Just as the resistance members, convinced by Sarah's "divine revelation," were about to finalize their plans, heavy footsteps-the scrape of metal against stone-came from outside the pipe, accompanied by the Orks' distinctive, slurred grumbling.
"Damn it! A patrol!" Jonas's lone eye widened, and he immediately extinguished the oil lamp.
Dead silence filled the pipe. All seven held their breath, their hearts in their throats. They could clearly hear the footsteps of two Ork patrolmen approaching the mouth of the abandoned pipe where they were hiding.
They had been discovered.
Despair spread across every face. They had nothing but crude tools; there was no way they could fight two fully armed Orks.
Sarah, too, felt a fear unlike anything she had ever known. Her body began to tremble uncontrollably.
At that very moment, the warmth in her belly surged more powerfully than ever before. Liu Zhipeng sensed his mother's emotions teetering on the brink of collapse. He knew he had to do something.
Miracle Probability activated.
Outside the pipe, two Ork patrolmen were making their rounds, bored out of their minds.
"Can't even find a rat in this dump. Boring." Skullcrushers kicked a stone on the ground.
"Shut up and get to work." Iron Lung was somewhat more levelheaded. The searchlight on his helmet slowly swept across the surrounding rock walls, its beam about to illuminate the pipe entrance concealing the resistance members.
Just then, a plump, glossy Squig suddenly wriggled out of a crack in the rocks. Something seemed to have frightened it, and it scurried frantically around the two Orks' feet.
"Ooh! Look at that! What a fat snack!" Skullcrushers's eyes lit up, and he snatched the Squig by its tail.
"Let go! I saw it first!" Iron Lung immediately reached out to grab it as well.
"I caught