He was about to turn and run, but immediately stopped again, turning to look around for a way to escape. He definitely couldn't get away on foot alone.
At that moment he saw three patrol motorcycles not far away.
Long Ming immediately rushed over, mounted a patrol motorcycle, pulled keys from his pocket and inserted one into the keyhole, but it wouldn't turn!
He immediately pulled it out, switched to another key and gave it a turn.
The patrol motorcycle's dashboard instantly lit up.
Long Ming was instantly delighted, then pressed the start button.
Vroom~
The motorcycle emitted a loud racket, but failed to start.
"Damn it, start!"
Long Ming was getting anxious too.
At that moment a rustling sound came.
Long Ming looked up and saw countless red reptiles crawling over from all sides.
Even the window he had just jumped out of was pouring out large numbers of red reptiles, crawling down the wall.
Immediately after, half-meter-long red moths, like a swarm of bees, rushed toward him.
Seeing this, Long Ming's face also looked grim, and he pressed the start button again.
Boom~
In an instant the motorcycle successfully started.
Long Ming abruptly twisted the throttle.
Accompanied by a sharp roar, the entire motorcycle shot forward.
In an instant, flocks of red moths struck nothing but air.
Immediately after, the motorcycle rolled right over those red reptiles.
Crackle~
Viscous fluid splattered everywhere.
Listening to the grating crushing sound, Long Ming rode the motorcycle away at high speed.
Vroom vroom~
The motorcycle's loud roar was especially conspicuous in this silent city.
At that moment, in the area Long Ming's motorcycle passed through, dense masses of carapace-type insects emerged from sewers and houses, gathering together like a tide.
Hearing movement behind him, Long Ming looked at the rearview mirror, only to find one mirror was shattered and the other had lost its glass entirely.
He immediately turned and looked back, instantly seeing those dense masses of carapace-type insects—enough to trigger trypophobia.
But this wasn't the most deadly part.
The most deadly part was that those red moths were still doggedly pursuing him.
Long Ming had no choice but to grit his teeth, open the throttle further, but he didn't dare turn it all the way at once, keeping it within a controllable range.
After all, there were plenty of obstacles on the main road; going too fast could easily lead to being unable to dodge in time and crashing.
At that moment the needle on the dashboard shifted, and the speed uncontrollably shot up.
Riding the motorcycle, Long Ming sped down the main road all the way, fleeing the city at full speed.
Building after building flashed past Long Ming's side in quick succession.
Rumble~
Suddenly the road surface ahead collapsed.
A giant worm over ten meters long, with a bloated, greasy body covered in red lumps, crawled out.
The giant worm opened its enormous insect mouth, revealing ring after ring of sharp insect teeth, waiting for Long Ming to walk right into its trap.
At this moment Long Ming was dumbfounded. What in the world was this?
He then sucked in a breath of cold air and immediately slowed down.
However, at that moment the red moths behind him caught up.
For a moment Long Ming was attacked from both front and back, in extreme peril.
At this critical moment, Long Ming suddenly made an extreme lean turn, making a right turn from the crossroads in front of the giant worm onto another street.
Swoosh~
The dense red moths in pursuit, like a sharp sword, flew into the giant worm's mouth.
The giant worm's body instantly expanded by a circle.
Ugh~
The giant worm instantly let out a belch.
Long Ming glanced back, thinking he'd shaken off the pursuit, when a group of red moths caught up from the right side.
Long Ming's eyes turned sharp; with one hand driving the motorcycle, he drew his Gecko automatic pistol with the other and pulled the trigger!
Bang! Bang!
Moth after moth was hit, viscous blood spraying out, and they dropped down.
Rustle!
Swarms of moths, just like sharks smelling blood, surged toward their fallen companions.
Crack!
In an instant, those few shot moths were torn apart.
Seeing this, Long Ming's eyelids twitched wildly, but he did not stop shooting.
Bang bang!
Moth after moth was shot down.
Long Ming emptied the magazine directly, then opened the throttle further, rushing past while they were cannibalizing each other.
He then looked back once and found those red moths had stopped, some scattering.
Long Ming couldn't help but turn back and breathe a sigh of relief.
"Phew~"
But the next second, his expression froze, then he came to his senses and looked back again.
He saw those red moths scatter like frightened birds, and behind them appeared a huge flying insect, its body six meters long, with two pairs of blue membranous wings, a head resembling a dragonfly's, with a three-meter-long spike and two blue insect eyes.
At that moment, a prompt popped up on the wristband.
"Qing Corrosion Insect detected."
Seeing this, Long Ming cursed silently.
"Damn!"
He gritted his teeth, twisted the throttle to the limit, went forward at maximum horsepower, quickly pulling away.
At this moment the Qing Corrosion Insect also stared fixedly at Long Ming, flapped its insect wings to accelerate past the scattering red moth swarm, and chased after him alone.
Long Ming looked back again and saw the Qing Corrosion Insect rapidly closing the distance.
Although he was extremely anxious inside, Long Ming did not lose his composure because of it; instead, he rationally looked at the sign ahead, his expression constantly shifting, then turned right at the upcoming intersection.
But when he turned onto the road on the right, he found the road ahead was blocked by seven or eight wrecked vehicles piled up in a chain collision.
Long Ming's face instantly sank, but he didn't slow down; instead, he picked a wrecked sports car and abruptly lifted the front wheel.
The entire motorcycle rode over the wrecked sports car, leaping into the air to clear the obstructing vehicles.
Thud~
The motorcycle landed heavily on the ground.
But before Long Ming could breathe a sigh of relief, the Qing Corrosion Insect rapidly closed in on Long Ming.
Long Ming instinctively sensed danger and looked back.
He saw the Qing Corrosion Insect open its hideous insect mouth and spit a glob of green mucus at him from a distance.
Long Ming's face changed abruptly, and he sharply turned left.
Hiss~
The green liquid sprayed onto the ground.
The concrete-paved ground was instantly corroded in a large area.
Seeing its attack miss, the Qing Corrosion Insect's abdomen swelled again, and it immediately spat another glob of green mucus at Long Ming.
Hearing the sound of something splitting the air, Long Ming made an extreme right turn and dodged again.
After missing several times, the Qing Corrosion Insect grew angrier; it not only didn't give up, but instead rapidly flapped its insect wings, closing in on Long Ming at extreme speed in a diving posture.
At this moment, seeing that behind him was quiet and the other side wasn't spitting mucus anymore, Long Ming instinctively felt uneasy and looked back.
Instantly he saw a hideous insect head right behind him; the spike on its head was almost touching him.
Long Ming's heart sank.
The Qing Corrosion Insect split open its huge insect mouth, revealing row after row of sharp insect teeth, about to bite Long Ming.
However, at this moment of life and death, Long Ming's lips curled slightly, then he abruptly twisted the throttle!
Roar~
The motorcycle suddenly rushed into a narrow semicircular tunnel.
Bang~
The Qing Corrosion Insect slammed directly into the tunnel entrance, its wings snapped, emitting a piteous screech of pain.
(End of chapter)
Chapter 29