"Dong..."
"Dong..."
"Dong..."
A deafening sound reverberated, drowning out all other noises.
"Is it an earthquake?"
Li Ke instinctively shone his searchlight in the direction of the sound but found nothing unusual.
"Hoo..."
"Hoo..."
The sound grew louder and faster.
All three looked warily into the dark expanse ahead.
Fang Er jumped off the gold panning boat, took out his mortar, and fired a flare.
"Boom!"
Darkness was dispelled, and everything around them was revealed.
"Holy cow, Third Brother!"
The next moment, Li Tai screamed in alarm.
Fang Er quickly looked towards Li Ke. The gold panning boat was floating alone in mid-air, and Li Ke was nowhere to be seen.
He hurriedly asked, "What's going on?"
"I don't know! I just saw Third Brother fly away, and then the black shadow disappeared!"
Li Tai was terrified, his words jumbled.
But this did not prevent Fang Er from understanding him.
"Black shadow?"
He scanned his surroundings, but apart from the retreating Dijiang flocks, there was nothing else.
"Which way did it go?"
"That way!"
Li Tai pointed in a direction.
With only the two of them, searching for Li Ke in this vast underground space was like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Fang Er commed the system, rerouted the temporal passage to this location, and shouted to Li Tai.
"Go back and get reinforcements!"
"Yes!"
Li Tai did not dare to hesitate and piloted the gold panning boat into the passage.
The flare's brightness was already dimming. Fang Er materialized several Caterpillars, arranged them in a circle, and then activated their headlights one by one.
He then brought out dozens of off-road vehicles and parked them together. In the blink of an eye, the previously empty surroundings had transformed into a parking lot.
After doing this, he couldn't wait for Li Tai to return and drove the gold panning boat in the direction Li Tai had indicated.
The darkness was filled with glowing objects, both crystals and plants, creating a dreamlike scene.
However, this was not the time to admire the scenery.
While driving, he expanded his brainwaves outwards without limitation.
His vision was fixed on one direction, but his brainwaves could cover 360 degrees without blind spots, albeit with a smaller range.
[You're crazy! With such insane output, you'll be depleted in three minutes!]
The system in his mind sensed his abnormality and immediately protested.
"Nonsense! How can I face Old Li if I can't find him? This is a living person, gone just like that!"
Fang Er showed no intention of stopping. He maintained high speed, covering a 200-meter radius with his brainwaves, trying to locate Li Ke.
The underground space was only about a hundred meters high, so even if the black shadow hid above, he could still detect it.
Even if the black shadow was like a Dijiang, undetectable by brainwaves, it couldn't hide Li Ke!
Unless, Li Ke was already...
"Bang!"
"Bang bang..."
Gunshots suddenly erupted ahead, jolting Fang Er.
Li Ke was alive!
The gold panning boat instantly transformed into a streak of light, surging towards the source of the gunshots.
In a place overgrown with strange rocks, Li Ke, covered in blood and with his clothes riddled with holes, was frantically escaping through the stone forest, holding an AK47 with a look of terror.
Behind him, two dog-like creatures were relentlessly pursuing him.
He ducked behind a rock again, turned, and pulled the trigger at the large dogs.
"Bang bang bang!"
Three bullets flew out in quick succession, hitting one of the large dogs accurately.
However, the bullets sparked off the dog's body, as if hitting steel plates, causing it no damage.
Like the Dijiang, this large dog was also covered in armor.
"Damn it! What kind of beast did some idiot raise!"
"This damn thing has completely screwed me over!"
Li Ke cursed and then turned to flee again.
Just then, Fang Er arrived and, seeing Li Ke's disheveled state, finally felt relieved.
As long as the person was alive and not missing limbs, everything was fine!
"Bang!"
He held a Barrett rifle and fired a shot at the large dog behind Li Ke.
The immense recoil struck his shoulder with a dull ache, nearly throwing him off the gold panning boat.
The armor that had rendered AK bullets useless on the large dog failed this time, and a spray of blood bloomed from its head.
"Roar..."
The other large dog immediately stopped in its tracks. Beneath its armor, two red eyes glowed with a murderous intent.
"Shanzhang, run!"
"This is just a cub!"
Li Ke seized this opportunity, quickly rushed towards the gold panning boat, and shouted a reminder.
Seeing the large dog arching its body backward, Fang Er dared not delay. He tossed down a rope, letting Li Ke grab it.
Just as the large dog leaped forward to pounce on them, the gold panning boat rapidly retreated, causing it to miss.
"Roar..."
The large dog let out an enraged roar.
Fang Er was shocked to find other roars responding from the distance.
Did Li Ke just say this thing was a cub?
Damn it!
He immediately piloted the gold panning boat, retreating towards Li Tai and the others.
While retreating, he reeled in the rope, pulling Li Ke up. With Li Ke below, their speed was severely limited.
It wasn't that they couldn't fly fast, but they were afraid of Li Ke being smashed into pulp...
"Hoo..."
"Hoo..."
"..."
But at this moment, a gust of wind suddenly swept through the surroundings.
Then, two massive figures shot forward like arrows from afar, blocking the gold panning boat directly, less than thirty meters away.
These creatures stood over two meters at the shoulder, more than four meters long, with thick limbs and tails that swung like steel whips.
Their mouths were wider than the pots in the Duke's mansion!
Crucially, a pair of wings sprouted from their flanks, with a wingspan exceeding ten meters!
With just a glance, Fang Er felt an overwhelming sense of pressure.
These creatures were definitely not to be trifled with!
"Roar..."
Another roar came from behind Fang Er, seemingly from the large dog they had just encountered.
"Shanzhang, retreat quickly! These two are their elders. I was captured by them before!"
Upon seeing these two behemoths, Li Ke quickly shouted a warning.
Fang Er's mouth twitched.
Escape?
Was it that easy?
With a wave of his hand, a B-2 bomber materialized overhead.
Taking advantage of the moment the two behemoths were stunned, he yanked his right hand, lifting Li Ke into the air.
His arm strength was incredible now!
He pinned Li Ke to his lap as the gold panning boat accelerated away.
However, the two behemoths had no time to dodge. They were positioned directly in the path of the B-2 bomber and were hit from above.
"Boom!"
Not long after Fang Er and Li Ke had escaped, a violent explosion sounded behind them.
ps: Don't doubt it, there will be a big surprise soon.