Chapter 43: After Escaping Danger

  The flower shirt was like a movie director giving his subordinates morale, and finally with his order, a group of people shouted loudly and rushed up.

  I found that these people were just like the Suicide Squad, completely disregarding life and death, stabbing fiercely at those giant insects that had already risen to their upper body, instantly spewing out a stream of green liquid.

  The man in the floral shirt would slash at the giant insect and immediately dodge to the side, avoiding being sprayed with the green liquid. However, his teammates were not as lucky, and soon someone was injured and fell to the ground. Their bodies then began to corrode, and cries of agony echoed through the air.

  In this closed ancient mansion, a thrilling battle between humans and insects is being staged. For a time, the shouts of killing, the cries of scolding, and the wails of agony blend together, making the scene extremely tragic.

  I saw a famous team member dodging for a while, but was sprayed with green liquid by the giant insect on his arm. Immediately, his arm seemed to melt and dripped black water onto the ground, causing him to scream in pain before falling to the ground unconscious.

  Death is a very serious matter to me, but after being involved in this tomb raiding wave, the people around me keep dying one by one, making an ordinary urban man like me become much more bloodthirsty.

  The people in front of me were fighting desperately, I glanced at the side and saw that Zhang Zhuang had long since hidden behind a sunflower lamp holder and didn't dare to come out. Zhou Huan was biting her lip tightly and watching the battle with great tension.

  I gritted my teeth and pulled out the dagger that Zhang Zhuang had thrown at me earlier, charging towards the battlefield in front of me.

  They say that an enemy of an enemy is a friend. Now, Zhang Zhuang and Hua Kuiyi are still easy to deal with, the most important thing is to eliminate those strange giant insects first.

  I think these giant insects' attacking power is not that strong, if it weren't for their venom being too potent, just the physical strength of their attacks, we should have won by now.

  I imitated the way of wearing a flower shirt, and after slashing at a giant worm with one knife, I quickly ran away to avoid being sprayed with green liquid. However, after all, I didn't have any kung fu skills, and after just a few slashes, I was splashed with a small amount of toxic liquid on my left leg.

  My lower pant leg was instantly incinerated, and then a wave of intense pain spread through my leg. I looked down to see that the area where the toxic liquid had splashed had turned a deep red color. Although my flesh hadn't rotted away like it did with other people, it still hurt so much that I almost passed out from shock.

  After this painful experience, I was thoroughly enraged. Seeing the floral shirt fighting alone with a giant insect like a 'sea cucumber', I cursed loudly and rushed to help.

  The sleeves of the shirt were indeed very agile, and he had not been attacked by any poisonous liquid until now. I couldn't care less about that anymore, so I just didn't dodge it. I stabbed the giant bug randomly with my knife, listening to the sound of the blade entering its flesh, and I felt like a demon at this moment.

  After a while, the giant worm finally stopped moving on the ground. I still couldn't bear it, closed my eyes, raised my knife and stabbed downwards fiercely, shouting "ahhh" non-stop.

  "Ah ah brothers, we're done for."

  I felt someone tapping my shoulder, and I finally calmed down, turned around to look, and saw that it was the floral shirt. He looked at me with disdain and said, "Just kill it and be done with it, whipping a corpse is not right, you need to change this hobby of yours, it's kind of scary."

  The floral shirt finished speaking and ran back up to continue fighting, I was stunned by what he said on the spot.

  Just now was a fierce momentum, nothing is in mind, now calm down and feel the whole body hurts badly, bow head to find that clothes are basically not intact, all over the body becomes red.

  Mental note: Next time I go out, I must remember to bring more clothes. My ability to ruin clothes is still quite impressive.

  I went back to the battlefield, and there were only four worms that could move. Including Meng with a floral shirt, there were only six team members left. The ground was covered with greenish-black stains everywhere, mixed with some human limbs and flesh, just like entering a large slaughterhouse, it's really heartbreaking.

  I was just about to continue helping when I heard a shout from behind me, turned my head to look, and found that at some point a hairless giant insect had slipped away, Zhou Huan hadn't noticed it in time, and now it was trapped in the triangular gap of a sunflower-shaped lamp, its upper body already raised, ready to attack at any moment.

  As soon as I saw this scene, I rushed towards Zhou Huan's direction. Just as I ran close, the giant insect's neck shrunk back and its mouth opened wide.

  I saw it was about to spit out the toxic liquid, and I didn't have time to think much. I immediately rushed to Zhou Huan's front, and a thick stream of toxic liquid sprayed onto my back.

  My back suddenly transmitted a scorching pain, I let out two loud "ah"s and turned around to use my body to collide with the giant insect. This time I used too much force, and both I and the giant insect fell to the ground together.

  I'm now a thorough killer, recalling the scene of killing that silver-scaled giant snake last time. I got up and rode on the giant insect's back, grasped my knife with both hands, aimed at the snake's head, closed my eyes and stabbed fiercely. During this process, I felt many things splashing onto my body and face, but I didn't care, just kept stabbing wildly.

