Serial Player
Chapter 765 - 430: The Suffering That Should Not Exist (4K)

Chapter 765: Chapter 430: The Suffering That Should Not Exist (4K)

The sound from the outside world had difficulty reaching dozens of meters into the deep underground pit.

Hence, after entering the pit, everything around them quieted down. There was only the sound of the team’s footsteps, and the occasional faint noise that lingered from deep within the pit.

These were probably roaming Terror Devils.

After each member of Li Changhe’s team swallowed an oxygen capsule, they continued to delve deeper.

Shui Yue, leading the way, was surrounded by small bright orbs of light.

They were illuminating the path ahead.

The underground space was a maze of tunnels. The original, solid stratum had been turned into a vast labyrinth by the Abyssal Worm.

Each tunnel was at least thirty meters wide and crisscrossed with one another. Even those with high energy found it hard to penetrate the thick rock walls to sense the route.

The five members of the squad felt as small as ants entering a human room.

After all, the Abyssal Worm was simply too big.

In some worlds, the underground spaces it excavated were large enough for entire civilisations to thrive.

Li Changhe noticed giant scratch marks on the tunnel walls and activated his Hawk Eye Magic Eye to track them.

He discovered that the entire pit was marked with traces. The light from these marks almost blinded Li Changhe’s Magic Eye.

"Well, the trace tracking is useless." Li Changhe voiced out. In the past, trace tracking was helpful in pursuing targets. It had been very useful in chase battles and tracking.

But this time, it had no effect at all. The entire tunnel bore the traces of the Abyssal Worm.

"Don’t bother, all these holes were made by the Abyssal Worm. Tracking it by its traces is unrealistic. It has lingered in every tunnel and even wandered back and forth many times. Your trace tracking will instead mislead you." Seeing Li Changhe studying the traces, Chen Yu explained, "The last batch of players also had similar abilities, but they couldn’t find the Abyssal Worm. This says it all."

"So, we can only rely on brute force to move forward." The girl said, "Our task is to explore the route that the last killing team failed to fully explore. Find it and kill it."

"This likely will take a long time," Li Changhe glanced at the simple map in Chen Yu’s hand.

It was the route taken by the previous batch of players. At least it could be confirmed that the Abyssal Worm would certainly not be found on these routes.

Li Changhe and his team were searching for places they had not marked. But who knew how big this underground space was?

"Well then, let’s not hesitate and keep moving forward," Shui Yue continued to lead the way and said, "Staying here too long is unsafe. If we encounter some troublesome Terror Devils, it will be very dangerous. You are indeed tough, but in case of being besieged, you will not have time to recover freely."

Indeed, there were Terror Devils roaming in the pit, presumably aroused by the previous bombing. Some rational Terror Devils had therefore hidden in the pit.

Even for Li Changhe, his limit for high output was only when the Jiuli state was activated in the Hundred-Head Shooter. If enemies kept coming in incessantly, he could potentially be exhausted to death.

To search the pit for an extended time, they needed to retain sufficient fighting power at all times.

Luckily, with the official team as the logistics support, they didn’t need to worry about medications and food.

They just had to be mindful of the distribution of power.

Unless it was absolutely necessary, they should not apply all their power.

In fact, once the squad entered, they had already drawn the attention of some Terror Devils, but the enemies were cautious and did not approach.

Li Changhe and his team did not waste their time hunting them down, but instead continued to investigate the pit.

"After all is said and done, we need to kill the Terror Devils as soon as possible. As their survival time increases, their rationality starts to recover. Likely, the smart ones have already started to unite. This is not good news for humans." Chen Yu glanced at the darkness in the distance and said, then closed his eyes to sense the signal markers left by the previous group of players. He then pointed to the right side of a tunnel fork.

The team continued to move forward.

As a result, they soon came upon another forked path, one going straight and the other slanting downwards.

"There is their mark here also, but they chose to go straight last time. So, we will go down." Chen Yu threw a luminous orb down the downward sloping passage. The orb floated down like a dandelion seed, illuminating the tunnel as it drifted further away.

"There’s at least a hundred meters depth in there." Li Changhe used his Hawk Eye Magic Eye to calculate the position of the luminous orb and said, "Do you think the Abyssal Worm will dig outside the range of the disaster fog?"

"Even if it digs out a few thousand meters, it has to remain within the disaster fog. They won’t leave the disaster fog until they kill all the humans within it. And what we need to do is prevent this situation." Shui Yue replied, taking the lead down the tunnel.

However, Li Changhe hesitated for a moment when descending. He turned back and looked behind him.

The girl next to him noticed this and whispered, "What’s wrong?"

"I’m not sure, I just suddenly felt something unpleasant. But now there’s no reaction." Li Changhe furrowed his eyebrows and responded after a moment.

"Could it be your Terror Devil?" Chen Yu asked, "So, what are you afraid of? Hailing Mountain? Or... Blood River?"

"Damn, Li Ba, what kind of enemies have you encountered?" The Ghost Face player exclaimed. He knew about Hailing Mountain since it had stayed on the leader board for a long time. Had Li Ba had a showdown with him?

Li Changhe ignored him and was thinking about his own Terror Devil in his heart.

After thinking for a while, he didn’t get many answers.

Among the enemies he had battled, regardless of their strength, none were scary enough to frighten him.