Interstellar Hunter Nation 016 Underground Flood Peak

  "Paik, didn't you say you were most familiar with the terrain around here? What was the time you calculated for discharging the wastewater earlier?" asked Wu Chang, who was lying on the ground.

  "At least three more hours, I calculated it very clearly..."

  Before Pack could finish speaking, Wuchang suddenly jumped up from the ground and put Aileen on his back with one hand, then took off running.

  "Hurry up, you've absolutely miscalculated..."

  At this critical moment, no one dared to question his unpredictable judgment, and a group of people followed closely behind him, rushing all the way. On the road, Pack was still muttering to himself, "How could I be wrong? I remember it clearly!"

  Layne, leaning against the fierce cow, went up and slapped the back of Pack's head with a loud slap. "How can you talk so much nonsense? Hurry up and come to help with the fierce cow."

  Paike, who had been beaten, didn't dare to distinguish himself and quickly ran forward with his arms around the fierce cow.

  The judgment of the unpredictable is not wrong, the faint tremors coming from the north are just three thermal power plants discharging water. Geothermal energy is a kind of energy that is everywhere in Huangyuan Star, and thermal power plants extract energy from hot spring water to supply cities.

  Although Huangyacun is not large, it has also become a medium-sized city with a population of over 200,000. In addition to the energy demand from the surrounding mining areas, this makes the three power plants operate at full capacity all year round. The hot water accumulated in six hours is enough to trigger a flood peak in the drainage pipe network.

  It stands to reason that Paik shouldn't have gotten these common sense facts wrong, but unfortunately Paik is just a lowly miner after all. The people of Hwangae Castle wouldn't specially notify him about the change in drainage time, which led to today's serious mistake.

  Billions of cubic meters of hot water rushed in, filling the main pipe network with a diameter of over 10 meters. White waves surged to the sky, and the sound shook like thunder, roaring down with the help of huge terrain drop.

  This speed is too fast, it's not something that ordinary people can surpass. If Wu Chang hadn't warned us in advance, perhaps everyone would have ended up buried here.

  They were really unlucky, and the location they were in didn't have any forks in the road. Everyone could only run south on the alloy platform on one side of the sewer. Fortunately, there was a warning from Wu Chang, or these people might not have had time to escape before being swallowed up by the flood peak.

  The sound of water behind grew louder and louder, people running wildly were already panting, but in front of everyone's eyes, there was still no shelter or even a place to take refuge. The unpredictable early warning actually only gave everyone 5 minutes to escape, and the flesh and blood could hardly contend with the forces of nature.

  Despairing emotions spread throughout the team, especially since Pai Ke had already given up. His legs were like lead, and he was struggling at the back of the team with a painful injury.

  Laine and Pan ran side by side in the middle of the pack, though better than the wild oxen they were also panting.

  The front of the team was none other than Wu Chang, who was carrying Erin on his back. After all, Wu Chang's strength had already reached the level of a three-segment martial artist, and although he was injured and bleeding profusely, his foundation was still better than that of this current group of people.

  Carrying an Eileen, plus massive blood loss and continuous combat, at this time Wu Chang's unpredictable moves even with the Dragon Tiger Force would have little effect, despair had already infected him.

  As she ran, Irene realized the gravity of the situation and suddenly jumped down from the unpredictable back with a loud shout: "Run, everyone escape on their own, don't carry any more burdens, those who survive remember to avenge everyone..."

  Aileen's words were not yet finished, when behind everyone, at the corner of the drainage pipe network, a white wave had already rushed over, that was the vanguard of the flood peak.

  This time, even Laine and Boss Pan didn't hesitate anymore. The two of them shouted at Wu Chang, "Run, Wu Chang! Just run and don't worry about us... just remember to avenge us..."

  At this time, Man Niu also shook off Pai Ke. He pointed at Pai Ke and shouted: "Stinky old mouse, hurry up and run with Wu Chang, everyone's hope is on you two now!"

  Man Niu is right, he and Boss Pan are both injured, Lain is old, and let's not mention Aileen who was born with a slightly crippled left foot. The two people with the greatest hope of survival now are Wu Chang and Pai Ke, and the four people present absolutely cannot be the stumbling block for their escape.

  Layne glared at the two of them, who were standing there wasting time, his nose twisted in anger. "Get out, both of you...!" He said, his eyes welling up with tears as he looked at Wu Chang.

  "Are you waiting for me to die here?" The enraged old Laine pulled out a handgun from his waist and pressed it against his temple "Get out, get out now"

  His eyes were moist, not just because the scene was so touching, but also because he had already felt utterly desperate in his heart. He had seen that the true face of the master Hongfeng had already appeared behind everyone's back. Now it was too late to escape.

  Life is never a drama, and it's impossible for the main character to burst out with a heroic aura at a critical moment and save the entire team with their own strength. Just like now, no matter how strong and touching the self-sacrificing spirit of Aileen, Lain, Mr. Pan, and Man Niu is, it can't change the reality that Hongfeng has already arrived.

