Chapter 416: Chapter 285: Savage Beast - Luminous Fox (Part 2)

Nuobai walked along the shadowy road at night, unsure where to go.

The hiding places she had set when she was a mercenary were still there, but too far away, with the closest one in the Border District.

But in this situation, leaving the Inner City was out of the question, she even doubted she could walk out of the High-Tech Park.

"Boom—"

Just as Nuobai was wandering alone, the sky roared with the sound of engines, strong wind pressure rushed in, and a Floating Transport Ship landed nearby.

Nuobai’s nerves were instantly tense, instinctively wanting to run.

Yet at this moment, a sincere shout came from the cabin door: "Miss Nuobai, don’t go! We’ve been sent by the commander to pick you up!"

Nuobai dazedly turned to look, and when she saw the emblem on the airship, a powerful tremor struck her.

A scarlet red umbrella, accompanied by the letters EDGE etched upon it.

It was the Edge Mercenary Corps!

Seeing the airship of the Edge Mercenary Corps, and those Edge Mercenaries rushing to rescue her, Nuobai felt a surge of unreality.

Did he come to save me...

An Edge Mercenary ran up to Nuobai, earnestly saying: "Miss Nuobai, we’ve been sent by Commander Su Mo. He found out you were being hunted and immediately dispatched us to rescue you!"

Nuobai wanted to ask where Su Mo himself was, but her phone was damaged in the previous battle, leaving her to use simple sign language.

The Edge Mercenary tentatively asked: "Are you asking where Commander Su Mo is?"

Nuobai nodded quickly.

The Edge Mercenary smiled: "He’s stationed at Edge Mansion, directing operations. There are dozens of teams sent out to rescue you."

"We’ve prepared doctors, medicine, and hot food. It’s not safe to stay here, please board the airship quickly."

The Edge Mercenary finished speaking and ran towards the airship, beckoning to Nuobai.

Nuobai followed along.

As she reached the cabin door, her nose suddenly twitched, as if sniffing something.

She then glanced at the pristine red umbrella emblem on the body of the airship...

...

The Edge Mercenary walked into the cabin, turning back with a smile: "Miss Nuobai, please sit inside."

Without warning, Nuobai suddenly grabbed for the Edge Mercenary’s waist, snatching the handgun holstered there.

The next moment, the Edge Mercenary saw the dark barrel of the gun pointed directly at him.

He was alarmed and shocked: "You?"

"Bang!" The gun flashed, a bullet pierced through his skull.

There were seven other mercenaries in the cabin, seeing their companion shot in the head, they all fell into shock, scrambling to draw their guns.

But Nuobai was even faster, she rolled into the cabin, her marksmanship in no way inferior to before, seven rapid shots accurately targeting, consecutively shooting the mercenaries in the head, blossoming seven blood flowers inside the cabin.

Next, she used bullets to break the safety lock, charged into the cockpit.

The pilot was frightened at the sight of the blood-soaked Nuobai, hurriedly raising his hands above his head: "Don’t, don’t kill me! I surrender!"

Nuobai glanced at the control system, it was a universal model, no biometrics, anyone could fly it.

"Bang!" The gun fired, the pilot shot in the head.

Nuobai dragged the pilot’s body down, took the seat and started the control system, setting her escape destination, ready to flee New Moon City.

As the engines roared and the airship began to ascend...

"Boom!!!" The airship suddenly trembled fiercely, the top deck caving in heavily, as if some monstrous thing had landed on top.

"Screech—" Five massive, sinister claws pierced through the roof, tearing the metal plating like paper, firelight erupting everywhere they went.

Nuobai hurriedly engaged the engines at full power, thrusting forward, then abruptly stopped, using inertia to fling off the massive object on the airship, revealing its true form.

It was a giant Mechanical Ferocious Beast, close to twenty meters long, exhibiting a fox-like physique, with slender eyes red as blood, emanating a fierce killer glow.

