He Runs, It Chases-Nowhere to Fly...

"Go! There's a small room off to the side up ahead! Let's hide in there first!"

After only a brief exchange, the signs made it obvious that the two of them could never outrun the thing behind them. Old Yu immediately shouted.

Li Ce reacted as well. They had only just come through this passage, and he remembered there indeed seemed to be a somewhat wider old maintenance room ahead.

Their clothes were soaked through and hung heavily on them, hindering their steps. Worse still, after only a short while, the screeching and crawling sounds behind them started up again, pursuing them relentlessly!

Following that mysterious "intuition," Li Ce could vaguely sense that thing behind them. Its speed was far beyond what human limbs could manage!

It was steadily closing the distance again!

The maintenance room's iron door was only five or six meters ahead. Li Ce could even make out the rusty old padlock on it!

This place was clearly rarely used!

But there was no time!

Snatching the hollow iron rod from Old Yu's hand, he roared, "Go unlock the door! Hurry!"

He spun around and hunched slightly forward, staring fixedly at the passage behind them.

Less than two or three seconds later, as if sensing something, Li Ce took the stance of a javelin thrower. Empowered by a faint trace of the Force, his waist snapped forward, his arm naturally rising and swinging in an arc. In one fluid motion, he hurled the "weapon" in his hand once more!

At that very instant, a tall "shadow" suddenly raced out from the darkness beyond the flashlight's reach, sprinting along the passage wall. Its bony, slender claws scraped against the concrete as it crawled across it as though it were level ground!

Though it had just had its long