Chapter Sixty-Six [Gu Qingyi's Big Move]
As soon as Chen Yan saw the situation, he immediately felt distressed.
He recognized this place; it was a wild lake in a mountain valley of Zijin Mountain. Locals loved coming here to play in the water during summer—despite repeated government warnings and the lake's complex water currents that caused numerous drowning incidents every year, some uninformed people still insisted on coming here to swim.
The lake wasn't large, with a surface area of just a few acres, but the surrounding terrain was open. To bypass the lake and re-enter the forest, one would have to cover at least several hundred meters.
Chen Yan quickened his pace, running along the lakeshore, when he suddenly heard a roar behind him. The monster had also burst out of the forest.
Seeing the monster about a hundred meters behind him, Chen Yan kept running forward, hoping to re-enter the forest and use the same trick to shake off this creature.
