Swallowed Star

The black rat tide seemed infinite, and was wide enough to cover the whole highway. It seemed to stretch on for over 100 meters. With each rat monster being 30 cm in length, there were definitely over ten thousand monsters in this rat tide. And this rat tide counts as a small one. Even a wargod will die if he gets caught in it!

So Luo Feng only had one choice……

“Run!” Luo Feng immediately started sprinting on the highway.

“HU, HU, HU~~”

Wan Dong and the other two had threw away their blades, shields, and other weapons a long time ago. Each of them were sprinting as the rat tide behind them chased incessantly. The distance between them shortened from 20 meters, to 15 meters, 14 meters, 13 meters…..

“Fuck!”

“What’s taking the army so long!”

“If they don’t come soon, we’re dead”

Wan Dong and the others cursed in their hearts and clenched their teeth as they accelerated, increasing the distance between them and the rat tide. They directly pulled away to 30 meters. Only after that did Wan Dong and the other two start decelerating.

“I can’t run anymore”

“Me neither”

Wan Dong and the other two exchanged glances, and all of them were in bitter pain. Their maximum sprint speed is way faster than this rat tide, but since it’s their maximum, they won’t be able to maintain it for long! For example, it was pretty good for the humans before the Grand Nirvana period to run 100 meters in 10 seconds.

100 meters, in around 10 seconds.

But what about 1,000 meters? Can they do that in 100 seconds?

10,000 meters? Could they do it in 1,000 seconds? In fact, before the Grand Nirvana period, the record for the males 10,000 meter run was around 1,580 seconds.

Fighters now are the same. Wan Dong and the others can run 60 m/s in their maximum sprint speed, but they’ve been running for nearly half an hour now. Right now, they can barely keep up a speed of 40 m/s! Only when the rat tide nears them do they force themselves with their lives on the line to run faster!

Wan Dong and the others have ran about 300 miles! One could imagine how tired they are!

“Hurry up and come, army”

“This is pretty close to the resupplying base, how come the army still isn’t here” Wan Dong and the other two were starting to lose feeling in their legs; their muscles were too tired to run any faster.

And Luo Feng maintained an astonishing speed of 60 m/s while carrying his blade and shield. Wan Dong and the other two have used up most of their energy, but Luo Feng is still in peak condition!

Luo Feng was already pretty far from the rat tide, so he quickly lost them.

“Eh?” with a glance, Luo Feng saw a deep blue shadow coming from far away in the sky. At first, he thought it was some sort of flying monster, but as the deep blue flying object neared, Luo Feng realized what it was. It was some sort of flat, round, saucer shaped military aircraft!

Most of the military’s aircraft are made in this shape, since it’s easier to attack and defend against flying monsters in the air.

“Army!”

“It’s the army’s aircraft!” the exhausted trio suddenly gave an excited yell, and each of them started accelerating.

Luo Feng, who was still sprinting, also slowed down. He raised his head and watched the military aircraft rush towards the monster horde. When it was around 100 meters above the ground, it started hovering perfectly above the monster horde. With Luo Feng’s eyesight, he saw a gigantic cannon come out of the bottom of the aircraft.

“RUMBLE~~~”

A neverending flame started ferociously shooting out the cannon, directly covering the rat tide below. The temperature of the flame was probably a couple thousand degrees, and most of the rat monsters were burned alive. Suddenly, the usually neat rat tide crumbled entirely. They ran in all directions while giving off horrified yells.

However, under the cage of flame, most of the rat monsters were directly burned to death. A portion of the rat monsters ran into the abandoned fields beside the highway, directly burrowed into the ground, and disappeared.

“You four fighters, a grade 3 rat tide has emerged in a thousand mile radius. Please return to the resupplying base. It’s not too late to come back to the wilderness after the rat tide alert has been called off” a sound carried from the aircraft. Suddenly, it split the air as it flew away, headed off to save the other fighters.

Wan Dong and the other two let out a deep, long breath.

“We’ve kept our lives”

“We were so close to being finished”. These three were extremely tired.