It turned out that Wei Ci had just been making noises in the east and west, using his attacks to attract their attention, while he took the opportunity to dive into the water and escape.
"Chase!"
The knife-wielding killer said coldly, his tone full of anger.
It was clear that at the last moment, the target had no way to escape. All he had to do was capture him and take him away to complete the mission and even make a great contribution. However, he did not expect that a momentary relaxation of vigilance would lead to complications and the target would escape again.
"Hmph, it's impossible for him to swim across such a wide river. I don't believe he can stay in the water and chase along the river bank!"
Another killer holding a sword looked at the raging river with a gloomy expression.
After thinking about it, he added with a sneer: "Don't show up by the river again, run through the jungle, hide yourself, let this kid think we have left, wait for him to sneak ashore and then catch him."
The two killers looked at each other, nodded to each other, and chased downstream while staring at the river.
Only when Wei Ci entered the water did he truly feel how fast the river was.
The turbid river water was filled with thick sediment, making it impossible for him to open his eyes, and he could only use his mental power to observe his surroundings.
He immediately took off the arm guards on his shoulders and put them into the Sumeru space to prevent himself from sinking into the mud at the bottom of the water. Then, he silently exercised his power and activated the Gu sleep technique to control the aura throughout his body.
As the breath holding technique started to work, his range of movements also became smaller, and he began to float and sink with the water.
The two killers on the shore suddenly realized something was wrong.
The breath in the water became weaker and weaker, and there were faint signs of being out of the control of the two.
The two had different ideas about this.
"This kid is probably entangled by a powerful beast in the water. It seems that he will definitely die without us doing anything. I don't know if the body can be recovered."
The killer holding a long knife said that Wei Ci's ability to escape was beyond his imagination.
At this moment, he witnessed the other party being buried in the water with his own eyes, and there were people around him who testified that even if he could not get the mission reward, he had completed the mission and had no merit. He still remembered the order from above: no matter life or death!
Thinking of this, he looked at the other killer beside him.
As fellow disciples from the same sect but from different lines, although the opponent's strength is only slightly stronger than his own, he has always respected the strong in practice, and he has always taken this person as his leader along the way.
After hearing his words, the killer put the long sword in his hand back into the scabbard and said: "The breath has become weaker. It may be that he has some kind of breath-condensing technique that prevents us from sensing it!"
After saying that, he ordered: "You continue to stare, I will go to the front and take a look!"
The water was swift and turbid, and neither of them could tell where Wei Ci was in the water.
If they were too slow, Wei Ci might drift away with the current and escape. But if they were too fast, Wei Ci might sneak ashore and slip away.
Chasing in tandem to prevent Wei Ci from sneaking ashore is indeed the best way at the moment.
The knife-wielding killer nodded, acknowledging his words, and the two of them continued to chase downstream, one quickly and one slowly.
Wei Ci was performing Gu sleep magic in the water, and his body was floating up and down like a wooden stake. With the help of the radiated spiritual power, he sensed that the two killers had distanced themselves from him, but they had not completely disappeared.
The current crisis has been resolved for the time being, but new problems have also arisen.
How to get ashore?
The current was too fast, and he felt that he was getting further and further away from the shore, and the breath he had held before entering the water was almost exhausted.
If he doesn't come ashore quickly, he may continue to drift with the current, and it's unclear where he will eventually be drifted.
But even if he wanted to get ashore now, it would be difficult. Although he had swimming experience in his previous life, there was nowhere to borrow strength in the water, and the force of the current was too strong. Even if he got ashore, he was still not sure whether the two people had really left.
Moreover, what worries him the most is that from the time he entered the water until now, he has been faintly aware of several faintly powerful auras deep in the water.