Compared to the first time, this giant had shrunk to almost half its original height. Its original height of nearly 15 meters was now less than eight meters.
However, for the passage that was only six meters tall, it was still too tall, so he had to bend his body to accommodate its huge body.
Soon, however, he no longer had such "troubles". Under the powerful microwave radiation, the cells in his body quickly died. As a large amount of necrotic flesh and blood was expelled from his body, his body was shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye.
This special self-healing ability was extremely terrifying, but when faced with an enemy that he could not deal with at all, other than living a little longer, it was of no use.
The light at the entrance of the passage became brighter and brighter. The next moment, a beetle with a bright fluorescent body appeared in front of him. At the same time, a strong pressure filled every inch of space.
A strong sense of panic and a burning heat made him feel extreme pain and fear, but at the same time, it also aroused his ferocity. He roared, grabbed the huge rock under his feet, and threw it with all his strength. The huge rock, which was nearly ten tons in weight, rolled fiercely in the tunnel, making whooshing sounds.
In the cold eyes of the giant beetle, there seemed to be a hint of mockery. Its footsteps did not stop until the boulder was more than ten meters away from the giant beetle. Suddenly, it quickly took a few steps back. Then, there seemed to be an afterimage flashing in front of it, as fast as lightning. The next moment, the entire boulder stopped in the air.
A long black tail as thick as a washbasin, like a terrifying spear, instantly pierced through the boulder and stopped it in the air!
Then, the boulder was tossed aside by the tail and smashed heavily into the wall of the passage, making a loud "boom" sound and causing the ground to tremble slightly.
Xu Zhiqiang looked at all of this in despair. He felt his body rapidly melting like a candle. A large amount of oil had piled up under his feet, and in just a few seconds, his body had shrunk to the point where he could stand up straight.
He had already felt that death would come in at most twenty seconds.
Seeing the giant beetle rapidly approaching, his heart calmed down and he no longer struggled pointlessly.
At this moment, the ground shook violently. At first, he thought it was an illusion in his trance, but then the ground began to shake even more violently. Cracks of various sizes appeared on the dome above him, and a large amount of gravel and dust rustled down. It looked like it was about to collapse.
"Earthquake?" The shaking of the ground made him almost lose his balance. He held onto the wall and mumbled to himself.
The giant worm shrieked in fright and slowly retreated. However, in the next moment, the ground shook violently again. In the next moment, there was a loud bang and a millstone-sized boulder fell from the top of its head. The passageway gradually collapsed.
Seeing that the microwave radiation was weakening rapidly, Xu Zhiqiang's numb heart started beating again. His eyes gradually brightened. He suddenly turned around and ran for his life. The huge rocks smashed into him, causing him to stagger and sway. However, he did not seem to hear it and continued to run.
When he got close to the exit, he couldn't help but look back. He saw a blurry figure jump down from above, and then the passage was completely blocked by a boulder.
"Could it be Luo Yuan?"
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Luo Yuan, who had been waiting outside for a long time, could not bear to see these people die for his own selfishness.
Perhaps he could find countless reasons to shirk responsibility and justify his actions. For example, even if these people didn't have him, they would still carry out this mission. Or, the target of this mission was too powerful. Even if he risked his life, he wouldn't be able to save everyone.
However, it was easy for him to bully others, but difficult to bully the heart!
The one thing he could not lie to was his own heart!
He had never thought of himself as a saint, but he was also not an ambitious person who valued human life like a number. He was just an ordinary person.
He would do some good deeds within his power, but he would not take great risks. He would also do some selfish things, but he would not take the initiative to do evil.
He clearly knew that this mission was dangerous and that these low-level evolved humans would only be courting death if they entered. However, he did not stop them at all and even had the thought of using them as cannon fodder. In fact, this was no different from killing someone.
When Luo Yuan jumped down, he felt the strong wind blowing against him. The haze in his heart disappeared and his soul became clear and pure. At that moment, his heart was extremely calm and there were no distractions in his mind. It was as if he had entered a meditative state. A warm smile appeared on the corner of his mouth as he slowly closed his eyes.
His Sensory Perception, which had stopped for a long time, spread rapidly.
60 meters, 70 meters … The range kept expanding, and soon, it was approaching 100 meters …
"After experiencing a spiritual baptism, your Sensory Perception has increased by 1." Soon, a system notification was heard in his mind.
