171: Chapter 171 Terrain Strangulation

Below the collapsed area, white beams of light crisscrossed.

The gray sand falling into it turned into dust.

The Bone-Crushing Sand Spiders that charged the fastest could not stop their legs in time.

The moment the first one's front limb touched the light, its thick carapace was severed instantly.

The second was caught by the intersecting beams, and its abdomen shattered into three pieces on the spot.

The third tried to leap, but the starlight slashing diagonally cut it in half at the waist.

Black fluid sprayed out.

Broken bones and severed limbs tumbled into the bottom of the collapsed pit.

"This net can really cut!" Zhao Mengmeng hung from the cable, staring intently at the meat grinder below.

"Go."

The trunk of the dead tree beneath their feet was being frantically rammed by a few Bone-Crushing Sand Spiders.

Lin Ye pressed the retrieval button, swinging with Zhao Mengmeng toward a black rock on the outer edge of the collapsed area.

The black rock glowed with a pale green light.

It could hold for a moment.

The surviving pack of Bone-Crushing Sand Spiders behind them fell into a frenzy.

The collapsed pit had swallowed dozens of their kind.

The remaining dozens of Bone-Crushing Sand Spiders were driven into a violent rage by the pungent, overflowing corpse fluid.

They hissed and bypassed the large pit, some even diving straight into the bottom to fight over the severed limbs.

The light net continued to slice.

As the Star Rock shifted, the beams within the pit slightly displaced, repeatedly shredding the corpse pieces, and the sweet, fishy stench grew stronger.

The Great Xia Live Stream room's chat was scrolling frantically.

[Leading the monster pack into a meat grinder! This actually works?]

[Foreign livestream rooms just said they were fleeing in panic? Come out and see what this is called; this is a terrain kill!]

[Zhao Mengmeng can hit the nodes even without arrow shafts; that accuracy is incredible!]

A few comments from overseas livestream rooms popped up, desperately trying to save face.

[The Great Xia contestants just got lucky; the collapse was accidental.]

[Accidental? He detoured forty-five meters in advance to lure the monsters, hitting the underground load-bearing point perfectly. Can luck explain that? Shut up and watch the operation!]

The pack of Bone-Crushing Sand Spiders quickly bypassed the large pit and continued to close in.

"What now?" Zhao Mengmeng held her empty crossbow, her expression tense.

"Are you out of arrows?"

"I still have a few arrowheads, but I can only use them to throw."

Lin Ye opened the side pocket of his backpack and pulled out a few black bamboo arrow shafts, handing them over.

Zhao Mengmeng's eyes lit up: "You were hiding this?"

"I kept them for you as a last resort."

"This 'last resort' is very reliable."

Lin Ye looked down at his right arm.

After continuous high-intensity traction, the Dark Weaver shell was scorching hot, and the luster of the traction core had dimmed somewhat.

He could not keep pulling recklessly.

He activated his Left Eye for a split second.

The light net in the collapsed pit was still slaughtering.

The Bone-Crushing Sand Spiders were quickly flanking the black rock from both sides.

To the north lay a massive, partially buried beast skeleton, with several giant ribs over ten meters long standing upright toward the sky.

The tips of the ribs glowed with a stable green light.

Below them were thin dark red lines; those were the underground nest tunnels of the Bone-Crushing Sand Spiders.

They could not stay long, but it could serve as a turret.

"Head to the beast skeleton." Lin Ye gave the order.

Zhao Mengmeng pressed the arrow into the groove and glanced at the skeleton: "Do you really think we're specimens?"

"It's better than being eaten by spiders."

Taking advantage of the gaps in the starlight's movement, the two moved rapidly along the edge of the pit's bottom.

A white beam swept past the soles of Lin Ye's boots, silently severing a limb of a pursuer behind them.

Zhao Mengmeng turned back and pulled the trigger.

Twang!

The bronze arrow pinned through the joint of the lead Bone-Crushing Sand Spider.

The rear ranks could not stop in time, colliding in a chain reaction.

Lin Ye drew his blade, his tip flicking upward.

A piece of shattered Bone-Crushing Sand Spider carapace flew into the edge of the light net.

The starlight sliced through.

The carapace shattered into several pieces, shooting out and blinding the compound eyes of several Bone-Crushing Sand Spiders on the flank.

Zhao Mengmeng retreated while changing arrows: "You can even use trash as a hidden weapon?"

"Frugality."

The two reached the beast skeleton area.

Thick, three-to-four-meter-tall ribs were partially buried in the gray sand.

Zhao Mengmeng released her Wind-Chasing Claw, catching the top of a rib to vault up.

