Chapter 343: Deeper Underground Kingdom


    Trantor: EndlessFantasy Trantion Editor: EndlessFantasy Trantion


    Deep underground, in just a matter of minutes, several people already had white hairs growing out of their skulls.


    Waiting for death at a dead end, this was the real despair. This kind of waiting was the worse, it was worse than death itself. Every second was like spending it in hell.


    Thankfully, Guang Zhen still managed to maintain his cool. He ordered the ck Star Troopers to set up a perimeter and ordered the Noah One’s soldiers tofort the public. However, there appeared to be a partingyer within Guang Zhen and his army. Even though they still followed his orders. their actions and expressions showed their reluctance.


    "You abandoned those demonizing civilians, pooling these forces together in resentment against you," Xiao Niao whispered to Guang Zhen.


    Guang Zhen nodded and shrugged it off because he was only doing the right thing. Whether it was beneficial or not, he would allow time to prove himself. No matter what, there was nothing bothering him on his conscience, or else he would not have made that decision.


    "Stop chitchatting. You are a Thinker, solve this problem facing us," Guang Zhen told Xiao Niao directly.


    Xiao Niao shrugged helplessly. "It’s not that I don’t want to, but there is no solution. You think I don’t want to live? But the fact is, there is no solution. Enless we receive external aid, we are definitely trapped in here."


    "That is what I’m afraid of," Guang Zhen said openly when Xiao Niao finished. "If even youe to that conclusion, then Ren Tao and Yao Yuan will do the same. I don’t want toment too much on Ren Tao, but you also know how he is. Huring critical times, other than his sister, everyone else is disposable... I am worried about Yao Yuan. He will definitelye save us, and he will do that personally. In that case, if anything were to happen to him... The Hope and humanity would be done for!"


    Xiao Niao was silent, but he was thinking about something else. In his memories, there appeared to be no situation where both Yao Yuan and Guang Zhen were absent from the Hope. The only time that happened was when they were on that life-preserving when the zerg attacked. However, that was, in a way, humanity’sst stand. After all, the prize was humanity’s final dream, to have a where they could live in peace and breathe its open air. Under those circumstances, it was the first and only time that both Yao Yuan and Guang Zhen were out of the Hope at the same time. Now that he thought about it... Yao Yuan was indeed extremely careful.


    "No matter what, the only thing we can do now is wait," Xiao Niaomented with another shrug.


    Guang Zhen then stood there quietly...


    This silent tormentsted for several minutes until a static cleared from themunicator. Everyone was first stunned before they broke out in celebration. They all pooled around themunicator, waiting for the message.


    "Hello, can the people down there hear me? This is Yao Yuan. I order the unit underground to continue moving deeper underground. Stay far away from the metalyer. We will use heavy artillery to blow open this metalyer. I repeat, this is Yao Yuan..."


    The message was still breaking in ces and was interspersed with static, but at least they had heard hopeing from the outside, and the most exciting part was that it came directly from Yao Yuan!


    As aforementioned, Yao Yuan’s influence in the Hope was immeasurably huge because he had saved the Hope from the brink of extinction multiple times. He had also led the ck Star Troopers toplete many unimaginably hard missions. In other words, if it were not banned by Yao Yuan himself, there might’ve been a religion on the Hope which prayed to him. He was called "savior" by many on the Hope, "the man of miracles" and the like. In the ck Star Troopers, many had these beliefs, especially those who were "summoned" by Yao Yuan.


    Therefore, when Yao Yuan’s voice appeared through the mist of static, almost everyone’s spirits were soaring. There was no longer any hesitation as they waited for Guang Zhen to order them to go deeper underground.


    Guang Zhen kept yelling at themunicator, but no matter how hard he did so, the messageing through it was the same and the message was disappearing before it became all static.


    Then everyone turned to focus on Guang Zhen, waiting for him to arrange the next step. After a short contemtion, Guang Zhen ordered, "Zhang Heng will still lead the way and my unit will close up the rear. Xiao Niao will be in the middle, and that is how the formation will be. Let’s move out! We need to get deeper underground with the highest speed!"


