The monkey was left stunned by the rebuke. It awkwardly scratched its head and said in a low voice.
"I wanted to team up with you to deal with them before, but you refused!"
The rhino said righteously, "I don't need help to do things. Either I deal with them on my own, or I give up on dealing with them. There's no third option."
The monkey fell silent after hearing this, secretly cursing inwardly.
What a blockhead. Did his brain suffer some lasting damage from his previous injury, making him this stubborn?
The rhino ignored the monkey and turned to look at Qian Qi and Wen He again.
At that moment, it noticed the two of them slowly moving toward the left, clearly trying to go around it.
The monkey's warning immediately came from the side. "They're going to take a detour and escape! Go stop them!"
The rhino said gruffly, "You don't need to remind me. I'm not blind. I can see what they're doing."
With that, it changed direction, lengthened its heavy strides, and chased after them.
The rhino's attitude infuriated the monkey. It raised its right leg and violently kicked a millstone-sized rock in front of it into pieces.
The fragments flew everywhere, pattering against the surrounding bushes and thorns and smashing many of the plants to bits.
After venting its anger, the monkey did not dare delay either. It immediately leaped into the air and chased after the rhino, moving several times faster than it.
For a while, a tense chase unfolded in the wild basin.
Qian Qi and Wen He sprinted ahead while the rhino and monkey pursued them relentlessly from behind. The two sides maintained a distance of several dozen meters.
Many small animals living in the basin, such as wild rabbits and