The anchors at the tips of the steel cables drove deeply into the trunk, embedding themselves firmly.
Alice instantly pressed the cable retraction button.
"Zzzzz—"
The gas tanks on her waist and back ejected high-pressure gas, driving the turbine fans to rotate at high speed, generating immense pulling force.
The cables instantly tightened and tautened.
She felt a massive pulling force at her waist—a force strong enough to snap an ordinary person in half—but for a body bolstered by the Ackerman bloodline, this was just the signal for takeoff.
The momentum of her rapid downward fall was instantly halted.
Immediately after, her body traced a perfect arc in the air, and following the pull of the cables, she was launched diagonally upward like a cannonball.
The wind howled in her ears, and the scenery retreated rapidly.
At this moment, although she had no wings, Alice, possessing the abilities of Mikasa Ackerman, skillfully operated this black-tech gear from the World of "Attack on Titan," moving at high speed in the air as if walking on flat ground.
If she had to find a point of reference, she thought she was, to a certain degree, like that spandex-wearing New York vigilante, Spider-Man.
Of course, the Omni-directional Mobility Gear was undoubtedly much bulkier than Spider-Man's web-shooters, and far more cumbersome to operate, requiring extremely high body coordination and spatial awareness.
But the thrill of soaring freely was the same.
"Target, the summit!"
Alice adjusted her posture in the air, fired the steel cables again, hooked onto a rock higher up, and used the leverage to ascend once more.
Like a ghost weaving through the jungle, she chased rapidly in the direction where the Pterosaur had disappeared.
...
Meanwhile.
On the summit, on the exposed rock platform.
The atmosphere had become tense to the extreme.
Banner, Strange, and Hughes climbed up here, panting.
They didn't have time to rest and immediately began setting up the transmitter.
"Quick, hurry!"
Banner was covered in sweat, his fingers trembling as he pulled out the antenna of the transmitter.
"The signal light is on; it's searching for a channel."
"How much longer?" Strange watched the surrounding sky vigilantly, gripping a wooden stick tightly in his hand, though this thing wasn't even as good as a toothpick to a dinosaur.
"I don't know, maybe a minute, maybe ten minutes. It depends on whether there are any satellites or planes passing through this airspace!"
"Damn it!"
Just then, Strange suddenly cursed.
"I knew it; God is on vacation today."
Everyone followed his gaze.
They saw that the huge black figure had appeared again in the distant sky.
That is the pterosaur that chased Alice away just a moment ago.
It's back!
"It's back, but what about Alice? Have you seen Alice?" Banner's face was pale, his voice trembling.
Hughes shook his head in despair, his eyes already vacant, muttering to himself: "Only the pterosaur, only it came back. Alice didn't return. I'm afraid she's already dead, eaten."
"Shut up!" Strange roared, though his own heart was icy cold. "No, Alice just hasn't returned yet; perhaps she's hiding."
"It's over, we're dead." Hughes, as if his soul had been sucked out, fell to his knees with a thud. "We can't escape, just like Donald."
"Hughes, pull yourself together, pick up your bow." Banner put down the radio transmitter and rushed over to try and pull Hughes up.
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