Lord of the Desert

Chapter 507 Confused
One hundred and fifty seconds later.

On the huge tree trunk that was more than seven meters wide, the last six-legged beast fell down helplessly, and its six broken limbs were still twitching nervously.

Sand and gravel flowed out of its ears, eyes, mouth and nose, tumbling and cleaning itself before returning to its owner's armor.

"Zishou, we found Mo Hua..."

Several people walked out of the hole in the tree's heart, shouting in the strong wind while gently placing the corpse they were carrying on the ground - like the other two dead in this battle, his skin was blue and purple, his limbs were torn into pieces by the claws, and his blood had been drained.

Hong Fan burned the remaining corpses and led everyone to bow their heads in silence for a moment. When he raised his head, he saw that the visual height of the waves in the distance had risen by another one third.

The crisis continues to loom.

He turned to look at Hu Lumen, who shook his head slightly with an expressionless face.

The pressure of successive bad news and the lack of a way out finally became too much to bear.

A six-foot-tall man screamed and ran out of the queue, hacking at the animal corpse with a sword in one hand and wiping the tears from his cheeks with the other hand.

"Peng Xing..."

Lai Huazang rushed forward a few steps and was about to persuade them to stop, but he vaguely heard a sharp whistling of the wind. In his peripheral vision, he saw an arrow coming straight from somewhere and piercing his subordinate's left chest.

The sword in the big man's hand fell to the ground with a clang, and he fell down weakly, holding his chest.

Beyond the giant tree is the vast void.

Even though Lai Huazang and Xu Ziang were furious, they still couldn't tell where the arrow came from.

But Hong Fan saw it very clearly.

The arrow was shot from above the giant tree, made a U-turn in the strong wind at high altitude, and caused a violent fluctuation in Feng Xing's innate spiritual energy.

The enemy's identity has been determined.

Everyone in Hanzhou knows that the Jingze Jin family has a popular martial arts tradition and is good at archery, and their descendants are famous locally for their sharp ears and eyes.

Another whistle of wind followed closely.

"hidden!"

Hong Fan roared and used his strong body equipped with sand armor to shield the two people beside him.

A new wave of arrows fell, causing a rumbling sound of iron and wood clashing.

This is the Jingze Jin family's signature group combat method, that is, after occupying an advantageous position, a master who is good at listening to sounds and identifying positions will lead with blind shooting, create a guiding channel in the innate spiritual energy, and then the group of shooters connected with their true energy can cover the attack with concealed shooting.

The terrain and range are absolute disadvantages.

Hong Fan swung several blazing waves upwards, creating billowing smoke, intending to force the enemy to change position.

But the arrows continued to rain down, injuring several people.

"The injured ones take shelter in the tree!"

Lai Huazang picked up a steel shield that was dented by the six-legged beast, drew his sword, and his expression changed from calm to ferocious.

"Zi'ang, follow me up..."

At this moment, a huge, rough, sandy hand pressed on his shoulder.

"You all go hide."

Hong Fan's voice was as thin as a piece of paper.

"give it to me."

Lai Huazang looked back and saw that Zishou's eyes, which had always been calm and composed, were now filled with bloodshot, and his usual gentleness and compassion were no longer there.

"you alone……"

He certainly did not doubt the other party's strength, but Hong Fan had been wearing sand armor since he climbed up the giant tree, so he must not have much true energy left.

"give it to me."

Hong Fan repeated the same thing again, swallowed a Donglian Zhenbao Pill, and then leaped into the sky and fell out of everyone's sight.

A moment later, a loud buzzing sound came from below, and the sand-colored flying wings rose upward with a red wake.

Soon, the rain of arrows stopped.

Above everyone's heads, the flames gradually went out, leaving only dark red ash floating into the atmosphere, while screams and shouts of killing were like waves, occasionally mixed with the roar of explosions.

When they climbed to the battlefield, Hong Fan was standing in the fine sand with his clothes neatly dressed, wiping the blood from his forehead.

Scattered around him were the mutilated bodies of the Jin family members, most of whom died from mechanical trauma and high temperature. Three of them died while fleeing, with fatal wounds on their backs.

"There are fourteen of us in total. They are all here."

Hong Fan turned around and pulled the muscles at the corners of his mouth, probably smiling.

Everyone nodded. Lai Huazang wanted to suggest that they should keep a prisoner for questioning, but in the end he didn't dare to speak.

"Oh, by the way, I've looked for it, but there's no "Divine Evil Canon"."

Hong Fan added another sentence, his tone light.

At this time, including Jia Yuchen, who had lost a leg and needed to be carried by others, there were still eighteen people in the team, and less than ten of them were not injured.

Logically speaking, now is the time when you need rest the most.

But after confiscating the remaining usable equipment and water from the Jin family, everyone climbed in silence. Even the two who were shot in the legs just tightened the bandages again and again without saying a word.

After one hour.

The team reached the top of the giant tree, more than a thousand meters above the ground.

Around dusk, the sky was dark and gloomy.

The wave of world destruction is approaching, and no one can distinguish the sounds of wind, water, and thunder.

Looking down from a high vantage point, Hong Fan could clearly see the compression of the plates creating waves of earth and rocks tens of meters high, advancing horizontally in slow motion, and the earth's crust softening and sinking like chocolate wherever it passed.

Closer still, mantle material surged up along a new fault zone, and the majestic eruption column was not diluted and elongated into a scarlet arc until it reached the ionosphere, interweaving with the blue-green light curtain high in the atmosphere.

For the first time in his life, Hong Fan saw lava and the aurora shining side by side and appreciated the magnificence of destruction.

Beside him, the others were all stunned and couldn't move at all.

"The world is about to collapse."

Jia Yuchen opened his eyes hazily and murmured softly.

"Everyone..."

Hong Fan turned around and tried to say something, but the words were difficult to express.

In the light behind him, dense meteor showers crashed into the atmosphere and were annihilated in flames.

"Let's go to the treetops."

In the end, the order was the only relief he could offer.

With their backs to the two setting suns, a group of more than ten people climbed up silently and fiercely, their faces all in the shadows.

When we reached the top of the tree, the raging ocean was already a hundred miles away.

Gray clouds formed by rising water vapor covered the western sky, and the fine sand under Hong Fan's feet jumped from time to time due to earthquakes.

The wave has entered the core of the forest area.

The water wall was a hundred meters high, and whenever it hit the giant trees, it created huge silver waves, washing away the low clouds clinging to the trees.

"Prepare for impact!"

Hong Fan shouted with all his might, and fashioned gravel into chains to tie the eighteen people together.

The huge tree trembled violently, sinking and tilting slightly.

Most people closed their eyes, and everyone was shouting, but no one could hear the exact sound.

In the trance of the world shaking, Hong Fan caught a glimpse of water splashing hundreds of meters below him. Five breaths later, thick water mist wet his cheeks and hair.

The tallest trees in the forest survived, but the wave could not stay - after two or three hours, it covered everything within sight.

The water level stabilized at fifty meters.

The crowd scattered on the treetops and saw several huge trees that had been knocked down in all directions, with their trunks exposed, like stranded whale carcasses.

"Hong Zishou..."

Lai Huazang called out.

The two exchanged looks.

Like them, Hong Fan was completely confused.

The ocean is vast, and it seems like there is nowhere to go, but that also means there is nowhere to go.

"Brother Hu?"

Hong Fan turned around and asked, as if grasping at the last straw.

Hu Lumen looked at the surging waves on the water, thoughtfully.

He was stunned for a moment and replied with two words.

"wait."

(End of this chapter)