At this moment, if someone were to crouch here and measure everyone's running speed, they would probably break records one by one.

Dennis discovered for the first time that his physical fitness was actually this good. His two legs seemed to no longer be his own, swinging so fast they were almost flying.

Professor Linton, who had the dual characteristics of being "old" and "disabled", hadn't been using his wooden crutch for long before he felt his collar tighten and his feet no longer touching the ground.

Shen Lan, who was passing by him, decisively grabbed him and, relying on his tall and strong physique, carried the old man like a handbag, running up the slope for several hundred meters without even panting.

Only after everyone climbed over the slope did they discover that below was a vast area of grass and trees. Due to the heavy night, they could only see the outlines of the slender and tall grass and trees swaying slightly in the wind.

Like the trees in this world, they had an abnormal height. This was definitely not a modern grassland where people could step on it. The grass here was as far as the eye could see, each blade more than half a person's height, even taller than those by the shallow depressions of the wetland before. It was unknown whether it was due to the lack of tall trees blocking the sunlight and the abundant sunshine all day long.

When looking down from the top of the slope, one could vaguely see patches of mottled black shadows among the vast grassland.

However, the rapidly advancing troops behind prompted Xia Chuan and the others to have no way to look carefully or think too much. They could only run down the slope along the hillside and into the grass and trees that were more than half a person's height.

Fortunately, these grasses and trees were relatively soft and did not cut people as easily as the shrubs. Except for affecting vision, they did not pose much of an obstacle to the running group, especially when there were extraordinary people in the team - Shen Lan, with his hearing more than 30 times that of ordinary people, ran at the forefront.

Although the mottled shadows seen on the slope were not clear, everyone could guess what they were. Most of them were probably herbivorous dinosaurs and other creatures inhabiting this vast grassland. As for the remaining small portion... it was hard to say.

No one was willing to come into conflict with these creatures of unknown danger in the near-blind night, including Shen Lan, whose eyesight was not very good. So, according to the various large and small movements he heard, he nimbly avoided those creatures in the grass.

What Xia Chuan and the others had to do was to closely follow Shen Lan's steps, not fall behind, and not run astray.

When there was a problem in the sea, no matter how high and unstoppable the waves were, there was a range of impact. However, this time, the giant beasts living in the coastal forest smelled something unusual. They didn't care how far the waves could reach, whether it would submerge most of the dense forest or the entire area.

They just ran desperately towards the direction away from the sea, rushing through the shrubs and the uneven wetlands all the way, but showed no signs of stopping. Instead, they continued up the slope and then down, heading straight for the main camp of the herbivores.

The thunderous footsteps were getting closer and closer.

With such a big commotion, except for the dead ones, all the creatures lying in the grass and trees were disturbed. In an instant, the entire grassland was stirred into a pot of porridge, with roars one after another. Necks and heads of varying heights protruded from the grass, with the largest necks comparable in length to Brachiosaurus.

Most of the smaller ones reacted first. In order to avoid being hit by the large troops, they immediately started running in the same direction, while the huge ones were relatively clumsy and reacted a little slower.

Those fierce beasts rushing out of the forest, one by one, had a shockingly large impact force and biting force when they fought. At this time, in order to escape the disaster, they couldn't brake at all, knocking down those clumsy guys who didn't dodge in time, making them fall over with their four feet in the air. It made the entire grassland tremble from time to time.

If Shen Lan had four shoulders, he might have directly carried Xia Chuan and the others on his shoulders and walked away. Unfortunately, he only had two shoulders and two hands in total, and he had to carry a lame old man. He could only try his best to control the speed within the range that Xia Chuan and the others could keep up with.

So, as they watched, the dinosaur troops were about to catch up.

"Oh my god! The dinosaurs behind me are breathing down my heels!" Dennis, who was at the end of the line, suddenly cried out.

His words were meant to be exaggerated, but unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking, the dinosaur that was originally dozens of meters away from him was really catching up. If it took two more steps, it could lower its head and take Dennis into its mouth.

At that moment, Dennis was so scared that his heart was about to stop.

Hearing this, Xia Chuan in the front reached for the dagger at his waist while running, decisively drawing it out of its sheath, ready to turn back and save Dennis in an emergency.

But just then, another bright light streaked down from the night sky. This time, it was no longer on the horizon, but almost falling right above their heads.

That thing was extremely fast. In the blink of an eye, it was wrapped in orange-yellow flames, accompanied by a howling wind, and "boom" it crashed into the grassland not far ahead.

The impact force was so great that it was astonishing, stirring up dust and dirt. The heat directly blew away the dinosaurs closest to it, and when they rolled to the ground, they had already become huge corpses with flames all over their bodies.

The dust floated in the air, and the air in this entire area was heated to an extremely high temperature. The fire quickly spread on the slightly drier ground, and those slender and soft grasses and trees, which were more than half a person's height, could not withstand the burning at all. There was a tendency for the fire to spread across the entire area.

Dennis only felt that the dinosaur behind him, which was about to step on him, suddenly stopped, howled, and turned to run in the direction away from the fireball from the sky. As a result, it collided with the huge dinosaur behind it that didn't react in time, causing a huge mess.

But avoiding being trampled into a meat pie by a dinosaur was not something to be thankful for, because they also had to immediately change direction.

Shen Lan, who was in the lead, was going too fast and almost couldn't stop, nearly plunging into the sea of fire. He was most afraid of this kind of dry and hot environment. He instantly made a sharp turn, leading Xia Chuan and the others in a mad dash in the other direction.

Seeing such a scene with one's own eyes was supposed to be shocking, but they didn't have time to be stunned. The only one who could be slightly dumbfounded was Professor Linton, who didn't rely on his own legs.

However, after being dazed for a long time, the old man could only repeat the same sentence over and over again: "There's no way to live like this! No way to live!"

Despite being agitated in body and mind by the heat wave, Shen Lan didn't actually lose his sense of direction while constantly turning around. After circling several times, his overall route still skirted the spreading sea of flames as he ran towards the previously determined northwest direction.

However, they soon discovered that this meteorite that had abruptly crashed in front of them was merely the beginning...