"Get inside!!"
BANG!!!
The four humans and one Goblin practically hurled themselves into the base.
The instant they got inside, the three whose bodies were intact pushed against the door with all their might, slamming it shut. He Zheng, whose body had yet to finish regenerating, was the exception.
After scrambling to his feet, Aroro practically went mad with urgency. He kicked off with his short legs, leaped onto the control console behind the door, and slammed his palm down on the lockdown button.
BANG!
The red lockdown button was struck.
Amid a rapid series of mechanical locking sounds, the metal door, built from three layers of shock-resistant structures, sealed shut without a gap.
A second later, like an airtight space capsule, jets of compressed air hissed out from the top and bottom of the door.
The noise was cut off. Aside from the ringing in their ears brought on by extreme tension, the whole world seemed to fall silent again.
Looking at the heavy alloy door, now completely locked, Lin Yu went limp and dropped onto his backside, feeling as though he had narrowly escaped death.
Terrifying. Absolutely terrifying!
If the first Echo Demon had filled him with fear and shock, the ones that appeared afterward had brought nothing but despair!
He had no doubt that if they had been even a few seconds slower, every last one of them would have died!
"Are we safe?! Are we safe now?!"
"Can this door stop them?!"
Lin Yu's chest heaved rapidly as he babbled incoherently.
He looked at the silver-white heavy alloy door before him, then glanced frantically between the other three humans, trying to get a reassuring answer.
The base's internal layout seemed to resemble the Chinese character 甲. They were at the entrance at its lowest end, and