Chapter 173 [Stay Steady, Don’t Overextend] (6000)
Chen Yan was so angry his face turned white!
Damn it, I’m covering you with sniping, and you’re running towards me?!
Seeing Golden Armor shout towards him: "Daoist Wang Chuyi! Let’s join forces to fight our way out!" ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ 𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹✶𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗲✶𝗻𝗲𝘁
Chen Yan glared at him!
He clearly saw a glint of cunning in Golden Armor’s eyes!
You bastard, you have bad intentions!!
Chen Yan immediately became alert, then suddenly kicked the empty jar he had.
The jar flew towards Golden Armor, who instinctively reached out and caught it in a hurry!
And Chen Yan turned around and ran!
Seeing the "jar filled with Divine Tree Juice" fall into Golden Armor’s arms, the pursuing soldiers behind them roared angrily and rushed towards Golden Armor.
Golden Armor cursed but saw Chen Yan sprinting towards the root of the Divine Tree, leaping up the tree in a few swift moves.
The pursuers stared at the two humans.
Their gazes shifted from Chen Yan to Golden Armor holding the jar.
With just a half-second of hesitation... they suddenly all rushed towards Golden Armor!
"Wang Chuyi, you set me up!!"
Chen Yan didn’t look back and shouted: "You set me up first!!"
Golden Armor was helpless—holding the jar, he sprinted towards the cave...
Chen Yan had climbed onto the trunk, seeing hundreds of miners on the ground still trembling and kneeling, all the Guard Warriors and overseers chasing after Golden Armor, with shouts and screams echoing from the cave!
Chen Yan swiftly jumped down from the tree, seeing the root tendril on the ground, already cut off at one end, with some unknown liquid oozing from the other.
Chen Yan had an idea, grabbed it, and was about to draw his dagger, learning from Golden Armor to cut off a piece.
But then he heard the wrong kind of noise from the cave, and after several screams, Golden Armor came rushing out of the cave once again, holding the jar!
Chen Yan was stunned: "Why did you come back?!"
Golden Armor looked embarrassed and shouted: "There are more following!!"
Before Golden Armor could finish talking, a large group of monster warriors with war blades, each glowing red, rushed out from the cave behind him.
At a glance, there were at least a dozen, with more following!
Chen Yan grimaced, no time to draw the dagger. He gripped the tendril with one hand, pulling hard with his arm!!
With one pull, it didn’t break!
A second pull! Still didn’t break!
The root stem of the tree gave a strange tearing sound, and Chen Yan suddenly felt the weight disappear in his hand. The end of the tendril, attached to something unknown, was ripped out!
The end of the tendril revealed an irregularly shaped milky white object; Chen Yan grabbed it, feeling cold and hard!
He didn’t have time to examine it; he quickly threw down his backpack, packed the object and a bag of sealed Divine Tree Juice inside, zipped it up, and swiftly slung it onto both shoulders.
Standing on the tree trunk, with hands steady on the wall, his rifle switched to burst mode, he pulled the trigger towards the pursuing Fierce Beast Race monster warriors behind Golden Armor!
Rat-a-tat-tat... Rat-a-tat-tat...
Two bursts of bullets were shot out, hitting several monsters enveloped in red light. Though knocked to the ground, they clearly weren’t dead, struggling to get up.
But this sudden change tripped up several of the closely pursuing monster warriors.
Seeing the pursuers in disarray, Golden Armor had already reached under the Divine Tree, shouting: "Keep firing, don’t stop! I have a way out!!"
Speaking, this guy actually produced an iron claw, and after a fierce shake in his hand, he flung it upwards.
The iron claw hooked onto the cliff wall; Golden Armor shouted to Chen Yan: "Keep firing, don’t let them throw flying knives to cut the rope!"
Chen Yan nodded, squeezed the trigger, and kept shooting until a clip was emptied.
Looking down, he suddenly felt a chill down his spine; Golden Armor was already climbing up the rope, and after several agile leaps, he was mid-air! His target seemed to be a hole above him—not the one Chen Yan had entered, but one of the many holes dotting the cliff wall, about seven or eight meters off the ground.
Seeing this, Chen Yan’s expression changed drastically.
That iron claw may take Golden Armor up, but the rope was in his hand! If he went up, wouldn’t he leave Chen Yan behind?!
Furious, Chen Yan ignored the glowing red monster warriors charging towards him and shouted at Golden Armor: "Golden Armor! Are you screwing me over?!"
Golden Armor, mid-air, turned back to look at Chen Yan and laughed maniacally: "We’re even! Take care of yourself, Daoist!"
With that, his hand clutched the edge of the hole, ready to jump up with one more push.
Chen Yan sneered and fired a shot!
With the sound of a gunshot, the rope snapped, and Golden Armor cursed, tumbling from the air. He landed and stumbled, falling to the side, cursing Chen Yan colorfully: "Wang Chuyi! Fuck you and your mother..."
Chen Yan snorted and tossed a grenade towards the cave.
With an explosion, those red-glowing Guard Warriors, albeit protected by red light from bullets, finally fell head over heels in the blast.
Chen Yan glanced at Golden Armor on the ground and blew a whistle quickly!