As soon as Huang Liang finished speaking, the entire team stopped short. Even An Ke, who had stayed on the comms the whole time, felt her heart jolt, nearly tearing her wounds open!
The Patroller?
They had actually forgotten about the Patroller!
If the Patroller was hiding in the base, it really could have seized the chance to finish off the wounded Two-Horned Demon!
Hera's death had shown just how elusive the Patroller was. No one knew where it was.
But just as everyone's hair stood on end and they instinctively scanned their surroundings, Ye Lin flatly rejected the possibility.
"Impossible!"
"Never mind how the Patroller could have killed it during the explosion-it couldn't have withstood the blast."
"Even if we assume it knew what we were going to do and when we would detonate the bomb, and finished it off with a ranged attack, what's it doing now? Why hasn't it taken the chance to kill us?"
"If it could sneak in and make all those preparations, it could easily have planted bombs in the hangar. The moment the Two-Horned Demon died, it could have blown up the hangar and killed us!"
"That way, it wouldn't have had to take even the slightest risk!"
By the time Ye Lin finished speaking, they had reached the edge of the cavity.
Five levels of alloy flooring had been destroyed, leaving an abyss-like hole with blackened, dark-red wreckage at the bottom.
The metal floor beneath their feet creaked and swayed. The closer they got to the center of the blast, the more chunks of stone and brick fell from overhead. He Zheng instinctively looked up. The base above them looked like a crushed, warped eggshell that could come crashing down at any moment.
"Warning, base structure severely damaged... All personnel must evacuate