100: Chapter 100 B2 Energy Layer Alarm! Monsters have crawled to the foot of Tiangong-1

Lu Xixi's voice had just faded.

On the main screen of the control room, a brown dot was moving beneath the mountain.

It wasn't moving in a straight line.

Instead, it was burrowing upward along the drainage tunnels.

It bypassed the three fuel trenches.

It also dodged the ground spike zone that Lu Yan had just set up.

It was as if someone was holding the underground construction blueprints for Cloud Top Palace and guiding it.

Liu Qing tapped her fingers across the keyboard.

The underground pipe network map of Jiangcheng spread out.

The red trajectory lit up in segments.

Her expression changed.

"It isn't burrowing randomly."

"It's following the municipal maintenance tunnels."

"Even the construction files only have old maps for this line."

Su Muxue stood in front of the screen.

"Jiangcheng had a group of underground gallery maintenance workers in the early years."

"They worked underground year-round and were familiar with the drainage, cables, and hidden gas lines."

"If it retained its professional instincts after infection..."

Lin Yuan finished the sentence.

"Mole King."

The dining room went quiet for a moment.

Tang Qiqi hugged a bag of potato chips, her lips moving slightly.

"That name sounds like a sewer-exclusive skin."

In the previous life, during the first few days after the Red Moon rose, an underground parking garage in the West District of Jiangcheng collapsed entirely.

Over three hundred survivors who had hidden inside were crushed into a mass by concrete, wrecked cars, and mud.

Not even a scream made it out.

Later, people realized.

An A-rank Earth-type branch Mutant was burrowing underneath.

It didn't chase people.

It dismantled foundations.

Liu Qing overlaid the movement trajectory with the load-bearing structure diagram.

"It isn't looking for an entrance."

"It's looking for the load-bearing structure."

Outside the mountain gate of the shantytown.

The first wave of the Zombie Horde hit the defensive line.

Ordinary zombies stepped into the trenches and were stuck by the concrete hedgehogs.

Fat Dragon picked up a fire axe and smashed a head.

"Don't hack at the body!"

"Go for the head!"

"Don't crush the crystal core; that's our meal ticket!"

A rich man vomited uncontrollably, dropped his shovel, and turned to run toward the tents.

Captain Han Xue raised her gun.

Bang!

The bullet hit three inches in front of his feet.

Mud splashed all over his face.

The rich man's legs went weak, and he knelt on the ground.

Captain Han Xue lowered her gun barrel, her voice cold and crisp.

"Take one more step back, and you die."

Several people nearby who wanted to run stopped in their tracks.

Fat Dragon glanced at her and grinned.

"Captain Han, you've settled into the job pretty quickly."

Captain Han Xue ignored him.

She reloaded her weapon.

"Third squad, fill the gap."

"The elderly move stones, the women pass spears."

"The injured, get to the back and get bandaged."

"Whoever runs away again, I won't ask for reasons."

This time, no one brought up their old-world status.

Boom!

The ground suddenly bulged.

The second trench that had just been dug was overturned directly.

Mud, gravel, and broken rebar sprayed over ten meters high.

A monster crawled out from underground.

It crawled on all fours, its back covered in rock armor.

Rebar stuck out from its shoulder blades and spine like bone spurs.

Half of its face still had fragments of a hard hat hanging off it.

A dirty work badge was embedded in its chest.

[Jiangcheng Municipal Gallery Maintenance — Chen Guosheng]

Tang Qiqi saw the badge clearly in front of the monitor.

"Was it really a person before?"

Lin Yuan watched the screen.

"Not anymore."

The Mole King opened its mouth.

The corners of its mouth split to its ears.

The sound was like wind whistling through old pipes, setting one's teeth on edge.

The survivors on the outer circle were scared and retreated.

Some couldn't even hold onto their weapons.

Lu Yan stepped forward.

He pressed both palms to the ground.

[Earth Remolding]!

Rumble!

The overturned trench began to close.

The shattered concrete was lifted by the soil layer.

The rebar was gripped by the mud and stone.

A two-meter-thick stone wall rose from the ground and slammed down toward the Mole King.

The outer circle erupted in cheers.

"Captain Lu is awesome!"

"This is what an Esper is!"

"Crush it!"

The veins on Lu Yan's forehead throbbed.

"Get down!"

The stone wall closed.

The next second.

The Mole King raised its claws and stabbed them into the wall.

The work badge on its chest swayed.

The muscles under its rock armor bulged.

The stone wall stopped.

Lu Yan's expression changed.

He felt his power being dragged away.

It wasn't blocked.

It was being stolen.

The Mole King let out a low roar.

The stone wall rolled back in the opposite direction.

The heavy earth and stone acted like a winch, pressing toward Lu Yan.

Lu Yan wanted to retreat.

The ground beneath his feet instantly hardened, locking his legs in place.

Tank set up the heavy machine gun.

But Lu Yan and the Mole King were too close.

He didn't dare open fire.

"Brother Lu!"

