Chapter 1363: Chapter 1343: Breakout!
"Everyone, stay alert. You’ve already entered ten kilometers into the mountain, reaching the Guardians’ alert zone!"
"If you encounter the Guardians, immediately scatter and run into the deep mountains with all your might. The Ancient Martial Realm experts in the team will do their utmost to hold off the Guardians for you!"
"You don’t need to worry about anything, just run hard. Once you swim across ’Tianfu River’, you’ve successfully entered Huaxia’s Southwest Endless Deep Mountains!"
Once the SSS and S teams pushed approximately ten miles into the deep mountains, Wang Dahai instructed his team via the walkie-talkie!
Everyone nodded, swallowed hard, and raised their guard to the highest level.
Just as Wang Dahai anticipated, both teams, heading in different directions and far apart, encountered the Guardians!
"Huaxia’s Endless Deep Mountains is not a place you can enter. Get out!" The Guardian’s indifferent voice came through the walkie-talkie.
Although Wang Dahai had been running the snakehead business for decades and had heard the Guardians’ menacing words countless times, his forehead couldn’t help but seep out a cold sweat at this moment!
"Break into smaller groups, run!" Wang Dahai commanded loudly!
Upon hearing this, the team members scattered like birds and beasts, carrying anxious hearts as they dashed into the deep mountains!
Next came the sound of battle!
There was no need to guess — for sure, the Ancient Martial Artists in both teams had clashed with the army of Guardians!
In the next second.
"Ah!!!"
Suddenly, a scream rang out!
Clearly, some slower, less nimble team members had been captured by the Guardians of Endless Deep Mountains!
Wang Dahai raised an eyebrow. Normally, it would be three minutes into the battle before team members were gradually captured.
Which unlucky person got caught in just a few seconds this time?
As he was thinking this.
"Ah!!!"
"Ah!!!"
"Ah!!!"
Three more screams followed!
Wang Dahai’s face changed instantly. What was going on?
In just a dozen seconds, this many were captured?
"What’s happening!" Wang Dahai exclaimed in alarm, questioning sharply!
"Boss Wang, something’s not right!"
"The Guardians we encountered today are noticeably more than usual!"
"Previously, at most, we would bump into about twenty Guardians at once, but today, I roughly estimate there are at least a hundred of them! It’s five times more! Not only that, the average strength of the Guardians is much stronger than before! Previously, it was high-tier Celestial God level, now it’s on average at the Half-step Divine King level! We can’t possibly hold back so many Half-step Divine King level Guardians!"
On the other end of the walkie-talkie, the leader of the S-level team, an Initial-Tier Divine King, fighting fiercely with the Guardians, explained the situation to Wang Dahai with some panic!
"Is this true?"
Wang Dahai’s face changed in an instant, quickly asking the leader of the SSS-level team, an Initial-Tier Divine King and a leading figure in Huaxia’s Southwest Ancient Martial Realm: "Old Zhou, how are things on your end?"
"Things are even tougher here. Although the Guardians’ average strength is at the Celestial God level, their team size is just too large — at least one hundred and twenty!"
"What the... a hundred and twenty, you’ve got to be kidding me?!"
Wang Dahai’s face turned red like a pig’s liver, looking extremely ugly, "Why did so many Guardians suddenly appear today?!"
"We’re clueless too, and too scared to ask!" Old Zhou had just finished speaking and let out a scream.
Then, the walkie-talkie echoed with his cries and the sound of him falling.
No need to guess, he was definitely subdued by the Guardians!
Soon, cries of anguish and the sounds of bodies falling filled the air!
Not long after, all the noise disappeared!
Clearly, everyone from both teams had been subdued!
Wang Dahai felt a rush of panic. What was going on?
In previous decades, the Guardians had not enforced such strict control over the mountain’s edge.
Why was today so unusual, with so many people dispatched to block the intruders?
Damn, he’d just been cursing that masked young man and the leggy woman to encounter a large group of Guardians and get beaten up like a dead dog after entering the mountains.
And now, his two teams were surrounded by a large group of Guardians, reduced to wailing and captured!
Damn, was it cursing others or himself after all?!
Wang Dahai was at a loss for tears.
The next second, he keenly sensed something amiss, his whole body shivered, threw away the walkie-talkie, and started running!
