From Abyssal Invasion to Bursting Stars with a Single Sword-Chapter 169 - 142: Exploring the Heavenly Pit, Encountering an Attack by Abyss Creatures

After penetrating ten kilometers into the fog, its density continued to increase, reducing visibility to less than eight meters.

The tracked vehicle came to a halt in front of a heavenly pit.

The team member responsible for terrain perception, Wu Weibing, held up the map and said to Lu Heng, "Ahead is the Peak Forest Sky Hole of the Liu River area, 352 meters in diameter, 377 meters deep, with a complex internal structure. The fog is too thick to see what's below, we might need to go down and explore to confirm whether there's an Abyss Rift inside."

Su Muyu raised her hand and said, "I'll take this one, but it will take some time."

"Use the reconnaissance eagle to explore, everyone else stay alert on-site. If you've been sitting too long and want to stretch, you can get out and move your legs, but you must not stray from the Perceiver's line of sight," Lu Heng arranged the team's tasks.

Su Muyu agreed and then closed her eyes, controlling the reconnaissance eagle to fly into the Peak Forest Sky Hole to explore whether there was an Abyss Rift.

Because of the fog, the visibility of the reconnaissance eagle was also greatly limited.

Thus, letting the reconnaissance eagle fly to every nook in the sky hole to explore was the only way to confirm the presence of any rifts.

The team had been traveling for half a day and everyone's legs were numb from sitting.

So, everyone jumped off the vehicle to stretch their limbs.

However, they did not dare to walk far and only moved around near the tracked vehicle.

Lu Heng went to the edge of the sky hole, picked up a rock, and threw it down.

It took about six or seven seconds before they heard the rock hit the ground, and it didn't even hit the bottom of the hole as they later heard the faint sound of the rock rolling.

From the time it took for the rock to hit the ground, it was clear that the sky hole was indeed very deep.

Exploring it would take some time.

Lu Heng walked back to the vehicle and sat down next to Su Muyu to give her a sense of security.

After about ten minutes of investigation.

Su Muyu suddenly said in a hurried tone, "I see eggs! Really big eggs!"

Everyone, hearing her voice, quickly became alert and gathered back beside the tracked vehicle.

"What kind of eggs?" Lu Heng asked, frowning.

"Oval-shaped, a large one, even bigger than a football," Su Muyu said, her voice tense as she described the large egg she saw through the reconnaissance eagle's vision.

Eggs larger than a football couldn't possibly belong to Blue Star.

"Does it have some irregular patterns on it?" asked Lu Heng.

"Yes, it's stuck on a rock wall. Should I break one to check?" Su Muyu took a deep breath, preparing herself to break open an egg.

"Break one to have a look," Lu Heng nodded in agreement.

Although the purpose of entering the fog was to find an Abyss Rift, encountering the eggs of Abyss Creatures was something best dealt with immediately or it might cause trouble later.

Su Muyu controlled the reconnaissance eagle to use its claw to break an egg, then she shuddered and said, "I broke it open. Something rushed out of it, resembling the larva of an Abyssal Alien."

"That's an egg of the Abyssal Alien then. These creatures can reproduce by laying eggs or through parasitism," Lu Heng had already guessed.

Since the mist already revealed the presence of Abyssal Aliens, encountering their eggs was not something to be surprised about.

"What do we do now?" Su Muyu asked hurriedly.

"Continue exploring the sky hole to confirm if there's an Abyss Rift. If not, see how many eggs there are. If there are too many, we'll burn them," Lu Heng ordered.

Su Muyu nodded and continued to control the reconnaissance eagle to explore deeper into the sky hole.

"How much longer would it be?" Lu Heng asked about the time.

"It might take about half an hour," Su Muyu had only explored one-third of the area and indeed needed more time to complete the investigation.

Just then,

Wu Weibing suddenly alerted loudly, "Something's moving in the fog!"

Everyone became vigilant and took out their weapons.

Wu Weibing immediately climbed back onto the vehicle, set up the 20mm cannon, and adjusted its direction, aiming into the foggy woods.

However, because the fog was too dense, even with Perception Skill, they could only detect something moving within the fog.

Moreover, it wasn't charging straight towards them.

So, Wu Weibing kept adjusting the direction of the cannon's aim.

The rest of the troops also set up their machine guns, ready for battle.

In this tense atmosphere, time passed bit by bit.

Wu Weibing didn't fire yet, and the others could only anxiously wait.

After about half a minute, Wu Weibing's breathing steadied, but he still held the handle of the cannon.

Due to the lengthy wait, Lin Zeyu couldn't help but ask, "What's the situation?"

Wu Weibing exhaled and said, "Just now, that thing was in the woods ahead, it shook a few times, I thought it was going to charge over, but now it's gone."

Seeing this situation, everyone became even more tense. "Does it have invisibility?"

Lu Heng explained, "This is a hunting tactic of the Abyssal Aliens, they'll try multiple times and then retreat. They repeat this a few times until the prey becomes complacent and lowers its guard, then they'll truly launch an attack. So, we must always stay vigilant."

"This is way too tricky," Lin Zeyu's heart was racing with tension.

