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Chapter 154 [You're Just an Insect] (7400)

Chapter 149 [You're Just an Insect] (7400)

boom! !

Chen Yan spun around on the ice to steady himself, then raised his hand and fired a shot.

The shot didn't cause a fatal wound, but it pierced the leg of a monster chasing behind.

The monster roared in pain and fell onto the ice, struggling to get up—but the effort was clearly futile.

Chen Yan sneered, turned around and started running again, the ice skates under his feet scraping against the ice with a screeching sound...

There were seven monsters chasing them, including the monster leader.

Now, only four remain.

Of course, Chen Yan also paid a price... his pistol magazine only had two bullets left.

—Chen Yan's marksmanship is not good.

Chen Yan, who grew up as an ordinary person, would never know how to fire a gun.
Good marksmanship is developed through exposure to a variety of bullets.

From childhood to adulthood, apart from the last six months, his only previous experience with firearms was firing ten bullets during military training.

Fortunately, when Chen Yan assassinated the oligarch in Russia, he obtained firearms. Upon his return, he hid in the no-man's land, jumped into the mirror world, and practiced shooting briefly.

But the effect was merely to increase his familiarity with firearms.

Even with the advantages of being a cultivator with keen physical senses, a strong physique, and senses beyond ordinary people, Chen Yan's marksmanship can only be considered average at present.

He's very confident at close range, but his accuracy drops significantly at longer distances.

Shooting at a moving target is even more of a matter of luck.

Actually, the revenge plan had already encountered an unexpected turn of events at this point.

The semi-automatic rifle was cleaved in two by the Black Stone overseer's axe, leaving Chen Yan without a weapon at the last moment. The damage to the automatic rifle also rendered the magazines of his remaining two automatic rifles unusable.

You can only use one pistol to wound the enemy.

However, it doesn't matter. Chen Yan remains calm at this moment, as he has other contingency plans.

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We've run about two or three kilometers from the village.

The frozen surface of the river was the perfect place for Chen Yan to chase after someone.

Chen Yan's marksmanship is average, but his ice skating skills are quite good.

Ice skating was one of his few hobbies during his student days.

Ironically, he doesn't like skiing, but he's very good at ice skating.

On ice, two legs can never outrun ice skates!
Even though these ferocious beasts are physically powerful, with astonishing strength and explosive power, Chen Yan's physique is still in the superhuman realm.

In this respect, the difference between the two sides is not that great.

With the added support of the Ice Blade, Chen Yan could also contribute.

This chase gradually evolved into Chen Yan's plan: to pull a kite.

The kite-flying tactic is a tactic that almost every young person in China has mastered since childhood through various games.

Chen Yan was naturally one of them.

Using his speed advantage, Chen Yan tried to create a safe distance, giving himself the opportunity to stop and fire.

After firing one shot, he never lingered in the fight; he turned and ran!
Even if you miss, you will never hesitate to fire a follow-up shot!

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call out!
An arrow pierced the air. Chen Yan had already run in an S-shape on the ice as much as he could, but he was still shot in the back by the arrow!
Fortunately, he had protective gear in his backpack!

The backpack is made of sturdy material and has two layers of stainless steel plates inside.

The metal plate was actually easy to find; he bought it online—the thicker kind of stainless steel plate used in restaurants.

Four plates stacked together and sewn into the lining of a hiking backpack are enough!

After all, a bow and arrow is not a bullet.

Even from dozens of meters away, considering the thickness of the backpack and the three layers of stainless steel plates...

Chen Yan didn't believe the monster could break through his defenses!

This has little to do with the monster's strength; the armor-piercing power of arrows depends on metallurgical technology!
Given the primitive technology of the Beast Clan, Chen Yan did not believe they could produce armor-piercing arrows capable of penetrating three layers of stainless steel plates.

However, the monster leader's strength was indeed astonishing. The arrow shot into his back, and although it did not penetrate his armor, Chen Yan still felt a tremendous impact.

As Chen Yan was running and skating, he suddenly stumbled forward.

Chen Yan tried his best to adjust his skating posture, then took the opportunity to turn around and pause, firing another shot behind him.

boom!
This time, a hole was drilled, and the bullet went somewhere unknown.

Chen Yan turned and ran!

Two minutes later, Chen Yan created enough distance and turned around to stop again.

boom!
With the last bullet, Chen Yan's luck turned around, and a monster running beside the leader monster had a burst of blood erupt from its head!
Moreover, this guy is the only archer among the village warriors, besides the leader monster!

