The secret passage was violently shaking.
The survivors stumbled forward in a desperate escape.
The flashlight beams danced wildly in the narrow tunnel.
These flashlights were given to the survivors by Su Zhan and the others.
Because in such dark environments, they, as awakened ones, possessed spiritual sense and could at least perceive the path ahead.
But these survivors couldn't.
Of course, this also alleviated the guilt in everyone's hearts.
Because they already knew they couldn't fully protect these people, and could only show they were doing their best through this method.
In a certain instant.
The next second, it swept over the green moss on the wall.
"Left!" Xie Xi commanded.
"Ah!"
An old man at the back of the group suddenly fell, but no one reached out to help.
Xu Hao was about to act.
"Boom—!"
The tunnel behind them collapsed.
From within the dust came the infant-like shrieks of the Corroders.
Three bone whips pierced through the dust screen, instantly coiling around the old man who had fallen behind.
"Save me! Save..."
The cry for help was abruptly cut off.
When Su Zhan looked back, he happened to see the old man being twisted into two halves by the bone whips.
The upper body was still flying through the air.
The transparent skin on the Corroder's abdomen had already split open, revealing ring-shaped sharp teeth.
"Keep running!"
Feng Jue's sword light severed the two bone whips pursuing them.
Black blood splashed on the wall, corroding honeycomb-shaped pits.
The survivors went completely insane.
Some pulled at the backs of those in front, trying to overtake.
But were grabbed by the collar by Xu Hao and thrown back into the group.
Some knelt on the ground vomiting.
Others even lost their shoes while running.
Bare feet left a trail of bloody prints on broken bones and iron scraps.
"Ahead is the exit!"
Someone shouted.
Su Zhan looked up.
The flashlight beam shone directly ahead.
That was indeed the exit.
But at that very moment!
The right wall exploded with a boom!
The bone whip of a second Corroder stabbed out from the broken hole, piercing through the chests of two survivors.
Blood and some indescribable things showered onto the heads of the others.
This made the survivors even more panicked and frenzied!
"Accelerate!"
The golden light of Su Zhan's Abyssal Gaze surged violently.
A time force field enveloped his teammates.
As for why it didn't cover the survivors.
That was because the acceleration ability required adaptation.
Otherwise, they would be like Su Zhan at the beginning, their bodies completely out of control, unable to even walk properly.
His teammates had almost gotten used to it by now.
But the survivors had not.
Recklessly using this ability on them would only hasten their deaths.
They couldn't save everyone.
The fat man at the tail end of the group suddenly turned around and frantically pushed a young boy next to him toward the Corroder: "Eat him! Don't eat me!"
The boy stumbled toward the bone whip.
Xu Hao teleported to catch him.
But the next second.
He didn't have time to dodge again.
Three bone whips simultaneously pierced through his shoulders!
"Mouse!"
Liu Ziming's Purple Thunder transformed into a spear and was thrown.
Feng Jue's sword light slashed out in a crescent arc.
Seizing the opportunity, Su Zhan grabbed the injured Xu Hao, slightly using ten percent of the power of his Aberration form.
This allowed him to charge at the front even while carrying someone.
A miserable scream from the fat man came from behind.
"Can't run anymore, kill!"
Xie Xi's Destruction Scythe suddenly ignited with dark red spiritual energy.
She spun around abruptly, the scythe blade drawing a crimson arc as it slashed toward the Corroder chasing closest.
"Clang—!"
The bone whip collided with the scythe blade, sparks flying everywhere.
The Corroder's three eyeball tentacles writhed madly, its abdomen split open, spraying a stream of foul-smelling corrosive fluid.
Xie Xi dodged sideways.
The liquid grazed her clothes, instantly burning black holes through them.
"Lock!"
Liu Ziming clasped his hands together, thunderlight surging violently from his palms.
Several purple lightning bolts wrapped around the second Corroder's bone whips like chains.
The electric current ran along the whips into its body, burning its skin and flesh black.
The Corroder growled and actually tore through the lightning locks by brute force, its six bone whips dancing wildly like mad snakes, lashing violently toward Liu Ziming!
"Clang! Clang! Clang!"
Feng Jue's Startling Swan Sword light flashed, blocking with precision.
Unexpectedly, another one, the third Corroder, had already flanked them from the side.
A bone whip stabbed toward his back!
