Super Gene Hunting Ground

Yang Xiao crawled to the other end of the escape passage, which was so narrow that he could only move forward by crawling over everyone’s backs.

Then everyone laughed and said,

”Yang Xiao, are you taking advantage of us here?”

”Why do I feel like you’re getting hard?”

”Damn,”

”Haha.....”

Du Tianxing and Chi Lin were struggling to dig through the rocks in front, as debris kept rolling down.

”How’s it going?”

Yang Xiao asked.

”Yang Xiao, in our hasty situation, it’s probably hard to dig through all at once. As you know, these purple rocks are very hard, and the key issue is that the cave is too small to apply much force.”

Yang Xiao nodded and said:

”Everyone back down a few meters, then pass the debris backwards in turn, send someone down to call up Gu Beifeng, don’t leave him buried behind later on.”

Yang Xiao took out the Bronze Divine Sword from his Space Ring and handed it to Du Tianxing in front,

”Use this sword to dig.”

As the Bronze Divine Sword appeared, both Du Tianxing and Chi Lin immediately felt a chilling killing aura, causing them to shiver uncontrollably.

Du Tianxing, puzzled, took the Bronze Divine Sword and slashed at the hard purple rocks,

with a ”swoosh” sound, it felt like slicing tofu with a kitchen knife.

Du Tianxing was instantly delighted.

”Yang Xiao, what a sharp sword, there should be no problem with this.”

While talking, Longsword swiftly cut through the purple rocks above.

To prevent large stones from blocking the passage below, he also made several extra cuts.

Yang Xiao and Chi Lin rolled the debris downward, and the people below passed the rubble back, one by one.

Yang Xiao still cautiously said:

”Du Tianxing, Chi Lin, keep this sword a secret between the two of you, don’t let it out.”

Now, for the sake of survival, Yang Xiao had no choice but to take out the Bronze Divine Sword. He didn’t want to expose this secret since he also didn’t know what kind of disaster this sword could bring him.

The people behind were still a few meters away from Yang Xiao, and with only a few lamps in the tunnel, the lighting was weak and they couldn’t see the situation ahead, nor did they know that Du Tianxing was digging with a sword.

Du Tianxing and Chi Lin nodded:

”Don’t worry, we understand.”

With the Divine Sword in hand, Du Tianxing’s pace of cutting the cave entrance increased several fold. When tired, Chi Lin would take over, and when Chi Lin was tired, Yang Xiao would take his place.

The three of them alternated digging, and soon they had excavated several meters forward.

At this moment, the wild man Ah Bao in the mine was desperately making fire and using a Wind Element Technique to pump thick smoke into the cave.

The dense smoke penetrated the crevices of the rocks under strong air pressure.

Gu Beifeng coughed,

”Fuck, it’s getting dangerous, I can’t hold on anymore!”

Just then, someone came down and shouted loudly:

”Gu Beifeng, Yang Xiao is telling you to climb up quickly.”

”Okay,”

Gu Beifeng hurriedly climbed up, saying as he did so:

”How’s the progress with the tunnel above? If we can’t get through, we’re still doomed.”

”It’s tough, Yang Xiao is digging with Du Tianxing and the others.”

”Whoosh,”

A large number of pebbles rolled down from above.

Gu Beifeng, while climbing, kicked the rubble down into the cave below.

The dense smoke seeping through the cracks in the rocks entered the passageway, growing thicker, and even Yang Xiao at the forefront began to cough from the smell of smoke in the air.

”Cough, cough, damn wild man!”

”If it goes on like this and we can’t dig through, we’re all going to be smoked to death in here.”

”Ah, if we had only known, it would have been better to dig through beforehand.”

Yang Xiao tore off several pieces of cloth from his clothes, soaked them in urine, covered himself with one, and handed the other two to Chi Lin and Du Tianxing.

”What’s this?”

”Gas masks.”

The two took them,

”Damn, that’s gross, Yang Xiao, your urine?”

”Boy’s urine, don’t worry, it’s drinkable,” Yang Xiao joked.

”Fuck, that’s disgusting, you’re still a virgin? I don’t believe that.”

”If you don’t want to be smoked to death, cover your face. Otherwise, you can choose not to.”

”Don’t waste time with your nonsense.”

Chi Lin, holding back his disgust, covered his nose and mouth with Yang Xiao’s soaked cloth and retched several times, but managed to breathe somewhat normally.

