About half a minute later, Ma Lu could clearly feel that the speed of his fall was starting to increase.
The gravity on The Moon was low, but it wasn’t entirely nonexistent.
Theoretically, if the pit was deep enough, there was still the possibility of being smashed to death from falling.
Fortunately, at that moment, Lao Hei’s voice rang out again, "Pat your head three times, the Space Wanderer Suit will inflate automatically."
Upon hearing this, Ma Lu immediately did as instructed, reaching out to pat his frog-shaped helmet three times.
The next moment, his mascot suit indeed began to inflate, which also successfully slowed his descent.
Ma Lu breathed a sigh of relief, then thought of something else, "Right, what about Boss Yan, he doesn’t have a Space Wanderer Suit."
"Don’t worry about him, Werewolves are tough and thick-skinned, they won’t be killed by a fall," Lao Hei said as he took out glow sticks he had prepared in advance, tossing one to Ma Lu.
Ma Lu caught the glow stick and held it in front of him.
The faint light from the glow stick was just enough to illuminate about two or three meters around them, enabling him to see the path below without startling the Earth Rock People on the rock walls.
Another two and a half minutes went by, and Ma Lu felt the pit seemed to shake slightly.
"Boss Yan must have reached the bottom," Lao Hei said.
The two continued their steady descent, and after ten minutes, they finally arrived at the bottom of the Meteor Crater.
With both feet firmly on the ground again, Ma Lu felt much more stable, while Lao Hei turned his head to start looking for the dock and the Pink Whale Ship.
He had been to the makeshift berthing place built by the Smuggling Group here twice, but it was early both times and his memory was a bit fuzzy.
However, he remembered that it should be not far from here. As Lao Hei was looking around, suddenly he heard Ma Lu say,
"Wait a second, where’s Boss Yan? Didn’t he get down here before us?"
Judging from the vibration earlier, Yan Wu must have had a hard fall. It wouldn’t surprise Ma Lu if he had been knocked unconscious, but if so, at least they should be able to see him nearby on the ground.
However, when Ma Lu lifted his glow stick to scan the surroundings, he saw no sign of Yan Wu.
Could he have already found the ship and rushed over?
But Ma Lu felt that given Yan Wu’s way of doing things, he probably wouldn’t be so rash as to disappear without a word.
Moreover, Ma Lu later found a human-shaped pit on the ground that looked like it was created when Yan Wu had fallen.
But where was he now?
Since Yan Wu wasn’t wearing a Space Wanderer Suit, he couldn’t use its communication system to contact them, so logically, he shouldn’t have gone too far.
Just then, that feeling of being watched surged up in Ma Lu’s heart again. Holding the glow stick, he shone it toward the rock wall beside him, and this time he didn’t see any eyes on it.
"Besides those Earth Rock People, are there other intelligent creatures on The Moon?" Ma Lu asked Lao Hei.
"Probably not," Lao Hei said, "I haven’t heard of anyone else here, otherwise the Smuggling Group wouldn’t be docking the Pink Whale here.
"Also, we’ve been using this mooring point for almost forty years now, and there’s never been any trouble."
No sooner had Lao Hei finished speaking than a bloodthirsty maw appeared behind him, biting down on his head and swiftly dragged him into the darkness.
The sudden turn of events left Ma Lu with no time to react. In a single breath, Lao Hei was gone.
Startled, Ma Lu quickly retreated a few steps, moving away from where he had been standing.
He then waved the glow stick around, trying to locate any nearby attackers.
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He had seen some horror movies and read novels that said terrifying monsters lurked on the far side of the Moon.
But after all, those were just artistic creations, and those authors had such imaginations because the rotational speed of the Moon is synchronous with its orbital speed.
This meant that from Earth, one constantly saw the same side of the Moon, leading to much speculation about the unseen other side.
However, the Pink Whale belonged to a veteran Smuggling Group, and they would have surely conducted thorough surveys before deciding to build their dock here. Plus, this anchorage had been in use for over forty years without incident.
Why did he encounter a monster the moment he arrived?
Was someone targeting him? Or was someone else after the Pink Whale Ship? Or perhaps Lao Hei had lied to him, but to what end for Lao Hei...
A multitude of thoughts flashed through Ma Lu’s mind in that instant.
His current situation undeniably seemed grim; he had just arrived at the bottom of the crater when Yan Wu disappeared, and Lao Hei got snatched away too.
Leaving him, with his limited combat ability and the least knowledge about the Moon, alone with terrifying monsters in the dark.
It was like the worst possible start.
However, the time for the Memorial Taco had not yet come, and Ma Lu couldn’t leave. He could only summon the Chef’s Knife for defense and then activated the Traveler’s Bracelet’s ingredient scanning function, but received no prompts.
He didn’t know if it was because the creature was too far away or because it wasn’t considered an ingredient.
Thinking back, what was it exactly? He had only seen a glimpse, so Ma Lu hadn’t caught a clear look.
He tried to use the communication system of his Space Wanderer Suit to contact Lao Hei, but all he got was static.
The next 30 seconds felt incredibly long to Ma Lu.
On guard, he pondered how to escape from the dangerous predicament, finally setting his eyes on the Seal Keychain.
The Pink Whale Ship should be nearby. If he could find it, maybe he could use the ship’s weapons to kill the monster, or at the very least, find an empty room, lock the door, and wait quietly until the Memorial Taco took him back to Earth.
Having made up his mind, Ma Lu started to move, choosing a direction and shifting along the rock wall. This way, he only had to be wary of three other directions...
But after just two steps, another warning flashed in Ma Lu’s heart.
He immediately stopped and looked around but saw no suspicious figures.
It was only when he looked up that he saw something strange on the rock wall to his right.
How could he describe it? The thing on the rock wall was like someone had dismantled all the home appliances from a Suning retail store, then forcibly assembled them back together.
It ended up being a steel monster with six heads, thirteen tentacles, and four body sections.
Ma Lu could even see several brand logos and slogans on it.
However, before he could take a closer look at the rest, the creature swung down a tentacle covered in razor blades.
Ma Lu hastily rolled away, but while he could dodge that tentacle’s attack, he couldn’t escape the attacks of the other twelve.
Before he could get up from the ground, his right leg got entangled in the inlet pipe of a water purifier, and his frog hood got stuck in a smart toilet seat.
Objectively speaking, the scene was rather comical.
But Ma Lu couldn’t find it at all funny, because he was the one stuck.
And after the creature pulled him off the ground, it also opened a blood-filled maw formed by a washing machine door.