Holding Their Own Space, the Family Returns to the Apocalypse

146: She can burrow underground!Cheng Siyu glared at Ai Yue with resentment. Ai Yue wasn’t annoyed at all, laughing and mocking her: ”How hilarious. To think Beauty Cheng would have such a pathetic day. Tsk tsk, look at how this little face is all scratched up. I wonder if it’ll leave a scar. Sigh, what a shame...”

Cheng Siyu struggled to lift her hand to touch her face, her eyes filled with uncontrollable fear, terrified that her appearance was ruined.

”Heh... even at this stage, you’re still worried about your looks. How ridiculous. You’d better think about how to ensure you don’t get eaten next.”

After Ai Yue finished speaking, she left without hesitation.

As Ai Yue left, Cheng Siyu, who was unable to move on the ground, finally felt afraid. She was terrified that an Alien Insect really would come along and eat her in a moment.

Her gaze was full of venomous resentment, and her face became distorted.

Why was the heavens so unfair? She had used every means possible and suffered heavy injuries, yet she hadn’t killed a single Devil Frog; she couldn’t even manage to run away.

But why was Ai Yue so powerful? She had resolved those Devil Frogs that she herself couldn’t defeat in just a few moves.

Was it because she was powerful that Gu Xiheng looked at her in a new light?

She gnashed her teeth in resentment toward Ai Yue while simultaneously fearing that an Alien Insect would actually appear.

After an unknown amount of torment, the thing she feared did not happen. Gu Xitian finally arrived with Gu Xiheng and the others.

Seeing Cheng Siyu lying motionless on the ground, surrounded by the corpses of Devil Frogs, Gu Xiheng’s heart tightened. He quickened his pace, taking the lead to reach Cheng Siyu. He scooped her up and asked, ”Siyu, are you alright?!”

Cheng Siyu gave a tragic, beautiful smile. ”Xiheng, you’re finally here.”

After saying that, her head slumped to the side, and she fainted.

Gu Xiheng’s face was tense. After a brief examination, he found that she was indeed severely injured and in urgent need of treatment. He immediately picked her up and rushed back.

Originally, he had thought that in such a situation, with Cheng Siyu’s skills, there was no possibility of survival at all.

But he truly hadn’t expected that Cheng Siyu had become so powerful, managing to turn the tables and kill her enemies in such a desperate situation. She was truly impressive!

Deep down, Gu Xiheng felt a faint sense of admiration for Cheng Siyu’s actions.

After receiving treatment, Cheng Siyu soon regained consciousness. Regarding Gu Xiheng’s belief that she had killed the Devil Frogs, she offered no explanation and tacitly accepted it.

She didn’t mention Ai Yue at all, and Gu Xitian likewise didn’t say that they had run out because they saw Ai Yue; she also found a random excuse to brush it off.

The matter was left at that. Under their intentional concealment, Gu Xiheng did not know that Ai Yue had also come to Songzhou Safety Tower.

Ai Yue did not return to the Trading Center. She planned to find a few stray Devil Frogs and use their right eyes to expand the black soil in her space.

This was to be used for planting the newly acquired medicinal herb seeds.

Stray Devil Frogs were not easy to find. Three days passed, and Ai Yue had no harvest.

Devil Frogs were everywhere, but there were too many of them. It was truly exhausting for her to fight so many Devil Frogs alone.

Seeing that the probability of encountering a stray Devil Frog was too low, Ai Yue had no choice but to think of other methods.

Since they didn’t wander off alone, she would just have to artificially make them stray.

Once Ai Yue had a plan, she immediately got busy.

She used the Earth Evasion Technique to go underground, kill a few Ancient Centipedes, and drag them up.

She placed one far away from the Devil Frog swarm. The Devil Frogs, whose sense of smell was not very keen, didn’t notice at first.

Only the few on the very edge sniffed with puzzled expressions and hopped toward the scent.

Ai Yue took the opportunity to drag the centipede corpse further back, keeping the Devil Frogs trailing at a distance.

Sure enough, the Devil Frogs fell for the trap, following the faint scent all the way away from the swarm.

Once the distance was far enough, Ai Yue stopped retreating and stood her ground, waiting for the Devil Frogs to be lured over.

Three Devil Frogs hopped over, following the scent of the Ancient Centipede. Ai Yue originally wanted to knock all three unconscious, but unfortunately, two of them realized they couldn’t beat her and prepared to let out a loud cry to call their kind.

How could Ai Yue let them summon their kin? She could only kill the two of them.

In the end, she only obtained one right eye.

Despite this, and not getting the right eyes of the other two, Ai Yue was still happy. Although the method was a bit clumsy, there was no denying it was effective.

Every little bit adds up!

She didn’t mind the trouble. Repeating the process, she soon obtained three right eyes, having killed twelve Devil Frogs in total.

Knocking three Devil Frogs unconscious in a row was taxing even for a person with super strength; Ai Yue felt a bit overwhelmed and exhausted.

She planned to knock out two more and then rest.

However, on the fourth attempt, she accidentally attracted a large group. The sound of her fighting them drew even more Devil Frogs into the fray. Seeing their numbers grow, she had no choice but to give up and quickly flee the scene.

After escaping to a safe place, Ai Yue couldn’t help but mutter to herself, ”Sigh, if only I could attract just one at a time, then I wouldn’t be this tired!”

But there was no easy way; Devil Frogs always moved in swarms. It was hard enough to come up with a plan, and even then, it was easy for things to go wrong.

Ai Yue pondered deeply from dusk until midnight. Suddenly, a stroke of inspiration hit her, and she actually thought of a feasible method.

She had the Earth Evasion Superpower! She could completely drag a Devil Frog underground without anyone noticing. Then, just before it was about to suffocate and lose its ability to move, couldn’t she just gouge out the right eye?

It was simple, effortless, and safe.

Once the idea came to her, she put it into action.

With her eyes gleaming, Ai Yue began her experiment.

She picked a direction and used the Earth Evasion Technique to silently travel beneath the area where the Devil Frog swarm was located.

Waiting for the right moment, she grabbed one and dragged it underground.

No matter how hard the Devil Frog in her hand struggled, it couldn’t escape the grip of her super strength.

The first one was successfully dragged deep enough underground.

Ai Yue dumped it there and ignored it, letting it struggle in vain.

She quickly returned to the surface and dragged down another one.

Although the Devil Frogs couldn’t escape underground, their regenerative abilities were very powerful, so they wouldn’t die immediately.

By the time Ai Yue had dragged down twenty of them, the first one she had caught still showed no signs of suffocating.

Ai Yue felt helpless. These Devil Frogs were truly one of the most difficult species to deal with; their vitality was just too strong.

There was nothing for it but to wait.

She didn’t want to just wait around doing nothing, so she continued dragging Devil Frogs underground.

She didn’t know how many she had dragged down. If one had X-ray vision underground, they wouldn’t be able to see the end of them at a glance; there were at least a hundred.

Three days later, the first Devil Frog she had dragged down finally showed signs of suffocating.

It also sensed it was dying and began frantically clawing at the surrounding soil with its tongue and legs.

But it was to no avail. As it used up its last shred of strength, Ai Yue struck. She moved quickly to gouge out the right eye of the Devil Frog, which had lost all resistance.

A moment later, the Devil Frog turned into fly ash.

As time passed, Ai Yue removed the right eyes of the underground Devil Frogs one after another.

It wasn’t until the last Devil Frog vanished before her that she finally relaxed. Feeling light and unburdened, she flashed into her space to check the condition of the black soil.