At this point, Chen Yan had run out of bullets.

Of the pursuing monsters, including the leader, only three remain!
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call out!
An arrow grazed Chen Yan's scalp!
To dodge the arrow, Chen Yan had no choice but to dive forward...

This action caused him to roll onto the ice. After rolling several times, he struggled to get up, while the leader monster behind him had caught up to within fifty meters of Chen Yan.

Chen Yan let out a breath. Although he got up quickly, he calmly glanced at the illusion around him.

He had already conducted sufficient surveys along the course of this frozen river.

Hmm, that's about right!

The kite-flying tactic has been largely effective, and it has also reached its end.

Further on, the river gradually narrows, there are drops in elevation, and the river channel begins to branch.

Chen Yan smiled and raised his pistol at the leader monster behind him.

The leader monster was already wary of this strange weapon—his men had already lost several of them along the way because of it.

Seeing Chen Yan raise the strange weapon again, the leader monster immediately stopped and quickly dodged to the side—the two monster warriors beside him also made similar movements.

Chen Yan sneered, threw down the gun, and then pulled out a dagger and pried it hard at the sole of his shoe.

click!
The blade on one skate was pried off, and then the other one!
Chen Yan jumped up, laughed loudly, and ran wildly, quickly running off the ice and disappearing into the forest on his right.

At the same time, he deliberately hurled the empty pistol at the leader monster.

The leader monster rushed to the edge of the woods, saw Chen Yan's figure just ahead, but first bent down to pick up the pistol. After looking at it in his hand, his eyes first showed doubt, and then he immediately roared, "He's run out of arrows!"

His eyes were filled with rage and ferocity as he strode into the woods...

The three monsters ran incredibly fast through the forest! After all, they were a race that had lived here for many years, and their way of running through the forest was clearly far superior to Chen Yan's.

They knew how to avoid the trees in the forest, utilizing the terrain to maximize their speed and conserve their energy...

Soon, the distance between the two sides gradually shortened...

However, just as the leader monster ran past a large tree that Chen Yan had just run past...

Suddenly, with a loud bang, several tongues of fire shot out!

As Chen Yan ran past, a [Fiery Talisman] he slapped down on the tree ignited and exploded.

Several tongues of fire shot out, and the monster leader was immediately hit by one of them!

When he went out today, he was only wearing a cloak—but during the chase, he had already discarded the cloak because it was in the way.

At this moment, the monster leader was shirtless, his upper body exposed in the bitter cold.

Although his muscles are very beautiful and full of explosive power.

But no matter how beautiful the muscles are, they are ultimately not fireproof!

After the flames splattered on its body, the leader monster cried out in pain. Its reaction was not slow; it immediately collapsed to the ground and rolled around rapidly.

But the [Fiery Talisman] is practically an otherworldly version of a gasoline bomb, using the energy stored within the talisman as fuel!
As long as the vital energy is not exhausted, the fire will not go out!

When the flames hit him, the leader monster was also tainted by the energy. He rolled around desperately, but the flames on his body only flickered, sometimes bright and sometimes dim, and could not be extinguished.

Gradually, his painful screams grew louder and louder, until finally he rolled into a mud puddle nearby...

This forest full of strange trees is extremely eerie; despite the frigid weather, it just won't freeze!
After rolling around in the mud several times, the flames on the monster leader's body were gradually suppressed.

He was now completely burned beyond recognition. His once robust body was now covered in black and red patches, a bloody mess with torn flesh and charred remains...

What infuriated the monster leader even more was that as he staggered out of the mud, he witnessed his two other warriors running and roaring through the flames. One of them crashed into a tree and fell to the ground, engulfed in flames that burned ever brighter...

The other one, screaming in agony and engulfed in flames, ran further and further into the forest...

The monster leader was tormented by excruciating pain. His entire body was covered in black smoke, and there was even a smell similar to roasted meat in the air.

The monster leader looked up and saw the human he had been chasing turn around, holding a short knife in his hand, a cold smile on his face, slowly walking towards him step by step.

In an instant! An unprecedented emotion enveloped the monster leader!

For the first time in his life, he felt an emotion:
fear!

Even though he was known for his martial prowess in the village, he was now truly facing despair and the imminent threat of death.

In an instant, this fear overwhelmed this "warrior" who usually prided himself on his bravery.

Those high and mighty figures, those majestic ones, those brave ones, those cruel ones…

Actually, there are many, but only when there is no real danger to life!
He was already seriously injured and unable to fight any longer.

