Every second counted!
Yang Yi dared not pause for even a moment, running at full speed toward the Nightmare Star.
The fire aboard the Courage behind him had already gone out, turning it back into that icy ship.
He had to keep moving at full speed. A second too slow, and he might become frozen meat.
When he was about four hundred meters from the Nightmare Star, he heard the crackle of electricity again, chaotic and irregular. A great many Ice Nest Worms had followed him!
Yang Yi immediately undid his eye patch and looked back with Three Eyes.
The swarm was close, less than three hundred meters away. There were thousands upon thousands of them, far too many to count at a glance!
The crackling grew louder and louder as the distance between them rapidly closed.
Two hundred meters!
One hundred meters!
These worms flew far too fast, roughly three times Yang Yi's running speed!
At this rate, he would never make it!
Yang Yi's gaze hardened. He pulled out the Pale Worm Hand Cannon, intending to use it to buy time.
But just then, a powerful blaze flared directly ahead of him.
The fire burned fiercely, dispersing the white fog. Even Yang Yi could feel its warmth!
A few seconds earlier, a flaming arrow had struck the Nightmare Star's bow deck dead on, igniting the grease spread over it and starting a great fire.
Flames instantly engulfed the Nightmare Star's bow, driving away the white fog and lighting up the surroundings.
This was Su Na's handiwork. She had poured some Pale Worm grease over the bow deck.
After hearing the strange crackling, she had fired a flaming arrow and set the bow alight.
The Life Fireplace was also within the blaze. It had been installed outside the Captain's