Zongman: All Heavens and Worlds Begin with the Devil's Curse

He extended his palm, and the power of attraction and repulsion flowed between his hands, causing the earth to tremble in waves, one after another.

Zhou Lan, in her domineering manner, crushed downwards.

His destination was underground.

On the other side, underground on this planet.

Humans, like rats, hide in the underground world, never seeing the sunlight.

People seem to have gotten used to this kind of life; they have been living underground for who knows how many years.

Aside from dealing with the occasional earthquake, everything was quite normal.

Humans survived while simultaneously developing their villages underground.

Day after day, year after year.

It has always been this way.

"Hey, Simon!" A man with a long sword at his side and a somewhat flamboyant style grabbed the little boy who was about to slip away.

"Kamina... Big, Big Brother?" The boy looked somewhat timid, a normal reaction to someone who had lived underground for years.

On the contrary, the eldest brother in front of me looked radiant and didn't fit in at all.

Their blue hair looked dull and gray in the gloom.

"I said, don't go, Simon, let's run away together!" Camina clenched her fist, her expression excited. "Don't you want to see what the outside world is like, Simon!"

"The outside world?" The boy, Simon, scratched his cheek and looked down at the drill he was holding in his hand.

It was thanks to this that they were able to cultivate their own village underground.

And for these rat-like humans, the meaning of their existence lies solely in this.

Eating, burrowing, sleeping...

And so on.

“That’s right, the outside world!” Camina slapped Simon on the shoulder, the force causing the frail boy to bend over uncontrollably.

Kamina's eyes blazed with fury: "Many years ago, Dad left the underground and went to the outside world. No matter what it's like outside, I must go and see it!"

“Of course, I want to take you with me, Simon. You are more talented than me. We shouldn’t be stuck here…”

As they were speaking, a violent tremor came.

The ceiling above was the cavern ceiling, which trembled and scattered pebbles, making a rustling sound.

Simon cowered on the ground in fear, covering his head with his hands.

"Hey, Simon, our chance has come! With the earthquake, that stubborn old village chief is probably too busy to bother with us. Let's charge!"

Kamina pointed to the sky and exclaimed triumphantly, "Breakthrough! The rock layers that imprison us above us reach the ground and the heavens, Simon!"

The earthquake was getting stronger and stronger, and the entire underground was shaking.

Countless rat-like humans stretched out in a line along the narrow path beneath the steep road, fleeing at breakneck speed.

They rushed to the caves they had dug in the rock face, hiding inside to escape the earthquake debris and danger.

At the cave entrance, a middle-aged man with a wooden stick was counting the number of people one by one.

He is the village chief here.

"Hurry, hurry up!" He swung the wooden stick, making a cracking sound.

After the last mouse shrank back in fear, he suddenly hesitated and asked, "Two are missing, Simon and Camina. Where did those two go?"

"Yohoo!"

As doubt arose, an excited echo came from not far away. The village chief quickly looked up and saw two figures, one big and one small, running across the shaking ground.

Following the excavated path, Camina pulled Simon upwards toward the trembling ceiling rock formations.

"You two!" The village chief puffed out his cheeks in anger. "Get back here right now!"

"Simon, we've been spotted! Quick, take another route!" Camina shouted excitedly.

Above them, a huge rock that had fallen due to the earthquake gradually grew larger in their eyes.

The boulder rolled down toward the two fleeing men.

Chapter 234 Face...Mecha?

"Buzzing—"

The boulder was hurtling towards them at great speed.

Simon's eyes widened suddenly; the threat of death was imminent.

“Simon, Simon…”

Kamina's voice gradually became indistinct in my ears.

The next second, the timid boy seemed to snap out of his drowsiness and gripped the drill bit in his hand with fierce determination.

The drill tool in his hand looked extremely simple, almost half the size of Simon's body. Almost every human living underground relied on this tool to explore.

In a split second, the drill bit began to spin rapidly, its spiral pattern twisting into lines.

The hard rock around them was broken open almost instantly, and a smooth road appeared in an instant thanks to the drill bit's hard work.

Simon grabbed Camina and slipped into the tunnel drilled into the rock.

The boulder rolled over with a rumble and fell to the very bottom of the cave.

Simon leaned against the still-warm wall of the tunnel he had just crawled out of, panting heavily.

"Simon, I knew you could do it!" Having just escaped a life-or-death situation, Camina laughed heartily and patted Simon on the shoulder, whether out of sheer confidence or she had complete faith in the young boy's abilities.

“You two!” A large hand reached in from outside, and the village chief’s face appeared in the passageway.

