Chapter 194

Lu Mu, that kid, goes crazy without any restraint, and Ying Duo still has to carry out his infiltration mission.

Wait, if Ying Duo's visual contamination is present, wouldn't Luo Jinyou, the one they're after, also be there?

Thinking of that, Bai Mu Yun narrowed his eyes slightly.

In the end, what that person needs is Luo Jinyou, the kid whose compatibility with the "God" is extremely high; sending Ying Duo to go undercover at Mitra Academy is also because Professor Luo De'an has been watching Luo Jinyou too closely for the past few years.

If the situation permits, why not just........

A faint smile finally tugged at Bai Mu Yun's mouth; despite the terrible environment and his partner, he finally encountered something good.

The problem is, how can he make that idiot kid cooperate obediently?

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Yang Yixie had been playing the game for so long that he finally experienced being robbed by an NPC.

Because the toy he had just gotten was snatched away, Ying Duo could only retreat to a corner and continue tinkering with his own modifications.

Min Tianyou reluctantly took the communicator, feeling that Ying Duo would be better off having this thing dismantled, preferably never returned to him.

He injected his own energy into the communicator, successfully activating it and scanning the long string of messages inside.

It was probably just asking where he went, how things were, that sort of thing.

Min Tianyou cleared his throat and, under the gaze of several people, drafted a message to send out.

"This is Min Tianyou. Members of Co-Absorption have appeared underground in the Black Stone Mountain Range. Their target is the design schematics of the Air Train. Also trapped here with me is a student squad from Mitra Academy. We are currently safe for now. Please report upward immediately and dispatch reinforcements!"

"Repeating, the enemies include at least the 'Shepherd' and 'Dark Raven' on the wanted list, and possibly the appearance of the 'Flame City Cannon'. Please send support immediately!"

Finally, Min Tianyou also attached their current coordinates before transmitting the message.

Having done all that, he finally let out a long sigh.

Min Tianyou slipped the communicator back into his pocket, not caring about its cleanliness, and just wanted to find a place to sit for a while.

However, before his butt even touched the dust, the entire safe house—no, the whole underground space—shook violently without any warning.

"Rumble—!"

It wasn't an explosion nor a collapse, but seemed like some massive creature was moving slowly.

The sturdy alloy walls buzzed, dust and rust flakes fell intermittently, and the few of them could only cling to nearby objects, trying to steady themselves.

"What's happening?!"

"Earthquake? Or......"

Luo Jinyou tried to sense the surrounding energy, snapped his eyes open, and immediately dismissed the former explanation.

"No, the epicenter is close... it's even continuously moving toward us!"

The vibration had a certain rhythm, like...

A huge creature walking?!

Once that thought surfaced, it was hard to dispel; Luo Jinyou could only channel more energy to probe the situation, but the surrounding rock walls grew increasingly unmanageable, and his invested energy felt like a stone sinking in the sea.

Ying Duo finally halted his actions, lifted his head, and his vacant eyes locked onto the direction of the tremor's source.

Yang Yixie stared at the mini-map in the upper left; at its edge, a massive red dot was slowly advancing toward them, appearing much larger than any monster they had previously encountered.

Min Tianyou's complexion instantly turned extremely grim as he looked at the communicator he had just sent, and a hypothesis sprang to mind.

"Could it be that the energy fluctuation of the signal we just sent was sensed by something?"

But she had never told him that there were any defensive devices of that sort here!

She only mentioned that there was energy interference nearby, and that members of Co-Absorption would take considerable time to locate this place.

Chen Mo Zhi quickly snapped several vials of medicine onto his hand, his scarlet eyes vigilantly scanning the surrounding walls.

He recalled the missing miners; the situation had been so urgent that when the stone golem suddenly emerged, he hadn't had time to think it through.

But at the time he noticed that the piece of cloth was indeed tattered, and the problem lay in its location—it was right on the stone golem's body.

What if the Mutation, in a place unknown to everyone, had already begun a new wave of devastation?

Could those so-called stone golems actually be the miners, corrupted by the new type of Mutation energy, turning them into these half‑alive, half‑dead monsters?

Can they still be called Aberrant Species?

Min Tianyou's expression grew increasingly grim; the story's direction had completely diverged from the plan, so indeed detectives are only fit for investigations, not for being the mastermind behind the scenes!

"Let's go, we leave this place immediately!"

Things have come to this; we can only take it one step at a time.

"It's too late."

Qi Hengyu's hair stood up on the back of his neck as he shouted, his amber eyes fixed intently on the metal ceiling corroded by rust.

"Boom!"

A deafening blast roared from directly above their heads, and the entire upper rock formation began to collapse.

The metal ceiling started to warp and bulge, sprouting countless spider‑web‑like cracks.

Immediately after, a gigantic fist made of countless gray‑black rocks, its joints shimmering with dark red energy, swept up mud and stone to smash through the ceiling, crashing into their hidden safe house like a meteor.

They had no time to react at all, not even seeing where the giant fist was connected to; the ground beneath their feet was completely shattered by that terrifying blow.

So the underground of the Black Stone Mountain Range must have been hollowed out long ago?!

A familiar sense of weightlessness swept over everyone again; several members of the Mercenary Corps, already experienced, immediately activated energy shields to mitigate the damage from the fall.

Whistling wind roared in their ears, accompanied by a low growl that seemed to come from an ancient monster, emanating from the source of their fall and fading into the distance.

This time they fell much deeper than before; they could hardly imagine the underground space here had been hollowed out to such an extent.

Amid the chaos, Shen Zexi only managed to glimpse the massive breach above, created by the giant fist, and the rock fingers at its edge slowly retracting, wrapped in dark red energy.

It was a being of the same type as the stone golems that had previously attacked them, but vastly larger than the one they had encountered before.

If the stone golem they previously faced was merely a roadside minor monster, then this one must already be a boss‑level creature.

Could this be possible?

In the Black Stone Mountain Range, so close to Tianmian City, a leader‑level Aberrant Species was silently born again?!

Moreover, it is a New-type Exotic that has never appeared before.