However, Luo Yuan did not feel anything. He was still in the Earth Pulse, and his emotions were calmer and more rational than usual. There was no emotional fluctuation at all. His body landed lightly on the ground like a fallen leaf. As soon as his toes touched the ground, he suddenly opened his eyes and looked at the giant insect that was still a little confused. He didn't know whether it was approaching or retreating. His black and white eyes were sharp and focused.
With just a thought, a thin layer of Willpower that looked like a thin membrane stuck to his skin. This membrane was as thin as a strand of hair, and it emitted an extremely weak light in the darkness. It seemed like it could be extinguished at any time. However, the invisible microwave radiation that killed a few evolved humans was now completely blocked outside his body.
Of course, Luo Yuan's plasma underwear had the same function, and it did not require any Will. However, it could not cover his head.
The air suddenly became restless. Countless gravel in the tunnel began to tremble, and some of them even began to float in the air. At the same time, a terrifying aura filled the air.
As Luo Yuan's aura was released, the giant worm finally retreated uneasily. It let out a sharp screech, and the light on its body suddenly lit up, emitting a light that was a few times more intense than before.
This was a warning, but from another perspective, it was also a sign of weakness. Obviously, Luo Yuan's terrifying aura made it extremely uneasy.
At that moment, it was like a huge light source, illuminating the entire tunnel as if it was daytime. The strong microwave radiation caused the temperature in the tunnel to rise rapidly. In an instant, it reached a few hundred degrees, and even the air seemed like it was about to be ignited.
Such a strong radiation even caused the Will film on Luo Yuan's body to slightly tremble, and his Will was quickly depleted.
Luo Yuan frowned and looked at the giant worm in front of him indifferently. He approached it step by step, and the rapid depletion of his Will did not seem to bother him at all. Under the influence of his aura, the tunnel was filled with sand, and the visibility was decreasing rapidly.
Perhaps it was because of its body injury, or perhaps it could not withstand the huge pressure, but the scary and mysterious giant worm did not have any intention to fight. As Luo Yuan approached, it kept retreating.
Its huge pincers opened and closed, making a cracking sound. Its black scorpion tail swayed in the air like a willow leaf, as if it could launch a terrifying attack at any time.
The giant worm's attention was completely attracted by the short but scary creature, and it did not guard against the situation behind it.
It did not notice that a huge rock that had fallen off during the earthquake was not far behind it. The next moment, it tripped over the huge rock, and its body slightly stopped.
In the blink of an eye, Luo Yuan suddenly moved. He pulled out his Zhanmadao, and just when the sound of the scabbard was heard, he had already disappeared from where he was.
In an instant, he increased his speed to its limit. He crossed his legs quickly, and the heavy force under his feet sent countless gravel on the ground flying. With the cover of the sand in the tunnel, he seemed to have completely disappeared.
The giant worm instinctively felt that something was wrong, and it let out a sharp cry. Its two pairs of pincers, which were as big as the bucket of a large excavator, were raised up high. The two whiplike antennae on top of its head were quickly moving left and right, looking for Luo Yuan's traces.
The antennae were the insect's second pair of eyes, and it was an important sensory organ. It was responsible for smell and touch, and some even heard. There were many sensory organs on the antennae, and they were connected to many sensory nerve endings in the antennae fossa. They were also directly connected to the central nervous system, and they were extremely sensitive. They could feel objects, feel the air, and smell all kinds of odors, even those that were emitted from a distance.
Sometimes, the antennae were more useful than the eyes, such as when it was looking for prey.
At that moment, it seemed to have felt something, and its scorpion tail suddenly moved, breaking the sound barrier in an instant, stabbing fiercely to the left. The terrifying speed even formed a milky white high-speed airflow in the air, completely piercing through the sand in front of it. However, it hit nothing.
In fact, the giant worm's judgment was very accurate. If someone could see Luo Yuan's movements clearly, they would realize that he had already slightly dodged the scorpion tail the moment it moved. The improvement of his Sensory Perception not only increased the range of his Sensory Perception, but also made him more sensitive to moving objects. He also had a faint ability to predict, so he could easily dodge the attack before it was launched.
A battle of this level was ever-changing. It was like a fight between two masters, and any mistake could be fatal.
