Daily Intelligence System: Don't Kill Me, Honey! Chapter 1632 - 376: Capturing Du Xiong and the Yin Yang Lotus (Part 2)

Watching the leader of the Thick Earth Flag coughing violently, Du Xiong’s face turned purple from holding his breath, thinking that if he just didn’t breathe in this smoke, he’d be fine.

But the fact proved that it was absolutely not feasible.

Holding his breath made him oxygen-deprived, causing his face to turn a dark purple; when he couldn’t hold it any longer and took a breath, he was immediately choked to tears by the toxic smoke.

It felt as if his entire lung pipe was about to explode.

At this point, he really couldn’t hold it in anymore, so he directly snatched a urine-soaked rag from the hand of a nearby ground rat without minding the filth, and pressed it against his face, taking a deep breath. Good heavens, it almost suffocated him.

His head buzzed, and the smoke was so strong it nearly made him tear up.

"Why is your damn urine so stinky?"

Du Xiong said angrily at this time. Hearing his words, the ground rat of the Thick Earth Flag awkwardly smiled and said, "Sorry, I’ve been a bit overheated lately."

Du Xiong sighed helplessly, his face bitter, with a thousand complaints in his heart that he wanted to spill, but still held back.

Escaping was the priority now. Du Xiong gritted his teeth and fled with these ground rats of the Thick Earth Flag, but as time went by, he suddenly felt a suffocating sensation—the smoke’s smell was getting stronger.

The Earth Rats of the Thick Earth Flag also found it hard to bear. What kind of smoke was this? It made their heads dizzy, and what’s scarier, they found it difficult to breathe.

This was terrifying; a few people’s faces turned purple, and finally, the Earth Rats couldn’t hold it anymore.

One of them hammered a shovel into the top of the cave. Seeing this, a person next to him got angry and shouted at the Earth Rat, "What are you doing?"

"We can’t breathe anymore, the air in this cave has been compressed to the limit. If we don’t ventilate, we’ll all suffocate in here."

"No, if we ventilate, the people outside will know our location, and that’s unacceptable, the Young Master would be in danger!"

"Isn’t the Young Master already in danger now?"

The Earth Rat of the Thick Earth Flag said while everyone turned to look at Du Xiong, who looked worse, his eyes bulging and appearing on the verge of collapse.

Seeing Du Xiong like this, the leader of the Thick Earth Flag furrowed his brows. These Earth Rats had long been accustomed to underground movements and needed far less oxygen than ordinary people. Now even they were having a hard time, let alone someone like Du Xiong who rarely went underground.

Thinking of this, the Earth Rat leader said, "Open a skylight!"

Hearing this, the nearby Earth Rat immediately smiled and grabbed a shovel to start digging; however, the leader raised his hand, saying, "I’ll do it."

Upon hearing this, the group immediately let the boss do it. The leader picked up the shovel and began slowly digging a skylight.

Opening a skylight meant digging a ventilation hole in the ceiling of the underground.

At this moment, the leader of the Thick Earth Flag started digging the ventilation hole from a very tricky angle.

As the leader, he made the best ventilation holes, often opening them without being noticed by others.

One, two, three!

With a loud pop, the ventilation hole was punched open, and a stream of air flowed in.

Suddenly, fresh air filled the area around the ventilation hole, and those who were just drooping their heads all swarmed around it.

The Thick Earth Flag leader was fairly considerate; after greedily breathing a few gulps of fresh air, he immediately said to those behind, "Let the Young Master breathe."

With that, they made way for Du Xiong.

Du Xiong moved over slowly, breathing deeply into the ventilation hole.

The remaining Earth Rats greedily watched this scene, knowing from long experience in air-deprived environments how precious it was to have a breath of fresh air.

Huff, huff, huff...

Watching Du Xiong breathe so greedily, the others dared not dispute and only took what little air Du Xiong left behind.

Outside, Chen Jie stood there, scanning around, quickly spotting an interesting place. It was a spot overgrown with weeds, normally overlooked, but now it randomly puffed small clouds of black smoke, which sharp-eyed Chen Jie caught sight of.

Chen Jie walked over, stomping twice onto the ground, and said, "How about you all underground? Do I need to invite you out, or will you come out on your own?"

Hmm!

Du Xiong and the others were greedily breathing air when they suddenly heard Chen Jie’s words, which instantly stunned them, all the Earth Rats looking fearfully at the ceiling.

"Boss!"

They all turned to look at the Earth Rat leader, whose face changed and said, "Run."

Knowing they couldn’t stay here, they immediately tried to move, but as soon as they turned, a long spear suddenly thrust down, blocking their path.

Turning to find another way, another spear came down, closing off the path.

One, two, three spears...

Chen Jie held spears from the Sharp Gold Flag, using them as markers for the underground coordinates. Each spear, one by one, was thrust down, blocking all directions from the Earth Rats.

Chen Jie looked at the enclosed space and said, "Aren’t you all coming out yet? Don’t blame me then!"