Monlik said to Bai Li in a low voice, "It's been so long, and there are no signs of the Radiant City falling apart. Besides, they're not taking the bait at all, and they're not dispatching most of their forces."

"Wait! We are hunting prey that poses a very big threat. We need to be patient enough, or we'll be the ones who die," Bai Li said with a light smile.

...

Underground pipeline area, Sector D3, Radiant City.

After passing through the concrete-cast tunnel, Su Mo once again arrived at a pipeline area.

He cautiously went deeper. The surrounding metal walls were covered with protruding metal cell clusters.

Although these things didn't seem to pose much of a threat, Su Mo felt very uncomfortable looking at them. He said to the Creator · Devourer in a low voice, "How come there are exposed metal cell clusters everywhere? Just how much has this monster expanded?"

"I'm not sure, but I know that if you give it enough time, it might grow as big as Radiant City. At that point, it might really mature."

"Matured? You mean it's still in its infancy?"

"That's right, it should be in its infancy right now. According to my calculations, it should have been released when those two soldiers disappeared."

"Damn, it's grown this big in just a few days?"

Su Mo did some quick calculations and felt lingering fear.

"The silicon-based life form's innate ability is metal devouring. There's nothing to be surprised about," the Creator · Devourer replied in a low voice.

Just as Su Mo and the Creator · Devourer were talking, the Creator · Devourer suddenly said to Su Mo, "Wait a moment."

"What's wrong?"

Su Mo stopped abruptly.

"Something's not right ahead. There's a large area of unscannable shielding," the Creator · Devourer replied in a low voice.

"Didn't you say that a lot of insulating material was used during the construction of this place? Could that shielded area be a specially shielded area where some important equipment is placed?" Su Mo said after pondering for a few seconds.

"No, it doesn't feel like it. Be careful and go take a look," the Creator · Devourer replied in a low voice.

Hearing this, Su Mo held his breath and slowly crept forward.

As Su Mo moved forward, he saw a large number of metal tentacles extending from the surrounding pipes and walls.

Su Mo tiptoed around them, his nerves on edge, afraid that these wriggling metal tentacles would suddenly move.

After a while, Su Mo reached the end.

The scene in front of him suddenly opened up, revealing a bottomless sinkhole.

Inside the sinkhole, a sky-covering gray cell metal mass entered Su Mo's eyes. Its volume reached nearly five kilometers in diameter.

The metal walls around the sinkhole were covered with countless gray metal tentacles, like ivy.

If you looked closely, these gray metal tentacles were slightly different from the black metal tentacles outside. They contained insulating material inside, which could shield all signals.

In other words, this organism had evolved to protect itself in just a few days.

Seeing this, Su Mo couldn't help but shiver and said with a solemn expression, "This should be its main body, right? It's already five kilometers big."

The Creator · Devourer said to Su Mo in a low voice, "Possibly."

Su Mo carefully observed the target, and the more he looked, the more shocking it became. Those wriggling cell metal masses were proliferating at a rate visible to the naked eye every moment.

This reminded him of something, namely, infinitely proliferating cancer cells.

This thing was very similar to that.

At this moment, a very thin gray metal tentacle quietly emerged above Su Mo's head.

"Xiao Shi, can you confirm the location here?" Su Mo stared at the monster's body and communicated with the Creator · Devourer.

"No problem, I remember all the routes you explored very clearly. I can accurately locate the coordinates of this area on the map," the Creator said in a low voice.

"Good!" Su Mo nodded.

Just then, the gray metal tentacle above his head pierced down towards Su Mo's head without warning.

Su Mo sensed the danger at the first moment and instinctively dodged, but it was too late.

Clang!

In an instant, the tentacle hit Su Mo's head.

Fortunately, the AT field outerwear automatically emerged and forcefully blocked it.

Even so, it scared Su Mo a lot.

"It's alarmed the other party. Run!" the Creator · Devourer reminded.

At this moment, Su Mo didn't say anything and ran away at full speed!

At this time, metal tentacles extended from the cell mass, and the gray metal tentacles wrapped around the walls also moved.

Those metal tentacles seemed to have eyes, and they drilled out from various areas of Su Mo's escape route.

In an instant, Su Mo's entire world seemed to be shielded, and there were tentacles everywhere without dead ends.

"I'm surrounded!"

"Break out!"

The Creator · Devourer accumulated power and fired a decomposition beam.

Suddenly, a hole was blasted out of the shielded world, and Su Mo rushed out of the hole.

At this time, countless metal tentacles were chasing madly from behind.

"Damn it!" Su Mo ran away frantically.

...

In the combat command room.

Goli stared at the situation in space while also watching the exploration of Sector D3.

As time passed, she also became a little nervous.

At this moment, the monitoring sergeant happily replied, "Colonel Koye is leading the exploration team out."

"Connect immediately!" Goli said.

Soon, Koye's image appeared.

"Lord Goli, we found a monster body one kilometer in size in the area below. It should be the main body."

"Well done, thank you for your hard work," Goli said to Koye.

Xia Wei'ya turned to look at Goli and asked, "Are we going to take action immediately?"

"Let's wait a little longer and see what the other teams find out."

Although Goli was eager to solve the target, she wanted to see the exploration situation of the other teams first, just in case. After all, the stock of this special weapon was not large, only three.

"Yes." Xia Wei'ya didn't say much.

About ten minutes later, Artificial Intelligence · Light and Shadow reported, "The exploration team led by Heath has come out."

"Establish communication." Goli said calmly.

"Yes, establishing communication," Artificial Intelligence · Light and Shadow replied.

Soon, Heath's image popped up. Heath, looking disheveled, said to Goli, "We found a monster body about three kilometers in size below. It's likely to be the main body."

Hearing Heath's words, everyone's faces became even more unsightly.

"Thank you for your hard work, you can go rest," Goli nodded and replied.

"Yes!" Heath saluted.

At this time, Bagg said with a headache, "What should we do? Each one they find is bigger than the last. Who can guarantee that there won't be an even bigger one?"

"Wait a little longer," Goli replied with a calm expression.