During the fight just now, Meteor had already killed one Hound. Now, five Hounds leaped up and passed through the Third Gate!
The instant they passed through the gate, the five Hounds decreased in number again, becoming three. They were incredibly fast and caught up to Meteor's heels in the blink of an eye!
Yet Meteor's speed had strangely increased. Not too much, not too little—she was only slightly faster than Sirius.
Whenever Sirius felt that he was about to catch her, the distance would widen by another half meter the next second. After this happened several times, he was so enraged that he nearly exploded! Fire seemed to burst from all seven of his orifices!
Meanwhile, the blinded Meteor pressed her back against the stone statue and darted several steps back in front of it, allowing her vision to clear.
She turned to look at Sirius below. Seeing him run farther and farther away, she curled her lips and muttered with a cold smile, "They say you're a stupid dog, yet you refuse to admit it."
—After rushing through the Third Gate, she had slipped behind the stone statue. The target Sirius was chasing was an illusion she had created with a Rare Item, one that could last around twenty seconds.
If he had been smart, he would have noticed something was wrong after chasing it for seven or eight seconds. But Sirius clearly was not smart enough.
Meteor took off her gas mask and tossed it to Huangfu Miaomiao in the cage.
"Keep an eye on him. If he starts chasing back, throw another tear gas grenade to buy me time."
Huangfu Miaomiao had wrapped her head in a thick coat. She had no gas mask, so after using the tear gas grenade earlier, she had tightly covered