Chapter 41: Race Against Time
Fortunately, the strength of Tianjihong's physique is far beyond ordinary people, although he does not dare to say that he is invulnerable, but most of the steel in the ordinary mortal world cannot help his physical body. In addition, the rabbit itself has limited lethality, and in this narrow space, the crowded rat tide is more like it is moving forward, but more like the rabbit rat in front of it is forced to roll forward by the continuous accumulation of rats in the rear, so there are not too many effective attacks on Tianjihong. However, after a few seconds passed, and Tianjihong had just crawled halfway through, the rat tide surging in the cave was almost completely submerging his lower body, and there were even a few rabbit rats beside him who were squeezed beyond the top of his head. If you continue like this, even if you won't be injured by the enemy for a while, I'm afraid that it won't be long before you will be swallowed by this endless swarm of rats.
At this time, even at the exit above the head not far away, the figure of a rabbit and mouse began to gradually appear, probably coming around from outside the cave to enclose Tianjihong in this cave. Tian Jihong already knew that he couldn't wait for the moment to climb out of the passage, but fortunately, he still had second-hand preparations. At this time, his dantian luck accumulated the strength of his whole body, and he kicked his legs and stepped hard, barely pulling out the lower half of his body buried in the brown sea, and at the same time, he forced back the surging rat tide behind him for a second. At this moment, Tian Jihong found the fulcrum with his feet on the ground, and after balancing his body, his arms suddenly pushed up and erected his waist, and under the brute force of his hands, he was not far from the surface of the ground and pushed away the soil four or five feet deep above his head with his arms, and once again appeared in the sun. Tian Jihong, whose entire body was covered with mud, wiped the mud from his cheeks, struggled out of the hole in the ground, and continued to run towards the stream.
Under his own toss, the rat tide buried in the soil of the collapsed tunnel once again bought precious escape time for Tianjihong. Although a small number of rabbits and rats had just been manipulated to the entrance of the cave by the stream to intercept them, the vast majority of the rats were still driven by their own instincts to rush in and pursue from the pit they fell into. Therefore, at this time, there are not many rabbits and rats left in the open space between Tianjihong and the stream, at least the dozens scattered are definitely unable to stop their footsteps.
However, his current situation is still not optimistic, and there is still no end in sight to the rat tide surging in the direction of the horizon behind him, which is already filled with countless rabbits and rats, and the soil is also beginning to shake constantly, and it seems that there is something indescribable about to break through the gradually rising soil. At the same time, the rats that were gradually reacting not far away also began to bypass the hole behind them, and they were rapidly attacking themselves from the surface. Tian Jihong didn't even have time to stop to breathe, he just raised his legs and ran towards the stream close in front of him.
In terms of speed alone, when the rabbit and mouse are moving at full speed, Tianjihong is actually incomparable; On his side, it won't be long before a hny rat behind him will try to slow him down by attacking his legs. Fortunately, the speed of the rat tide in the distance and the rabbit itself are two completely different concepts, in the large-scale crowding and stampede, the speed of a single rabbit and mouse will definitely be greatly affected, as just said, the movement of the rat tide looks more like being forcibly pushed forward by the surging force behind it. Therefore, even if Jihong didn't have time to get rid of the small number of rabbits and rats entangled around him that day, and successfully rushed to the stream, the rat tide chasing from behind still could not completely encircle him.
At this time, the former has gradually gained some confidence in his heart, so far Tianjihong has been able to break through the encirclement relatively smoothly, and the most difficult initial breakthrough stage has come to an end. In Tian Jihong's opinion, as long as he kept running for his life at such a speed and there were no accidents, he was sure that he would be able to get rid of the pursuers behind him unscathed before leaving Dongyun Mountain. Now, of course, he had to give the rat tide a big gift first, so as to further buy more time for his escape plan. I saw Tian Jihong leap directly to the opposite bank of the stream under a vertical body, and his feet once again fell on the edge of the quagmire when he came, and at this time, he suddenly picked up a huge stone on the shore and threw it at the surface of the quagmire.
