Chapter 25: Life and Death Separation (2)

  The mouse fell into the water hole and let out a pained squeak, followed by a fierce splash and more pained squeaks as it struggled. Zhang Fan stopped his hand that was about to throw the second wooden board, wondering if there was something in the water attacking the mouse. He crouched down and shone the light from his wristwatch onto the water's surface. Under the light, some silvery-white, strange small fish caught Zhang Fan's attention. Their fine scales shimmered with a silvery sheen, and their bodies were really beautiful - if they didn't have an oversized head that was more than half the size of their body, they would be a pretty decent-looking species. But they just so happened to have an enormous mouth, and Zhang Fan could see the sharp, pointed teeth in the fish's mouth as it opened and closed, making him wonder if being bitten by such teeth would make him lose a few chunks of flesh.

  Zhang Fan searched his mind for the fish species he had seen before and related knowledge, but couldn't identify what kind of fish this was. The mouse that had just been kicked into the water, wasn't it buried in their belly? With the lesson from the previous mouse, Zhang Fan didn't dare to make any sudden movements. He turned around, searched the cave again, and when he returned to the edge of the pool, his hands were holding several more mice. Throwing one of the mice into the pool, the water immediately churned up, and a patch of bloody water spread out from where the mouse had fallen in.

  Damn, they are really piranhas. Luckily I didn't plan to get in the water, or else today would be a show. But don't worry, fish are alive and people are alive too. Of course, adding a few cute chubby mice would make it even better.

  Zhang Fan threw a fat mouse with one hand, and then immediately threw a wooden board out. The mouse was thrown closer to the water's edge, while the wooden board was thrown more than ten meters away. Then, the second wooden board was also thrown out, this time between the first wooden board and the opposite bank. When the fish in the water began to scramble for the mouse, Zhang Fan jumped onto the first wooden board with a swift motion, using the buoyancy of the first wooden board to quickly shift his body weight onto the second wooden board.

  Zhang Fan's approach was quite adventurous, but he bet on his own physical exertion and martial arts skills. If it were someone else, they might not have dared to use two wooden boards to support their weight, relying on buoyancy to move themselves onto another board until they jumped ashore.

  As Zhang Fan was still in mid-air, he could already hear the sound of the old mouse splashing into the water behind him. Originally, Zhang Fan had prepared three wooden boards, so that when he landed, he could save some physical strength and be safer. However, at the beginning, the first board was wasted by Zhang Fan, and now he only had two boards left to borrow force from. At the same time as throwing out the board, Zhang Fan also estimated how far he could jump. After all, he was a human being, not an immortal, and there were many things that he couldn't do. For example, he could only borrow force to jump, and couldn't fly over like in martial arts stories.

  When he stepped onto the second wooden board, Zhang Fan threw out the last mouse in his hand towards his back. Although his body was a bit unstable, Zhang Fan quickly adjusted his balance in mid-air and jumped again. However, this time it wasn't as smooth, Zhang Fan was a bit out of breath, and ended up falling down when he was still several centimeters away from the shore.

  Zhang Fan just happened to fall into the water, and he could even feel the piranhas swimming against his pants. If it weren't for the mouse he had lost attracting their attention, Zhang Fan was certain that his legs would now be covered in countless piranhas. Climbing out of the water at top speed, Zhang Fan still had a lingering fear, this time he had been extremely lucky, if he had accidentally fallen in, poor Ouni, who else would play the hero to rescue the stranded princess?

  Leaving the water pit, Zhang Fan arrived at the entrance where he had escaped from the base last time. Perhaps because Zhang Fan's escape had damaged the base's ground surface, they chose a more stringent security measure to reinforce the hole. As far as Zhang Fan could see, the scene had been cleaned up. The hole was not made of concrete blocks, but a specially-made steel plate. Zhang Fan knocked on it with his hand and couldn't help but sigh. This kind of steel is usually used for bulletproofing, and even with his strong abilities, he couldn't cut through the steel plate with wind power.

  There was no way for Zhang Fan to do anything but wander around the cave, looking for any possible opportunities. Fortunately, there were no more strange creatures appearing in the cave now, and it was very likely that those mutated mice and man-eating fish were set up by the people in the base for safety considerations. They all only had a certain range of activity, when Zhang Fan left at first, there were only carnivorous rats, but when Zhang Fan explored the base again, a pool of man-eating fish appeared.

  Zhang Fan continued to tap along the cave, and because the entrance of the cave was very low, Zhang Fan had been crouching all the time. After crawling forward for nearly ten meters, Zhang Fan finally straightened his waist, and his hand also touched a metallic texture, which should be an iron plate. Zhang Fan explored around the iron plate with his hands. This iron plate was on the wall of the cave, and when he reached down, he could feel many shattered stones. It seemed that during construction, they had not noticed the thickness of the cave and had broken through the wall and the cave. However, they were unaware of this. Or maybe they knew, but in order to avoid trouble, they pretended not to know. But this oversight brought great benefits to Zhang Fan.

  With the iron plate, there must be a place to combine, as long as you find such a place and use force. Then successfully entering the base won't be that difficult of a thing. Things developed very smoothly, right where the cave wall was close to the ground, Zhang Fan discovered the connection point between the iron plate and the concrete floor.

  Good luck, clenching his fists, Zhang Fan let out a muffled roar in his heart and suddenly struck his fist towards that place! This punch could be said to have concentrated all his strength on one point, even producing a sharp whistling sound! ——If someone were standing in front of him now, they would definitely be punched through by him!

  A dull thud, and a crack appeared where the iron plate met the concrete. Zhang Fan's punch was quite clever; if he had hit the iron plate directly, it would have made a loud "clang" sound, and even if he managed to make a hole in it, he might have seen a group of people holding guns staring at him menacingly on the other side. But his fist happened to land below the joint, on what looked like solid concrete!