(To be revised later) Although he failed to kill it, the explosion gave Xu Huo an opening. He pierced it with the Kite String and pulled, then swept a finger across the ground. The ray he created sliced straight through the alien closing in on him.
"I can't hold out any longer!" Zhuo Wangsun hurled two poison gas bombs at another alien, but their toxicity was weak, and the wind quickly dispersed the gas. The aliens moved so fast that even blanketing the area with bombs would not buy much time. No sooner had he finished shouting than an alien kicked him away.
Xin Hui caught him from behind. Xu Huo reached down and drew a line across the ground, forcing the alien back, then slashed with his sword and severed one of its arms.
The alien fled in pain, leaping several times into a nearby thicket while letting out a continuous series of shrill cries.
"It's calling for help!" Xin Hui's expression changed, and she hurriedly said, "We need to get out of here!"
None of them dared delay. They sprinted through the woods, and Zhuo Wangsun scattered some scent-masking perfume along the way, but even that could not stop the astonishingly fast aliens.
As more and more aliens bounded after them, the three plunged headlong into a dense forest thick with moisture. They ran through the woods for a while, only stopping when the fog grew so dense that trees just a few meters apart could easily be mistaken for people.
"Those aliens didn't follow us?" Zhuo Wangsun looked back, panting.
Roars came from the edge of the woods. The aliens had not entered this forest at all.
"Could there be something here that the aliens are afraid of?" Zhuo Wangsun caught on quickly.
"It could be because