should at least have been able to kill it, even if they had to suffer serious injuries themselves.
As he thought, Fang Yi jumped down from the opening.
At the same time, he tapped his wristwatch.
The instant he landed,
he planted his left foot and drove himself forward. In the next moment, his body shot out like a charging leopard, hurtling past the female Martial Artist.
The powerful gust from his sprint swept her hair loose.
The woman's pupils contracted in shock.
She turned back in disbelief, staring at the figure racing toward the Crystal Scorpion.
Her voice trembled as she said, "That speed... He's at the War General Level!"
He had reached the War General Level at such a young age?!
The boy looked as if he had only just come of age.
How could he be so terrifying?
The Crystal Spined Scorpion raised its head and fixed its gaze on the human charging straight at it. It sensed a dangerous aura coming from him.
"Hiss—hiss—!"
It immediately rubbed its crystal pincers and legs together, letting out a hiss of warning.
But Fang Yi showed no sign of slowing down.
In an instant,
the distance between them closed. The Crystal Scorpion raised both pincers and opened their sharp jaws, ready to cut the charging man in half.
But just as its pincers were about to reach Fang Yi,
the Heavy Pupil appeared in his left eye.
Purple-blue light spread through the Heavy Pupil, and the Crystal Spined Scorpion's every movement slowed...
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