The gun fired.
This was the first time she had done this.
The charged attack reached 70%, but the power wasn’t 70%.
Huan Hong’s Sky-Opening Strike, not fully charged, struck the Demonic Creature in a full-power ambush, staggering it.
But the Demonic Creature still didn’t let go—it kept holding on to Jin Luan’s blade.
Yin Lin stopped holding back.
The knife stabbed into the Demonic Creature, targeting its neck.
It had some effect, sinking into the flesh.
It wouldn’t kill it, but it hurt badly.
Stabbing the Demonic Creature felt like Jin Luan’s Flat Slash pricking it.
Finally, it let go.
Jin Luan was thrown off, but it didn’t affect her.
The next instant, she was beside the Demonic Creature again.
She swung at its side waist, cutting open a gash.
The Demonic Creature tried to resist, but she vanished again.
She used Instant Step to appear in front, stabbing another knife into its vulnerable neck.
The Demonic Creature still didn’t die.
Besides thick skin and high defense, its HP bar was also thick.
But this Demonic Creature couldn’t hit Jin Luan anymore.
With Jin Luan no longer sparing her Mana, she overwhelmed the Demonic Creature until it could barely fight back.
She used Instant Step several more times and finally severed its head.
This was the Instant Step Jin Luan prided herself on.
As long as she had enough Mana and her weapon could penetrate armor, killing Demonic Creatures was like cutting vegetables.
Even facing Lightning Man, though she couldn’t cut him, she could still run away.
After slaying the Demonic Creature, she puffed out her chest and was about to sheathe her weapon stylishly when a clump of dirt fell from above, hitting her head and covering her in mud.
The dream was over.
Where were Yin Lin and Huan Hong?
Of course, they had run off first.
She didn’t even bother sheathing the knife.
She grabbed it and took off flying.
Miss Yinlin was the first to run this time.
She dove into the deep hole and flew upward, escaping.
Jin Luan wasn’t far behind—only five seconds of travel later.
The Dungeon had begun collapsing completely.
A massive amount of dirt and gravel fell downward, much of it hitting Jin Luan.
She kept burrowing through the mud, severely slowed down.
Once, she was even knocked down below.
She quickly used Instant Step to escape, drilling out of the dirt and barely catching up to Huan Hong, who was in the middle.
By now, Jin Luan was covered in dust and dirt, looking disheveled.
Two more seconds and she probably would have been buried.
The collapse accelerated, like an avalanche—starting with a small roll of snow and gradually turning into a massive one.
The collapse was nearly catching up to them because Yin Lin, leading the way, was flying too slowly.
Jin Luan was getting battered by the dirt and exhausted, so she grabbed Huan Hong’s ankle.
After all, Huan Hong was strong and could handle a hundred-pound load.
Huan Hong started slowing down and quickly grabbed Yin Lin’s small foot at the front.
Holy crap, was this going to be a group death?
Yin Lin frantically shook her leg, trying to shake them off.
“Let go!”
“No!”
Huan Hong refused.
Yin Lin shook her leg wildly, but it was useless.
There was no way she could shake off Huan Hong, the strongest of the Sisterhood.
A huge amount of dirt piled onto Huan Hong and Jin Luan, severely dragging down their speed.
Yin Lin wasn’t faring well either.
She felt like there was hundreds of pounds of weight on her leg, and she could barely hold on to her Magic Wand.
Yin Lin curled up on her Wand, flying, about to give out.
“I can’t take it anymore. It’s too heavy. Let go now!”
“I’m not letting go! If we die, we die together!”
Huan Hong had no intention of releasing her grip.
“If you die, I can still protect Yiri City. You can entrust it to me.”
“Yiri City cannot lose me. I can still shine and emit heat!”
No matter what, she refused to let go.
Just then, Huan Hong suddenly forced an Energy Burst again.
For someone like her to activate it repeatedly in such a short time, her Mana should be running out.
Huan Hong suddenly accelerated, shaking off Jin Luan from her leg.
She sped up on her own and overtook Yin Lin.
The hole was only 60 centimeters in diameter—yet she managed to overtake.
It was actually because Yin Lin’s small body didn’t fill the hole’s width.
