Chapter 1082: Actually, I'm Not Even Human (Bonus Chapter)
Even though Jiangnan activated his full-time four-wheel drive and abandoned his humanity as a person!
With all kinds of buffs stacked on, he still wasn't as fast as Pang Ju!
She was a Dao Heaven Beast; the gap was no joke!
Even though both sides were howling now, wildly trying to hurt each other, they simply couldn't close the distance!
Instead, the distance was rapidly shrinking!
Zi Yuan was being carried on Jiangnan's back, facing Pang Ju's pursuit head-on. Seeing the blazing fury in her eyes, her heart trembled!
They had been roaring the whole way, their voices already hoarse!
٩(๑˃̶͈̀mouth˂̶͈́)۶ "Yah yah yah! She's almost catching up! The distance has shrunk to ten thousand meters!"
Pang Ju's eyes blazed with excitement: "Where do you think you're going? Polar Day Cloud Sea!"
As long as she enveloped Jiangnan in her Polar Day Cloud Sea, he wouldn't be able to use any spirit techniques!
Then catching him would be as easy as reaching for something!
The clouds surged toward Jiangnan like a tide. Jiangnan's face twisted with ruthlessness!
"Don't think you can catch me, Jiang the Runner!"
"Spatial Displacement!"
In an instant, Jiangnan, carrying Zi Trash Tiger, vanished from in front of Pang Ju!
In their place was an inconspicuous clod of dirt!
Every time he ran a certain distance, Jiangnan left a Spatial Mark on the ground!
He always kept one mark over a hundred thousand meters away!
This was Jiangnan's escape route, prepared precisely for situations like this where he was about to be caught!
The displacement was complete!
Jiangnan and Zi Trash Tiger suddenly appeared a hundred thousand meters behind Pang Ju!
Pang Ju slammed on the brakes, furious, and smashed that clod of dirt into smithereens!
Again?
What kind of ridiculous skill was this?
Just a Platinum, could he be any more slippery?
She was about to turn around and chase again!
But Jiangnan cackled sinisterly. When Pang Ju had licked her own face earlier, he had already left a Spatial Mark on her tongue!
"Spatial Displacement!"
In a flash, their positions swapped. The moment he landed, Jiangnan bolted again with Zi Trash Tiger on his back!
Pang Ju's vision blurred, and she saw a billowing dust cloud in the distance—Jiangnan was almost out of sight!
The distance between them was restored to a hundred thousand meters!
Pang Ju was furious. If she kept chasing like this, she'd exhaust herself to death and still not catch him!
So she flew straight up into the sky and vanished into the clouds!
Jiangnan was panting heavily from exhaustion; his Blood Incineration and Eight Gates had long since run out!
But at least he had broken out of the North Zone and wasn't far from the central area of the uninhabited region!
"Where's Pang Ju?"
Zi Yuan widened her eyes, looking around: "I don't see her~ Maybe she realized she couldn't catch up and gave up?"
Jiangnan rolled his eyes: "You wish. Pang Ju has been exposed; there's no way she'll let us go back. She'll definitely..."
As he spoke, Jiangnan finally spotted a lush Green Vine Forest!
Without a second thought, he flashed over, grabbed a vine branch, and hastily called out!
(#ᵒ̌⌂ᵒ̌)ﾉᥬ᭄
"Little Vine! Save your godfather! There's a cat trying to kill your dad!"
The main vine's roots connected through the entire Green Vine Forest, so it naturally sensed Jiangnan's words!
The Green Vine Forest moved in unison, vines bending to form an OK gesture, then pointed Jiangnan in the direction to escape!
Jiangnan's eyes lit up. Good, it received the message! He sprinted along the direction the vines indicated!
But just then, Jiangnan felt a chill on his scalp and instinctively looked up!
Pang Ju had somehow caught up, piercing through the clouds and diving down!
Her speed blurred, closing in on Jiangnan in an instant!
"Die! Tiger Hunt!"
A blazing white claw light slashed down, about to land on Zi Yuan's belly!
Zi Yuan kicked wildly and shut her eyes tightly!
(˃᷄mouth˂᷅#) "Ah—I'm dead..."
"Displacement!"
"Shua!" In an instant, Jiangnan and Zi Yuan appeared high in the sky!
(#•̌mouth•̑)ˀ̣ˀ̣ "Huh? I'm not dead?"
Boom! The high-speed diving Pang Ju crashed headfirst into the ground!
The ferocious impact flattened the Green Vine Forest into a crater!
The entire cat was buried in the dirt, only a tiger tail sticking out!
The next moment, the Tiger Hunt claw light struck, slashing heavily across Pang Ju's body!
Three claw marks, gushing blood!
(ʘ̆mouthʘ̥̆‖)՞ "Aww!"
The intense pain made Pang Ju yank herself out of the dirt. She glanced back at the claw marks on her body, eyes blazing with rage!
"Grrr—I'll scratch you to death!"
At this moment, Pang Ju charged at Jiangnan like a berserker!
Having failed to catch him and even gotten slashed, Pang Ju had completely lost it!
Jiangnan: ???
You slashed yourself! What does that have to do with me, Jiang the Runner?
Don't pin it on me!
So he teleported several times, carrying Zi Trash Tiger into the primeval ancient forest!
Hoping to use the complex terrain to slow Pang Ju down until Little Vine could arrive!
Jiangnan weaved left and right through the forest, perfectly dodging all the ancient trees, advancing like crazy!
