Super Ship: Matchmaking starts with black and white stockings sisters

Inside the dark underground cave, the air was as thick as a pot of uncooked lard.

Above us hung stalactites, from time to time dripping a few drops of cool water that made a crisp "drip-drip" sound as they hit the rocks.

Yin Mingtao walked in the very middle of the group.

In front of him was a scapegoat holding a tattered shield, followed by several trusted men with spears, sandwiching him and Yu Weiwei in the middle, protecting them tightly.

"You all better open your eyes!"

Yin Mingtao lowered his voice, his hoarse voice echoing in the empty passageway, which was irritating to listen to.

"This place is really eerie."

"Where are those scouts who came in earlier? Why haven't they made a sound?"

Yu Weiwei hunched her shoulders, and her low-cut dress, which had originally shown off her figure, was now wrapped in a windbreaker that she had picked up from somewhere.

"The Poison Master...could he have already been...?"

She made a throat-slitting motion.

Yin Mingtao's eyelids twitched, and he slapped her across the face.

"Snapped!"

"Shut your mouth!"

"Are you afraid that people's hearts aren't disintegrating fast enough?"

Yu Weiwei covered her face, tears welling up in her eyes, but dared not make a sound.

Yin Mingtao now is like a frightened mad dog, biting anyone he can get his hands on.

Just as this group of people were inching forward like frightened birds.

In a crevice in a rock wall tens of meters above your head.

Four pairs of eyes coldly observed all of this through the optical camouflage tactical faceplates.

Qin Yu held a compressed biscuit in his hand, chewing it with a crunching sound.

"Tsk."

"These people are really unlucky."

He pointed to the winding, seemingly endless fork in the road below.

"This misty ruin looks like an underground city, but it's actually a huge underwater labyrinth."

"And it's the kind that has a fog-like, hallucinogenic effect."

Yao Xue pushed up the tactical goggles on her nose, and the data stream in front of her rushed past like a waterfall.

"Draw a diagram based on the sonar signals that were just transmitted back."

"The structure of this copy is very complex."

"It's like a giant anthill."

She swiped her finger in the air, bringing up a virtual map that only the four of them could see.

"The entire 'Misty Ruins' spans thousands of nautical miles."

"The system has set up a total of ten entry points for traffic distribution."

"Each entrance corresponds to a specific sea area."

Yao Xue pointed to the light spot marked with '3'.

"Our district, 9527, along with several other districts that have been merged, has a very large sea area, but there is only one entrance, number 3."

"In other words..."

"Whether we like it or not."

"If you want to enter this instance, you have to go through this door."

Li Ruobing seemed to understand but not quite, with a lollipop dangling from her mouth.

So...

"It wasn't that idiot Zhang Nanhai who predicted our arrival."

"It's not that we're going to block them."

"Or has the system forced everyone to this same pigsty entrance?"

Qin Yu nodded and swallowed the last bite of the cookie.

"Correct answer."

"This is what they call 'enemies meeting on a narrow road'."

"There's only one dog hole in thousands of kilometers of ocean."

"Logically, it makes sense that they want to set up an ambush here."

"It's a pity."

"They didn't expect that the tiger they wanted to ambush was actually a Tyrannosaurus Rex."

Yao Qian lay on Qin Yu's back, her little feet swinging back and forth.

"Brother Yu, Brother Yu, what do we do now?"

"There are three forks in the road down there."

"If they go the wrong way, will we follow them and go the wrong way too?"

Qin Yu looked down at Yin Mingtao, who was hesitating at the crossroads, and a slight smile appeared on his lips.

"That's why I spared their lives."

"Exploring new paths is a high-risk, low-reward endeavor."

"Of course, we have to let the professional 'cannon fodder' do it."

……

below.

At the three-way intersection.

Thick white mist billowed out from the three openings, like three large mouths exhaling smoke rings.

From the opening on the left, the sound of flowing water can be faintly heard.

The opening in the middle was deathly silent.

From the opening on the right, a faint friction sound could be heard from time to time.

Yin Mingtao stood at the intersection, his forehead almost dry from cold sweat.

He looked back at the two hundred or so people behind him.

Everyone's face screamed "I don't want to die."

"you!"

Yin Mingtao pointed to a man who looked fairly robust.

"Let's look to the left!"

The man's face turned pale, and his legs trembled.

"Poison...poison master, I have a wife and children at home..."

"puff!"

A green poison gas arrow shot out from the poison canister and struck the man's thigh precisely.

"ah--!!!"

The man let out a piercing scream.

His thigh flesh was visibly turning black and rotting, emitting a nauseating stench.