Lin Ye followed with a short traction using his secondary line.

As soon as they landed, a subtle vibration came from the beast bones beneath their feet.

The nest tunnels were disturbed.

In Lin Ye's Left Eye field of vision, red lines were approaching rapidly.

"Stand on this one." He pointed to the thickest main rib.

Zhao Mengmeng leaped over.

Sand waves exploded beneath their previous landing spot, and two Bone-Crushing Sand Spiders burst out from the ground.

Lin Ye leaped into the air, turned back, and delivered a heavy downward slash with his blade.

The blade sliced open the head carapace of the first Bone-Crushing Sand Spider.

The second one leaped into the air toward Zhao Mengmeng.

The crossbow muzzle pressed down.

Twang!

The bronze arrowhead pierced through its chest carapace, pinning it firmly back into the sand layer.

Zhao Mengmeng steadied herself on the bone surface with one foot: "Trying that again?"

Lin Ye landed on the highest point of the main rib.

Looking down from above.

"Third on the left, let the right side in."

Twang!

The first arrow severed the leg base of the Bone-Crushing Sand Spider on the left.

The second arrow pierced the skull of the following Bone-Crushing Sand Spider.

The third arrow landed in front of the sand on the right, forcing a small group of Bone-Crushing Sand Spiders toward the light spot.

The Star Rock rotated.

The cold light swept across, and three Bone-Crushing Sand Spiders were severed into six pieces on the spot.

The Great Xia Live Stream room was flooded with comments about this coordination.

[Brother Eye acts as radar for spotting, Mengmeng executes; it's complete precision elimination.]

[The rules of the eighth floor are the blade in Brother Eye's hand!]

Overseas viewers could no longer find any faults.

[The Great Xia team isn't just strong individually; their duo tactics have fully matured.]

Bone-Crushing Sand Spider corpses piled up under the skeleton.

Lin Ye leaped down from the rib, quickly slicing open two intact corpses with his blade.

His Right Eye light screen flickered repeatedly.

[Bone-Crushing Sand Spider Carapace Fragment]

[Bone-Crushing Sand Spider Tendon Bundle]

His Left Eye selected the items.

He cut off three sets of the cleanest tendon bundles and peeled off two lightly polluted carapaces.

"Brother Lin, stop picking! A big wave is coming!" Zhao Mengmeng warned from above.

Behind the sand dune, a large pack of black Bone-Crushing Sand Spiders surged out again.

Several massive dark brown giant spiders walked at the back.

Under their drive, the ordinary Bone-Crushing Sand Spiders split into three routes to encircle them.

The left flank charged straight at the base of the beast skeleton.

The center route pressed forward head-on.

The right flank all burrowed underground to sneak forward.

Lin Ye's Left Eye flashed repeatedly, engraving all the underground dark red trajectories into his mind.

The light net of the collapsed pit was getting dimmer.

The Star Rock shifted, and the first cutting node was about to fail.

Lin Ye looked up at the dome.

Another Star Rock was moving toward the center, casting starlight onto a black sand dune fifty meters behind them.

His Left Eye vision penetrated the sand layer.

A huge rock fault zone was hidden underneath.

"Mengmeng!" Lin Ye jumped onto the highest rib.

He threw out his secondary line, wrapping it tightly around the tip of the bone, with the other end wrapped around Zhao Mengmeng's waist.

He retracted his Wind-Chasing Claw, pulling her forcefully to the top.

With both their weights pressing down, the rib, already full of cracks, shook violently.

The Bone-Crushing Sand Spiders below had arrived, their limbs frantically cutting at the base of the skeleton.

Zhao Mengmeng knelt on one knee, steadying her crossbow.

Lin Ye stood behind her, his left hand pressing on her shoulder armor, his right arm's secondary line wrapped around the crossbow body, pulling down to stabilize it.

The sandstorm raged.

"Where to shoot?"

"The base of the black sand dune fifty meters away."

Zhao Mengmeng pulled the trigger.

"Half a foot to the left."

The crossbow arm adjusted slightly.

"Lower."

"Shoot!"

Twang!

The bronze arrow pierced through the sandstorm.

At the same time, a sound of unbearable bursting came from the base of the skeleton.

The highest rib was severed.

The ground beneath them vanished.

Fifty meters away.

The arrow hit the rock layer at the base of the black sand dune perfectly.

Crack!

The underground fault cracked, and the Star Rock beam swept across just in time.

The entire sand dune suddenly collapsed, exposing a second crisscrossing invisible cutting net.

The broken bone carried Lin Ye and Zhao Mengmeng falling rapidly downward.

Below.

Dense stings and giant maws were already waiting in the sandstorm.