"If it were just bat rats, this number could still be dealt with..." Ke Lan said. At this time, Valentina no longer used a short sword to chop bat rats that surged out from under the lifting platform. She directly controlled the mecha and rushed up - the efficiency of crushing was much higher than that of swinging.

In less than ten seconds, Valkyri's outer armor was covered with green bat rat blood, which looked like the kind of cyberpunk-style fluorescent graffiti, but even so, countless bat rats rushed towards the body without fear. They stepped on their companions' bodies and kept climbing up. Soon, Valkyri's body was covered with layers of bat rats... They gnawed at the outer armor of the body with their sharp teeth, and even Ke Lan, who was sitting in the cockpit of another body, could hear the sour and dense scratching sound.

Valentina simply let the body squat down and then directly activate the energy shield.

A brilliant light curtain flashed in the darkness, and with Valkyrie as the center, it instantly cleared a blank space of several meters in radius.

Including those bat rats crawling on Valkyrie, at least 3,000 bat rats and more corpses were vaporized in this short moment, and a disgusting burnt smell suddenly filled the entire shaft.

"This is not normal... Although small rodents like bat rats are fierce by nature, they are essentially different from those brainless low-level creatures, such as cleft-jawworms... It is the nature of living things to seek profit and avoid harm. If so many companions are killed, the remaining bat rats should have been scattered and fled..." Ke Lan thought with some confusion.

"Is it because something is driving them? A Rat King who can control his mind? Or some kind of pheromones that will drive them crazy?"

"No... these assumptions are not true... Four-eyed, six-legged bat rats, this is a kind of person that has been studied more thoroughly by humans among the native organisms of Alpha Star. There is no rat king or crazy pheromones at all..."

"Then why do they fight to stop us? Could it be... this is the nest of these bat rats?" Ke Lan's expression suddenly stopped, and the corners of her mouth twitched a few unnaturally, "This luck... is really too careless, right?"

The bat rats are the bottom of the Alpha native biological food chain. The individual strength is very weak. Even if it appears in groups, it cannot pose too much threat to humans holding advanced weapons. It is no exaggeration to say that the body of Valkyri alone can easily kill tens of thousands of bat rats in a large nest even without weapons.

but--

If there is a bat rat nest under the shaft, it means that the underground passage that originally had only one straight road may have turned into a super complex underground maze at this time... These inconspicuous little things are too terrifying to the transformation ability of the terrain. As long as they are given enough time, even the entire rock layer can be completely hollowed out.

"No, we have to go back to the ground!" Ke Lan suddenly realized that he grabbed the winch, but just as he pushed the winch in the opposite direction, a crisp sound suddenly came from the bottom of the lifting platform - Ke Lan only felt that the winch in his hand suddenly lost the unique sense of blockage, and the entire lifting platform fell rapidly to the bottom of the well.

"Grass, what kind of ragged safety device is this? It doesn't break when it should be broken, and it doesn't break when it should be broken..." Ke Lan cursed, while opening the cockpit door and shouting to Akira Asano: "Come in the cockpit! Get ready to deal with the impact!"

"What's going on? Aren't we going down?" Valentina grabbed the edge of the lifting platform and asked in the team channel.

"The reason why these bats and mice attack us like a desperate situation is because this is their nest... The underground passage of the Sandstone Waste City has probably been drilled into pieces by these guys. If we accidentally enter it, we may not be able to get out in a short time!"

"You mean, we're going to return the same way?" Valentina asked loudly.

"right."

"I understand." After saying that, her body turned around and grabbed Ke Lan's body, "Hold me too, I'll take you up."

Ke Lan was still a white plate skeleton. The output of the skeleton's own thruster was not enough to support the body to fly to the wellhead, but Valkyrie was equipped with an external thruster. Although this thing is a consumable and the internally filled fuel cannot be replenished after it is used up, its output is more than ten times that of the thruster, which is enough to fly out of the shaft with two bodies.

With a muffled "bang", the hot tail flame ejected from the thruster. However, just after the two bodies had been lifted up for several meters, the thrust suddenly changed in one direction, causing the two bodies to hit the well wall!

"What, what's going on..." Ke Lan asked hurriedly. Just now, he seemed to have glanced from the monitor screen one of the two thrusters fell off Valkyri's back and flew towards the wellhead like a missile launched...

The remaining thruster was completely out of control, with the ejected tail flames throwing around. In this case, even ace pilots like Valentina could not maintain the balance of the body, and Ke Lan collided around in the shaft.

"It seems... the connection of the thruster... breaks... I don't know why... this kind of thing happened." The successive bumps and impacts made Valentina even speak intermittently... As for Ke Lan, he simply released the joystick and closed his eyes - anyway, as long as he is not thrown out of the magnetic levitation seat by inertia, he will definitely not die if he falls.

Asano Akira also grabbed Ke Lan's backrest tightly... His condition should be the best among the three, but the problem is that in this case, he can't help with anything.

"I... I know... it's the blood of those bat rats... that corroded the connecting parts of the thruster... and then with the maximum force, the corroded connecting parts were overwhelmed..." Ke Lan said with her eyes closed. Although she figured out the reason, it was useless-

Valentina reversed the elbow joint of the mecha's right arm and cut off the connection of the remaining thruster with a dagger. The thruster that had lost its restraint flew out instantly. After several collisions with the well wall, it exploded more than 20 meters above their heads.

The two bodies finally fell back on the lifting platform... But before they could recover, the lifting platform fell heavily to the bottom of the shaft!
Chapter completed!