Chapter 179 - Li Ling Curses In Shock

"Childish," Li Ling scoffed, "Do whatever you want then!" 

Zhihao smiled as he heard this but said nothing in response. 

He was tired, but that didn't make him useless. As long as he was still conscious, he would want to keep fighting. 

Zhihao turned around to be met with a Ribix bear that stood taller than him. The two looked at each other for a solid minute before the Bear suddenly growled at Zhihao. 

Zhihao immediately winced as he heard the loud ear-piercing sound and in the next second, he aimed his airgun at the creature and pulled the trigger without any sense of mercy. The bear ate hostile air bullets and immediately shut up. 

"Don't growl at my face," Zhihao frowned as he kicked the bear's stomach with force. 

The bear stumbled back and behind it was another Ribix that caused the bear to trip and fall on top of the Ribix behind it.. The Ribix that stood behind him was a pretty small creature, hence, it was immediately crushed under the weight of this fully grown bear. 

Zhihao turned on his feet and shot another Ribix before coming back to finish off this bear. He jumped up and directly landed on the Bear's chest with force. 

With that one blow to the chest, there was no way the bear would be able to survive, and hence, Zhihao didn't even bother checking what damage he had done. Looking back to check was nothing more than a waste of time and he didn't have that much free time. 

"Damn! This war is getting boring!" He heard Wang GuiYing whine. 

Zhihao chuckled as he nodded, "I'll agree. It's a bit... too lengthy." 

Wang GuiYing, "Can't we just blow them up or something?" 

Zhihao, "Sadly, we can't. We don't have the explosives to get the job done."

Wang GuiYing stomped on another Ribix as he cried out in annoyance, "They don't seem to stop! Where the hell are they all crawling out from?!" 

Zhihao was about to say something to that, but when he opened his mouth, he suddenly heard a female voice scream out in agony and this made him stop. He gulped back his words and turned to look at Leyah who had screamed at the top of her lungs. 

He didn't even need to ask what had happened because the situation was as clear as day. 

Leyah was laying on the floor with her white-suited soldiers pulling her up by the arm while her one leg was trapped inside a dead Ribix's mouth. 

Her face looked like the perfect example of what torture truly meant. It was almost the same situation as what Zhihao had experienced when he jumped into that earthworm Ribix's mouth. 

The more her soldiers pulled and tried to get her out of there, the more agonizing her screams sounded. 

Zhihao was about to say something, but once again, he was beaten to it by someone else. 

"You fools!" Laura cried out as she took one look at the situation, "You'll rip her apart!" 

The soldiers immediately stopped pulling her out as they heard this. 

Leyah bit her bottom lips as she tried to hold in the pain, but the torture was too much for her to handle so she failed miserably as her lips started to bleed from the biting. 

Laura frowned as she walked over to the suffering girl. 

Zhihao couldn't help but wonder if it was okay to let her go anywhere near Leyah. What was the guarantee that she wouldn't try to murder the girl in front of them? She had already threatened to do just that so who was to say that she wouldn't just think of killing her to end her misery? 

Laura used the weapon she had to break the dead Ribix's head and dug out Leyah's leg from its mouth. 

Leyah sighed in relief, however, the pain was still enough to make her choke on her own sigh. 

"Thank you," She muttered as she grabbed her leg that had almost been amputated. 

Laura sneered as she looked at Leyah who was squirming on the ground like a worm, "You don't need to thank me. Making you suffer is better than killing you." 

"..." 

Oh... So that was why she helped. 

Leyah tried to hold in her pain as she smiled thinly, "I'll still thank you." 

Laura scoffed and turned on her foot before joining the battle once again. 

All the Ribix that tried to get close to Leyah were killed by her white-suited soldiers as she tried her best to recover as soon as possible. However, unlike the others, she didn't have a Ribot gemstone implanted in her body and hence, there was no way she would be able to easily recover from that wound. 

She gritted her teeth and veins popped up on her head as she held back the screams and exclamations of pain that were waiting to roll out of her tongue. 

Wang GuiYing glanced at her and asked, "Oye! Can you still fight or not?" 

Leyah took a sharp breath in as she put all her body weight on her left leg that had not been bitten. She tried to straighten her back as she answered, "Don't worry, I can still fight." 

"No, you can't," Wang GuiYing responded back. 

"..." 

"Don't be a hindrance," He added ruthlessly, "You should know your own limits. Just let your little army handle it for you." 

Zhihao almost found that a bit funny coming from Wang GuiYing, a.k.a. BBtrash who was well-known for causing trouble and being a hindrance. 

Just because he decided to be a bit productive in this level didn't automatically erase his dark history of being a lazy troublemaker. 

The winning T-points in this level were really high and so were their chances of winning, this was probably the main reason why BBtrash was actually trying in this level. 

At this exact moment, Zhihao heard Li Ling curse out. 

"Damn it..."

Zhihao turned to look at the man and saw him looking up at something with an expression that couldn't be deciphered. Zhihao immediately followed his line of sight and looked at the thing that had attracted Li Ling's attention. 

Now that Zhihao looked at the giant thing, he also unconsciously cursed out loud. 

"Sh*t..." 

Wang GuiYing and Zhou Xinyi were also interested to know what had made Li Ling and Zhihao stop like that so they turned their head in unison and looked at the thing that had finally entered the war. 

"That better not be here to fight us," Wang GuiYing commented. 

"I'm sorry to disappoint you but that is definitely here for us," Li Ling responded back without even bothering to take his eyes off of the creature. 

"What the hell is that thing?!" Laura cried out in worry and confusion, "Wasn't there only one beast?" 

Leyah also looked up and commented, "Only one beast underground... That thing is clearly not something that lives below us." 

Zhihao sighed as he activated his shoes once again, "Well, since it is already here. Why not just give it a warm welcome? It's not like we are meeting for the first time." 

They had certainly seen it before and in fact, it was the first Ribix they saw when they entered this level. 

It was the spider that had blended itself inside the amusement park by fooling them into thinking that it was a Ferris wheel. 

It was the eight-legged metallic spider ribix that they had once escaped from. 

Wang GuiYing couldn't help but look at Zhihao as he spoke up, "Captain Burn, you seem to be filled with energy. Go and defeat that monster!" 

"..." Zhihao sighed. He was the opposite of what 'filled with energy' should look like however when Zhihao heard this, he still decided to nod his head as he responded, "I'll take it on." 

Li Ling frowned as he snapped his head towards Zhihao, "You want to fight it alone?" 

Zhihao nodded as he smirked, "Don't underestimate me." 

Li Ling shook his head as he replied, "It's not me underestimating you." 

Zhihao tilted his head as he asked, "Are you sure about that?" 

Li Ling nodded as he added, "I'm sure that you'll manage to beat it but I'm not so sure that you'll be able to return in peace after that."

"..." 

"I'm afraid you'll do something suicidal again." 

Zhihao smiled but it was fake. He internally panicked as he wondered how Li Ling was able to see through his future plan. 

If worse comes to worst, Zhihao would definitely not hesitate to put his own life on the line. 

Li Ling, "You're too predictable." 

Zhihao was about to say something as a response to that but before the words could roll out from his tongue, he heard Leyah cry out. 

"Why are you wasting time?! That thing is moving!" 

Before Zhihao could react to her, Li Ling had already turned to look at her as he reassured, "We'll take care of that." 

"We?" Zhihao questioned. 

Li Ling pursed his lips as he changed his equipment once again, "You and me. Do you have a problem with that?" 

Zhihao chuckled and shook his head as he asked back, "I love working together with you. Why do you think I'll have a problem with it?" 

"Good," Li Ling smirked.