Volume 1: The Night Is Coming: Chapter 9
Kane was injured and his movement was greatly restricted, and his movement speed dropped considerably. However, with his familiarity with the area, he was still able to keep a certain distance from Nerm, who was chasing after him, but this distance slowly shortened with time.
Nerm was in hot pursuit, and if he continued at this pace, he would definitely be overtaken, and he was trying to find a way to distance himself.
As the road ahead was blocked by a pile of debris, Kane realized that this was an opportunity, and he ninja painfully climbed over a crumbling wooden table and quickly slipped through the hole left under the ragged cloth couch. Then he took out the Fire Eagle crossbow and loaded it with the explosive arrow that Joe Dai had gifted, and the red crystal eyes of the Fire Eagle crossbow flashed with a ball of fire, and Kane shot an arrow at the pile of debris. An explosion sounded, and a whole pile of debris flew everywhere with flames, and Kane took the opportunity to hide into the darkness.
Nerm was swept back a few steps by the scorching heat, "Damn the rat! He was very angry at Kane's arrow, and almost let him succeed in the sneak attack, Kane is very bold, usually the prey of this level in the bounty task is lamb to the slaughter, which is like Kane's means are frequent, and the tricks are constant.
After shaking off some distance, Kane walked to a manhole cover and jumped down, and as soon as he landed, a strange and unpleasant smell rushed into his nose like a hodgepodge, and a puddle of soft and slimy mud was under his feet, and there were many reptiles moving around on it.
The smell of the sewer made Kane almost vomit on the spot, he pinched his nose and walked step by step, each step was more laborious, and he walked with a few pounds of mud on his trouser legs, which really made Kane's physical strength unbearable.
Mollusches scratched his feet in the slippery mud of the soles, so disgusting that Kane had to stomp down with every step, trampling the mollusks on the soles of his feet.
Holding on to the curved stone wall on one side for several minutes, Kane slowed down a little to regain his strength.
Nerm stood at the mouth of the circular sewer well, with Frass and Valerian standing beside him.
The stench almost killed Frass, and he reluctantly asked, "Do we really have to jump off such a disgusting place?" ”
"Do you have a better way? Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and keep up! Nerm finished speaking in an unquestioning tone and threw himself down, and Valerian taunted Frass again before jumping off
"Big shit, keep up."
Frass, who gritted his teeth, jumped down as well, and then burst into a burst of angry shouts: "Damn it! Chop Pieces! This thing is disgusting! ”
"Stop shouting, you idiot! Rubbish! He was met with Valerian's unceremonious invective.
Kane walked a little further to end the difficult quagmire, stepping onto the wet ground and walking along the wide underground waterways, where new exits appeared, sometimes two forks and sometimes three, with black, fishy sewage flowing from them, and a few rats burrowing through them with some animal tissue carcasses.
The squeak kept coming, Kane chose a fork in front of him that looked drier and was full of sewage, and just a few steps he heard a lot of noisy rats, he was vaguely worried, and was about to retreat, but found a pair of red eyes staring at him in front of him, followed by a sharp rat sound echoing throughout the sewer.
A group of rats with red eyes and twice the size of ordinary rats scurried out of the hole in front of them. In the face of the rats, Kane's scalp tingled, and he immediately turned around and ran towards the entrance of the cave.
"Damn! How do you feel like these rats are using me as food for your door! The rats were very fast, and as soon as Kane burst out of the hole, the rats also gushed out like a flood, jumping high, and the first few to rush out even landed on Kane and tore at him.
Kane plucked from his body and smashed them to the ground, wielding his dagger to defend himself against the menacing, red-eyed, drooling rats. Whenever they tried to get close, they were stabbed and killed, but gradually Kane was forced to retreat to a corner, with his back to the wall.
A shrill rat cry rang out, and the rats stopped, and a larger, fat rat emerged from the swarm, its fur covered in filthy black patches, and in some places its hair fell out, revealing its disgusting skin.
This huge rat is the boss of the entire rat pack, and its intelligence is not low, it just said that it was ordering the rat pack to stop its suicidal attack, and it stared at Kane with red eyes, which made Kane's heart disgusted and disgusted.
The rat leader stretched out a long tongue and licked the upper lip bones on both sides, and saliva trickled down. The way it looked at the food made Kane frown, a pang of unspeakable repulsion.
Just as the rat leader was about to attack, something happened when Nerm and the others, who were chasing Kane, arrived.
When Flas saw Kane in the corner, he was about to shout happily, but his face suddenly became ugly and frightened. He saw the big rat besieging Kane, and the red-eyed swarm.
A bad premonition gripped his heart, and Nerm also saw the group of rats, remembering the task of killing the red-eyed rat king he had received in the Paraga region a few months ago, and the red-eyed rat group commanded by the highly intelligent rat king almost didn't bury the five of them in the slaughterhouse.
Luckily, I met a few fire arcanists and archwizards who also came to kill the Red-Eyed Rat King, and they used their powerful flames to restrain the rat swarm and kill the Rat King who tried to escape, saving their lives and asking them for life-saving money.
Nerm remembered that the Rat King was a second-order dark creature at that time, a little bigger than the one surrounding Kane in front of him, and now this one was estimated to be only a first-order, but it was not an existence that they could easily provoke.
