Chapter 77: The eggs are hatching.

Xie Ruhang, who has a great talent for concealing his tracks, following them stealthily and avoiding surveillance, and Gu Tunan, who has had professional military training since he was a child and carries military equipment to detect cameras and sneak around dead ends, both men follow the miner with a firm grip and a mutual contempt for the other's sneakiness.

Qin Wei, who was being tracked by the two top alpha's, was oblivious, turning his head several times to observe his surroundings but nothing unusual was happening, and he could only attribute his inexplicable anxiety to the pressure of the military coming to investigate.

He had just received an inside tip that the deal had been leaked from Cheng Wenhui, and the military had sent someone to investigate them.

The Cheng Family's weak alpha is a real success story, relying on the support of his wife's family to have a say in the Cheng Family, and this little white boy would have no business being involved in the Cheng Family's slum properties if it wasn't for his wife and the Cheng family name.

If he was not a member of the Qin Family, but of the Cheng Family, with his Qin Wei's strength, how could Cheng Wenhui have had a say in this transaction?

The more Qin Wei thinks about it, the more annoyed he gets.

Although the military only had vague clues from Cheng Wenhui, finding the mine in countless suspicious locations was like looking for a needle in a haystack, but there was no guarantee that the military ministry's gang would stumble upon a dead rat, so they had to move quickly and he would be responsible for taking away the traded top-quality energy crystals.

As for the paupers who are responsible for human transportation ......

Qin Wei's eyes were filled with ruthlessness.

It is better to silence them all and be done with it.

Seeing the mine ahead where they had agreed to trade, Qin Wei's pace quickened, and he was about to speak to the man at the mouth of the mine when he saw his companion in front of him shout, "Behind you!"

But the reminder came too late.

Xie Ruhang made a running impact, pouncing on Qin Wei like a cheetah in a flash, the paralyzing current of the star button he was wearing knocking the alpha out.

"Fire!" An alpha quickly set up his energy gun, and behind him there was a chorus of shots, but it was Gu Tunan who fired faster than his fellow soldiers.

Grey-blue eyes narrowed slightly, Gu Tunan looked like death reaping a life, a cold star-like light falling straight into the brow of his opponent.

The alpha in command collapsed with a stunned look on his face, and in the moment when his opponent failed to react, Xie Ruhang rolled on the spot, dodging the energy bombs with a speed that could not be captured by the naked eye, and darted into the mine.

"Enemy attack!" An alpha shouts as he aims at Xie Ruhang's back.

Without looking back, Xie Ruhang spun around to avoid the attack, and immediately afterwards he drew an energy gun and backhanded it backwards without looking.

The energy bomb hit the alpha with precision in the abdomen and another man went down.

Xie Ruhang heard heavy gunfire behind him and knew that Gu Tunan had held off the enemy at the entrance.

Having been used to fighting in various environments for so many years in the underground arena, the absence of light was not new to him, and sometimes darkness was the best cover instead.

Xie Ruhang was walking silently when he saw a light ahead and four alpha alertly raising their energy guns to the front.

With a sprint, Xie Ruhang sprinted like a ghost to his nearest opponent, like a gentleman at a ball, locking his arms around his opponent's neck and leading him in a fluttering spin, using his opponent's torso to deflect the oncoming attack.

Two shots rang out and Xie Ruhang knocked two of his enemies down, then gently reached out and pushed the man in his arms out of the way, dodging the splashes of blood with consummate grace.

Xie Ruhang looked towards the last enemy and the moment he looked at him, the alpha began to shiver.

He felt the fear that froze him from marrow to blood, the cruel but beautiful dark phoenix eyes he saw in the last moments of his life.

Xie Ruhang, having finished with all the enemies in the mine, ran his eyes over the twenty or so paupers trapped, and soon saw Lu's father, who had collapsed in a corner and was dying, looking even more emaciated at this time than Lu's mother, who had been seriously ill earlier.

Xie Ruhang strides forward and tries to untie Lu's father, who struggles to open his eyes to see Xie Ruhang's face.

Xie Ruhang leaned in close to hear Lu's father say in a faint voice, "Run, run."

"BANG--!!!"

The cave collapse happened in a flash when ten blasters installed in the abandoned mine detonated together, leaving Xie Ruhang only able to hold Lu Xiaoshan's father before he was struck by the rapidly falling rock and fell unconscious in the first wave of the explosion.

Xie Ruhang, before she fell unconscious, heard the shaking of the earth, the ghostly wailing of life being torn apart, and the crisp click...

The mecha egg that was in Xie Ruhang's pocket suddenly split open a small opening and a bright green mechanical vine burst out, looking so slender and soft.

Xie Ruhang was afraid that if the mecha egg, which he had hatched for so long, ran away, he might not be able to find it anywhere on campus, so he took it with him.

Another slender vine broke through the egg wall, followed by a third and a fourth ...... They feel the presence of a large number of energy crystals, and these mechanical vines, fresh out of their shells and wanting to feed, fly like young pythons towards their food.

The first to be entangled was Lu's father, who was closest.

Although protected by Xie Ruhang, Lu's father, who had been held captive for so long, was incredibly weak and fell into a coma from the impact of the blast, and fortunately was unconscious so that he would not be frightened out of his wits by the bizarre scene.

Only those mechanical vines were seen wrapping around Lu's father's abdomen, the location where the energy crystals existed.

Cheng Family uses the poor as carriers of energy crystals, they feed them special food beforehand and inject them with potions that transform their bodies into carriers suitable for transport.

