Abyss Sequence

Chapter 44: Escape Journey


The closer they got to the Crescent Mountain Range, the steeper the terrain of the Bone-Eroding Plain became.

Maneuvering a motorbike through increasingly steep terrain was quite challenging, requiring Yan Luo to concentrate intently and not be distracted by anything.

Unlike Yan Luo, the giant earth elephant could move effortlessly over any terrain, which was part of the demon's superpower.

Fortunately, even within the Crescent Mountain Range, there were flat areas, not entirely composed of steep mountains. Currently, they hadn't left the Bone-Eroding Plain but were in the transitional section between the Bone-Eroding Plain and the Crescent Mountain Range.

This area wasn't suitable for motorbike racing, and Yan Luo realized that the distance between himself and the giant earth elephant was shrinking.

He wasn't panicked because he had anticipated this.

"A hundred kilometers left."

Yan Luo calmly calculated the distance between his location and the entrance to the illusory underground palace.

By straight-line distance, it would be shorter, but since Yan Luo couldn't fly, he couldn't calculate the straight-line distance.

He was calculating the motorbike's route through the Crescent Mountain Range and preparing several backup plans based on this route.

Entering the Crescent Mountain Range meant entering the giant earth elephant's home ground, where everything was rocky and muddy, mountain ranges stretching continuously. The giant earth elephant could move effortlessly, whereas he had to take detours.

If the giant earth elephant were smart enough, it could choose a route that directly intercepts the motorbike's path, blocking Yan Luo's way.

At that moment, Yan Luo heard a long cry.

The cry came from the sky and plunged downward in an instant.

Yan Luo's calm heart almost faltered because the cry was very familiar; he had encountered it just a few days ago.

—Wind God Eagle!

Another Wind God Eagle!

The Crescent Mountain Range was the hunting ground for advanced Hunters, teeming with deadly demons, with city-breaking level demons far less rare than in other regions. Most materials from the city-breaking level demons produced by the Crimson Abyss came from the Crescent Mountain Range.

Without needing to look up, Yan Luo knew that this Wind God Eagle was similarly at the city-breaking level.

Demon creatures below the city-breaking level couldn't perceive his special traits and wouldn't come charging to hunt him from afar.

Until now, only city-breaking level demons could detect his uniqueness, and without exception, they all wanted to devour him.

—Just like he wanted to devour demons.

A notification flashed: [Fuel approaching depletion], which Yan Luo immediately cast aside and activated the leg boosters.

The jet flames propelled Yan Luo swiftly forward, avoiding the Wind God Eagle descending from the sky.

Realizing it missed its prey, the Wind God Eagle flapped its wings hastily to ascend, otherwise, the giant earth elephant charging madly behind would crush it to powder.

"Angh!!!"

The giant earth elephant let out a warning roar to the ascending Wind God Eagle, telling it to scram and not hunt its prey.

But the Wind God Eagle couldn't resist its instinct; Yan Luo was irresistibly tempting to it. Its intuition drove it to devour Yan Luo, so that's what it pursued.

The Wind God Eagle ignored the giant earth elephant's warning, instead flapping its wings to create two storms that respectively slammed the mountain ranges, causing boulders to roll down the mountainside, not blocking Yan Luo but blocking the path of the giant earth elephant.

The giant earth elephant immediately flew into a rage, charging head down and knocking aside the obstructing rocks, then used its trunk to pick up a stone to throw skyward.

That rock didn't breach the sound barrier, yet sped through the air at 300 meters per second, aimed at the Wind God Eagle.

The Wind God Eagle deftly twisted its body, dodging the rock, which smashed into a farther peak.

The two city-breaking level demons began battling, which was beneficial for Yan Luo, though he didn't think they would stop pursuing him.

Yan Luo lowered his head to focus on driving the motorbike, crossing the boundary line between the Bone-Eroding Plain and the Crescent Mountain Range, officially entering the Crescent Mountain Range.

Noticing Yan Luo had already run far, the two city-breaking level demons abandoned their strife without hesitation and turned to chase Yan Luo.

The motorbike raced down the winding mountain road, and Yan Luo dared not push the motorbike to its maximum speed on such terrain. Once the motorbike flew off the path, a fall of at least 200 meters awaited him.

