Chapter 160: Battle of the Burrow Breakout (Part 4)

Once Sun Zi spoke, everyone immediately stopped discussing.

Zhao Yuxin had flipped through "Ant Species and Countermeasures in the Magma Cave" until it was tattered without finding a similar method, and since the Ant Swarm had already been shaken off, everyone unanimously decided to give it a try.

After a brief consultation, Ling Xi proposed: "Let me fly to the cave ceiling like this to see what the actual distance of this spatial compression is."

Sun Zi said from across the carriage: "Be careful, my wife. If you feel anything uncomfortable while flying mid-air, you must not push yourself; you have to come down immediately, do you hear me?"

Ling Xi responded to him softly, then brought the Tricycle to a stop.

Seeing how concerned Ling Xi's husband was for her, Zhao Yuxin held onto Zhu Zhiquan's arm and acted coquettishly: "Ajiu, look at how considerate other people's husbands are; I want one too~" After finishing, she even winked at Zhu Zhiquan.

Zhu Zhiquan, however, looked at her with an expression like he was looking at a fool, then immediately told Xuebao to stop the vehicle.

Seeing Zhu Zhiquan being so unfeeling, Zhao Yuxin was so angry that she kicked him in the thigh, then jumped out of the carriage in a huff.

Zhu Zhiquan looked at the angry Zhao Yuxin, not knowing where he had provoked her. But after thinking for a long time, he still didn't understand why she was angry; it seemed he would have to spend another hour coaxing her.

Soon, all the Tricycles came to a stop. Among them, Daobanan's gaze drifted from time to time toward the Tricycle carriage of Zhu Zhiquan's pair and the Sun Zi Fu Fu, his mouth subconsciously pursing, his eyes filled with fanaticism.

Ling Xi stood between the three vehicles and activated her new talent—Floating Cloud Technique.

Then, her feet slowly left the ground, rising toward the cave ceiling amidst the anticipation and cheers of the crowd. At this moment, she was like a balloon, watching herself get closer and closer to the cave ceiling bit by bit.

90 meters

80 meters

70 meters

………………

Watching the cave ceiling get closer, Ling Xi just felt that something was wrong. Because she felt her speed of floating upward getting slower and slower, which made her curiously look down, but the result gave her a fright.

Because at this moment from her perspective, she was a full 700 meters above the ground, but when she looked up from the ground, she only remembered the cave ceiling being about 100 meters high!

Meanwhile, the people on the ground watched Ling Xi stop moving completely after reaching 20 meters from the ground, and couldn't help but feel a bit curious.

Sun Zi saw Ling Xi staying in place and asked curiously: "Wife~ what's wrong up there? Can you not fly any higher?"

But Ling Xi didn't seem to hear, which made Sun Zi even more worried, and his voice gradually grew louder. At this moment, he saw Ling Xi lower her head slightly, which made Sun Zi think his voice had been heard by Ling Xi, so he asked Ling Xi again.

But who would have thought that not only did Ling Xi not respond, her complexion also became very ugly, as if something was pressing down on her, making it hard for her to breathe.

Just as Zhao Yuxin wanted to try calling out to Ling Xi, Ling Xi suddenly fell from the sky. Sun Zi and Zhu Zhiquan quickly arrived beneath Ling Xi and stretched out their hands, preparing to cushion the impact of Ling Xi's fall.

But when Ling Xi landed on them, only a "bang" was heard, and the three of them were slammed into the ground by the powerful impact, even creating a large pit in the ground.

"Ajiu! Sister Ling!" Zhao Yuxin and Xuebao hurried over to check. Zhuangzhuang, who was playing in the carriage, heard the commotion and also came out to check curiously, but upon seeing the miserable state of Sun Zi Fu Fu, he ran over while screaming.

And inside the Tricycle carriage of the two, the rescued indigenous people remained numb, showing no reaction to the sounds outside.

"Ajiu, how are you all!?" Zhao Yuxin gently placed her hand on Zhu Zhiquan, discovering that Zhu Zhiquan's ribs were broken and his forearms were fractured.

Sun Zi was about the same, fortunately, neither of them was in any life-threatening danger. But Ling Xi was much worse; not only were most of the bones in her body broken, but she had also suffered very serious internal injuries.

"This, this, this..." Zhao Yuxin's mind went blank seeing the three injured people; after all, she hadn't expected this twenty-meter height to be so significant!

And the Daobanan in the back saw that they were all injured, so he rubbed his hands in excitement, preparing to use his talent again to steal something over.

Just when they were at a loss, Ling Xi's chest emitted a glow, and then a circular necklace flew out from her collar. A gentle light shone upon the three of them, and the injuries on their bodies healed rapidly, with the fractured parts beginning to recover.

The Daobanan in the back saw that the thing he wanted to steal had taken effect, so he silently withdrew his hand that had just reached out, while constantly cursing in his heart.

In less than a minute, the three regained their ability to move, while the necklace lost its luster, shattered into two pieces in the air, and fell to the ground.

"Phew... that was really close. Fortunately, my luck was better today! Otherwise, I would have definitely died today!" Ling Xi felt fortunate; it was clear that the necklace's activation just now was probabilistic.

Sun Zi supported Ling Xi and asked curiously: "Wife, what did you encounter just now? Why did you suddenly fall while flying?"

Ling Xi held her forehead and said: "At first I kept flying upward, but halfway through I felt my speed getting slower and slower, and then I looked down and discovered that I was actually 700 meters above the ground!"

Hearing Ling Xi's words, everyone gasped. Sun Zi urged: "Wife, then what? What else did you experience at that time? You suddenly fell from the sky."

Ling Xi then continued: "After I saw this situation, I stayed in place and didn't fly up any further, and then I looked for you in the sky, preparing to rendezvous with you.

But suddenly there was a pressure that made me unable to breathe, and then I felt a wave of dizziness; in a daze, I fainted."

Zhao Yuxin frowned and said: "In that case, we have no way to go up and leave this place, right?"

Sun Zi also lowered his head and said: "No matter what, we still have to get out, otherwise we won't be able to reach the ground by tomorrow at all!"

Zhu Zhiquan: "Don't panic. As long as we find a passage to fight our way out, and then let the Green Leaf Burrowing Vine dig a hole upward, won't we be able to leave?"

"That works too, anyway, it's the only way." Ling Xi nodded.

The Daobanan in the back, listening to everyone's conversation, stared at Zhu Zhiquan's Tricycle; inside it, a vine covered in leaves lay there quietly.

"Hey, you there, stop spacing out. Can you introduce yourself?" Zhao Yuxin, after consulting with everyone, turned and said to Daobanan.

Daobanan was asked by Zhao Yuxin and was so scared that he deactivated his talent and trembled: "Th... that thing, I... I..."

Zhao Yuxin: "So you are like Ajiu, both socially anxious. It's fine, I mainly wanted to tell you that we are leaving; do you want to come with us?"

Seeing that Zhao Yuxin wasn't coming to hold him accountable, this meant his talent hadn't been discovered. He immediately breathed a sigh of relief and decided to just go with them, so he could get more benefits.

In fact, his abnormal behavior had long been seen by Zhu Zhiquan, but Zhu Zhiquan couldn't figure out what Daobanan was doing with these strange actions, and since he had no evidence, he didn't say it out loud.