Chapter 1212: Underground Predicament

Ding—ding—ding...

The spotlight shone above the stage, and a figure draped in a bright red opera robe opened his eyes under the gaze of everyone.

"Is it finally time to use it..."

Chen Ling did not hesitate, his finger tapping lightly on the screen.

A familiar table appeared out of thin air behind him.

"Congratulations on completing the play, 'Fate Rhapsody'."

"Maximum audience expectation for this play: 91%"

"You have obtained one designated draw."

"After using it, you can designate a character from all the characters who appeared in this play and randomly draw their abilities. The probability of drawing a rare skill is related to the overall audience expectation of this play."

After escaping from the Wuji Domain, Chen Ling hadn't used the draw for his new play. According to his thinking, the expectation value accumulated this time was very high, and if he confirmed the target for the draw, there was a high probability of drawing a very high-level skill... The key trump card was to be saved for the critical moment.

And now, this was the "critical moment" to use this trump card.

Chen Ling picked up a pen and wrote a name on the paper, stroke by stroke:

——Lu Xun.

……

Underground shelter.

Rumble—

Continuous roars came from above the shelter, and fine sand and stones kept falling on everyone. The earth seemed to be shaken by some existence, and terrified cries rose one after another.

"What happened?" Chu Changqing asked with a frown.

"I don't know, but this doesn't sound like the movement of a nuclear strike." Su Zhiwei hesitated for a moment before saying, "Instead, it feels like... some kind of living thing is shaking the earth?"

"A living thing? What living thing could be this big?"

Chu Changqing had studied biology for so many years and had never heard of any species on Earth that could shake a shelter through such thick soil; even dinosaurs from the ancient era couldn't do it.

Just then, Lu Xun's grave voice sounded in their ears:

"Something has broken through my starlight and is approaching here."

The two were stunned.

The next second, an entrance in the corner of the shelter suddenly exploded!

Amidst the screams of the surrounding crowd, a root that looked like a flesh-and-blood snake slowly emerged from the soil and rubble. It seemed to have self-awareness, and the tiny tentacles at its end looked around in the air, as if puzzled by something.

It was called a root, but it was thicker than three adult thighs tied together, and the wriggling flesh on its surface was constantly breathing. No matter how you looked at it, it didn't look like a species on Earth, making one's soul fly away in terror at a single glance!

Sharp, explosive sounds rang out one after another. Everyone in that area fled backward like crazy. The already narrow space became crowded instantly, and those in the back were completely pushed along, the scene descending into chaos.

Facing the dense flesh-and-blood nutrients in front of it, the root trembled with ecstasy and then rushed rapidly toward a girl on crutches closest to it!

The girl was leaning on crutches, and her movement was already inconvenient. Coupled with the crowded crowd, she became the primary target... However, the next moment, shouts rang out from the side!

"Xiaoyu!!"

"Sister Yu!! Be careful!!"

Brother Pao rushed out of the crowd without hesitation and hugged Xiaoyu, whose face was pale, in his arms.

The other brothers also gritted their teeth and drilled out of the crowd, wanting to help but also afraid. A group of people could only huddle together, clumsily setting up fighting stances to face the eerie flesh-and-blood root together.

Seeing more nutrients gathered, the root was even more ecstatic. It swooped out like lightning and rushed toward Brother Pao at the front!

Brother Pao was scared, but he gritted his teeth and threw a punch with all his might...

Bang—!!

The flesh-and-blood root exploded in the air.

Wriggling, incomplete pieces of flesh fell all over the ground, and an inexplicable stench filled the air... Brother Pao kept his eyes closed tightly. After a long while, he opened them tremblingly and saw the scene in front of him, freezing in place for a moment.

He saw a woman in a white practice suit who had appeared in front of him at some point, a fist suspended in mid-air. She was the culprit who had just blasted the root apart... Although she was so close to the exploded flesh-and-blood root, there wasn't a trace of blood on her body; her white clothes were spotless.

"Are you okay?" Su Zhiwei looked back at the crowd.

"I... I'm fine." Brother Pao stared blankly at the woman who had shattered the monster with one punch, as if in a dream. "Who are you..."

Just as Su Zhiwei was about to say something, rustling sounds came from the wall on the other side.

Boom boom boom—

Amidst the screams, more and more roots emerged from the soil. They were like ferocious beasts that had been hungry for days, pouncing greedily toward the crowd!

Su Zhiwei snorted coldly, her figure like a white lightning bolt, whistling toward those roots!

"What are these things???"

When Chu Changqing saw these calamities, he immediately thought of the mysterious monsters they encountered in Shennongjia. After so long, those species he had never seen before still left a deep impression on him... But the monsters in front of him were clearly more ferocious and eerie than the last ones.

Lu Xun stared intently at the starlight above his head, beads of sweat sliding down his cheeks...

"My mental power is not enough... I can't hold on for much longer." Lu Xun said hoarsely. "They are about to rush in."

"What are they??"

"Shouldn't we be asking you that? You are the expert in cell biology."

"I..." Chu Changqing felt ashamed. He hesitated and wanted to say something else, but Su Zhiwei's shout came from the side:

"Chu Changqing! What are you standing there for? Come and help!!"

As Lu Xun's mental power was consumed rapidly, more and more calamities entered the shelter. No matter how good Su Zhiwei was at fighting, she couldn't handle so many roots on her own. Now Lu Xun was using starlight to protect the shelter, and Yang Xiao was unconscious; the only one who could help her share the burden was Chu Changqing.

"But I..."

The figures of those brutal spiders flashed through Chu Changqing's mind. The scene of them torturing and killing two college students last time still made Chu Changqing tremble.

"Chu Changqing, I can't hold on much longer." Lu Xun was under great pressure, but he still tried to keep his tone calm. "Only you can stand up now... I believe you can do it."

Chu Changqing looked at Lu Xun, who was struggling, and then at Su Zhiwei, who was surrounded by roots, and gritted his teeth hard!

"I'll try... I'll try!"

He scanned his surroundings, as if looking for usable material, but there were only humans in the shelter, and he couldn't even find an ant in a short time... He didn't dare to conduct human experiments; as he was now, he couldn't control his abilities at all.

Chu Changqing was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan. Just then, half of the root corpse that had been blasted apart by Su Zhiwei appeared before his eyes.