Chapter 244: Chapter 218: Shen Ning’Er’s Badass Entrance
"An Epic-level quest?! How come I never knew about this before!" Gao Neng was momentarily stunned. He’d thought that if he had the right to choose, then he must also have the right to refuse.
But he’d never imagined...
’So *this* is what the so-called right to refuse meant?’
’And the difficulty can even freaking level up?’
’Epic difficulty!’
’Forget it. As long as I never accept this so-called life-saving quest, the difficulty level won’t affect me, right?’ Gao Neng thought, but it did little to ease his mind.
Because the Lizard Race pursuers behind him were already closing in.
Even the damn system had certified that his life was in danger; how could that be a lie?
Gao Neng was suddenly struck with regret, but it was useless now. He had to keep running, as far as he possibly could. As for the life-saving quest...
’To hell with it!’
Gao Neng burrowed frantically through the earth.
But the Lizard Race pursuers were hot on his heels. Worse, because they were constantly reporting his position, high-tier aliens had begun bombarding the ground from above.
BOOM!
BOOM!
Craters began to pockmark the forest floor.
He had no choice but to move in a serpentine pattern, weaving around the attacks from the high-tiers above. Otherwise, he would likely be crushed flat beneath the earth.
But this, in turn, slowed him down.
Moreover, the farther he burrowed, the more disoriented Gao Neng became...
’Direction was a huge problem!’
He was burrowing underground, the surface was a forest, and high-tiers were constantly bombarding the ground. Under such circumstances, it was impossible for him to get an accurate sense of direction.
All he could do was continuously evade the bombardment and burrow frantically onward.
「Twenty minutes later.」
Gao Neng clearly sensed something was wrong. The pursuit from behind seemed to be dwindling; the number of Lizardmen was much lower.
’Did I lose them?’
’No!’
’If I’d lost them, I should have lost all of them.’
’Why did I only lose a portion of them? Where did the other Lizardmen go?’
Just as he was wondering about this, he sensed movement to his left.
Then, his right!
’Am... I being surrounded?!’ Gao Neng realized with a jolt. He finally understood where the other members of the Lizard Race had gone.
’It’s an encirclement!’
The Lizard Race members behind him were tailing him closely to prevent his escape, while the others had fanned out to outflank him. Add to that the high-tiers on the surface herding him into position...
Gao Neng had now well and truly fallen into the Alien Race Alliance Army’s encirclement!
"Gao Neng, you can’t escape!" a cold voice shouted from above his head. In the next moment, the ground above him suddenly caved downward, and an immense pressure bore down.
Gao Neng knew it was a high-tier once again bombarding the ground.
Without hesitation, he veered left. But at the exact moment he did, a blade erupted from the earth right in front of his eyes.
SKREEE!
A strange cry rang out.
Gao Neng dodged to the side on instinct, and the blade slammed into the Flying Earth Dragon.
The immense force of the blow made the Flying Earth Dragon shudder. At the same time, the ceiling of earth above him gave way, and a sliver of sunlight shone in.
Standing above him was a Beastman.
He stood two meters tall and wielded a giant axe. He wore pauldrons on his shoulders and had a single, silver-white horn on his head, from which a faint light was flowing.
’A High-tier Beastman!’ Gao Neng was startled. It was already too late to run, because the giant axe in the High-tier Beastman’s hands was already swinging down.
There was nothing he could do.
Gao Neng could only control the Flying Earth Dragon to meet the blow.
BOOM!
The giant axe collided with the scythe-like claws.
From that single impact, the Flying Earth Dragon’s two scythe-like claws cracked, and one even snapped in two. With this, he couldn’t even burrow anymore.
"Hahaha, you wretched ground rat! You have no claws now, so go on, keep burrowing! Die!" the High-tier Beastman roared with laughter. It seemed he hadn’t even used his full strength in that swing.
At that moment, Gao Neng’s heart truly turned to ice.
’I’m dead for sure!’
But he still wanted to struggle a little longer.
So, as the High-tier Beastman roared with laughter, he controlled the Flying Earth Dragon to shoot up toward the sky once more.
SWOOSH!
It flew right over the High-tier Beastman’s head.
"Still trying to fly? Look above your head!" The High-tier Beastman clearly had no intention of pursuing him; a cold smile just curled his lips.
"Mu Feifei!" As Gao Neng looked up, he saw Mu Feifei already diving down toward him, bringing with her an overwhelming pressure.
Furthermore, under this pressure, he found himself unable to move.
’Am I locked in place?’
’Is it an aura lock?!’
Before he had time to figure it out, two swords were already cutting down at him.
"Sword Drawing Technique!" Gao Neng could do nothing but draw his blade, meeting her attack with a single slash.
A crescent of light collided with the two swords.
A slight tremor ran through the air.
Gao Neng was sent flying back at least ten meters from the strike, while Mu Feifei wore a look of astonishment. She glanced down at the two swords in her hands, then back at the distant Gao Neng.
"I didn’t expect you to be this weak! So, you were deceiving me before?!" Mu Feifei clearly hadn’t imagined he would be thrown back so far.
’He possesses a sufficiently powerful destructive force.’
’And he’s incredibly durable...’
’But the difference in our power is enormous!’
’What’s going on here?’
"Weak? Have you ever seen me when I’m strong?!" Gao Neng would rather die than admit it, but he truly had nowhere left to run. More than ten high-tiers had him completely surrounded.
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
The high-tier aliens were enraged.
