Chapter 146: Defeated and in Retreat

  "Never mind, let me do it!" Meanwhile, Meng Qiu had already taken the blood of the Golden Mouse from his hand and saw that Liu Qingwu was in a difficult situation, so he hurried over.

  Qī Míng glared fiercely at Meng Qiu, and the symbol on his arm flashed with lightning speed, slapping heavily on Meng Qiu's face.

  "Ouch! That really hurts!"

  Meng Qiu let out a mournful howl, and half of his face was swollen.

  "Serves you right!" Ye Lügreen couldn't help but laugh with schadenfreude.

  Lin Feng had already taken the blood of the Golden Crow Mouse, and with a swing of his heavy sword, he flung the mouse's corpse away, silently staring at Liu Qingwu without saying a word.

  "What a pity!" Zhi Ming glanced at Liu Qingwu with disdain, "People like you have such poor aspirations, it's no wonder you'll always be weak and always be bullied by others!"

  "What did you say?" Liu Qing's body trembled, her face suddenly turning icy cold.

  "Am I wrong?" Qi Ming said coldly, "The more beautiful a woman is, the more trouble she is! You're pretty enough, and you must have encountered many troubles. Without a strong heart, you'll never be able to become a strong person, and you'll never be able to control your own destiny. You'll always be in a position where you're being manipulated by others, how can you not be bullied!"

  Liu Qing danced lightly and quietly for a moment, then gently squatted down.

  "Hurry up, we still have a schedule to keep, no time to dawdle with you!" Qi Ming growled.

  Liu Qingwu gritted her teeth and quickly stretched out her small hand to pick up the Golden Mouse, then flipped her hand over and took out a jade bottle.

  Her wrist shook lightly, and the mud and dirty blood stuck to the outside all flew out. Liu Qingwu endured the foul smell of fish guts, urging her yuan force to squeeze out the remaining blood in the body of the Golden Mouse.

  Soon, the jade bottle also had about half a bottle of blood. Liu Qingwu waved her hand and threw out the corpse of the Golden Mouse, and after a moment of silence, she slightly bowed to Qi Ming and said in a low voice: "Thank you!"

  Zi Ming hummed and continued walking forward.

  Liu Qingwu's hands were still stained with the fresh blood of the Golden Mouse, emitting a faint smell of gore. However, in her eyes, there was an unusual glint.

  "Only with a strong heart can you control your own destiny!"

  "Only when you are strong in your heart can you become a strong person and avoid being bullied by others!"

  She used to think that her inner strength was enough for herself and others, but like most girls, she had a strong sense of cleanliness, which was exacerbated by her childhood experiences.

  Now her heart is transparent and she has long since looked beyond external defilement and purity.

  From then on, no external environment would affect her inner heart.

  ……

  Deep in the canyon is a shallow swamp, which is the origin of the dense fog, and the reason why the mouse's body is wet and soggy.

  Arriving here, Lin Feng could clearly feel that there were massive powerful energy fluctuations around him, and in a farther place, an energy fluctuation was much stronger than the others.

  "Squeak! Squeak!"

  A sharp, ear-piercing cry rang out, and from the thick fog, seven yellow shadows darted out again, rapidly pouncing towards several people.

  "Die!"

  Lin Feng swiftly stabbed out with the heavy sword in his hand, stabbing a pouncing Golden Mouse onto the tip of the sword. With his perception and strength, killing such a Golden Mouse that was equivalent to the sixth level of Tiger Fist was effortless.

  Pong!

  On Zhi Ming's hands appeared a pair of ancient-looking boxing gloves. With a casual punch, he smashed a golden mouse to the ground.

  Qī Wǔ's body flashed, and his two large hands each firmly grasped a Golden Mouse.

  The other three golden mice rushed towards Ye Lü and Meng Qiu. Meng Qiu had just been slapped by Qi Wu and was still feeling resentful, so he flipped his wrist and pulled out a short sword. The sword shot forward with an overbearing aura, splitting into three dazzling sword lights that stabbed the three golden mice in the forehead, causing them to heavily fall to the ground.

  Lin Feng looked at Meng Qiu in surprise. This young man with the sixth level of Tiger Form Fist obviously had his own unique aspects.

  Ye Lü Lü still had a smiling face, but she didn't make a move.

