Chapter 256: Someone disappeared (2/2)

“It doesn’t matter who’s first or last,” the white-robed man spoke a frightening truth. After the flesh-eating rats finished off one person, they’d definitely target the second. Legend said that during the Great Qin Empire, a swarm of flesh-eating rats actually annihilated the main contingent of an army.

“Then all we can do is escape.” Before the flesh-eating rats made their move, run! Long Feiye turned back to look at Han Yunxi. Without his reminder, Han Yunxi had already retrieved yet another giant bottle of hyper strength aqua regia and increased the melting speed of the Xuan gold wall. If possible, she’d like to toss the water at the rats instead, but she didn’t have enough. Even if she did, it was still impossible to kill such a large swarm in a short amount of time. If she couldn’t kill them all at once, then she’d provoke their ire and be the first one to die instead. Actually, Han Yunxi had plenty of other poisons capable of killing the flesh-eating rats, but the same reason stood with them. These animals were superior in their numbers, speed, and the fact that they acted as one swarm. Han Yunxi took out all of the hyper strength aqua regia from her detox system and used it all at once. The Xuan gold door melted away very quickly, its liquified metal streaming down its sides. More and more of the material flowed down as the hole grew bigger and bigger. But at the same time, the rats seemed to have settled on their target. All of them were perched on the floor, stupidly making their way forward as they prepared to pounce at any instant.

“Han Yunxi, go in first when the time comes,” Long Feiye said in a low voice. He was standing right in front of her. Letting her go in first was another way of saying she should escape first.

“It’s almost done. If we’re escaping, everyone escapes together!” Han Yunxi used all her strength to melt the door, conveniently passing the last bottle to Mu Linger. “Quick, help out!”

Mu Linger was still shaking with fear even now, but she suddenly stilled after getting the aqua regia in her hands. Her deep gaze focused on Han Yunxi, who was fixated on the Xuan gold door. Right now the hole was just about big enough to allow a person passage through. Mu Linger clenched the aqua regia tightly as if hesitating about something, but it was then that all of the rats on the ground arched their backs!

“Not good!” the white-robed man cried out. This was their signal to attack. Mu Linger was so frightened that her hands lost their strength, causing the aqua regia to slip past her legs. Seeing this, Han Yunxi suddenly pushed her out of the way. With a bang, the aqua regia smashed onto the ground at the same time Mu Linger hit the floor. At this moment, the flesh-eating rats suddenly broke out with a shrill squeak! Under such circumstances, anyone could see that Mu Linger was their chosen target!

“Mu Linger!” Alarmed, Han Yunxi pulled Mu Linger towards her without a second thought.

“Han Yunxi, let go of her right now!” Long Feiye ordered coldly. Han Yunxi was simply seeking her own death. If the flesh-eating rats wanted to attack Mu Linger, then she’d be targeted as well since she was holding onto her! Han Yunxi really hadn’t considered the consequences. Her first reaction was to save the person instead.

She unconsciously turned towards Long Feiye, but it was already too late. In a flash, the flesh-eating rats swarmed towards both of them with frenzied killing intent.

“Han Yunxi!”

“Poison lass!”

Long Feiye and Gu Qishao chorused in unison. Right now, they didn’t care whether she could be saved, much less whether they’d suffer along with her. Both of them wanted to pull Han Yunxi free. But there was someone who was faster than either of them. A flash of white darted past, its speed so quick that they couldn’t even react. The white-robed man threw caution to the winds as he ferociously pulled Han Yunxi to the wall on one side, dragging her hand across its surface!

His speed was terrifying, leaving even Han Yunxi muddleheaded. She had no idea what was going on beyond a sudden, intense pain pricking her five fingers.

Rrrrrummmble!

There was a loud roar as the Xuan gold door promptly toppled over!

“Run!” the white-robed man shouted. The skills of everyone present was enough to ensure their escape. Fortunately, their reactions were quick. Gu Qishao carried Mu Linger while the white-robed man brought along Han Yunxi as the group fled through the entrance. Unexpectedly, the frenzied mob of flesh-eating rats suddenly grew still, stopping just outside the Xuan gold door. They chittered with extremely shrill squeaks, but it wasn’t clear whether they were unsatisfied or fearful. In any case, none of them dared to tread forward a single step. When the fleeing people saw this, they finally stopped to heave a breath in relief. Just then, they’d all been hanging on the edge of life and death, too dangerous!

Beyond the door was the secret chamber that imprisoned the poison beast. Since the poison beast had summoned them here, why weren’t they going inside? And what had happened just then? Why did the door topple forward?

Now that they had a chance to breathe, they began to harbor doubts. Long Feiye only asked coldly, “Han Yunxi, where’s that white-robed man?”

As soon as they’d escaped, his first reaction was to look for Han Yunxi, only to discover that she was standing by herself. The white-robed man had disappeared to who knows where. Han Yunxi stared woodenly at Long Feiye before extending her five fingers, only to see them all cut up and bleeding.

Where was the white-robed man?

She didn’t know, because what had happened just then had passed by too quickly. By the time she recovered her senses, she was standing here. The Xuan gold door had fallen, the flesh-eating rats had stopped, and the white-robed man had disappeared…