The collectors attacked from every direction.
Lingyun's fire swept through the first group, burning bodies quickly enough that they collapsed before reaching us. The ones behind climbed over them without slowing.
Yuche released my waist long enough to pull metal out of the collapsed passage. It curled around us in a wide circle, cutting through anything that crossed it while the remaining supports settled beneath the rubble.
Apparently, we weren't going back that way.
That was fine.
The underground parking entrance had smelled terrible.
A collector forced itself through Yuche's metal and lost both arms in the process. It continued toward me with its mouth open until Chenghai caught it by the neck and threw it into the feeding pit.
The Devourer swallowed it whole.
The damaged flesh Lingyun had burned began repairing itself immediately.
I stared at the new skin spreading over the wound. "Stop feeding it."