    The unit started to move with chaos, but it was quickly suppressed. The remaining 3,000 plus people had already gotten their senses dulled. They were now following the ck Star Troopers like sheep. Nobody cared what lied ahead, because there was only despair in their hearts...


    Time passed as they trudged deeper underground. However, the deeper they got, the more anxious they became. From Zhang Heng’s danger sense, they could tell that even though the danger from aboveground had diminished, it was not enough to a level where it was no longer life-threatening. At the same time, the deeper they trekked, the stronger the sense of danger that came from deep underground. Zhang Heng could not pinpoint the origin of the danger, but it was asrge as the danger aboveground.


    The conundrum once again fell on Guang Zhen’s shoulders. Should they push forward or stop there and wait for theyer above them to open?


    "We... will continue going down!" Guang Zhen lifted his head to observe the rockyer above him. The metalyer could no longer be seen, but ording to the pration of Gaussian weapons, where they were standing was still fatal. Therefore, between the choice ofbat with the demons or death through friendly fire, Guang Zhen chose the former. He assumed that the danger from underground came from the demon monsters...


    "We will follow Zhang Heng’s instincts. He is the Hope’s, no, humanity’s, strongest Diviner. We will follow his instincts and choose the option that is the safest!"


    At the same time, the few Space Combat Jet Prototype 011s werebining. Yes, all three jets had opened their electromaic fusion parts to fuse together. The three jets formed arge Gaussian weapon. This was the true face of Space Combat Jet Prototype 011, this was the strongest weapon the jets could carry!


    "Ol’ Wong... Everyone, you have to survive!"


    Yao Yuan looked at the silvery-white metal surface and prayed internally. Then he yelled, "Using the coordinates as target, fire at will! We have to create an opening that is at least one kilometer wide!"


    "Fire!"


    Following Yao Yuan’smand, the fused 20 plus jets had their weapons roaring at the same time. The moment the Gaussian weapons started firing, the surface started king withrge metallic pieces. The power of the Gaussian weapons was on full disy, but to everyone’s consternation, even though the metalyer was riddled with weapon damages, it was recovering with a speed that was observable to the naked eye. When theyer was about to fully recover, Yao Yuan’s red colorbat jet flew down to the surface. Its body was almost touching the ground. For some unknown reason, the seemingly living metallic surface stopped moving, the opening remained open, the ground became ground again, and even the metal pieces that were blown back reverted to rocks.


    "Continue attacking! Do not stop! Let us blow a big hole in the ground to give our heroes a grand return!" Yao Yuan howled as he controlled hisbat jet to continue attacking the surface...


    At the same time, in space, Bo Li sat in the captain’s chair. Before her and the rest of the workers, arge screen was disying everything that was happening on the cursed. With Yao Yuan as the center, more than a thousand kilometers from Yao Yuan, all the signs of demonization were receding. This was a weing observation.


    However, ten secondster, everyone’s faces changed again because another giant w came out of the that had be flesh. The two ws scratched at the’s surface like it was trying to pull itself out. The fleshy surface was hard as rubber, so no matter how ferocious these two ws were, they kept them attached to the, but it was public knowledge that it was only a matter of time before the owner of the two ws would escape the shackles of the...


    Back underground, the unit stopped moving directly forward but turned corners following Zhang Heng’s instinct. During the moving process, the earth started vibrating and there were cracks on the rockyers above them. Thankfully, the cracks were not serious enough to cause cave ins. Even though there were already recorded injuries, if the metalyer waspletely punctured, it would be more than injuries, they would be buried alive...


    Just as everyone was in the throes of panic and Guang Zhen wanted to increase the pace of the group to avoid the possible cave in, they turned arge corner. What unveiled before their eyes...


    Was arge, metallic underground city. The buildings had crumbled in ces, but one could still see the general shape and size of arge underground metropolis...


    An alien underground metropolis!