262: Drive the tiger to devour the wolf, and take the initiative to defeat the beast

“This passage was intentionally left during the construction of the steel dome.”

Chen Zheng, who had been brought to Yang Dian by Yue Shan, pointed to the passage below the door and explained, “Following this passage, you can reach the middle section of the dome, and then you can observe the cave through a periscope.”

After speaking, he took out a high-brightness glow stick and led Yang Dian and the other person into the passage.

Upon entering the middle section of the dome, which was about 5 meters down, the three arrived at a slightly narrow central passage.

There were many observation windows on both sides of the passage, and at this moment, the windows were pitch black.

Stopping at the observation window, Chen Zheng took out another glow stick and placed it into a slanted, downward-throwing channel.

A moment later, the glow stick appeared in the leftmost observation window.

As the glow stick continued to fall, it then appeared successively in the second, third, fourth... observation windows from left to right.

It wasn't until the glow stick appeared in the ninth observation window that a dark shadow suddenly emerged and swallowed it.

Chen Zheng then began to explain:

“Each observation window can observe a 100-meter area. The glow stick disappearing in the ninth observation window means that there is an unknown danger 900 meters down in the sinkhole.”

Yue Shan looked at Yang Dian.

Yang Dian nodded:

“It's the Mutant bats that flew out before and then flew back into the sinkhole due to photophobia.”

Yue Shan and Chen Zheng couldn't see them, but Yang Dian’s Divine Thought could perceive that those bats were currently hanging upside down in a depression 900 meters down in the sinkhole.

Besides the bats, at a depth of over 1000 meters, there were also several subterranean lizards, each more than 10 meters long, identical in appearance to the Mutant lizard that had reached the surface, clearly of the same species.

However, those lizards were simply large in size and had not undergone a mutation like the 100-meter giant lizard.

And the area more than 1000 meters down still couldn't reach the bottom of the sinkhole.

Yang Dian had only visualized 1161 stars, so his Divine Thought could only extend to the sinkhole at a depth of over 1000 meters.

He couldn't 'see' any further down.

After chatting for a bit longer in the observation passage, the three returned to the surface one by one.

Seeing that Liu Wei’s fighter jet was already hovering 800 meters above the ground, Yang Dian couldn't help but look at Mirror Wolf:

“Are you coming with me, or are you staying in Shennongjia?”

Mirror Wolf tilted its head in thought, then took two steps back.

Clearly, it wanted to stay in Shennongjia.

Yang Dian didn't force it; he simply took a collar from his spatial ring and, despite Mirror Wolf’s slight resistance, forcibly put it around its neck:

“Don't attack humans, and don't take off the collar.”

“Wearing the collar means you are one of our own wolves.”

“Once you attack humans or take off the collar, then you are an enemy.”

“In that case, we won't be polite to you.”

Mirror Wolf, sensing the threatening tone in his words, took two steps back, let out a low growl at Yang Dian, then turned and ran towards the valley where the banyan tree was located.

Watching Mirror Wolf disappear into the dense forest, Yang Dian bid farewell to Yue Shan and Chen Zheng, then sat into the fighter jet's cockpit.

“Where to now?”

Hearing Liu Wei’s question, Yang Dian first pointed in the direction of Western Sichuan:

“First, fly towards Western Sichuan, no need to go too fast.”

The fighter jet gradually accelerated, and Yang Dian also took out his phone to check various battle reports from around the country.

The battle situation was a mix of good and bad.

The good news was that in areas like the Qilian Mountains and the Nanling Mountains, all the Beast Kings had been killed, with only a small number of Mutants possessing earth, spatial, or water elemental talents escaping.

The average news was that in the Altai Mountains, for example, two Beast Kings had fled to Mongolia.

Mongolia, lacking City-Level combat power, had several cities destroyed by the two Beast Kings and was now requesting China to send people to deal with them.

Another example was the Himalayas, where one Beast King remained unresolved.

After taking a few hits, the Beast King ran off to India to rampage, damaging several Rafale jets.

India had already lodged a protest with the United Nations, accusing China of not adhering to martial ethics by driving Beast Kings into their territory.

And then there was Shennongjia.

Although the Beast King was dealt with, an underground passage to the subterranean world was also opened, requiring top-tier combat power to guard it.

“Besides Shennongjia, passages to the subterranean world have also appeared in the Kunlun Mountains and the Tanggula Mountains.”

“Two newly Awakened, City-Level Awakened were severely injured.”

“After using three blue light pulse waves, the blue light on the surface of the subterranean creatures disappeared.”

“One of them, a salamander-like subterranean creature, was directly killed when its brain was pierced by a high-energy particle beam from a space-based satellite.”

“Another flying subterranean creature, similar to a pterosaur but with two heads, escaped back into the passage.”

“Why do these newly Awakened Awakened feel a bit weak?”

Hearing Yang Dian mutter, Liu Wei, who was sitting in front, couldn't help but say:

“Is it possible that the Awakened aren't weak, but you are ridiculously strong?”

Yang Dian thought about it.

He was right.

His strength had indeed surpassed the scope of ordinary City-Level.

Among the creatures he had encountered, only the Lizardman God and Lin Mo, who had become the Sea God, could pose a strong threat to him.

Comparing his combat power to that of ordinary City-Level was indeed inappropriate.

After all, wasn't the Mutant giant lizard, which Yue Shan felt was a fatal threat, paralyzed by just one of his Qi blood hairs?

“I'm not that ridiculously strong; at least, I can't beat the Lizardman God...”

While chatting for a few moments, the aerospace fighter had flown over a thousand kilometers, entering the Sichuan-Shu region.

Yang Dian, who had just received a message from Old Daoist Qingfeng, looked up at Liu Wei:

“Brother Wei, let's go directly to the Longmen Mountains; I've shared the specific location with you.”

The Longmen Mountains are a branch of the Hengduan Mountains.

They are located on the northwestern edge of the Sichuan-Shu Basin, between Guangyuan and Dujiangyan, bordering Motianling to the north and reaching the Minjiang River to the south.

As for why Yang Dian wanted to come to Longmen?

Naturally, it was because of Old William’s prophecy.

In Old William’s prophecy, in mid-December, after a small earthquake in Western Sichuan, a sinkhole would appear, and then a subterranean overlord would rush out of the sinkhole, causing severe damage to the Western Sichuan area.

After careful searching by the geological institute, the target was finally locked onto the depths of the Longmen Mountains.

Through seismic wave detectors, the geological institute discovered an enormous underground cave there, extending deep underground and connecting to a vast subterranean world.

The closest part of the cave to the surface was only a little over 10 meters away.

With bad luck, just a small earthquake would be enough to collapse this ‘thin’ layer of earth and rock, revealing the cave below and forming a sinkhole.

Without a doubt, this was the location of the sinkhole in Old William’s prophecy.

Now that the location of the ‘sinkhole’ was known, preparations naturally had to be made.

For example, building defensive fortifications in advance to resist subterranean creatures.

And also, digging out the sinkhole.

Then, through various means, lure some subterranean creatures up.

Of course, it would be best if that so-called subterranean overlord could be lured up.

To dissect it...