Just as the scorpion's tail was momentarily stiff from the previous attack, a faint ray of light instantly streaked across the air and disappeared in a flash. Following a light sound similar to metal being cut, a small half of the scorpion's tail suddenly fell off and heavily smashed onto the ground.
Luo Yuan put away his Zhanmadao, his hands trembling slightly. This scorpion tail was unexpectedly hard. Even with the help of his Will, the Zhanmadao was still very strenuous. The green level snake that he had encountered before was far from comparable. Perhaps this was the reason why the giant worm could be evaluated as a D-level mission even though it was injured. If it was in perfect condition, its strength would probably be even more terrifying.
However, his movements did not stop at all. His body directly rushed out of the sand, like an arrow released from a bow, straight towards the giant worm. The distance of more than ten meters was covered in a breath's time, and he was in front of the giant worm in an instant.
Luo Yuan's height was almost 1.8 meters, but he seemed so small that he could not even reach its jaw.
At that moment, the giant worm had recovered from the pain. Luo Yuan only felt a shadow above his head, and a giant pincer that was only a few centimeters smaller than the round table suddenly smashed down.
As a human who had surpassed the limits of his body, his weight and strength were not worth mentioning compared to the giant worm. Even the wind pressure of the attack could blow him away. When the opponent's strength far exceeded his own, sometimes he could not even get close to it.
Facing such a crushing attack, of course, he dared not take it head-on. His strength was never reflected in strength and defense. Facing the worm, he took two steps to the left and stepped lightly on the wall of the tunnel. With his high Dexterity, the vertical wall was like walking on flat ground.
As soon as the pincers landed on the ground, Luo Yuan took a few quick steps on the wall and stomped on the wall with the tip of his foot. The tendons of his feet made a sound like a bowstring being pulled. The force was so great that a shallow pit was formed on the concrete wall of the tunnel. His body was almost parallel to the ground as he leaped towards the giant worm.
The strong wind caused by the pincer smashing down was still howling in the tunnel, and a large number of gravel flew around like bullets. Occasionally, some of the gravel hit Luo Yuan, but they all bounced off his clothes.
In the next moment, he grabbed the limb that was emitting a dazzling fluorescent light and flipped himself up with all his might.
Luo Yuan was relieved that the situation was over. However, just as he was about to end the mission, he suddenly felt a strong sense of danger. He realized that the Will film on his body was shaking rapidly, melting and collapsing. A terrifying heat began to rise from the exposed parts, and his body felt like it was about to burn.
He did not expect that the radiation on the surface of the giant worm's body, which was the source of the microwave radiation, was several times stronger than the radiation in the air. The thin layer of willpower that he had been relying on could not be replenished in time under the terrifying microwave radiation. It immediately melted into nothingness.
Immersed in the state of the Earth Pulse, Luo Yuan, who was absolutely rational, could not help but change his expression. He immediately broke away from the state of the Earth Pulse.
In just half a second, his face was as red as blood, and his mind was starting to blur. He staggered and almost fell to the ground. He bit the tip of his tongue hard, and when he felt the saltiness in his mouth, he could not help but feel refreshed.
Suddenly, he had an idea. He tore off his clothes and pulled the plasma field suit over his head. The temperature of his head quickly dropped. As for his abdomen, it felt like it was on fire in a short period of time. At this point, he couldn't care less.
The giant worm was sensitive, and it had already noticed Luo Yuan's existence. It began to hit the wall hard, and the wings on its back began to flap violently. The strong wind made it difficult for Luo Yuan to stand. He looked terrible, and he desperately grabbed the spikes on his back to maintain his balance.
He could feel that the strength in his body was rapidly weakening, and his vital functions were heading towards death. The exposed parts of his skin even emitted a faint smell of meat. He did not have much time left, so he took advantage of the time to hit the wall.
He let out a low growl and gathered all his remaining strength. With the help of the strong wind created by the flapping of the insect's wings, he leaped with all his might and landed on the head of the giant insect. Before he landed, the Zhanmadao, which was swallowing and spitting out fierce blade auras, had already pierced straight into its head. This attack had exhausted all his strength.
The next moment, he let go of the handle of the Zhanmadao, and his body seemed to have lost all strength. He looked up and rolled down from the height of five meters, and landed heavily on the ground. He was completely unconscious.
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