Chapter 55 Underground Escape

　　After a long while, Su Mo and Qian Chengxue finally recovered their stamina to their best.

　　"Okay, let's go."

　　Qian Chengxue reloaded her automatic pistol and stood up.

　　"Follow me."

　　Xin Yang led the two to a corner of the underground room. He pulled away the garbage piled in the corner, revealing a hole.

　　He took the lead to crawl in. Su Mo and Qian Chengxue followed closely behind. Fortunately, both of them were not fat, otherwise they might not have been able to crawl in.

　　The inside of the pipe was dark and had a pungent smell. If there were no accidents, this pipe should be a discarded sewage pipe.

　　"Ah~"

　　Suddenly, a soft exclamation sounded.

　　Su Mo was also stunned, as if he felt his face hit something soft and elastic.

　　Then his whole body trembled, and he quickly slowed down his crawling speed. His heart was pounding wildly, like a deer caught in the headlights.

　　After about ten minutes, a fork appeared in front of them.

　　Xin Yang crawled to the left neatly, without even thinking. In fact, robots have many advantages over humans, such as memory. As long as the data is not damaged, they can easily recall all the key points.

　　The three of them crawled through the complex underground pipe network like mice.

　　In the underground central control room of Qilong City, in front of Artificial Intelligence·Quanshen, feedback image squares kept popping up.

　　The image squares showed every corner of the underground city.

　　Artificial Intelligence·Quanshen constantly analyzed each feedback image, but did not find Su Mo and Qian Chengxue.

　　Prompts popped up one after another.

　　"Search failed!"

　　"Lost target!"

　　......

　　Tzzt~

　　At this time, electric sparks kept emerging from the artificial intelligence's bloated body, and a mechanically synthesized, hoarse voice sounded.

　　"Damn rats, where did you run off to?"

　　"Hide-and-seek, so fun!"

　　"Hide quickly, don't let me catch you."

　　......

　　Tzzt~

　　Artificial Intelligence·Quanshen suddenly synthesized an unusually sharp sound.

　　"Don't think that if you hide, I won't be able to find you. I am the master of this world. Since I can't find you on the surface, then you must be hiding underground."

　　Then virtual image prompts popped up one by one.

　　"Generating new combat instructions."

　　"Deploying 100 Type II Corrosive Super-Biological Worms!"

　　"Deploying 10,000 Micro-Mechanical Spiders."

　　"Deploying Type III Soft-bodied Synthetic Beasts."

　　.....

　　One command after another was quickly transmitted.

　　Suddenly, in every corner of the underground Qilong City, a large number of micro-mechanical spiders and Type II corrosive worms with disgusting green hair and black, bloated bodies emerged, and they all burrowed into the underground pipes.

　　They searched for intruders like locusts.

　　In a closed space at the bottom of the pipe, a gate opened, and a group of Type III soft-bodied synthetic beasts composed of soft tentacles, like seaweed, squirmed out, and their soft bodies went straight into the main pipe.

　　At this time, Xin Yang, who was leading Su Mo and the others to crawl in the pipe, suddenly stopped.

　　"What's wrong?"

　　Qian Chengxue, who was following behind, asked suspiciously.

　　"I heard sounds that I shouldn't have heard, and I feel subtle, chaotic vibrations in the pipeline."

　　Xin Yang replied in a low voice.

　　"What does that mean?"

　　"Judging from the vibration frequency and sound, mechanical spiders should be crawling past the pipes near us. If there are no accidents, Artificial Intelligence·Quanshen should have sent them to hunt you down. It should have guessed that you ran into the underground pipes."

　　"What should we do?"

　　Su Mo looked at Xin Yang. He also admired Xin Yang's ability. Mechanical devices are indeed much stronger than humans in some aspects. For example, the vibration and noise he just mentioned, at most he could only judge that there were enemies approaching, but it was impossible for him to even judge what the other party was.

　　"We have to speed up and reach the central building before the other party finds us. Otherwise, once we are discovered, we will have no chance of winning, and there will be no possibility of escape."

　　Xin Yang also began to feel nervous.

　　"Understood."

　　Su Mo and Qian Chengxue replied at the same time.

　　So the three of them sped up and crawled forward. At the same time, Xin Yang also stopped from time to time, put his ear to the pipe, and felt the vibration of the pipe to determine whether the pipe ahead was safe.

　　Xin Yang kept changing the route forward.

　　Suddenly, Xin Yang was shocked and accelerated his crawling speed.

　　"Faster!"

　　Although they didn't know what happened, Su Mo and Qian Chengxue listened to Xin Yang's words for the first time and accelerated their crawling speed.

　　Soon Xin Yang crawled to the middle part of a pipe, and he pushed hard on the side pipe wall.

　　Suddenly, a gap cracked in the metal pipe wall.

　　"Go in!"

　　Su Mo and the other two followed and crawled in. There was a very narrow hiding space inside, a bit like a safe house.

　　Then Xin Yang sealed the pipe wall again, and the three of them sat quietly on the ground waiting.

　　At this time, sticky tentacles squirmed in, and Su Mo and the other three, who were hiding in the inner safe house area, could clearly hear the strange sounds. All three of them remained extremely calm, held their breath, and did not make a sound.

　　After a while, there was gradually no movement outside, and everyone felt relieved.

　　Only then did Su Mo realize that the place they were in was very crowded. His left shoulder was leaning against something soft, and he could smell a faint fragrance from time to time.

　　In the dark, Qian Chengxue lowered her head, and her silver-white hair covered her rosy cheeks. At this time, she could clearly feel something pressing against her right chest, and it would rub against her from time to time.

　　Seeing that the crisis was over, Xin Yang reopened the exit and crawled out.

　　"It's safe for now, let's go!"

　　"Oh~"

　　Su Mo and Qian Chengxue crawled out in a panic.

　　At this time, in the originally dirty pipe, there were many sticky liquids everywhere.

　　"What kind of monster is this?"

　　Su Mo asked to divert the atmosphere.

　　"It should be a puppet super-biological monster. Its level is very high. If we encounter it, we will definitely have no way out."

　　Xin Yang explained very rationally.

　　"It really thinks highly of us."

　　Su Mo didn't know whether to be happy or have a headache.

　　"Let me tell you this, no matter how powerful Artificial Intelligence·Quanshen is, it is just a central system after all. If someone succeeds in getting close, no matter how weak you are, it will pose a threat to it."

　　Xin Yang tilted his head and explained in a simple way.

　　"Are you saying that if we enter the central control room, we will have a chance to defeat it?"

　　Qian Chengxue heard the implication.

　　"Theoretically, that's right."

　　Xin Yang replied while crawling forward.

　　"Are the pipes here so narrow?"

　　Su Mo asked, feeling a little pain in his knees from crawling.

　　"There are larger main pipes, but I avoided them all. Those pipes are too dangerous. Bear with it, we are very close to our destination."

　　"Okay."

　　Although Su Mo said that, he felt inexplicably lost in his heart.