The others below also started covering their noses and mouths with the urine-soaked cloths.

In the cave, aside from the scent of smoke, there now lingered the stench of urine.

But now, faced with life-saving issues, no one cared much about those things anymore.

The smell of smoke in the mining tunnel grew thicker, the only advantage being that the space was large enough to let in more smoke, and most of it was being forced into the cave by Ah Bao and several others using Wind Element Techniques to push it in forcefully.

”Haha, suffocate to death, you Earth pigs, haha.....”

Ah Bao and the others shouted madly.

The resistance today from Yang Xiao and his group had made them very angry, having not encountered such strong opposition for many years.

The angriest of them all was the one whose right hand had been cut off by Yang Xiao—Ah Mu. He swore to drag out the people in the cave, hang them over a fire and roast them for eating.

...

”Cough, cough, cough,”

In the cave, coughing echoed everywhere as everyone felt shortness of breath and tight-chested discomfort.

”Yang Xiao, how’s it going?”

Yang Xiao and his two companions had already extended the cave upwards for about ten meters.

”Everyone just hold on a bit longer, it should be okay soon.”

Yang Xiao called out, although he really had no confidence in his heart and didn’t know how much longer they would have to dig.

”What about Feng Ming?”

Feng Ming majored in civil engineering, and it was he who had designed this passage at the start.

Feng Ming climbed over with difficulty, coughing.

”Feng Ming, how long do you estimate until we can dig through?”

A few people had brought the lights from inside the mining tunnel into the cave, and the light inside was faint.

Feng Ming looked at Yang Xiao powerlessly, then suddenly let out a bitter laugh and said:

”Yang Xiao, we can’t escape.”

Yang Xiao was startled,

”Why not?”

”I don’t have professional tools here, so I can’t guide the construction accurately. When I was crawling up from below just now, I kept calculating the distance between the tunnel and the ground. I realized that we’ve dug off course; we didn’t strictly dig upward at a 60-degree angle. The actual angle is much gentler, probably only around 45 degrees. Because the angle is smaller, the distance to reach the surface is naturally longer.”

A chill struck Yang Xiao’s heart as he looked at Feng Ming powerlessly. In that moment, Yang Xiao truly felt the terror of death.

”Is it impossible for us to dig out?”

Yang Xiao repeated.

”If we had enough time, of course we could dig out, but now, cough, cough, cough... there’s basically no hope. Based on my estimation, we can only survive in this cave for at most fifteen minutes, perhaps only 5 minutes, it’s hard to say. Give up...cough cough cough.”

Feng Ming’s words were heard by everyone in the cave,

For a moment, apart from the sound of coughing, there was silence.

Chi Lin weakly put down the Bronze Divine Sword,

”Cough, cough, forget it, let’s not dig anymore. We are doomed to die anyway; I’ve got no strength left.”

The cave grew even more silent, as if it were akin to the flickering flame of a weak candle in the wind, finally extinguished.

Giving up on digging was naturally the same as declaring death.

”Cough,”

”Cough,”

”Cough,”

...

Only coughing could be heard in the cave; some people had already started feeling sleepy, their eyelids fighting, slowly closing their eyes.

”Cough, cough, cough, alright, let’s all sleep then, we’ll be brothers again in the next life!”

Yang Xiao lay powerless, face-up in the cave.

Ever since entering the apocalypse from Earth, he had always been struggling, trying not to die so quickly, competing with his companions, competing with monsters, and against the terrifying power of the Witch Star.

In the end, he had to accept his fate.

He was just an ant, no matter how strong the ant’s conviction, how robust its body, how desperately it worked,

The ant is ultimately still an ant,

He couldn’t change his fate,

Much less rescue Earth and change the world.

In the dark, Du Tianxing groped his way over, holding Yang Xiao’s hand.

”Yang Xiao, knowing you in this life, even if I die, it’s worth it!”

Chi Lin also crawled over, holding Yang Xiao’s other hand.

”We’ll be brothers in the next life.”

Behind him, Gu Beifeng was too weak to climb up, as in his heart, there was no more hope for survival, he could only shout,

”Brothers, let’s all hold hands, even if we die, let’s go to heaven together, or go to hell together.”

”Okay!”

Everyone moved their bodies with difficulty, holding hands.

We’ve been to this world, we’ve fought,

No regrets!

Farewell!