Tokyo underground city

Chapter 23 Decision

"Ajiu! You wake up!"

"Neil...where am I...am I resurrected?"

Obviously, the girl who had just woken up was still very confused. She looked at Neil next to her with a confused look on her face: "Did we succeed? Or failed? I'm sorry...it's all because of me..."

"Stop talking!" However, Neil hugged the girl: "You are not dead! You are not resurrected! It's only been three days since you came to the queen's place for us! We rescued you from the monsters in the dungeon. Got it!"

"Is this... is this..." A girl named Ah Jiu, whose personality was obviously much gentler than Neil's, slowly patted Neil's shoulder and looked around slowly: "Captain Senyan, everyone... is Did you save me? Thank you..."

"Stop talking." Sen Yan squatted down slightly and held Ah Jiu's arm, "You just woke up, have a good rest. After a while, I want to hear your story after you were separated."

"Um...Okay." Ah Jiu then realized that she was naked at this time, with only a thin blanket on her body, and there were all men around her.

Her face suddenly turned red and she shrank subconsciously.

At this moment, Neil, who was holding Ah Jiu, also finished crying and felt her little movements.

She jumped up quickly like a cat whose tail was stepped on——

"What are you looking at! Have you never seen naked bodies?! Get out of here!"

Although the fierce Neil has a harsh tone, compared to Ah Jiu and Sen Yan, she is considered petite and has little momentum when she is angry.

However, the explorers still gave Neil some face and sighed: "Let's go, let's go, virgins have no human rights!" and dispersed.

Now that Sen Yan's family members had spoken, Lin Huai'en also dispersed along with the crowd - although there were still two people who had not woken up, judging from the ups and downs of their chests, their lives were not in danger.

However, he was still a little curious: "Xiao Le, what do you think the cicada-eating ants are doing by catching the three of them? Like the giant cicada monkey, using them as placentas?"

"If they were used as placentas, they wouldn't be put into the body of the giant cicada monkey."

Yuan Xiaole thought for a moment and replied.

"That's right." Lin Huai'en thought for a while, but really had no clue: "Maybe he just regarded them as food reserves? Forget it, let's wait and see what they say."

"Yes." Yuan Xiaole nodded and agreed with Lin Huai'en's idea.

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It was two hours later that Lin Huai'en and the others saw Ah Jiu and the other two missing members again.

Senyan called Lin Huaien and three other people over. Also present were the key members of each pioneer team. Neil and the mage who used the ice technique were also present.

"Okay, Ah Jiu, everyone is here. Please tell us what happened after you separated from us."

Senyan looked around, and when she saw everyone was here, she nodded and said.

"Okay." Ah Jiu nodded and slowly narrated.

Ah Jiu's story was not long. After listening to it, Lin Huai'en quickly came to a conclusion: "In short, because of the pressure of the cicada-eating ants, you had to retreat towards the ant nest. In the ant nest, you were attacked by the cicada-eating ants." The guard sprayed a large amount of formic acid and lost consciousness?"

"Yes..." Ah Jiu hesitated, "Before I passed out, the clothes on my body were in tatters."

Can super formic acid corrode equipment?

Lin Huai'en heard Mu Yaya quietly asking Yuan Xiaole from behind.

have no idea.

Yuan Xiaole replied.

The confusion between Mu Yaya and Yuan Xiaole is also something Senyan doesn't understand.

She frowned:

"Is the equipment corroded by formic acid? Ah Jiu, forget about the equipment of you and Lai Yingying, and sell the armor on your hands. It should be strengthened against super formic acid. Has his equipment also been corroded?"

"This..." Ah Jiu hesitated for a moment, then glanced at the sword and shield hand beside him: "It should be, but I'm not sure. It's better for the seller to answer it himself."

"It was corrupted." The salesman nodded, took over Ah Jiu's narration, and continued, "I was responsible for protecting Miss Ah Jiu, but when the cicada-eating ants came up, I was pushed to the ground, and then I saw Without Ah Jiu and Lai Yingwen, I could only see the fangs of the cicada-eating ants waving at me."

"Then these cicada-eating ants spit acid on my body. I could feel that the armor could resist it at first, but as the formic acid flooded my body, the acid began to corrode the armor from the inside, and soon it was destroyed. It became tattered and then shattered.”

"Super formic acid can corrode equipment... Write this down first and let the research department verify it." Senyan thought for a moment and gave the order: "Also, take samples of the cicada-eating ant corpses in the nest and take a look. Are their acid glands different from cicada-eating ants in other places?"

"Understood!" The pioneer explorers confirmed the order in unison.

"So, one last question."

Sen Yan turned her attention to Lin Huai'en and Yuan Xiaole: "Lin, Yuan Xiaole, have you decided? Are you going to continue moving forward with us, or are you going to retreat?"

"Can I ask a question first?"

Before Yuan Xiaole could answer, Lin Huai'en spoke first.

"Please speak." Senyan nodded.

"If we choose to retreat, will you retreat too?"

"..." Sen Yan was silent for a moment: "Because Ah Jiu and the others did not die... so the Blazers' combat power at this time far exceeded my original estimate. As the leader of the entire team, I have the responsibility to the team and the The company is responsible for bringing them to the [Dungeon Core] on the third floor to see the 'real difficulty'."

Senyan's words were very tactful. At first glance, it sounded like she was determined to go down.

But...Lin Huaien knew what she meant very well.

Now there are green jar ants and placental cicada monkeys. The potential mutant ants and male ants mentioned by Yuan Xiaole have not appeared either. The equipment on Ah Jiu is only spare parts, and it is definitely not comparable to when it was fully equipped.

For such a pioneer, facing the core of the third-level dungeon without knowing the details will definitely be full of dangers.

But she had to do this, because if she retreated at this time, she would not be able to explain to the company why she chose to retreat when "all personnel were available and there was no loss."

In this case, it is not only herself who will be affected, but also the entire Pioneer Chapter.

Once the company is judged to be cowardly, the entire Trail Blazers team will be demoted in the rankings and will no longer be trained as the main team.

And this will be a very serious blow to the members of the Trail Blazers.

Sighing, Lin Huai'en looked at one-fifth of his experience bar and looked at Yuan Xiaole: "What do you think?"

"Only we can't retreat, right?" Yuan Xiaole replied.

Because of the experiences of the past two days, Yuan Xiaole had already developed some feelings for Senyan and the others, so there was no hint of anger in his tone that he had been cheated.

"The four of us alone cannot return to the second level." He calmly estimated the current situation: "Using bait tactics will take too long. Once hatched, the entire team will be wiped out."

"So, are you promising us to move on?" Sen Yan asked tentatively.

"Yes, for the time being." Yuan Xiaole replied calmly: "We will continue to follow you as agreed. We can also bear part of the usual battles."

"But in contrast, as for the core of the dungeon, please allow us to wait and see. If we feel that the strength is acceptable, we will try it three times together as agreed before. If we still fail, we will retreat."

His words were firm.

Sen Yan pondered for a moment and said, "What if you think we are not strong enough?"

"Then we will wait nearby for you to win or retreat." Yuan Xiaole expressed his opinion clearly: "Even if there are only half of you left, it will be enough for us to return to the second floor."

"...This is good, at least it can ensure that our remaining troops can retreat."

Sen Yan pondered for a moment, then nodded, as if she thought this plan was not bad.