Chapter 3230: Wild Waves
In the pitch-black storm, dozens of steel beasts were roaring earsplittingly and chasing each other with feeble lights.
At this moment, the earth had been divided into criss-cross chessboards by the rainwater and mud. In the darkness where visibility was extremely low, it was impossible to tell which was the flatland with shallow water and which were the ravines and swamps that were several meters deep. One could only rely on intuition or even luck to tell the difference.
Despite Li Yao’s driving skills and amazing senses, he still almost fell into ravines and swamps several times when he was savaging the storm, thunder, and swamp. The off-road vehicle moaned time and time again, and the two passengers on board felt that their blood was freezing.
The pursuers behind him did not have such amazing driving skills as he did. Some of them fell into the seemingly inconspicuous ‘waterhole’ on the side of the road while they were driving. More than half of the vehicles had sunk into it vertically. Some of them had their tires tied up by mud-covered branches, weeds, and other messy things. No matter how hard they tried to start their vehicles, they could not increase their speed except for the black smoke rising from the bottom of the vehicles. Some of them even deviated from their direction and fell into a torrential river that did not exist before. In the blink of an eye, they were swept away by the flood.
Even so, there were still more than ten off-road vehicles that were getting closer and closer to Li Yao.
Swoosh! Swoosh!
These off-road vehicles all had launchers installed on their roofs. The weapons that were fired from the black barrels were either special fiber-netting for tires or chains with sharp hooks. They were trying to stab into Li Yao’s off-road vehicles and lock them together.
Some of the fearless Awakeners had even climbed to the top of their vehicles, ready to jump over when the distance between them was close.
No matter how bold Li Yao was, a layer of cold sweat appeared on his forehead when he encountered such a crazy chase.
In order to avoid the two hooks, he had to change his direction. The off-road vehicle was a bit out of control. In the blink of an eye, one of the pursuers jumped toward his off-road vehicle.
There was no time to change the direction. Li Yao gritted his teeth. His right tire crashed into a giant rock in front of him. The entire car was knocked into the air by the giant rock. The roof of the car tilted by 45 degrees, perfectly dodging the Awakened who had jumped over. One of the Awakened’s feet had already touched the roof of Li Yao’s car, but he slipped and fell off. He grunted and vanished into the darkness, never to be seen again.
“Hu—”
Li Yao was somewhat relieved, but he did not dare to relax his nerves at all. He had already heard the sound of surging tides in front of him. It was the biggest river ‘Spiritual Stream’ within a hundred square kilometers!
Since it was named ‘creek’, it was not very fierce or dangerous in the first place. However, because of the once-in-a-hundred-year rainstorm, Ling Xi had turned into a raging dragon. The collapsed mountains upstream brought a lot of rocks and mud, making the river much less clear and tranquil than before. It was like magma that had increased its speed and strength even though it was not hot.
And along the village road built by the Spirit Streams was an extremely dangerous road of death. On one side was the Spirit Streams, which were surging with billows and billows, and on the other side was a steep cliff that went straight up and down. It was unclear what was going on on the mountain, but giant rocks the size of heads were constantly smashing down from above. Some of them directly fell into the Spirit Streams, raising clusters of hideous mud. Some of them ruthlessly smashed into the village road, almost completely collapsing the village road.
Usually, no one was willing to walk on the village road that was only three to five meters wide. In such bad weather, even a drunk lunatic would have to wake up from most of their drunkenness.
But Li Yao was neither crazy nor drunk.
He was just a little crazier than a drunk lunatic.
Looking at the village road that was sandwiched between a cliff and a flood in the middle of the thunderstorm, Li Yao suddenly thought of the stone belts in the depths of the universe where countless meteoroids and cosmic dust were rushing at him.
However dangerous the environment was, it was still far from the life-and-death race in the stone belts!
Li Yao stepped on the accelerator. The off-road vehicle rushed up the village road like an arrow released from a bow. Between the raging waves, the falling rocks, and the collapsing village road, the off-road vehicle slashed through the wind and waves, pressing forward!
The headlights of the pursuers stopped for a moment.
They did not expect that Li Yao would be so crazy.
He did not hesitate for long. The equally crazy awakened Cultivators followed him anyway.
However, on such a path of death, ‘crazy’ was not enough.
Not only were the two sides of the road full of danger, but the road ahead was also full of twists and turns. Often, there would be abrupt sharp turns. If one was not careful, the vehicle would directly rush out of the road and into the spiritual stream—it would be equivalent to death. There was simply no possibility of escape.
But if they slowed down and moved forward carefully, not to mention that they might lose their target, the falling rocks on the crags alone would be enough to smash the roofs of their vehicles or even push them into the flood.
