Chapter Twenty-Five: The Heart of Yaoguang

On the escalator of the energy pipeline, Fox Fire stood with a knife in his hand, swooping down like a monster of a giant flying squirrel.

A smile crossed Foxfire's face, and she untied the headband that bound her hair, her long red hair flying freely in the air, reflecting the red flash of the blade, and her whole person was as bright as a burning flame.

The monster screamed and rushed in front of the foxfire, the huge wind force had blown her away from the escalator, and she jumped into the air with her feet.

When the monster saw the fox fire floating into the air, it thought it had succeeded, and then opened its wings, and its huge claws swung from both sides like black scythes.

Foxfire saw the timing and raised his sword to attack as his claws were closed. The monster missed and struck, opening its long mouth full of sharp fangs and trying to tear the villain in front of it to pieces.

"Just in time!" The fox roared, holding the hilt of the knife with both hands, and the flame energy on the knife body suddenly skyrocketed. Before the knife arrived, the scorching breath had torn the monster's flesh and skin.

The monster was in pain, flapping its wings desperately, and wanted to retreat, but the impact was too strong, and it froze in the air for a while.

The fox fire didn't give the monster a chance to retreat, and the flame short knife pierced the monster's jaw with a "poof", and then pierced directly through the upper jaw without stopping.

Suddenly, blood splattered, and the monster writhed and struggled, trying to scream, but it was blocked by the short knife that pierced it, and it could only make a "woo, woo" sound from its throat.

"Hmph, it's not interesting to beg for mercy, I'm just a little interested just now!" Foxfire's eyes flashed blood, and the flaming blade slashed directly from the monster's mouth all the way down its abdomen.

The monster wailed, blood and internal organs pouring out of the wound in its abdomen, and soon fell to the ground like a kite with a broken string.

Seeing that their companions had died, several other monsters in the air rushed towards the fox fire frantically.

The fox fire twisted its body in mid-air, and with the wind pressure of the monster's flapping wings, the short knife came out of its hand, and the sharp blade directly pierced the wings of a monster. The monster's wings were damaged, and it slammed straight down the escalator.

Ning Yu's eyes were quick, and the long sword froze the monster that had not yet landed into an ice sculpture, and with a "snap", the monster smashed onto the escalator and shattered into powder.

"Let's start dancing!" Fox Fire caught the short knife falling from the air, and one spun onto the back of another monster.

"It's over." The fox fire stood on the monster's back, the crimson sword flashed, and the monster's two pairs of wings were immediately separated from the body, and the monster that could hover in the air one second turned into a falling meteor the next second.

The monster fell to the ground, and Foxfire took advantage of the opportunity to return to the escalator.

"Whew, I'm sweating a little." Foxfire put away the dagger.

"How do I train to be as good as you guys?" Chen Lingfeng held the handle of the knife given to him by the fox fire in his hand and tried again, but still no blade popped out. Looking at the abilities of Fox Fire and Ning Yu, he longed for the awakening of the so-called beast body cells in his body for the first time.

"Ah, if you want to learn so much, my sister can teach you one-on-one." Fox Huo regained his indecent expression and began to move his hands up and down Chen Lingfeng's body.

"Okay, okay, you're always messing around with other people, do you want me to tell him how old you are?" Ning Yu stretched out two fingers and pushed the fox fire's body away from Chen Lingfeng's side.

"Don't say it, don't say it!" Fox Fire hurriedly covered Ning Yu's mouth, remembering to stomp his feet.

"Then hurry up and give me a walk." Ning Yu grabbed Foxfire's arm and turned her around.

The trio continued to walk up the escalator, and after an unknown amount of time, they finally came to the end of the pipe, in front of a large black wall.

A one-man tall metal door connects the escalator to the wall, and the energy pipes continue along the bottom of the wall.

Foxfire tried to push down the metal door, but there was no response, she simply took out a short knife and opened a hole in the door, and the three of them finally officially entered the No. 3 slum.

The trio entered through the metal door in an underground passage, with dim lights shining from the roof of the passage, perhaps because of the late night, no vehicles passed on the road in the passage.

Walking along the road, the three of them soon came to the exit of the passage, and with the sporadic flickering lights, Chen Lingfeng was able to get a glimpse of the world.

It's an industrial realm crisscrossed by pipes, the ground is covered with black oil, the soil has been eroded, and the vegetation has long since ceased to grow. From time to time, the staggered pipes roared, recklessly emitting exhaust gases into the air. A pungent smell of industrial gas hit, and Chen Lingfeng, who was choking, coughed again and again.

Chen Lingfeng only felt that the slums he had seen on TV in the past were thousands of times better than those here.

"This... Will it really be inhabited? Chen Lingfeng covered his mouth and coughed.

"Yes, or no, if you're willing to call them human." Ning Yu frowned and said meaningfully.

Suddenly, a dazzling pale green light flashed, and Chen Lingfeng, who was shaking, couldn't open his eyes.

"Every time I see this, it's like seeing the fire that the demon breathes." Ning Yu had a little anger in his tone.

Chen Lingfeng followed her line of sight, and a tall black tower in the distance was spraying a pillar of pale green light into the sky, a huge bright light illuminating everything, and the pillar of light soared straight into the sky, which was very spectacular.

"What is this?"

"That is the lifeblood of the entire Yaoguang City, known as the energy mine of the heart of Yaoguang, here is the No. 3 slum, and that tower is the No. 3 crystal furnace." Foxfire looked at the bright light in the distance, and a trace of melancholy flashed in his eyes, as if he remembered some bad memories.

"Our destination is right there, and a lot of energy is concentrated there." Ning Yu looked at the pillar of light that was gradually beginning to extinguish.

"That's right, it's on... Without waiting for the fox fire to finish speaking, Ning Yu glanced at her, signaling that something was coming, and quickly hid first.

The three of them immediately went to hide behind a stone wall at the entrance of the passage.

"Stop! Dare to escape from the mine, you are not bored. The shouts came from far and near.

A lame figure struggled to run down the road, followed by two uniformed men with weapons in hand.

Then the lame man tripped and fell to the ground, and was about to be caught.

Ning Yu and Fox Fire flashed out from behind the stone wall, and before the uniformed men could speak, they ended their lives.

Chen Lingfeng also walked out from behind the stone wall, and when he got closer, he found out the reason for this person's lameness. It turned out that it was not a leg disability at all, but that the person's lower limbs had mutated, and one leg had turned into a beast form, resulting in lameness caused by loss of balance in the legs.

"That's what I said there are living people here, but look what you call them." Ning Yu lifted the beast-legged man up from the ground.

"Who are you?" The beast-legged man apparently couldn't believe that he could still meet intact and living humans in the slums.

"We're just like you, warriors, warriors of Project Firefly!" Ning Yu looked at the man's eyes and said solemnly.