You Ran Away Again?

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle...

Just as Shi Hongyu gritted her teeth in secret, the shrill cries of insects came from afar.

The danger was far from over.

Although the explosion had killed quite a few Blue-Blood Monsters, it had been caused by the Mutated Elite Monsters.

The truly cunning hunters were only just beginning their performance.

Pfft!

Shi Hongyu turned and pulled the steel plate from her waist, using the light emanating from the Battle Flag Crystal Block to staunch the bleeding.

"Captain, what do we do now?"

During a mission, there were only captains and team members, no teachers or students.

Duo Xinyu looked completely at a loss. His Mechanical Beasts had basically all been destroyed.

Right now, he truly wanted to teleport back directly.

But it was obvious that neither Chen Keyu nor Qiao Zishu was in any condition to teleport. The moment they teleported, they would die.

Without a War Banner Master, they might not last until the next one teleported in.

He was deeply conflicted. He did not want to stay here and wait for death, but he did not want to abandon his teammates either.

"Keep trying to contact Junlin over the radio. If things get dangerous, make sure you return to the city yourself."

As Shi Hongyu instructed Duo Xinyu, she quickly wrapped the wounds of Chen Keyu and Qiao Zishu.

"Junlin, Junlin, are you still there?"

Duo Xinyu nodded and hurriedly switched on the radio.

Unfortunately, after calling softly for a long while, there was not the slightest response from it.

Then, at that moment.

A rumbling sound came as the ground began to tremble faintly.

Shi Hongyu looked over in horror and discovered that a huge boulder nearby was moving toward them!

"Not good!"

Shi Hongyu was horrified.

The place they were in was a dead end. The blocks here were all perfectly fitted six-cubic-meter stone blocks.

Now, some enormous force outside was pushing that boulder toward them. It was trying to crush them alive.

This was a tactic used only by those Mutated Elite Monsters.

Shi Hongyu could climb up now, but what about the three people below?

So Shi Hongyu sprang up, disregarding her injuries as she slammed her shoulder against the incoming boulder.

Duo Xinyu also rushed over in a panic. Though his strength was far inferior to Shi Hongyu's, it was still some help.

Behind the boulder, a gigantic longhorn beetle was pushing it forward.

"Mmgh!"

The muscles in Shi Hongyu's toned legs bulged, yet her feet still carved two deep trenches into the ground. The boulder slowed, but it continued forcing her back bit by bit.

Screech, screech...

Just then, a signal suddenly sounded from Duo Xinyu's radio.

Since they had been close together earlier, they had not turned on the radio. Now, after a burst of static, a familiar, hushed voice came through.

"Hello, is that Duo Xinyu? This is Fu Junlin! I'm up above..."

Fu Junlin's voice carried lingering terror and was kept very low, as if he were hiding from something.

"Junlin! Junlin!! Hurry, we need treatment here! Someone is seriously injured! And a monster is about to crush us to death!"

Duo Xinyu shouted into the radio in surprise and delight, so anxious that his words came out in a jumble.

The boulder was now only five meters from the one behind them.

"Ah!!"

Hearing Fu Junlin's voice, Shi Hongyu's eyes lit up, and a blaze of hope ignited in her heart. A surge of brute force erupted from her.

Palm Energy drove Passive Energy through her limbs. With an angry roar, she forcibly held the boulder in place.

But with all her strength concentrated, her blood and energy stagnated from the strain. She could not speak at all and could only urge Duo Xinyu with her eyes.

Duo Xinyu could only press Fu Junlin over the radio.

"Junlin! Hurry!"

His voice trembled as well. Qiao Zishu was on the verge of losing consciousness, while Chen Keyu's face had completely twisted in agony, and his wound was about to burst open.

At this point, Fu Junlin was their only lifeline. Only if he pulled them up first and treated them could they escape the fate of being crushed to death.

Unfortunately, the radio fell silent once more.

"Junlin!!"

Duo Xinyu called Fu Junlin's name again and again.

But after five calls, then ten, there was no response from the radio at all.

Whoosh...

The boulder began moving again.

Shi Hongyu could no longer hold it back.

Whether her strength had failed or she had lost hope, Shi Hongyu could no longer stop the boulder's advance despite giving everything she had. Her eyes were bloodshot.

"Fu Junlin! Answer me!! Did you run away again!? Fu Junlin!"

Tears suddenly streamed down Duo Xinyu's face. This was the first time he had faced a true life-or-death situation.

He had never entered a Death-Cycle Arena with a Teleportation Intensity of 28%.

At that moment, he remembered Fu Junlin's personality.

This was Fu Junlin!

A coward! Could he really expect him to suddenly erupt in that battle and transform completely from a coward?

After hearing him say that, Fu Junlin must have been so frightened that he returned to the city at once.

Looking at the narrow space of less than three meters left, the dead end with nowhere to retreat, and Shi Hongyu, who was giving everything she had with veins bulging across her neck, Duo Xinyu was truly terrified into tears.

"Duo Xinyu! Return to the city!"

Shi Hongyu forced out a desperate roar through clenched teeth.

"Teacher!"

Duo Xinyu looked at Shi Hongyu in horror, even forgetting to call her Captain.

"That is an order!!"

Shi Hongyu shouted.

Duo Xinyu trembled in agony. His shaking hand reached for the return button, but when he saw the despair in Qiao Zishu's and Chen Keyu's eyes on the ground, his mind became a complete mess.

"Go!"

Shi Hongyu cried out in pain. Then a sharp crack came from her arm, the sound of bone breaking. The gap had been compressed to less than two meters!

Shi Hongyu's arm had broken!

With that break, she could no longer sustain her strength, and the boulder accelerated even faster.

At that moment, Duo Xinyu completely lost his mind and prepared to close his eyes, grit his teeth, and press the return button.

But a crisp sound rang by his ear!

Clack!!

The boulder stopped dead in place!

The distance between the boulder and the one behind them stopped at around 1.7 meters.

Shi Hongyu and Duo Xinyu both looked up toward where the sound had come from.

They saw a hand gripping a massive sniper rifle, its heavy body wedged between the two boulders.

That sniper rifle was the huge gun Qiao Zishu had been blasted away from, which had vanished to who knew where.

And the owner of that hand was Fu Junlin!

"I'm here!"

Fu Junlin poked his head out from above and shouted, then leaped down directly, still holding a dark green Battle Banner that shone brilliantly!