This time, Cao Xianming answered quickly.
"All right, understood."
The moment he finished speaking, the Data Model in his hands finished building.
On the screen, an elongated outline was moving rapidly underground.
The data refreshed, the shape sharpened, and Cao Xianming's pupils suddenly contracted.
That shape...
Was it an earthworm?
Impossible.
Before the apocalypse, even the longest earthworms had only been a little over a meter long.
But this thing underground was at least ten meters long.
Its body was covered in rings of black scales.
As it wriggled through the soil, it made a grating sound that set teeth on edge.
Like metal scraping against bone.
Cao Xianming pressed his radio button, his voice dropping. "Attention, everyone. What's coming this time... is an earth dragon."
"An earth dragon? What's that?"
"An earth dragon? You don't mean an earthworm, do you?"
Zhu Yuhao, the only doctor in the convoy with any knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine, asked tentatively.
An earthworm?
Those things that grew to barely a meter at most?
The first image that popped into the ordinary survivors' heads...
Was the red earthworms sold by the river before the apocalypse, a yuan a box, for fishing.
The anglers among them reflexively remembered their old equipment...
Shovels, boxes, and how to thread them onto hooks.
Then what were they running for?
Was a single earthworm worth all this?
That thought had only just surfaced in everyone's minds...
When the ground suddenly collapsed.
Without any warning, the ground directly beneath the bus seemed to have been hollowed out from below, and the entire vehicle abruptly sank.
Before the people inside could react, a thick, black body covered in scales burst out of the earth.
The sound of tearing metal pierced everyone's eardrums.
The thing slowly raised its head, loose soil and