Chapter 651 - 668: Roger’s Gone?

Chapter 651: Chapter 668: Roger’s Gone?

Watching from the side, Bai Wanwan’s stomach churned, and she felt nauseous.

She had never imagined that Roger, a man she had always despised, would actually dare to turn on the Beast God at such a critical moment. His methods were ruthless and decisive, aimed directly at the Beast God’s fatal weakness!

However, the Beast God’s power was beyond imagination.

Although he was in pain, after his initial panic, he began to frantically mobilize his own power to resist the corrosion of the energy field.

Roger’s face grew paler and paler. The arm he used to maintain the Energy Stone’s output was trembling slightly, a clear sign he was reaching his limit.

Just at this critical moment, a figure cut into the battlefield as silently as a ghost. It was Fu Jinsen, who had been drawn by the energy fluctuations!

His goal was clear, and he had no intention of getting entangled in the fight. Seizing the perfect opportunity while the Beast God was preoccupied with Roger, his figure moved like lightning. He rushed to Bai Wanwan’s side, grabbed her by the waist, and prepared to pull her away from this dangerous place!

"Stop!" Seeing Jinying about to take Bai Wanwan away, Roger’s concentration faltered. He instinctively cried out to stop him, causing his control over the Energy Stone to waver for an instant.

And this minuscule flaw was keenly seized upon by the immensely experienced Beast God!

"ROAR! You think you can kill me with this? Not so easy!" The Beast God let out a deafening, crazed laugh as an even more violent Dark Energy erupted from his body, forcibly shattering the energy trap Roger had set for him!

Now free, the Beast God was like a wounded, ancient Fierce Beast. Burning with monstrous rage, he ignored the temporarily exhausted Roger and lunged directly at the retreating Jinying and Bai Wanwan!

"Watch out!" Jinying’s pupils contracted. He immediately pulled Bai Wanwan behind him and instantly engaged the heavily wounded but still incredibly ferocious Beast God in battle.

The explosive sounds of colliding energies rang out incessantly.

Even with the Beast God heavily injured and his power greatly diminished, Jinying knew he couldn’t defeat him in a short amount of time. He might even get bogged down and find himself in a perilous situation.

He fought as he retreated, his only thought to shake off his opponent as quickly as possible and get Wanwan away.

"None of you are getting away! You’re all going to die!" The Beast God, seemingly driven mad, attacked with increasing ferocity.

Just then, Roger, who had caught his breath slightly, had a flash of determination in his eyes.

He suddenly charged forward, using his own body to block the Beast God’s fatal blow aimed at Jinying and Bai Wanwan.

"SPURT!"

Roger spat out a large mouthful of blood, his body trembling violently. But he held his ground, roaring at Jinying, "Quick! Get her out of here! I... I can’t hold on for long!"

Jinying would have done so even without being told.

This was a chance bought with a life!

Jinying gave Roger a deep look and hesitated no longer. With a sudden feint, he forced the Beast God back half a step, then wrapped his arm tightly around Bai Wanwan. Pushing his speed to the absolute limit, he shot into the forest like an arrow loosed from a bowstring.

Behind them, Roger used the last of his strength. His voice, carrying a hint of relief and humble hope, pierced through the chaotic energy aftermath and drifted to them from afar:

"Bai Wanwan! In the future... when you think... of me... don’t... hate me..."

As Jinying carried her away at high speed, Roger’s broken words reached her ears.

Before she could even turn back for one last look, a world-shaking explosion roared from behind them!

BOOM!

The massive shockwave even caught up to them, shaking the trees in the forest.

Bai Wanwan and Jinying turned their heads at the same time. They saw that in the area they had just fled, a large swath of forest had been flattened by the violent energy, and a plume of dust and smoke shot into the sky.

When the smoke and dust cleared a little, they could vaguely see Roger lying motionless in the center of the blast, still and silent on the scorched earth, his fate unknown.

The Beast God also looked quite battered. He stood not far away, more of the pustules on his body having burst, and his aura was in disarray. It seemed he had also suffered greatly in the explosion just now.

He shot a vicious glare at the lifeless Roger on the ground, then raised his sinister gaze toward the direction Jinying and Bai Wanwan had fled, his eyes filled with unwillingness and killing intent.

But in the end, weighing the pros and cons, his self-preservation won out. He chose to temporarily suppress his anger, quickly turned, and vanished into the other side of the forest as a black shadow.

The crisis was temporarily averted, and Jinying immediately wanted to take Bai Wanwan further away.

But Bai Wanwan grabbed his hand. Thinking of Roger’s desperate, final stand and his last words, filled with humble hope, she felt a storm of conflicting emotions.

"That monster is gone... Let’s... let’s go back and check on Roger." ’If he isn’t dead, we should still try to save him.’

’If it weren’t for him this time, I wouldn’t have escaped so easily.’

Jinying looked at her, then scanned their surroundings, confirming that the Beast God had indeed gone far away.

The two of them quickly returned to the site of the explosion.

The smell of burnt energy still lingered in the air.

They didn’t have time to carefully examine Roger’s condition before Jinying’s keen senses detected a large number of presences approaching from the distance. It was clearly the Beast God’s Beast Army, beginning their search of the mountain!

"Let’s go!" Jinying made a swift decision. He hoisted Roger from the ground onto his shoulder, grabbed Bai Wanwan’s hand tightly with his other, and quickly disappeared into the dense mountain forest, searching for a safe hiding place.

Behind them, the Beast God’s furious roars echoed from afar, along with the clamor of countless members of the Beast Army stampeding, searching the mountain, and simultaneously attacking the Elephant Clan’s settlement.

The journey back was fraught with difficulty, burdened by their "dead weight" and the need to evade the search parties.

They carefully avoided one patrol after another.

Finally, just before nightfall, they found a hidden cave.

Once they were temporarily safe, Jinying said to Bai Wanwan, "We’ll stay in this cave. It’s relatively safe. I left some special markers along the way. Your Beast Husbands should be able to follow them and find us."

"Okay." Bai Wanwan nodded. After everything she had been through, she was mentally and physically exhausted.

After settling Bai Wanwan down, Jinying walked to a corner of the cave. He crouched down and reached out to check the pulse on Roger’s neck and for any sign of breath from his nose.

A moment later, he frowned and withdrew his hand. In a low voice, he informed Bai Wanwan, "He’s... not breathing."

Silence fell within the cave, broken only by the faint clamor from outside—a sound that symbolized turmoil and danger.

The cramped cave insulated them from the slaughter and chaos outside, leaving only the occasional crackle of the burning bonfire.

The light in the cave was dim. The flickering flames cast swaying shadows on the rock walls, elongating their figures until they intertwined.

Bai Wanwan sat on the dry moss Jinying had laid out for her. Exhaustion, which had been washing over her like a tide, came to a sudden halt when she heard Jinying’s words. Her body froze.

’Roger... is gone?’

’They say the wicked live long, and he was always causing trouble in my life.’

’But I never thought he would be gone just like that...’

Unable to stop herself, she stood up and staggered over to Roger’s side.

Only then did she notice that Roger’s face had already started to turn a bluish color.

And her heart didn’t feel relieved at all. Instead, it felt heavy.