A skyscraper alone could accommodate thousands of people living and working at the same time. If it collapsed, the consequences would be dire.
Besides, there were plenty of skyscrapers in the financial district. If the skyscraper collapsed, it might crash into other skyscrapers and cause a chain reaction. No one could calculate just how many innocent people would die.
Fortunately, before the enemy completely eroded the foundation of the skyscraper, the vigilant superhumans noticed it.
Since they reinforced the building in time and evacuated the citizens, the attack did not cause any casualties.
But after wasting a lot of time, the ambushers fled through the complicated underground tunnels.
Three days later, they were not so lucky in the next attack.
It was rush hour at that time.
A subway carrying nearly one thousand passengers was moving at lightning speed on the busiest subway in Dragon City's underground, Train No.5.
Suddenly, the tunnel ahead of them collapsed. The subway was caught off guard and crashed into it. The front of the train was completely destroyed, and a few of the carriages left the tracks. Many of the passengers were either squashed into pancakes or flung out of the windows due to inertia. They fell in the collapsed tunnel, and their bones were broken. Blood covered their faces.
But that was not the most terrifying thing.
Just when the survivors were wailing in their blood, a huge creature appeared from the back of the paralyzed subway.
A large creature appeared from the back of the paralyzed train. It opened its mouth and bit down on half of the train to devour the passengers in a frenzy. Then, before the superhumans arrived, it crawled into the mysterious underground cave and disappeared into the countless dark forks.
This attack caused more than one hundred citizens to die, and dozens of them went missing.
The "missing" basically meant that they died in the mouths of fierce beasts.
Based on the surveillance cameras in the subway tunnel and the panicked pictures the citizens took, the person was Gao Ye, who had disappeared for half a year.
After lurking for half a year, he had become even larger. His body was covered in dense spikes, and his mouth was filled with more than ten rows of teeth that were as hard as steel.
Based on the speed at which he tore apart the carriages, his bite strength and crushing ability were rather shocking. It far surpassed that of a large shield tunneling machine of the same size.
The biologists also discovered a unique acid in the cave he dug out. It could instantly turn sturdy stones full of holes and make them brittle.
The adhesive liquid that seemed to have gushed out of his excretory holes was like a powerful adhesive. It could bind the loose soil he dug together and turn it into something as sturdy as concrete.
It was hard to imagine that he could evolve and gain such an unbelievable ability in the wild.
The experts from the abnormal beast research department suspected that he had been modified further by the abnormal beasts over the past half a year.
Meng Chao also felt that Gao Ye was becoming more and more similar to the Supernatural Entity from his previous life.
Of course, due to his interference, Gao Ye had yet to reach the level of the Nine Great Fey Gods in their complete form.
If it was the Demon God from his previous life, it would probably be able to swallow seven or eight train carriages in one go, right?
Also, the attack that eroded the foundations of the skyscrapers would not end so carelessly. It was really possible that a few skyscrapers would collapse and cause a tragedy like an earthquake.
In truth, Meng Chao could vaguely remember that the Supernatural Entities transformed from Gao Ye in his previous life were known as Earthquake.
It was not too late to stop him.
Gao Ye's case had always been handled by Ye Xiaoxing's Team 9.
Group Nine's elite soldiers formed several hunting squads to track Gao Ye's next attack day and night.
Meng Chao might not be an official investigator of the abnormal beast research department, but he was the last person to see Gao Ye. Besides, he also wanted to solve the Mystery of the Supernatural Entities, so whenever he was free, he would join the hunting squad to search for clues about Gao Ye.
They tracked him for a total of ten days.
Even though they did not manage to capture Gao Ye, they managed to stop him from causing even more damage.
There were a few times when they were nearly able to catch his tail in downtown areas or near facilities, but he used his powerful tunneling abilities to break out of the encirclement.
But as time went by, the hunting squad figured out his pattern of action. Also, from the degree of dilution of his acid and mucus, they concluded that he was also exhausted and on the verge of collapse. The competition of willpower and wisdom seemed to be coming to an end very soon.
It was the eleventh day.
There was a large abandoned pipe to the south of Dragon City.
Dragon City was a three-dimensional city that could accommodate tens of millions of people.
Before they transmigrated, there were air-raid shelters, shelters, and tunnels that were connected to all sorts of secret facilities underground.
After half a century of continuous construction, destruction, abandonment, construction, destruction, and abandonment, the underground was filled with holes that were as dense as a hornet's nest. Even the person-in-charge and engineers of the city's construction department might not be able to tell just how many abandoned pipes and how many collapsed shelters there were under Dragon City.
Gao Ye might have great tunneling abilities, but he used up a lot of stamina.
He also secreted acid and adhesive liquid over his body. If he did not get food and crystals to replenish his energy for a long period of time, he would not be able to last for long.
If it was possible, Gao Ye would try his best to use the abandoned pipes under Dragon City to play hide-and-seek with the hunters.
It was even more so after ten days of fleeing for his life.
And when he dragged his huge body through the abandoned pipes, he would definitely leave behind some clues.