Its fur was snow-white like jade, legs long and joints clear, the tip of its tail having a tuft of flame-red hair, slicing through the air like burning blades, full of wild force.

Flare Fox, "Duke Tier Mad Tier" Mechanical Ferocious Beast!

Flare Fox swung its giant tail, raising its head, sniffing the air with its muzzle.

Then a deep, distorted voice emerged from its throat: "Ah, it was the smell of fresh paint that exposed it, what a dreadfully sharp insight."

"Miss Nuobai, Chiyoda Shinnai pays her respects, would senior kindly offer her head to help our Sakura Celestial Guardian Mercenary Corps soar high."

Nuobai immediately activated the airship’s firepower system, two rotating machine guns emerged from the weapon bay.

"Ratatatatata—" The machine guns unleashed blazing tongues of fire, dense bullets forming two iron whips swinging at Flare Fox.

Flare Fox’s massive tail blocked in front, snow-white fur spread open.

"Clang clang clang clang clang—" The machine gun bullets hit it, emitting a crisp metal clash.

In the erupting flames, each bullet was deflected, the deformed heads falling to the ground, smoke subtly rising.

Flare Fox’s fur was actually harder than steel!

Seeing she couldn’t even break through the enemy’s defenses, Nuobai promptly changed tactics, retreating backward to create space from Flare Fox while ascending.

Flare Fox immediately started its chase, transforming into a snow-white afterimage bounding along the street, though its huge body was nimble, even able to use buildings for jumping, continuously closing the gap with the airship.

At this moment, the airship’s weapon bay ejected missile launchers, two air-to-ground homing missiles fired out towards Flare Fox.

Flare Fox positioned its tail in front, with two consecutive "boom, boom" explosions, flames billowed up.

The explosives were insufficient to harm Flare Fox, at most staining its snow-white fur.

However, the blast impact still knocked it from mid-air, heavily onto the ground.

Meanwhile, the airship had already ascended five or six stories high.

Suddenly, light flickered in Flare Fox’s crimson eyes, the flame-red fur at its tail tip shining with an eerie light.

The next moment, Flare Fox opened its mouth, spewing forth a mass of scarlet flame.

"Whoosh—" This fox fire had an extremely high temperature, the heat waves whipping through the area, the brilliance so fierce like a small sun rising in the night, illuminating the entire street bright as day.

The fox fire carried devastating power towards the airship, where it passed, the air distorted under scorching heat, fire rain falling everywhere.

A few daring residents peeking from windows were scorched by the air currents, collapsed with blistering faces, screaming and rolling on the floor.

"Boom—" The fox fire pierced through the night, struck the airship, the high temperature melting the outer armor, the entire body skewing in flames.

In the cockpit where Nuobai was, the control panel was awash with red, error warnings everywhere, sharp alarms blaring incessantly.

Sparks burst madly around, the airship could lose power anytime and crash. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

If she disregarded fox fire and continued ascending, before escaping its destructive range, the entire airship would be burned down and disintegrate.

Given Nuobai’s current condition, she wouldn’t need Flare Fox to catch up and finish her off, just a straight fall from this height would be enough to kill her.

Facing the death trap, Nuobai could only gamble once more.

She gripped the scorching hot joystick, letting her hand burn, steering the airship to dodge the direct blast from the fox fire.

Before the fox fire could adjust its angle, the airship maintained its tilted posture, squeezed between two nearby buildings.

Nuobai lacked the skills of an expert pilot, and the airship wasn’t in good condition. The fuselage collided with the buildings, creating dazzling sparks, various metallic parts continuously falling off.

However, this gamble yielded results.

Due to the building’s shielding, the fox fire couldn’t directly hit the airship again.

By the time Flare Fox rushed to the other side of the street, the airship had already burst out from between the two buildings, like an injured, giant bird soaring unsteadily into the night sky.

Flare Fox attempted to spew fox fire again, but its range couldn’t reach any longer, only able to watch it leave.

It let out a soft snort, "Ah, what a pity~"

"Seems like it’s gonna benefit that guy instead."