Jenkins couldn't hear what the sealed person said next because the location was too far away. Now he activated [Cat's Elegance] and ran up quickly, but at this speed it was still impossible to run out before being destroyed here.
It took a lot of time to go down the spiral stone steps. Even if Jenkins had the time to observe the murals, it is impossible to run to the end in a minute now.
This time may be the first time that Jenkins has fully exerted the power of [Cat's Grace]. Later, he completely abandoned the suitcase and ran directly on the wall on all fours.
There's nothing "elegant" about such a move, but it does look a lot like a cat. He must not be buried here. Although he will not die, it may take several months to be dug out.
I don't know if it is the full-scale operation of [Cat's Elegance], which can allow Jenkins to obtain the cat's sense of danger at the same time. During the run, he actually felt the danger in the distance, and at this moment, he didn't even have time to vibrate the pocket watch chain.
In less than a second, the seismic wave from the ground swept everything, and there were crackling sounds from all over the passage.
The collapse started 11 seconds after the first vibration, and Jenkins wasn't even halfway there. Gravel was thrown from above, and the entire passage seemed to be shrinking inward.
After he tried to sense the [real phantom] again but got no results, he waved his hand and smashed the stone above his head, but was immediately crushed by the boulders that came one after another. At the last moment of being completely buried, he resolutely swallowed the mouse-turned candy obtained from the candy giver.
Afterwards, the body began to heat up terribly, and from the outside to the inside, the clothes, everything in the pockets, skin, and bones shrank inward together. The unbearable pain even made Jenkins briefly unconscious for a few seconds, and after waking up, the gray Jenkins immediately flew upwards.
But this behavior was only delayed for more than ten seconds. As the progress of the tunnel collapse continued to expand, more and more gravel flew down from higher places. The supernatural power attached to the tunnel itself is working hard to maintain the shape of the tunnel itself, but doing so is only delaying the final time of its destruction.
"Oh, it looks like I'm for real this time..."
Before he finished sighing, in front of the little gray mouse, an agile shadow rolled down from above. The cat opened its mouth wide, and threw the younger mouse onto its back. After confirming that Mr. Mouse's little paws had grasped its hair, it walked up the passage at a faster speed.
"Squeak~"
(chocolate~)
Jenkins, who was riding a cat, suddenly wanted to cry. He never thought that one day he would be rescued by a cat as a mouse. But this speed is still not enough, not enough at all. Not only can the rescue cat not be able to take away the underground mice, but it may also kill itself.
But this was just Jenkins' own thoughts. While moving quickly, he noticed two fluttering golden hairs behind Chocolate's ears, and one of them disappeared suddenly.
The moment the hair disappeared, the surrounding scene began to distort, and all matter disappeared. A cat and a mouse are wrapped in rich black, and the temperature of their bodies is absorbed by this space at an extremely fast speed.
"Shadow Shuttle!"
Jenkins recognized this extremely advanced ability as a means of teleporting himself into the Shadow Plane, and then back to the physical world from the Shadow Plane, in order to achieve fast travel. Its learning threshold is very low, but it is extremely dangerous to use. If the user is not paying attention, he may be left in the Shadow Realm forever, and even the corpse cannot be found.
As if breaking out of the water, the cat and mouse returned to the warm underground again. The current position is the abandoned mine road before entering the underground stone steps, and the boulder blocking the road has also collapsed due to the earthquake, so Chocolate quickly ran out along the exposed tunnel.
It seems to know the way, without hesitation at all forks. They even passed the miners who were also escaping from the earthquake. The men looked at the kitten running from deep underground in surprise, and what was even more surprising was that the cat was carrying a panicked gray mouse on its body.
The chocolate didn't stop after it came out of the mine. Outside the mine was a suburban mine in the northeast of Nolan, and the cat came straight out of the mine. Facing the moonlight, they passed the farmlands that collapsed due to the earthquake, the rural towns with collapsed houses, the suburbs of Nolan wrapped in thick fog, and the people who ran to the streets to avoid the earthquake.
Many people noticed the cat running wildly and the mouse on its back, and began to suspect that it was an illusion caused by the earthquake.
"Meow~"
Chocolate ran until it reached the main entrance of the Church of the Sages before stopping, and let out a panting cry. But instead of letting Jenkins get off his back, it ran straight into the temple, and the guards at the gate knew the cat. Although it seemed strange to have a mouse hanging on his body, it didn't stop him.
The earthquake just now seemed to be very violent, and the priests and nuns in the church were preparing to go out to rescue the disaster. The cat ran through the crowd, causing exclamations, and finally arrived at the door of Miss Bevanna's office.
The door was not closed tightly, revealing a gap, through which the chocolate nimbly slipped in.
In the office, Miss Bevanna was standing by her desk, and the big book she always carried began to turn pages at an extremely fast frequency. The golden sheen of divine magic flashed on the woman's hands and the cover of the book, and the light even overshadowed the light of the gas lamp.
Hearing the sound of the door, she frowned and looked forward, then was startled by the chocolate that suddenly jumped onto the desk. Chocolate stepped on the pages of her book very rudely, so that book can no longer be turned.
"Meow~"
The cat made a melodious sound.
"Jenkins is already here, isn't he? Bless the sage, it's good that nothing happened to him, but today's fighting class..."
She was halfway through when she saw the malnourished mouse on the cat's back.
The mouse seemed to be out of breath, fell off the chocolate's back and staggered down on the table. The cat immediately pressed its paw on it, as if playing with the [Life Orb], and pushed the poor mouse around with its paw.
"Is it for me? Sorry, chocolate, I don't like mice."
Miss Bevanna declined very tactfully.
"Meow~"
Chocolate yelled again, and once again patted the mouse that was about to run away in a panic, and even stuck out its tongue to lick it.