"Oh no!" Hearing the captain's voice, I knew they had discovered my trail. This was the army, after all! If they were to surround me, even if I were a tiger, let alone a snake, I would be done for here!

  I know, now even if I grew wings, I couldn't fly out of here, but I haven't given up. I didn't have time to care about the military dog and those people behind me, so I turned around and ran forward. Can't just wait for death here, right? Running, there's still a glimmer of hope.

  I plunged into the tall grass, using all my strength to run as fast as I could. The weeds cut me all over, but I didn't dare stop because the barking of dogs and the shouts of people had already started behind me.

  They saw me running and chased after me. I secretly congratulated myself on my increased speed, otherwise I really wouldn't have been able to escape.

  He was also glad that the soldiers were holding guns, but they didn't dare to fire randomly. Firstly, there were their military dogs in front of them, and secondly, he was afraid of accidentally injuring his own people, after all it was nighttime.

  "Hoo-hoo!" I only felt the sound of wind coming from my ears, I didn't care about anything, not even the direction, and just kept running. Suddenly, I heard the voices of those soldiers in front of me, I knew that after receiving the signal of the flare, they had encircled us from the front.

  I immediately changed direction and ran over from the left side, but after running for a long time, I didn't see anyone coming out in this direction. Had they given up?

  But the next moment, I understood that in front of us was a river about 50 meters wide. This river blocked their way to encircle us, so there was no one in this direction.

  "Quick, it's over there, follow it!"

  "Woof woof!"

  At this time, the voices and barks from behind started again. I didn't expect them to catch up so quickly. The speed of the soldiers was indeed not comparable to those police officers at first.

  Without noticing the chaotic aura around me, I plunged into the river with a splash, and disappeared from their sight.

  I was submerged in the deep water, not daring to show my head until I couldn't hold my breath any longer. I then floated up to take a breath, but just at that moment, the current suddenly accelerated. I raised my head and looked forward, only to find that ahead of me was an embankment, with no idea how high it was.

  "Boom!"

  Suddenly a deafening sound burst forth, I knew it was the sound of water flowing. Such a loud sound of water, how high must this embankment be?

  Right after that, I felt a sudden lightness, as if I was thrown into the air. My heart skipped a beat, and I looked down to find myself shocked. This... is so high! It's at least as tall as a 20-story building. What river is this? I don't think I've ever been here before.

  "Bang!" After a long time, I fell into the water again, and a strong impact hit me, making my internal organs almost shift. Fortunately, I fell into the water; if I had fallen on the shore, I would have been a pancake by now.

  I took a few big gulps of water, struggling to float up to the surface. Now the current is very fast and I don't know where it leads downstream, but I also dare not swim towards the shore, afraid of being found by those troops.

  Maybe it's better this way, I can just be swept away to a distant place, and then I'll use this opportunity to hide from them. Only: "Dad and mom, wait for little Chen, after the storm passes, little Chen will come back to see you, it's not that little Chen is unfilial."

  "There's also Xiaobai, Baimei Fu, I'm sorry to you all, the promise I made to you at first may not be fulfilled for now, but I swear, I will definitely come back to find you, wait for me! The river water is taking me away, but my heart is still tied to them."

  I don't know how long I've been soaking in the river water, but after a night of rushing river water, it finally slowed down. At this time, the sky was already bright, and my whole body had lost its sense of consciousness from soaking.

  Maybe it's safe now? Anyway, I have to get ashore, I'm not a water snake, if I keep soaking like this, I'll surely drown.

  So I no longer hesitated, and with a tired body, I swam towards the shore. But only then did I realize that this river had become so wide? When I fell in earlier, it seemed to be only tens of meters wide, but now it seems like several hundred meters wide.

  "What river is this after all, and where am I?" My heart was also hesitant, unsure of where the river water had brought me.

  As I thought, I swam towards the shore, but just then, another loud sound of water came, and I couldn't help but smile bitterly. In front of me was another embankment, and before I could reach the shore, I was washed away again.

