Inside the passage, two figures walked briskly forward.
Wang Hu listened intently to the faint sounds coming from the other passages, then turned back.
"Looks like fighting has already broken out elsewhere!"
Liang Yanhao nodded without saying anything.
Wang Hu continued, "But it's just the two of us here, and that guy Shen Heng really doesn't stand on ceremony at all!"
"You could also put it another way, he trusts us a lot!" Liang Yanhao said expressionlessly.
"Can I interpret this as him thinking that the two of us are the strongest in this operation?" Wang Hu said in a deep voice.
"You could say that!" Liang Yanhao nodded.
Upon hearing this, Wang Hu's lips curled into a slight smile.
He looked up at the slightly trembling ground in front of Le Yan and said:
Have you decided how you want to fight?
Liang Yanhao also looked ahead, then glanced around.
Although they are underground passages, they are built to be exceptionally spacious, with each passage being over forty meters high, clearly designed to facilitate the movement of the Calamity Beast.
"You hold them off from the front, and I'll flank them and launch a surprise attack!" Liang Yanhao said, which was also his opinion on the best strategy.
However, Wang Hu smirked, clearly not thinking so.
"Shouldn't we try to see if we can kill this Fifth Tier Calamity Beast?"
Liang Yanhao paused slightly, his gaze sharpening as he fixed on Wang Hu.
Our task is simply to stall!
"Of course I understand, but this is a rare opportunity, just the two of us, and our opponent is only a Early Fifth Tier Scalearmor Lizard. What?" Wang Hu grinned at Liang Yanhao, "Aren't you scared?"
Liang Yanhao did not respond, but stared sternly at Wang Hu.
Wang Hu showed no fear, grinning as he met Wang Hu's gaze.
"Bang! Bang!..."
A gigantic figure appeared rapidly in front of them.
It glanced at the two people in the passage and then ran quickly towards them without stopping.
Sensing the rapidly approaching Scalearmor Lizard, Wang Hu turned back with some regret and took two steps forward when he heard voices from behind.
Give it a try!
There was no response, Wang Hu's grin widened even further.
He slowly opened his mouth, and a beastly roar echoed through the underground passage as his figure grew taller.
"Roar--"
Within the Crystal Melting Zone.
Zhou Xuan sat on the ground, absorbing the Origin Crystal.
If it's just traveling underground for about ten kilometers, it wouldn't be too much of a problem for him.
But the key point is, he wasn't the only one traveling through here!
He had to lead more than forty people through the underground; just creating a space where everyone could move around a little would require several tens of meters of space.
Moreover, this space still needs to be maintained and advanced by more than ten kilometers.
Therefore, he had already consumed most of his Origin Power just now.
Then, we'll have to go through this again, and it might be even further away!
Therefore, he did not participate in the battle.
Of course, he wasn't the only one who didn't participate in the battle.
Zhou Xuan turned his head slightly.
Several figures could be seen moving rapidly along the rock face.
This included Qin Yu, who was in the same squad as him.
They moved quickly along the rock face, occasionally digging a hole in the wall and burying the explosive bomb inside.
The explosive rounds were developed by the Research Department at headquarters, combining the advantages of small size and high power.
According to the Research Department, the power of a single explosive grenade is roughly equivalent to 200 kilograms of TNT, or the simultaneous detonation of 4,000 M67 hand grenades.
This might not be very clear, but it's roughly equivalent to being able to blow up a 5-story reinforced concrete building or break the main beam of a 40cm thick steel bridge.
Zhou Xuan's gaze swept around, passing over the soil that seemed to be rich in a trace of Origin Power, over the branches protruding from the bottom of the rock wall, and over the pit in the center that rippled with a faint blue light...
To be honest, he didn't know what these things were for, but he didn't need to know. Anyway, he just needed to blow up the places the Calamity Beast valued!
but...
Zhou Xuan looked at the cavern in front of him, which was three or four kilometers in size and more than two hundred meters high, with some distress.
"There are only forty or fifty explosive shells left. Shen Heng said he wanted to put most of them in that crater. I don't know if that will be enough!"
"If I had known we were coming to destroy the Eye of Earth Marrow, I would have saved more!"
"Well, whatever, there's no way to know that sooner or later. Right now, we can only hope that the Explosion plan provided by the terminal will work!"
Just as Zhou Xuan was feeling troubled, a voice suddenly came from a pit somewhere.
" Old Fang--!"
"Damn it..."
Zhou Xuan looked over with a hint of surprise.
Even without his ability, he could hear the fear and indignation in those two voices.
More than 2,200 Calamity Beast!
If we spread it out, each person will face more than one Fourth Tier Calamity Beast, seven or eight Third Tier Calamity Beast, and dozens of even lower-tier Calamity Beast.
Moreover, this time is different from the past.
This time, it wasn't like before in the city, where a group of officers faced a single Calamity Beast.
This time, there was no base providing fire support from behind.
This time, there was also no support from weapons such as explosive rounds.
This time, they really only have two or three people left to hold off those hundreds of Calamity Beast!
Zhou Xuan turned his head and looked in one direction with some concern.
" Old Zheng, Shen Heng, you two mustn't get into trouble..."
Somewhere on the rock face.
Qin Yu paused slightly, her gaze fixed worriedly on the passageway from which the sound had just come.
Her lips moved, but she gritted her teeth and continued running briskly along the walkway on the rock face.
She wasn't the only one making similar movements.
However, those left behind to carry out Explosion missions are those who are relatively less skilled in combat.
Furthermore, the fighting of others is precisely to enable them to better carry out their missions.
Therefore, they all quickened their pace without prior arrangement.
A passageway.
Shen Heng breathed heavily, his gaze fixed ahead.
Ahead, a Rockback Beast lay motionless on the ground, while a wounded Shadow Nightmare Leopard, along with another Bloodclaw Jackal and another Shadow Nightmare Leopard, stared at him with fear and caution.
Unlike the others, they didn't need to face so many low-level Calamity Beast.
After all, under the Fear Invasion, even Calamity Beast than Shen Heng had almost no chance to resist.
However, after using it twice against hundreds of Calamity Beast, coupled with the battle just now, he still felt slightly exhausted.
This exhaustion mainly stems from the direct feeling of a sudden and Origin Power reduction in the body's Origin Power, which was previously abundant.
As for the specific consumption...
Shen Heng lowered his eyes slightly, sensing that he still had about 30% of his Origin Power remaining in his body.
This Origin Power was actually enough for Shen Heng to complete a battle.
After all, his battles never consumed much Origin Power, but...
Shen Heng glanced in one direction, then his gaze swept across several other directions.
We need to see if we can go and provide support, otherwise...