"Go!!"

Fang Qingyu shouted, his figure not stopping for a moment, dashing along the path he had cut open!

The target was the largest freighter half-submerged in the filthy seawater in the distance!

Qin Hui, Old Qiao, and the others burst out with maximum speed, closely following the burning figure!

Jiang Wei's small body was carried by the airflow, almost without touching the ground.

The insect swarm was momentarily intimidated by the ferocious slash, but only for a moment. Even more frenzied screeches erupted, like an infuriated ant army, enclosing from all directions, above, and below, even more ferociously about to inundate the brief passage!

"We're running out of time!"

Old Qiao looked at the bow area ahead, still blocked by a massive amount of containers and debris, his eyes about to crack!

At this critical juncture!

Boom——!

In front of Fang Qingyu and the others, the concrete and debris near the frontmost end of the largest sunken ship suddenly arched upward! Then, as if torn apart by an invisible giant hand, a hole about two meters in diameter with jagged edges suddenly appeared!

The inside of the hole was pitch black, emitting a strong smell of earth and... a faint trace of human presence!

"Below! Jump quickly!!"

A hoarse, extremely exhausted yet extraordinarily determined male voice urgently came from within the hole!

"Jump!" Hearing the voice, Fang Qingyu didn't hesitate at all. At the last moment as the insect swarm closed in, he grabbed Jiang Wei and turned into a black flame meteor, rushing into the dark hole first!

Qin Hui, Old Qiao, Qi Hao, and Lv Chen followed without hesitation, entering one after another!

Just as the last person, Lv Chen, disappeared into the hole!

Boom——!

Countless monstrous bug shadows crashed fiercely onto the hole's location like a black waterfall! Sharp mandibles and blade-like feet madly scraped and gnawed at the ground and the edges of the hole, producing a noise that made one's teeth ache!

But inside the hole, it seemed to be fortified by an invisible force, temporarily withstanding this terrifying impact!

Bang!!

A dull crash was accompanied by the sound of falling rubble.

Fang Qingyu, holding Jiang Wei, landed steadily.

Qin Hui and the others also landed one after another, quickly adjusting their positions, weapons aimed at the surroundings.

It was a narrow underground space, filled with a strong smell of earth and blood.

The walls were rough concrete and exposed rock, the top was freshly closed soil, isolating the terrifying noise outside, leaving only a muffled crashing sound.

Several weak flashlight beams swayed, illuminating the corners where a few blood-soaked, severely weakened figures stood.

They wore the standard combat uniforms of the Divine Management Bureau, but they were already in tatters, covered in dirt, bloodstains, and some kind of viscous green liquid.

Among them, a middle-aged man leaned against the wall, his chest heaving violently, his face ashen, one arm twisted unnaturally. Clearly, he was the one who had just forcibly used his ability to open the passage.

Beside him, only three other wounded, nearly unable to stand team members remained.

This was the Fenghuo Squad!

The elite team at full strength when they set out, now only four remained!

Fang Qingyu's sharp gaze instantly locked onto the middle-aged man leaning against the wall.

The captain of the Fenghuo Squad, Liu Zheng.

"Captain Liu!" Fang Qingyu's voice echoed in the underground space, carrying an undeniable gravitas, "What the hell is going on? Those bugs outside... and this force field!"

Liu Zheng laboriously raised his head, his bloodshot eyes looking at Fang Qingyu, filled with the relief of surviving a disaster, but even more so with a profound fear and... the bitterness of despair.

His cracked lips quivered, his voice hoarse like sandpaper rubbing:

"What's going on?"

He smiled wryly, a smile more pained than crying, with a sense of apathy from seeing through the apocalypse, struggling to lift his only moveable, mud-covered finger, trembling as he pointed to the top, to the thick layer of soil isolating the outside, to the terrifying dome covering half the city.

"The entire force field has completely become a breeding ground for a Life Ghost."

As his words fell, the narrow underground space plunged into dead silence.

Hearing this, Fang Qingyu immediately frowned and pressed on, "A breeding ground? What do you mean? Explain clearly!"

Liu Zheng coughed violently a few times, dark red blood oozing from the corner of his mouth. He struggled to breathe, supporting his body against the wall, his eyes filled with inescapable fear and despair:

"Captain Lin, Captain Lin Kang, when he initially led the routine patrol deep in the Old Harbor District, encountered it, a Profound Tier Life Ghost!" His voice was hoarse, each word carrying blood and weight, "It wasn't an ordinary Sinful Embryo Level, it was Profound! And what's more, it was an extremely rare, extremely dangerous insect-type mother beast!"

Liu Zheng's voice trembled with an apocalyptic witnessing: "Captain Lin recognized it immediately, and realized it was over! Once that thing started laying eggs and hatching, with its tier and traits, the entire Qingjian City would be inundated by endless insect swarms in a very short time, becoming a genuine hell! Rescue? It wouldn't make it in time! At the time, Captain Lin... he still had old injuries unhealed, knowing that relying on his own strength alone, it would be absolutely impossible to kill it before it fully erupted, maybe not even deal a heavy blow..."

At this point, Liu Zheng took a deep breath: "So... So Captain Lin made a snap decision! He had no time to request instructions, no time to notify! He directly used his authority to activate that... that super-large force field covering half of Qingjian! This was the only way he could think of! To lock the entire insect mother and the impending disaster firmly within this force field! Otherwise... it wouldn't be a matter of how to solve it now, the whole of Qingjian, and possibly nearby areas, would have... would have damn well been turned into ruins!"

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