  ……

  Deep in the thick fog, at the end of the swamp and on top of the mountain wall, there is a huge cave. Inside the cave, countless metal-eating mice are jumping around, with many of them eagerly gnawing at the metal ore on the cave walls, looking extremely excited.

  The characteristics of the Mole Rat are its extremely strong defenses. They can absorb almost any type of metal ore to strengthen their bodies, which is also where they get their name from. This cave rich in metal ores is their lair.

  In the deepest part of the cave, a giant golden mouse over three feet in size was crouched there, with several pieces of the rarest secret silver ore placed around its body. The golden mouse was happily gnawing on a piece of secret silver ore when suddenly its eyes turned blood red and it let out a sharp cry.

  "Squeak! Squeak!"

  The sound was sharper than anything else, spreading in all directions.

  "Squeak! Squeak!"

  The golden mice in the cave, as if they had received an order, one by one with blood-red eyes, rushed out of the cave and charged into the depths of the marsh shrouded in thick fog.

  Thousands of golden mice stuck to the ground, flying and whizzing by at an astonishing speed. Even the thick fog was blown away by their momentum, surging outwards towards the outside of the canyon.

  In the center of the swamp, Lin Feng and others were just about to take blood from these seven Golden Scaled Rats when they heard that angry shriek.

  "Not good!" Qi Ming's face suddenly sank.

  Lin Feng's heart also tightened, and in the next moment, within his perceptual range, thousands of powerful energy fluctuations suddenly appeared, rapidly rushing towards this direction.

  "What a lot of hamsters!" Lin Feng thought to himself.

  "Don't waste any more blood, run quickly! If we're caught up, it's all over!" Qi Ming shouted loudly.

  Ye Lü and Meng Qiu's faces also changed greatly, without any hesitation, they immediately turned around and ran towards the outside of the valley. Liu Qingwu tightly grasped her dagger and followed behind the two, Lin Feng and Qi Ming followed at the end, Fu Kui and Qi Wu closely followed behind Qi Ming.

  "Squeak! Squeak!" The sharp, ear-piercing sounds rang out in rapid succession, and the thick fog quickly dispersed. Lin Feng turned his head to look back, his heart also filled with shock.

  A vast expanse of yellow covered half the marsh, rapidly approaching. The eyes of the golden-haired mice flashed with blood-red light, moving extremely quickly in the wet and slippery marsh, like a yellow cloud, rapidly closing in on everyone.

  Each of these Golden Gnawers has the strength equivalent to a Sixth-Rank Internal Family Expert, and with so many of them charging forward in unison, their power is self-evident.

  Liu Qingwu's feet lightly touched the ground, her movements still extremely beautiful. Her gaze fell on Ye Lü and Meng Qiu, and Liu Qingwu also had a hint of dissatisfaction in her heart.

  If it weren't for taking care of these two guys, she would have rushed out with her speed. The speed of these Golden Mice is not even in her eyes.

  However, after glancing at Zhi Ming, Liu Qingwu still didn't speak up.

  There was still a slight difference in speed between these golden mice, and about a hundred of them rushed to the front, soon reaching behind Qi Ming and Lin Feng.

  "Green Green Meng Qiu, you go first! The rest of you stay with me!" Qi Ming shouted loudly.

  Lin Feng's eyes flashed with a sharp light, without any hesitation, he suddenly stopped in his tracks and turned around, the heavy sword in his hand suddenly swung up, bringing out a shining sword edge!

  Several golden mice were swept by the sword's edge and instantly cut into two segments!

  At the same time, Xiu Qizhi rushed into the mouse group with a backflip, using his fists and feet simultaneously, moving at a speed as fast as lightning. Wherever he went, all the mice were crushed into meat paste.

  That terrifying combat power of Qi Wu made Lin Feng secretly gasp in amazement. Although Qi Wu was just a puppet, its combat power might even surpass that of an ordinary Tiger Form Fist eighth-level strong practitioner. Moreover, it relied on the symbol array to provide energy, so there was no need to worry about energy consumption at all.

  A golden mouse darted forward and suddenly sprang up like a sharp arrow, rushing towards Lin Feng and the others with great ferocity.