Even if he miraculously survived, losing his motorbike was inevitable.

Without a vehicle, escaping into the illusory underground palace under the pursuit of the giant earth elephant and Wind God Eagle was impossible.

Hence, Yan Luo could only slow his speed down.

But the biggest downside of slowing down was quickly getting caught up by the two city-breaking level demons chasing him.

The mountain path was very narrow, unable to accommodate the wide-bodied bulk of the giant earth elephant, whose right-side legs had to step onto the mountain wall, tilting its body.

Even so, the giant earth elephant still moved effortlessly, maintaining its speed.

For the Wind God Eagle, there's nothing worth mentioning; it could fly anywhere it pleased.

At this moment, Yan Luo suddenly accelerated the motorbike.

"Eighty kilometers left!"

The motorbike flew off the mountain cliff, the frame swaying in the air and landing on the gentle slope of the mountain across the cliff.

This slope's angle was only 52 degrees, with the tires and slope instantly generating intense friction, providing the motorbike with strong grip to race along the slope.

The Wind God Eagle let out a long cry, generating a powerful air current ahead of the motorbike, hindering its race while itself flew close to the slope, rapidly nearing Yan Luo.

Yan Luo maximized the motorbike's speed, turning the handlebars toward the mountain summit to create a slope, with the powerful air current striking him and the motorbike. Flowing along the irregular slope, the current descended behind him, providing the motorbike with upward lift instead of merely frontal drag.

The motorbike hugged the mountain slope, gradually ascending, not only unhindered but also gaining some benefit.

Suddenly, Yan Luo lifted the handlebars, the motorbike again leaping and traversing 17 meters to land on another mountain path.

At the precise moment the weight of the motorbike hit, the mountain path suddenly collapsed, its wheels grinding over incompletely sunk rubble, dashing forward, escaping the danger of the fall in no time.

However, the giant earth elephant had already caught up.

It moved like a rock goat, even more exaggerated than one.

While a rock goat could climb slopes up to 90° steep, the giant earth elephant could run vertically up a slope, as though it were flat ground.

Meanwhile, the Wind God Eagle emerged from outside the mountain path, wings spread, sharp eyes locked onto Yan Luo.

Yan Luo was convinced that given the opportunity, it would definitely snatch a bite out of him.

He wouldn't give the Wind God Eagle such a chance.

Yan Luo suddenly turned the motorbike, causing it to drift momentarily and then suddenly rocket forward.

The motorbike burst off the path, landing on the side of the Wind God Eagle's wing. Before it reacted, the spinning wheels urged the motorbike to race along the Wind God Eagle's back.

The whirling wheels ruffled the Wind God Eagle's feathers, inflicting pain.

It shrieked, struggled, twisted frantically.

The motorbike was flung off by the Wind God Eagle, but under Yan Luo's precise control, it successfully landed on the mountain path of another peak.

"Hahahaha!"

Wild, brazen laughter echoed through the mountain ranges, Yan Luo's whole body shivering with glee.

A basin lay ahead of the mountain path, and Yan Luo steered the motorbike quickly down the path.

The enraged Wind God Eagle shrieked, unleashing one storm after another, tornadoes crashing down, some striking the mountain wall and causing rocks to tumble, others crashing into the path, shattering it.

Facing the tumbling rocks, Yan Luo hurled explosives, using the blasts' impact waves to repel the stones, while facing broken paths, he rode the motorbike up the mountain wall, passing over the fissure, before returning to the path.

Having gone berserk for a while, discovering it was incapable of obstructing Yan Luo, the Wind God Eagle focused on demolishing the path.

Because it found Yan Luo had more trouble coping with broken paths.

The path ahead was completely collapsed, yet Yan Luo remained unfazed.

He took out a grappling hook gun, aimed at the Wind God Eagle, then pressed the firing button to shoot the hook.

The hook snagged one of the Wind God Eagle's talons, and Yan Luo controlled the motorbike to leap off the path.

The Wind God Eagle's body suddenly sagged, weighed down by Yan Luo and the motorbike, totaling a ton.

It ferociously beat its wings to stabilize itself, and by then, the motorbike was only 13 meters high from the ground.

Yan Luo hit the release button, the motorbike plummeting to the ground.

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