But his opponent... he didn't lose a single hair!
I'm going to die here!

I will die at the hands of this slave!

Once this thought entered his mind, all the monster leader's courage vanished in an instant!

He suddenly jumped up from the ground, covered in cuts and lacerations, roared, and turned to run back the way he had come from outside the woods...

For the first time in his life, he was afraid!

ran away!
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As Chen Yan watched the monster leader stagger back the way it came, his expression remained unchanged, and he didn't even quicken his pace, maintaining his original speed as he followed.

Even after a short while, seeing that the monster leader had already rushed out of the forest, Chen Yan was not in a hurry. Instead, he slowly took off his backpack and carried it in one hand.

His steps remained steady, following step by step, hanging behind the monster leader.

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After rushing out of the woods, the monster leader quickly ran to the frozen surface of the river, but after running for more than ten steps, he staggered and slipped on the ice.

After struggling for a while, the monster leader got up again, but turned around and saw Chen Yan walking out of the woods with a cold smile on his face...

He panicked and fell to the ground again.

The chase has completely reversed!

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The monster leader was running... but he wasn't running fast; he was staggering, his body was crooked, and he couldn't even run in a straight line.

Chen Yan followed behind in an orderly manner.

They even saw the corpse of a monster lying on the ice—it was the archer.

Chen Yan even went over and took the bow and arrows off the corpse.

Holding a bow and arrow, Chen Yan followed behind the monster leader. He was like a hunting beast, watching his prey get wounded and run slower and slower.

Yet he remained patient and cautious enough!
Finally, the monster leader in front slowed down, shouting and yelling.

Chen Yan listened carefully and realized that the guy was shouting for help—he probably hoped that some of his companions in the village could find this place and chase him here.

Chen Yan sneered as he drew his bow and nocked an arrow.

call out!
The first arrow, unsurprisingly, missed its target.

Chen Yan wasn't annoyed; he simply quickly processed the feel and force of the touch from before and adjusted his own exertion accordingly.

call out!
The second arrow missed again, but Chen Yan nodded in satisfaction.

Although the arrow missed its mark, the trajectory of the arrow had brought it quite close to the monster leader's body.

Chen Yan took a deep breath and made adjustments based on his previous feel for the ball.

The third arrow!
The fourth arrow!
The fifth arrow!
Despite missing his target with five consecutive arrows, Chen Yan showed no sign of anxiety.

He didn't even understand why he was able to remain so calm.

Although he has always had this personality since childhood—the more things happen, the calmer he becomes.

But today, at this moment, his composure to such an extent made Chen Yan himself feel a little strange.

But he shook his head and raised his bow anyway. Whoosh!
flutter!
After a scream, the monster leader in front collapsed to the ground.

The sixth arrow finally hit him.

The arrow didn't hit the guy in a good spot; it struck his waist.

Moreover, the force seemed insufficient, failing to penetrate the flesh and instead lodging in his waist. To the naked eye, the arrow did not appear to have penetrated very deeply.

Chen Yan shook his head. He had run out of arrows. He casually tossed aside his bow, drew his sword again, and slowly walked over.

The monster leader was lying on the ground, still struggling to crawl forward, but Chen Yan stepped on his back.

Then, Chen Yan grasped the arrow stuck in his waist and stabbed it in hard!
*Thud!* It pierced right to the depths!!

"what!!!!"

The monster leader let out a scream. The intense pain made him suddenly muster his strength and struggle. After all, he was the strongest warrior in this village of the ferocious beast tribe. His solid body allowed him to unleash his last bit of monstrous strength and actually managed to forcefully lift Chen Yan off his back!

However, Chen Yan gripped the arrow tightly!
As Chen Yan was thrown to the ground, his hand was still holding the arrow... With a soft thud, Chen Yan pulled the arrow out!

Chen Yan, holding the arrow, fell to the ground and quickly rolled away.

The monster leader on the ground had a bloody hole in his waist, from which blood gushed out, taking away his last bit of strength.

Chen Yan let out a breath, casually threw away the arrow, picked up his knife, climbed over, and then flipped over to ride on the monster leader's back.

At this moment, the calmness and indifference on Chen Yan's face finally disappeared.

A hint of murderous intent and ferocity flashed in his eyes!

Chen Yan gritted his teeth, slowly lowered his head, and pressed his face against the monster leader's ear.

"Remember this, I am not your slave! And I only discovered today that you are nothing but a cowardly...insect!"

