Chapter 564 Super Local Specialty
Angels have fallen, and the gloom that shrouded the borderland has finally been swept away. The boundary bridge and its associated spatial rift had completely disappeared a dozen minutes ago, and the spatial anomalies above the dome of the borderland had also subsided. As the large shield restarted and gradually dissipated, the entire city began to gradually recover from the "wartime state".
The Fox System is restoring the temporarily flipped streets to the real dimension. Mobile forces and special operations teams carrying out missions between the various areas are beginning to check street by street to ensure that no residual pollution remains on the real border. Deep divers are beginning to withdraw in an orderly manner, ensuring that no traces exceeding the "safety level" remain in the real-world boundary city.
The Council Tower still stands in the city center. Its upper area was once affected by the spatial rift at the edge of the boundary bridge, and the top of the tower and part of the curtain wall were damaged. However, the melodious horn sound coming from the tower continued until the very end. Now the horn sound has become a calm and gentle, wind chime-like sound, which is a prompt that the whole area is about to be "awakened".
Once the city is fully restored to reality, people will awaken from a collective daze, and everything will return to normal.
While the official forces in Jiecheng were carrying out these clean-up tasks, the "civilian forces" that had been fighting in various regions and assisting in resisting the invasion also withdrew to their respective strongholds.
In the square of the fairytale town, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, and Mo Ran from Shuji were among the last group to retreat back to the valley.
The good news of the crisis receding and the joy of returning victorious made everyone quite excited, and the square was very lively—of course, the most boisterous ones were always the same few clowns.
"Let me tell you, I was a mobster back then," the Snake Queen said, perched atop the highest point in the plaza—the roof of Dorothy's tactical command vehicle. Her entire body coiled around the roof several times, her upper body held high, as she smugly boasted to the group of teenagers around her, "Those things falling from the sky, I killed them all, one by one, without even lifting a finger..."
The long-haired princess next to him bluntly exposed him: "You didn't fight back? You were being held in someone's hands and didn't have a chance to fight back at all—I watched as you were being swung around by Titan and sparks flew out of your hands."
The snake queen blushed instantly, banging her tail against the roof of the command vehicle as she protested, "I... I opened my mouth! I have teeth! When it comes to snake demons, a snake demon opening its mouth is considered an act of violence, don't you understand..."
Rapunzel: "You threw up—"
The snake queen kept flicking her tongue at Rapunzel and banging her tail against the roof of the command vehicle.
Dorothy, feeling sorry for Boa Hancock's carriage, waved her hand and put it back. Boa Hancock fell to the ground with a thud, her carriage, which had been coiled like a pagoda, now sprawled out like a mosquito coil. Then came a torrent of vulgar, poetic curses, interspersed with obscure local slang—she abruptly stopped halfway through, realizing there were several children under ten present…
As a wild monster, she actually lacked any sense of civility or the concept of not corrupting children—but the old man's back scratcher really hurt when it hit her head.
Little Red Riding Hood ignored the commotion caused by the Snake Princess and Long Hair. She was busy taking stock of the supplies lost and the injuries sustained in this operation. Now that the family was better off, they had a sufficient stock of medicines like the sanity blocker and the gray matter potion, which they used to be reluctant to use. However, she still found that several people were saving medicine when they went out. Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella even brought back the medicine packets that were given to them intact.
Little Red Riding Hood knew that this wasn't because they were deliberately saving money or couldn't distinguish between what was important and what wasn't; it was simply a habit they had long since developed. Many of their partners did this when carrying out missions. Unless the situation was truly critical, they would try to endure it first. Especially now that they had the Soul Wilderness as a safety net, as long as they could retreat alive, even if they suffered heavy pollution, they could just sleep it off—which made them even more subconsciously frugal.
But this is not a good habit nowadays.
However, changing habits takes time and effort, so I need to have a proper talk with everyone about it later...
Several others were injured, though none were serious, but each had lessons to learn. Jack's injury was the most absurd—he, a summoner, didn't need to engage the enemy in person, but he ended up blowing himself up by using a bean stalk to destroy a self-propelled artillery piece belonging to the Green Field Army. Clearly, he had a problem with teamwork.
In addition, several problems were exposed during the coordination process among the teams, such as the chaos caused by mismatches in the team's abilities, the command breakdown caused by Snow White's overly aggressive advance, and the communication breakdown caused by Belle's loss of her ability to speak after her beast transformation...
Little Red Riding Hood looked up at Rapunzel, who was playfully fighting with Boa Hancock, and suddenly felt even more overwhelmed.
Mo Ran stood in a corner of the square with several of her trusted retainers. As a newcomer, she was not quite able to integrate into the "unique atmosphere" of the place. However, after fighting side by side with them, she was deeply impressed by the maturity, ruthlessness, and strange abilities displayed by these seemingly young "children". Seeing them return and regain their youthful liveliness, she felt it was incredible.