Needless to say, Tian Jihong's plan is, of course, to lure the salamander who had just dived into the mire to recuperate again, intercept the pursuers in the rear for himself, and make the situation as chaotic as possible. All he had to do was toss as much movement as possible in the mire, so as to stir up the salamander out. As another boulder fell in the center of the quagmire and stirred up a large wave, Tian Jihong, who was worried that the movement was not big enough, simply ran directly to the boulder he had just thrown, gritted his teeth and threw a punch with all his strength, but he smashed the boulder directly after a loud "bang", he didn't believe that under such a huge sound, the salamander who was provoked to the door of the house could continue to hide. Tian Jihong, who had done all this, did not waste another minute or second, and then plunged across the quagmire into the tall grass, and flew in the direction he came and went to flee for his life.
It's a pity that Tian Jihong, who didn't have time to turn back, couldn't see the terrifying scene in the quagmire behind him at this moment. After some delay, the rat tide on the other side of the stream chased after him again; It was unknown whether the rabbit rat understood the nature of the water, and under the impetus of the endless rat tide behind it, the knee-deep stream was directly filled with countless rabbits and rats that fell into it one after another, so that the clear water that had just recovered from the poisonous mist of snakes and turtles was stirred and muddy again. After opening the road, the rats no longer cared about the obstruction of the stream, and poured into the quagmire in the black pressure, chasing straight in the direction of Tianjihong's escape. At the same time, the familiar giant vortex in the quagmire also reappeared, and the salamander, which had been provoked twice in a row in one day, slowly crawled out of the center of the vortex in anger, and splashed a wave of mud several feet high with a tail whip, trying to deter the invading guys who invaded their territory through brute force again.
And the tumbling rat tide will not care so much under the control of the black hand behind the scenes, the rabbits and rats all over the sky are not afraid of death and push towards the salamander, and the behemoth with the size of an ordinary number of people on weekdays looks so small in this overwhelming brown tide, like a reef standing on the bank of the river, constantly slapped by waves in the distance, and after a while it was drowned in the rising tide. Like Tianjihong, the weak attack of the rabbit rat makes the salamander just stand and let it bite, and I am afraid that the former will not be able to cause any damage to itself for a day and a night; However, at this time, the salamander is not facing one or two rabbits and rats, when the number of opponents is endless, the strength of a single individual is no matter how strong it is, and it is still insignificant in the face of this torrent of rats.
In less than a moment, the back of the eight or nine feet long salamander was already covered with rabbits and rats that kept biting its scales, and even the dense rat tide was full of flesh in the gaps between its scales. Of course, every time the salamander swung its powerful giant tail, the huge impact behind it would sweep up patches of rabbits and rats in midair, but in an instant, more rabbits and rats would gather together again and cover the surface of its body again; Whether it's the viscous fluid spewing from its tail or the toxins sprayed from its glands, it can trap or bring down an entire area of rats in an instant, but when placed in the invisible tide, they are still as inconspicuous as islands in the ocean. Even from time to time, a series of rats would suddenly erupt from the depths of the mire and return to the ground, and it was obvious that even the invisible places under the surface of the quagmire were occupied by the rat swarm, and the entire surface of the quagmire looked like a boiling constant agitation and deformation from above.
Tianjihong had no time to take into account the results of the battle between the earth salamander and the rat tide in the rear, according to his speculation, since the previous rabbit and rat had not been able to forcibly take down the snake turtle that was also the opponent of the earth salamander, it would not be so easy to solve the latter with similar strength, and the earth salamander should be able to support it for a long time with the advantage of geographical advantages. At this time, the real most worrying thing is himself, although under the obstruction of the salamander, he once again distanced himself from the rat tide, and his situation is much better than when he just broke through, but the spirit fruit he brought out by sacrificing his life along the way still allows the opponent to lock his position at all times; Tian Jihong didn't know how big the other party's perception of this spirit fruit was, and at this time, except for his non-stop escape, any way to try to rely on the terrain to hide his body was unsafe.
So Tian Jihong, who was already shuttling between the grasslands, did not show any signs of slowing down, anyway, it was time to return at this time, and now the only thing he was thinking about was how to cross the vast grassland as soon as possible and return to the rocky slope he passed through, you must know that although he only needs to cross a short section of the rocky slope on the way home, he will definitely be affected by the rugged road there, so that the pursuers behind him will be shortened. In the case of not being sure whether the rat tide will be persistent enough to follow him all the way out of the mountain, Tian Jihong did not dare to gamble with his own life. Only now can you really ensure your safety by further increasing your speed and closing the distance while the enemy is entangled, leaving more time to cross the rocky slopes.