"To go, or to die?"

Yin Mingtao's voice was as cold as a viper's tongue.

"If you go, there's a 50% chance you'll survive."

"I won't go. I'll turn you into a puddle of pus right now."

The man was writhing on the ground in pain, his face covered in snot and tears.

"Wow! Wow!"

He dragged his half-rotten leg, howling as he crawled toward the left-hand opening.

Everyone fell silent.

This is the end times.

Human life is cheaper than grass.

The man crawled into the left-hand opening, his figure quickly swallowed by the mist.

One minute.

Two minutes.

Sudden.

"Glug—"

A strange, muffled sound came from behind.

Followed by.

It was a sound that made your teeth ache from chewing.

"Click...click..."

It's like they're going to chew the bones to pieces.

But not a single scream was heard.

Yin Mingtao's expression changed, and he abruptly took a step back.

"The left side is blocked!"

"There's something there!"

"Substitute!"

He then pointed to a thin young man.

"Go to the middle!"

The young man was so frightened that he wet his pants on the spot, but under the threat of the poisonous gas, he could only cry and scream as he rushed into the middle of the hole.

This time.

There is no sound.

There were neither screams nor chewing sounds.

It's like a drop of water merging into the ocean.

Ten minutes have passed.

The young man did not return.

Yin Mingtao's expression grew increasingly grim.

The fear of the unknown is more agonizing than death itself.

"Oh shit!"

"A bunch of useless trash!"

Just as he was about to forcefully select a third person.

Inside the hole on the right.

Something suddenly rolled out.

"Rolling around—"

The thing rolled to a stop at Yin Mingtao's feet.

By the faint glow of fireflies.

Everyone saw it clearly.

It was a skull.

But this skull looks a bit strange.

The skull was neatly opened, revealing it to be completely empty, as if something had scooped out and eaten the brain matter.

"ah!!!"

Yu Weiwei screamed in fright and clung tightly to a burly man next to her.

Yin Mingtao's eyes lit up.

He crouched down and, suppressing his nausea, examined the skull.

"The cut is smooth."

"The bones have already weathered away."

"This means there is air circulation in the cave, and there are no large monsters that can swallow people whole."

He stood up and waved his staff.

"Go to the right!"

"The presence of human bones means someone went in there before!"

Fortune favors the bold!

"Rush!"

Although the group was apprehensive, they had no choice but to grit their teeth and follow along.

More than two hundred people, like a long snake, swarmed into the hole on the right.

……

Until the last person's figure disappeared.

Qin Yu and the others then jumped down from the rock face.

It landed silently.

The suit's built-in cushioning system perfectly eliminates all impact.

Qin Yu walked over to the skull and kicked it away.

"A brain is a good thing."

"It's a pity Yin Mingtao didn't have it."

Li Ruobing leaned closer and asked curiously:

"Brother Yu, how do you know he made the wrong choice?"

Qin Yu pointed to the cave entrance on the right.

"Look at the dust on the ground."

"That skull didn't roll out."

"It was kicked out by something."

"and."

Qin Yu activated the [Biological Scan] mode of his battle suit.

On the rock wall at the right entrance of the cave, countless heat sources, each the size of a red bean, were densely packed together.

"The things inside."

"There are thousands of times more of them than that man-eating thing on the left."

"Did he think that silence meant safety?"

"Those are the little ones sleeping."

Yao Xue glanced at the data, her expression changing slightly.

"It's a 'bloodthirsty flying ant'."

"Class A social organism".

"Their individual combat strength is only 5, but once they are awakened, tens of thousands of them will attack at once."

"Can gnaw an elephant down to its bones in three seconds."

"Moreover, their saliva has a nerve-numbing effect."

"The person who is bitten will not feel any pain until they die."

Yao Qian shrank back in fright.

"Ugh—that's disgusting."

"Does that mean Yin Mingtao and his men are doomed?"

Qin Yu shook his head.

"They're not all dead."

"That old bastard Yin Mingtao's poison canisters aren't to be trifled with either."

"Perfect."

"Have him help us clean up these ants."

"Let's go."

"Stay close, don't fall behind."

"The show is about to begin."

……

Deep inside the cave on the right.

The further you go in, the stronger that strange, fishy-sweet smell becomes.

As Yin Mingtao walked, he felt a stickiness under his feet.

He looked down.

The ground was covered with a thick layer of dark red substance, like a fungal carpet.

It feels soft and spongy when you step on it, and it even stretches like silk.

"Be careful, everyone!"

"Don't touch the surrounding rock walls!"

The voice just fell.

One of the younger men at the back of the group instinctively grabbed the wall for support because the ground was slippery.

