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Those blood-red shadows, roughly counted, were no less than a dozen, seemingly chasing after something.
However, due to the appearance of the two individuals, these shadow’s attention shifted to Ruan Qing and Shen Baiyue. Their movements instantly froze, as if someone had pressed the pause button.
Then, like the three encountered earlier, they became excited, just as if they were thrilled about meeting the two.
The excitement of the humanoid figures was barely sustainable.
It was evident that they had spotted the two.
Ruan Qing, who had just regained some strength, felt his body go weak again as he watched the blood shadows struggling to maintain their form.
In order to evade the pursuit of the three shadows just now, he had already exhausted all his strength, and this time, he had no energy left to run.
Even if he did, it was likely futile.
He watched as the blood shadows surged towards them, pulling Shen Baiyue with him as he retreated. Running backward, he took out the gun that Feng Ye had given him.
Then, turning back, he decisively shot towards the fastest approaching ones.
“Bang!”
“Bang!”
“Bang!”
Initially, Ruan Qing refrained from using the gun to avoid attracting other entities, but now, survival was uncertain, and there was no need to consider such things.
Ruan Qing’s marksmanship was precise; each shot almost hit its target despite both the blood shadows and him being in motion.
However, it had little effect.
The bullets only slowed the movements of the blood shadows, and they couldn’t kill them. Moreover, the blood shadows had strong self-healing abilities; wounds caused by bullets healed in just about ten seconds.
Then, excitedly, they charged at the two again.
Due to the sound of gunfire, it attracted a few more blood shadows.
Ruan Qing wasn’t surprised; if it were that easy to kill these things, this instance wouldn’t be worthy of its intermediate difficulty.
Shen Baiyue was in a much better condition than Ruan Qing.
It seemed she realized that Ruan Qing had run out of energy to escape and, pulling him, she ran forward.
Ruan Qing’s body could no longer support movement; he ran only a few meters before his heart began to throb in pain, and breathing became difficult again.
Cold sweat began to bead on his forehead, and a hint of agony appeared on his face.
It felt like he might collapse in pain the next second.
Enduring the intense pain in his chest, Ruan Qing ran with all his might alongside Shen Baiyue.
Since death was inevitable, Ruan Qing no longer cared about the harm excessive exercise might cause to his body.
Surviving didn’t matter anymore, but at least dying should have some value.
Ruan Qing wanted to see if he could find a weakness in these mysterious blood shadows.
Otherwise, if he waited until later stages, he probably wouldn’t survive.
Bullets were limited, and Ruan Qing aimed as best as he could at the heart and head of the blood shadow.
Apparently, it was all in vain.
The blood shadow seemed to have no discernible weak points.
After some thought, Ruan Qing lit a lighter, threw it next to the corridor’s clutter, and Shen Baiyue immediately understood his intention.
With a swift turn, she kicked down the obstacles, blocking the path.
The clutter was flammable, like cardboard boxes, and it immediately caught fire after being ignited.
However, the group of blood shadows charged forward without any hesitation, unaffected by the fire.
It seemed they were impervious to flames.
Ruan Qing knew very well that the blood shadows feared sunlight.
That’s why they only appeared at night, and even the blood vines hid in the mist, preventing sunlight from reaching them.
But this weakness was practically useless for him.
His combat ability was negligible, and his stamina was weak. Once he encountered these blood shadows, it was challenging to last until morning.
And this was only the first night, with six more nights to go before the seventh day.
In other words, there were at least five more nights.
If he didn’t find a way to safely survive the nights, he would be unable to clear this instance. Ruan Qing had tried everything, even water, but it proved futile.
The translation of the Chinese text to English is as follows:
The strength of the blood shadow has become somewhat outrageous.
It seemed that besides fearing sunlight, it no longer had any other weaknesses.
The blood shadows’ speed was much faster than that of Ruan Qing and the others.
The bullets in the gun were already depleted.
The two were about to be caught up soon.
Ruan Qing, seeing the blood shadow leaping directly at him, widened his eyes and threw the gun he held as it pounced towards him.
Bullets couldn’t inflict significant damage on the blood shadow, let alone a gun.
The gun smashed onto the blood shadow, but it couldn’t slow down its speed at all.
The blood shadow, looking at the person so close, excitedly extended its distorted hand, wanting to grab the person.
Ruan Qing instinctively closed his eyes.
Just as the blood shadow was about to grab Ruan Qing, Shen Baiyue pulled Ruan Qing slightly with force, immediately changing direction, and the two directly flashed into the left corridor.
But because the blood shadow pounced too hard, it couldn’t change direction and follow the two. It went straight through the opposite passage.
The blood shadow following behind also couldn’t control its speed and pounced along.
In fact, Ruan Qing couldn’t change direction either; it was Shen Baiyue forcibly pulling him to change.
Even though he managed to evade the blood shadow’s attack, due to inertia, Shen Baiyue pulled Ruan Qing and slammed straight into the corridor wall after they entered.
Shen Baiyue’s reaction was very quick; in the instant Ruan Qing hit the wall, she pulled him for a turn, and she backed against the wall.
As if she had anticipated that Ruan Qing wouldn’t stabilize his body in advance.
Ruan Qing hit Shen Baiyue instead, but at least he wasn’t injured.
Then, before Ruan Qing could react, Shen Baiyue hooked Ruan Qing’s waist, spun around, and pulled Ruan Qing forward again.
Shen Baiyue’s entire movement was clean and neat, with no unnecessary actions, and no hesitation.
As if she had done it countless times.
Ruan Qing didn’t react at all and was already being pulled forward by Shen Baiyue.
At this moment, the blood shadow appeared at the entrance of the corridor, obviously catching up.
The underground passage twisted and turned, with corners everywhere, making it impossible for the two to outrun the blood shadow. They could only frequently change direction at crucial moments to slow down the blood shadow’s speed.
The speed of the blood shadows was getting faster, and its reaction time was gradually improving.
This method wouldn’t work for long.
Because the blood shadows could change direction while running, it had also learned to reduce its speed, avoiding overrunning due to excessive speed.
Ruan Qing opened his mouth, wanting to speak, but due to the intense pain in his heart, he couldn’t utter a word.
He couldn’t run anymore.
Not even when Shen Baiyue pulled him along.
He quickly lost the strength to even stand.
Being able to run for these few minutes was entirely due to Shen Baiyue’s efforts.
Ruan Qing’s vision became blurry, and his body was on the verge of collapse.
He looked at the person in front of him, and her figure began to blur. He difficultly uttered, “Let me go... please...”
