Chapter 983: The Probability of Being Killed by a Manhole Cover...

Boom—!!!

The deafening roar spread through the narrow waterway, and the rolling air waves swept across every branch, startling Fang Liangye, who was still closing his eyes to rest, into jumping up!

"What's going on??"

Dust fell from overhead. Fang Liangye immediately got up and ran toward the passage beside him.

He had only run halfway when a purple-clad figure ran toward him. Seeing Fang Liangye, she grabbed his wrist and sprinted in the opposite direction.

"Run!"

"Miss Wu, what happened??"

"This stronghold was discovered by the Silver Government. They blew up all the passages back to the surface and are surrounding us here!" Wu Duo's face was full of anxiety. "Follow me closely! Don't let them catch you again!"

Wu Duo raised her hand, and poisonous insects crawled out of her sleeves, scattering on the ground and spreading in all directions along the dark passage.

Fang Liangye finally came to his senses, his brain running at high speed.

"What about the others?"

"Old Li ran into a Thief Saint. To cover our retreat, he has already..." Wu Duo's eyes were red. "The others should be heading toward the 'Gate'; we'll meet them in a moment."

"Gate?"

"It's an escape route not recorded on the maps. These Fire-Tampers shouldn't know about it."

Boom—!!

A violent roar came again. This time, the explosion was closer to the two of them, and the air wave nearly knocked Fang Liangye to the ground.

"No... how could this be?" Wu Duo sensed the news sent back by the poisonous insects, her face somewhat pale. "There are enemies in all directions... They've blocked every road!"

"You just said someone ran into a Thief Saint." Fang Liangye's tone was not panicked, analyzing calmly.

"According to normal encirclement logic, they should let their subordinates shrink the encirclement first, force the enemy into one place, and then have high-level combatants take action to catch everyone in one net."

"But this time, the Thief Saint appeared from the beginning... Either they don't understand encirclement tactics at all, or they have more than one Thief Saint... and besides the Thief Saint, there is a master who can absolutely anchor the situation."

"It seems the Silver Government is determined to solve you this time."

"Besides the Thief Saint, there's someone even more powerful?"

Wu Duo's heart was dead.

Just as the two were talking, the poisonous insect closest to Wu Duo suddenly lost its life. She shuddered and whipped her head around to look behind her...

At the end of the dim passage, a woman wearing a blue beret was approaching unhurriedly.

Lan Yu herself was a Thief Saint, so she naturally didn't need to team up with other Fire-Tampers. After the encirclement began, she had been searching for her prey... Now, she had finally found her target.

"Only two people?" Lan Yu's gaze swept over them, seemingly somewhat disappointed.

A Third-Order girl and an ordinary person without a Divine Path made the interest Lan Yu had just raised disappear directly.

As long as she wanted, killing these two guys would be as simple as pinching two ants to death...

"I said it before, we didn't need so many people this time... That guy Chi Tong just wouldn't listen." Lan Yu snorted coldly and was about to strike when weak electric currents flashed above the passage and shattered!

Dulan, wearing a mysterious black robe, landed steadily between Lan Yu and Fang Liangye's group, electric light still游走 on the alchemy arrays in his palms.

"Dulan?!" Seeing that figure, a glimmer of hope reignited in Wu Duo's eyes.

"You guys run." Dulan looked at Lan Yu in front of him and said in a deep voice, "...I'll cover your retreat."

Seeing this, Wu Duo looked deeply at Dulan's back, gritted her teeth, pulled Fang Liangye, and turned to run to the other side of the passage...

Lan Yu looked leisurely at the direction they left and chuckled:

"Do you think they can run?"

Dulan didn't answer. He just coldly placed his palm on the wall beside him, and an alchemy array slowly lit up in the darkness, the pressure of a Seventh-Order emanating from it.

"Seventh-Order Alchemy... I see, you're the [Alchemy] genius who escaped from the Wuji Lord back then." Lan Yu seemed to remember something. "You're the leader of the Rat Party?"

"Yes."

"...Pity, you're too weak. The leader is only Seventh-Order; no wonder you only deserve to stay in the sewer..."

Lan Yu beckoned to Dulan lazily. "Come on, let me see how much skill you, this Rat Party leader, really have."

A flash of cold light crossed Dulan's eyes.

The next moment, a violent explosion swallowed the darkness, wrapping them both inside!

……

Bang—!!

On the street, a manhole cover suddenly exploded,

Followed by the second, the third... More than a dozen manhole covers on the entire street were blasted into the sky one after another. Surging fire poured out from underground, and the manhole covers were ejected dozens of meters into the air like cannonballs, then fell back to the earth!

Exclamations came from the street. Pedestrians were stunned by this scene and immediately rushed into the buildings on the side of the street to avoid being smashed to death by the falling manhole covers, but several cars parked on the side of the road were smashed directly.

Exclamations and the sound of shattering glass rang out one after another. After one of the manhole covers was blasted into the sky, it spun for a moment and fell toward a restaurant on the side of the road...

At this moment.

A figure wearing an apron was rubbing a plate with a bitter face, slow and leisurely.

"Damn Square and Plum Blossom, when they encounter things, they run faster than anyone... It's been so long, really no one is bringing money to redeem me??"

Jian Changsheng let out a long sigh. Perhaps because of the resentment gathered in his heart, his hands rubbing the plate became more forceful.

Just as he carefully confirmed that the plate was clean and was about to put it aside, a loud noise suddenly came from overhead!

Bang—!

The ceiling of the restaurant was smashed by something. A black object was stuck in the crack, only a fraction of an inch away from hitting Jian Changsheng on the head. Dust and stones fell onto Jian Changsheng's shoulder.

Jian Changsheng looked up in a daze, seeing a manhole cover that had nearly blown his head off. He let out a "Holy crap!" and let out a sharp explosion!

"What the hell?！！！!"

Jian Changsheng retreated a few steps violently, his back already soaked with cold sweat. He clutched the scabbard pendant on his neck tightly, as if it were his last straw...

The probability of being killed by a manhole cover is very small, but not zero.

If it weren't for the influence of the scabbard's luck, maybe he would have really suffered just now... Although he had the [Blood Garment] to protect his body, he wouldn't have died on the spot, but it would have been enough to give him a hard time.

Jian Changsheng hurriedly took off his apron and rushed out of the kitchen, only to see plumes of black smoke rising from the sewer entrance on the street.