Due to the fierce attack of the space creatures, many of the overhead lighting fixtures were damaged.
The lights flickered on and off, causing everyone’s hearts to beat irregularly.
As they approached the final stretch of the road, everyone held their breath. Victory was in sight, so they pushed forward with all their might.
After walking for a short while, the overhead lights couldn’t hold on any longer. With two “zzzt zzzt”, they broke and exploded, and then the lights along this section of the ceiling extinguished
Despite this, the lights ahead and behind them still provided some illumination, although the effect was minimal, it prevented everyone from falling into complete darkness.
In the dim environment, they had to slow down.
Just then, they heard footsteps ahead.
“Tap.”
“Tap.”
“Tap.”
The steps came one after another, without any intention of concealment.
Everyone’s hearts jumped to their throats, and they looked ahead wearily.
Was it the space creatures again?
But the space creatures hadn’t made this sound before. Could it be a more formidable space creature?
But these were human footsteps.
Could it be the captain?
As the crowd speculated, the footsteps drew closer, and a black figure turned around a shelf, finally exposing itself to everyone.
Upon seeing the sudden appearance of the figure, the group relaxed the grip on their weapons and the Big Guy breathed a sigh of relief, “Oh, it’s just you, Captain. Can’t you say something before scaring people to death?”
“Is he really the captain?” Pink Hair murmured as she took a step back. “If he is, shouldn’t he have entered from the outside? Why didn’t we hear the sound of the gate opening just now?”
Hearing this, the weapons that had been lowered were raised again, and they stared at the long-haired man in front of them without blinking.
The man’s body was stained with moisture, and there was a lingering coldness between his eyebrows. He scanned the group before him, and his gaze finally settled on Bai Lixin.
Bai Lixin: “I’ll determine if he’s real or not.”
Pink Hair: “How will you determine?”
Bai Lixin: “I’ll ask a question that only the captain and I know, something the space creatures couldn’t possibly know.”
Turning to Dijia, he asked, “Um, who was the target of my scandals and gossips in the virtual world?”
“…”, the already fierce man became even more fierce.
Everyone: “…”
‘This is a fake, right? This must be a fake, right? !’
He obviously didn’t move, but they felt like he was already killing someone.
The man pursed his lips slightly, his jawline slightly raised into a taut bowstring. His deep eyes stared at Bai Lixin for a few seconds before he said coldly, “Are you referring to the Third Duke, or Mr. Kayla? Or perhaps both are wrong, and it’s the S-001 artificial intelligence robot?”
“Or maybe none of these, and there are others I don’t know? Why don’t you list them for me? Let’s see if I can count them on one hand.”
“…” Bai Lixin: “I can testify that he’s real.”
‘What do you call shooting yourself in the foot?’
Everyone: “…”
‘Strange. Why is there such a strong smell of vinegar?’
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In the live broadcast room:
[The big boss is almost pointing at God Xin’s nose and scolding him, “You’re such an unscrupulous man.”]
[The big boss’s vinegar jar has spilled over again. I can smell the strong scent of vinegar even through the screen.]
[God Xin’s courage is getting bigger. He dares to openly provoke the big boss.]
[Is there a possibility that this is a little game between the two?]
[Hahaha, then this game is interesting.]
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Dijia: “Then I have to thank you for not mistaking me.”
Bai Lixin chuckled dryly, “How could I ever mistake you? Even if you turned to ashes, I wouldn’t mistake you.”
Dijia: “…”
Li Cangshan: “Captain, does your appearance here mean that the meteorite formation has passed?”
Dijia shook his head, “It’s not completely over yet, only the last less dense part remains. It won’t cause any substantial damage to the spaceship, and the automatic defense mode can handle it.”
“You guys are pretty efficient, you’ve already reached this place.”
Pink Hair knew she had misunderstood him earlier, and quickly tried to make amends, “Thanks to Captain and Bai Lixin, otherwise it wouldn’t have gone so smoothly.”
Dijia’s face remained expressionless as he glanced at Bai Lixin, “Master is great. After we get out, I’ll definitely reward master.”
Bai Lixin: “…”
Everyone: “…”
‘The smell of vinegar is stronger!’
With Dijia joining, the task of transporting things became much easier.
With Dijia joining Bai Lixin’s team, one person could do the work of two, and the extra Pink Hair and Big Guy went to other groups to help with the heavy lifting.
Perhaps because Dijia joined, the journey afterward went very smoothly. Not only were there no more appearances of space creatures, but even the lights didn’t go out, and there were no more vibrations underfoot.
In just over two hours, they returned to the entrance.
