"Forget it, save the person first."
Li Chonglou shook his head, forcefully suppressing the battle intent that was instinctively rising. Although he would be fighting next, if he allowed his battle intent to surge, he would easily fall into that exhilaration, unable to extricate himself from the battle.
As the mutated monkey's long arms flailed wildly, Li Chonglou seized the opportunity. His figure flashed, breaking through the passage and instantly appearing before the mutated monkey's face.
*Thwack.* His right hand pierced directly through the mutated monkey's brain. Afterward, Li Chonglou used the mutated monkey's corpse for leverage, leaping directly into the first level.
During his previous entry, the strongholds on the first level were still visible in their original forms. However, what greeted Li Chonglou's eyes now was an ocean of mutated creatures!
Not a trace of the strongholds remained!
Perhaps it was due to the mutated monkey blocking the passage earlier. Now, as the mutated monkey's corpse toppled backward, the previously calm ocean instantly churned into a tempest!
The leaping mutated creatures even completely blocked the sunlight above Li Chonglou's head. One after another, frenzied mutated creatures surged towards him madly.
Li Chonglou calmly picked up his ice gun and fired repeatedly, quickly freezing a section of the passage, and then rushed towards the direction of the second level.
His speed was far beyond what these mutated creatures could match. Thus, in just a few minutes, Li Chonglou arrived near the entrance to the second level.
"This is bad."
Seeing the black expanse before him, Li Chonglou's brow furrowed tightly. The area near the stronghold was already a mutated ocean, but compared to what lay before him, it was still significantly inferior!
A dense, black mass, layered two to three deep. Not to mention a path, Li Chonglou couldn't even find the entrance to the second level!
If not for his good memory, remembering it was just ahead, he might have thought he had come to the wrong place.
He glanced at the ice gun in his hand. The dwindling ammunition was insufficient for him to carve another path.
Then, there was only one option: battle!
Almost instantly, Li Chonglou made his decision. He directly pulled his backpack in front of him to prevent any other mutated creatures from sneakily snatching the emergency medical supplies inside.
At the same time, all the acupoints in his body were activated, and a strong battle intent finally manifested on him without reservation. Since most of the mutated creatures on the first level were gathered either at the stronghold or here, as soon as Li Chonglou's aura appeared, the dense black tide of beasts ahead instantly surged towards Li Chonglou like a flood finding an outlet!
The first to arrive were a type of mutated direwolf. Their appearance was not much different from ordinary wolves. The only difference was that their tails were not ordinary wolf tails but scorpion tails.
A black scorpion tail was adorned with a silver hook, and the tip of the hook gleamed with a cold light. It was evident that this was not something one could touch.
The mutated direwolf bared its bloody maw and leaped directly at him. The nauseating stench from its mouth clearly reached Li Chonglou's senses.
Li Chonglou slightly dodged, then lunged forward. Reaching for a dagger at his waist, he slashed the direwolf's belly with a backhand.
The battle had officially begun!
If an outsider were watching from a distance at this moment, they would clearly see that Li Chonglou's figure was completely submerged in that black ocean. Only the occasional flying dismembered limbs from the swarm of beasts confirmed that he, who was submerged, was not yet dead.
Concurrently, somewhere on the second layer of the beast tide, Xi Wen and Old Niu were hiding behind a specially made rock, not daring to even breathe heavily.
"Captain, what about the others? The things on the third level have all come up!"
Old Niu asked Xi Wen with a worried expression, but Xi Wen's worry was no less than his, and for a moment, he didn't know how to answer.
Seeing this, Old Niu sighed deeply. He was still in a coma from his serious injuries the night Li Chonglou left. He only woke up the next morning.
His injuries had not even healed, and after only a day, such an emergency situation suddenly arose. If Old Niu hadn't been by Xi Wen's side the whole time, he might not even have been able to enter the beast's lair.
And the "others" he mentioned were the same group that entered together, the only survivors from the base. Originally, their plan was to hide at the passage between the second and third levels, using the electric fence as protection to hold out for a while, awaiting support from Tie Lin.
However, to everyone's surprise, when they entered the second level, they discovered that the electric fence had already been destroyed, and their freeze bombs had all been used up. The group was instantly scattered by the beast tide.
Fortunately, the second level was still quite spacious, and most of the mutated creatures had already surged to the first level, so the group did not suffer a devastating blow.
They had initially thought they could hold on until reinforcements arrived. However, as the mutated creatures from the third level gradually emerged, their situation instantly became even more perilous.
Up to this point, almost all the mutated creatures from the third level were contained within the second level. They now dared not move about freely.
Moreover, not long ago, a few members of the suicide squad, who had been operating together, were forced to retreat in a panic after encountering a mutated creature from the third level, and were consequently separated.
Although the two were currently hiding in a very good position, neither Xi Wen nor Old Niu dared to be the slightest bit careless. After all, the mutated creatures from the third level were far beyond what they could deal with alone!
Just then, a terrifying aura suddenly emanated from behind the two. Xi Wen and Old Niu's bodies stiffened instantly. They dared not even breathe, their eyes wide open, staring intently forward.
Dare not move!
Although the two did not see what was happening behind the rock, they both knew that it must be an intelligent creature from the third level passing by!
It's over, have they been discovered?
Just as the two were losing hope, that suffocating and terrifying aura suddenly receded like the tide.
After a long while, Old Niu cautiously asked, "Did it leave?"
As soon as he spoke, another aura, similar to the previous one, enveloped the two. Xi Wen instinctively covered Old Niu's mouth with his hand, his eyes filled with a warning.
Old Niu also knowingly moved his eyes, indicating understanding...
A few seconds later, this sensation receded once more, but before the two could even catch their breath, the third aura appeared.
What's going on?
The two were instantly bewildered. They had no clue as to why this was happening, and this situation kept repeating itself...
After the fourth, fifth, and until the sixth time, this feeling finally disappeared completely.