Clearly, the owner of that face was Burrowing Mole. He was smiling, looking rather proud.
But then a hand reached out from behind his head and gave him a heavy smack on the skull.
"If I hadn't heard the commotion, would you have found it?"
Flared Ears's face squeezed out as well.
"Mushroom Sis, I'm here to save you. Come with me."
"Okay."
Little Mushroom nodded and followed them into the hole.
Snow Owl stood where she was, her expression stunned and bewildered.
"That works too?"
But then a hand reached out from the pitch-black tunnel and, with a whoosh, yanked her inside...
The group climbed through the underground tunnel. Since they were far beneath the surface and separated by thick layers of earth, they moved silently, completely undetectable from above.
"They definitely won't find us. As long as we get back to the Zombie Tide, this rescue mission will be a success," Flared Ears said smugly.
"Mm, as expected of us. The plan was simply brilliant. No zombie understands escaping better than I do!" Mist quickly chimed in.
"Dominator Team! Major achievement!"
Shrimp Chaser was extremely excited as well.
As they got farther and farther from the depths of the fissure, they relaxed somewhat. Let those augmented humans keep looking. They could search themselves to death...
Above ground, Lauen's face was grim. In his mind, he kept receiving signals that they had found nothing.
All of Little Mushroom's Mimic Humans had been killed, and the entire fissure had been searched, yet there was no sign of anyone else.
The most suspicious spot was a collapsed tunnel.
"Did they dig a tunnel and run away?"
Lauen furrowed his brow, finding it rather bizarre.
But before absolute power, all schemes and tricks were feeble and powerless. He decided that even if