Nerm looked back, light on his feet, and motioned not to draw attention to the rats who were all on Kane. Kane saw Nerm and the others who were silently retreating, and just wanted to open his mouth to pull them into the water, but he didn't expect the rat leader to be one step faster than him.
The nose sniffed in the air, and a red, cold gaze fell on the three Nerm.
Nelm, who had been observing Kane's movements, suddenly felt bad in his heart! The three of them looked shocked.
"Run!!" Nerm turned and ran, and Frass ran the fastest, the wound on his leg that had just soaked in the stinking mud could not limit his speed in the slightest, and the strength of the explosion of desire for survival exceeded the fear.
The rat leader smelled the scent of his dead companion in Nerm, the creature corrupted and mutated by the darkness that had marked them before dying, so they had the scent of the rat king, which followed them like a curse, but they didn't know it.
After all, the dark creatures of red-eyed rats have not been seen in recent years, and there are not many Harrence biologists who have studied them, so Nerm naturally didn't know that they still had this ability.
The rat leader naturally couldn't let go of these few people who had killed their kind, and with a scream, the irascible rat swarm chased after them frantically, and in a panic, Kane saw an opportunity, dodged into another sewer, and struggled to escape along the knee-high sewage.
However, his escape also attracted the attention of the other rats, and with another scream, the rats split into two groups, one with the leader chasing Nerm for revenge, and the other chasing them for dinner Kane.
I thought that the speed of rats in the sewage would slow down, but I didn't expect that these rats living in the sewers all year round have a lot of swimming skills, and the speed is only a little slower than on the shore.
But Kane was dumbfounded by what he was walking ahead of, and a large rusty iron door blocked his progress, and an old lock snapped into the door.
On the other side is a deep pool, the water is flowing down that side, Kane walked a few steps to the side of the pool to observe the situation, and found that this pool of sewage is also a dead end, if you go down the rusty ladder here, you can only soak below and wait for the rats to come down and fight him, it is impossible to get out by the drainage hole, it is too small to accommodate him.
Hope could only be pinned on the iron door as the escape route, and the iron head of his fire eagle crossbow struck the iron lock, smashing it open with a few slams.
A powerful puff of gas poured out of the door, accompanied by a bit of slimy sludge and filth, and the smell went straight to Kane's head, causing him to retch.
The miasma inside the door was still pouring out, and seeing the situation behind the door, Kane immediately gave up the idea of going out from here, not to mention how long the passage was, the miasma inside alone was enough to suffocate him to death.
The rats swam closer and closer, and like tireless machines, their eyes locked on Kane.
Kane suddenly thought of another way to try it, the miasma was poisonous and flammable, and he had an unused explosive arrow. The red-eyed rats are afraid of flames, and he can use arrows to ignite the miasma and burn the rats to death, so that he can be saved.
Having figured out what to do, Kane decided to take one last gamble, loading up the explosive arrows and taking a stride through the water, reaching the high edge of the waterhole as the sound of the water roared.
He planned to shoot an explosive arrow, and the moment he ignited the miasma, he would jump down from a great height into the pool of water to avoid burning in the flames.
The Fire Eagle's eyes lit up, and the sound of the explosion was accompanied by a wave of flame heat that swept across the area like a tidal wave. Before the explosion, Kane had already jumped into the deep pool below.
The red-eyed rats were not as lucky as Kane, they were in the center of the most intense range of flames, and the ultra-high temperature instantly burned them into black coal, and even screams could be heard.
Nerm and the others were chased by the rat leader with the rat swarm all the way, and the heat wave behind them also pounced, and the rats that fell behind them were ignited, and one by one the flame rats rushed forward. The rat leader screamed, and the speed of the rat swarm increased by a few points.
With a glimmer of light ahead, Nerm saw hope for life, and he encouraged the injured Frass and Valerian to pick up their speed.
However, as the wound had been soaking in the decaying environment, Flas gradually felt that his injured leg was slowly losing sensation, and his speed became slower and slower until he could no longer run.
"Fras! Don't stop! Get up and follow me! Seeing that his brother was left behind, Nerm resolutely turned back, turned back and lifted half of Frass to take him away.
Seeing that Nerm still had to protect the waste at such a time, Valerian anxiously shouted: "Nerm go away, take that waste and you will die!" ”
"Shut up! He's my brother! I promised my mom that I would take care of him and that I would never break my promise! ”
Nerm's words made Flass's heart tremble, and in the face of death, his brother still did not leave him alive, he regretted his previous bad habits, and regretted that he did not be a good good brother.
His brother was much more powerful than him, and it was not worth exchanging his life for Nerm's life, so he persuaded his brother to leave and leave himself alone, and he pushed Nerm away. But Nelm's strong arms held him tightly.
Seeing that the rat leader was about to catch up with them, the heat wave behind him was also heating up.
At the critical moment, Nerm made a decision, he looked into Frass's eyes, and said to Frass in a rare and gentle tone: "You must live!" When I went out, I went to Cisse to look for Udiruf,... Gotta Live! Nerm took one last look at his brother and resolutely pushed him out of the mouth with all his strength.
All that was left for Flas was a figure holding a steel knife and facing the red-eyed rats alone.