"Wait a minute, I will try my best to contain the Land Shark. Lotkar, turn around and run in the direction the Land Shark is coming from. We are looking for a sand-carrying ship. Prick up your ears and listen to the roaring engine in the desert."
Lotkar nodded breathlessly. Yang Yu took out a bundle of ropes, tied a heavy object to one end, and threw it to Iyas.
"Iyas, wait a minute, find a way to tie this rope around Lotkar's neck."
Iyas, who was near Lotkar's neck, nodded.
"I just happen to have a good idea. Look at me, Lotkar, and cooperate with me."
Iyas tied one end of the rope to the bow and shot it at the sand in front of her. Lotkar lifted the rope with his front feet, and the rope flew up with the wind and returned to Iyas's hand. Iyas tied the rope steadily.
Yang Yu handed the remaining part of the rope to Bai Jin.
"Bai Jin, you don't have much magic power available right now, so you must use it sparingly. Now use it to cool down Lotkar. I'll give you the rope now. You can put it down when I ask you to."
Holding the rope that Yang Yu handed to her, Bai Jin looked at Yang Yu worriedly.
"You won't do anything rash, will you? We can't deal with a monster like that. If something happens..."
"Don't you know what kind of person I am?"
"Let's make a deal, you must not do anything rash. If you dare to die, even if you become a spirit, I will find you and curse you for the rest of your life."
"Then please show some mercy."
Yang Yu took a few bottles of medicine from the system and distributed them to Bai Jin, asking her to use them when her magic power was exhausted. Then he said to all his companions:
"Land Shark, normal attacks won't work on him. He has thick skin and tough flesh. He has been with me for so long, you know what skills to use."
After saying that, Yang Yu tapped Lotkar's back gently, signaling him to slow down.
Bai Jin's pure white magic circle unfolded in Lothcar. The ice and snow that appeared instantly injected a lot of vitality into Lothcar, and the heat under his feet also decreased a little.
Jumping off Lotkar's back, the soft sand covered half of Yang Yu's soles. He took a deep breath, the hot air burned his lungs, and a sense of depression descended on Yang Yu.
Taking out a shield and a sword from the system, and putting the sword on his waist, Yang Yu looked at the black shark fin approaching them from afar.
Lotkar stopped running, used inertia to skillfully swing his hind limbs, drew a semicircle, and faced the approaching shark fin.
The shark fin sank again, and Lotkar's keen hearing caught the "buzzing" sound of the sand.
"Here it comes, right down there!"
As soon as Lotkar finished speaking, the sand under their feet sank down, as if sucked into a whirlpool. Bai Jin moved his hand away from Lotkar's back and aimed it in front of him. He increased his strength and froze a piece of ice. Lotkar stepped on this only foothold and jumped to the right, thus avoiding being sucked into the whirlpool formed by the sand.
While Yang Yu was still in the whirlpool, the ice created by Bai Jin was shattered into pieces by Lothkar's step. In the rotating whirlpool, Yang Yu had no way to find a foothold on the rapidly melting ice blocks.
The vortex spun faster and faster, and the sharp teeth of the fierce land shark appeared on the sand.
"Bai Jin, the rope."
Hearing Yang Yu's cry, Bai Jin threw out all the ropes in her hands. Yang Yu grabbed the ropes that had not yet loosened. Lotkar ran forward quickly and dragged Yang Yu out of the mouth of the Liebiting Land Shark with one force.
The Land Shark jumped out from the desert and bit a lonely object. Tons of sand poured out from its gills. Suddenly, the yellow sand rolled. The Land Shark's lizard-like forelimbs slammed heavily on the sand, splashing bursts of yellow sand.
"[Intercept]"
Loosening his grip slightly and letting the rope slide quickly from his hands, Yang Yu unfolded an illusory shield in front of him to block the crackling sand.
As Lotkar ran, the ropes were quickly reduced in circles. The rope that Yang Yu took out was a thousand meters long, but it was too short to deal with this situation.
Time was limited, so Yang Yu simply let go of his hand, pulled out the sword from his waist, and stabbed it into the ground.
"[Bound by Thorns]"
Large patches of thorns grew out of the desert and tightened on the tough skin of the Garchomp. With a little force from the Garchomp, the thorns crumbled away.
Garchomp raised its lizard-like claws and slapped towards Yang Yu. Yang Yu raised his shield above his head and used [Shield Block]. The heavy force made Yang Yu's feet sink deeper into the desert, but Yang Yu was still safe and sound.
Seeing that his attack failed to slam Yang Yu into the sand, Land Shark twisted its body and opened its bloody mouth towards Yang Yu.
Yang Yu took a deep breath, and a black curse fell on Garchomp's body. Garchomp felt that his defense suddenly dropped a few points. At this moment, a cloud-piercing arrow drew a golden arc in the sky and violently pierced Garchomp's claws.
The damage caused by Bai Jin's [Armor Corrosion] combined with Iyas's [Hunter's Mark] and [Fatal Shot] was not high, but Iyas's attack was like a steel needle piercing into the fingernails of Liebite Lu Shark, causing it to feel terrible.
Garchomp subconsciously raised his hand. Taking this opportunity, Yang Yu pulled his legs out of the sand and used [Double-Sided Slash]. A red light flashed across his hand, absorbing his life force and coating his sword with an orange light. Yang Yu slashed at Garchomp's palm not far away.
The attack had little effect, dealing only a few hundred points of damage, which was too humble for the Tyrannosaurus Rex whose health points exceeded ten thousand.
However, this slowed down the speed of the Land Shark's turning around. It planned to use its sharp claws to crush Yang Yu, and then change direction to kill Lotkar and the others first, and then come back to slowly enjoy Yang Yu.
This was exactly what Yang Yu wanted. The body structure and living habits of the Land Shark meant that it could not turn at high angles in the sand like a gyroscope.
If you want to make a 180-degree turn, you either have to go a little further like a passenger plane or a ship, slowly adjust the route, and eventually complete a 180-degree turn and return; or you have to get out of the ground and use your strong limbs to make a 180-degree turn on the spot.
The price of having high speed in the desert is that you cannot be nimble.
If Lotkar's physical strength had not to be taken into consideration, Yang Yu could even have asked Lotkar to run back and forth continuously to torture Land Shark and drain all of Land Shark's remaining physical strength.
Now, Lotkar and his companions were running farther and farther away, so it was naturally impossible for the Land Shark to burrow into the ground and adjust its route bit by bit. Instead, it would use its limbs to complete the rotation on the spot like land animals.
In other words, if we can delay the speed of the Land Shark turning around, we can buy more time.
(End of this chapter)