Are these the "family members" of "True Lord Yu Sheng"?
That does fit the True Lord's... "style" quite well.
"When can I go back to jail..." The Bone-Eating Immortal sat on a swing not far away, his voice muffled from behind his iron mask, "Life in the Demon-Suppressing Tower is so peaceful."
Before she could finish speaking, the Blood Prince beside her solemnly cupped his hands towards the air and said, "I have already decided to dedicate my life to the cause of the True Lord..."
The Bone-Eating Immortal's eyes widened: "Sissy, have you taken the wrong medicine?"
“Alas, he made a careless move when the giant tower in the sky disappeared, and his breath became loose,” the old man from the withered courtyard sighed. “At that time, he was standing next to the diffusion device, and the last wisp of blood mist in the blood storage tank was rising, and he absorbed it all.”
The Bone-Eating Immortal paused, looking at the deathly old man before him with a hint of panic: "You're alright? You were standing even closer to him back then."
“I am different,” the old man of the withered courtyard stroked his few pale, dry beards, his face unfathomable. “He was affected by that blood mist, but I voluntarily choose to continue serving the True Lord—that blood holds infinite mysteries…”
Then came a series of exclamations, such as "What wonderful insights I've gained!", "I've benefited greatly!", "I was previously foolish and went astray, but now I know where the great path lies!", and a bunch of things that were hard to understand.
As Bone-Eating Immortal began to feel uneasy, he quickly moved to another swing set nearby, trying to get as far away from the effeminate man and the old geezer as possible.
As soon as she moved away, she felt someone staring at her from behind. When she turned around, she saw a little girl in a white dress, who looked about six or seven years old, with two pigtails and bright, sparkling eyes.
The creaking and grinding sound of chewing metal under the iron mask suddenly stopped.
"Do you want to play on the swing?" asked the Bone-Eating Immortal.
The little girl nodded.
The Bone-Eating Immortal jumped off the swing set, watched the little girl sit down, and then waved to her: "Push me."
The Bone-Eating Immortal tilted his head, his eyes seeming a little dazed, then hesitantly reached out and gently pushed him, then pushed him again.
The swing started swinging, and Xiaoxiao laughed happily on the swing.
She has not yet acquired her own "wolf," but the wolf's instincts have already awakened in her spirit. She finds the strange older sister next to her, who wears an iron mask, quite easy to get along with.
“I used to… have a daughter,” the Bone-Eating Immortal muttered softly.
Xiaoxiao turned her head in surprise, then thought for a moment and asked curiously, "How old is she?"
“Five years old, always five years old.” The Bone-Eating Immortal laughed, his eyes crinkling.
The swing swayed, and Xiaoxiao tilted her head in confusion.
"She was harmed by villains," the Bone-Eating Immortal said casually, gently pushing the swing.
Xiaoxiao paused for a moment, seemingly lost in thought, and then asked, "Then... what about the bad guys?"
“I ate them,” the Bone-Eating Immortal’s eyes curved even more, as if he was laughing particularly happily, “I ate them all—and then I became a villain.”
The swing swung high, the sky and earth swaying up and down in the field of vision, the clouds on the horizon slowly dispersed, and the sky between the Black Forest and the Star Harbor shone with an strange, bright light.
Xiaoxiao laughed happily, holding the swing rope with one hand and pointing to the sky above the Black Forest with the other: "Look!"
Aren't the children here even afraid of "cannibalism"?
The Bone-Eating Immortal looked at the child on the swing set with some confusion, then turned his head to look in the direction the other person was pointing.
She saw the magnificent "autumn light" spreading across the forest, and in the curtain of light, the sky slowly cracked open with a huge gap.
Within the rift lay another world—a solitary mountain peak suspended in chaos, its summit faintly revealing ancient, mysterious ruins, vast in scale, yet their style unknown.
Old Man Kuting and Blood Prince also stood up subconsciously.
All eyes were drawn to the crack, including the children running around in the square and the imposing old man who claimed to be the "orphanage gatekeeper" not far away.
The rift moved slowly across the sky, initially seeming to want to stay above the Black Forest, but quickly moved to above the Starport. Then, as if it felt the location was inappropriate, it began to drift towards the white tower on the other side of the valley—Rapunzel's tower. She didn't usually live in the tower; it was mainly used as an adventure base for children or for Jack to dry his bean sprouts.
The Bone-Eating Immortal's eyes widened. The ancient and desolate aura emanating from the solitary peak amidst the chaos terrified her, and the sight of the entire space shifting across the sky far exceeded her understanding of "secret realms" as a cultivator.
So what exactly is the space on the other side of that rift?
Is it an ancient secret realm that suddenly opened? Or a hidden sacred place in this valley?
The swing set stopped, and she heard the little girl next to her clapping excitedly.
"Look! My brother brought back local specialties! This time it's a whole mountain!"
"...?"
(End of this chapter)
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