Chapter 4393 — Fleeing at a Dead Sprint
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Lu Bianren, like everyone else, was still frozen in shock and daze; when Wei Zhao yanked him so abruptly, his foot twisted and he went sprawling to the ground, even swallowing a mouthful of dust in the process. But Wei Zhao paid that no mind and simply dragged him out at a dead run.
Opportunities were fleeting. True, the dungeon had been successfully blown open, but exactly as Wei Zhao had calculated earlier, this was only the simplest and most basic first step. Whether they could actually succeed in escaping—that was the crucial part that came next.
The sound of the explosion was earth-shattering. Even an ordinary person, even one a hundred li away, would have noticed it—much less beings at the Xuan Ascension stage. Once they sensed it, they would certainly rush over at the first instant. If he could not get away before they arrived, all his efforts would be for nothing.
Watching helplessly as Wei Zhao dragged Lu Bianren off, Sun Hengbiao and the others finally snapped to their senses. They exchanged glances, then mustered all their strength and charged forward. Even those who had been badly wounded when their true qi defenses proved insufficient and they were caught in the blast hobbled along with the rest, howling and limping as they ran.
Shut up in the dungeon, they could only sit and wait for death, waiting to be hauled off for human experimentation. If they did not run now, when would they ever?
Blasting apart the shattered remnants of the dungeon gate, Wei Zhao, dragging Lu Bianren with one hand, was the first to burst out of the dungeon and see the light of day again.
Between the dungeon and Moleng City ran an underground passage, but in a moment like this, with their lives on the line, anyone who charged into that tunnel would have to be an idiot—the enemy need only block it at both ends to catch them like turtles in a jar. The only choice, therefore, was to flee out into the open.
Lifting his eyes and looking around, Wei Zhao saw towering peaks and ridges upon ridges of mountains stretching away on every side—a vast mountain range. This caught him entirely off guard; he had assumed the Moleng Sea was a tiny place no bigger than the palm of a hand, that once you left Moleng City you would see seawater at a glance. He had never expected such majestic, sprawling mountains to stand here.
Right behind him, Sun Hengbiao and the others came pouring out as well. Looking around at the scenery, they could not hide the wild joy on their faces, believing they had escaped to safety and could finally breathe easy.
Yet Wei Zhao did not dare hesitate for even an instant. His spiritual sense was extraordinarily powerful and keen, surpassing that of many a fine Nascent Soul expert, and he could clearly perceive that within a radius of less than five li, at least four or five powerful auras were hurtling toward them from every direction at top speed—and among them was the terrifying aura of a Xuan Ascension stage titan!
Even for Wei Zhao, facing a Xuan Ascension titan left him not the slightest confidence of escape. Otherwise he would have fled back at the Zhongshu Merchants' Guild—why wait until now?
Their only chance lay in the brief window before the Xuan Ascension titan returned. A mere five li—to a Xuan Ascension titan, that was no more than the space of a thought; three breaths at most, and they would appear overhead.
Every second counted. Wei Zhao did not dare waste even a single breath. Hauling the still-disoriented Lu Bianren along, he picked a direction where few experts were blocking the way and immediately fled with all his might.