Chapter 2345

The high heat distorted the air, and hot air rose toward the top of the fortress. In the open space in front of the fortress, the stone slabs on the ground were turned into lava by the high heat, and dark red magma flowed down from the city wall.

This was the power of Apollo. Apollo hadn't undergone its third modification yet, but after obtaining the Alchemy Codex, Su Xiao was more confident in the third modification of Apollo.

When the assault team launched their first attack, Su Xiao was waiting—waiting for the assault team to retreat and let the alien army gather, so he could bomb more of them.

The lava trembled, and a figure stood up from the lava. Judging from his physique, which was similar to a human's, this was a fission-type species. He didn't die on the spot because of his resistance to high heat.

Aliens all had very high fire damage reduction, with the reduction degree reaching as high as 67%, but Apollo dealt true burn damage, so fire damage reduction was equivalent to nothing under true damage.

"Cough, cough~"

The fully carbonized fission-type species took a step forward. Sparks flickered on his body; this was the burning effect after the Apollo explosion. Although it wasn't true damage, the damage intensity was as high as 6,000 points.

This fission-type species had just taken one step forward when he collapsed into the lava and died suddenly. As an alien, he actually died from high heat; this was something he couldn't believe no matter what.

"What now? Dean."

"Charge in."

"Charge into the lava created by the transcendent bomb? I'm covered in fur, are you kidding me?"

"Retreat."

The one who said to charge in was, of course, not the Dean. At the moment, the open space of the fortress and the interior of the volcano were about the same, and it was magma with transcendent properties. Charging in here meant enduring high burn damage, and the various toxic gases produced after the explosion were equally fatal.

The assault team retreated, and only a few thousand ground-type species remained in pursuit. The aliens underground in the inner main fortress couldn't rush over at all.

King Kong, the Dean, and others retreated swaggeringly, pursued by thousands of ground-type species and flying fission-type species.

Under the east wall of the fortress, this was located at a corner of the fortress. If one climbed from here, they would climb to the top of the main fortress. Just now, this giant building had also been affected, but its front wall had not been blown through.

Climbing to the top of the main fortress was, of course, not possible, but Su Xiao had a way to enter the main fortress.

"Woof."

Xiang Bubu Wang blended into the environment, lightly bumped into Su Xiao, and then activated its growth equipment 【Sacred Traveler】. In this state, it could pass through over 80% of objects.

Xiang Bubu walked into the city wall; it had to scout the situation inside the main fortress first.

A few seconds later, Xiang Bubu Wang contacted Su Xiao through the team channel: it was very safe inside, and the wall thickness was 20.6 meters.

Upon learning this news, Su Xiao felt much more at ease. He could use the Dragon Flash ability to pierce through space and move, with a limit distance of 23 meters, but in battle, he usually moved between 0–15 meters and rarely moved to the maximum distance.

Baha disappeared from Su Xiao's shoulder. Its space ability went without saying; it was space travel, no cooldown, and consumption varied according to distance.

After Baha entered the main fortress, Su Xiao threw the glass bottle in his hand to the Autistic Brothers and also disappeared on the spot.

"This, this, this..."

The Ghost Girl was stunned. She was shocked by these three master-servant pairs. One or two having infiltration abilities was acceptable, but these three were more slippery than the last—either ignoring objects to walk through, or space traveling or piercing.

"What do we do?"

"Tree."

The younger Autistic Brother only said one word, then set his stance, preparing to ram his head into the city wall.

"Ramming it? Brother, I'm a bottled navigator now. I'm beautiful and sweet-voiced, sure, but I'm very fragile. Wait, I..."

The Ghost Girl spat out fragrant words. Amidst her friendly greetings, the younger Autistic Brother rammed his head into the city wall.

The younger Autistic Brother's body turned into branches, quickly blending into the city wall. The older Autistic Brother stepped forward quickly and grasped those soft branches.

The older Autistic Brother's body also began to turn into branches and was dragged into the city wall by his younger brother.

The Ghost Girl only saw large swaths of green leaves. When the green leaves disappeared, the Ghost Girl began to free-fall. A hand grabbed her—it was Su Xiao.

"Infiltration direction."

Su Xiao looked at the Ghost Girl's spirit body in the bottle.

"Let me think."

It was true that the Ghost Girl understood the general terrain inside the fortress, but she couldn't determine the precise location of the space-time force condensate; she could only judge the general direction. Moreover, the small ghosts had transmitted fragmented images to her earlier, and she couldn't distinguish the specific orientation. She had to compare the location she saw with her own eyes with the images in her memory.

"We are on the first floor of the fortress's main building. This room is... the residence of some fission-type species. The place we need to go should be the fourth or fifth floor underground of the fortress. In any case, it's definitely underground; I'm sure of this."

Taking the Ghost Girl along was a very wise decision; at least there was no need to search blindly inside the fortress.

Su Xiao leaned against the wall next to the wooden door. After waiting for more than ten minutes, he pushed open the door and walked out of the room, with Baha and the Autistic Brothers following closely behind.

Xiang Bubu Wang cleared the path in front. Of course, there was no need to worry too much, but Su Xiao and the others restrained their aura. They weren't close enough for it to be likely they would be detected.

Restraining their aura in this way indeed wouldn't be perceived, but Su Xiao couldn't use perception either. Once he perceived, he would be exposed immediately. This was the interior of an alien fortress; the defensive intensity could be imagined.

After exiting the dim room, it was a stone corridor illuminated by firelight. The stone corridor was about five meters wide, and the blackened walls were somewhat damp.

After walking forward for more than ten meters, Su Xiao, carrying the Ghost Girl, leaned against a corner and extended three fingers.

Baha understood immediately. The older Autistic Brother nearby took a wooden tube handed over by his younger brother and stuffed a spiral nail into it. The spiral nail was the main means of killing enemies; using different weapons to fire it would have different effects. Now, it was silent assassination.

Three fission-type species walked from behind the corner. The Banishing on Su Xiao's cuff slowly turned into dust-particle size.

The moment the three fission-type species walked out of the corner, Baha had already appeared behind one of the fission-type species, back-attacking with claws, severing the throat, and injecting toxic shadow.

A nearly negligible whistling sound appeared. The second fission-type species' body tilted, and three spiral nails sank into his skull, side neck, and other positions respectively.

The last fission-type species was slowly falling, with Banishing fragments piercing out from his neck, silently.

Branches spread on the ground, absorbing the fallen bloodstains and wrapping the three corpses. The branches became thick, even blooming with small white flowers.

When the branches retracted into the younger Autistic Brother's body, the three corpses disappeared without a trace. The bloody smell in the air was absorbed by those small white flowers. When the younger Autistic Brother found everyone looking at him, his body stiffened, somewhat at a loss.

Shy, autistic personality, cannibalistic ability—this was the younger Autistic Brother.

Perfectly resolving the three patrolling aliens, Su Xiao walked past the corner and continued forward. After walking for more than twenty meters, he stopped. Xiang Bubu was directly below at this time. According to its exploration, below was a prison cell. He could consider passing through the ground and entering the first underground floor directly.

It was still the old method. Su Xiao's Dragon Flash ability had finished its cooldown. A few seconds later, the group arrived in the prison cell on the first underground floor of the fortress.

The entire first underground floor of the fortress had several large rows of iron cages. Because the environment was dim, the rows of iron cages couldn't be seen to the end. Inside each iron cage was a ground-type species—a ground-type species starved to the point of losing its mind.