The black mass of bats swept around the defensive line formed by the Taiji Seal. Some circled back to attack them from behind, while others took the chance to fly out of the grotto.
But the thunderclouds outside the grotto forced every one of them to turn back at the entrance, creating a surge of momentum and impact that kept driving He Dazhi and the others deeper into the grotto.
"Senior Brother! This won't work!" Sixth Senior Brother, who was finding it harder and harder to hold on, gritted his teeth and shouted as he endured.
"We can only head farther in now. The exit's already been sealed off by the swarm. We can only hope there are other exits inside," Fourth Senior Brother replied, sounding somewhat exhausted as well.
At that moment, the little fatty was being carried on Zhang Xiaofan's back, while their senior brothers protected the two of them in the middle.
"Little Senior Brother! Do they eat people? I smell a really strong stench of blood." The little fatty looked curiously at the huge rats flying above their heads as he gave the warning.
"Those might be vampire bats! They should only suck blood and not eat flesh, right?" It was also Zhang Xiaofan's first time seeing bats this large.
When he was little, the bats he had seen in the village were so small they were not even the size of a palm. It had also been the village elders who told them that there was a kind of large bat that specialized in sucking blood. The bats seen around their village all ate little insects.
"Suck blood, huh!" After hearing that, the little fatty seemed to think of something. He reached into the bamboo pack that Zhang Xiaofan had slung against his chest and