"Smack!"

His hand landed on something soft.

The young man was taken aback.

Before he could react...

The "soft" thing suddenly cracked open.

It revealed a mouth full of fine, sharp teeth.

Followed by.

It is a pair of compound eyes.

Red.

Like two rubies saturated with blood.

"squeak--!!!"

A sharp screech shattered the cave's tranquility.

That sound was like pouring a bucket of cold water into boiling oil.

"Splash—"

The entire cave wall came to life.

Countless "stones" peeled off, revealing transparent wings.

A dense array of red lights illuminated the darkness.

Those were tens of thousands of palm-sized flying ants!

Holy crap!

"Ants! Ants everywhere!"

"Run!!"

The crowd erupted in chaos.

That overwhelming buzzing sound sent chills down my spine.

The swarm of flying ants resembled a black tornado, instantly engulfing the crowd.

"ah!!!"

The young man who had been leaning against the wall was instantly covered by more than a dozen flying ants.

He only had time to let out a short scream.

It felt like I'd been doused with sulfuric acid.

Clothes, skin, muscles...

It melted away instantly.

Less than five seconds.

A skeleton, stained with blood, collapsed to the ground with a crash.

"Set it on fire! Light it now!"

Zhang Nanhai's remaining henchmen frantically waved torches.

But torches are not very effective against such a massive swarm of insects.

One pile burned to death, and dozens more piled up.

"Help! Bad guy, help me!"

"Don't bite me! Don't bite me!"

Screams echoed throughout the room.

This is not a fight at all.

This is eating.

It was a one-sided massacre.

Yin Mingtao was also terrified by this scene.

Several flying ants broke through the defenses and headed straight for his face.

The sharp mouthparts were still covered with bits of flesh, whose remains were unknown.

"Get out of here!"

Yin Mingtao was also a ruthless man.

In the face of death, he suddenly pulled a trusted confidant to stand in front of him as a shield.

"Pfft pfft pfft!"

Those confidants were instantly riddled with holes.

Taking advantage of the opening, Yin Mingtao ripped off the largest poison canister from his waist.

That was his trump card for survival.

[Near-S-Rank Item: Misty Sea Poison Jar (Mother Jar)]

"Die, you son of a bitch!!!"

He slammed the jar to the ground.

"Bang!"

The jar shattered.

A plume of smoke, no longer green but pitch black, exploded with a deafening roar.

The black smoke seemed to have a life of its own, expanding instantly and filling the entire passage.

"Sizzle sizzle—"

Where the black smoke passed.

Those bloodthirsty flying ants were like flies that had encountered insecticide.

Its wings withered instantly, its body stiffened, and it fell down like raindrops.

In just a few seconds.

The ground was covered with a thick layer of dead ants.

The black smoke was still spreading.

Even the fungal carpet on the rock face was sizzling as it was corroded.

"Huff... huff..."

Yin Mingtao was panting heavily.

His face turned deathly pale from overusing his mental energy.

But then...

It certainly put the place in control.

The once dense swarm of insects was cleared out in large areas.

The remaining flying ants seemed to have sensed the power of the poisonous smoke and hovered at a distance, not daring to approach.

"Walk!"

"Now's the time! Let's go!"

Yin Mingtao roared.

The remaining people scrambled and stumbled, stepping over the bones of their companions and the corpses of ants, and frantically rushed deeper into the cave.

A team of over two hundred people.

This wave wiped out almost half of them.

The air was filled with the smells of blood, poison, and excrement.

This is the Misty Ruins.

This is just the appetizer for the S-rank dungeon.

……

After that group of people fled in a sorry state.

Qin Yu and his group walked out unhurriedly.

Qin Yu frowned in disgust as he looked at the insect corpses scattered on the ground.

"What a waste."

"This is all high in protein."

He walked to the spot where the pile of ant corpses was most concentrated.

The black nanosuit automatically activated its air filtration and environmental isolation functions.

The black smoke that could instantly kill a cow was like ordinary smog to him.

"Ruo Bing".

Qin Yu kicked a shiny object at his feet.

Those were materials that dropped after the Flying Ant King died.

[Grade A Material: Venom Sac of the Bloodthirsty Ant Queen]

"Put it away."

"It will come in handy for making poison arrows later."

Although Li Ruobing was disgusted, she was very quick and efficient.

Take out a specially made sealed bag and collect all the good things on the ground like picking up trash.

"Brother Yu, that old guy is pretty tough."

"Such a large group of ants was wiped out in an instant."

Qin Yu looked at the dark cave entrance in the distance.

"fierce?"

