Chapter 167: Cyber Fox Immortal Beating Up Children's Literature

After two gunshots, the deep forest fell silent for a moment.

No wolf howls, no follow-up gunshots, not even the wind died down for a time; the entire forest sank into silence, as if waiting for a "response" from the group on the path.

At this very moment, those two gunshots seemed like some kind of guidance, as if the invisible hunter was trying to communicate with Yu Sheng's party, pointing out the correct direction to them.

Erin glanced at the squirrel sitting inside Little Red Riding Hood's hood: "The rules say not to be lured by temptations outside the path into the deep forest; did the rules say what to do when gunshots ring out outside the path?"

The squirrel stared blankly for a while, finally snapping out of its daze, and upon hearing Erin's words, immediately spoke in a panicked rush: "This has never happened before, this has never happened before... Hunters only appear when the Wolf Grandma shows up... I, I don't know, I'm just a squirrel!"

Yu Sheng frowned tightly, one hand already taking down the fierce-looking Broken Wind Staff from his shoulder, tapping it on the ground, and speaking in a deep voice: "Still a temptation from outside the path."

Little Red Riding Hood didn't catch on immediately: "What do you mean?"

"We came to find the hunter," Yu Sheng exhaled lightly; after initial confusion and hesitation, his thoughts quickly cleared, "what could lure purposeful explorers like us off the path more than 'the hunter's gunshot'?"

Little Red Riding Hood was stunned for a moment; when she understood Yu Sheng's meaning, shock instantly flashed in her eyes.

"Ignore the gunshots; we keep moving forward." Yu Sheng spoke in a deep voice, then took the lead, stepping forward.

And just as he predicted, the instant the group continued forward, another gunshot came from the shadows of the Black Forest; "Bang!"—the distance even seemed closer.

This gunshot, like those illusions, was also a "flower and mushroom" outside the path.

A sudden wave of fear rose in Little Red Riding Hood's heart, because she knew that "being lured off the path" was the first and most dangerous taboo in the Black Forest, and just a few seconds ago, she had actually felt some wavering—such wavering should not have happened to a "veteran Little Red Riding Hood" like her who had already experienced "awakening," but she had fallen into a dangerous blind spot in her thinking—

She hadn't expected that even the "hunter" could be one of the means the Black Forest used to confuse people, nor had she expected that this forest could find the "optimal element" capable of confusing almost everyone present in such a short time.

"The Black Forest seems very 'smart'," Erin whispered, "its methods are quite powerful."

"It doesn't necessarily 'think'," Little Red Riding Hood, walking beside her, shook her head, "higher-level blindness might be no different from 'wisdom,' even more efficient than what humans call 'thinking'; rule-based things... are always so unreasonable."

"Doesn't matter; its temptations are useless on us anyway," Yu Sheng slowed his pace, looking up into the distance, "listen, the gunshots have stopped; nothing appeared."

"I thought that next, that 'hunter' would appear nearby and invite us over for a chat," Erin pouted, "looks like this Black Forest has its limits—if that hunter really appeared, we might have actually fallen for it."

Yu Sheng thought for a moment: "Maybe it's a limit of the Black Forest, or maybe... it's because of the 'hunter's' own uniqueness."

After that, he stopped speaking and continued walking forward along the path.

After a while, the streetlamps on both sides of the path began to dim slowly—just as the rules dictated, all shelter in the Black Forest was temporary; light would fade, paths would vanish, flames in fireplaces would gradually extinguish, and even those small houses would gradually be swallowed into the deep forest.

Along with the fading light, the path became blurred; the boundary between road and forest was disappearing, and the previously subsided wolf howls reappeared, rising and falling, getting closer and closer.

Yu Sheng finally felt a gaze—the gaze cast upon him by that "evil wolf."

"The wolves are coming, the wolves are coming," the squirrel suddenly chanted nervously, "where's the cottage... why hasn't the cottage arrived yet..."

Yu Sheng looked up, vaguely seeing a sliver of light in the deep forest, but that light was still far away, while many vague, formless shadows had already begun to appear in the nearby dense woods.

The wolf pack was coming, faster than last time, and rapidly taking shape.

"It's over, it's over! The worst-case scenario! The cottage and the path aren't connected; the road is cut off by the wolf pack!" The squirrel spotted the wolf shadows appearing in the dense woods at a glance; instantly, the fluff on its tail exploded outward, then it turned to look at Yu Sheng, speaking urgently and fearfully, "We have to run later! Run fast! Absolutely no stopping, understand? Absolutely do not get trapped with the wolf pack... what are you doing?"

The squirrel stared at Yu Sheng in shock, only to see him merely heft the terrifying "club" in his hand, then raise a finger to point in a certain direction.

"Hu Li," Yu Sheng pointed toward the deep forest, the direction from which he felt the "gaze" coming, "see over there? Distance 3500, spread range 120, sixteen rapid-fire shots."