A direct confrontation with an Abyssal Alien was acceptable even if they were powerful.

It's this kind of intangible torment that was truly distressing.

After about five minutes.

Wu Weibing became alert again, rotating the cannon's muzzle direction, but still he did not fire.

Everyone else also stretched their nerves to the limit, ready to face the battle.

"But," half a minute later, Wu Weibing said helplessly, "It's gone again."

Everyone let out a sigh of relief. Even though Lu Heng had reminded them to stay alert, encountering such a situation made it inevitable for their bodies to slacken, despite what their minds knew.

After three or four back-and-forths, everyone was frustrated, but the thing in the fog just didn't come forward.

Lu Heng spoke up, "It should be about time, hold on."

Chen Zihang added, "Come on! Shout to keep the spirits up!"

"Unity is strength!" Wu Weibing led the song to keep their spirits highly focused.

Lu Heng whispered a reminder in Su Muyu's ear, "When the battle starts, fight first."

"Okay," Su Muyu nodded in agreement.

Exploration could continue after the fight, but confronting the terrifying creatures in the fog was crucial.

Everyone waited with the lyrics in mind.

At that moment,

Wu Weibing became alert again and turned the turret of the mounted gun.

This time, he distinctly felt that the creature was about to rush up. He was about to open fire when he suddenly exclaimed in shock, "Fight! There are many, so many!"

He didn't have time to count how many there were. He just felt that many terrifying creatures were rushing out of the fog.

As he shouted, he also opened fire.

The machine gun rattled, spitting bullets like a fire snake into the foggy forest, banging away without knowing if it hit anything.

Another perceiver also raised their machine gun and swept shots into the fog.

Lin Zeyu felt a bit helpless; he was a firearms-enhanced superpower user but couldn't see anything in the fog.

Moreover, a sniper rifle only had ten bullets. The key to using it was to hit the target with each shot. Using it like an assault rifle would exhaust the bullets quickly.

However, other firearms were available on the armored vehicle.

He quickly grabbed an assault rifle from the weapon box and started firing in the direction the perceivers were targeting, without knowing what he was hitting.

Su Muyu also immediately opened her eyes, pulled back her scout eagle, and raised her crossbow to fire into the foggy forest.

"Five heads... no wait, six, six Abyssal Aliens," she called out while shooting, reminding them of the number.

Hearing this, Lu Heng also shivered inwardly,

That number was a bit terrifying.

Lu Heng shouted loudly, "Disperse the fog, clear the view! Throw the Source Energy Shock Bombs further!"

The fog could be dispersed, but it wouldn't be long before it enveloped the area again.

Besides, a high-temperature explosion could also temporarily disperse the fog.

The team had a superpower user capable of dispersing fog, and they immediately started to clear the surrounding mist.

Lin Zeyu also used the Source Energy Shock Bombs, throwing them in the direction the perceivers were shooting.

Bang! Bang! Bang...

Several consecutive explosions cleared a small area of fog.

This allowed the team to see up to twenty meters away.

Soon, the first Abyssal Alien charged out of the fog, revealing its grotesque and terrifying form at a distance of twenty meters.

Even though the team already knew what was lurking in the fog and had seen Abyssal Alien larvae, finding them disgusting,

no one but Lu Heng had seen an Abyssal Alien up close.

When the Abyssal Alien appeared in front of them, everyone was horrified by its hideous form and terrifying claws, causing their scalps to tingle.

This Abyssal Alien was three meters tall, with sharp teeth and fangs, somewhat resembling a mutated velociraptor.

Wu Weibing controlled the machine gun, rattling shots at the Abyssal Alien.

The 20mm bullets exploded against the Abyssal Alien, blasting apart segments of slime.

The machine gun fired 450 rounds per minute, seven bullets per second, pouring dense bullets over the Abyssal Alien and shredding its body, creating gaping holes.

As the Abyssal Alien charged within ten meters, it couldn't hold on any longer and collapsed to the ground, sliding forward.

At the same time,

another five Abyssal Aliens charged from various directions through the fog, the tallest being three meters and the smallest two and a half meters.

The machine gun had just taken down one Abyssal Alien, and there was no time to turn and target the others.

Lu Heng knew that if these five Abyssal Aliens reached the vehicle, there would definitely be casualties.

Of the team, there were three perceivers, a gunman, spiritual system and support system superpower users, and only three were close-combat superpower users.

This meant that apart from these three people, everyone else in the team lacked the capability to confront the Abyssal Aliens head-on.

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Therefore, it was crucial to quickly eliminate one or two Abyssal Aliens to reduce the pressure on the team.

Lu Heng pointed at one of the Abyssal Aliens and commanded, "Attack!"

The Mechanical Tiger immediately pounced on one of the Abyssal Aliens.

When the Mechanical Tiger was on all fours, its shoulder height was 1.3 meters, but standing up, it was over three meters tall.

Plus, with a weight comparable to that of a car, its charge bore significant kinetic energy, pinning down an Abyssal Alien as they began tearing at each other.

Meanwhile, Lu Heng drew the Aurora Blade, charging at another Abyssal Alien and unleashed the "Rift Slash" powered by Source Material Energy.