"Insect" is the most vicious insult used by the ferocious beast tribe!

The leader monster made gurgling sounds, but could no longer speak.

After saying that, Chen Yan reached out and circled around the monster leader from behind, encircling his head and lifting it up to expose his neck.

With his other hand, he held a knife against his throat.

Then, make a powerful slash!
Blood spurted out and splashed onto the ice...

Chen Yan let out a long breath, sat up straight, and sat on the monster leader's corpse.

He brought his arm, stained with the monster leader's blood, close to his face and sniffed it.

“Gu Qingyi is right… the blood is indeed warm.”

·
Chen Yan sat on the leader monster's corpse and rested for a few minutes.

He was surprisingly calm.

It was as if the malevolent, ferocious, and violent aura that had just surged forth was completely released after the blade was plunged into the monster leader's throat.

Everything returned to calm.

A few minutes later, Chen Yan's breathing had calmed down. He stood up, kicked the monster leader's corpse, and suddenly chuckled softly.

Chen Yan himself didn't know why he could still laugh at this moment.

He had just killed several guys with his own hands.

Although he is cold-hearted... he can still laugh after committing acts of killing.

That's perverted, isn't it?

Chen Yan shook his head, deciding to stop thinking about these thoughts altogether.

"Actually, I overestimated you." Chen Yan said in a low voice, "We only used one of the three 'Ten Thousand Swords Talismans,' and the other two were left unused. Of the three spells we obtained in exchange, we only used two, and the third one was kept as a trump card and was not used at all."

You are much weaker than I imagined.

After Chen Yan finished speaking, he ignored the corpse and turned to leave.

·
When Chen Yan returned to the cave where he was hiding, he had almost exhausted his strength.

An ambush, followed by a chase...

Although Chen Yan appeared to be in good condition, his physical strength was almost depleted.

The journey back through the mountains and forests took much longer than he had anticipated.

He had run out of gear in all three backpacks and had thrown them away.

There were two energy bars in his pocket, which Chen Yan ate on the way.

I glanced at my watch; there was less than an hour left before I could return.

When Chen Yan returned to the cave, he saw that Mu Wan had somehow knocked out his chew toy and was struggling to escape.

This clumsy female monster was raising her hands and grinding them vigorously on a protruding rock in the cave.

It seems they intend to use this method to wear down the branches of the strange tree that bind her hands.

This method was effective, but not very effective—when Chen Yan returned, several branches on her hands had been worn off, but most of them remained.

Upon seeing Chen Yan return, Mu Wan was startled and cried out, shrinking back as she tried to hide her hands in a comical manner...

Chen Yan glanced at her but didn't say anything. He walked into the cave, reached into his sleeping bag, and pulled out two bottles of water and a few compressed biscuits.

Chen Yan sat on his sleeping bag, unscrewed a bottle of water and drank it all in one go, then ate two bags of compressed biscuits.

Feeling somewhat full, Chen Yan looked at the wooden bowl: "You want to run away?"

The wooden bowl remained silent, only staring warily at Chen Yan.

After a while, she slowly spoke: "You have the smell of blood on you, a lot, a lot."

Chen Yan nodded calmly: "Mm."

Wooden Bowl's face immediately turned ugly: "What did you kill?"

"Blackstone, and your leader, um... there are a few others, I don't know their names," Chen Yan replied calmly.

Wooden Bowl shrieked and roared, "Impossible! The leader is powerful!! And, and Black Stone is stronger than you too, you..."

“Strength does not equate to ability.” Chen Yan shook his head: “Compared to humans, you are merely an ignorant and barbaric race.”

"..." The wooden bowl panted heavily, still shaking its head: "I don't believe you! You're lying to me!"

"what ever."

Chen Yan shrugged, looked at the wooden bowl, and tossed over a bottle of water and a bag of compressed biscuits.

After hesitating for a moment, Mu Wan still imitated Chen Yan's eating motion and unscrewed the bottle cap.

Although her hands were bound, she could still make a very small movement of turning her palms over.

He unscrewed the water tap, took a few sips, then tore open the bag of compressed biscuits and ate them bite by bite from the wooden bowl.

Chen Yan had already taken everything out of his sleeping bag: a few compressed biscuits and a bag of beef jerky.

"You can have all the food here," Chen Yan said slowly. "I don't need it anyway."

As he spoke, Chen Yan looked at the wooden bowl: "As for you, you can go back to the village, or you can continue living in the forest... This food should be enough for you to last for a few days, and this sleeping bag, you can sleep in it, it's very warm."