"Received!" The fox girl's face instantly broke into an excited smile; immediately, in the squirrel's shocked gaze, she suddenly spread her arms wide.

Silver-white fox tails suddenly bloomed in the twilight dense woods; ethereal light rose behind the demon fox, then fox fire exploded, emitting a roar—

One after another, silver-white cone-shaped projectiles shot rapidly upward amidst the shimmer of azure flames, quickly adjusting their angles in mid-air; then the flames intensified a second time, suddenly transforming into an intense flash that almost illuminated the entire forest area. Continuous whistling pierced the air; amidst these wails resembling a banshee's scream, the first batch of eight Fox Carrot Missiles rapidly flew toward the distance.

At the same moment the first batch of Fox Tail Missiles detached, Hu Li had already quickly adjusted her energy; with a "buzz," a second batch of tails emerged, launching another round of rapid-fire shots into the sky.

The azure propulsion flames streaking across the Black Forest's sky were like meteors flying backward, carrying death down from the heavens.

With a "buzz," Hu Li's tails behind her replenished once more; however, this time she did not fire them, but instead maintained a cluster of shimmering flames at the tip of each tail, directing her gaze toward the shadows in the surrounding woods.

Deafening roars came from the distance; the ground trembled, the air roared, trees shook violently and toppled from the shockwaves, as if the entire forest had been shaken, and those wolf howls in the shadows paused for only a moment before, as if thoroughly enraged, turning into countless chaotic, mad roars.

The wolf pack materialized from the void; countless ferocious giant wolves charged out from the dense woods, rushing toward the "uninvited guests" challenging the Black Forest's rules.

Fox fire suddenly transformed into several dense tongues of flame; seven or eight shooting storms, dense as waterfalls, ruthlessly whipped into the midst of the wolf pack, sweeping away everything around, tearing those solidified wolf packs into fragments, blasting through the trunks of towering trees nearby, and the flames ignited the dead branches and fallen leaves ubiquitous here; gorgeous blue fox fire and crimson wildfire intertwined and rose upward.

"Da-da-da-da-da-da—"

Hu Li happily provided sound effects for her Fox Carrot machine gun, golden-red light shimmering in her eyes, her face full of excitement.

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Yu Sheng raised high the "mace" in his hand, soaked in his own blood, and smashed it down hard onto a giant wolf charging before him; that grotesque monster let out a sharp, short howl and was instantly smashed into a bloody mess, lying on the ground.

Immediately after, he swept the iron rod horizontally, knocking away a giant wolf attempting to ambush Hu Li from behind.

Erin tightly grabbed Yu Sheng's hair with one hand, just about to raise her other hand to summon threads, when Yu Sheng interrupted her: "Don't move yet! These are just ordinary wolves; wait until you face something I and Hu Li can't handle, then you step in."

"Understood!" Erin replied quickly.

Yu Sheng then swung his club again, knocking down another giant wolf, and raised a finger to point toward that distant light ahead.

"This direction, Hu Li, carve out a path."

"Okay!"

Hu Li shouted loudly, then directly hugged two tails and swept fire in the direction Yu Sheng pointed; immediately, three more "Fox Carrot Missiles" shot into the sky, blasting into the deep dense woods.

Amidst the relentless bombardment and the crazily spreading inferno of demon fire, the gathered wolf pack and the forest itself were forcibly torn open into a path.

"Yes! This is exactly what I wanted to see!" Yu Sheng grinned, his smile bright and excited, as if finally playing with a long-desired toy, "Just this! Cyber Fox Immortal Beating Up Children's Literature! Keep hitting, keep carving the path; let's go find Wolf Grandma!"

He wielded that terrifying club, striding boldly toward the forest avenue torn open by roaring flames and booming artillery fire; more and more wolves kept spawning from the shadows; these monsters, acting entirely according to the rules and knowing neither fear nor pain, charged at Yu Sheng wave after wave, recklessly; over half were instantly killed on the spot by the sweeping concentrated fire, while the rest could not escape the club in Yu Sheng's hand—but occasionally, a few monsters slipped through, only to be swarmed and torn into fragments by the shadow wolves summoned by Little Red Riding Hood.

The squirrel stared in shock at all this.

Trembling all over, it stared at all this.

It screamed nervously, fainted dead away, then woke up again, as if suddenly falling from one absurd, eerie nightmare into another even more absurd dream; it heard the entire Black Forest echoing with terrifying roars, heard something deep within this forest screaming—the forest's order was challenged, despised, trampled, and then the forest began its counterattack; the stronger the intruders, the more wolves appeared; countless wolves were gathering in the forest.

"No, no, it's not like this..." the squirrel screamed, its voice almost drowned out by the surrounding explosions and howls, "It's not like this!"

"But I think it's great!" Only Little Red Riding Hood heard the squirrel's shrill voice; she turned her head slightly, a kind of happiness and relaxation she had never felt before, as if suppressed since childhood, on her face, "Even just once—I think it's great!"

(End of Chapter)