194: Chapter 194 Desperate Explosion

The Burst Bone Louse crouched on the remains of the giant beast.

It had no eyes, yet it aimed dozens of bone spikes toward the entrance.

Lin Ye pressed one knee onto the cold, damp bone plate, his right hand held out in a gesture to stop.

Zhao Mengmeng abruptly halted her steps.

The artificial skin layer of the isolation gel temporarily masked their body heat and scent.

But this was by no means a long-term solution.

Every inch of the flesh walls in the insect nest transmitted echoes from deep underground; if their soles pressed down even a fraction harder, the outcome would be being pierced through the heart by ten thousand spikes.

Inside the Great Xia Live Stream, the screen full of comments experienced a rare pause.

"Stop sending comments! I don't even dare to breathe through the screen!"

"This monster's size is too exaggerated, the bone spikes on its back could directly smash through rock walls; Brother Eye's current crappy equipment can't take it head-on!"

The Burst Bone Louse's massive body slid off the giant beast's spine.

Its abdominal feet crawled along the edge of the incubation pool, pressing out nauseating, viscous squelching sounds.

Zhao Mengmeng's eyelids twitched wildly as she gripped her bronze staff.

A bone spike shot out from the insect's back without warning.

A white shadow cut through the air, nailing into the flesh wall ten zhang to the left of the two.

The flesh wall was instantly torn open, creating a horrifying, massive pit, and foul-smelling blood mixed with broken insect eggshells splashed across more than half the cavity.

Zhao Mengmeng's shoulder tilted from the shockwave.

Lin Ye's fingers were firmly latched onto the edge of her Rhino Beetle Carapace Shield.

He didn't make a sound; only a sharp, cold hand gesture suppressed all her movements.

The Burst Bone Louse slowly turned its head.

The remaining spikes on its back trembled slightly in the darkness, capturing the faint source of vibration in the air.

Lin Ye opened and closed his Left Eye instantly.

In True Vision, this high-level Insect Guard was entirely red, with heavy armor, showing no weak points whatsoever.

Relying only on the light from a few star-flow gold remnants was simply not enough to suppress an existence of this level.

His gaze passed over the insect corpse and fell to the bottom of the incubation pool.

Three thick pipelines connected to the earth's veins appeared, one of which was intertwined with red and black, in an unstable, high-pressure state.

His right eye's light screen popped up.

[High-Pressure Methane and Insect Acid Mixed Pipeline]

A cold light flashed in Lin Ye's eyes.

This wasn't a weapon.

But it only needed a gap and a spark for the entire underground insect nest to be buried with them.

The only fatal issue was the distance.

The pipeline was over a dozen meters away, with the incubation pool, patches of insect eggs, and a precarious hollow bone bridge lying in between.

He couldn't snap a single piece of rotten bone.

His right hand reached into his side pocket, his fingertips brushing against the last two star-flow gold remnants.

These were extremely precious assets of a high-dimensional civilization, originally intended to be the trump cards sent back to Great Xia.

Lin Ye did not take them out.

He had to keep a backup plan.

The Burst Bone Louse fired another bone spike, which pierced straight into the dense cluster of hanging insect cocoons on the dome.

Dozens of cocoons ruptured, and green liquid poured down like rain.

Lin Ye pointed his finger toward a thick giant beast rib on the right, signaling Zhao Mengmeng to take cover.

Zhao Mengmeng crouched halfway, protecting her chest with the Rhino Beetle Carapace Shield, and stepping on the bone gaps Lin Ye had scouted, she moved lightly and slowly into the shadow of the rib.

Lin Ye raised his right arm.

The Abyss Thorn's auxiliary threads popped out silently, and the extremely thin Nano-wire climbed toward the dome along the dried tree roots.

The traction force tightened, his feet left the bone plate on the ground, and his entire body moved horizontally through the air, sticking to the dark blind spot at the top of the insect nest.

The dome was equally fraught with danger.

Half-person-tall hanging insect cocoons were visible everywhere, their shells already extremely thin, allowing one to clearly see the twitching of the larvae inside.

Lin Ye flattened his body, using the Nano-wire to weave between the bone ridges.

Ten meters from the pipeline.

Eight meters.

Six meters.

Crack.

An extremely faint cracking sound echoed overhead.

An insect cocoon had broken.

A blind larva plummeted straight toward the ground, landing right on the outside of the rib where Zhao Mengmeng was hiding!

Bang!

The larva hit the ground, its inner sac shattered, and a shrill screeching sound suddenly rang out within the insect nest.

The Burst Bone Louse went berserk on the spot!

Its massive body crushed the broken bones on the ground, dozens of bone spikes stood fully erect, and its huge form charged straight toward the rib area, carrying a foul wind!