In less than twenty minutes, four off-road vehicles of the pursuers had vanished in the flood.
Li Yao’s situation was not much better. He was almost hit by the giant rocks several times. The shell of the off-road vehicle was already full of scratches. Even the engine was rattling because of the heavy impacts.
But he could not stop there.
He had to make it.
“Ah!”
Zhang Daniu and the ghost cat screamed at the same time.
Illuminated by the pale lights, a series of interconnecting cracks suddenly appeared on the cliff in front of them. The mountain was collapsing. Countless fist-sized, head-sized, and even larger rocks were rolling down and hitting the village road like hail.
From the looks of it, in another three to five seconds, the village road would be completely broken by the giant rocks or completely blocked by the collapsing mountain.
Li Yao accelerated toward the collapsed mountain without even blinking.
Zhang Daniu and the ghost cat’s screams were even more ear-piercing. However, no matter how loud they were, Li Yao turned a deaf ear to them. At this moment, the world seemed to have turned deathly silent. There were only three kinds of sounds that were particularly loud. The first was the sound of a giant rock smashing down onto the village road and the roof of the car. The second was the howling engine of the off-road vehicle. The third was Li Yao’s own heartbeat!
Puchi! Puchi! Puchi! Puchi! Puchi! Puchi!
He could not tell whether it was his heartbeat or the sound of the giant rocks hitting the hood, the roof, and the windows.
Huala!
The window of the train was smashed by a flying stone. The stone brushed past Li Yao’s face and left a deep ravine. Blood flowed out and mixed with his sweat, forming what seemed to be a crimson tattoo.
Li Yao’s eyes turned crimson, too.
Not to mention the hail-like rocks ahead, even if it was an iron wall, he would still rush over!
Hu!
The speed of the vehicle was getting faster and faster. The front tires once again collided with a falling rock. The off-road vehicle soared into the sky and rubbed against the cliff, producing a series of dazzling sparks. The three of them felt as if they were riding on clouds and mist. They could only hear “hualala, hualala” sounds coming from behind them. When the off-road vehicle landed heavily on the ground, through the rearview mirror, they could see that the village road behind them had already disappeared. It had been completely cut off by the falling rock!
The two SUVs of the hunters did not have time to brake. They fell off the broken road and were washed away by the dirty flood in the mud and stones.
Li Yao even saw three to five agile Awakened jumping out of the coach and trying to swim to the shore. But right now, the spiritual stream was full of mud and stones. The former stuck to them like glue, and the latter bashed their heads and bodies like sharp blades in a meat grinder. Very soon, the few Awakened disappeared in the swirl of the flood and never showed up again.
The remaining pursuers stopped at the fracture of the village road.
But it was not enough to ensure their safety.
The village road had already been battered by the torrential rain to the point that it was quite loose. Just a moment ago, it had been attacked by falling rocks. Now, with the addition of the weight of so many off-road vehicles, how could it hold on? Not long after, cracking sounds rang out as it continued collapsing.
The pursuers hurriedly reversed their vehicles. However, in this kind of environment, reversing was a hundred times more difficult than driving normally. Before they could completely retreat from this dangerous section of road, the village road collapsed by another hundred meters. Three off-road vehicles fell into the spiritual stream one after another. Fortunately, the Awakened on the vehicles had already seen that the situation was bad and had long since escaped, jumping onto other vehicles.
However, the broken village road was more than a hundred meters away, which meant that no means could send them here.
Seeing that, Li Yao stepped on the gas again and moved forward.
All the danger seemed to have been released at this moment. Even the storm had calmed down a lot. They drove out of the village road without much trouble. Finally, they saw a flat paved road. Zhang Daniu and the ghost cat could not help but throw up. They vomited for half a minute. Even their bile and bile were about to be thrown up.
“This place is not far from the border. There shouldn’t be too much rugged terrain ahead, right?”
Li Yao was as calm as ever. He held the steering wheel with one hand and tapped on the computer with the other, checking the satellite map. “There shouldn’t be any pursuers. What should we—”
Hardly had he finished his sentence when an unstoppable streak of whiteness crawled in from the top of the car, smashed the computer, and crawled into the dashboard of the off-road vehicle.
It was not until this moment that everyone heard a swoosh.
It was an arrow!
Zhang Daniu and the ghost cat were dumbfounded. They did not even have time to react.
Li Yao cursed silently. He looked up along the hole made by the arrow and happened to find the archer who had just shot his light sword.
The guy was wearing a flying backpack. His silver wings seemed to have been boosted by lightning. He floated steadily in the air, surrounded by a deep blue force field. The storm could not affect him at all. He drew his bow again and shot three sharp arrows.