Chapter 17
The three of us ran for our lives, with the huge ghost-faced moth chasing us.
"Fuck, how come it runs so fast?" Mao Jianming said while running and looking at the ghost-faced hawk moth behind him.
"This should be a female. It has no wings, but it is huge and can only run on the ground. Do you think it can't run fast?" Zhang Song shouted.
"Any other tricks? It's about to catch up." Mao Jianming shouted.
"Follow my instructions later!" Zhang Song shouted.
Seeing the ghost-faced hawk moth getting closer and closer to us, Zhang Song shouted: "Get down!"
The three of us immediately lay flat on the ground. The huge size of the Hawk Moth caused it to slide over us due to inertia. The three of us immediately stood up and ran to the side. The Hawk Moth slid away for a distance and chased us again.
"I can't get rid of it," I shouted.
"Run as far as you can. I have never seen such a monster in my life," said Zhang Song.
Just as we were running, a ghost-faced hawk moth covered in flames flew towards us. If I guessed correctly, this was the male ghost-faced hawk moth king that caught us!
Its body was on fire, and the more it fanned its wings, the bigger the fire became.
The three of us lay on the ground again and narrowly avoided it.
"What the hell is this!" said Mao Jianming.
Then I saw two familiar figures, Erma and Qingyun.
"There's hope, there's hope!" I said excitedly.
Zhang Song and Mao Jianming also saw them, and the three of us stood up and ran towards them.
"Sister, are you okay?" Erma grabbed my arms and asked me with concern.
"It's okay, it's okay. If you had come a step later, the three of us would have died here today." I said in panic.
But now is not the time to reminisce. The male ghost-faced hawk moth king fell to the ground and the flames on his body were put out by the female ghost-faced hawk moth.
They were a male and a female, and they surrounded the five of us.
"I leave it to you." I immediately hid behind Erma and Qingyun.
Zhang Song and Mao Jianming were also hiding beside me.
Erma said, "I can't do it either. The two of us had a hard time dealing with that ghost moth just now. Add to that this bigger ghost moth, and I can only hold it off for a while. There's no way I can destroy it at all."
"What should I do then?!" I said.
"Run, what should we do!" Erma said, and took the lead and started running.
The five of us ran away quickly, with the male and female ghost-faced hawk moths chasing us.
"It's no use running like this. They'll catch up to us sooner or later," Zhang Song shouted.
"What should I do?" I shouted.
"Go find my backpack, there's a gun in it!"
When Zhang Song said he had a gun in his backpack, I was surprised at first, then I asked, "Will a gun be effective against this thing?"
"To put it bluntly, they are also moths. The destructive power of bullets should be useful!" said Zhang Song.
"That's true. Taoism can't exert its full power against monsters like this. It's better to use physical methods to eliminate them." Erma said.
"Where's your backpack?" I shouted.
"Run with me!" said Zhang Song.
We followed him, the scenery gradually becoming familiar. Isn't this where the Ghost-Faced Hawk Moth King captured me? I remember there was a circle of ancient trees up ahead, and the professor's body! It turned out that Zhang Song and Mao Jianming were also captured here.
We ran into the ancient tree enclosure. Zhang Song didn't even glance at the professor's body. He pulled out a backpack nearby. He opened it and quickly pulled out a pile of metal parts. He quickly assembled them, and in the blink of an eye, a complete pistol appeared before us. He pulled a stack of bullets from his knee pocket and loaded it.
"Take this!" Zhang Song handed it to Mao Jianming and then gave him another handful of bullets.
Mao Jianming took the pistol and bullets.
Then Zhang Song assembled a pistol again and loaded it with bullets. The five of us retreated while observing the two ghost-faced moths.
When they got close, Mao Jianming aimed at the male hawkmoth's head and fired. The bullet exploded in its skull, but it didn't cause much damage. The pain made it go berserk, its mouth wide open, and it flew towards us.
It wasn't so much flying as flapping, as its wings had been burned, preventing it from flying properly. But it was also incredibly fast. Before I could react, I heard Zhang Song and the others' pistols clattering. Erma and Qingyun weren't idle either. Qingyun threw the Five Thunder Talisman at them, while Erma used the Five Thunder Curse.
This attack, combining guns and magic, actually stopped them in their tracks.
I was overjoyed that I was finally saved.
But before I could be happy for long, Wang Song and Mao Jianming pulled us to continue running. It turned out that they had run out of bullets.
"Next time I will definitely bring more bullets!" Zhang Song shouted as he ran.
"Next time, I won't come to this damn place next time," I said.
Behind us, the two King Hawk Moths suddenly began to squeak. I was still wondering what they were doing when I saw a swarm of smaller Hawk Moths appear in front of us.
We immediately turned and ran to the side. They were chasing us closely, and as we ran, the road ahead was blocked by a river.
"Jump!"
Without time to think about it, Zhang Song shouted loudly.
He jumped into the river first, and we followed him in. When the hawk moths saw us fall into the water, they flew even faster.
"Dive down." said Mao Jianming.
The five of us immediately dove underwater and followed the current downstream. Countless hawk moths crashed into the water, and soon the entire river was covered with their corpses.
I'm not a very good swimmer. I usually swim in swimming pools, but once I got to the wild river, I realized there was no comparison. The rushing water filled my nasal cavity and I could hardly hold it in.
The water flow was getting faster and faster at this time, and I felt something was wrong.
Sure enough, a gap appeared in front of us.
It's a waterfall!
It was too late to turn back now. The water at the mouth of the waterfall was extremely strong, and the five of us fell over the waterfall and landed in the pool below. I felt like my lungs were about to explode, and I quickly swam to the surface.
When my head emerged from the water, I gasped for breath.
Seeing that the group of ghost-faced hawk moths on the waterfall stopped chasing me, I suddenly felt like I had survived a disaster. Then all four of them floated to the surface and breathed in the fresh air like me.
"We are so lucky!" I said.
"That's right! If the waterfall was a little higher, the five of us would have fallen to our deaths today," said Zhang Song.
We didn't stay in the pool, but swam to the shore. Once we were on the shore, we left the place in our cold clothes.
I found a small path, which was man-made.
"We're really saved this time!" I said.
We walked along the path for about an hour and finally saw a few thatched houses.
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