CHAPTER 616: CHAPTER 167: DEAD END, SURVIVAL FROM DESPERATION (REQUEST FOR MONTHLY TICKET)_2

Xu Shu pushed again and again, positioning it firmly and securely.

But there was still no response.

The promotion drive interface that should have activated didn’t respond!

Xu Shu was momentarily stunned.

This...

This seemed familiar.

Back in the illusion created by Tailed Ksitigarbha, he couldn’t open the promotion drive either.

Could it be that Tailed Ksitigarbha had returned, reached the safe zone, and settled here?

Impossible; it was too cowardly, hiding at the border of the Wasteland for so many days before it barely escaped, it would definitely not step into the safe zone again.

Eliminating Tailed Ksitigarbha, there was only one possibility left.

He had been trapped inside "ruins"!

This possibility, in essence, was the same as with Tailed Ksitigarbha.

The ultimate reason he couldn’t open the promotion drive in the Ksitigarbha illusion was because it was connected to ruins; those that Xu Shu entered and was ejected from, but then Wang Teng accompanied Xie Xiaochan into that Sea of Death, the ruins with the alarming siren.

In the end, the only places where the promotion drive couldn’t be opened were ruins.

No other places had this restriction.

But wait, if this place was inside the ruins, shouldn’t he have been ejected?

Or was there a power similar to "Tailed Ksitigarbha" here, connected to ruins yet not truly within them?

That seemed unlikely...

Xu Shu’s expression darkened.

If that was really the case, then he might be in real trouble here!

No, no, he had clearly seen the vehicles that brought him here, they came through the elevator.

It was certain, the exit had to be here.

What was the problem?

Xu Shu felt like his head was going to explode.

Suddenly, a gravelly voice sounded by his ear.

"Huff!" Yu Mingluan.

Xu Shu’s eyes lit up, "Archbishop! Where have you been?"

The Archbishop wasn’t dead; he showed a reaction!

"A small problem arose, Cao Gang has only three Third Rank members, but this place belongs to Heroic Society, and they have five," Yu Mingluan’s voice was laden with deep fatigue.

Five?

Damn!

I told you not to be overconfident when I came!

Now look, it screwed up, and you dragged me into this.

Shit!

Xu Shu almost cursed out loud, but his seasoned composure helped him cover up his anger, and he asked gently,

"Bishop, shall we retreat? Something’s off here; it seems like ruins!"

Yu Mingluan replied, "Hmm, indeed it’s ruins, and now we can’t leave; the exit of the ruins has closed."

Xu Shu: "..."

Shit!

Maybe you shouldn’t have come.

You clearly know everything, so why do you only bring bad news? Are you a crow?

But Xu Shu had a question, which he asked.

"We didn’t light the incense burner; why haven’t we been ejected?"

It took a while for Yu Mingluan’s panting voice to return, "Yes, huff! It’s strange, perhaps, I suspect, these ruins are dead, huff! huff!"

"Dead? Do ruins even differ between alive and dead?" Xu Shu learned something new.

"A cleared ruin, huff huff, inside, everything died off, thus it closed. But, if dug up again, that’s a dead ruin, such cases are rare but not unheard of. The Gu Family has such a small ruin."

The Gu Family!

They have such a ruin?

Could this be the Gu Family’s ruins?

In the Sword Tomb?

Xu Shu was shocked; he had heard a tiny bit about the "Gu Family’s Sword Tomb" from Gu Pan and Gu Yue Ming, but he didn’t know that it was a ruin.

But this place didn’t seem like the Sword Tomb; it didn’t match.

A Sword Tomb should have swords.

"Bishop, what are you doing?" Xu Shu suddenly asked.

The Bishop’s voice was strange, gasping intermittently.

How...

It’s a bit impolite to say, but it sounded like he was either making love or, no, jogging at night!

"I told you, they have five, and now four are fighting me," Yu Mingluan replied.

Xu Shu understood.

It seemed the Bishop wasn’t here; he was targeting the enemy’s headquarters below, only to find the enemy was too numerous to defeat.

Xu Shu was unclear how the Bishop managed to maintain this conversation with him, and he was too weary to ask. All he wanted to know now was,

"Bishop, what should I do? The one you missed is hunting me!"

"The third one is chasing you? Huff huff, huff..." Yu Mingluan’s voice hesitated.

The third? Xu Shu frowned, "Yes, they call him ’Third Boss’!"

"I might not be able to protect you right now, huff huff, these four, are stronger than Cao Gang! Huff huff... Try to keep running, don’t get caught, huff huff..."

Yu Mingluan’s voice weakened with his breath.

Xu Shu’s brow furrowed even more.

Don’t get caught?

Old Yu didn’t seem very reliable... His condition was strange, perhaps like a clay Bodhisattva struggling to cross a river, unable to save even himself.

But he couldn’t just sit and wait for death.

More and more of these guys kept coming; this was their headquarters, now already growing from a dozen to thirty or forty.

They weren’t swarming him yet; were they afraid of me?

But if he waited, there could be hundreds! Then they wouldn’t fear him!

Once that Third Boss arrived, things would be even worse; although he could hold his own in a one-on-one for a long while, with so many subordinates, he’d be at a disadvantage if a fight broke out, likely facing a death with no escape...

The exit of the ruins was sealed; no way out from here...

No, he mustn’t lose heart! He had to start running, he must run!

Not being able to leave was okay.

He would start running!

Yu Mingluan was holding off the most dangerous ones, unable to attend to him; if he wanted to survive, he must keep running!

As long as he kept running, they wouldn’t catch up to him, and his chance of survival would increase!