  Wu Chang knew that even if he turned around and ran now, it would be impossible to outrun the floodwaters, unless his current physical condition was at its peak, with the power of a dragon and tiger able to exert ten times its usual strength. Unfortunately, life doesn't have so many ifs and maybes.

  At that moment, everyone in the scene saw the surging white waves behind them, and the hot air sprayed from the peak of the flood like a mountain, pressing towards everyone. This time, all people understood that everything had really ended.

  But just at this critical moment, at the top of the sewer, more than ten meters high, several dark shadows shot towards everyone like sharp arrows, and a fierce hissing sound was also transmitted in the air.

  "Cannibals?" The people present at the time had only these three words in their minds, and no one dared to believe it. Wasn't being drowned by the flood tragic enough? Did they have to be killed and eaten by cannibals first before being drowned?

  No mistake, the black shadow emerging from the cave top is indeed a warrior of the cannibal tribe. These screaming human monsters have three rows of sharp teeth in their mouths, shining with a cold white light that makes people shudder. Wu Chang thought about the wound on his shoulder and a chill ran up from his lower back.

  Humans have a very strange characteristic, which is that they love to choose their own way of death. People always fantasize about many kinds of ways to die and compare them hypothetically. Dying in bed without illness or disaster, with loved ones by your side, is certainly the best way to die. While dying from merciless water and fire, cruel wars, etc., are definitely the worst ways to die.

  However, among all the ways of death, there is one that is universally recognized as the worst, and that is being eaten alive by another person. This scenario doesn't even need to be witnessed with one's own eyes; just thinking about it sends chills down one's spine.

  Unfortunately, today everyone encountered such a situation, a situation that would make all people present collapse.

  Caught off guard, no one had time to counterattack as the cannibal tribe's movements were too fast. Even Laine, who was holding a handgun, didn't have time to turn the muzzle before a large hand covered in shells slapped the gun into the river water.

  The cannibal warriors rushed into the crowd, each one carrying a person on their shoulders like a sack of rice, and then rushed southward like a gust of wind.

  What's going on? Are these cannibals going to take everyone back to their lair and slowly devour them? Just as the desperate Mr. Pan was about to pull out his gun and end it all, Wu suddenly shouted out loud.

  "Don't resist, there's something strange..." The sentence dispelled everyone's suicidal thoughts.

  Since Irene brought the unpredictable from the wild, miracles have been with him, and even the miners gave him a nickname called Ghost Unpredictable. People who often appear in miracles are easy to gain trust from others, now it's like this, Unpredictable's one sentence actually made everyone temporarily forget their fear of the cannibal tribe.

  He didn't know why he wanted to shout this sentence, he just felt the kindness emitted by this group of cannibals from his heart, it was purely a feeling, a very subtle feeling.

  This time, the cannibal tribes that appeared can be considered as warrior-level, and Ye Tian's combat power has already surpassed that of the captain of the guard, Ye Tian. Moreover, the cannibal tribes have a good physical quality since birth, and their speed is actually faster than Hong Feng's.

  In the continuous running, everyone stared blankly as the flood peak rushed up close behind them, as if they could touch it with their hands. The flood peak was roaring, as if unwilling to let these humble humans escape alive, but no matter how fast the flood peak increased its speed, it couldn't touch even a corner of their clothes.

  In a short while, everyone's eyes suddenly lit up in front of them, and a fork appeared, which was slanted at the top of the sewer, straight into the sky at a 45° angle. The fork wasn't long, and Aileen could already see the dark red lead clouds and drifting volcanic ash outside.

  "Land!" Irene shouted "We're saved......" Excited, she seemed to have forgotten that she was rescued by cannibals and also forgot that in a short while she might become a pot of meat soup for the cannibals.

  A group of cannibals also got excited, chattering and jumping onto the fork in the road, rushing down towards the ground on sharp rocks. When a line of cannibals burst out of the ground and slid through mid-air, a column of hot water suddenly gushed out from underground as well, forming a fountain tens of meters high along the fork in the road. Water droplets splashed in the air, creating a localized rainstorm.

  After everyone landed safely, a group of people stared blankly at the fountain in front of them, spewing hot air, and remained silent for a long time. Finally, it was Groundhog Pikachu who broke the silence.

  "I've been thinking hard and couldn't have imagined it - my life was actually saved by a cannibal tribe?"

  At this time, the old man Laine suddenly said in a low voice, "In the evolutionary history of human beings, the history of animal husbandry far exceeds that of farming. Our ancestors learned to capture living things, not kill them first, and then raise them until they breed, so as to obtain endless meat without hunting..."

  The old man's words made the people sitting around him shiver, they huddled together and looked at the cannibal tribe surrounding them in a circle outside, their faces turned white with fear, especially after seeing the three rows of sharp teeth, Pik, the mole, was so scared that he wet his pants.

  The scene was extremely eerie, a group of cannibals surrounded the six humans with their mouths wide open and drooling, while the six humans had no ability to resist at all.