190: Chapter 190 Falling into the Insect Abyss

The elevator cabin ascended at high speed amidst the cold white light.

The slight vibration beneath their feet was initially fairly steady.

After a dozen breaths, the entire silver carriage erupted with a piercing sound of metal snapping.

Zhao Mengmeng steadied herself against the cabin wall with one hand, while clutching the remains of the Magnetic Rail Crossbow with the other, her whole body being thrown and slamming heavily against the transparent cabin door.

Lin Ye held his backpack tightly against his chest, the blue light of the Abyss Thorn on his right arm flickering on and off.

The white light outside the elevator cabin suddenly extinguished.

Immediately, the cabin crashed through a thick layer of geological barrier.

Boom!

Countless silver crust fragments exploded outside the transparent cabin wall.

The entire elevator cabin derailed and tumbled, getting stuck firmly on a broken underground metal support.

Below, a dark, gloomy space several hundred meters deep suddenly opened up.

When Zhao Mengmeng saw what was outside, her knuckles turned white from gripping so hard.

It was an endless forest of dark purple giant trees.

The tree crowns were layered and stacked, the thick branches intertwined with each other, and the purplish-black broad leaves hung with glowing slime.

Dense fog churned up from the forest, carrying a pungent, sweet, rotting smell.

Deep in the distant tree crowns, patches of fluorescent points flickered on and off.

The light screen popped up on time.

[Eleventh Level: Corrosive Fluorescence Insect Abyss]

Screech—

The elevator cabin suddenly tilted to the left and dropped half a foot.

A broken piece of bronze rod slid to Zhao Mengmeng's feet; she grabbed it and swung it with all her might, smashing it against the transparent glass.

"The door lock is jammed! Smash it open!"

Lin Ye reached back and clamped onto her wrist.

"Don't smash it."

"If we don't smash it, we'll be canned and suffocated in here!"

Lin Ye stared fixedly at the purple forest outside the cabin wall.

"The glass is shattering too messily, the cabin pressure will become unbalanced, and we'll be sucked out and fall out of control."

A series of explosions came from beneath their feet again.

The load-bearing frame supporting the chassis was about to break.

In the Great Xia Live Stream, the barrage of comments densely covered the screen.

[Holy crap! Did the elevator just fall straight into a pit?!]

[Is that a toxic gas forest down there? How can they survive this?]

[Don't smash the glass! If you smash it, you'll be sucked away while in mid-air!]

[The frame is about to break! They just entered the eleventh level!]

Lin Ye's Left Eye widened.

In his True Vision, the entire forest canopy was filled with a blinding, deadly red.

Toxic miasma.

Strangling vines.

Parasitic spores.

The red light was so dense it pierced his optic nerves.

He forcibly lowered his perspective, searching for a path to survival amidst the thick red fog.

Thirty meters.

Forty meters.

Fifty meters.

It was all deep red, meaning instant death.

Until sixty meters down to the left, a giant translucent umbrella-shaped mushroom, nearly ten meters in diameter, flashed a faint green light briefly in the purple fog.

A sliver of hope, fleeting in an instant.

Lin Ye closed his eyes, the veins on his forehead throbbing wildly, and a sharp pain spread from his Left Eye.

"Sixty meters down to the left, jump onto the mushroom."

Zhao Mengmeng pressed against the glass to look down, but there was only chaos below.

"What mushroom? There's only purple fog down there!"

"Trust me." Lin Ye's voice was cold and stern. "Get ready."

The elevator cabin sank suddenly.

The dome support outside the transparent cabin wall and the purple tree crowns began to spin at high speed.

Lin Ye snapped his backpack buckle shut, whipped out the nano sub-thread, looped it around the outer ring of Zhao Mengmeng's belt, and tied a dead knot back to his own right arm.

"Protect the backpack."

Zhao Mengmeng didn't say a word and pressed the inner bag containing the Body Purifying Crystal Nucleus into her chest armor.

The cabin was on the verge of collapse.

Lin Ye raised his right arm.

The six main threads of the Abyss Thorn shot out through the air, and dark blue electric arcs erupted in the dim cabin.

He didn't smash the glass by force, but accurately cut into the four corners of the left load-bearing frame.

The threads tightened!

High-frequency cutting applied extreme force along the bulletproof glass seal frame.

There was no turbulent flow from shattering glass.

The entire left cabin wall was severed at the root by the Abyss Thorn!

A violent gale poured back into the cabin!

The tattered animal skin on Zhao Mengmeng's shoulder was torn apart by the wind.

Lin Ye's Left Eye opened again.

The green light was still there.

"Go!"

He tightened the sub-thread, wrapped his left arm around Zhao Mengmeng's shoulder armor, and yanked the nano main thread on his right arm outward with great force.

Boom!

The entire left cabin wall was ripped off.

The powerful cabin pressure ejected them both out of the cabin!

The second after they exited, the elevator cabin and the broken support snapped in response and smashed toward the abyss.

