CH 58

Chapter 58: Desperate

Back then, Shi Qingyang deliberately committed to memory the surrounding environment and walked a little longer while looking for the mole cricket eggs, so he remembered the situation in this area. Gu Changjin, on the contrary, spent most of his efforts on helping Cheng Ran find herbs at the beginning, and now he was fighting with the people behind him, so he didn’t notice where they were at all.

“Grandpa Gu, let me get off the car. Their goal is only me,” Cheng Ran spoke, looking at the potion in his hand.

Gu Changjin was not young. This time, if it weren’t for Cheng Ran bringing a lot of Almighty Elixirs with him because he wouldn’t be able to mix new ones when he arrived at Anhang City, Gu Changjin would have been unable to hold on long ago.

He didn’t want to die, and he even wanted to live more than ever before, but at this time, he deeply realized that he was a burden.

If others were put in danger because of him…

“Young Master, they won’t let us go. After I cover the rear, you drive away first,” Gu Changjin said. If he got out of the vehicle and gave his best effort, he could definitely slow down the people behind them for a period of time. He might even be able to drag the level-5 rad-warrior down to die with him!

“Grandpa Gu! If you get off the car, I’ll go down too. Either way, the only difference is whether we die early or die later,” Cheng Ran stated.

“The car is dying.” Listening to the sounds being made in the rear, Shi Qingyang spoke directly.

They had escaped for several hours, and Gu Changjin couldn’t hold on anymore. Most likely, he had also suffered heavy internal injuries, so how could their armored vehicle still be safe?

Even if Gu Changjin had been wrapping the armored vehicle with radiation energy, the appearance of the armored vehicle looks fine on the surface, but it likely had many problems inside. Otherwise, the red warning light on the side of the steering wheel wouldn’t have lit up.

Now that the warning light was on, it meant that the armored vehicle would break down at any time, and the engine of the armored vehicle… Even if he wore a combat suit, he could feel that the front of the armored vehicle was getting hotter and hotter. If he was careless, it might explode.

Shi Qingyang looked behind him. Two cars that had kept crashing into his armored vehicle in a suicide attack had broken down on the road under the cooperation of him and Gu Changjin. Now the cars behind him were a little far away

“Grandpa Gu, you protect Ranran and be ready to abandon the car at any time!” Shi Qingyang said, and then directly started the last emergency system of the combat vehicle, burning the fuel tank to accelerate.

Because of the overload, the armored vehicle, which had already been getting slower and slower, suddenly accelerated and rushed forward, instantly leaving the people behind over a long distance. Neither side could even see each other through the dense forest.

The final explosive power of the armored vehicle was very fast. Just after the fuel tank burned out, Shi Qingyang and the others were immediately thrown out of the car and fell into the nearby dense plants.

This time, he fell a little hard. After falling down, Shi Qingyang found that his hands, which had been holding the steering wheel, had become numb. Gu Changjin took a few breaths, not only showing a slight weakness, but also being an obvious sign of radiation rioting in his body.

However, there was nothing left of their medicine.

“Grandpa Gu, let’s hide in that mole cricket hole,” Shi Qingyang looked around and immediately said. The people behind were very close. Their only choice now was to hide in the nest of the mole cricket beast. By contrast, the ant nest was too far away. Now if they wanted to run over, they would only be caught by the people behind.

But wait a minute–maybe he could use the ant nest to play off a set-up.

In fact, he drove the armored vehicle here on the one hand because those people drove him this direction, and on the other hand, because of his own subconscious. After all, he couldn’t think of anything else to save them except here.

“Hide inside and I’ll lead people away.” Gu Changjin heard this and was about to stand up, but the violent radiation energy in his body made his body soft. The bulges under his skin were clearly the expression of uncontrolled radiation energy.

“If you go out now, you’ll die.” Shi Qingyang discovered Gu Changjin’s situation and directly clicked on Gu Changjin’s body – Gu Changjin really had no trauma, but the radiation energy in his body had been squeezed ou. Though he had relied on the Almighty Elixir, it couldn’t solve everything, and now he was on the edge of collapse. At this time, using the radiation energy blocking method could give him some relief.

Gu Changjin trusted Shi Qingyang very much and was unprepared. After being hit, he suddenly found that he couldn’t take hold of the radiation energy in his body at all: “Shi Qingyang, what did you do?”

Shi Qingyang didn’t answer, and suddenly carried Gu Changjin on his left shoulder and Cheng Ran on his right shoulder. He tiptoed lightly in the grass, and then directly threw Gu Changjin and Cheng Ran into the mole cricket’s nest. Under the nest, mole crickets prepared hay for the eggs to hatch. He also attracted radiant energy to hold their bodies. Even if they were unprepared, they would not hurt from the fall.

