92: Chapter 92 Escape from Desperate Situation

Cracks exploded outward madly from the bottom of the pit.

Black fissures tore through the permafrost, spreading across the entire depression like a spiderweb.

The pit walls were collapsing too fast.

Lin Ye had no intention of trying to grab the edge of the pit at all.

He raised his right arm.

The mechanical sound of the Dark Weaver exploded amidst the roaring din.

Several Nano-wires shot out explosively toward the outer side of the collapsing area.

The moment the anchors flew out, the permafrost beneath his feet crumbled.

A sense of weightlessness descended suddenly, and Lin Ye plummeted into the abyss.

On the other side.

Zhao Mengmeng, who had retreated behind a black rock, stepped into thin air.

The snow surface and the boulder flipped over simultaneously, and she fell into the gaping pit along with her crossbow.

"Brother Lin!"

Her terrified cry was instantly swallowed by the roar of falling boulders.

The snowfield within a hundred-meter radius suffered a structural collapse.

Permafrost slabs, ice blocks, and broken tree roots all came crashing down.

After the underground oil vein was drained, a vast and bottomless cavity was exposed, with bone-chilling cold air surging up from the depths.

The revelry in the Great Xia Live Stream came to an abrupt halt, and the screen was flooded with terrified comments.

[It collapsed! The area under the oil vein is hollow!]

[Lin Ye fell down! Mengmeng fell too!]

[Damn it, no! We just won, don't do this to me!]

[Dark Weaver! Use the Dark Weaver quickly!]

Mid-air, the chaotic wind was like a blade.

Lin Ye's expression remained unchanged as he locked his gaze on Zhao Mengmeng, who was falling diagonally in front of him.

The distance was less than four meters.

Her animal skin cloak was caught by the wind, and her crossbow slipped from her hand, flying into the darkness.

Lin Ye reached out with his left arm, his five fingers hooking onto the belt at her waist like iron claws.

Zhao Mengmeng let out a muffled grunt as she was jerked.

"Don't struggle!"

"I'm not struggling! The ground is collapsing!"

Ignoring her shouting, Lin Ye used the momentum to whip his right arm upward.

Two of the previously fired anchors were snapped by the collapsing rock layer.

The remaining four crossed the edge of the collapse, biting deep into the trunk of a giant tree a hundred meters away that had remained unaffected.

The high-frequency retraction engine activated.

The Nano-wire tightened into a deadly straight line.

Their falling speed came to a sudden halt!

Zhao Mengmeng was nearly choked breathless, seeing stars.

Right beneath their feet, a millstone-sized slab of permafrost smashed down, brushing against their boot soles.

The giant tree at the edge of the cliff bore the terrifying pulling force of both people plus their momentum, its trunk emitting a tearing sound.

Lin Ye did not pull them straight up.

The edge of the collapse was still peeling off; going straight up would only mean colliding head-on with the rolling mudslide.

With a slight turn of his wrist, he forcibly adjusted the tension of the four Nano-wires.

The trajectory of the two in mid-air was forced from a downward fall into a horizontal, diagonal swing.

Boom!

The last batch of residual rocks behind them plummeted deep into the ground.

Echoes reverberated, and cold mist churned.

Zhao Mengmeng was caught in mid-air, her eyes squeezed shut.

Lin Ye spotted a stable patch of forest and released two auxiliary anchors, pinning them into a nearby tree trunk.

Several Nano-wires exerted force in unison, pulling them through the air in a clean parabolic arc.

The two were flung heavily toward the safe snow forest.

Zhao Mengmeng crashed into the thick snow first, rolling three times before dissipating the force.

Lin Ye landed on one knee, crushing the ice and snow, his right hand firmly supporting him on the ground.

The roaring behind them finally ceased.

The massive sinkhole took its final shape.

A bottomless abyss had been gouged out of the center of what was originally a flat snowfield.

The pit walls were cut vertically, and the echoes of crumbling stones were still coming from below.

Zhao Mengmeng climbed out of the snow pile, spat out the snow powder from her mouth, and glanced back.

Her back was soaked with cold sweat.

"If we had fallen to the bottom, they wouldn't even have to bother collecting our bodies."

Lin Ye retracted the Nano-wires and glanced at his right arm.

[Dark Weaver: Structure stable]

[Nano-wire wear: Slight]

He activated his left eye instantly.

Red linear crises were still flickering at the edge of the collapse; the geology was extremely unstable.

"Stay away from the pit."

Zhao Mengmeng scrambled into the woods.

The comments in the Great Xia Live Stream erupted again.

[They survived! Both of them landed safely!]

[The Dark Weaver is truly a god-tier cheat! That mid-air maneuver was top-notch!]