The gale whistled in their ears.

Zhao Mengmeng's stomach was being torn apart by the sensation of weightlessness; she couldn't even shout a word.

The purple tree crowns below expanded rapidly in a radial pattern.

That translucent mushroom was hidden in the gaps between the branches, and the fluorescence on its cap became increasingly blinding.

The speed was too fast; the gravitational acceleration would smash them both to pieces.

Lin Ye forcibly twisted his waist in mid-air.

The Abyss Thorn sub-thread shot out, wrapping around a curved giant purple branch ten meters to the right!

The traction engine spun furiously!

The violent pulling force yanked their straight downward trajectory half a zhang off course.

Zhao Mengmeng's vision went black from the pull, her hands gripping her chest armor tightly.

There was only ten meters left to the mushroom.

Five meters.

Three meters.

Lin Ye decisively cut the sub-thread, and using the final arc of the swing, he pressed his body downward.

Bang!

The two of them smashed precisely into the center of the mushroom!

The translucent cap caved in violently.

A massive amount of cold, wet, transparent slime was squeezed out from the surface of the mushroom, coating them both completely.

The potentially lethal impact force was forcefully dissipated by the layers of flexible fungal membrane.

Zhao Mengmeng was deep in the slime, choking and coughing violently.

Lin Ye flipped over, knelt on one knee, and immediately reached back for his backpack.

dragon bone nail, grain seeds, stone casket fragments.

All there.

He grabbed Zhao Mengmeng's shoulder strap and pulled her up from the slime pit.

The slime carried a pungent, grassy, fishy smell.

A loud noise exploded overhead.

The out-of-control elevator cabin smashed heavily into the rotting leaf forest floor below.

The expected explosion of fire did not light up.

Beneath the dark purple tree crowns, the black ground began to churn.

Countless fist-sized black shadows erupted from the rotting ground, sticking thickly all over the wreckage of the elevator cabin.

Their sharp mouthparts were crazily cutting through the thick alloy shell.

The ear-piercing sound of chewing was so dense it made one's scalp tingle.

In just a few breaths.

The originally indestructible cabin body was chewed into scrap metal full of holes.

Zhao Mengmeng's throat felt dry.

The light screen appeared on time.

[Shadow Poison Ants]

The Great Xia Live Stream was drowned in cold sweat.

[What kind of teeth are these?! They can even chew through alloy!]

[They ate it all the moment it landed?!]

[Holy crap! Brother Eye managed to claw out a path to survival in mid-air! If they had fallen to the ground, not even bone fragments would have been left!]

Lin Ye wiped the slime off the side of his face, and his horizontal saber slid into his palm.

In the dark purple tree crowns, countless fluorescent green light points suddenly lit up.

One pair.

Ten pairs.

Thousands of pairs of compound eyes opened simultaneously amidst the gaps in the leaves.

The high-frequency buzzing of thin wings flapping pressed down from all directions.

A giant flying insect with a wingspan of over a meter broke through the purple fog.

Its abdomen was swollen, and its tail end was constantly dripping highly concentrated yellowish-green acid.

The acid splashed onto the edge of the mushroom, sizzling and burning out charred, deep pits.

[Bone-Eroding Fluorescence Flies]

Zhao Mengmeng yanked the Magnetic Rail Crossbow from her back.

The cracks on the crossbow body were clear, and only the last bit of overload energy remained in the magnetic rail.

Lin Ye reached out and pressed down on her crossbow.

"Don't fire; the sound waves will draw the Shadow Poison Ants tide from underground up here."

The retreat path was cut off; above was the acid insect tide, and below was the iron-eating ant swarm.

Lin Ye's Left Eye widened in pain.

The Bone-Eroding Fluorescence Flies were glowing with a blinding red light all over.

But as his gaze swept across the periphery, there was clearly a blank gap in the trajectory of the swarming flies.

In the middle layer of the tree crowns, three zhang below the edge of the mushroom, hung a circle of dark yellow thorny vines.

The stomata on the surface of the vines were opening and closing.

That was the only buffer zone in this dead zone that glowed with a faint green light.

Lin Ye closed his eyes abruptly.

"Jump down!"

Zhao Mengmeng took one look at the bottomless purple fog outside the mushroom, didn't waste any words, and threw the broken crossbow back onto her back.

Lin Ye used the main thread to wrap tightly around her belt again.

The buzzing of the fly swarm suddenly increased in pitch.

The first wave of the insect tide dove down, their tails trailing dense, deadly green lines of acid!

The giant mushroom cap was instantly corroded, with black holes appearing all over it.

"Go!"

Lin Ye stomped his military boots, and with Zhao Mengmeng, slid rapidly toward the edge along the slippery cap.

The two of them leaped off, falling straight into the middle layer of the tree crowns, which were dense with dark yellow vines!

Above their heads.

The enraged Bone-Eroding Fluorescence Flies rolled into a green sea of insects, chasing down from above, covering the sky and earth!