*Boom!*
"!?" Zayn then noticed that the bright laboratory room had caught fire, and the generator under the room soon exploded. He immediately took the angelic young lady away from there as he noticed the giant dangerous monsters immediately came to the source of the explosion.
"???" The angelic young lady didn't understand why they hid behind the boulders to avoid those beasts. Still, she didn't complain about this man's decision. Those big beasts had a foul smell, after all.
"Hmm?" Zayn noticed the questioning gaze from behind. He looked back and was somewhat surprised to find the angelic young lady's eyes shining golden yellow light in the darkness like feline eyes.
"I see, you have eye ability. Can you see in the dark well?" Zayn nodded in understanding because he also has eye abilities, but in another sense.
He soon realized the giant rodent monsters had entered the passageway, and the path around the chasm was clear. It was time for them to leave the monster's lair. "Good. Those monsters have entered the passage there. We're leaving now."
The angelic young lady just followed closely behind the man. She then glanced at her hand, which was still tightly gripped by the man, with a confused look.
Zayn roamed to several paths but couldn't find his way out anywhere.
The only open path he found was a room with a big hole in the ceiling. However, there was a giant flower monster with roots that spread everywhere.
"The exit is buried in rubble. It seems, it's the only way up. We might be able to use those roots to go up." Zayn weighed the risks while observing the glowing flower monster in the corner of the room.
He had to act quickly to escape from here before those zombified beasts hunted him down as prey.
"..." The angelic young lady pointed at the wide-open hole, then looked at Zayn.
Zayn just nodded in reply. Yet, the following situation really surprised him.
The angelic young lady let Zayn's hand go and rushed to a root creeping up. She moved swiftly and climbed to the top in a matter of seconds. On top of that, she did it as if effortlessly and without making the slightest sound.
Zayn watched that with his mouth wide open. That angelic young lady climbed up the roots about six meters high.
The angelic young lady waved her hand from above. She asks Zayn to climb to the top immediately, as she has demonstrated.
Zayn responds with an OK hand gesture. He tried to climb using the same methods and spots as the angelic young lady.
*slips*
Zayn slipped while climbing, and he fell a few feet down. Luckily, he clung to a vine and quickly climbed up again.
However, the glowing flower noticed the small creature climbing up using its roots.
"!?" Zayn was holding onto one of the roots tightly as it suddenly moved. He almost lost his balance and fell down.
He then glanced back and realized the glowing flower monster was awake!
*Squeak* *Squeak*
The noise came from the passage. Several zombified giant rats approached and roamed around. The glowing flower soon lost interest in that small prey because the big ones had arrived.
Seeing the opportunity, Zayn immediately jumped up and clung to the edge of the concrete floor. He climbed up and heaved a sigh of relief.
"..." The angelic young lady had no idea why this human had such a hard time doing such an easy thing, but she was relieved that her test subject survived.
"Hmm?" Zayn looked back as his shoulder was tapped by the angelic young lady's finger.
The angelic young lady offered her hand, and Zayn accepted it before standing up. However, she led Zayn to go and walk in front. Previously, he had taken the lead, but now it was her turn?
"Grr..." A giant, venomous basilisk crept through the passage and the rubble. It suddenly noticed the arrival of two entities from the other side and turned its head in that direction.
"???" The angelic young lady stopped in her tracks as the giant basilisk stared at her with its predatory eyes. She didn't feel threatened, as she didn't even have a sense of fear. However, the man behind her suddenly picked her up and ran away.
"Shaa!" The basilisk opened its long-fanged jaws and instantly chased after the two humans.
"Now it's an anaconda with the head of a dinosaur!?" Zayn ran as fast as he could. He entered the various paths and strenuous routes, but that basilisk crushed the obstacles to hunt them down.
"!!!" The angelic young lady slapped Zayn's back as if to tell him something.
*Slap!*
However, Zayn responded by slapping the angelic young lady's buttocks, producing a crisp and springy sound. The latter then blushed slightly and no longer hit Zayn's back.
"We're avoiding dangerous monsters instead of facing one! Ugh, I was counting on your golden feline eyes, but we met an ultra-dangerous monster!" Zayn panted and kept carrying the angelic young lady like a sack of potatoes on his shoulder.
He ran as fast as he could to escape, but he returned to the initial spot where a large hole with many creeping roots was located. Down there, a giant glowing flower monster was waiting, and he didn't want to face any final boss. Not to mention hundreds of other zombified big animals.
*Splurt*
The basilisk spewed a green liquid towards its prey. Yet, the angelic young lady wriggled and pushed Zayn to the right.
*Splash*
The nasty liquid pulverized debris and concrete floor with an incredibly corrosive effect! Zayn looked at it with his inner eye and was beyond shocked. He thanked the angelic young lady, then picked up a rock as he ran towards the big hole in the front.
"Please make it work!" Zayn took advantage of his running momentum and jumped as far as he could to the other side of the big hole. While in the air, he turned to the glowing flower monster and threw the stone at it.
*Knock*
The rock hit the giant jaw under that glowing flower, but the impact was tiny, like a gentle knock. Even so, Zayn's goal was accomplished because that glowing flower monster was now targeting him.
"Grr!" The glowing flower monster growled, and the roots suddenly churned.
Yet, Zayn took advantage of the momentum of the moving roots to jump again to the other side.
"Shaa!" The basilisk crept through the walls and ceiling. However, the turbulent and moving roots pulled that giant monster down.
*Tap*
Zayn landed on the other side safely. The roots were somehow pulled back down, and that basilisk had already fallen to the floor below.
Zayn was panting, and his heart was pounding fast. The adrenaline rush gave him a power boost to his legs to run like a madman.
He then peeked down a bit and found that glowing flower monster facing off against that poisonous basilisk.
However, it would be hazardous to stay there any longer. Zayn immediately left because he didn't care who would win the battle between the two ultra-dangerous monsters.
A few moments later, Zayn managed to find a locked room. The steel door could still look sturdy and could be used to temporarily seal the entrance and hold the monsters outside.
Although it still required a chain and a lock to do so. Zayn unlocked the lock with a little trick he didn't know where he had learned from and then went in there.
The room was dark, but Zayn could tell it was a laboratory room.
"We should be safe here for a while. We're in basement four. So, it's going to take some time to get to ground level." Zayn took a breath and put the angelic young lady down. Previously, he found paint on the wall that said 'basement four' on the way, so they were underground.
"..." The angelic young lady stared at Zayn silently as she rubbed her butt.
"That's because you keep hitting my back. Please don't be offended that I did it out of reflex." Zayn took a deep breath and heaved it out slowly. He then inspected the entire room to ensure there was no danger.
"..." The angelic young lady didn't respond, but she just followed Zayn in silence.
At that moment, Zayn found a small warehouse in the room. It contained some food supplies, laboratory pieces of equipment, and some medical materials.
"What a miracle." Zayn felt he could do a lot with that supplies. He could do some experimentation and research too!
"Experiment, research? Ugh, my mind is still so fuzzy. Why did it just come out of my mouth? Who am I?" Zayn held his head, but that wouldn't help him remember anything.
He then turned around and asked the angelic young lady, but she remained silent as if she didn't want to talk to him. Or maybe, she couldn't speak?