Zhao Mengmeng's face turned deathly pale.

There was nowhere left to retreat; half a step behind her was a row of ready-to-explode insect eggs.

The monster was closing in.

Thirty meters.

Fifteen meters.

Seven meters!

That circular giant mouth, covered in barbs, had already opened, and a foul-smelling heatwave slammed against the Rhino Beetle Carapace Shield.

Lin Ye was suspended in mid-air four meters away; rescue was simply too late!

The Great Xia Live Stream was instantly swallowed by despair.

"It's over!! We can't escape!!"

Lin Ye in mid-air did not hesitate at all.

His right hand whipped out.

The last two star-flow gold remnants landed in his palm.

If the trump card is gone, he could find another one.

The pure, high-dimensional star-flow gold was the most lethal rejection explosive for a polluted high-level Insect Guard!

The six auxiliary threads of the Abyss Thorn on his right arm fully deployed, wrapping around the two remnants.

The Traction Engine erupted at its absolute limit.

Two dark golden streams of light tore out afterimages, shooting straight into the Burst Bone Louse's gaping, blood-red maw!

Its gluttonous instinct made it swallow them in one gulp.

The next second, this ten-meter-long giant insect froze in place.

The extremely pure high-dimensional energy collided destructively with the highly concentrated insect acid inside its body.

Two massive dark golden orbs of light bulged from the Bone Louse's abdomen on the spot.

Boom!

A shrill, miserable screech rang through the cavity, and the Burst Bone Louse's charge collapsed.

The out-of-control, massive body rolled and crashed past Zhao Mengmeng's toes.

Zhao Mengmeng was slammed hard against the rib by the shockwave, causing blood to spill from her mouth.

Lin Ye released the Nano-wire, his body losing control, plummeting straight toward the bottom of the incubation pool.

The main thread of the Abyss Thorn shot backward into the bone beam above, applying terrifying acceleration to his descent!

The target.

The High-Pressure Methane and Insect Acid Pipeline!

In mid-air, Lin Ye gripped his horizontal saber in reverse, driving it downward with all his might.

Rrrrip!

The blade brutally sliced open the outer layer of the pipeline.

High-pressure gas mixed with flammable insect acid gushed out like a geyser!

The massive recoil shoved Lin Ye and his blade several meters away.

His left arm's shield took the first wave of high-pressure acid mist head-on, its surface corroding and emitting billowing white smoke.

"Lin Ye!" Zhao Mengmeng cried out, "You're going to blow up the nest?!"

The viewers in the livestream room were instantly terrified.

"Holy shit! He stabbed and exploded the largest gas pipe underneath?!"

"Madman! This is hundreds of meters deep in the Earth's core! If he blows up the nest, he'll die too!"

Lin Ye pulled out his blade and landed, dragging the back of the blade against the hard rock wall.

Clang!

A string of dazzling sparks flew into the high-pressure gas column.

He turned and lunged toward Zhao Mengmeng.

"Run!"

The Bone Louse, tortured to the brink of death by the remnants, heard the movement and desperately fired its last three back spikes.

The sound of them tearing through the air whistled toward them.

Lin Ye fired the Abyss Thorn from his right arm toward the underground crevice at the highest point of the insect nest.

His left hand latched onto the outer ring of Zhao Mengmeng's belt.

Zhao Mengmeng gritted her teeth and swung her cracked shield toward Lin Ye's back.

Bang!

The first bone spike shattered the shield face.

The second grazed past the armor, tearing away a piece of flesh.

The third stabbed into the soles of his feet, sending shards of bone flying everywhere.

The Traction Engine roared, forcibly pulling the two of them toward the high-altitude passage!

Behind them.

The sparks ignited the high-pressure mixed gas.

Boom!

A heaven-destroying, earth-shattering wave of blue and white fire erupted from the bottom of the pool, swallowing the entire incubation pool.

The rejection reaction inside the Burst Bone Louse reached its peak, and it, along with the entire underground insect nest, was swept into a violent, blood-red sea of fire.

Insect eggs, flesh walls, bone bridges—all were incinerated in this earth-shaking explosion.

The shockwave slammed violently toward the passage.

Lin Ye turned in mid-air, pressing the backpack containing the national destiny trump cards against his chest, using his own back to support the broken shield and withstand the trailing fire wave.

The two-thousand-degree heat, separated only by the cracked Rhino Beetle Carapace Shield, branded Lin Ye's back.

He gritted his molars tightly, not making a sound.

Utilizing the terrifying thrust of the explosion and the extreme traction of the Abyss Thorn, the two were forcibly smashed into the escape crevice above by this immense force.

The next instant, the massive underground insect nest collapsed into the sea of fire.