This time I was truly panicked, a hundred times more terrified than ever before when I encountered a wild beast.
I kept urging Top, who was beside me, to run faster and keep up with my pace.
At this moment, my body is under a state of high tension, releasing an unusually high concentration of adrenaline.
In the past, when I encountered steep cliffs, rocky walls, or similar structures, my first thought was danger. I would try to survive by doing whatever it took, and I would never take any risks as long as I could stay alive.
But this time it was truly an emergency. If I were even a second slower, I could face utter ruin.
Those earthen embankments with a drop of one or two meters before seemed dangerous to me and should be avoided.
But to me, they were flat ground, and without a second thought, I jumped down. This action startled Top, who was used to me being cautious, and he thought I had gone crazy.
Now, I see terrain that's one or two meters high as just a small hurdle; those that's four or five meters high are what I call dangerous.
We were escaping for our lives, so we couldn't think about anything else. As long as we didn't die from jumping, we'd jump as hard as we could. I think I spent more time on the ground with my buttocks than my feet the whole way.
Even without gliding, the speed is still faster than running on two legs. And this also minimizes the risk of me slipping and falling.
Although escaping was urgent, I still maintained a certain level of clarity in my mind. Each time I jumped down a steep slope, I would slightly bend my legs in mid-air.
This way, I can use the force of bending and squatting during the descent to dissipate most of the vertical potential energy. If I jumped straight up and down, my knees would likely suffer a great impact and be injured.
Furthermore, there was a reason why I didn't choose to escape to a flatter, less sparsely shrubbed area, but instead went straight into this dense forest.
Running in a relatively open area is naturally the best choice if time permits.
However, I could already faintly feel continuous tremors, which meant that the mudslide was very close to us.
It is obviously impossible to run through a mudslide in such a short time, especially in those open areas with sparse shrubs, where the mudslide will move faster because there is nothing to block it.
These dense, bushy forests are different; although mudslides are incredibly powerful, they also consume a significant amount of energy to pass through the trees that trap them.
These trees can at least significantly reduce the speed of the descent, much like a speed bump. They also serve to divert the flow of people.
This area contains not only shrubs, but also many large trees that are as thick as a person's embrace, and is still part of the primeval forest.
When these trees are knocked down by a mudslide, their thick branches will sink into the soil like anchors as the weight of the trees falls.
Their branches will stand like sturdy wooden walls, blocking the path of the mudslide.
As mudslides try to overcome these massive obstacles, they are inevitably diverted into many streams by the large trees that have fallen in different directions.
If the debris flows are prevented from combining, their power will be greatly reduced.
Even if they recombine and take shape again later, accumulating enough gravitational energy cannot happen overnight.
This is similar to the principle that streams converge into rivers; streams also need a certain amount of time to flow before they can converge again into a destructive river.
The time I can buy is my best chance to save my life, which is why I'm in such a hurry.
Whether we survive or not depends on how hard Top and I run.
Almost five minutes after Tang Yi and his group jumped down into the dense jungle, a deafening roar that shook the earth swept across every part of the mountainous area.
Large amounts of fluid-like mud, carrying hundreds or even thousands of kilograms of boulders, cascaded down the hillside like a torrent.
After absorbing enormous gravitational potential energy, those rocks, which were larger than watermelons, reached an even more terrifying speed.
Trees as thick as a bowl can be broken by these flying boulders with a single touch, as easily and casually as breaking a toothpick.
Larger trees, such as those as thick as buckets, may not break immediately, but the stones will still embed themselves deep into the trunk like bullets.
Under the continuous attack of several large rocks, such a large tree can sometimes be torn in half from the trunk.
Just as Tang Yi had predicted, it was indeed a massive mudslide.
However, the intensity of this mudslide was clearly beyond Tang Yi's imagination; even large trees could not prevent this natural disaster from happening.
No matter how powerful a beast is, it is still made of flesh and blood. As long as you think of a way, there is still a chance to defeat it.
However, the destructive power of this natural disaster is something that a few or even a large group of wild beasts cannot match.
Without prior defensive fortifications, no living being can withstand the force of nature.
"Squeak squeak squeak!"
Top had been screaming in terror for a while now, and it hadn't stopped since. Perhaps it had never encountered such a massive natural disaster in its entire life.
At this moment, I was on the edge of my seat, not daring to linger for even a moment.
Now I can't even feel the soreness in my legs anymore; I'm just running like crazy, fueled by adrenaline.
If I had the chance to look at my butt right now, I would find that the snakeskin on it has long been worn through.
Even now, as you slide your buttocks across the grass, red welts, like those left by a whip, are inevitable.
My butt is burning hot from sliding around for so long. It feels like two red-hot, rusty irons are being pressed against my butt.
Top wasn't much better off; it could use tree branches to quickly leap a long distance.
However, Top at this moment is no longer the monkey that can freely move among the branches in its hometown, and can sit down and rest when it is tired.
When Top saw that the trees, as thick as buckets, had been split in half by stones, his monkey-like face was already terrified, and he unconsciously kept swallowing.
They didn't dare linger on my backside for even a second longer, chasing after me relentlessly.
At this moment, Top was like an acrobat, jumping and hugging trees rapidly in a factory assembly line manner, repeating the process over and over again.
Even though its talent is climbing trees, Top has probably already climbed more trees than it could ever finish in its lifetime, to the point where it's sick of climbing them.
"Damn it!"
As the mudslides drew ever closer, I was so anxious that large beads of sweat kept dripping from my forehead.
Then I noticed a rock formation about half a person's height protruding from the mountain not far ahead. Without hesitation, I called out, and Top immediately darted towards me.
Just as we entered the stone casket, a massive, dark mudslide crashed down, blocking the entrance!
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