Chrysalis

Chapter 1166: Yuan Tianxing Got Injured

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

“Why is there such a large lake underground? And these creepy creatures live in the lake. Has the entire planet mutated now? The creatures on the earth’s surface have mutated, and so many mutated underground creatures have shown up now. The earth isn’t going to be destroyed, is it? Are we really going to build a giant spaceship and bring all the humans into the space, like what happened in some science fiction films?” Old Guo shook his head as he said.

The others looked at him speechlessly. “It’s not that serious. Humans can still survive on the planet.”

A series of noises was suddenly heard, and Yuan Tianxing and the others swiftly drew back to create a safe distance between themselves and those tentacles. However, the creatures in the lake didn’t give up. They squeezed their tentacles out of the hole and reached as far as they could toward the group of people.

There was already a safe distance between the people and those tentacles, so the people didn’t waste energy attacking the tentacles. However, as the creatures in the lake had blocked the way, they couldn’t move further forward.

The lake was massive. Just now, Yuan Tianxing didn’t even see the bounds of the lake when he shone his flashlight into the hole. All he saw was the water surface and the dark cave roof, which was tens of meters away from the water surface.

The water wasn’t the only thing that had a problem. The surrounding rock didn’t look normal either.

Earlier, Yuan Tianxing tried to control the rock on the cave roof, but found that his power been weakened by about seventy percent. Therefore, he only managed to pull a single piece of rock off the roof just now. He was planning on lowering the cave roof until the monster was crushed. However, he failed to do that.

“Let’s leave! We can’t get through here. If I have guessed right, the water was polluted by those creatures. Perhaps, they are new to this place and they came here in some way. Let’s see if we can find another road leading upward,” Yuan Tianxing moved back to a bulging rock face and said to the others.

The tentacles which were over a hundred meters long waved in the air for a while. As Yuan Tianxing and the others were unreachable, they slowly shrank back into the hole.

As Yuan Tianxing and his people went back the way they came, a thunderous boom was suddenly heard from the hole upon the waterfall. Next, the ground began shaking and small stones rolled off the rock faces; even some large rock pieces fell off.

“This is bad! Move!” Yuan Tianxing was startled by the deafening bang. He raised his head to glance at the waterfall, then changed his expression and uttered a shout. Another boom was heard from the hole, following which, Yuan Tianxing and the others felt the ground underneath their feet start to shake.

At that very moment, those enormous, ugly fishes created a large breath on the three-meter-wide hole. Rock pieces flew all over the air and the water flooded down. The black water overwhelmed the area like some kind of horrible monster.

The zombies reacted fast as they automatically popped their claws and swiftly climbed toward the higher areas. The relatively stronger ones even carried Feng Yuming and the other few who were slow up to the safe area.

Li Zheng and his men didn’t have that instinctive ability that zombies had when facing danger. By the time they could react, the water had already gushed down and splashed everywhere.

The water was dangerous; they mustn’t touch it! Despite how clearly they knew that, their bodies reacted slowly.

Yuan Tianxing was at a higher level than the others, so he reacted in time by leaping high. However, the moment he leaped, he saw Fei Chonglin, his subordinate, standing right underneath the water that was descending from the air. So, he thrust a foot against the rock face and flashed to Fei Chonglin’s side before kicking the latter away.

He had turned his skin into stone. By kicking Fei Chonglin away, he sent himself flying toward the other side. Therefore, the water that almost poured on Fei Chonglin’s body landed on him.

Fei Chonglin bumped into the rock face. Thankfully, he moved quickly enough to grab a stone to keep himself from falling into the river.

Realizing that he was safe, he immediately recalled how Yuan Tianxing shielded him from the dark water just now. “Deputy Chief! Are you okay?” he shouted with concern.

Yuan Tianxing landed on the other side. He spent a great amount of energy to create a shallow hole on the rock face for himself to land in. He turned and waved at Fei Chonglin while responding loudly, “I’m fine. Let’s get out of here.”

Fei Chonglin, Lei Yao, Feng Yuming and Lin Yu were the weakest four among the group. None of them was above level-three; Lin Yu was only at level-two.

Yuan Tianxing brought them down into the cave because they were his reliable subordinates, and also because they used to serve in the intelligence apartment in Hades Base, and were very observant. However, even though their brain worked quickly, their bodies couldn’t make reactions as quickly under serious situations.

That was why Lei Yao and Fei Chonglin had both fallen into life-threatening dangers earlier.

Yuan Tianxing would, of course, try everything he could to save them.

He told the others that he was fine, but he knew that he was not.

He has turned his skin and muscles into stone by using his superpower. At the moment, he was like a walking statue. No physical harm should have been done to him, but as the black water poured on his skin, he suffered a great pain, as if his skin was burning.

He felt as if his neck, shoulders and, half of his chest were on fire, and that his flesh and blood were even about to be melted. He endured the pain and didn’t show anything on his face. After landing in the hole on the rock face, he quickly hopped backward.

At that moment, the others had been moving backward as quickly as they could. The shallow section of the underground river in that area was expanded and deepened by the water coming from the lake.

Thankfully, people found foothold before the water flooded the whole area, and then they ran away without hesitation.

Bang! Bang! Bang! A series of banging sound was heard from the hole upon the waterfall. Along with every bang, the ground quaked strongly. The creatures in the lake were still trying to break out; the rocks at the edge of the hole had mostly cracked.

Before, when there was no food, they stayed quietly in the lake, killed each other, and fed on each other for survival. But now, a group of prey showed up and smelled so much more delicious than themselves. The smell of the prey agitated them. That was why they tried to break the hole, so they could come out to hunt those delicious prey.

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Chapter 1167: The Power of Time Travel

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

Yuan Tianxing never thought that the water from the underground river could still hurt him.

