Netherworld Retrograde
Chapter 263 - 122: Mad King Makes a Move!_3

Chapter 263: Chapter 122: Mad King Makes a Move!_3

Then, Li Yelai, having regained consciousness, let out a pained groan.

His vision was pitch black, and his mouth and nose were filled with the smell of blood.

His body ached severely everywhere, especially his right hand, which seemed to have several broken bones.

Calamity, it truly was calamity. Success or failure, both were calamities...

The collapse was bound to be related to his own bad luck; he hoped that none of his teammates had been affected by it.

Li Yelai was in immense pain and wanted to move his body but found himself being tightly embraced by someone.

The other person’s arms were tightly wrapped around his neck, but since it was pitch dark, Li Yelai couldn’t see who it was.

All Li Yelai could do was to painfully stretch out his still-sensate left hand and carefully touch the person beside him.

Soon, his palm touched an astonishingly soft and warm body, along with the texture of a bodysuit.

Bodysuit? Li Yelai’s heart skipped a beat, "Doll?"

Then, Li Yelai felt her neck, and after sensing a faint pulse, he breathed a sigh of relief.

It seemed...it was Doll who had saved him.

Li Yelai struggled to extricate himself from Doll’s embrace, groping around him, and after feeling a faint air flow, he lit the Lighting Bomb on his body.

Only then did he discover that the two of them were at a fork in the maze; the sunken terrain formed a safe shelter, shielding them from the giant rock wall that had fallen from above.

It must have been Doll who had grabbed him while he was unconscious and brought him here amid the chaos.

Li Yelai even saw, at the bottom of the pathway, a Forbidden Army Insect whose head and shoulder had been crushed by a huge rock.

Not seeing the corpses of his teammates was somewhat reassuring to Li Yelai.

Looking at the unconscious Doll, Li Yelai painstakingly removed her face-covering helmet with his left hand.

Revealing that stunning yet pale face.

She had no external injuries, but there was blood seeping from her nose and mouth; she must have exhausted her Spiritual Energy...

Li Yelai felt even more guilty; to have saved him amid countless falling rocks, he owed her a huge favor.

It was all calamity; if it weren’t for his own bad luck, Doll wouldn’t have ended up like this.

Li Yelai gazed at the unconscious Doll, who appeared exceptionally vulnerable in her sleep. The bodysuit clinging to her skin accentuated her enticing curves, stirring an impulse to embrace and pity her.

"Silly girl..." Li Yelai sighed, reaching out his hand to wipe the blood from her face.

As for Li Yelai himself, his right hand was twisted, and his left calf was somewhat deformed. He estimated that he might have also broken three ribs...

But it wasn’t a big deal; after all, he had survived. The Insect Master had died, and the elite force of the Insect Swarm had also been largely depleted. All he had to do was wait for Doll to wake up and call for support from their teammates in the Void Realm.

However, just as Li Yelai was contemplating this, he saw the corpse of the Forbidden Army Insect in the distance tremble slightly.

Li Yelai was shocked and immediately leaned against the wall to jump up on one leg.

Could that Forbidden Army Insect still be alive? Damn it, how could it still live without a head?

In their current state, he and Doll wouldn’t just be a meal for a Forbidden Army Insect; even a Hunting Insect could feast on them.

Li Yelai was terrified but saw a tentacle stabbing out from the skin of the Forbidden Army Insect.

As the tentacle appeared, the massive body of the Forbidden Army Insect began to rapidly shrivel and then shrank and dissolved, completely melting even the skeleton.

Then, within the body of the Forbidden Army Insect, a strange yet beautiful figure appeared.

Seeing that figure, Li Yelai felt a storm of shock inside him!

"Insect Master!"

Though much smaller in size, it looked exactly like the Insect Master!

It was indeed the Catastrophe Fog Master!

How could it still be alive? How did it come here? How did it escape the Mad King’s attack?

And it seemed the Insect Master had also spotted Li Yelai, revealing a terrifying smile on its perfect face, "Humans ah, your plan has failed..."