  Once again I was struck, my head was already dizzy, the rapid water flow made my body uncontrollable, I had to grit my teeth and let it rush me away.

  It wasn't until several hours had passed that the water flow slowed down, and I looked around to find that it was a tributary river, and its width had also narrowed significantly. I immediately swam towards the shore.

  "Ah!" I let out a long sigh of relief as I crawled onto the shore, finally surfacing from the water. Turning my head to look at my body that had been soaked until it was somewhat pale, I couldn't help but feel a bitter smile in my heart, guessing that if I stayed in any longer, I'd probably rot away.

  "Roar!"

  Suddenly a beast's cry came from behind me, I was startled and immediately turned around to see that it was a dog bear staring at me with a fierce gaze.

  This bear dog is not very big, not as large as the Tibetan Mastiff Zhang Dekai raised last time. It's probably not a full-grown bear dog, maybe it saw me swimming up from the water and wanted to scare me away.

  I took a glance at it, not intending to bother with it. Now I'm so sleepy, but I didn't bother with it, yet it didn't intend to let me off either. Seeing that I was lying there motionless, it slowly walked towards me.

  "You scolded the one next door, I'm not bothering you, yet you still come over to find trouble with me? Do you really think I'm easy to bully? Seeing him coming over, my heart was on fire. Those guys chased me to this unknown place and this broken dog is also looking for trouble with me."

  "Hiss!" I immediately raised my head, spat at it, and tried to scare it away.

  But although I am bigger than other snakes, in the eyes of the dog bear, I am still a small fry, so my intimidation has no effect on it.

  Instead, it seemed to have enraged it, and with a sudden burst of speed, it charged towards me, wanting to slap me to death. I cursed loudly in my heart, "You ungrateful thing, sparing your life was not enough for you, now you come back to seek death? Fine, I'll grant your wish."

  As I saw it getting closer, I suddenly rushed up and bit its head with one mouth, then instantly flipped over and wrapped the snake's body around its belly.

  I've been soaked for over ten hours, and now I don't have much strength left, so I directly injected it with toxic liquid. It didn't take long to wrap it up, and I retreated to the side, watching it slowly die. Although the bear is powerful, for me, killing them isn't that difficult after all. Their speed is just too slow, let alone this guy who hasn't even reached adulthood yet.

  After it died, I crawled over, ripped open its belly and swallowed the bear's gall. I heard that bear's gall is very nourishing, and I just happened to need some nourishment at that time.

  After swallowing the snake's gallbladder, he tore off a few pieces of its flesh and swallowed them too. Then, he found a crevice in the rock and hid inside, slowly starting to breathe again.

  This vomiting and nausea is almost over by dusk, I feel that my body has recovered a lot, except for the injury caused by Old Hou's shock yesterday, my qi and blood have not fully recovered yet, but it's nothing serious.

  It wasn't until now that I had a chance to take in my surroundings, and it seemed like we were in a forest, with towering trees everywhere and thick layers of fallen leaves on the ground. Judging from the bear's appearance earlier, I could guess that this was an old forest - otherwise, there wouldn't be any brown bears around.

  I slowly crawled forward, wanting to see just how big this forest was. However, at that moment, a series of footsteps came, and since I had recovered quite a bit by now, I could sense the sound of people early on.

  But after a while, I was stunned again, as if there were two people, but next to them seemed to be following other things. These things had very light footsteps and extremely agile movements. What exactly were they?

  Never mind all that, I immediately found a dense thicket to hide in, because I heard them rushing towards this place.

  Sure, here is the translation:

  "Sure enough, after a while, I heard two people talking: "I'm telling you, Dogzi, you're not cheating me, are you? That thing is really in this forest?"

  Another person said, "Tǔ wá, don't you trust your sworn brother? We grew up together since childhood, sharing everything except our wives. If we can catch that bird, it'll be worth a lot of money!"