“I think we better seal this place off. We can’t let those things come out through the river.” After landing in a safe area, Old Guo looked back and said with a frown.

“I’ll try to do that. You guys can go,” said Yuan Tianxing as he glanced upstream. After the last surge, the water level of the underground river had risen largely. As the strongest earth power possessor among all, he was the only one who could seal the river off.

“Are you going alone? That’s too dangerous!” Li Zheng strongly disagreed.

“You guys can’t help me. Just go! Don’t stay here, because accidents can happen,” said Yuan Tianxing to him and the others expressionlessly.

Li Zheng turned to Old Guo, wishing that the zombie old man would help him convince the other. He still didn’t agree with Yuan Tianxing, but the latter’s words made sense. The others could only hinder him.

Unexpectedly, Old Guo patted Yuan Tianxing on the shoulder and said, “Alright, you do it! We’ll be waiting for you by the cave entrance.” After saying that, the zombie old man turned and walked away.

“Oi…” With surprise, Li Zheng tried to say something else. But before he let out any word, Yuan Tianxing patted on his shoulder and said, “Alright, follow my order.”

“Yes, sir,” Li Zheng had no other choice and he followed Old Guo away along with the others.

…

Lin Wenwen, who had traveled seven years ago, purchased tons of goods using Dong Xinxin’s identity. When the courier delivered the goods to the mansion of Dong Family with trucks, the butler and the bodyguards were all stunned.

Lin Wenwen had told the guards in advance to let in all the couriers, otherwise, they wouldn’t be able to enter the mansion!

Seeing countless bags of rice, flour, packaged food, and medicine piling up in the storage, the butler was really confused. He couldn’t help but drag Dong Lijia to a corner and ask him, “What on earth is Miss. Dong doing? Why did she buy so much rice and flour?”

Dong Xinxin was being really weird these days. Her preference for food had changed, and she spent all day in the gym or jogging in the woods in the backyard.

Was she still the lazy and gluttonous Dong Xinxin?

Lin Wenwen asked some people to carry all the goods into the storage, then kicked them all out and shut the door. After that, she put all the goods into her space. Her space had grown large now, so it could easily contain tens of tons of rice.

Compared with Dong Lijia, who was growing more and more worried, Lin Wenwen was pretty relaxed. In order to have her own body back, she had been trying very hard to lose Dong Xinxin’s weight, and also continued to convince her brother. However, for the sake of all the unpolluted food, she helped Dong Xinxin willingly.

Her space was still with her. She brought the things that she kept in her space in the future back to seven years ago, so she believed that she would also be able to bring things from the past to the future. She wasn’t worried about that. What she was worried about was if Dong Xinxin could really send her back to the future.

In the past few days, she had been communicating with Dong Xinxin, and had finally figured out what superpower the girl possessed.

She had the power of time travel, which was such an amazing power! In comparison with that, the ordinary space power was nothing. In the post-apocalyptic era, space power possessors were rare, but quite a few them existed in each base. However, compared with Dong Xinxin’s power, it was just average.

According to Dong Xinxin, she was able to travel back to any moment that she had experienced. In some way, she was able to manipulate time. When she traveled to the past, there would be two Dong Xinxin in that timeline. The two of them could merge into one as long as they looked at each other in the eyes.

She could bring herself to the past, but not by reversing the time.

The timespan that she could cover varied along with her power level. At first, she was only able to jump back half an hour ago. As she reached level-two, she could travel back for twelve hours. At level-three, she could go back to three days ago, and at level-four, that timespan became a month.

She never told anyone about her superpower. She joined a hunter group to kill zombies with knives and guns.

She, of course, didn’t have the courage to tell anyone about her special and great superpower. After surviving in the post-apocalyptic era for seven years, she was no longer the silly girl who would trust anyone she met.

Before she died, she drained her nucleus and triggered her power with the last bit of energy she had. To her surprise, she brought herself seven years ago.

“Those two girls are so eagerly attentive. They asked you out every couple of days. What happened to you guys in the future?” Lin Wenwen talked to Dong Xinxin while sorting the goods in the storage.

Recently, Qin Jiao and Lin Yuehui called Dong Xinxin almost every single day. They said that Dong Xinxin was so lonely before that she never really had fun, also that the summer vacation was the last chance for her to relax because she was going to start her last year in high school and prepare for the college entrance examination. By then, she would have no time to hang out with her friends.

While saying all those nice words to her, they were actually thinking about taking her to some crowded place and embarrassing her somehow. That was how Lin Wenwen felt after spending some time with those two wicked girls recently.

“After the apocalypse, Qin Jiao turned into a zombie but Lin Yuehui didn’t. She attained water power. On her way fleeing to a base, she managed to become a core member of a group,” said Dong Xinxin in Lin Wenwen’s mind.

“Weren’t you two together at that time?” Lin Wenwen asked.

“No. When the apocalypse happened, who could still look after the others? She wasn’t with us back then,” said Dong Xinxin blandly.

Lin Wenwen heard that and nodded.

At dinner, Lin Wenwen happily enjoyed the food while looking at all those dishes on the long dining table. Except for her and Dong Lijia, a middle-aged man and a good-looking woman were also at the table.

According to Dong Xinxin, her family was lucky. None of her family members turned into a zombie when the apocalypse happened. They didn’t attain superpowers either though. On their way to a base, her father had a conflict with someone else in order to save the last pack of instant noodle for his daughter and ended up being shot dead. Back at that time, their lives were worth nothing in the eyes of the people who had superpowers.

A few days after that, someone pushed her mother into the zombie crowd during a zombie attack. The zombies scratched her and then she killed herself.

After the old world ended, Dong Xinxin learned how evil human beings could be. Therefore, Lin Wenwen could also feel this coldness coming from her heart when talking to her.