Chapter 1706: Beaten to the Punch
The underground complex was vast.
The cave entrance, including the hundred-meter descent, was only an entrance.
Beyond it lay an incredibly complicated network of passages, with an intersection every few dozen meters and mechanisms and traps set along every route.
Some fired arrows.
Some sprayed acid.
Others were simply land mines.
But whatever they were, the Upper Evil Spirit could imagine the predicament any people or Anomalies entering normally would face.
Every step forward would be incredibly difficult.
And that was only the beginning.
When the Upper Evil Spirit descended again, it saw a teeming mass of insects.
They filled its vision, making it deeply uncomfortable.
Moreover, these insects kept devouring one another, then laying eggs and dying. Their corpses became nutrients for the eggs, allowing them to hatch and grow into adults in just a few minutes before beginning another cycle of devouring and death.
If the complicated secret passages full of traps had left the Upper Evil Spirit with any doubts, it was now certain that this place had not been built in a hurry.
It had been built well in advance!
That was precisely why Victor had returned here after his failure in Ring City.
No!
That's not right!
Even if he came back here, he shouldn't have made such a spectacle of it.
Unless...
A diversion?
The Upper Evil Spirit narrowed its eyes out of habit.
Its expression bore some resemblance to Qin Ran's.
Without a doubt, after spending so long around Qin Ran, the Upper Evil Spirit had unconsciously picked up some of his little habits through constant exposure.
Of course, it was not just his habits.
It had also picked up his way of thinking!
Just as it did now: once suspicion arose in its mind, the Upper