Chapter 313 (1/2)

Luckily insects seemed to be very sensitive to Earth’s magnetic field. Sometimes, it was almost as accurate as migratory birds’ navigational ability.

“The middle one!” Chu Yunsheng quickly sent a message to his companions.

Dumb Insect and Little Red ran into the tunnel in the middle first. They were followed by other insects. Chu Yunsheng was in the middle and Old Purple was still guarding the back.

All the insect were asked not to use their fire energy to prevent from exposing their current location

Luckily, the insect’s unique “sight” helped them a lot in the dark crack. Otherwise, Chu Yunsheng would definitely b.u.mp into walls many times.

The crack was getting narrower and narrower, it was also getting wetter and wetter. Without any reference objects, Chu Yunsheng could not tell if they were going up or going down.

Every insect was silently crawling in the crack. Since Chu Yunsheng saved Little Green, all the insects trusted Chu Yunsheng even more.

Water!

What originally just wet ground was now covered with water!

Looking at this situation, it seemed like they were getting deeper and deeper into the ground. But having water on the ground was not a good sign. It meant that the further side of the crack might be filled with water.

However, they had already crawled this far. He didn’t want to go back and change to other routes. Besides, insects didn’t need to breathe, their fire energy would just be suppressed when they were under the water.

As long as they didn’t encounter something powerful, it shouldn’t be a problem for them.

Moreover, he didn’t even know where other routes would lead them to. So to him, the rest of the two cracks were the same as the one he chose.

“Carry on,” Chu Yunsheng did not believe that only human beings could walk out of this underground maze, but they couldn’t.

However, they didn’t get very far.

“…Blocked…” The group stopped again and Dumb Insect sent a signal back.

‘Dead end?’

Chu Yunsheng was dazed for a second, then he crawled down from Old Golden’s back. He squeezed towards the front and noticed that the crack had become very narrow. Even a red-sh.e.l.led insect also couldn’t squeeze through, let alone other insects.

Just when Chu Yunsheng was trying to think of a solution, they suddenly heard some quiet noises as if something was constantly scratching the ground. Moreover, the noises were coming towards them from the other side of the crack.

Chu Yunsheng became alerted, and he immediately sent out signals, “something is coming! Get ready for a fight!”

At the same time, he quickly dragged Dumb Insect and Little Red back.

As the sounds were coming closer and closer, Chu Yunsheng was more and more anxious. It even made him forget that he was no longer a human being.

“Retreat!”

All the insects were ashamed by Chu Yunsheng’s signal. Since when were they scared of other creatures?

Although they trusted Chu Yunsheng, their real leader was Old Purple. So no one moved.

Just when Chu Yunsheng was trying to persuade Old Purple, a small shadow jumped out from the other side of the crack.

‘Mouse!’

Chu Yunsheng was speechless. Even he himself was also ashamed of his behavior this time.

All insects were enraged by the appearance of the mouse.

Before Chu Yunsheng even reacted, Little Red instantly charged forward and pinched several mice into halves.

In fact, the size of those three mice was enormous, they were almost three times bigger than the mouse in the age of light. To ordinary mice, they might be monsters, but to Chu Yunsheng, no matter how big they were, they were just mice.

The death of three mice scared away the rest of the mice. But they also provided Chu Yunsheng some information. Since so many mice could come from the other side of the crack, it meant that the crack they were in was not very dangerous.

He used his claws to check the soil and rocks around them. It was humid, and the rocks were not very hard.

‘Dig!’

‘It is possible to dig through this narrow crack without using the fire energy,’ Chu Yunsheng immediately decided.

He quickly asked Old Golden to widen the crack without using its fire energy. This order was also immediately approved by Old Purple without any delay.

As Old Golden started to move its giant pliers rapidly, Chu Yunsheng and the rest of the insects also started to move forward again.

They dug deeper and deeper, the number of mice they encountered also started to increase.

However, Chu Yunsheng was more and more confident now. He strongly believed that as long as they dug through this crack, they would arrive at an open area.

In terms of the mice they saw, they all ended up dead like the first three mice that Little Red had killed.

However, the fact soon proved that Chu Yunsheng was wrong. His companions were also wrong because they had forgotten a very important factor – numbers!

When they finally dug through the crack and reached an open area, and before Chu Yunsheng got excited, they realized that they had actually dug into a huge mouse nest.

They were no longer in the swarm, there were only seven of them, but there were countless mice.

Looking at all kinds of animal skeletons underneath those mice, Chu Yunsheng knew that this nest of mice ate everything. He even noticed a lot of the insect’s sh.e.l.ls as well.