These vines are now absorbing energy from energy crystals across the air. The food of mecha pets is energy crystals, and the energy crystals delivered by Cheng Family are all rare and extremely high quality energy crystals on the market, compared to the medium grade energy crystals that Xie Ruhang usually feeds his mecha eggs, it is the difference between a mountain of food and a meal of chaff.

The mechanical vine was so agitated that its small leaves curled up, its rhizome became thicker by leaps and bounds, the mechanical vine grew rapidly under the nourishment of the extremely high quality energy crystals, it not only wrapped around Lu's father, but also greedily wrapped around all the twenty or so poor people present.

Countless mechanical vines wove a great net, seemingly soft but hard, firmly shielding everyone present from any falling rock that would crush its precious food and owner.

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Tang Bai received an alert that the attack function of the star button had been used.

Is Xiao Cheng in some kind of danger?

Tang Bai sent a message to Xiao Cheng, but he did not receive a reply, which made Tang Bai vaguely uneasy.

Tang Bai sent another message to Xie Ruhang asking about Xiao Cheng. He remembered that Xie Ruhang had said he had met Xiao Cheng, so maybe Xie Ruhang knew what Xiao Cheng had done.

But Xie Ruhang did not reply to his messages either.

Xie Ruhang never leaves a message from him unanswered unless something comes up.

Tang Bai's mind was in turmoil when he suddenly realised that Gu Tunan had sent him a message twenty minutes ago. He had set Gu Tunan's message alerts on Do Not Disturb mode because he was so annoyed with him that he didn't even notice what Gu Tunan had sent him.

Gu Tunan: [ Tang Bai, I'm going to be involved in the Cheng Wenhui investigation this time, don't worry, I'll help you out].

Participate in Cheng Wenhui's survey?

Tang Bai froze for a moment. Didn't Cheng Wenhui already go to the police station?

There is no mention of the character Cheng Wenhui in the book, could there be other storylines involving Cheng Wenhui?

Tang Bai simply asked Grandpa Tang directly, Grandpa Tang said: "We found some clues on the Cheng Wenhui optical brain about the Cheng Family's private trading of energy crystals, the military department sent people to investigate this matter, Gu Tunan and Xie Ruhang those two boys were involved in the investigation, the two of them happened to team up together and luckily found the Cheng Family trading stronghold, but The two of them happened to team up together and luckily found the Cheng Family's trading stronghold, but ......"

"I heard that there was an explosion in that mine and Xie Ruhang was buried in it."

"Hello? Tang Tang, are you listening to me?"

Tang Bai heard himself say, "Where is that mine? I'm going."

The explosion in the mine did not happen in the book because Cheng Wenhui was not revealed and there would have been no clues from the Ministry of the Army to find the clues in Cheng Wenhui's optical brain, let alone Xie Ruhang and Gu Tunan following the clues to find the Cheng Family's temporary stronghold in the mine.

In the book, Xie Ruhang and Gu Tunan teamed up after they discovered the Cheng Family smuggling energy crystals to the Star Pirates, and the two joined forces and returned safely.

Is something going to happen to Xie Ruhang?

The danger of a mine explosion is not only the impact of the blast, but also the pressure of falling rocks after a collapse ......

It was his fault.

It was he who changed the plot.

Why did this happen?

Tang Bai sat dumbfounded in his hovercar, watching the scenery around him change along the way, and soon he and a bunch of others arrived at Area B of the mine.

"Oh my God! What is that thing?!"

"How did the mine get such a big vine?!"

"This vine will move!!!"

A succession of shrieks came from all around, and Tang Bai stared round at the sight of several immense, emerald green vines dancing through a field of rubble, which lifted the heavy stones up, clattering the rubble and raising a cloud of dust on the ground.

In the dust, more vines sprang up like some kind of horrible man-eating monster, and the next thing that happened was even more terrible -

The next part of this vine to emerge had a bunch of humans tied to it!

The humans were all in a comatose state and looked in a terrible state, covered in blood, not knowing if they had been injured in this collapse or by this vine monster bundle.

Xie Ruhang is one of them.

The roots of this giant vine appear to be rooted in Xie Ruhang's body, seemingly using him as sustenance.

Tang Bai could not sit still when he saw the figure of Xie Ruhang, he instantly stood up, eager to rush up and make himself suffer instead of Xie Ruhang.

Is this vine an alien creature found by the Cheng Family? Is it using Xie Ruhang's body as sustenance? Wait ...... Why does it look somehow familiar?

The amber eyes were slightly confused.

The crowd had their energy cannons trained on this unheard of monster, and they would not hesitate to fire at the word of command!

Tang Bai looked at the vines that were so huge that they seemed to cover the sky, especially the metallic shine that vaguely glimmered on them, and the inexplicable sense of familiarity grew stronger and stronger.

Suddenly, Tang Bai's mind wandered back to a design he had made for a mecha pet.

Mechanical vines, a combination of mechanical and alien life, during incubation, the inside of the mech egg simulates the alien environment to allow the seedlings to grow and develop, the seedlings are screened not to destroy the ecology, they can become smaller and larger and can be retrieved, the maximum size is related to the number of energy crystals devoured, and will not exceed two meters in length under normal feeding ......

So how many energy crystals did this vine eat to grow this big!!!

"Everyone get ready, on the count of three, everyone together shoot at the roots of this monster-"

"Wait!" Tang Bai exclaimed as the crowd looked on in amazement, "It's not a monster!"