Quick Travel to the Clouds

Chapter 595 I am a Rabbit-Eared Clan 13

This sudden storm seemed to last forever, or perhaps it was just a brief but fatal moment in a long journey.

As the wind finally began to subside and the murky high wall swept past them, continuing its rolling forward, You slowly raised her nose and snout, which were covered in dust and reddened by sand and gravel, and carefully opened her equally dusty, icy blue eyes.

The world before my eyes seemed to have been repainted: the horizon became blurred, the original tiny terrain was leveled or buried, fine dust floated in the air, and sunlight formed murky beams when it passed through.

You coughed violently a few times, spitting out the sand in his mouth.

He stood up, shook his fur, and immediately a cloud of dust rose up.

He quickly licked away the sand and dust around his mouth, nose, and eyes.

Yun Chu, who was being protected, wasn't much better off. Her ears and fur were covered in grayish-yellow sand, as if she had just crawled out of the ground.

"Are you alright?" You's voice was hoarse, as if it had been sanded by sandpaper.

Yun Chu forcefully spat out the sand in her mouth, wiped her face, and nodded: "...It's okay, You, how about you?"

“Thick skin,” You replied briefly, but his breathing was noticeably faster than usual, clearly indicating that he had expended a great deal of energy resisting the storm. He rechecked his direction, his gaze falling on the desolate landscape ravaged by the sandstorm. “The storm has changed the landscape; we need to be more careful on the road ahead.”

Sure enough, the danger had only just begun.

The journey over the next few days was exceptionally difficult. The sandstorm, like a giant plow, raked the once flat wilderness into a crisscrossing trench, creating countless hidden traps—quicksand zones.

These areas appear no different from other places, and in some places, the fine sand after the storm has made them unusually smooth and soft, which is very deceptive.

Once, You was stepping forward on what seemed to be a solid surface when suddenly his foot sank in!

The soft sand collapsed and spun without warning, as if an invisible monster had opened its greedy maw!

You's reaction was astonishingly fast!

Just as his front paws sank deep into the ground, his powerful hind legs burst forth with all their strength, kicking backward with incredible agility, pulling his massive body backward!

It carried large clumps of churned, muddy, wet sand.

The immense force caused him to stagger a few steps before regaining his balance.

Yun Chu, still shaken from being thrown off, stared at the spot where You had just gotten stuck. A sizable vortex of quicksand had formed there, slowly and relentlessly spinning downwards.

You was breathing heavily, his icy blue eyes fixed on the still-living death trap, filled with unprecedented vigilance and lingering fear.

"Damn it..." he cursed under his breath, cautiously touching the edge of the ground with his paw.

The outburst had caused his injured forepaw to be scraped raw by rough sand, and tiny beads of blood were seeping out.

The quicksand became the deadliest obstacle on their path; it was hidden, deadly, and capable of silently swallowing its prey.

You had to be extremely cautious with every step, probing the soil ahead with its sharp claws. Its speed was forced to the limit, and each step felt like dancing on a knife's edge.

But misfortunes never come singly.

Just as they rounded a larger area of ​​quicksand and were relatively tired and slightly less vigilant, an even more dangerous threat suddenly descended!

"Gah——!"

A strange, sharp whistling sound, like the scraping of stone, tore through the relatively quiet air!

Immediately afterwards, several swift, tawny shadows darted out from behind a sand dune newly piled up by the storm!

They are the size of large dogs, but have lizard-like skin covered with keratinous scales, powerful hind limbs, and a tail covered with thorns. Their triangular heads open mouths full of small fangs, with sticky saliva dripping from the corners of their mouths.

It is the infamous predator of the wilderness—the sand lizard!

They were clearly disturbed by the storm, or perhaps driven by hunger, and now regarded You and Yun Chu as prey that had invaded their territory.

These lizards were incredibly fast, like sand arrows launched from the ground, flanking us from different directions!

Their tactics were extremely cunning. Several of them made a feint attack from the front to attract attention, while others tried to flank and attack the seemingly weaker Yun Chu from behind. One of them even leaped high into the air, its thick tail covered with bone spurs whistling through the wind as it lashed out at You's side like a steel whip!

"You're courting death!" A fierce glint flashed in You's eyes! The exhaustion from the long journey and the threat of the quicksand transformed into a raging fury. His fighting instincts were instantly ignited!

Without even thinking, the fighting instinct and the newly generated, restless power of thunder within his body instantly synchronized!

"Crackling—Sizzling!!!"

A dark blue electric snake, much thicker and more concentrated than the one that attacked the male antelope during the test, suddenly erupted not from the claws, but from the lizard's shoulder blade! It was so fast that it struck the threatening spiky tail with perfect precision just before the lizard's tail reached its body!

There was no violent explosion, only a tooth-grinding "sizzle" sound, like a red-hot iron bar being plunged into ice water!

The powerful lizard tail seemed to have crashed into an invisible wall of electric arcs!

The tough, keratinous scales, along with the resilient muscles beneath, were instantly carbonized and charred black under the terrifying heat and penetrating electric current! The violent energy of the electric snake surged wildly along its tail into the sand lizard's body, instantly heating the water inside to boiling point!

"Gah—Sizzle!!!"

The leaping sand lizard let out a half-grown, distorted scream. Its body convulsed and straightened violently, emitting a pungent, acrid white smoke. It fell straight down from the air and crashed onto the sand. Its limbs twitched violently for a moment before it became completely still. Wisps of smoke rose from its corpse, emitting a foul, burnt smell.

The horrifying scene of the leader being instantly killed, along with the acrid smell of death filling the air, caused the other sand-digging lizards that had pounced on them to pause noticeably! For the first time, an instinctive, primal fear flashed in their cold, vertical reptilian pupils.

But the fear lasted for less than a moment!

Hunger and ferocity ultimately overwhelmed their fear! They did not retreat, but were instead ignited with even more ferocity! Several lizards opened their mouths, which were filled with fine fangs, and hissed as they pounced on Yun Chu's limbs, neck, and back from different directions at the same time!

Two of them, in particular, were the most cunning and treacherous. Their tawny bodies darted close to the ground, their sharp claws piercing the relatively thin joints of the leopard's forelimbs! Their scales reflected a cold, hard luster in the dim light, and their long, thorny tails left trails of death on the sand.

"You're courting death!" The icy blue pupils were completely covered by cold killing intent.

The exhaustion of the long journey and the treacherous traps of the quicksand transformed into a raging inferno. Newborn lightning power surged and roared through his veins, driven by his will!

His massive body displayed terrifying agility that belied his size, and his left forepaw lashed out with a shrill screech as it tore through the air, striking a large lizard that was lunging at his neck.

At the same time, instead of roaring, Youna's massive maw, filled with fangs, suddenly opened wide towards a sand-digging lizard that had ambushed Yun Chu on the flank—

"Hiss—Buzz!!"

A beam of white-incandescent lightning, condensed like a beam of light and extremely dazzling, suddenly shot out!

Too fast! Too accurate!

The bolt of lightning, like the probe of death, pierced through a space that seemed more than enough to span hundreds of meters in an instant! It precisely pierced deep into the lizard's wide-open mouth, filled with sharp teeth!

"Bang!" A muffled sound!

The sand-digging lizard didn't even let out a scream. Its tough head, like a blood-filled sac that had been detonated from the inside, exploded from the inside out into a mass of scarlet mist mixed with charred black fragments under the impact of the lightning!

The headless body was propelled several meters by inertia before crashing onto the scorching sand!