The Enraged Sandworms

At that moment, Snow Maiden, who was following behind, furrowed her delicate brows and quickly stepped forward to the boundary between the ruins and that dark space.

"What are you doing? Get back here, now."

Chen Cheng wanted to go up and pull Snow Maiden back, but she was muttering something nonstop under her breath.

She spoke extremely fast, and Chen Cheng could not understand what she was saying.

However, Brother Octopus, who was perched on Chen Cheng's shoulder, was the well-traveled sort. Just because Chen Cheng could not understand did not mean he could not.

The moment he made out what Snow Maiden was saying, his entire octopus body bristled as if all its hairs had stood on end.

"Kid, run! These bugs are about to go mad."

Chen Cheng turned his head toward Brother Octopus on his shoulder.

"What do you mean? Aren't they all outside in the desert, stirred up by the monsoon?"

Yet sweat was already beading on Snow Maiden's pretty face. She tossed a Magic Crystal into the darkness, and the previously tranquil darkness immediately began to roil.

She instantly turned around, grabbed Chen Cheng, and ran.

If Chen Cheng still did not understand what was happening at that point, he would truly have been an idiot.

He scooped Snow Maiden into his arms, then called to She Li as they ran toward the fortress ruins.

Within the darkness behind them, illuminated by the light spilling from the ruins, enormous shadowy figures churned and surged. Several gigantic Sandworms broke straight through the boundary between light and darkness, opening their huge mouths as they chased after Chen Cheng and the others fleeing into the ruins.

Though these Sandworms were enormous and impossible to miss, Chen Cheng and She Li truly had no way to deal with