Chapter 348: Should We Give Up?

Under the golden light, the messy carapaces densely growing on the old man’s face slowly receded.

A moment later, the old man touched his cheek, his face full of excitement and disbelief. He repeatedly stood up to thank Yun Ruoxi.

“It’s fine. As long as you’re cured.”

The warm afternoon sunlight refracted through the glass window.

Yun Ruoxi’s eyes were full of smiles, the corners of her mouth slightly raised. The frustration caused by Lin Zhen had completely dissipated.

The hardest thing for people to see is always their true selves.

Especially… when burdened with sin.

They underestimate themselves, belittle themselves, and consider every good quality about themselves to be false or disguised.

So was that ratio really 90% and 10%?

Maybe not…

Maybe… there is no such thing as a foundation at all?

Yun Ruoxi didn’t know the answer, and she was afraid to seek it.

But at least when saving people, she was happy.

These two years in Luoding City.

Though occasionally turbulent, it was definitely the happiest and most peaceful period of her life in the past five years.

If everything ends…

Find a place and open another clinic…

In the name of Yun Ruoxi, no, Leng Xiaoyu.

“So this is the Crab Wall…”

In the afternoon.

The south gate of Luoding City welcomed four long-awaited new visitors.

Since a year ago, almost no one had come to Luoding City, but finally, outsiders arrived again.

Although they wore the clothing of the Carapace Race, their appearances were extraordinary, and in their glances, there was hidden worry.

It was Lin Zhen and his three companions.

They had wasted an entire morning.

After leaving Xiaoyu Clinic, without even eating lunch, they immediately rushed to the south gate.

Thinking that seeing once is better than hearing a hundred times.

They wanted to see what exactly the Crab Wall was, and whether it was really as difficult to cross as a natural moat, as Aili had heard.

***

Outside the city wall.

Lin Zhen took out the disassembled and hidden cloaking device, reassembled it with his supernatural power, and distributed it to the people around him.

Click.

Everyone stuck the metal disc, which resembled a heart protector, onto their chests. Immediately, the disc hummed, and a thin film started from the disc, quickly covering their entire bodies.

The four instantly vanished from the spot, only appearing as blurred figures in the camera lens.

“This cloaking device is an invention of a senior of mine. This thin film not only refracts light but also blocks heat and odor from escaping.”

Lin Zhen’s muffled voice sounded from the empty space.

“Just need to be careful not to let sound out, especially footsteps. The soles of the feet need to contact the ground and cannot be covered by the diffraction film. I don’t know if it can fool the Carapace Race’s biotech. Let’s give it a try for now.”

Zi Jiu looked curiously at the source of the sound.

She reached out and poked, her finger passing through a layer of bubbles and touching Lin Zhen’s chest.

She nodded thoughtfully and asked:

“If sound can’t be blocked, how do we communicate?”

“Use personal terminals!”

Lin Zhen explained:

“Everyone set your personal terminals to silent mode. When we reach the Crab Wall, I’ll inform you of the follow-up actions based on the situation.”

“Any other questions?”

“Understood.”

“No.”

Seeing everyone shake their heads, Lin Zhen didn’t say much. He shouted “Let’s go” and took the lead out of the south gate, heading towards the “Crab Wall” about ten kilometers from the city gate.

The reason for activating invisibility so far from the Crab Wall was mainly because Lin Zhen considered that there were almost no pedestrians on the road. If the enemy had arranged ambush posts along the way…

‘Then we’d be done for.’

Lin Zhen and his three were all star energy users. Even while suppressing their footsteps, their speed far exceeded ordinary people.

Along the way, they observed carefully and did not perceive any presence that might be Carapace Race ambush posts.

This was not good news.

It meant the Carapace Race had great confidence in the Crab Wall.

Half an hour later.

The city behind them had become a gray line.

And a red wall, extending infinitely left and right with no end in sight, twenty meters high, appeared in their field of vision.

This red high wall seemed to be built from sand and gravel.

Looking from afar, the wall surface was clearly uneven, with many raised small particles.

No.

Lin Zhen squinted.

Those small particles were moving. They weren’t sand or gravel, but some kind of living creature.

Closer now, and they could see more clearly.

Two kilometers away from the Crab Wall, Lin Zhen finally saw the true face of the Crab Wall.

Many a little makes a mickle.

The entire red wall with no visible end was actually made up of red crabs the size of a fingernail!

They were connected to each other, crawling over one another.

This was a living wall!

Lin Zhen couldn’t help but recall the plant wall he encountered back in the Samira-21 Green Elf Capital.

Both walls were alive.

Back then, they had torn apart the plant wall with their combined efforts.

Now, perhaps they could too…

Thoughts raced through Lin Zhen’s mind. Suddenly, the personal terminal on his wrist lit up with glaring red light.

The red light was covered by the film and did not leak out.

But Lin Zhen’s expression changed drastically in an instant.

Because this was an alert from the nano-detector detecting an unidentified flying object entering the low orbit of Shell Star!

Who would bypass the Starport and directly adopt such a blatantly illegal act of airdropping onto the surface?

On other planets, it might be a reckless star bandit who valued money over life.

But this was Shell Star, the home planet of the Carapace Race. Ordinary star bandits wouldn’t dare provoke them.

It could only be… them.

The Saint Hand Society!

Swish!

Dozens of photos appeared on the terminal screen in succession.

Lin Zhen looked down.

At this moment, Chicha, whose main body was on the spaceship, also sent him several messages.

[Chicha: I’ve sent the photos taken by the nano-detector to your personal terminal.]

[Chicha: Although these landing pods have no identifying marks, they evaded multiple detections and entered the atmosphere without being discovered. With this level of technology, it can only be the Saint Hand Society!]

Lin Zhen glanced at Chicha’s messages, then quickly flipped through the captured photos.

Eight elliptical black landing pods, not large in size, should all be single-person models.

So the Saint Hand Society had learned from the last lesson and dispatched eight combatants at once?

Lin Zhen certainly didn’t think that a mere second-level star power user like Chatosi was worth such a big move by the Saint Hand Society.

Obviously, they were all coming for them.

Was Yun Ruoxi among them?

Lin Zhen stared hard at the photos, as if trying to find the figure he longed for day and night.

But these eight landing pods were exactly the same. It was impossible to tell from the outside which one was the captain of this mission.

[Chicha: The Saint Hand Society is expected to land in ten minutes.]

Lin Zhen looked up at the Crab Wall not far away and gritted his teeth.

‘There’s no time!’

Ten minutes was absolutely not enough for them to cross the Crab Wall and enter the Dark Swamp to find Chatosi.