Chapter 333: The Enemy Appears (1/2)

Chapter 333: The Enemy Appears

Translator: EndlessFantasy TranslationEditor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Rui Bing sat on Han Jia’s shoulder as Han Jia flew close to the ground. While it was highly effective in avoiding detection, Ye Chong still flew around buildings for cover. Just in front of them, dozens of mechs were desperately flying away to escape. They never imagined that someone would be tailing them.

After flying for nearly half an hour, these mechs finally slowed down.

This was once a prosperous commercial area with many tall buildings. Now, it was filled with dead silence, littered with dismembered corpses. The once elegant buildings were now completely destroyed, leaving behind unrecoverable wreckage. The mechs quickly divided into numerous smaller squads and entered the jungle of skyscrapers.

Ye Chong could only lock on to one of the squads, formed by only two mechs. They took many turns along the way before finally entering a warehouse.

Could this be their headquarters? Ye Chong hesitated. Entering the warehouse required some form of identification. Forcing their way in was possible, but not without alarming the others inside.

Han Jia circled around to another side of the warehouse. It looked around, and found no one was watching.

The mech took out its dagger and drew a square on the wall. Han Jia’s other hand carefully supported this square. Inside Han Jia’s pilot cabin, Ye Chong was all focused, his hands moving as fast as he could. Han Jia’s delicate movements were difficult to maneuver, as evident from Ye Chong’s intense focus.

Han Jia carefully slid the square out of the wall. Ye Chong was surprised to find that, instead of a single layer of strong compound material, the wall was made up of three layers - a center layer of ultra-strong alloy board sandwiched between two layers of strong compound material.

The place was suspicious alright. If not for Han Jia’s sharp daggers, it would be near impossible to cut through the wall with normal laser swords.

Han Jia bent over and crawled into the warehouse.

The inside was full of stacks of boxed goods. Ye Chong quickly found the two mechs he was following. They had their backs turned to him, and were heading down an underground tunnel. Ye Chong inhaled in relief. If they had been facing him, he would have been discovered there and then.

The underground tunnel was simple, without requiring any identification.

Rui Bing asked softly, ”Entrance to an underground sewer?” She sounded surprised. Ye Chong and Rui Bing had set a specific channel for communication, allowing them to reach each other easily.

”So it’s an underground sewer entrance,” Ye Chong realized then. He would never have known about it. After all, Rui Bing had been living in this society for much longer, and was more familiar with these common things.

The entrance to the underground sewer was shut tight.

10 seconds later, when Ye Chong believed that the two mechs were far enough from them, he finally approached the entrance. The lid was opened, and Ye Chong carried Rui Bing down into the sewers.

The sewer was wider than they expected. It was about a hundred meters from top to bottom. A mech could easily fly inside. Both sides of the wall were fitted with air sterilizers every five meters, so the air was not too polluted.

The city’s sewerage system was very advanced. The drainage water flowing inside was turbid, but otherwise clear of other waste materials. A ledge separated the drainage water at the center into two streams. The ledge was interrupted by a huge support pillar every ten meters, and this pattern stretched on without end.

Ye Chong maneuvered Han Jia carefully. The two mechs in front of him were no longer in sight. However, they had only directions to choose from, so the choice was not too complicated.

”Which direction?” Ye Chong asked. Since Rui Bing was now his comrade, it was reasonable for him to ask for her opinion.

Rui Bing closed her eyes as she sat on Han Jia’s shoulder. She opened up her arms to feel the vibrations in the air. After five seconds, Rui Bing opened her eyes and pointed forward, ”They’re somewhere in front.”

Han Jia accelerated without hesitation. Rui Bing sat steadily on Han Jia’s shoulder, unaffected by the sudden motion.

Han Jia’s engine was silent but powerful. It flew like a ghost, slowly closing in on the two mechs in front.

Gradually, Ye Chong began to sense that something was amiss.

”Strange, there’s none of those mutants here,” Rui Bing wondered. Her expertise in spiritual training allowed her to be more sensitive than Ye Chong.

Ye Chong realized what was wrong then. The sewer was dark, but clean. When the entire planet was overcome by mutants, the sewer seemed untouched. It was strange indeed.

As they followed the two mechs from afar, the size of the sewage tunnels astounded Ye Chong. They had been flying for quite a while, and still had not reached the end. There were branches of tunnels along the way. It was practically a huge underground maze.