Chapter 395 Emergency Rescue
The moment he saw the huge crack, Zheng Zhi took a breath of cold air. At the same time, he did not forget Yu Sheng's previous reminder to "report immediately if you see anything wrong", and shouted on the spot: "I saw it! The tall tower in front has cracked! It's the same as the one in Qianfeng Lingshan!"
However, before he could finish his words, the huge crack that stretched from sky to earth suddenly disappeared from his sight, and the horrifying and strange scene just now was like a dream that ended suddenly.
The group suddenly stopped, and Yu Sheng turned around and looked at Zheng Zhi: "Another rift? How big is it? What's the state?"
Zheng Zhi also stopped and stared at the towering silhouette of the refining tower in the rain in the distance in astonishment. His expression suddenly became a little helpless: "Uh, it suddenly disappeared again... It only appeared for a few seconds."
A flash of lightning suddenly streaked across the sky, and the sudden bright light illuminated a part of the magnificent structure on the side of the ancient refining tower. Yu Sheng subconsciously turned his head to look at the tower, and saw its hazy silhouette in the rain. The illuminated part seemed to come alive, shaking in the dim sky.
The next second, before Zheng Zhi had time to think about the crack that he had just seen but suddenly disappeared, he smelled a bloody odor coming from nearby - very close, very strong, even he could smell it.
At this time, the group had completely left the last prosperous area on the edge of the city and entered an abandoned area next to the former mining facilities. The smell came from an old building nearby.
Yu Sheng walked in front with Irene in his arms, and was the first to step into this maze-like building complex connected by a large number of giant pipes, transmission cables and mechanical tracks.
Towering industrial facilities surround the mountain-like refining towers. The mechanical devices that once rumbled loudly are now silent in the eternal rainy season in this equatorial region. Those dark factories and giant mechanical structures are like huge skeletons, washed away by the rain, silent and empty.
Yu Sheng knew that there were such buildings everywhere around the refining towers surrounding Mo City. They were supporting facilities for the former spiritual ore mining, refining, and rough processing. However, after the mining projects were gradually stopped, these huge and complex old factories were difficult to demolish or convert to other uses. Therefore, except for a small number of them that were transformed into tourist projects, most of the urban areas adjacent to the refining towers have become "rust zones" on the edge of Mo City.
Apart from the automatically operated mechanical devices that periodically come to check whether the infrastructure of these urban areas is stable, these areas seem to have been completely forgotten.
"Radar, there is a response."
Luna said in a low voice, then suddenly bent down, opened the weapon compartment on her leg from the hem of her nun's dress, and equipped her ten fingers with sharp blades.
The tail behind Hu Li slowly rose up, and she looked up at a distance not far away. A gleam of light flashed in her eyes, and clusters of fox fire rose around her. The faint flames spread and burned along the oil-paper umbrella in her hand, without damaging the umbrella at all, but as if turning it into a burning canopy, shining brighter and brighter in the rain.
Irene crawled out from Yu Sheng's clothes, lay on his shoulder, looked around nervously, and rubbed the electric balls carefully in her hands - the body she used to go out today was the one made of Linghu Xuantie.
Yu Sheng looked up and noticed that the roof of a nearby factory had collapsed, as if it had been hit by something not long ago.
They approached the factory building cautiously, and then suddenly, Hu Li's ears twitched.
She heard a voice, tense and anxious, coming from the rain -
"...Granduncle, hold on a little longer. Don't fall asleep. The medicine will soon take effect... Granduncle, your true form has been revealed! Hold on a little longer!"
Yu Sheng also heard it. He quickly exchanged glances with the fox girl, and then ran quickly towards the direction where the sound came from.
After going around a wall that had also collapsed due to being hit by something, he finally saw the source of the sound and the smell of blood - he saw a girl in a red dress kneeling in the rain, desperately trying to save her companion, and the person she was saving was a gigantic fox - about half the size of the original Hu Li, with six tails, but now the fox's straw-colored fur was soaked in blood, and its breath was weak, and it was obvious that it was in a bad condition.
At almost the same time, the girl in the red skirt also noticed Yu Sheng and his group suddenly appearing nearby. She was startled and looked up suddenly: "Uncle, someone is coming!"
Then, she noticed the fox standing next to Yu Sheng, holding an oil-paper umbrella soaked in fox fire and with its nine tails swaying gently behind it.
The girl in the red skirt was stunned for a moment, then she sniffed violently, her face showing a look of astonishment yet surprise - as if she had suddenly grabbed a life-saving straw, she quickly stood up and stumbled over: "Silver Fox Immortal! Yes, it's me! We've met before, in Taiyou... Can you help my great uncle, he's fast..."