“Qingyang!” Cheng Ran didn’t lose his balance, and he immediately stood up and said, “Where are you going?” He had wanted to go to Anhang City to buy a birthday gift for Shi Qingyang…

“I’ll be right down.” Shi Qingyang said. He sent out several wind blades to make the traces of Liu Qilin’s previous battle with mole crickets more obvious, and then quickly entered the nest. Although only a few days had passed, a lot of grass had grown at the mouth of the cave. Shi Qingyang hesitated, put his feet on the wall of the cave and straightened the grass and shrubs at its mouth. After covering the hole, he jumped to the bottom of the ground.

When he saw that there were several passages on the side of the underground hole, he was even more relieved. Mole cricket beasts liked to eat the roots of plants and would dig large nests underground, with several channels leading to the outside. Now those channels were the guarantee for their escape.

These passages inclined upward, able to be climbed by one person, and they spanned many directions. After Shi Qingyang checked them briefly, he was relieved.

“Young Master, is there any more medicine?” Gu Changjin typed a line on the contact terminal. Since he followed Cheng Ran, his life had become stable. Before now, he never thought he’d be in this kind of situation.

“All that’s left are useless potions,” Cheng Ran also typed a line of words. There was the sound of armored vehicles driving outside. There was no doubt that those people had caught up.

Shi Qingyang made a “eat” gesture and took out dried meat and water from his body. He took these things with him always. Before, everyone thought it useless. When it came to a critical moment, it was extremely useful.

Now those people could find them at any time, and they must seize the time to rest.

Since leaving the mobile town, they had never had a moment to eat or drink. But at this time, the three people couldn’t eat anything, so they only drank a bottle of water.

Shi Qingyang moistened his mouth while lying on the mud wall listening to the sound outside. At first, the armored vehicles drove a section in the direction of where Liu Qilin and the others had previously hunted the mole cricket beasts, but soon stopped. Now the people on the car should have got off the car and looked around.

He looked at Cheng Ran and Gu Changjin, and also typed a line with the contact terminal: “Their car is parked in the north, and they have all got off the car. Let’s climb along the north passage, and if we can, grab the car.”

Cheng Ran nodded, but Gu Changjin was holding up typing: “What have you done to me?” He could feel that his radiant energy riot had disappeared, but now he was weak…

Shi Qingyang nodded to Gu Changjin again and recovered his radiant energy: “This is the way to prevent radiant energy riots, and I have a bottle of Potential Potion here.”

Gu Changjin stretched out his hand to Shi Qingyang. Although he couldn’t speak, his attitude was undeniable.

Potential potion was a kind of potion that forcibly stimulated the potential of the human body. After use, it could instantly enhance the radiation energy in the body, but it also did great bodily harm.

“Follow my plan and I’ll give it to you,” Shi Qingyang wrote another line. For the safety of his life, he had prepared many things. This potential potion was one of them, but he had saved it for the future, and hadn’t expected to need it so soon.

Gu Changjin nodded immediately.

Seeing that Gu Changjin agreed, Shi Qingyang motioned Gu Changjin to climb forward along the hole. After the three climbed for a while, they stopped at a slightly spacious place. Then, Shi Qingyang shared his plan.

“Ant nest?” Gu Changjin looked at Shi Qingyang with a shocked face, and his typing hands shook a little.

At the same time, Shi Qingyang took out several thin steel pipes from his body and spliced them into a sharp spear: “It’s better to die in the hands of monsters than to be caught by those people. Moreover, maybe we can live if we go in.” No one knew that ant nest better than him!

Gu Changjin was thoughtful and looked at Shi Qingyang puzzled. After hearing the movement on the ground, he finally nodded

“Boss, where the hell are those three guys?” On the ground, a middle-aged man who was searching finally couldn’t help asking. How did the three people disappear in just a few minutes?

“Must be hiding!” The man known as the boss opened his mouth and filled himself with a bottle of radiant energy soother, which bettered his condition.

After becoming a level-5 rad-warrior, this was the first time that he encountered a situation that had made him overspend himself. He even nearly fell into radiation riots because of the battle just now.

However, he didn’t regret it–once this job was done, the rewards would be enormous.

“Damn! Those three people are too cunning, especially Gu Changjin. When I find him, I must make him look good! I must shred him!” the middle-aged man kept going.