Seeing the closed gate, the excitement of the victory overwhelmed Bug Guy’s mind, “Damn, we’re finally here. Hurry up and open the gate. I don’t want to stay here for another minute.”
Others nodded in agreement, and all looked at Dijia, who controlled the gate switch.
However, Dijia showed no intention of opening the door. He simply let go of the heavy iron box in his hand and looked coldly at the group again, his gaze once again falling on Bai Lixin.
Bai Lixin nodded slightly, “Before we leave from here, it’s necessary to verify identities again.”
Everyone: “?”
‘Verify what identities?’
Bai Lixin: “I’ll ask each person the secret code. When I ask a specific person, no one else should interrupt.”
After saying this, he looked at Dijia and Li Cangshan, “Anyone who interrupts can be killed.”
The rest: “…”
But Bai Lixin had already walked up to Pink Hair.
Before Bai Lixin could speak, Pink Hair exclaimed eagerly, “The king of heaven will conquer the tiger of earth!”
Bai Lixin paused slightly before replying, “The pagoda holds back the river demon.”
Pink Hair showed a satisfied smile, “Okay, the secret code matches. This proves that both of us are fine.”
Bai Lixin narrowed his eyes, “But the secret code I was about to ask isn’t this one. Have you forgotten that we prepared more than one secret code?
Pink Hair still maintained a smile: “Of course I haven’t forgotten it, there is a backup secret code.”
As soon as the words fell, Pink Hair’s expression suddenly froze.
She looked at Bai Lixin in shock, then lowered her head in disbelief.
A blazing lightsaber had pierced through her chest, passing through from the front and drilling out from the back.
Blood flowed out along the edges of the holes, quickly soaking her clothes.
“You…” Pink Hair tremblingly pointed at Bai Lixin, but as soon as she hand her raised, crimson blood rushed out from the corners of her mouth.
She stared blankly ahead, her fragile face filled with innocence and pity, which would evoke sympathy from anyone.
However, the seemingly kind young man in front showed no emotion in his eyes. He pulled the lightsaber out from Pink Hair’s chest indifferently.“I lied to you. There was never a second code word.”
Pink Hair stumbled back a few steps and fell to the ground.
At the moment her body hit the ground, her body began to undergo a transformation.
Her clothes dissolved into hardened skin, and four struggling tentacles appeared behind her…
Everyone gasped in horror.
Big Guy was about to speak, when he glanced Dijia and Li Cangshan from the corner of his eye. He touched his neck and immediately closed his loud mouth.
Big Guy dared not speak, but Li Cangshan asked on his behalf, “When was she replaced?”
Bai Lixin: “The first time we encountered darkness after entering. At that time, I heard two ‘swooshing” sounds coming from different directions, indicating there were two space creatures, but we only identified one. The other one has been lurking among us since then, but I was not sure who it impersonated.”
Everyone gasped again.
It had been lurking among them since so early.
But why didn’t it attack them?
It had so many opportunities on the way forward.
Bai Lixin seemed to see the Big Guy’s doubt.
“It didn’t attack because it wanted to impersonate one of us and sneak out. Only the captain can open the door from here. To leave, the captain must open the door voluntarily.”
Li Cangshan: “You pulled her out first. It couldn’t be just a coincidence. You knew she was a space creature impersonating someone before asking the secret code. How did you find out?”
Bai Lixin: “There was something from Pink Hair among the pile of corpses.”
The air became heavy.
Li Cangshan quickly changed the subject, “Just her alone?”
Bai Lixin: “Let’s try another one.”
His eyes suddenly became sharp, scanning each person one by one.
Those eyes were like those of a hawk hovering in the sky in search of prey. They were so sharp that everyone dared not look directly at them and turned their heads to avoid them.
“Ah, what are you doing, let go of me!” A team member screamed, and everyone raised their heads to find that the team member had actually been dragged out by the captain.
The captain pressed him in front of Bai Lixin. “Try this one.”
Bai Lixin nodded, his gaze falling on the somewhat embarrassed face of the team member.
This person didn’t interrupt like Pink Hair did, but quietly waited for Bai Lixin’s question.
Bai Lixin quickly said a secret code, “One two three four five six seven.”
The person paused for two seconds, “Seven six five four three two one.”
Bai Lixin’s eyes immediately flashed with satisfaction, “Well done.”
The person breathed a sigh of relief, then chuckled at Bai Lixin, “Of course, how could I forget such a simple secret code? I was just startled when I was pulled out earlier, so I was two beats slower. Quickly let me go, I’m telling the truth.”
He sounded confident, but didn’t notice the changing faces of the people behind him.