His contorted face revealed his fury, and he dragged the two men who were trying to escape out from his left and right sides.

"Kamina, it was you who started this again, wasn't it?" the village chief roared. "On the ground, on the ground, what exactly is on the ground?"

Pointing at Camina and Simon, the village chief looked at the other rat-like villagers peeking out of the cave.

"Generations of ancestral teachings tell us that humans must never go to the ground!"

"Why!" Kamina stubbornly protested. "If the village chief has never been to the surface, how would he know we can't go there?"

“Uh…” The village chief paused for a moment after being refuted by Kamina.

Why should humans stay underground and not live on the surface?

No one knew, not even him; he was simply following the rules and suppressing all desires to go to the surface.

"No means no!" the village chief said arrogantly.

“My father went to the surface once, but he’s gone now,” Kamina said of her father.

"So he never came back. It's dangerous outside. He must be dead," the village chief cursed.

"You!" Kamina put on a stern face and struggled to break free from the village chief's restraints.

Just then, another earthquake struck.

Unlike the previous earthquake, and unlike every earthquake in the past, this time, the source of the earthquake has been identified.

A gigantic, beast-like mech slammed into that enormous head with brute force.

The hard rock above broke apart, and the slanting rays of the setting sun shone in.

Everyone stared wide-eyed at the light.

"This is?!"

"Hahaha, you bugs, run!" The mech shook its head, and a voice came from inside.

It looks somewhat different from ordinary mechs constructed from machinery and parts.

There was no lag in the mechanical transmission; it was more like some kind of beast. Even when it made a sound, the external head of the mech was making lively expressions.

Humans living underground had never seen this creature before, and even when the light shone through, they only felt fear.

"It is the source of the earthquake, not a natural disaster at all. The so-called earthquake is actually just the effect of this thing fighting outside!"

The village chief ran into the cave in fear, but Kamina broke free from him, raised the long sword at her waist, pointed it directly at the mecha, and shouted.

"Hey Simon, let's take down this big guy together!" Camina looked at Simon with eager eyes.

"Kill it??" Simon asked, trembling.

The huge difference in size made him think that his older brother must be joking.

A human body is no bigger than a fingernail in front of such a behemoth.

"Kill me? Hahahaha!" Laughter came from inside the beast-like mech.

A gunshot rang out not far away.

Bullets flew from a distance, striking the head of the beast-like mech with a piercing thud.

"Ah, bugs!" Inside the mech's cockpit, an orc turned his head to look at the distance to the side.

A scantily clad woman was holding a gun, aiming it at him.

It had followed this woman here; she was a member of a village on the ground and also a member of the rebel army.

“Hey, big guy, I’m your opponent.” The woman waved to him.

"You can't hurt me at all... You have no idea what 'face' is!"

"Face?" Kamina stroked his chin, looking at the enormous mech in front of him.

This seems to be the standard name for the mecha, which matches its appearance quite well.

This corresponds to the huge beast face covering the outside of the mecha.

Surprisingly, the source of the earthquake had already appeared—it was this enormous mech right in front of them.

but why?

The earth is still shaking?

Could it be that there's another mech fighting nearby?

Before I could ponder this question, the earth continued to tremble, and the enormous face rose up, reaching out its arms to grasp.

The tiny figure could only dodge; the rock layer, tens of meters thick, was like fragile tofu in Yanmian's hands.

Camina wasn't naive enough to actually fight head-on with her own flesh and blood. Gunshots rang out continuously in the distance, but hitting her face and body was almost like tickling her.

"I'm going to kill you brats!" came an angry voice from within; the orc had lost his temper.

The price was the entire underground village.

He burrowed completely underground, and the originally sturdy underground cavern was no more solid than a sandcastle on the beach under the feet of the Face Mech.

"We're doomed!" Countless underground humans fled in panic.

"Big brother, let's run!"

It is simply impossible for a human body to withstand a mech.

In the brief moment of his escape, Simon stared wide-eyed as the enormous hand reached out to grab him.

The rock strata fractured, resembling a natural disaster.

Simon stared intently, a surge of anger welling up in his chest, almost bursting forth.

The threat of death was already very close to them.

But in the next instant, another earthquake struck.

In Simon's eyes, a figure also broke through the rock layer and fell in that instant, landing on the head of the face-shaped mech.

An immense force descended from above, striking directly at the top of Yanmian's head, causing a muffled groan to escape from within Yanmian.

Under immense pressure, the mecha was firmly suppressed and unable to move, exhibiting a compressed state like a spring.

"How...how is this possible, a human..." A horrified voice came from inside the face.

Zhou Lan looked around.