What should you do when suddenly thrust into an unfamiliar, dark environment?
Light a fire to illuminate the surroundings and get a clear view.
But there are exceptions. Even in the darkest situations, you must not light a fire, such as in a house with a gas leak.
The flickering flame lit up the surroundings, and in the next moment, Li Cunxu regretted it.
Who is this?
So malicious.
Not only was he moved from his bed to the belly of a wolf, but he was also transported to a wolf den.
The sudden brightness of the fireball startled the sleeping giant wolves, and they all opened their eyes.
Fight?
What fight? Do you have a death wish?
Run.
As Li Cunxu ran, he grabbed Xiao Ruan with his backhand and placed her on his back.
"Xiao Ruan, use Wind Blow."
Xiao Ruan acted like a wind booster, accelerating Li Cunxu's running speed.
The Wolf King, whose eyes were burned by the Burning Lotus Blood Fire, would never allow Li Cunxu to escape.
With a howl.
The entire wolf pack awoke.
A group of giant wolves chased after him like arrows shot from a bow.
The giant wolves were massive, over four meters tall, but they were not slow at all.
Seeing that the giant wolves were about to catch up, Li Cunxu immediately climbed up a tall ancient tree.
Glancing at the giant wolves lingering below the tree, Li Cunxu sighed in relief, "Luckily, giant wolves can't climb trees."
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a loud thud.
The ancient tree shook, and Li Cunxu almost lost his grip, nearly falling.
Looking down, he saw a giant wolf ramming the tree, and the others followed suit.
The ancient tree began to tilt like the Leaning Tower of Pisa, but unlike the tower, no one was there to support it. It was only a matter of time before the tree fell.
Li Cunxu slowly stood up and leaped to an adjacent ancient tree.
The giant wolves came to ram the tree Li Cunxu was on, and he used the same method to jump to another tree.
"Xiao Ruan, use Trash Poison Gas."
The combination of the most powerful Wind Blow and the most potent poison gas quickly filled the forest with a purple haze.
Wild Pet Beasts naturally have high poison resistance, and the giant wolves could withstand Xiao Ruan's Trash Poison Gas.
But Trash Poison Gas is different from other poisons. Besides being toxic, it has another characteristic: it stinks.
Li Cunxu was so nauseated by the stench that he clung to the tree trunk, retching.
The giant wolves, with their keen sense of smell, found the stench of the Trash Poison Gas amplified a thousandfold. They howled and fled, retching as they went.
"What on earth is happening? I was just telling a story at home, how did I end up here?"
"Space transfer? Such a high-level ability, it's too unreasonable to kill me. Could I be under an illusion, or dragged into a nightmare's fabricated dream?"
He pinched himself with his nails, and the pain was very clear.
"To simulate pain so vividly, it must be a master of illusions. Such a person is unlikely to target me."
"Could it be that I was dragged into a fabricated dream?"
"How could I forget? I have a panel. I can check the identities of these giant wolves to see if this is a dream."
Creatures fabricated in dreams do not have panels.
[Pet Beast]: Evil Dire Wolf
[Attribute]: Dark
[Talent]: Gigantification
[Level]: Bronze Level 1
"The giant wolves chasing me are Evil Dire Wolves."
Li Cunxu recalled memories about the Evil Dire Wolf.
The Evil Dire Wolf, an Evil Beast, is the most numerous among the many Evil Beasts transformed by the Myriad Tribulations Evil God.
It had been a long time since Li Cunxu encountered this monster in the game, and his memory of it was somewhat hazy.
Evil Dire Wolves are numerous, but their potential is too poor, and none exist among the high-tier combatants.
"This isn't a dream, so how did I end up here?"
Li Cunxu suddenly recalled a special scenario from the game.
Celestial Calamity · Comet Sweep.
Whenever the Sky Sweeping Comet appeared, it would randomly take a group of people into a secret realm.
Strong players loved the Sky Sweeping Comet because it could lead them into resource-rich secret realms, allowing them to gather materials and experience in abundance.
Weak players, however, despised it, as being chosen by it would result in losing a level.