Before the red-dressed girl finished her words, Yuan Hao, who was standing by, had already teleported to the side of the six-tailed fox, which was faint and had already revealed its true form, and said quickly, "Don't panic, girl. Let me take a look."
At the same time, Yu Sheng's gaze fell behind the girl in the red dress - he saw five golden fox tails.
The tail should normally be very beautiful and energetic, but now it was obviously injured, and soaked by the rain, drooping down in a disheveled and listless manner, looking miserable.
"Hey! Silly fox!" Irene immediately raised her head and glanced at Hu Li next to her, "Your distant relative!"
Hu Li ignored the doll's words. She just walked to the side of the girl in the red dress, thought for a few seconds, and then leaned over to smell her scent. The latter tensed up all over in an instant, and even her wet tail was puffed up in the rain. Then Hu Li finally remembered something and suddenly realized: "Oh! It's you!"
She came over and poked Yu Sheng's arm with her tail: "My benefactor, it's the jade-faced, golden-haired, five-tailed fox that I met on the fairy boat platform in Taiyou..."
"I know," Yu Sheng nodded, "I guessed it."
He really could only guess - after all, this was the first time he saw the human form of the local fox in front of him, and he did not have the sense of smell like the raccoon that could recognize people just by their nose.
As they were talking, Yu Sheng and his companions had already arrived beside the strange fox demon that was lying on the ground and dying. Master Yuan Hao was now putting his hand on the latter to help it heal its wounds. The girl in the red skirt was standing next to Hu Li nervously, with a worried look on her face.
"What's going on? Wasn't he in Taiyou before? Why are you here? How did he get injured? Were you attacked?" Yu Sheng asked a series of questions casually.
"My uncle and I were guided by an immortal to come here to seek opportunities, but after we got here, my uncle suddenly realized something and said there was danger," the girl in the red skirt quickly answered, speaking in a crackling voice, "so we wanted to run away, but as soon as we set off, we fell into a strange place, where we were intercepted by a group of black-clothed weirdos and many monsters...
“We tried our best but couldn’t defeat them, and we couldn’t find a way to leave. But then, somehow, those men in black seemed to have received some order and all withdrew. My great uncle and I managed to escape, but ended up here again…”
The five-tailed demon fox in front of him said a lot in one breath, like popping beans, but the content was more or less messy. He didn't know whether it was because his brain was still a little confused or because what happened was too sudden.
Yu Sheng was also confused and frowned subconsciously: "Ah, immortals pointing the way? Come here to seek opportunities?"
As he spoke, he raised his head, looked at the factories, pipelines and the mountain-like refining tower in the rain, and blinked his eyes.
"...Running to the abandoned mines in the old industrial area at the border to look for opportunities?"
He always felt that this matter was unreliable.
But the little puppet on his shoulder suddenly said, "Hey, change the way you put it. 'Go to the ruins of the spiritual veins in the deserted old land to search for ancient relics'. Isn't this more reasonable?"
"Then it does make a lot more sense now," Yu Sheng touched his chin, and then immediately realized, "No, how do you know so much... Have you become addicted to novels again recently?!"
"Yes, yes, I checked it with your account," Irene nodded without hesitation, and then looked at Yuan Hao who was rescuing the wounded next to her, "Hey, what's the situation? Can it be saved?"
“Normally, he is hopeless,” Yuan Hao said, startling everyone as he spoke without even looking up. Then he changed the subject and said, “But it was his good fortune that he met me. As long as he still has the will to live, I can protect his life. However, the conditions here are limited, so I can only protect his life. If we really want to save him completely, I’m afraid my junior brother will have to step in. He’s a medical genius.”
"Then I'll open the door now and you take him over?" Yu Sheng said immediately.
"Wait a moment, I'll stabilize his condition," Yuan Hao waved his hand, "Now his heart meridians are all cut off, he might die if he moves... Don't panic, it will be fine in a while."
Master Yuan Hao's words were both terrifying and understated, shocking the five-tailed golden fox next to him. But judging from the old commander's attitude, he should be quite confident.
Ailin lay on Yusheng's shoulder and looked at the fallen fox curiously. No one knew what she was thinking. After a while, she suddenly said, "Hey, Yusheng, this fox looks a bit ugly."
Yu Sheng broke out in a cold sweat: "Hey, that's very rude of you."
"But it's really ugly, much uglier than the original silly fox, with a square face and a square head..."
Yu Sheng's head was covered in cold sweat. He looked up at the six-tailed fox lying on the ground with its eyes closed and in a semi-conscious state. He couldn't help but say, "There are many kinds of foxes. This one is called the Tibetan fox..."
(End of this chapter)
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