Tank's eyes were bloodshot.

Stone spikes closed in from both sides.

Lu Yan glanced at Cloud Top Palace behind him.

Lu Xixi was there.

He gritted his teeth until they creaked.

But he realized for the first time that the more he wanted to protect her, the more likely he was to lead disaster to her.

At this critical moment.

A streak of red hair cut a line under the Blood Moon.

Qin Yumo leaped down from the reinforced high wall of Cloud Top Palace.

She crossed her twin blades and slashed through the stone spikes.

Bang!

She kicked Lu Yan in the shoulder, sending him flying out of the earth-and-stone strangulation.

Lu Yan fell into the mud, his chest heaving.

Qin Yumo landed.

Her blade tip dragged across the gravel, making a harsh, screeching sound.

She looked at the Mole King, the corner of her mouth lifting slightly.

"You're still too green."

The Mole King crouched on all fours.

More than a dozen mounds of earth bulged simultaneously on the outer circle.

Lin Yuan watched the monitor.

"Everyone, retreat."

"Qin Yumo will engage alone."

Fat Dragon was stunned.

"Boss, her alone?"

Lin Yuan said, "Execute the order."

As soon as he finished speaking.

The dozen or so earth mounds exploded simultaneously.

Rebar, gravel, and mud sprayed out like buckshot.

Qin Yumo didn't retreat.

She held her arm guards horizontally in front of her face, charging into the array of mounds while bracing against the gravel.

A piece of rebar grazed her shoulder.

Blood immediately seeped out.

She moved even faster.

Her twin blades slashed toward the Mole King's neck.

The Mole King didn't take the hit head-on.

It sank downward and burrowed into the ground.

Qin Yumo's slash missed.

The next second, the ground beneath her feet collapsed.

A claw reached out from underground and grabbed her ankle.

The soil instantly hardened.

Half her leg was sealed.

Rock spikes drilled out from her side.

Tang Qiqi slammed her hand on the table.

"Sister Yumo is trapped!"

"Quick, save her!"

Water currents rose around Wang Ya.

Lin Yuan raised his hand.

Wang Ya immediately reined in her water blades.

Lu Yan gritted his teeth, stood up, and pressed toward the ground again.

"I can loosen the soil under her feet!"

Just as he mobilized his power.

The Mole King immediately counterattacked using the soil layer.

The mud walls around Qin Yumo turned into a dozen stone spears, stabbing back at her.

Qin Yumo had to block with her arm guards.

Clang!

Clang!

The stone spears shattered.

Her arms gained several bloody gashes.

Lu Yan's expression darkened.

He let go.

"Boss, I can't manipulate the earth."

"It can eat my power."

Lin Yuan's voice was steady.

"Good that you know."

"Earth-type Superpowers of the same source are counter-pulled by the Mole King within the strata."

"Once you get more experienced later, this won't happen."

Tank gripped his machine gun anxiously.

"Boss, can't we even shoot?"

"In the thermal imaging, she and the monster are overlapping."

Liu Qing pushed up her glasses.

"They change positions three times a second."

"The probability of friendly fire is seventy percent."

Tang Qiqi's eyes turned red.

"So we just watch Sister Yumo get beaten?"

Lin Yuan watched the blood-covered Qin Yumo on the screen.

Then he looked at Tang Qiqi, who was jumping up and down in anxiety.

Lin Yuan rubbed his temples.

"She isn't the defensive type."

"Pain, bleeding, and the feeling of near-death will all stimulate [Wild Resonance]."

"This monster can't kill her instantly."

"We just have to feed her until she gets stronger."

On the screen.

Qin Yumo closed her eyes.

She no longer watched the earth mounds.

Nor did she chase the afterimages exposed by the Mole King.

She listened to the vibrations of the ground.

She smelled the fishy scent in the soil.

She sensed which direction the killing intent was approaching from.

To the left was the rolling of gravel.

In front was a decoy.

The true killing intent was behind her.

The Mole King broke through the soil from behind her.

Its claws stabbed toward her lower back.

Qin Yumo slashed backhand.

Pfft!

Half of its rock-armored tail flew off.

The Mole King let out a shriek for the first time.

Qin Yumo opened her eyes.

The blood color in her eyes deepened.

She pulled out her leg, which had been sealed by the soil, bringing out a large chunk of hard earth with her sole.

"Caught you."

The Mole King didn't continue to pounce on her.

It flicked its severed tail and suddenly sniffed the ground.

It was as if it had smelled something more valuable.

It sank on all fours, and the entire monster burrowed into the ground.

Lu Xixi's crying burst through the channel.

"Uncle Lin!"

"It's going to dig under Tiangong No. 1!"

Lin Yuan looked up.

Qin Yumo, covered in blood, was sprinting after the splitting ground.

"Running?"

"Did I say you could run?!"

The next second.

The B2 Energy Level alarm blared.

Blinding red light reflected on everyone's faces.

[Geothermal Main Well Pressure Abnormal!]