  "Qiu Ye, calm down, that's enough! Stop it right now..." Zhou Huan shouted loudly from behind me.

  I finally felt the giant insect under me stop moving, so I stopped and opened my eyes to look, that bug's head had been stabbed by me into a mess, the giant insect was already dead and couldn't be deader.

  I got up to look at Zhou Huan, she seemed to be scared by my previous action, staring straight at me, I smiled and walked towards her with a heroic air.

  "Hey, don't come over here." Zhou Huan surprisingly turned his head away.

  "What's going on? Why won't you let me pass?"

  "Oh no, look at your clothes."

  I inexplicably lowered my head to take a look, only to find that my clothes had long since gone missing, and I was left with just one pair of underwear, which was still full of holes, and what's inside was already vaguely visible.

  I quickly turned around and jumped up, reaching back to pull up my pants, which had been exposed halfway. I thought to myself that this was really embarrassing.

  "Here you are... here you are..." Along with Zhou Huan's voice, a piece of clothing was handed in front of me.

  I took it over and looked at it, and it was actually the camouflage jacket I had given her before. It didn't matter much anymore, so I quickly squeezed it onto my waist to block my lower body, and turned away with a embarrassed face.

  "Alright, you can turn around now." I said to Zhou Huan who was still turning his head away.

  Zhou Huan turned around and looked at me, then 'heh' burst out laughing, and said: "You, why do you always have trouble with clothes, every time it ends up like this."

  I also don't know what to say, so I just awkwardly smiled there.

  "Oh no, your arm is injured."

  As soon as she said that, I lowered my head and found that the right arm was cut open with a slit at some point, probably accidentally cutting into the giant insect's antennae, which is now bleeding non-stop.

  I raised my arm to take a look, and with a flick of my hand, the blood splattered onto the sunflower-shaped lamp holder, amazingly extinguishing the flame.

  Zhou Huan had just walked over and grabbed my hand when I felt the ground beneath my feet start to shake. Before I could even react, a one-meter square area beside the lamp post next to our feet suddenly dropped straight down.

  Two people didn't have time to jump away and also fell down, I estimate that after falling about 7 or 8 meters, they stopped. I think these sunflower lights were originally underground, maybe we touched something and they rose up.

  After feeling that the ground had completely stopped, I raised my head to look and found that there was a faint firelight shining in, accompanied by some noise and screams. It seems that the battle between Floral Shirt and others has not ended yet.

  "Never mind about that for now, let's bandage the wound first." Zhou Huan also didn't know where she pulled out a piece of cloth from and started to bandage my wound.

  I looked around and found that this vertical space was at most one cubic meter. Now with the two of us plus the lamp itself, it felt especially crowded, even sitting down was a bit difficult.

  After my wound was bandaged, the two of us stood facing each other. I felt a bit awkward and continued to look up at the top, where the faint light still existed, but nothing else could be seen. Slowly, I realized that the sound of fighting from before had also disappeared.

  "What's going on? Are they all dead?" I asked Zhou Huan.

  "She also looked up and listened seriously for a while before saying: 'It's unclear, let's not worry about it for now, at least we're temporarily safe.'"

  I heard her say that, and I didn't bother to think about it anymore. I curled up my legs and sat on the ground, preparing to rest for a while. The fierce battle just now had really exhausted me physically.

  Zhou Huan also sat down with me, and I felt that her body was shaking slightly. Just as I was about to ask her what was wrong, she suddenly shivered all over, "Ah, it's so cold!"

  Because previously it was either fleeing for life or fighting for life, exercising made me neglect the temperature issue. Now that I'm sitting on the ground resting, and considering I'm almost naked, I suddenly feel extremely cold, my teeth are starting to chatter slowly.

  Zhou Huan looked at me, sighed and leaned against me, hugging me. The warmth of her body immediately transmitted to me, and I instinctively hugged her back to warm each other up.

  I had physical contact with Zhou Huan before, but this time it felt very different. I found that I didn't have any improper thoughts at all, maybe I was just too tired. I closed my eyes and fell asleep in a daze.

  I don't know how long it's been since I was frozen awake, and saw Zhou Huan sleeping peacefully in my arms.

  I found that this woman sleeps like ordinary girls, with a lazy expression on her face. I think if she weren't a tomb raider, many men would be chasing after her.

  I shifted my gaze and looked up again, but there was still no movement above, nor did I know if Zhang Zhuang and the flower shirt were dead or had found an exit. We now seemed to be completely abandoned, and this couldn't go on like this - we would either starve to death or freeze to death.

  My butt had been sitting for a long time and was a bit sore, so I moved it lightly. Unexpectedly, Zhou Huan slept very lightly and woke up. She didn't let go of my hand and asked softly, "Why did you wake up? Can't you rest some more?"

  "It's too cold here, shouldn't we think of a way to go up?"

  "We don't know what's going on up there, we can't take any risks, nothing will happen, let's wait a little longer and see."

  Zhou Huan finished speaking, closed her eyes and fell asleep again. I felt that her tone was very strange, as if she didn't care about our situation at all, or maybe this woman just didn't have a conscience.