"He's overdrawing his savings."

"But it's alright."

"If he's too weak, how will he help us deal with the big guys behind us?"

"The first maze node is not far ahead."

"There's a gatekeeper boss there."

If I'm not mistaken.

"It should be a tough nut to crack."

Qin Yu snapped his fingers.

"Walk."

"Let's see what other surprises our 'engineering battalion' can bring us."

The four of them flashed by.

They disappeared into the darkness once more.

……

Half an hour later.

Yin Mingtao, leading the remaining hundred or so defeated soldiers, finally emerged from that damned worm tunnel.

Suddenly, everything became clear.

This is a huge circular plaza.

Twelve massive stone pillars stand around the square, each carved with ferocious sea beast reliefs.

Right in the middle of the square.

It was a tightly closed bronze door.

There is no keyhole on the door.

There was only one huge, sunken handprint.

And in front of the gate.

A huge creature was squatting down.

It was a five-meter-tall stone statue.

It has the head of a bull and the body of a human, and holds a rusty giant axe.

It just sat there quietly, like a dead object.

But everyone present could feel a chilling aura emanating from them.

"Is this... the exit?"

Yu Weiwei looked at the bronze door, and a glimmer of light returned to her eyes.

"If we open that door, will there be a treasure chest?"

Yin Mingtao remained silent.

He stared intently at the stone statue.

His intuition told him that this thing was not to be trifled with.

"Let's go take a look."

He pointed to two henchmen carrying spears.

The two men cautiously approached.

step.

Two steps.

They were about ten meters away from the statue.

"Click—"

A crisp sound of stones rubbing together.

The eye area of ​​that stone statue.

The stone eyeball was originally dull and lifeless.

Suddenly, two eerie green flames appeared.

"roar--!!!"

A deafening roar.

The stone statue has come to life!

It suddenly stood up, and dust fell from its body.

It lifted the rusty giant axe with one hand.

With the sound of whistling wind.

It swept out!

"Run!!!"

The two henchmen hadn't even had time to turn around.

"Pfft! Pfft!"

Two muffled thuds.

It's like swatting a mosquito with a fly.

The two men were smashed into mincemeat by the massive axe that weighed several tons.

Blood splattered on the bronze door.

The handprint seemed to glow slightly.

"BOSS!"

"It's the gatekeeper boss!"

Yin Mingtao was in despair.

Emerging from the tiger's den, only to fall into the wolf's lair.

This statue is made entirely of stone, so his poison is completely ineffective!

"Breaking Bad! What do we do?!"

Someone was crying out.

The stone statue took heavy steps, each step causing the ground to tremble.

It raised its giant axe and unleashed a flurry of blows on the crowd.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Stones flew everywhere, and flesh and blood were torn apart.

There's no way to fight this.

Even Yin Mingtao could only flee in a sorry state at this moment.

And on the dome beam of the square.

Qin Yu was sitting there, holding a pair of binoculars in his hand.

They watched it with great interest.

"Tsk tsk."

"【Gargoyle Guardian】, S-rank elite monster."

"Extremely high physical defense, immune to magic."

Qin Yu put down the binoculars.

Looking down at Yin Mingtao, who was being chased like a dog.

"It seems he won't be able to get past this hurdle."

Li Ruobing had already taken out her laser cutter.

The blade hummed.

"Brother Yu, I can't take it anymore."

"That big guy looks so awful."

"I'll go chop it up!"

Qin Yu didn't stop him this time.

He noticed it too.

Yin Mingtao and his gang are just bullies who prey on the weak and fear the strong.

Encountering such a tough opponent is pointless except for sending yourself to your death.

and.

The conditions for opening that bronze door.

He already figured it out.

"OK."

Qin Yu stood up.

The black battle armor locked shut with a click.

Streamlined muscle lines burst forth beneath the battle suit.

"Ruobing, you're in charge of pulling the monsters."

"Yao Xue, find an opportunity to strike its joints."

"Yao Qian, provide covering fire."

"I'll take care of it."

Qin Yu's voice carried a hint of long-lost excitement.

"As for Yin Mingtao and the others..."

He glanced down at the poison master who was preparing to push his own man out as a shield.

"smoothly."

"Let's bury it together."

"Since they're no longer useful."

"Then there's no need to keep it for the New Year."

"boom!"

Four black figures, like four black shooting stars.

From the sky!

It crashed straight into the battlefield of that arrogant gargoyle!

"Who goes there?!"

Yin Mingtao, who was fleeing for his life, suddenly looked up.

All I could see were four black soles.

It magnified rapidly in his pupils.

"Bang!!!"