Although the taste of the nine-fragrance worm was extreme, its effect was immediate.
As soon as Fatty swallowed it, he started to feel a stomachache and had to rush into the bushes!
After a burst of machine-gun fire, he emerged refreshed, looking like a top leader.
"How is it, Fatty?" Wu Tianzhen asked, pinching his nose and forcing a smile.
"Isn't it perfect?" Fatty was ecstatic, feeling like he had reached the pinnacle of life.
"It's like being exiled to the frontier. If you dig around now, you might even find the corpse of that 'responding worm'!"
"No, no..." Wu Tianzhen waved his hands, refusing, not wanting to stay there for another second.
He looked around and found that Zhang Qiling had somehow already climbed to the top of a distant tree. His silent and stealthy nature hadn't changed at all.
"Little Brother—!" Wu Tianzhen shouted towards him, "Let's go!!!"
After shouting, he vaguely saw Zhang Qiling glance in their direction, and with a body as light as a piece of paper, he "floated" down from the tree, arriving before them in no time.
The white worms inside the Fang snake's body on the ground had withered and died from being away from water for so long.
However, the Fang snake's body was too tempting for these creatures. A thick white layer surrounded the edge of the water pool. These were countless white worms floating up from the water, frantically thrashing against the muddy bank, unable to reach the food they could see.
As soon as Fatty recovered, his mouth became unrestrained.
For the entire day, the responding worms had been arrogant and bossy in his stomach, causing him to be unable to utilize his linguistic talents for so long. Countless famous sayings that could be enshrined in the Hall of Crosstalk had been buried!
Now that he was finally free, he felt like he wanted to pull up every blade of grass and scold its entire lineage!
Could these little worms escape?
"Yo yo yo, in such a hurry~" He immediately picked up the Fang snake, pretending to throw it into the water pool.
"Want to eat? If you want to eat, Fatty will mercifully send you back~"
He swayed, about to throw the Fang snake in, but then quickly pulled it back.
"Hey! I won't let you eat!"
Bitten and swung around for a long time, the half-dead Fang snake was dizzily placed back on the ground. This inexplicable human even arrogantly patted its behind.
"Here, Fatty is showing great mercy today. You can go!"
The little worms in the water: ...What the hell.
Seeing that the little worms seemed to be crashing against the edge of the water pool even more frantically, Fatty started to add fuel to the fire.
"What's wrong, what's wrong? Don't tell me you want to bite me?"
"Come on, come on~" He turned around and presented his backside to the little worms: "Come and bite me hard!"
"Oh, I forgot, you can't get out of the water, hahahahaha!"
"Alright, Fatty, stop playing around." Wu Tianzhen was speechless at Fatty's actions and said, "Hurry up. If we dawdle any longer, Little Brother will be far away."
The area was surrounded by mountain walls, and they planned to return to their previous location to find a way out.
Fatty glanced over and indeed, Zhang Qiling had already walked more than ten meters ahead. However, from his deliberately slowed pace, it was evident that he was waiting for the two behind him.
The return path was a downhill slope, but as the saying goes, it's easier to go down a mountain than up. Coupled with the vegetation on the path, it wasn't an easy walk.
Zhang Qiling took a couple of steps and then stopped. Only when he heard the footsteps of Fatty and Wu Tianzhen catching up did he continue.
For some reason, the animal activity that was originally somewhat noisy on this path had almost completely disappeared now that it was daylight, as if they were deliberately hiding.
The sheath of the Black Gold Ancient Saber in his hand gradually became damp. Zhang Qiling looked up at the sky. The intertwined vines and branches blocked most of his view, but he could still see that the daytime was too dim.
"Holy crap!" Fatty couldn't see the path clearly and stumbled over a tree root exposed from the soil, almost rolling like a gourd.
"Why did the weather turn dark so quickly? What's going on?" he wondered. "Did my bowel movement just last all day, and now it's nighttime?"
"Can you please stop mentioning that poop? I'm really getting a psychological shadow..." Wu Tianzhen, reminded by Fatty, almost felt the smell in his nose revive and couldn't help but quicken his pace to get away from Fatty.
He saw Zhang Qiling standing motionlessly at the front, staring intently at a drooping leaf.
Wu Tianzhen looked over curiously. On the leaf, due to the condensed moisture, a drop of water was slowly dripping from its tip.
"Rain..."
Uttering a single word, Zhang Qiling's expression changed drastically!
Fatty had just caught up to the two of them. Before he could utter a complaint, he felt a pain in his upper arm, and he was lifted into the air by Zhang Qiling!
He was truly flying, his body almost floating in the air due to the excessive speed.
Zhang Qiling's hand gripped his flesh like a vise, causing Fatty to grimace in pain. Looking to the side, Wu Tianzhen in his other hand also wore a pained expression!
Although being carried by a deity was much faster, and he almost ignored the terrain obstacles, flying over the vegetation, it was still too uncomfortable!
"I say, Little Brother, what's gotten into you?" Fatty couldn't help but ask. The cold wind generated by the extreme speed felt like countless merciless slaps on his face, making it incredibly invigorating.
Wu Tianzhen was also puzzled. Enduring the strong wind, he looked up and saw the veins on Zhang Qiling's pale arm bulging due to exertion. It was likely not easy to carry them both over mountains and through grasslands like this.
...Especially Fatty in his other hand, whose weight was indeed a bit of a challenge for Little Brother.
"Little Brother, if you're in a hurry, you can put us down, and we can increase our speed. This is too tiring for you!"
Zhang Qiling pursed his lips, not replying.
He didn't even choose a path with sparse vegetation and easy passage but instead plunged directly into the dense forest, charging towards the higher slopes.
Wu Tianzhen and Fatty received no answer, but soon, they understood the problem.
Suddenly, a thunderous roar, like the sound of the sky being torn apart!
Endless sheets of rain poured down instantly!
In this mysterious realm, trees grew wildly, their branches blocking most of the sky. But at this moment, these steel-like fences of trees seemed like mere dust in the torrential rain, not enduring even a second before being completely destroyed!
The dense forest where they were located offered a slight buffer against the rain's force, but the power of a thousand-zhang waterfall crashing down still caused Fatty and Wu Tianzhen's backs to sting!
"Holy... *glug glug*... crap!!!!!"
Fatty felt like he was underwater for a moment. After finally adjusting, he let out a national exclamation.
Now, the two finally understood why Zhang Qiling was in such a hurry, but they still didn't understand why he wasn't looking for shelter from the rain but instead heading uphill.
Just then, a huge "crack" sound pursued them from behind!!
Followed by a sound like a reservoir being drained—
The mysterious lake, whose depth was unknown, had now broken through the side earth wall under the impact of the torrential rain, rolling towards their low-lying area like a tsunami!!!