"I think you're just making things up." Yang Qi said.

"Making things up or not... these caves are definitely prisons for holding the infected, no doubt about that." Sun Hang said nonchalantly.

After all, he was just guessing based on intuition. Whether he was right or not, as long as he kept exploring, he would eventually find the answer.

"Since the other end of Cave Thirteen also connects to the main tunnel, we don't need to delve deeper." Yang Qi jumped out of the cave and continued along the main tunnel.

A few snake-like drones were retrieved, leaving six people and a dozen eerie bodies controlled by Zhong Ling to continue along the main tunnel.

However, after walking less than a hundred meters, Sun Hang, who was leading the way, suddenly raised his clenched right hand.

This was the signal to stop advancing.

"What's wrong?" Yang Qi instinctively placed her hand on the weapon bag and asked softly.

"I knew it... there must be guards or entities like them between the entrances of Cave Thirteen..." Sun Hang said with a smile, "I should have bet with you on something."

"Did you sense the aura of the eerie?" Wang Xiyi asked.

"Yes." Sun Hang nodded.

"How strong is it?" Ye Xuan followed up.

"Hard to evaluate." Sun Hang looked at Wang Xiyi, "Should I go over and try?"

"Let's go together." Wang Xiyi suggested, "To be safe."

"Alright." Sun Hang nodded, leaving the others behind as he and Wang Xiyi moved forward.

Soon, he saw the "source" of the eerie aura.

They were two armored skeletons, but the eerie aura did not emanate from the skeletons themselves, but from the armor they wore.

"It's an object-type eerie." Sun Hang said, recalling Ye Jiu's 'Slaughter', "If we can bring this back to the facility, it could be retrofitted into eerie equipment, though it's uncertain if we can find a compatible synchronizer."

As soon as Sun Hang finished speaking, accompanied by the sound of rusted iron plates scraping, the two armored figures moved their decayed bodies and slowly climbed up from the ground.

With a "clang", their long swords were drawn — compared to the rusted armor, the swords were perfectly preserved, their gleaming blades slightly reflecting Sun Hang and Wang Xiyi's silhouettes.

"It seems they're unwilling to become eerie equipment." Wang Xiyi laughed, "Shall you or I go first?"

"One each, let's see who's faster?" Sun Hang suggested, turning his head.

"Okay." Wang Xiyi's voice still lingered at the spot, but she had already rushed forward, her massive dragon wings unfurled, unleashing a powerful gust that pinned Sun Hang to where he stood.

"Hey, you took off with interference!" Sun Hang immediately shouted, though he wasn't suppressed by the dragon wing's gust for long. A flash of light cut through the pressure, and in an instant, Sun Hang was already close to the other armored figure, his fist wrapped in ghostly blue flames punching towards the chest.

"You're using my abilities, yet you complain?" Wang Xiyi glanced at Sun Hang amidst her attacks, her eyes full of amusement, contrasting with her mock reproach.

"Hehe, other people's skills are handy!" Sun Hang's fist pierced through the armor's chest, turning the decomposed skeleton tethered to the armor into ashes, the unanchored plates sagging to the ground...

Just as Sun Hang intended to test his current powers to manipulate these eerie metal plates, the fallen plates climbed up his legs like countless rust-colored bugs, reforming into complete armor on him.

"Did it... surrender?"

Before Sun Hang could rejoice, countless spikes suddenly emerged from the inside of the metal plates, piercing deeply into his flesh!

"What a tetanus attack..." Sun Hang quickly shut off his pain perception. The next second, Taotie's powers began to absorb vigorously... Within moments, the mimetic information within the plates was thoroughly absorbed.

And with the plates came a batch of fragmented memory shards.

He felt transported back to a time unknown, when the underground facility hadn't been abandoned—dim tunnels, torches crackling, armored warriors like statues standing by walls... Further along some branching caves, strange noises occasionally echoed.

Screams, roars, laughter... Most were meaningless murmurs...

At each cave entrance, thick steel bars formed crisscrossing grids, a group in black robes carrying oil lamps moved through the tunnels, stopping at each cave to inspect the interior with their lamps.

The information carried by these armored plates ended abruptly here, prompting Sun Hang to turn towards Wang Xiyi—his original plan was to absorb the other armor too, hoping for different memory fragments, but as he processed the information, Wang Xiyi had already melted the armor, leaving only a pool of molten iron.

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