The Creatures that We Are

Outside of Dr. Jia, who had been sent away, all members of the Action Unit looked down at the ground around Gao Yang’s feet, waiting with bated breath.

A pool had formed at some point, the blood soaking into the yellow sand and turning it into viscous brown clumps.

“It’s enough.” Qing Ling walked up to Gao Yang with Medicine C.

“Wait,” Gao Yang said.

“You’re gonna lose too much blood…”

Hum.

Suddenly, there was the sound of energy resonating. With Gao Yang’s feet as the center, a circle of translucent milky energy rippled outward across the yellow sand. They all felt a devilish force pass through their bodies, triggering a numbness that silenced the energy in their bodies. The recovery came a second later.

“It works!” Gao Yang said with joy. It seemed that his blood could be used as a spare key.

“Yeah.” Qing Ling grabbed his bleeding hand and injected it with a quarter dose of Medicine C.

White energy emerged from below Gao Yang’s feet like an underground spring, spreading outward in five beams of light and quickly drawing the precise form of an altar: a circle with ancient holy patterns, at the center of which was the symbol of a flying giant bird with round abdomen.

“The altar! It’s an altar!”

Gray Bear was brimming with excitement and quickly took out his phone to make a recording. He had missed it when this happened in the West Nation and the Island Nation. This time, he was finally present to witness it. He had to record it.

“Just like the two altars we’ve seen.” Gao Yang’s face looked pale with the light of the altar hitting him from below.

“Now that the altar is here, what do we do?” War Tiger came up to Gao Yang with his hands in his pockets.

That was a question Gao Yang didn’t know how to answer. They had come all the way here looking for an altar and the relevant clues in order to find out more about life monsters and the Mist World.

“Call Dr. Jia back and have him study the altar. Perhaps he’ll figure something out.”

“Sure.” War Tiger was just about to turn around when his head suddenly sunk down.

He wasn’t the only one reacting. They all felt a powerful pressure coming from above. Nine Frost and Lithe Snake were the first to drop to one knee, unable to stand up, followed by Gray Bear and Qing Ling. They propped themselves up with both hands on the ground, struggling to resist the terrible gravity.

“Ah…what’s going on…” Gray Bear clenched his teeth and tried to look up, but couldn’t.

Gao Yang and War Tiger were the only ones still standing, but only barely.

Muscles tensing as he tapped into his energy, Gao Yang slowly looked up to have a look at the source of the pressure above. But then with a whoosh, the sandy ground beneath his feet sunk, and he fell.

The ground beneath him had turned into turbulent quicksand. Gao Yang immediately used Teleportation to escape, but it failed with the pressure weighing down on him. ȒᴀΝՕβÈꞩ

Soon, the cool, fine quicksand submerged him. He lost his foothold, and he could no longer see or struggle. He was helpless against the quicksand quickly pulling his body down.

It was only after twenty seconds that he could see again.

He had gotten out of the quicksand and was falling into a deeper abyss.

With a snap of his finger, a ring of brilliant flames circled him, illuminating his surroundings.

“Metal!”

The next second, Gao Yang heard Qing Ling’s voice. He turned around to find Qing Ling standing stably on her Tang Dao, diving toward Gao Yang in a diagonal trajectory.

Gao Yang reached out to take Qing Ling’s hand, hopping onto her Tang Dao and putting his arms around her.

“Holy!”

Gray Bear cried out from ten meters below them.

Gao Yang brought him and Qing Ling closer to Gray Bear with a teleport, grabbing Gray Bear’s hand.

Gray Bear looked up to see his captain saving him. He was just about to express his thanks when a pair of hands grabbed his face, pulling his nose into an upturned one that resembled a pig’s nose.

It was Lithe Snake. He barely stopped his fall by stepping onto Gray Bear’s back and grabbing his face with both hands.

“Leash Shake…you fucking…wish hor dash…”

Gray Bear was so angry that he couldn’t even speak clearly.

“Here!”

A voice came from behind them. Qing Ling turned around to see War Tiger grabbing onto Nine Frost and falling quickly.

She turned the blade around to rush diagonally over to them. Gray Bear calmed himself and grabbed War Tiger. Finally, all six members were safe.

Qing Ling was at her weight-carrying limit. Dragging five teammates, she tried her best to slow their flow. A few seconds later, War Tiger let go first, jumping down from twenty meters and made a safe landing.

The others followed suit, jumping down at a height they could handle.

Finally, Qing Ling and Gao Yang landed easily with the Tang Dao.

They made a circle and collected their breaths. Gao Yang raised his hand to conjure a small, hovering fireball, which illuminated their surroundings like a flare.

They saw with difficulty that it was a large, empty underground cavern. They could vaguely make out a number of stone pillars and stone statues.

“We sank down through the sand for no more than thirty seconds, followed by a freefall of a little more than ten seconds.” Lithe Snake made a rough estimation. “This is at least 200 meters underground.”

“A Rune Cave?”

“Doesn’t seem like it,” said Gao Yang.

“Reasons being?” War Tiger asked.

“My intuition.”

The actual reason was that the system didn’t give him a notification, but he couldn’t say that.

“Could this be the underground mausoleum of the rulers of ancient Ni Nation?” Nine Frost speculated.

“I would’ve agreed with you if I didn’t know the Mist World only lasts a hundred years.” War Tiger moved his shoulders around.

“Let’s look around,” said Gao Yang.

Qing Ling immediately started walking. Gao Yang grabbed her. “Move to the center.”

Qing Ling thought for a moment and didn’t argue.

Gao Yang took point, giving out orders. “I’ll lead the way. Follow after me, Lithe Snake. Qing Ling and NIne Frost would stay in the center. Gray Bear and Uncle Tiger stay in the back.”

“Good call.” War Tiger approved Gao Yang’s decision.

Gao Yang had the system giving him warning. If they ran into danger, he would react a second before the others. And with Teleportation, he was the one most suited for being the pointman.

Lithe Snake’s Gecko gave him night vision, allowing him to detect dangers better than others. Following Gao Yang, he would be an effective scout.

Gray Bear was a tank who could take damage, and War Tiger was strong. The two of them would watch out for ambushes in the back.

Raising his right hand, Gao Yang maintained a stable fireball above his palm, lighting up the twenty meters radius.

They walked a few minutes before they came to a stop.

Before them was a doorway consisting of two giant stone pillars.

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