Unexpectedly, after just a few steps, several shadows swooshed down, with cold expressions, blocking his path.
This was the first time Wang Dahai had seen a deep mountain guardian with his own eyes, and he immediately fell to the ground in fear, even losing his auspicious hat.
Next, the guardian’s iron fist struck his face!
Wang Dahai’s eyes went dark, and he passed out on the spot.
At the same time.
"Kid, where do you think you’re going!"
"Brat, stop right there!!"
"The Endless Deep Mountains are not a place for outsiders like you!"
In a forest to the northeast of the mountains, more than a hundred guardians dressed in silver uniforms, wielding long swords, were shouting loudly while pursuing a man and a woman!
However, the man and woman paid no heed to their cries!
"It’s time to speed up," Ye Huan whispered as he ran swiftly.
The Empress nodded solemnly.
With a swift motion of his right hand, Ye Huan lifted the Empress onto his back!
Then, he increased his sprint speed significantly!
Among the hundred-plus guardians behind them, even those with the lowest strength were Celestial God Level, on par with the Empress.
Most guardians were far stronger, at Half-step Divine King and Divine King Levels. After a long chase, the Empress was beginning to tire and slow down.
In this situation, Ye Huan could only opt to carry her, relying on his speed to break through the heavy encirclement!
"Brother Ye, I’m sorry for holding you back," the Empress bit her lip lightly, her words full of apology, and her delicate face was slightly flushed.
Being carried by Ye Huan, her long and stunningly beautiful legs were naturally clasped tightly by Ye Huan’s hands.
The smooth skin of her thighs could distinctly feel the warmth of Ye Huan’s palms.
Ye Huan’s hands were extremely rough due to many years of battles, full of calluses, yet they inexplicably instilled a sense of security and a ripple that made her heart race.
"It’s all right!" Ye Huan reassured her.
"Whoosh!"
Upon hearing the sound of the wind breaking, he reacted instantly, dodging sideways to evade a hidden guardian’s sudden sword attack, then kicked out with his right leg, sending the guardian flying back while propelling his body forward, pulling fifteen meters ahead of the pursuing guardians!
Earlier, while sprinting, Ye Huan had carefully studied the map on the sheepskin scroll.
Crossing this forest would lead to a valley.
And crossing the valley would reach the front of a large river!
As long as they crossed the river, they’d reach the southwest Endless Deep Mountains!
But Ye Huan was not in a hurry; he kept twisting and turning in the forest, skirmishing with the guardians for a long time without breaking through.
The reason was simple: the forest had many trees and flowers, even rocks, which served to hide them and obstruct the guardians’ view. Whereas, in the bare canyon, there would be nothing to hinder the guardians, significantly reducing the chance of a successful breakout.
When night fell silently, Ye Huan again sprinted wildly around the forest, then suddenly sped up like a rocket under a big tree, disappearing from the guardians’ sight!
"Damn it! Hurry up and chase!"
A guardian cursed and, along with others, accelerated towards Ye Huan’s disappearing direction.
Three minutes later.
A guardian waved his hand, shouting, "Stop!"
The guardians stopped abruptly, "braking" so fast that their soles sparked against the ground.
"What’s going on?" someone asked.
"Look,"
The squad leader pointed at the ground one meter ahead.
Everyone looked intently and suddenly laughed.
In front of them, the ground was covered in soil like the surroundings, but under the moonlight, one could vaguely see a faint glow from the dew reflecting off the tip of tree vines.
Does soil usually have tree vines? Is it normal?
Not normal!
The guardians believed that Ye Huan must have excavated here during his escape, weaving a load-bearing net of tree vines under the soil to make a pit trap!
However, as Ye Huan fled too quickly, he didn’t notice the slight protrusion of the tree vines!
Originally a clever trap, but because of this loophole, Ye Huan’s efforts were in vain!
"That brat suddenly set up a trap, surely because he’s exhausted and wants to knock us out to rest. Let’s chase him quickly! Go go go!" The squad leader commanded, and then led the leap forward, jumping over the trap!
The other guardians followed suit!
The next moment, when they suddenly found themselves stepping into nothingness, everyone’s faces changed drastically, cursing:
"Damn it, we’ve been tricked!!"