Just as he was speaking more and more, Bai Lixin’s lightsaber swiped towards him.
Before the person could react, his head had rolled off his neck, a neat cut.
Dijia threw the body next to the other monster.
The head had fallen off, but the facial features on the head were still moving.
His pupils were wide open, looking at Bai Lixin with an incredulous expression, as if asking where he had gone wrong.
Bai Lixin kicked the head to the side of the space creature’s body. “Let me make it clear to you. We never had a secret code of one two three four five six seven. That was something I made up to fool you, and you, being the fool you are, believed it. And you even matched ‘seven six five four three two one’. You’re quite clever.”
The head’s eyes widened with anger and his face was ferocious.
As his facial features twisted and exaggerated in motion, the head also underwent a transformation, and another space creature appeared in front of everyone.
Two space creatures were found in a short time, and everyone panicked completely.
They looked at each other, not daring to blink.
Round eyes widened, blood vessels dancing inside.
Compared to the quite tense team members, Bai Lixin and Dijia seemed particularly relaxed.
Bai Lixin glanced at Dijia, “Is there more?”
Dijia: “There shouldn’t be. When you were watching them just now, his heartbeat was abnormal, it was very suspicious.”
Their conversation entered everyone’s ears, and everyone quickly relaxed their tired eyes.
Big Guy: “Can we leave now? What are we waiting for? Hurry up and open the door.”
Bai Lixin and Dijia exchanged a tacit glance, then simultaneously looked towards the depths of the warehouse.
“Shua!”
“Shua!”
“Shua!”
“Shua!”
The sounds of countless space creatures moving with their feet scraping against the ground were heard, accompanying these dense sounds was a wave of black shadows surging towards them from the dark depths of the warehouse.
A head emerged from behind the shelves, followed by a second head, a third head…
Everyone’s trypophobia was about to kick in.
Bug Guy: “There are still so many space creatures in the warehouse area? How can there be so many? Weren’t there just over two hundred? There must be over a thousand now!”
They lurked not far from them, glaring at them but not approaching.
Even Big Guy understood their intentions now.
Their purpose wasn’t to kill them but to wait for the right moment.
They were waiting for the moment the door opened.
They wanted to go out!
With so many of them, the few that appeared before were just to reduce their combat effectiveness.
To achieve the maximum depletion with the minimum casualties. And in the later stages as the team returned, their increased numbers were to use an attack as cover, allowing them to sneak among them in the chaos.
But they underestimated this team, or rather Bai Lixin and Li Cangshan’s combat capabilities, and in the end, only one space creature managed to infiltrate among them.
Now that the plan to leave disguised as humans had failed, the space creatures were resorting to a straightforward and brute-force approach.
To leave here, they had to open the gate.
Not just leave, but they also had to take the devices with them. These things were bulky and heavy. They definitely couldn’t just spend a few seconds like they did when they first entered.
But if they didn’t open the gate, they could only watch as the spaceship’s energy ran out.
They were all going to die.
What to do?
How to proceed?
Everyone looked towards the three standing in the front with pleading eyes.
Finally, Bai Lixin spoke up, “Li Cangshan, is there still a flame left in the flamethrower?”
Li Cangshan nodded vigorously, raised the flamethrower in his hand and pointed it towards the space creatures in front of them. “Yes, there is one shot left.”
Bug Guy: “?”
‘Didn’t they run out already?
How come there’s still one shot left?’
‘Could it be that they had expected this to happen, and in order to confuse the space creatures in the team, they deliberately said that the last shot had been used up in the battle just now, but in fact they still had a trump card left?’
‘Fuck, did they even anticipate this?
So awesome!’
Bug Guy looked at the backs of the two in front with admiration, earning an unhappy glance from Dijia.
Bai Lixin flicked the lightsaber in his hand, and the lightsaber immediately turned into a long whip with white light. The whip slammed heavily on the ground, emitting a heavy “zzzt zzzt” sound of electric current. “I’m ready too. Since they want to wipe us out, I’m willing to lend a hand.”
The space creatures on the shelves seemed to understand Bai Lixin’s words, and the restless scraping and cries paused for a moment.
Bai Lixin: “Open the gate. I won’t let any of them pass through here.”
Li Cangshan also affirmed, “Me neither. I’ll guard this place.”
Dijia looked at Bai Lixin and then at Li Cangshan, his brows furrowed into a “川” character.
He opened the gate impatiently and said coldly to the others, “Get out.”
Everyone: “…”
‘Go go go, now!!!
Run, hurry!!!’
The moment the gate opened, the space creatures, who were hesitating before, suddenly became excited. They completely forgot about Bai Lixin’s threat and rushed towards them one after another.
