CHAPTER 316: CHAPTER 206 THAT SUMMER, I BECAME LIGHT AS WELL (5,000 WORDS)_2

"Roar..."

The monsters living on the desolate island noticed the incoming Star Power tornado, panicking and roaring as they fled in all directions.

The Star Power tornado paid no attention to the fleeing monsters, rapidly closing in on one corner of the desolate island.

That place was none other than Qin Shou’s hiding spot!

Underground, inside the tunneling machine, Qin Shou stared at the footage transmitted by the communicator, his expression grim.

"How did they know I was hiding here?"

It must be the Talent Ability of an Unbreakable Realm expert!

Suddenly, it struck him—Unbreakable Realm experts possessed all sorts of diverse Talent Abilities; it was entirely possible for one to have a radar-like detection ability.

Grasping this possibility, Qin Shou’s face darkened. If he couldn’t deal with the Unbreakable Realm expert possessing Detection Ability, it would be impossible for him to escape.

But Unbreakable Realm experts weren’t easy to handle.

Forget it, let’s try escaping underground first.

Just as this thought crossed his mind, deep underground, Qin Shou felt as though the heavens were collapsing and the earth was cracking apart. Violent tremors reverberated beneath his feet, faintly accompanied by the sound of colossal entities breaking through the soil.

"Damn it, no way to escape above, no way to hide below—they’re trying to drive me to death!"

Qin Shou cursed furiously, hurriedly maneuvering the tunneling machine towards the surface.

The beasts controlled by Unbreakable Realm experts would undoubtedly be Nightmare Level.

"Crack crack..."

"Boom..."

As the tunneling machine burst through the surface, it was instantly surrounded by three Star Power tornadoes.

"Roar!!"

At that moment, the Space Gate opened wide, and Little Vajra leapt out, raising its head to unleash a deafening roar.

Finally, it could earn some pocket money!

Little Vajra excitedly pounded its chest. When it noticed the Star Power tornadoes nearby, its fangs glinted, letting out an enraged roar while furiously swinging its fists as it charged straight into one of the tornadoes.

"Boom!!"

Little Vajra remained motionless within the Star Power tornado, only to slam both fists furiously into the ground. Fragments of stone shot out in all directions and its fierce punches created a storm of wind, easily shattering the tornado.

Seeing the Star Power tornado dissipate, Qin Shou dashed out, escaping through the opening.

He had barely made it a few hundred meters when he froze and came to a halt.

Looking up, three Unbreakable Realm men hovered at low altitude, surrounding him entirely.

"Roar!!"

Little Vajra saw this and immediately began sprinting over—it wouldn’t tolerate anyone laying hands on its cash machine!

"Crack crack..."

Right at that moment, dozens of massive, red flower stamens several meters in diameter suddenly burst out from underground. The ends of the stamens, adorned with terrifying mouth-like structures, fiercely latched onto the unwary Little Vajra.

Incredibly, the force transmitted through the stamens lifted the many-ton Little Vajra high into the air.

"Roar..."

Suspended mid-air, Little Vajra was tightly gripped by the menacing mouth-like structures, its eyes filled with fear, letting out pitiful screams.

Compared to these horrifying stamens, Little Vajra now seemed like a helpless little monkey.

The sharp mouths bit into its body relentlessly, and any attempt to struggle only resulted in unbearable pain rippling through its frame.

This was the first time it had encountered something so terrifying since leaving home.

The outside world was so scary!

"This..."

Qin Shou watched in alarm, his expression growing increasingly grim.

"Stop staring. That’s Liang’s Other Shore Flower. If it were a Titan Giant Beast of the same level, it might still have a chance to break free.

But this King Kong is only Nightmare One Star—there’s no way it can escape."

The black-armored man gazed down at Qin Shou with a mocking grin.

"Other Shore Flower?"

Qin Shou clenched his fist tightly. "You Demonic Group Beast Tamers are after King Kong?"

The blue-armored man let out a sneer. "After confirming you were alone, we traveled from afar. Do you really think we came merely for King Kong?

The Titan Giant Beast is just incidental. What we truly want is the technical data for creating augmentation armor!"

"Augmentation armor? That was just something I luckily stumbled upon—you’ve got the wrong person." Qin Shou shook his head.

Liu Liang folded his arms and smirked. "Qin Shou, you don’t get to decide that. Our chairman’s insight isn’t mistaken. If you willingly surrender, you might still keep your life. But if you stubbornly resist, we’ll just have to take your corpse back with us."

With that, he pulled out a red Crystal Stone and casually tossed it to Qin Shou.

"This is from our chairman. It’s up to you how to respond."

Qin Shou caught the flying Crystal Stone in his hand. Instantly, his Emperor Armor trembled slightly.

It was shuddering!

Spine Gu!

Qin Shou’s mind was a storm of shock. This Crystal Stone actually emanated the aura of a Spine Gu!

And it wasn’t an ordinary Spine Gu.

The Emperor Armor was crafted from Perfect Spine-eating Gu, yet even it trembled in fear at this...

Ultimate Spine-eating Gu?

Impossible. He had never heard Leng Wanbai mention this existence before.

But how else could this Crystal Stone be explained?

Could the chairman of the Demonic Group... also be a Spine Gu?

Qin Shou forced down his inner astonishment, outwardly knitting his brow in response.

"What is this?" he asked.

He couldn’t let them see through it. If it turned out to be true—if the Ultimate Spine-eating Gu really existed—then it would be impossible to pose as a member of the Devouring Spine Gu Clan in front of them.

Thus, he couldn’t go to the Demonic Group.

That would be a death sentence.

Clearly, this red Crystal Stone was meant to test him.

If he were truly a Spine Gu, he’d willingly follow them back.

If he wasn’t... well, the outcome was obvious.

The Spine Gu at the ruins of Old Era cities might very well have been orchestrated by the chairman of the Demonic Group.

West City, being so remote, was indeed easily overlooked.

Now that he had wiped out the Spine Gu from the city ruins and sold numerous Spine Gu battle armors, he had finally attracted the notice of an entity of unimaginable terror.

The saying goes, trouble comes to those who seek it.

All his problems were of his own doing.

Liu Liang, of course, couldn’t know what Qin Shou was thinking. Seeing Qin Shou show no reaction to the red Crystal Stone, Liu Liang frowned.

No reaction? Then they’d take him along—everything would be left to the chairman’s judgment.