However, I still suggest you go back to the village. You're too young and don't know how to live in the forest, and... in this weather, you won't be able to hunt anything; you'll starve."

"I was expelled."

"I've already told you, the chief who drove you out is dead. If you go back now, no one should object... Besides, your village probably needs to be repopulated, ha!"

At the end, Chen Yan chuckled.

He glanced at his watch, then stood up, pulled out his dagger, and stuck it into the ground in front of the wooden bowl.

"This is for you too. You can use it to grind down tree branches... grinding with stones is too slow."

After saying that, Chen Yan stared at the wooden bowl for a moment: "We probably won't see each other again. I've done what I wanted to do... And you, you captured me and you saved me. I captured you and I saved you. We're even now, we're even."

After saying that, Chen Yan turned around, climbed out of the cave, and left.

The wooden bowl stared blankly as Chen Yan left. After a moment of stunned silence, it suddenly scrambled to its feet, wobbled over to the short knife, reached out, and brought the twig close to the blade, beginning to sharpen it with all its might…

After a while, Mu Wan crawled out of the cave using both his hands and feet...

But soon, she stood at the cave entrance, frozen in place as if petrified!
In the distance, amidst the dark woods, a ball of fire shot into the sky, seemingly dyeing the black night sky red.

The firelight flickered and swayed, unable to be obscured even by the mist in the forest! It even tinged the mist with a large patch of red!
The wooden bowl stared blankly in that direction...

That was my own village!

After a moment of stunned silence, Mu Wan let out a shriek and took off running towards the village...

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Chen Yan walked through the woods, heading east.

He still remembered the crude topographical map that Du Li had drawn when he fled.

Heading east, you'll see two mountain ridges with a canyon passage between them. Passing through the canyon leads to a forest.

If you're lucky, once you leave the forest, you might encounter human scouts—or monster scouts, of course.

As for their race, no one knows. Du Li didn't say, and Chen Yan didn't ask too much in order not to reveal his identity.

Perhaps it's a ferocious beast race? Perhaps it's... a spirit?

Chen Yan didn't believe that this ferocious beast race was the kind of "evil spirit" that dominated the human race in the realm, the kind that could force even a prodigy like Gu Qingyi to fight a bitter battle to defend the pass...

The ferocious beast tribe is ignorant and backward, lacking that kind of strength.

Besides being tall and strong, he was also vicious.

This race is only fit to be cannon fodder.

However, since there was still some time, Chen Yan also wanted to head east to take a look.

Even if time is limited, we can still get closer to those two mountain ridges.

Maybe we'll see something, maybe we won't, who knows?

Since we have so much time left, it would be a waste not to take a walk.

If you stay in the cave, you'll be staring at the wooden bowl.

He had just slaughtered her village and personally killed at least a dozen monsters, and the number of those who died in the chaos caused by the explosion and fire was probably twice that.

If the wooden bowl goes berserk, should I kill her or not?

So Chen Yan left.

but……

It was probably a major battle that exhausted all of Chen Yan's goodwill.

Chen Yan walked eastward for an hour but found nothing.

Through the darkness and thick fog, the outlines of the two mountain ridges could already be vaguely seen.

However, as the saying goes, "looking at a mountain makes a horse run itself to death," and even after walking for an hour at a fairly fast pace, Chen Yan still hadn't reached the mountain ridge.

With the countdown ending in a minute, Chen Yan climbed the largest, most unusual tree in the vicinity, and then he looked into the distance…

We were quite far from the village, but the firelight still tinged the distant fog red.

Those monsters will probably make putting out the fire very difficult.

I wonder if the village will be destroyed as a result.

And what about the human slaves in the village during this chaos...?

There were bound to be casualties, but Chen Yan felt no guilt about it.

If I hadn't caused this, those human slaves would have been tortured to death by the monsters anyway. With this blizzard, they might have frozen to death even faster and in even greater numbers!

On the contrary, after I caused this commotion, perhaps many human slaves will take the opportunity to escape, and I might still have a chance to survive.

Well, hopefully they have the courage to run away.

Chen Yan was too lazy to think about anything else.

Moreover, deep down he had a thought he didn't want to touch: he wasn't really concerned about the lives of those human slaves!
In the last few seconds, Chen Yan looked into the distance and then sighed softly.

A strong sense of falling washed over Chen Yan, and everything went black.

He knew he was home.

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(End of this chapter)