Dijia’s eyes lit up suddenly, and the ceiling above his head instantly collapsed, crashing heavily onto the space creatures. The heavy steel plates directly crushed a dozen or so space creatures underneath.
It didn’t end there. From the fallen ceiling, countless wires emerged.
They seemed to come to life, snaking their way towards the airborne space creatures.
On the other side, Bai Lixin wielded his light whip with swift and precise movements, preventing any space creature from getting close.
Li Cangshan remained vigilant, holding up the flamethrower. With his other hand, he held an even heavier laser gun, taking precise shots one by one.
With their cover, the team members worked together to quickly move the three claws outside, then they turned back and brought out the box placed in the corner.
With everything done, Big Guy shouted to the people inside, “It’s okay, come out now!”
Bai Lixin and the other two retreated silently.
The gate began to slowly close.
Seeing the gate closing, the space creatures became more frantic.
In their madness, some space creatures began to speak human words that they understood.
“Don’t trust them!”
“There’s no flame in the flamethrower! They’re just bluffing!”
“If there were flames, they would have shot them long ago, why wait until now!”
“They’re deceiving us! They’re a group of cunning deceivers!”
“As long as there’s no flame, we’re invincible! We can heal at super speed, we’re unbeatable!”
“Charge, charge out, everyone charge out!”
The space creatures became even more frenzied, their movements faster. Those impaled on Bai Lixin’s whip hadn’t even healed yet but were already clawing and biting to join the fight.
The gate slowly closed from both sides, and Dijia walked out first.
Although he had come out, the wires were still swinging inside.
After he came out, he stretched out his hands and pulled Bai Lixin out.
Bai Lixin came out, and the lightsaber was still swinging in the warehouse.
Only Li Cangshan remained inside.
The closing gate continued to stimulate the nerves of the space creatures. In their rush, they got closer and closer to the entrance, and the waves became more and more concentrated.
Just as they were about to reach Li Cangshan, he decisively threw the laser gun to the ground, showed a sharp and ruthless smirk, and his hand tightened on the flamethrower.
At that moment, flames surged out.
Bai Lixin’s lightsaber had pierced through countless space creatures, and was like a huge fuse. With a “whoosh,” the flames came to the end and then engulfed the space creatures directly at their center.
At the last moment, Li Cangshan quickly slipped out of the gate.
The gate slowly closed, isolating the space creatures inside who were still screaming and wailing.
The people, who had just narrowly escaped danger, looked at each other, and then someone started laughing as if they were reborn after the disaster.
They were alive!
Not only that, but they also managed to bring the devices out.
Great, they were saved!
After nearly ten hours of tension, they could finally relax.
Only three people at the scene weren’t laughing: Bai Lixin, Dijia, and Li Cangshan.
Li Cangshan looked at Dijia. “How much time is left until the solar flare fragment arrives?”
With this question, the laughter from before ceased, and everyone listened intently.
Dijia: “If we start counting from now, we have ten hours left.”
“When the solar flare fragment passes by here, the closest distance to the spaceship is 30,000 meters. You need to take an aircraft to the place where the stellar flare passes, cooperate with each other, cast the claws at a safe distance for capture, and put the solar flare fragment into the box to be brought back.”
Li Cangshan: “Shouldn’t we practice using the claws and the box?”
Dijia glanced at him lightly. “Follow me.”
He was about to walk away when he remembered something and snapped his fingers and stopped.
The others were puzzled, and looked at each other inexplicably.
Soon, they heard the sound of gears and motors turning.
Four simple energy carts came running from around the corner of the passage. These carts resembled the garbage collection carts Bai Lixin had seen behind the firewall earlier.
They didn’t have humanoid robot bodies, only simple yet practical large panels.
The four carts arrived and effortlessly lifted the claws and box onto the panels, swiftly carrying them away.
Big Guy looked at this technological marvel, and couldn’t help but ask, “If there’s something so useful, why wasn’t it allowed inside?”
Dijia: “Because the ground is filled with obstacles. Are you sure they would’ve helped you carry things instead of being a hindrance?”
Big Guy scratched his head. “Uh…”
‘That makes sense!’
Everyone followed Dijia and came to a very empty white room.
They had been in this room before, but since there was nothing inside, they assumed it was just a vacant room.
But Dijia’s next series of operations let them know the correct way to use this room.
They saw the man’s eyes light up, then suddenly, someone in the group let out a scream.
Because just a moment ago, they were still inside the spaceship, but now they found themselves in the pitch-black darkness outside the ship!
Thanks for the new chapter