Dudian climbed to the fifth floor. Hearing the intense commotion from below, he knew that the huge beast was still in hot pursuit. He took a slight breath and continued to summon his energy to climb upward.
At this moment, the ground behind him suddenly cracked open. The beast's head and claws emerged and dug deeply into the wall at the edge. This was the backbone of each floor of the building, constructed with steel bars and concrete. Even though it was decayed, it was much stronger than other parts.
The beast used the support to climb up and chased after Dudian.
Dudian's face changed drastically, and he quickly ran around this floor.
The beast roared and charged forward recklessly behind him. One wall after another was knocked down, and the ground cracked. It approached at an astonishing speed.
Dudian's entire body hair stood on end, and for a moment, he didn't even feel the intense pain in his chest. He ran along the corridor towards the other side of the building. Just then, the entire building suddenly shook violently, as if there was an earthquake.
The ground under the feet of the beast that was about to catch up suddenly collapsed. The beast, which was only four or five meters away from pouncing on Dudian, quickly grabbed the edge of the collapsed area. But its claws sank deeply into the floor, causing more areas to collapse together, and it fell towards the ground floor.
At the same time, Dudian suddenly felt that the whole world was tilting. He looked at the slanting street and other buildings outside, and his pupils shrank deeply. The building he was in... was collapsing!
The serious damage from the second floor to the seventh floor, the vibrations caused by the beast's rampage, and now the destruction around the fifth floor had finally made the foundation of this building, which had endured three hundred years of baptism, break and collapse!
Once it fell, the shaking force it caused could be imagined!
Dudian's face turned pale. He quickly turned and ran towards the upper part of the slope. If he was at the bottom of the slanting side, he would either be buried alive or directly crushed to death, with no chance of survival.
The originally flat floor was tilted almost vertically. Dudian climbed all the way up by relying on the wall and the dagger in his hand, like climbing a steep rock wall. Fortunately, he noticed it in time. Although he was seriously injured at the moment and his speed was limited, in this life-and-death situation, the tearing pain in his chest seemed to be ignored. He had no time to pay attention to it at all. There was only one thought in his mind, which was to climb up!
Only by climbing up could he have a slim chance of survival, just a slim chance!!
Finally, before the floor completely stood up vertically, Dudian climbed to the top. He smashed the window with one punch, stuck his head out, and suddenly saw the entire sky spinning as the top floor of the building crashed down.
Dudian's face turned pale. He tightly grasped the windowsill and stared fixedly at the street below the rooftop, using the other buildings on the street as a reference. The next moment, a shaking force seemed to be transmitted through the arm holding the windowsill. At the same time, he roared and summoned all his strength to jump out from the windowsill. At that moment, he felt as if he was flying.
Then, in the next moment, his ears were filled with a huge rumbling sound.
Countless clouds of dust rolled up. Dudian's body, which had jumped high, fell heavily according to the gravitational force of the earth and rolled to the outside of the collapsed floor. Rolling all the way down, it seemed that he had crashed into countless hard stones along the way. The intense collisions made him feel as if his body was falling apart. His head suddenly hit a heavy object, and he immediately lost consciousness.
I don't know how long it had passed, but Dudian felt a little difficulty in breathing, and his consciousness struggled to wake up.
The first thing he saw when he opened his eyes was darkness.
He was taken aback.
I'm not dead?
The next moment, the intense pain all over his body made his consciousness fully wake up. He couldn't help but inhale slightly in pain. He felt his back against a hard object. He reached out to support the ground and slightly moved his body. The wounds all over his body immediately ached sharply.
Dudian's mouth twitched. He didn't dare to move his body anymore. He looked up and around. There was a faint and dim light coming from above. He looked up and vaguely seemed to be able to see the gray sky.
He let out a sigh of relief. Once he regained a little strength, he could climb out.
Suddenly, he felt a burning hunger in his stomach. He immediately remembered that his backpack had been lost during the previous chase. He sighed inwardly and at the same time was filled with hatred for that hunter. However, filling his stomach was the key at the moment. He hadn't eaten anything since he came outside the Great Wall. He had been running for his life all day yesterday, and then he had fallen into a coma. He didn't know how long he had been unconscious. But he remembered that it was dusk at that time, and now that he could see the light, it meant it was daytime. The best-case scenario was that he had only been unconscious for one night.
Dudian gently groped around with his hand, trying to touch some clothes or other things. He was extremely hungry at the moment. Even a belt or weeds could be swallowed.
After groping for a while, he touched some metal and broken metal pipes. It seemed that he was sitting on a metal block. He smiled bitterly. He just hoped that the commotion caused by the building's collapse could attract Mekin or Scott and the others. However, whether Scott and the others were alive was still a question.
Thinking of this, he suddenly thought, what if such a loud noise attracted walking corpses?
He immediately gave up the idea of calling for help. Instead of waiting for rescue, if he attracted a group of walking corpses, it would be completely over.
At this moment, he suddenly felt that he had touched some sticky liquid flowing towards him from below. He was slightly taken aback. The water source in the building should have dried up long ago. Could it be the accumulated water from the disaster rain that seeped in from the ground outside?
A bit of thirst welled up in his heart. Even if it was radiation rain, he wanted to drink some at the moment. As long as it could relieve the burning hunger in his stomach, he felt that he was even willing to take a bite of a walking corpse's body!
He slightly moved his arm, trying not to use too much strength to avoid pulling the wounds all over his body. He slowly scooped up a little and brought it to his mouth. Just as he was about to drink it, he suddenly smelled a strong smell of blood.
Was it blood?
Dudian was taken aback. Just then, a slight movement suddenly came from the darkness ahead.
Dudian's pupils shrank. Could it be...
Roar!
As if confirming his guess, a roar suddenly came from the darkness. Several stones were sent flying, and a thick smell of blood wafted over. The ferocious roar came from four or five meters ahead.
The huge black beast!
Dudian felt that his heart was almost stopping. It actually wasn't dead?
He gritted his teeth, supported himself on the ground with his hand, and moved his body. Every little bit he moved, his whole body felt a tearing pain. Cold sweat broke out on his forehead from the pain, but he still gritted his teeth tightly and moved backward inch by inch.
After moving seven or eight times in a row, he had only moved two or three meters, and he was almost exhausted.
At this moment, he suddenly found that the roaring sound from the darkness ahead, although it still kept growling, didn't get closer. It seemed... to have stopped in that position.
Dudian was taken aback and a bit puzzled. Suddenly, he thought of a possibility... was it stuck?
Thinking of this, he immediately reached for the flint in his waist bag that he always carried with him. This thing hadn't been lost. His hand was weak, but he still trembled and struck the flint, creating sparks and igniting the tinder.
Soon, the faint fire dispelled the darkness nearby.
Dudian held up the fire to shine. He saw the scene ahead clearly. The huge black beast was lying in a narrow passage ahead. Some stones were scattered around its neck. It kept growling in a low voice but couldn't crawl forward. Its body was stuck by the stones piled up behind it!
He let out a sigh of relief. On second thought, fortunately, it was stuck. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to wait until he woke up and would have been eaten while in a coma.
At this moment, the tinder burned out, and the darkness returned around him.
But Dudian felt a little more relaxed in his heart. He had already seen the surrounding environment clearly. He and the huge black beast were in something like a steel box, like a shipping container. However, there were no shipping containers in the building. Then there was only one place where he could be, which was in the elevator shaft!