"Accelerate!"
The golden light in Su Zhan's Abyssal Gaze flashed.
Feng Jue's figure suddenly sped up, the Startling Swan Sword sweeping backhanded, and the bone whip snapped with a sound!
Black blood spurted.
The Corroder let out a piercing shriek.
"Don't give them a chance to catch their breath!"
Su Zhan drew his twin blades, his figure lunging forward.
These three Corroders were one Low-risk Tier 6 and two Low-risk Tier 5; taking them out first wasn't a problem.
The blade tips aimed straight for the transparent skin on the Corroder's abdomen.
"Thud!"
One blade stabbed in, black blood gushing out!
The Corroder struggled frantically, its remaining five bone whips simultaneously constricting toward Su Zhan!
"Decelerate!"
The Abyssal Gaze activated again.
The bone whips' offensive suddenly slowed down.
Su Zhan pulled back his blade and spun, the blade light forming a wheel, severing all five bone whips at their roots!
"Roar—!"
The Corroder flew into a rage, its abdomen splitting open violently, ring-shaped sharp teeth biting toward Su Zhan's head!
"Boom!"
Xie Xi's Destruction Scythe came slashing from the side, the scythe blade embedding deeply into the Corroder's shoulder blade, dark red spiritual energy pouring into its body through the wound.
On the other side.
Feng Jue's sword light was like a rainbow, the Startling Swan Sword becoming a blur, severing all the eyeball tentacles of the second Corroder!
Liu Ziming seized the chance to close in, thunderlight gathering in his palm, which he slammed violently onto the Corroder's abdomen.
"Explode!"
"Boom—!"
The thunderlight detonated.
A charred, gaping hole was blown open in the Corroder's abdomen, bones and internal organ fragments splattering everywhere!
Seeing this, the third Corroder showed no retreat and still charged forward.
Su Zhan threw his twin blades, which flew out like two silver bolts of lightning, embedding into the Corroder's body.
"Thud! Thud!"
The blades pierced through its torso.
The Corroder staggered two steps, then collapsed to the ground with a crash.
After some follow-up strikes.
The battle ended.
The mutilated bodies of the three Corroders were still twitching, but they had completely lost their threat.
Su Zhan walked forward, pulled out his blood-soaked twin blades, shook off the black blood on them, and said to the survivors, "Keep running, don't stop."
The survivors followed fearfully.
"Tch, what a pity."
Su Zhan glanced at the three Corroder corpses on the ground, saying to himself inwardly.
He saw the black blood of the Corroder corpses still continuously seeping out.
If he could absorb it, his strength would certainly advance further.
But now, his teammates were standing right beside him.
The end of the tunnel was an upward iron ladder.
Xie Xi was the first to climb up, pushing open the iron hatch at the top.
A cold wind blew in.
"Come up!"
Xie Xi lowered her voice, beckoning to those below.
Everyone climbed up to the surface one by one.
The last one out was Su Zhan.
He closed the iron hatch gently with a backhand motion, his eyes quickly scanning the surroundings.
They were standing behind an abandoned warehouse, surrounded by piles of rusty shipping containers.
"Hide first."
Su Zhan made a hand gesture, indicating for the survivors to move close to the base of the wall.
But just then...
"Sss... sss..."
An eerie scraping sound came from within the mist.
Su Zhan abruptly raised his hand, and everyone froze instantly.
The mist was stirred.
A three-meter-tall outline slowly emerged...
Followed by a second, a third...
Damn it!
Six Corroders were approaching the warehouse from different directions!
Their bone whips dragged on the ground, leaving sticky trails of blood.
Their three eyeball tentacles slowly rotated, as if searching for the scent of prey.
"Hide!"
Su Zhan grabbed the nearest survivor and shoved him into a gap between containers: "If you don't want to die, don't make a sound!"
The survivors scrambled and crawled into the shadows.
Some hid behind dumpsters, some curled up under dilapidated trucks, and others simply lay down in sewage ditches, trembling as they held their breath.
Su Zhan looked at his teammates and slowly drew his twin blades.
Six Low-risk Tier 6... troublesome.
The mist churned.
The nearest Corroder stopped, its three eyeballs turning toward the warehouse simultaneously.
Another fight was coming.
Su Zhan gripped his twin blades tightly.
But this time, the advantage was not on their side.