Mutated Lion (1)

Before Li Yue could ask Ye Lang what he was doing, Ye Lang said, "Just tell me what's ahead, and you can tell me how to get to the back later!"

"Okay... Also, put me down!! I'm not weak now, I don't need you to carry me!!!" Li Yue struggled in Ye Lang's arms, but to no avail.

Ye Lang's strength and the masculine aura emanating from Ye Lang gradually softened Li Yue's struggles.

"You're not weak, but you're too slow. I'll carry you and run faster!" Ye Lang said, and then proved his words with his actions.

At first, Li Yue didn't understand Ye Lang's words, what he meant by "I'll carry you and run faster." But when she saw Ye Lang running at an extremely fast speed and heard the whistling wind in her ears, she understood that Ye Lang was annoyed that she was running too slowly.

However, she was indeed running too slowly. This speed was even faster than a thoroughbred horse. How could she compare? No wonder she appeared a thousand miles away in just one afternoon yesterday. So that's how it was. So he really did carry her here!

All of this seems a bit unbelievable. This speed is really puzzling. It's running purely on foot power, without any magic power at all. This is the most puzzling thing.

Ye Lang, oh Ye Lang, how many secrets do you hold? How many things do you do that remain unsolved?!

Li Yue had given up on investigating the details of the strange phenomena that had occurred to Ye Lang. She no longer found it strange and decided that treating it as a habit was the wisest choice.

Li Yue slowly rested her head against Ye Lang's chest, quietly listening to Ye Lang heartbeat, which allowed her to completely forget the passage of time...

"Roar..." A violent roar woke Li Yue up.

"What's going on?! Huh? It's almost noon already?"

Although Li Yue didn't know how much time had passed, she was certain it was almost noon. The position of the sun in the sky made it very clear to her that Ye Lang had been running for at least four or five hours since he started running in the morning.

He was able to maintain that speed for so long! I thought it was just a temporary thing, but I never expected it to last so long!

Putting that aside for now, what was that roar just now?

"Ah, a lion..." Li Yue saw a male lion chasing behind her, very strong and majestic, and it kept following Ye Lang.

"You just realized? It's been chasing me for an hour! This lion is really something, it's kept up with me for so long and it doesn't even look tired at all," Ye Lang said with a smile.

"It's been an hour already? This isn't an ordinary lion. How did you provoke it? It wouldn't have followed you for so long for no reason," Li Yue asked. An ordinary lion wouldn't chase for this long; even if it had the strength, it wouldn't have the will.

Lions generally have territories, and they will stop chasing if the lion strays too far from its territory.

Furthermore, this lion is not a typical yellow, but a fiery red. It is clearly not an ordinary lion and is very likely a Devil Beast.

"When I was running away, I accidentally stepped on its tail, and it has been chasing me ever since!" Ye Lang replied casually.

"..." Li Yue could imagine that Ye Lang must have run too fast at the time, and he didn't care about the lion. He probably just thought it was an ordinary thing. Although fiery red is not common in the grassland, given Ye Lang's absent-minded personality, he would still have thought it was ordinary.

"Do you think of it as a rock or something?"

"How did you know? I haven't even told you yet. At the time, it was curled up in a ball, and I thought it was a lump of red soil..." Ye Lang said.

"..."

"Is this lion mutated? It's actually speeding up! Damn it!!" Ye Lang suddenly noticed that the lion behind him was getting closer. He felt that the lion was moving faster and that there was magical energy flowing around it.

"It's obviously Devil Beast, what mutation..." Li Yue said irritably. Devil Beast have many different abilities, and perhaps this ability to run fast is the ability of this lion-type Devil Beast.

"This is indeed Devil Beast, but it must be a mutated Devil Beast. I have never seen any records about this lion. It must have just evolved from an ordinary wild beast," Ye Lang said.

Regarding Devil Beast, besides those that possess Devil Beast, there are also those that evolve from ordinary wild beasts. However, this kind of evolution is very difficult to achieve, and the conditions are extremely harsh.

However, there are countless wild beasts in the world. Even if the chance is very low, there is always a possibility. It's just that the chance of encountering such a Devil Beast is extremely low. Generally, it will not be discovered until this mutated Devil Beast begins to develop its own race, and then it will slowly become known to everyone.

"How can you be so sure it's a mutation? Maybe it's a second or third generation," Li Yue said, somewhat defiantly, determined to find fault with Ye Lang.

"No, when I stepped on this lion, there was a group of lions nearby. They were all ordinary lions, which is why I thought this lion was a lump of red mud," Ye Lang said, shaking his head.

"You saw a group of lions, why did you run through the middle of them? Aren't you courting death?" Li Yue immediately spoke up after hearing Ye Lang's words.

"Can an ordinary lion catch me? It's no problem for me to pass among them. They stopped chasing me after a while. It's just that this one behind me is a bit troublesome..." Ye Lang said nonchalantly.

"It seems to be going faster again. If this continues, we'll be caught up." Li Yue noticed the change in speed as she looked at the lion behind her.

"It will accelerate, and so will I, hold on tight!" As Ye Lang spoke, he began to exert force with his feet, instantly widening the distance and causing the lion behind him to pause for a moment. Then, with a loud roar, it also accelerated.

Li Yue didn't notice this situation. She only listened to Ye Lang's words and held onto Ye Lang tightly. She didn't want to put too much burden on Ye Lang and wanted to lighten his load as much as possible.

"Ye Lang, why don't you put me on your back and I'll hold you? That way you can run faster!" After a while, Li Yue said softly.

"No need. This lion shouldn't last long. I can still manage! If I carry you on my back, what if the lion makes a move? I can't just have you block it for me!" Ye Lang shook his head and said.

"..." Li Yue was stunned. She did not expect that Ye Lang would still be thinking of her at this time, and would give up a better option because of this.

If we think about it from another perspective, if Ye Lang hadn't been holding her, he would have already shaken off the lion, but he didn't do that and didn't abandon Li Yue.