Chapter 110: The Hill

At this very moment, Lin Xian began to feel that his decision to venture down had been a bit impulsive.

A monster that could cause earthquakes… he didn’t even dare to imagine what kind of thing was at the bottom of this underground city.

Swoosh~

Lin Xian shook off the remaining sand and dirt from his body, feeling his heart sink.

But since he was already here, he could only brace himself and move forward.

“Let’s go.”

“Wow, Lin Xian, if an earthquake collapses this place, we’ll be buried here,” KIKI said as she walked.

“Sounds a little more dignified than being bitten to death by zombies and black insects.”

“Huh, you’re not scared?”

“What’s the use of being scared?” Lin Xian shone his flashlight and walked quickly along the maintenance passage, his tone urgent. “Since we’re already here, we have to gain something.”

“Sigh, if I die here, I’ll be buried with you,” KIKI muttered.

“If you’re willing, you can find that handsome red guy from just now. He knows how to say hello, very polite.”

Lin Xian felt this girl’s train of thought was amazing, still able to joke at a time of life and death.

“Pah! I don’t want to!”

She took two quick steps and pulled on the corner of Lin Xian’s clothes. “Then I’d rather be buried with you. At least I won’t be a lonely ghost.”

In the long, downward, empty tunnel, the two of them panted and spoke in low voices, their sounds echoing continuously in the passage.

Lin Xian’s flashlight kept shining forward, observing. Suddenly, he seemed to have discovered something and stopped abruptly.

KIKI, behind him, couldn’t stop in time and bumped right into Lin Xian’s back with a yelp.

“Why did you suddenly stop!”

KIKI rubbed her nose, but saw Lin Xian shining his flashlight towards the top of the passage ahead. There, on the wall, was a brownish-red object, the size of a washbasin and irregular in shape, like some kind of biological tissue.

“Is that… meat?” KIKI’s brow furrowed deeply, her face growing uglier the more she looked. “Hey, there’s more ahead!”

She exclaimed in surprise. Lin Xian shone his flashlight over and indeed found more flesh-like tissue ahead. These things were like tumors growing on the wall, making one feel physiologically uncomfortable.

Lin Xian’s expression turned grim. He picked up a stone from the ground and threw it at the nearest piece of flesh.

Thwack~

The stone bounced off. There was no movement, and the stone was not corroded.

So Lin Xian walked forward and pressed on the flesh.

“What the hell is this? Did a meat Tai Sui grow in the ground?”

“Lin Xian, something’s really wrong here…”

Lin Xian’s expression tightened, and he continued to walk forward.

And as they went further down, the flesh tissue in the tunnel became more and more numerous and dense, and larger pieces of tissue began to appear.

“Lin Xian, don’t you think it feels like we’ve entered the stomach of some monster?”

“I have that feeling too.” Lin Xian wasn’t joking; he really did have that feeling.

The flesh tissue ahead gradually increased. Just as the two were curiously examining it, KIKI, who was behind him, suddenly pulled him back.

“Lin Xian, be careful!”

Whoosh!

A cold wind blew in their faces. Only then did Lin Xian come to his senses. The light from his flashlight seemed to be swallowed by something ahead. When he looked closely, he found that the tunnel and the right wall ahead had completely disappeared, revealing several huge empty holes, and the tunnel… had broken off here.

“Oh my god!”

KIKI exclaimed in surprise. She took a step forward and found that they were standing on the edge of a cliff. The entire right wall was exposed. A ray of moonlight fell from the sky. Looking up, they could actually see the huge square entrance of the underground city above, presenting a regular outline of a human architectural creation in the night.

It turned out that the spiral tunnel descended along the inner wall of the underground city’s pit. At this time, the two were already below the 90th level. Looking up, the sinkhole above was like the mouth of a well.

And this broken area seemed to have collapsed entirely. Dense, brownish-red flesh tissue spread down along the collapse, and below the underground city, the excavated earth pit had formed a huge hill.

Now that they were closer, Lin Xian actually had the illusion that the large patch of flesh before him was slowly breathing.

“This thing grew from below.”

Lin Xian and KIKI both came to the edge of the broken track, their gazes looking down into the deep pit below.

“Lin Xian, look, is there something there?” KIKI’s voice was filled with doubt.

Lin Xian shone his flashlight out, but it was completely swallowed by the night and the blizzard. He couldn’t see anything, only the flesh tissue under his feet spreading downwards like a waterfall.

“Where?”

“There!”

KIKI pointed towards the hill in the center of the underground city pit.

Lin Xian focused his flashlight but found that it still couldn’t reach the bottom.

“I don’t see anything.”

“Where are you talking about?”

“Huh?”

As Lin Xian spoke, he found that KIKI hadn’t responded to him. He turned to look and saw KIKI standing frozen in place, slowly taking off her gas mask. In the moonlight, Lin Xian could even see the terrified expression she was showing him.

KIKI raised her finger, slowly pointing towards the center, and then with her other hand,

Turned off the flashlight in Lin Xian’s hand.

Click.

The flashlight’s light went out, and the surrounding darkness, on the contrary, became clearer because of the moonlight.

Lin Xian followed KIKI’s finger and looked. It was pitch black. He focused his gaze and raised his line of sight.

Suddenly, his pupils also shrank violently.

It turned out that KIKI wasn’t pointing to a specific direction for him; she was pointing at the huge hill in the darkness.

When he looked at the entire dark area as a whole, he was shocked to find that the hill actually had the outline of some kind of creature.

It was like…

A giant fish covered in arms!!!

Hiss!

Lin Xian immediately sucked in a breath of cold air. He looked at the huge outline, his eyes filled with disbelief. The massive scale in the darkness was at least a thousand meters across.

Looking over, he seemed to see a mountain-like body, with countless flesh and blood spreading and growing from the center to the surrounding city walls of the underground city!

At this moment, a thought arose in both Lin Xian and KIKI’s minds almost simultaneously.

This is a living thing!

If there were no accidents, this huge creature hidden in the darkness of the underground city pit was the source of the earthquake just now!

“Heavens…!”

KIKI tightly covered her small mouth, not even daring to make a loud sound at this moment, for fear of disturbing the huge existence in the darkness.

“Lin Xian… is this… the subterranean creature they were talking about?”

“Perhaps… it is.”

Lin Xian’s expression was horrified, his eyes filled with disbelief.

“Did this thing come out of the ground…”

The reason he was so horrified was that since the apocalypse, it seemed to be a consensus among humans that as long as they hid underground, they could gain more safety.

But at this moment, the dark existence in the pit of Underground City No. 9 appeared before Lin Xian and KIKI in an almost suffocating way.

370,000 people died overnight, and the sturdy underground city, built at a cost of trillions, had also fallen directly.

In front of these strange creatures from the darkness.

Humans were like ants