The moment Huan Hong overtook them, she was about to dart away in the blink of an eye.
Yin Lin quickly grabbed Huan Hong’s foot, and Jin Luan grabbed Yin Lin’s foot from below.
The order had changed, but the position was the same.
“Damn it! Let go!”
Now it was Huan Hong’s turn to struggle, with hundreds of pounds of weight hanging off her.
“No. We’re family. If we die, we die together.”
Yin Lin held on to her foot for dear life.
Huan Hong’s speed was incredibly fast, and her physique was strong.
Even while flying with the added weight and cutting through wind, she was still much faster than Yin Lin.
Plus, Jin Luan started putting in effort, flying faster below, even pushing up against Yin Lin’s rear.
Finally, they escaped the collapse zone.
Their flying speed surpassed the speed of the collapse.
Inside the Metro, the people from the temporary base felt the earthquake and were frantically evacuating.
Suddenly, the Magic Sensor sounded an urgent alarm.
Then, three girls shot out of the hole.
They couldn’t brake in time and slammed hard into the Metro’s ceiling.
This time, they all activated Magic Shields, so they weren’t injured—they only left small dents in the tunnel ceiling and damaged some cable ducts.
They dropped clumsily from the ceiling to the ground, lying there without any dignity, gasping for air.
They could feel their hearts pounding so fiercely it seemed about to burst out of their chests.
The people from the Eastern Alliance stared at them, and they stared back.
Both sides exchanged wide-eyed glances, extremely awkward.
“Look at the mess you’ve made!”
The members of the Special Task Force shouted in anger.
They raised their guns, aimed, and fired.
The bullets were all stopped by the Magic Shields.
They still had time to attack the Magical Girls?
Did they think time was that abundant?
Yin Lin quickly stepped in front to block the bullets, sparks flying off her body continuously.
She spoke half-truthfully:
“There was a Cadre-level Demonic Creature underground just now. They suddenly disappeared. I suspect it was a Transmission Portal. They took something with them…”
Before she could finish, her phone rang.
She glanced at it—it was Huang Yi.
And coincidentally, the earthquake was now causing minor collapses here too.
Yin Lin immediately fled.
Jin Luan and Huan Hong also got up and ran.
Only the Special Task Force wanted to catch them at that moment.
Everyone else just let them pass—no one stopped them.
After leaving the Metro tracks, Jin Luan was jogging while fiddling with her phone, maybe contacting Huang Yi too.
Anyway, Yin Lin answered the call and spoke with Huang Yi.
“What’s going on over there? You went down? What happened below? Tell me every detail.”
Huang Yi sounded very anxious.
“Okay, I’ll start with the key points. There’s a Dungeon down there with many Demonic Creatures—over twenty of them. They weren’t there before, but they suddenly appeared. It was somewhat like a Transmission Portal brought them, but it wasn’t a Portal. I don’t know how it happened.”
Yin Lin explained hastily.
She found the sudden appearance of the Demonic Creatures very strange.
No Transmission Portal was sensed underground.
When communicating with Huang Yi, she didn’t lie.
She said outright it wasn’t a Portal.
She had seen how Demonic Creatures used Transmission Portals; she knew what the Mana aura characteristic looked like.
The Demonic Creatures in the Dungeon didn’t seem to have used a Portal.
“Then how did they suddenly appear?”
Huang Yi was also curious.
“I don’t know. Anyway, it didn’t seem like a Portal. Also, there was something very special underground—I don’t know what it was. A Cadre-level Demonic Creature appeared, took that thing, and then suddenly vanished.”
Yin Lin felt that the mysterious object that had drawn her down was the most important.
Huang Yi figured it out quickly.
A Cadre-level Demonic Creature wouldn’t risk exposing itself just to take something unless it was extremely valuable.
Yin Lin asked again:
“What do you think? Do you have any intel over there?”
Huang Yi replied, slightly anxious:
“If possible, I’d like you to go to the City Center again and guard it tonight. We suspect things aren’t that simple.”
Yin Lin agreed, then asked:
“What about you two?”
Huang Yi said:
“Us? There’s another place we need to guard. If something happens there, the entire Yiri City will fall into a slow death.”
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