His boss narrowed his eyes: “Gu Changjin is just as was said in the information we got. What I want to know more is who was the person driving. If it weren’t for him messing around while driving, then…” Their car was obviously much better than the most ordinary vehicle, but in the end they couldn’t even catch up! Not only that, that man even took them to a beehive… Those bee beasts had killed people! At that time, he heard someone wailing in the car behind him. Without any accidents, he might have died.

He thought it would be easy to get rid of Cheng Ran, but he didn’t expect that the three people would end up holding out for so long and even made him sacrifice his men: “I really want to see the driver. If he doesn’t join me, then I’ll directly kill him!

“Boss, I looked through the telescope. It looked like the driver was Shi Qingyang, Cheng Ran’s hanger-on,” a young man nearby spoke.

“Shi Qingyang?” The boss took out a bottle of medicine and rubbed it on his hand. His eyes were a little incredulous.

“Boss, there are traces here!” Suddenly someone shouted. The boss stepped forward quickly and saw that someone had found a hole.

“So they hid in the underground cave… Don’t get close, there may be an ambush. Old Five, throw a grenade below!” When the boss waved his hand, someone immediately threw the grenade in.

There was an explosion in the cave, but none of the screams they wanted to hear came out.

“Ah!” At this time, not far from where they parked their car, there was a shout.

When those people were led to the entrance of the mole cricket cave, Shi Qingyang had already climbed through one of the passages and out of the grass on the other side along with Cheng Ran and Gu Changjin.

The trees here were lush. He let Cheng Ran, as well as and Gu Changjin who had just drunk the potential potion, stay where they were, and then slowly approached the place where those people parked their armored vehicles.

As long as a radiant warrior could reach level-5, he could be a local emperor in a small city. Naturally, there were not many such people willing to be killers. Among the people who hunted them, the strongest one was level-5, and the one who directly drove was level-2.

Shi Qingyang looked at the situation, stabbed the man with the steel rod in his hand from the window, and then quickly climbed into the car.

He wanted to snatch the armored vehicle, but he didn’t expect to find that the armored vehicle driven by these people who came to hunt them was activated using specific fingerprints. As soon as he put his hand on the steering wheel, he heard a warning sound.

No wonder the driver didn’t wear gloves… Shi Qingyang quickly got out of the car. At the same time, he hid behind the car and began to avoid the wind blades rushing over him.

“You can’t escape, you’d better not run!” The boss walked in front: “Shi Qingyang, I appreciate you very much. If you are willing to come, I can accept you as my disciple. I think you should know how to choose?”

Who would expect that someone would come to appreciate his worth at this time… Shi Qingyang almost couldn’t decide if he should laugh or cry: “Of course I know how to choose, I don’t want to die…” As soon as the words fell, the steel rod in his hand suddenly stabbed into the energy tank of one of the armored vehicles, and as soon as he touched it, it exploded. At the same time, he threw the grenade he had previously obtained from Chang Jiashi at the other armored vehicle.

The vehicle exploded, and Shi Qingyang rolled to the side to dodge immediately.

“How dare you!” The boss shouted, because he was too close, he was immediately blinded by the explosion. At this time, Gu Changjin had come to him and directly released several wind blades.

“Gu Changjin, I didn’t expect you to be able to move…” The boss was hard hit by two blades. Although he was not hurt, his face was still ugly.

“Of course I have strength. Even if I die, I will take you with me.” Gu Changjin moved his hand. At this time, he had no choice but to trust Shi Qingyang.

The man laughed a few times and directly turned to Gu Changjin.

Gu Changjin seemed to have lost his strength. He was even a little weak when fighting. At the same time, he retreated step by step during hte fight. Shi Qingyang and Cheng Ran were more straightforward and ran directly to the forest full of ant beasts.

Of course, it wasn’t easy for them to escape. Among the pursuers, although the level-5 master has been entangled by Gu Changjin, the others attacked Shi Qingyang. Soon, Shi Qingyang’s miserable state was almost as bad as when he’d been hunted down by Red Hand.

There were many ant beasts on the mountain where the ant nest wa located. When they saw someone, these ant beasts ran to the side, but they were not far away. The antennae on their heads danced, and they seemed ready to rush up at any time, making people’s scalp numb.

Shi Qingyang ran forward with Cheng Ran without hesitation, but suddenly he stepped on empty ground.

A cry of despair rang out, and the echo in the ant nest made people feel a little eerie.

At this time, Gu Changjin, who had been defending, suddenly lashed out.

The potential potion stimulated all of Gu Changjin’s potential. He suddenly attracted all the radiant energy around him to stab at the man. The radiant energy in his body was also used without hesitation, and he rushed to the level-5 master who was fighting with him…