  Zi Ming closely followed behind Fu Gui Zi Wu, and for the Fu Gui that pounced on him and Zi Wu, he directly threw a tyrannical punch, each punch landing squarely, every single one of them killing a Golden Mouse.

  Liu Qing danced lightly, her body flashing to the other side of Qi Wu. The dagger in her hand shone with a cold light, pinning down one by one the flying and pouncing Golden Rodents on its blade.

  On the other side, Lin Feng wielded his heavy sword with abandon, swinging it wildly and striking down the Golden Scaled Mouse Rodents wherever the blade passed, leaving them crippled and broken.

  Several Goldenrod Mice sprang up at the same time and charged towards Lin Feng. Lin Feng's heavy sword swept across, cutting three Goldenrod Mice into two segments. The other four Goldenrod Mice heavily crashed onto Lin Feng's body.

  It was as if he had been struck by four heavy hammers at the same time, Lin Feng let out a muffled groan and flew out heavily. At the same time, the sword in Lin Feng's hand flashed again, killing two more Golden Rats.

  "Damn it hurts!" Lin Feng fell to the ground, wiping away the blood from the corner of his mouth, and was also shocked in his heart.

  These golden mice may be small in stature, but they are extremely hard. When they collide with the body, it's like being hit directly by a blunt object. Even Lin Feng, with his robust physique, felt an intense pain.

  But Lin Feng didn't hesitate at all and immediately charged forward again with his heavy sword.

  Three people on this side mixed with a group of mice, Ye Lvgreen and Meng Qiu were running at full strength, and Qi Ming's command was also executed extremely thoroughly.

  Lin Feng was knocked flying at the same time, and Qi Ming was also hit by several Golden Scaled Mice at the same time, retreating several steps. As for Liu Qingwu's movement skills, they were brought to an extreme, using Qi Wu's tall body as a shield, her small body lightly dodging, easily evading the pounce of one Golden Scaled Mouse after another.

  Although Qiwu was powerful, he was not agile enough. Several golden mice rushed onto his body and started biting him fiercely! Despite Qiwu's desperate attempts to shake them off, more and more golden mice climbed onto him. Apparently, the metal materials on his body were extremely attractive to the golden mice.

  And at this time, more hamsters have also surrounded them.

  "Fall back!" they shouted in unison.

  Qī Wǔ's eyes flashed, and with a lightning-fast grab, he seized Liú Qīngwǔ. Before Liú Qīngwǔ could react, Qī Wǔ had already thrown him far away.

  Then Qí Wǔ grabbed Lín Fēng and Qí Míng with both hands and threw them out quickly as well.

  This throw sent the three of them flying over a hundred feet away, far beyond the mouse pack.

  A dense swarm of mice rushed up, instantly covering Qi Wu's body. The sound of biting and chewing continued to echo, and in an instant, Qi Wu's body fell to the ground.

  At this time, Ye Lü and Meng Qiu had arrived at the edge of the swamp. Lin Feng and the other three were all at the seventh level of Tiger Form Fist, so their speed was naturally not comparable to these Golden Scaled Rats. Under a full-force charge, the distance between them and the rat pack was also getting farther and farther apart.

  After rushing out of the swamp area, everyone temporarily breathed a sigh of relief. Here, everyone's speed was not affected, and naturally, the Golden Mouse could no longer catch up with them.

  Although so, still in a dangerous area, the five of them sped out of the canyon and left the fog-covered area before stopping.

  "What's going on? Why did those hamsters suddenly rush over?" Meng Qiu asked in puzzlement.

  "It's likely that a Golden Mouse King has just evolved inside." Qī Míng said in a low voice, "The level of the Golden Mouse King is at least the eighth rank of Neijiaquan. Fortunately, we're lucky that the mouse king didn't chase us out, otherwise, it would be big trouble!"

  "What a pity!" Lin Feng also sighed.

  Second-grade artifact, at least it's worth 50 million gold coins, and now it's gone!

  "It doesn't matter." Zhi Ming waved his hand, and another tall, cold and handsome young man appeared beside him.

  "From now on, he is Ziwu!"

  Lin Feng and Liu Qingwu exchanged a glance, both of them smiling helplessly.

  It's really true that some people are more blessed than others! These guys from outside of Tianshan Mountains are indeed unusually wealthy!