Although the last explosion had been in the tunnel, the surrounding rock was sturdy enough to not collapse. Kestin’s plan to kill Xia Lei obviously should not also cut off his only exit. 

The tunnel was currently filled with rock chips formed from the high-temperature explosion. He walked barefooted as the stone chips cut his soles but he felt nothing. 

Who was Kestin? 

What was Zhu Xuanyue doing? 

Why did Zhu Xuanyue let him go after realising he ate the last AE capsule? 

All three questions bugged him immensely. 

If Zhu Xuanyue was really contacting members of her own species on the other ‘corn kernel’, and if she succeeded, that spelt huge trouble for this world. Yet he could do nothing to stop her. The reality was that even if he had a B2 Bomber, he still would not be able to destroy the pyramid that was hundreds of metres deep underground with a nuclear bomb. Definitely not kill Kestin or Zhu Xuanyue either. With these on his mind, how...