Those half-dead lizards had been frightened off, but soon other creatures emerged from the cave, likewise half alive and half rotten. Among them were two enormous salamander-like monsters.
They lunged down at Luo Xia and the others from the ceiling of the cave, looking savage and vicious. Their huge mouths, large enough to swallow a water buffalo whole, were filled with grim, gleaming teeth as they snapped at Luo Xia and Wanda.
With a nimble burst of speed, Garuru dodged the two monsters' pounces. Wanda then reached out, and Scarlet Energy split into two streams, blasting both creatures away.
Luo Xia and the others had no intention of lingering in battle. Fighting in an unfamiliar place was the stupidest thing they could do. Once the monsters had been driven back, Garuru swiftly ran toward the way they had come. This steel giant wolf was better suited to the terrain than the local natives, and it ran even faster.
Before long, Luo Xia and the others returned to the spatial rift from before, then quickly went back into the abandoned warehouse.
"What the hell was that place?" Luo Xia was unfamiliar with the Nine Realms and could not tell which realm it was. It might even have been another plane of the universe. But the monsters inside were exceptionally vicious, making it an undeniable threat to Earth.
Unfortunately, this was S.H.I.E.L.D.'s garrison site, so Luo Xia could not exactly send his own robots to block the entrance. At most, after finding the Aether, he could have Nick Fury keep a closer eye on this place.
They continued searching the abandoned warehouse, and this time their gains were considerable. They actually found seven spatial rifts. After sending Mechanical Beetles inside, it became clear that four of the passages did not lead to