[I almost called an ambulance just now...]

[Getting the oil field and escaping unscathed—this operation is legendary.]

Lin Ye walked to the edge of the snow pit and dug out the crossbow that Zhao Mengmeng had dropped.

He threw it to Zhao Mengmeng, and then Lin Ye pulled that engineer shovel out of the snow.

Zhao Mengmeng hugged her recovered crossbow and let out a long sigh of relief.

"Brother Lin, did the oil vein really go into Great Xia?"

"It definitely did."

Zhao Mengmeng looked at the bottomless sinkhole and grinned.

"This trade was really exciting."

This place was not suitable for staying long.

Such a massive collapse would definitely attract predators from the deep forest.

Lin Ye walked in the lead to clear the path.

There was no conversation along the way; he frequently activated his left eye to scout for red crises ahead.

High-frequency use of his ability caused a noticeable stinging pain in his retinas, but at a time like this, he couldn't spare any mental energy.

A strong wind picked up again, and the snowfall grew denser.

After walking for a few kilometers, Zhao Mengmeng couldn't help but look back in the direction obscured by the wind and snow.

"That pit is so big, it will definitely be discovered by others."

"Will they go down to dig for treasure?"

Lin Ye didn't even turn his head.

"They will."

"Then if they dig for half a day and find nothing, won't they be so angry they cough up blood?"

Lin Ye crushed a layer of ice.

"Just consider it increasing their winter exercise."

The Great Xia comments section was flooded with laughter.

[How savage!]

[Foreign Challengers: Heard there's treasure here! Dig! Turns out they only dug up Lin Ye's footprints.]

[The oil field belongs to Great Xia, the sinkhole is left for the world, very fair.]

As they neared the Water Pool, the daylight dimmed.

Amidst the wind and snow, the outline of the Ice Waterfall was faintly visible.

Just as Lin Ye stepped out of the forest belt, his footsteps came to an abrupt halt.

Zhao Mengmeng nearly bumped into him, and just as she was about to speak, Lin Ye pressed her into the nearby bushes.

"Get down."

She followed Lin Ye's gaze and looked over, her pupils shrinking suddenly.

The open space by the Water Pool was filled with dense, dark shadows.

Those were a dozen white beasts the size of oxen.

They had broad shoulders and backs, muscular limbs, and long fangs at their mouths that glinted with cold light in the dark snow.

The hollow where Lin Ye had dumped the bodies last night had already been dug up.

The bodies of the two foreign Challengers were now reduced to nothing but blood-red bone fragments and strips of cloth on the ground.

On his retina, a light screen popped up.

[Bloodthirsty Snow Wolf]

Zhao Mengmeng gripped her dagger tightly, her throat tightening.

"Brother Lin... I've seen these things before."

"Three Bloodthirsty Snow Wolves tore an exotic beast into a skeleton in less than a minute."

"And now here... there are over a dozen."

What was even more fatal was that a few of the Bloodthirsty Snow Wolves were not eating.

They were surrounding the entrance to the passage under the eaves of the Ice Waterfall, their noses pressed against the cracks, sniffing frantically.

The bloodstains Lucas had left there not only attracted the wolf pack but also exposed the location of the shelter.

The entrance to their home was blocked.

Suddenly, the wind direction shifted sharply.

The cold wind hitting their faces changed trajectory and blew straight toward the Water Pool.

A feeding Bloodthirsty Snow Wolf stopped its movements, lifted its head covered in blood and flesh, and aimed it in the direction of the bushes.

Immediately after, a second one, a third one.

Over a dozen pairs of eyes glowing with green light stared over in unison.

Oppressive low growls merged into one in the wind and snow.

They had been discovered.

The wolf king stepped out from the pile of bones, a long, old scar running across its forehead, and half of its left ear missing.

It stared at the spot where Lin Ye was hiding, its front paws slightly crouched.

The pack dispersed, stretching out on both sides, and closed in a semicircle.

Zhao Mengmeng gritted her teeth, the veins on the back of her hand holding the crossbow bulging.

"The crossbow is useless; we can kill two, but the rest will pounce on us and kill us."

She drew her dagger.

"Brother Lin, I'll charge first in a moment, I'll hold off the ones on the left, you find a chance to break through and get into the cave entrance."

Lin Ye remained in a crouching position.

"Step back."

Zhao Mengmeng became anxious.

"Over a dozen wolves! Can you handle them by yourself?!"

Lin Ye slowly stood up.

He raised his right arm slightly.

Ten Nano-wires, difficult for the naked eye to detect, silently reached out into the darkness around him.

"I'm not going to handle them."

Lin Ye took a step forward, facing the charging wolf pack.

"I'm going to set a net."

"A meat-grinding net."