Meng Chao woke up from his ten minutes of deep meditation. The fatigue from chasing after Lu Siya for eight hours was gone. He opened his eyes slowly and noticed that Lu Siya was still sitting with her butt in the air. She had her ear pressed against the wall of the underground pipe to listen to the sounds coming from underground.
After the large-scale encirclement over the past few days, Ye Xiaoxing split the hunting squad into the tracking squad and the attack squad.
The tracking squad was formed by two to three investigators who were familiar with the monsters' habits and the underground situation. It would be best if they had harvesting and mine prospecting abilities. They were in charge of monitoring Gao Ye's movements underground.
The attack squad was on standby at the highest point in the ground. Once they received the tracking squad's signal, they had to race against time to rush to the coordinates where Gao Ye might appear.
This setup prevented the members of Group 9 from running for their lives and collapsing before they could catch Gao Ye's tail.
Meng Chao continued working with Lu Siya.
One of them had the skills of a veteran harvester, and the other was a mine explorer and a Spirit Sensor. Over the past ten days, their teamwork had become better, and they had brushed past Gao Ye a few times.
Today, Meng Chao had sensed Gao Ye's spikes scraping the pipe wall in the underground pipe and left behind fine scratches. Then, he followed the faint scent of blood and noticed the body tissues left behind by a few normal sandworms. He could tell that Gao Ye had stopped and eaten here before.
Hence, Lu Siya used her inborn divine ability as a Spirit Sensor. She held her breath and listened to the faintest tremors underground within a circular area of several kilometers.
Meng Chao brought out two high-calorie nutritional fluid tubes from his backpack and drank one. He originally did not want to disturb Lu Siya, but when he saw the great puzzlement on her face, he tossed the other tube to her and asked, "How is it? Did you hear anything?"
"Strange."
Lu Siya did not even look at it. She caught the high-calorie nutritional fluid Meng Chao tossed to her and mumbled, "There's an abnormal movement, but it doesn't seem like the Ultimate Sandworm. It seems like it's something smaller and more numerous …"
It was accompanied by a faint rotting smell coming from the depths of the abandoned pipe.
Meng Chao also sensed danger, and his hair stood on end.
Now, even without the ears of a Spirit Sensor, Meng Chao could hear squeaking coming from the depths of the darkness, as well as the sound of claws scratching against the walls of the tubes.
"Prepare for battle!"
Meng Chao grabbed Lu Siya and brought out a burning rod from the belt on his thigh. Then, he lifted it up and threw it into the depths of the abandoned pipe.
The burning stick made a sizzling sound, and the scarlet light illuminated the depths of the pipe as if it were daytime.
It also illuminated the hundreds and thousands of furry rats with scarlet eyes.
Even if he knew that the depths of the underground tunnel would definitely be filled with snakes, insects, rats, and ants.
The scene in front of them still gave Meng Chao and Lu Siya goosebumps.
The burning sticks they used had all sorts of bone powder from fierce beasts added to them. When they burned, they released a pungent smell. Logically speaking, they had the amazing effect of chasing away snakes, insects, rats, and ants.
The large rats with spikes all over their bodies glared at them with bloodshot eyes and charged at them like a tidal wave.
"What's going on?"
Meng Chao frowned a little, but he did not pay too much attention to the rat horde.
He held his breath and threw a few burning bombs over from behind him. Immediately, they formed a wall of fire in front of him.
Countless rats died in the sea of fire, and even more of them had their fur that was as sharp as arrows. They ran around like fire arrows, but before they could get half a meter away from Meng Chao, they were torn to shreds by the chain sabers he swung like a whirlwind.
Lu Siya levitated in the air and used her vitality magnetic field to resonate with the atomic shell of the rock. She summoned fine spikes and pinned the rats to the ground.
Once more than one hundred corpses were left behind, the rat horde realized just how terrifying Meng Chao and Lu Siya were. They no longer dared to provoke these two "fiends". Like waves running into reefs, they parted around them and fled out of the pipe.
Meng Chao and Lu Siya looked at each other.
Both of them had a bad premonition.
Rat-type monsters were usually not very strong, but since there were a lot of them, they had great reproductive abilities, and they could spread all sorts of diseases, they were often used by abnormal beasts as vanguards to disrupt the order of the human defense line.
Could it be a coincidence that a rat horde had appeared in the place Gao Ye had just fled through?
Meng Chao used his chain sabers to sweep up a rat that did not manage to escape in time.
In just a short ten seconds, he dissected it into a specimen that was practically a work of art.
Meng Chao could see that the rat's myelitis was abnormally light blue. Its brain was swollen, and there were blue spots on it.
"It seems like it's infected with some sort of virus."
Meng Chao dissected another rat whose limbs were pinned by Lu Siya. The symptoms were still the same. He thought about it and said, "Big Sis Ya, do you remember that when we were searching for the out-of-control sandworms in Trash Site 4, we ran into a rat horde that was infected by a virus and went berserk?
"That time, the rats were infected with mutated rabies.
"But this time, the virus they're infected with seems to be even stronger than mutated rabies …"
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