Saving System: Calm Down, My Fleeing Host!

Chapter 436 - 427: On the Run Again

Sitting for quite a while, after calming down, they heard Miss Xiao’s scolding voice, extremely curious. They didn’t expect that anyone could anger the high and mighty Miss Xiao so much that she was trembling with rage, her eyes wide open.

"What are you staring at? Be careful, or I’ll dig your eyeballs out."

"Junior Sister Xiao, that’s enough. If it weren’t for our little junior brother, we might not have made it here, or perhaps we’d have become a pile of bones."

Cheng Xiaoxiao just wanted to retort but was cut off by someone.

This time, Yuan Yi sternly reprimanded her, not sparing Miss Xiao’s face.

This woman is becoming more unreasonable. Usually, she’s just a bit arrogant, which isn’t a big deal, but she’s being so willful at this crucial moment.

"What bones? Eighth Prince, did you encounter something?"

Wiping the blood from her face, the Fifth Princess drank a few sips of water and steadied herself.

Hearing the prince’s words, she couldn’t help but be curious.

"I haven’t asked you yet, how did you end up in the territory of the Giant Golden Monkey?"

Just then, the sound of battle came from the woods, the Giant Golden Monkeys had caught up, cutting short the questioning.

The gray-brown figures swarmed through the woods, making screeching sounds, seemingly very displeased that their prey had escaped.

From a distance, Cheng Xiaoxiao saw that the Giant Golden Monkeys were even bigger than gorillas, leaping nimbly through the trees and even avoiding Sword Qi.

They didn’t confront head-on but nimbly leapt back and forth, focusing on surprise attacks, making them impossible to guard against.

Their claws were very sharp, the clash with weapons sounded like cutting into metal, clang clang, and with a scrape, sparks flew.

Their bodies were formidable, and simple traps only temporarily impeded their advance without causing much injury.

The power of Yuan He’s wooden arrows was much reduced, penetrating only half an inch into the opponent and mostly being swatted away by claws.

The situation was less than optimistic.

Fortunately, they were prepared in advance.

As all the rafts moved to the center of the river, a few remained behind to fend them off, seizing the chance to escape along the river.

When getting close, they leaped down, landing steadily on the raft.

The fat prey that was almost in their grasp all got away, making the furious Giant Golden Monkeys screech more sharply, agitated, baring teeth and brandishing claws, rapidly leaping along the woods trying to catch up to them.

These Giant Golden Monkeys also had red bloodshot eyes.

Even more sinister than any Fierce Beast they had encountered, with even more bizarre red color.

The raft rose and fell, drifting quite a distance, still unable to shake off the pursuit of the Giant Golden Monkeys.

Without powerful oars, they floated downstream with the current, quickly being chased down by the Giant Golden Monkeys.

They actually used branches to swing like a swing, quickly throwing themselves onto the rafts.

They seemed ferocious, determined not to give up until achieving their goal.

They had already moved far away from the territory of the Giant Golden Monkeys, yet they were still in relentless pursuit.

Seeing more and more Giant Golden Monkeys jumping onto the raft, everyone got up to swing swords, doing their utmost to keep them off the raft.

However, with so many monkeys, inevitably a few managed to get onto the raft.

The massive impact and gravity made the raft rock several times, nearly coming apart.

The Qi Force recovery was less than half full, and engaging in close combat, they couldn’t match the monkeys’ formidable bodies.

Sword and saber slashed with cold glint, iron fists collided with flesh, punches landing strong, shaking all organs, the situation was perilous, many were thrown into the water.

Only when falling into the water do they realize how ice-cold the river was, bone-chilling. Without Qi to resist, it could freeze one’s bones stiff.

The instant Miss Xiao fell into the water, it was like falling into an icehouse.

"Ah!"

It was so cold, the whole body seemed enveloped in the icy house of deep winter, even shivering was a luxury, as if the blood throughout her body stopped flowing.

Her mind went blank, feeling like she was going to die.

"Circulate the Great Scripture, let the Qi flow through the meridians."

A disciple nearby supported Miss Xiao’s arm, reminding while grabbing onto the raft to prevent both from being swept away by the river, also constantly on alert for sneaky monkeys.

Cheng Xiaoxiao sneered mockingly, self-inflicted wounds cannot be lived.

Another round of bloody fight, both sides were putting everything in, not resting until one side falls.

Even though not all Giant Golden Monkeys could successfully land on the raft, they were relentless and tireless, some monkeys not controlling their force, directly plonking into the water, flailing incessantly.

Through Cheng Xiaoxiao’s observation, she found that this group of Giant Golden Monkeys couldn’t swim.

So what caused them to go so insane, determined to catch them even to death?

Could it really be as they said, that the Giant Golden Monkeys went berserk, or have all the Fierce Beasts here gone berserk?

Cheng Xiaoxiao gripped the sword hilt tightly, using strength in both arms, wanting to shake off the monkey, but the monkey was over two meters tall, large and plump, despite her Inner Strength boost, she couldn’t quickly overcome it.

Before she could think of a better way to attack, unexpectedly the monkey seeing the deadlock, opened its big mouth, revealing two rows of long sharp teeth, bending to bite at Cheng Xiaoxiao’s crown.

The stinking saliva dripped onto her face, extremely disgusting.

"Damn it, the stinking monkey wants to bust your granny’s head, I’m fighting you."

Stepping back with the right foot to support her body, as the monkey bit down, the whole body leaned back, bending 90 degrees, gathering Inner Strength, launching her left foot to kick between the monkey’s hind hooves.

Instantly, it flew over her head.

The monkey screamed, plonking into the water.

Turning around, Cheng Xiaoxiao found more monkeys jumping onto her raft.

Instantly filled with anger.

Wiping the foul-smelling liquid from her face, glaring with burning eyes.

With both hands gripping the sword, she swung with immense force, directly opening the chest of the monkey mid-air, spilling a spray of blood.

The powerful Sword Qi caused the monkey to hesitate momentarily, but still flew straight at Cheng Xiaoxiao, she unhesitatingly kicked it away, promptly sending the presumptuous monkey into the flowing water.

Enraged, Cheng Xiaoxiao instantly entered a whack-a-mole mode, eliminating any monkey that came, not allowing them near.

Every raft bore witness to bloodshed and slaughter.

Blood sprayed, screams incessant.

The screams of monkeys and the people alike.

Just as everyone was exhausting themselves, gritting teeth, and giving their all, they suddenly noticed fewer monkeys jumping onto the raft.

They were pausing on the branches, no longer leaping forward or swinging onto the raft.

Everyone couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief, had they finally given up?

Obviously, they were too naive.

"Ah! The river is ending!"

After finally climbing back onto the raft, Miss Xiao, still not recovered from the shock, suddenly screamed.

It turned out that up ahead was an end, a cliff’s edge, with sky and sea connected, below should be a turbulent waterfall surge.

They had followed the current all the way, focused only on fending off monkey attacks, failing to notice the change ahead in the river.

No wonder the monkeys stopped.