The forest was damp and stuffy after the rain, and with the summer heat, the entire woodland felt like a steamer, hot and humid.
The bat flying forward with a sack was a bit confused and said to his equally silent companion:
"Why are they so quiet?"
They weren't struggling or making any noise, making him wonder if what he was carrying was even alive anymore.
"They haven't suffocated, have they?"
The moisture in the air was almost tangible, and even he was finding it a bit hard to breathe. Could those in the sacks have suffocated??
Frightened by his own imagination, the bat quickly directed his companion to descend: "Quick! Let's land and check if they've suffocated!"
Prince Qiao You had said they were precious guides, so nothing could possibly happen to them!
Just as the bats were placing the sacks on the ground and opening the drawstrings, a light orange furry figure burst out of the sack.
The bats hadn't yet reacted when they felt their mental sea being pricked like needles, causing dense, widespread pain. They lost control and fell from the air, rolling on the ground.
Taking advantage of this moment, Yun Manman grabbed Alice's wings in her mouth and quickly fled towards the distance.
Haha, the rope might restrain her human form, but it couldn't hold a shrunken cat!
After Qiao You left, Yun Manman and Alice had been discussing how to escape.
Finally, when these dimwitted bats landed, they seized the opportunity. Alice, with her S-grade mental strength, turned her psychic power into a sharp weapon to attack the bats, while Yun Manman was responsible for the escape.
Alice's flying speed wasn't fast, so she had to be carried.
She dared not stop for a moment, frantically running forward on all fours.
If she stopped, they would be caught by the pursuing bats, and both of them would be taken to the vampires.
Heaven knows what these utterly hypocritical vampires would do to them.
She had seen news about vampires online. A vampire drinks a thousand milliliters of blood in one go! It's not as simple as the two sips they claim.
A thousand milliliters! When she donated blood, it was at most four hundred milliliters!
And she had heard that some vampires get more and more excited as they drink, until their prey becomes nothing but dry skin.
By then, she and Alice would become a mummified cat and a mummified fairy.
Yun Manman had never run this fast before. She felt that if she had this speed during the 800-meter run in her previous life's physical test, she wouldn't have failed.
The humid, hot air entered her lungs through her respiratory tract, then expanded in her chest cavity before being exhaled as even hotter gas.
Lactic acid rapidly accumulated in her muscles, and her steps gradually became heavy.
The scenery on both sides turned into afterimages moving backwards, and she could no longer distinguish whether she was passing rocks or trees.
Yun Manman was truly afraid of being caught up to. The petite cat deliberately dove into the bushes, and her fluffy, clean fur quickly became covered with leaves and muddy water, turning dirty.
Suddenly, Alice, who was being carried in her mouth, anxiously patted the cat's cheek and pointed ahead: "Mm! Mm mm!"
Ahead! There was a tree hollow ahead!
Yun Manman was momentarily distracted and didn't notice the stone under her feet, stepping right on it.
The moss-covered stone, wet from the rain, was extremely slippery. Yun Manman felt a piercing pain in her front paw, then rolled down the hillside like a rubber ball.
Instinctively, Yun Manman curled Alice into her embrace and tucked in her limbs to reduce the damage from the impacts.
With a muffled "thud," the cat's back hit a tree, causing the dirty cat to grimace in pain.
Fortunately, their luck wasn't too bad, as they landed right next to the tree hollow Alice had pointed out.
Then Yun Manman, lifting her sprained front paw, hopped into this fairly spacious tree hollow with Alice's help.
This was a huge tree that would take two people to encircle with their arms. Although the base beneath the roots had been mostly hollowed out, the tree still had lush green leaves and was full of vitality.
Inside the hollow were puddles of water and the decaying scent of leaves and bird feathers, not seeming like any wild animal's home.
This tree hollow was located at the bottom of a small slope behind a dense thicket, not easy to discover.
Alice knelt on the ground, closed her eyes with her hands crossed over her chest, her mouth moving silently, her expression devout.
A breeze blew through the entrance of the hollow, and the leaves made a soft rustling sound, as if telling them to be at ease.
The fairy race could communicate with the elements in nature.
Alice was asking the wind to carry their scent further away, even further, so the vampires wouldn't find them.
Then the cat and the fairy huddled tightly together, hiding in the dark depths of the tree hollow, holding their breath and listening for any movement outside.
The fairy lady even covered her glowing wings with leaves to prevent the light from revealing their whereabouts.
The sound of flapping wings echoed back and forth above the big tree. Yun Manman was so tense she didn't even dare to breathe.
After the commotion, it became quiet again.
It seemed they were safe.
But Yun Manman's front paw was injured, and Alice's glowing wings were like built-in guiding lights, especially obvious in the dark.
Neither of the two girls dared to go out, praying that the vampires would give up and leave if they couldn't find them. They also wondered when daybreak would come.
The vampires, who disliked sunlight, would be relatively slow during the day, giving them a chance to escape this forest.
At the edge of the forest, a towering fire had been lit, turning even the dark clouds on the horizon a grayish-orange.
The sound of laser guns firing and the deafening boom of ion cannons echoed across the sky. The roars of the Beastfiends and the spreading smell of blood made this part of the forest seem like hell on earth.
The suddenly appearing group of Beastfiends numbered over a hundred, including not only blackened Beastmen but also blackened vampires with black wings on their backs.
Each one was in a frenzied state, having lost all reason, fearlessly charging towards the Beastmen in front of them, wanting to drink their blood and devour their flesh.
Especially around the serpent, there were particularly many Beastfiends gathered.
As if receiving some kind of command, these Beastfiends ignored attacks from other Beastmen, their eyes seemingly fixed only on Lu Qi.
The serpent's form was enormous, its white jade scales glinting with golden light in the fire, its fiery red feathered wings on its back like dazzling flames covering the sky, its aura noble and inviolable.
Even surrounded by the fierce attacks of the Beastfiends, he showed no fear or panic. His thick, agile snake tail would grab a nearby Beastfiend and smash it against a rock, cracking its skull open. His fiery red wings on his back allowed him to nimbly dodge the Beastfiends' attacks, and in the gaps, he would strike with his venomous fangs, instantly killing the Beastfiend with one bite.
Not far away, the Yun Zheng beast reacted quickly, delivering a fatal blow with its claws to the Beastfiends that the serpent had knocked down, or using the curved, sharp horn on its forehead to pierce through the Beastfiends' chests and abdomens.
The Beastmen soldiers, faced with this sudden situation, were also well-trained and remained calm.
One group of Beastmen with strong attack power transformed into their beast forms to join the battle, while another group skilled in weapon use stood at a distance to provide cover for their charging comrades.
Every Beastman was covered with a layer of mental power to prevent the Beastfiends' induction and reduce the possibility of mental disorder.
Soon, the Beastfiends' offensive began to show signs of faltering, and the battle was clearly tilting towards one side.
Qiao You, who had been observing from the treetop, gritted his teeth and spread his wings to fly away.
Forget it, getting the guides back was more important for now.
At that moment, a pink, extremely sticky tongue "slapped" onto Qiao You's wing, yanking him down from the tree.
"Found you!"