The tunnel had been dug long ago, so he naturally knew the route by heart. Although the land mines had blasted it into collapse, its foundations remained. After just two hours of stealthy travel, he reached his intended destination.
Strictly speaking, the tunnel's collapsed state not only posed no obstacle to Zuo Xiaoduo, but actually made things a little easier for him.
His entire body drifted upward through the loose earth with gentle, wriggling movements.
His supple body twisted this way and that, looking for all the world like a snake as he crawled slowly but persistently upward through the collapsed underground passage, striving for that wisp of golden wind.
For this stretch from underground toward the surface, Zuo Xiaoduo moved even more slowly than he had on the way here, taking a full four hours.
Only then did he finally reach a spot fifty feet below the surface.
Above his head was nothing but soft, freshly collapsed earth. Zuo Xiaoduo panted in great gasps. After all, he had been moving for six straight hours. Only his strong back had gotten him through-how else could he have held out?!
On the ground, amid the earth or right on its surface, Space Rings glittered one after another.
As for the human corpses... after all this time under the effects of the centipede's powerful venom, they had long since dissolved into thick liquid and vanished without a trace.
Below the cliff.
The centipede raised its head slightly, its icy gaze brimming with impatience.
Another little crawler had come along.
Judging by its movements, it seemed to be a snake... its movements were actually much like the centipede's own habits.
The centipede really wanted to ignore it.
But this little thing kept squirming and wriggling. Why wouldn't it stop? Since when were