Traveler of the River of Time and Space-Chapter 547 - 29: Reinforcements

"Ugh."

Just as Su Ziyu was carrying Empress Isabella on his shoulder, looking for a safe place, he suddenly felt his target move slightly. Her physical condition was far superior to that of ordinary people; it was suspected she had undergone various biological modifications. After being knocked out, she regained consciousness quickly, but her awakening was untimely, so Su Ziyu placed his hand on Empress Isabella’s forehead again, delivering a mental shock to make her fall into a coma once more.

Whoosh.

A flying device suddenly launched from beneath the distant mountain, soon followed by a second and a third, swiftly retreating to the north and vanishing in the blink of an eye.

"Rebel Army people?" Su Ziyu muttered to himself.

The Rebel Army had secret tunnels in their underground base, specifically for evacuating high-level personnel. The commotion outside was too massive; judging by the extent of that ground collapse, the Insect Race likely dug through the base of the Rebel Army.

"This is too slow a flight."

"I need to find a way to get a flying device," Su Ziyu thought for a moment, then turned and flew toward the Rebel Army’s base.

The exit of the secret tunnel was in a passage under the mountain. When Su Ziyu arrived, he also saw the corpses of several alien insects. The heavy iron shutter was closed, but it posed no obstacle to Su Ziyu; with a swipe of his plasma light blade, the iron door was sliced like tofu.

More than a dozen corpses wearing exoskeleton power armor appeared before him.

The underground base of the Rebel Army had indeed been attacked by a swarm of insects. However, the main force had already withdrawn; it was some small groups of alien insects attacking the underground base. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have been able to escape.

The place was littered with corpses.

Almost one-fifth of the entire underground base had collapsed. In a distant plantation area, there was a more than twenty-meter-long giant insect, half of its body vaporized by energy weapons. It was likely that when the initial ash insects came out, they directly burrowed through the Rebel Army’s base, allowing some alien insects to rush into the depths of the underground base.

"The flying devices should be over there."

Su Ziyu’s figure swiftly moved across, issuing a command at the same time: "System, what are the requirements for piloting a flying device on this planet?"

Very quickly.

The Space-Time Monitor System provided a prompt: "The current plane’s Civilization Level is 4, requiring Driving Mastery LV2 to operate the respective civilian flying devices."

A bloodred light blade flashed by. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

Su Ziyu directly broke through a wall to enter the lift platform, encountering over a dozen swift insects before they could react. He raised his hand, and a golden arc jumped, instantly electrocuting the insects into charred corpses. Those suspected fighter flying devices had already been taken by the Rebel Army. Ahead of the lift, there were only some square cabin flying devices, some of which were even damaged by the alien insects.

Su Ziyu casually searched and found one that was still usable, immediately ordering: "System, hack."

—"Driving Mastery LV2."

—"Driving Mastery LV3."

In other planes, Su Ziyu had no need to enhance his driving ability because Driving Mastery LV1 allowed him to proficiently operate all cars and tanks. However, in this plane, Driving Mastery LV1 was definitely not sufficient.

"Hacking complete." In less than a second, the door of the square cabin flying device opened.

Su Ziyu casually tossed Empress Isabella inside, then thought for a moment and quickly rushed toward the recreation room. About three minutes later, Su Ziyu came back carrying a virtual pod.

The high-level leaders of the Rebel Army seemed to have abandoned this underground base.

Most of the people still alive inside had evacuated. These high-levels of the Rebel Army were ruthless characters; when the situation wasn’t right, they directly abandoned those civilians. Corpses were everywhere outside; Su Ziyu roughly counted over a thousand, mostly killed by alien insects. The exoskeleton power armor units had already evacuated, and Su Ziyu didn’t find Jian; it seemed they evacuated with the main force upfront.

Bang.

Su Ziyu directly placed the virtual pod inside the square cabin, then proceeded to the cockpit, quickly started the flying device, held the steering wheel, and lifted off to retreat toward the passage.

This thing was actually just an upgraded version of a magnetic levitation car. Operating it wasn’t particularly complicated, and it also had a relatively simple AI system inside, which could autonomously drive under certain conditions.

The flying cabin soon rushed out of the underground base.

Su Ziyu directly piloted the flying device southward upon exiting, flying hundreds of kilometers before switching to autopilot mode. He then stood up to inspect his captive, just having heard a painful groan from inside the square cabin.

Empress Isabella was still lying on the cold floor.

When Su Ziyu came out, he could see her furrowed brows and the slightly distorted face due to pain. Her mental state seemed quite unstable, with noticeably chaotic consciousness fluctuations, her eyeballs trembling during unconsciousness, as if trapped in a nightmare.

—"Empress Isabella [Severe Mental Hangover][Entropy Value Chaos]."

Su Ziyu placed his hand on her temple, and soon his spirituality linked to her consciousness. He could feel the mental pain of the target, akin to an extreme hangover.

This was the aftermath of a spiritual energy burst.

Su Ziyu had also experienced it during a lightning overload state, although not as severe as the target.