The third-floor underground hall was illuminated by burning torches.
As the surrounding beasts drew closer, their massive shadows loomed over everything, and Su Qi could clearly feel his field of vision being slowly smothered.
Listening to the greed and excitement in the howling of the surrounding beasts and seeing the fervor in their eyes as they stared at him, Su Qi felt his nerves tighten to the limit.
There was no other way. After all, if he were defeated now and fell into the hands of these excited beasts, he would likely end up as a Plush Ball that required heavy pixelation no matter how he thought about it.
No, facing such incredibly strong beasts, it would more likely be a “bad end” where his stomach was ripped open.
But how was he supposed to escape now?
The path ahead was blocked, and a continuous stream of Nightmare Beasts was pouring in from behind.
Tread, tread, tread…
While Su Qi was looking around in extreme tension, pondering a way out, a purple Tentacle Monster stepped forward until it was about ten meters away from the four of them. Seeming worried that the other beasts would strike first, it took the initiative.
A slimy, sticky tentacle lashed out directly toward Su Qi’s slender, fragile Slender Waist, attempting to wrap around him.
The moment the Tentacle Monster made its move to capture him, it was like a row of falling dominoes. The monsters surrounding the four of them let out one roar after another and began to charge forward, scrambling to be the first to reach them.
“Radiant Splashing Flash Bomb!”
Just a moment before the tentacle in front of him could touch Su Qi, a soft, sweet girl’s voice rang out beside him. Simultaneously, a dazzling heart-shaped light suddenly flashed, like the most brilliant meteor streaking across the night sky. It sped forward at an incredible velocity, instantly forming a laser-like beam that shot straight ahead.
The tentacle reaching for Su Qi began to dissolve and perish the moment it encountered this flash bomb.
Along with the tentacle, its Mistress vanished as well, along with several unlucky beasts nearby.
Seeing his Brother Mo Yu release such a powerful ultimate move with his own eyes, Su Qi was stunned. Although he had always known that a Magical Girl was powerful, seeing several strong beasts suddenly vanish before him still left him in a state of shock.
This killing power was simply too intense!
However, before Su Qi could recover from his shock, he heard Mo Yu’s slightly weak, girlish voice beside him: “A Qi, don’t move around! Senior Sister Lin, hurry up and grab An Xiaoling. There are too many beasts here; we have to fly to escape.”
Before the words had even finished echoing, Su Qi felt his body go light. His feet left the ground as he was carried forward at high speed.
A second after Su Qi’s group of four left the spot, the swarm of beasts that had just surrounded them collided!
It was like a massive multi-car pileup—
Thud!
For a moment, dust billowed everywhere.
Being held in a princess carry by his former Brother, Mo Yu, Su Qi could feel a soft sensation right in front of him. Because they were so close, he could even faintly see a cute blue-and-white striped bra under the thin Magical Girl shirt.
Under normal circumstances, Su Qi would have found this situation very stimulating and embarrassing.
However, as he was carried higher into the air, Su Qi looked down and discovered that nearly a hundred beasts had gathered on this third floor of the New Passage.
On the stairs from the second floor where they had just come, beasts disturbed by the noise were continuously swarming toward them as well.
Although the types of beasts were different and they occasionally fought each other, Su Qi could clearly sense that many of them were focused on him and the Saint Ash Rabbit in his arms.
Because the ceiling of the third floor of the New Passage was not particularly high, many beasts had anti-air capabilities, and there were even several small Flying Beasts.
Trying to fly back through the stairway they had come from was unrealistic, as they would easily be shot down in such a narrow entrance.
But flying aimlessly around this third floor would definitely lead to disaster.
More than embarrassment, Su Qi was now focused on thinking about how exactly they could escape.
“Xixi… Xixi…”
While Su Qi was deep in thought, the Bunny in his arms began to cry out restlessly. Its cute, soft, bouncy little paws kept reaching out and waving forward, looking quite comical.
Facing the Little Guy’s strange behavior, Su Qi was stunned for a second.
He quickly realized that the Little Guy, who lived in this Pathway, was likely trying to show him the way.
However, understanding was one thing; watching the Little Guy constantly crying “Xixi” while waving its cute little white-radish-like paws around frantically—looking like it was performing a flower-hand dance—Su Qi quickly realized with despair that they couldn’t understand each other due to the language barrier.
Just as the group of four was being gradually surrounded in the air by the vast number of beasts, flitting about like headless flies…
Xixi!
The Bunny in Su Qi’s arms let out a high-pitched, low cry and collapsed limply against his chest.
In the next moment, a series of images suddenly flashed through Su Qi’s mind like a slideshow.
The images were from the Bunny’s perspective.
The location where the Bunny was running was exactly this third floor of the New Passage.
The Little Guy first ran straight past the first intersection and entered a new fork. In the center of that fork was a cluster of gray shadows. Continuing with a left turn, there was a colored shadow. After turning left and right again… it finally saw a large, broken hole. The monsters had entered through that destroyed hole, and outside of it was the vast, open sky.
Looking at the images in his mind, Su Qi was slightly dazed.
He hadn’t expected this Little Guy to have such a special ability to transmit images.
And those shadows in the images just now—could they be the so-called Treasure?
No wonder so many beasts wanted to catch it; after all, this ability was far too powerful!
And that colored shadow—was that what attracted the beasts to this Pathway?
What could it be?
Wait, now was not the time to think about Treasure.
While marveling at the Little Guy’s miraculous nature, Su Qi briefly scanned his surroundings to confirm his position and quickly made a decision.
“Senior Sister Lin, A Yu, follow my lead! Fly forward; I know a route that can get us out of this Pathway.”
Hearing Su Qi’s instructions, Mo Yu and Lin Xue glanced at each other. Though they were both a bit confused, they quickly did as Su Qi said.
Unlike the entrance to the third floor where the beasts were heavily concentrated, they flew toward the location of the broken hole from his memory. Because their Flight speed was very fast and the walking beasts would trample each other or occasionally clash, they made progress.
As for the beasts in the sky, An Xiaoling would occasionally fire a cold arrow, and Mo Yu would release one or two screen-clearing ultimate moves as a deterrent to pave the way.
Although there were some unexpected situations and all four of them sustained some injuries, under Su Qi’s command, they finally had a clear direction and gradually pulled away from the beasts surrounding them.
After turning through an unknown number of intersections, a suddenly open, broken hole finally appeared before the four of them.
After flying out of the hole in one breath, An Xiaoling, who was being carried by Lin Xue, couldn’t help but lightly pat her unremarkable chest and let out a long sigh of relief.
After all, even though she had been through many adventures, being surrounded by beasts like that just now was indeed terrifying!
After carefully examining the hole, An Xiaoling quickly spoke in disbelief.
“How is this possible? This hole actually connects the Second Plane and the Third Plane of the Saint Ruins. This has never happened before… Wait, a flock of White-Eyed Eagles is coming from over there.”
Before An Xiaoling could finish her sentence, her voice turned into a warning.
At An Xiaoling’s reminder, Su Qi looked ahead and saw nearly 50 strong beasts that looked like eagles. Every one of them had bulging muscles as they flew toward them aggressively.
Seeing this formation and remembering An Xiaoling’s emphasis and fear in her voice, Su Qi couldn’t help but shudder violently.
Again? Isn’t there any time to rest?