Chapter 6: The Race Against Death

"It's so dangerous, I almost let this beast bite my head off!"

Lin Xi kicked the rock lizard beast away from his body with one kick, and his clothes and face were still stained with the rock lizard's saliva and blood.

The huge body of the rock lizard beast slammed into the ground, its joints, neck, and tail were covered with dense scars, but the most fatal thing was a huge wound in the abdomen, and a sharp war knife was still stuck in its body.

"It's worthy of being a mutant creature in the late third order, and its weight alone is terrifying!"

Lin Xi pulled out the battle knife from the belly of the rock lizard beast, this was the first time he had defeated a late-stage third-order mutant creature alone, if his speed was slower just now, I am afraid that he would have been bitten off by this rock lizard beast.

But even so, his body was covered with dense scars, and his left arm hung weakly, dislocated by the terrifying force of the rock lizard beast in the fierce struggle just now.

But fortunately, the injury is not too serious, and it should be fine after a few days of rest.

"Quack!" Lin Xi put the dislocated left arm back on, the joints were red and swollen, and I am afraid that I will not be able to move vigorously for the next period of time.

"Drink some water!" Xie Heng handed over a bottle of clean drinking water.

Lin Xi took it unceremoniously and poured it into his stomach in a big gulp.

"The harvest of these two days is really good!" Xie Heng patted the full backpack.

In the past two days, they have been practicing their combat skills while hunting, and they have cooperated to kill four fourth-order warrior-level mutant creatures, in addition to several third-order alien beasts, and the loot has already filled the backpacks of the two of them.

Although Lin Xi was still only at the level of the early stage of the third order of a junior warrior, he was already able to defeat the mutant creatures of the middle of the ordinary third order, and if he fought hard, the alien beasts of the late third order might not be his opponent.

Xie Heng's actual combat ability has also made full progress, he has been able to deal with the alien beasts in the early stage of the fourth order, and two of the four killed by them were killed by him alone!

"It's getting dark, it's almost time for us to go back, sell these things, and we can have a good meal again in the evening!" Xie Heng said with a smile.

"Well, let's go, it's not safe to go back too late." Lin Xi understood that after nightfall, I was afraid that this place would immediately become a paradise for mutated creatures.

The two of them followed the route they had taken when they returned, and cautiously hurried towards the entrance of the twenty-sixth district. The journey was quite smooth, except for the occasional encounter with a few free warriors who also returned to Suzhou and Hangzhou Base City, there were no powerful beasts.

"Wait, why don't I feel like something is right?" Lin Xi stopped suddenly, and he didn't know when, his heart began to beat violently, and the hairs on his body stood up as if they had been stimulated, which usually only happens when he encounters danger.

"What's wrong? Why did it stop all of a sudden? Xie Heng looked at Lin Xi's solemn expression and suddenly felt a little unusual.

Lin Xi seems to have a keen sense of danger by nature, and this almost instinctive intuition has saved his life more than once, but this time the feeling is exceptionally clear, and the more this happens, the more deadly the danger is.

"Listen, what's the sound?" Lin Xi twisted his head to the north.

The two of them lay down, their ears pressed against the ground.

Thundered!

A dull sound reached their ears through the ground.

"Beast tide!"

The two glanced at each other, and suddenly came to the conclusion that this would only happen when thousands of mutated creatures migrated on a large scale, but this was illogical.

Although there have been beast tides in history, those beast tides have all been formed under the leadership of the leader of the god of war-level beasts, and the scale is simply overwhelming, not only with a large number of warrior-level beasts, but also at the general level.

But most importantly, the beast tide will not be born in the training area, and will only be formed from the area outside of human control, after a large number of convergences. At least since the establishment of the training area, the birth of the beast tide has never been heard.

"Why is it suddenly dark? It's going to rain? Xie Heng glanced at the sky in the north, only to see that the sky was covered with dark clouds, spreading in this direction at a very fast speed.