But Jiangnan dodged successfully—Zi Trash Tiger, on his back, wasn't so lucky!
With her huge size, she couldn't avoid the sweeping branches!
Branches smacked her face, making her cry out in pain as she crashed into the ancient trees repeatedly, her face turning black!
੧੧(˃᷄benefit˂᷅#)
[From Zi Yuan: Resentment +1000!]
"Can we discuss taking a different route? Or at least slow down a bit?"
Jiangnan didn't look back: "Don't worry! You're afraid I'll get tired, right? I'm not tired! Big bro's got strength!"
With that, he ran even harder, going full throttle!
Zi Yuan: (̿▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿̿)̄...
This is exactly like when a dad's kid gets their foot stuck in a bicycle wheel, and he stands up to pedal harder!
An oncoming branch stabbed straight into Zi Yuan's eye!
٩(๑XmouthX)۶ "Ah! My eyes! My eyes!"
[From Zi Yuan: Resentment +1000!]
Just then, the rampaging Pang Ju charged into the ancient forest. She didn't dodge at all, coming straight at Jiangnan like a snowplow train, smashing ancient trees and sending them flying!
Hearing this commotion, Jiangnan's scalp tingled. He couldn't help but look back!
But once he saw the flying ancient trees, he couldn't look away. His eyes lit up with excitement!
Σฅ(⁰mouth⁰｡)ฅ "Woof!"
He then teleported several times, charging straight toward Pang Ju!
Zi Yuan's eyes widened in terror!
"Wait, wait, wait! You're going the wrong way! The wrong way!"
Even Pang Ju was stunned. Why was Jiangnan running toward her instead of away?
Was he up to some trick again?
She became wary!
But Jiangnan had completely lost control of his instincts!
Full speed ahead!
Watch me fetch all the branches! If I miss a single one today, I'll pee standing on my head!
Jiangnan leaped up, shot into the air, opened his mouth wide, and bit down on a thick ancient tree trunk!
Holding it in his mouth, he teleported and placed it at Pang Ju's feet!
Then he teleported again, fetching another piece of wood, retrieving a dozen or so flying tree trunks and stacking them neatly at Pang Ju's feet—even arranging them into a pyramid shape!
Pang Ju stared blankly at the wood Jiangnan had fetched.
Zi Yuan covered her face. It's over! We're dead for sure!
Why now of all times does he have to fetch wood? Is he a dog or what?
Jiangnan crouched on the ground with a brilliant smile, a look that clearly begged for praise!
(๑•̌～•̑)ˀ̣ˀ̣=͟͟͞͞=(꒪mouth꒪‧̣̥̇)...
"Woof woof?"
Pang Ju: ???
After fetching all the wood, Jiangnan suddenly snapped out of it, cold sweat pouring down his forehead!
Damn!
Why did the dog biscuit side effect have to kick in now?
He never should have entered this cursed ancient forest!
"I'm awesome, right? Ah ha~ Ah haha~"
Seeing Pang Ju extend her claws, Jiangnan didn't hesitate. He teleported and ran without looking back!
But Pang Ju's gaze fell on the dozen or so logs piled at her feet, each carrying teeth marks. Her expression turned strange!
So she picked up a log and threw it high into the air!
She didn't know the principle, but it seemed that if she threw wood, Jiangnan would fetch it back?
Why bother chasing, then?
Jiangnan, who had just run a short distance, spotted the log flying through the air again!
He couldn't control himself. Excited, he teleported over, caught the log in his mouth, and brought it back to Pang Ju's feet!
Before Jiangnan could run away, Pang Ju had already unleashed her Polar Day Cloud Sea!
All of Jiangnan's spatial spirit techniques were sealed off. Although he could still use Spiritual Silk and Blood Incineration, he could no longer escape!
Pang Ju bared her tiger fangs and slammed a paw onto Jiangnan, pinning him to the ground!
"Hehehe~ Try running again, why don't you?"
Jiangnan's face fell. Couldn't she be a little less clever?
She learned to use thrown branches to lure me that fast?
Even pinned down, Jiangnan couldn't stop his hands and feet from digging at the dirt!
He flung dirt clods all over Pang Ju's face!
Pang Ju spat dirt but didn't remove her paw!
Hmph! Let's see how long you can dig!
Without spatial skills, you're just a lamb waiting to be slaughtered~
Jiangnan dug like crazy, wearing through the soles of his Extreme-Speed Slippers on his hands and feet before he finally stopped!
Zi Yuan already had a look of resignation!
Ahhh~ Life is so boring!
But Jiangnan's eyes hardened. You think this can stop me?
No way!
He exchanged a Paralyzing Gold Ring from the system and put it on his middle toe!
Then, at an impossible angle, he bent his toe upward and jabbed it straight into the pink pad on Pang Ju's paw!
An incredibly pleasant numbness surged through Pang Ju's entire body, forcing a pained cry!
(˃᷄mouth˂᷅๑)༡ "Meow!"
She lifted her paw, and Jiangnan took the chance to dart out, hiding in the clouds!
His face was resolute!
Now that Pang Ju had mastered the trick of throwing branches, he couldn't even run away!
That left only one option: fight it out!
Itching was better than being bitten to death by Pang Ju!
So he pulled out a bottle of Didiwei Perfume Spray!
"I originally wanted to get along with you as an ordinary person, but you forced my hand! I'm done pretending! I'm coming clean!"
"Actually, I'm not even human!"
"I'm a god!"