The Sky Sweeping Comet was a feast for the strong and a life-and-death arena for the weak.
"Suddenly appearing here from home and encountering an Evil Beast—this fits the characteristics of encountering the Sky Sweeping Comet."
Feeling a bit weak in his limbs, Li Cunxu finally snapped back to reality and realized he had been poisoned by the Trash Poison Gas. He hurriedly climbed down from the tree.
As he descended, he prayed.
"I remember I have a bottle of Detoxification Pills in my pocket. Please let it be there, please let it be there."
Without the Detoxification Pills, he would be done for.
Dying from the poison gas of his own Pet Beast.
What a humiliating way to go.
Li Cunxu jumped down from the tree and frantically searched his pockets. When he found a small bottle of Detoxification Pills, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Xiao Ruan, it's not safe on the ground. Let's go underground."
First, he recalled Xiao Ruan into the Beast Taming Space. After Xiao Ruan retrieved the Iron Pickaxe stored there, Li Cunxu released him again.
Xiao Ruan swung the Iron Pickaxe, quickly digging a tunnel.
The moonlight was cold, the forest was quiet, and a purple Poison Mist lingered in the air.
Feeling uneasy, Li Cunxu jumped into the tunnel Xiao Ruan had just dug, which was only two meters deep.
Xiao Ruan was a bit puzzled. Why was the Beast Tamer in such a hurry? He hadn't even finished digging a proper foothold before Li Cunxu jumped in.
Not two seconds after he jumped in, a whooshing sound came from above, followed by the snapping of a wolf's jaws at the tunnel entrance.
The sudden appearance of the wolf's mouth startled Li Cunxu, causing his legs to go slightly weak. He crouched down, clutching his pounding heart.
"No wonder I felt so uneasy up there. It was you!"
The Wolf King of the Evil Dire Wolf pack poked its slightly pointed snout into the tunnel.
Li Cunxu raised his fist and thumped the wolf's nose.
"All the other Evil Dire Wolves couldn't stand the stench and ran away, but you stayed. Is there something wrong with your nose?"
Unable to bite Li Cunxu, the Wolf King above was clever and changed its strategy, using its paws to widen the tunnel entrance.
"Xiao Ruan, hurry, hurry!"
Xiao Ruan swung the Iron Pickaxe with incredible speed.
Li Cunxu used the Burning Lotus Blood Fire to attack the Wolf King, but the effect was limited. The Burning Lotus Blood Fire was most potent when it came into contact with blood, and while the Wolf King had blood, it had no open wounds, so the fire's effectiveness was reduced.
The appearance of the Burning Lotus Blood Fire seemed to enrage the Wolf King, as it began digging even faster.
"Wait, are you the Wolf King I burned with the Burning Lotus Blood Fire before?"
No wonder it was willing to endure the stench of the Trash Poison Gas just to get to me.
The Wolf King seemed to understand Li Cunxu's words, as its digging speed increased once again.
However, Xiao Ruan's digging speed was even faster, allowing Li Cunxu to narrowly escape the wolf's jaws.
By the time they reached about ten meters underground, the Wolf King stopped digging, and Li Cunxu also instructed Xiao Ruan to stop digging downward.
"Don't dig deeper. Expand the surrounding space instead, and set up the Rebirth Ground here. We'll revive some Earth Slimes to help with the digging."
As for why he didn't revive the more efficient Miner Slimes?
Because the Miner Slimes were still alive.
Since they were alive, they couldn't be revived from the Soul Kingdom.
"It seems I'll need to store some Miner Slime souls in the Soul Kingdom in the future, so they can be used in emergencies."
Almost four hours had passed.
It was quiet above the tunnel entrance.
"Has that wolf left yet?"
In truth, whether it had left or not didn't matter much, as Li Cunxu couldn't escape through the cave entrance.
Li Cunxu hadn't run far from
the wolf's den before he was caught up with. The tunnel entrance was very close to the den, so if Li Cunxu tried to escape through it, he wouldn't get far before the Evil Dire Wolf from the den caught his scent and gave chase.
The best escape plan was to dig a tunnel.
(End of Chapter)