"What a strange sound, it doesn't look like it's going to rain, huh?" Lin Xi heard a very noisy humming sound.

He picked up the telescope and looked north, and when his gaze fell on the dark clouds, he was suddenly stunned.

"What's going on? Lin Xi, what do you see? Xie Heng noticed a hint of something strange and asked anxiously.

"Run, run! The faster you run, the better! Lin Xi suddenly reacted, pulled Xie Heng up and started running in the direction of the base city, he couldn't care about making any huge noise, let alone whether it would attract any powerful mutant creatures, because if he didn't run, he would die, and he didn't even think about the remaining one.

That black oppression was not a dark cloud at all, but a swarm of mutated locusts, millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions, or even more!

Locusts are extremely tenacious creatures, and almost all of them can survive after being modified by viruses. But their habits changed, and each locust grew a hundredfold in size, almost the size of a small dog, and became brutal and bloodthirsty.

In the past, locusts ate crops and went through a mess, but now mutant locusts eat meat! Human flesh, animal flesh, no matter what kind of meat it is, as long as it passes through it, even the bones will be eaten clean.

What's even more terrifying is that although more than 90% of them are only warrior-level, and they are only junior warriors, due to the huge number of locusts, there are millions of general-level locusts born among them, and there are even many god-level existences.

Under the leadership of these God of War level mutant locusts, they conquered the city, and almost no creature could stop their steps, even the strong people of the God of War level had to avoid their edge.

"What's going on, Lin Xi, what's going on?" Xie Heng asked as he ran with all his might.

"It's not a fucking cloud at all, it's a mutant locust!" Lin Xi didn't say much, he knew that with Xie Heng's knowledge reserves, he must know what this meant.

Xie Heng's face suddenly turned pale when he heard these words, he closed his mouth in amusement and didn't dare to say a word again, they had to use all their strength to hurry back to the base, as long as they returned to the base, then there would inevitably be a strong man to deal with this wave of mutant locust swarms.

Time passed minute by minute, they didn't dare to say a word in order to save their physical strength, and those warriors hidden in the shadows also joined their team, and dozens of kilometers behind them were countless mutated creatures, and behind them were endless mutant locusts like a wave.

The physical fitness of the warriors is very high, far exceeding that of the athletes before the new era, but their physical strength is still limited, and after 20 minutes of sprinting, almost all of them have exhausted their physical strength.

But no one slowed down, and even if they had squeezed out the last shred of their strength, they had to keep running, because once they stopped, they would either be trampled into meat sauce by the mutant beasts behind them or eaten clean by the mutant locusts farther away.

"No, it's not fast enough!" Lin Xi no longer cared about the precious war knife in his hand, and threw it out directly, as well as his backpack full of loot and supplies, at this time, any little weight reduction could win him more hope of escaping.

Seeing this, Xie Heng didn't care about the human-level combat knife that he had saved up for a long time to buy, and he could buy it again if he didn't have a weapon, but if his life was gone, he would have nothing.

Seeing this, the other warriors followed their example and threw away all the things that would affect their speed, although their hearts were heartbroken, but they couldn't take care of these things at this time.

"Ten kilometers to go!"

Lin Xi's legs were almost unconscious, his physical strength had long been exhausted, and now the only thing that supported him to continue running was the desire to survive, his legs were almost moving mechanically, but his speed still hadn't slowed down the slightest.

Finally someone fell, and after a few seconds, the mutant beasts that followed trampled them to pieces, leaving only a field of blood and rags, which disappeared completely as a black cloud drifted by.

"Hold on! Absolutely! Lin Xi's brain was already a little confused due to the high degree of lack of oxygen, and he had already seen the city wall of the base, and there were several tall figures standing proudly above the city wall.

Just as he was about to lose consciousness, he jerked forward, finally entering the gate of the base, the high-speed glide wearing through his clothes and skin, but there was still a look of joy on his unconscious face.