Shi An carefully pawed the human in front of her with the tip of her claw.

Chapter 83

"......"

The three demons gazed at the charred land in front of them in silence, then slowly raised their heads and looked towards the edge of the sky.

The shadow of a giant dragon loomed through the clouds, the human form that was swept up in its tail vaguely visible.

What, where is this going?

Until the Demon Worm was the first to react, jumping to his feet impatiently:

"What are you waiting for? Go after them!"

The eyeballs also came back to their senses, and it tugged at the black smoke and said anxiously, "Right, right! Hurry up! Before the Lord flies away!"

They didn't know what the side effects of absorbing the unstable magic from the Eye of the Abyss would be.

Now it's just a matter of keeping up and improvising.

Bitter Labor Black Smoke: "......"

It sighed, resigning itself to the fate of the two demons in front of it, and used the wind to float up towards the direction the dragon had left.

Soon, there was not a breath of air left in the wilderness, except for the raging wildfires.

The black poisonous fog enveloping the sky dissipated little by little in the gusty wind, gradually revealing the dark blue distant sky.

Administration Interim Command Office is located outside the Ableist Academy.

Wen Yao is very busy.

The atmosphere in the Command Office is very tense due to the shortage of manpower.

At that moment, a member of the Administration hurriedly came in from outside the tent and reported:

"Captain! The magic readings in the academy have normalized, and the reaction to the Abyssal Rift has disappeared!"

Wen Yao lifted his heart for a long time with a slight sigh of relief.

It seems that the Eye of the Abyss in the rift has been eliminated by the Chief.

After the most urgent crises are taken care of, the rest is manageable.

She turned her head, giving succinct instructions to the team behind her:

"Tallying the names of students and teachers who have been safely evacuated prevents search and rescue teams from continuing to search for stranded people."

"Yes!"

Wen Yao looked toward the techs on the other side, "Is the signaling network at the Ability Academy fixed?"

The technician looked up and nodded:

"The source of magical interference is gone, and the signal network has been restored!"

Wen Yao breathed a sigh of relief.

After communications were restored, several squads still within the Ability Academy contacted the command office.

Soon, six of the seven had briefly debriefed the command post.

At the end of the day, there was only one last team that never showed up.

--The one led by Mu Hang.

Wen Yao pursed his lips tightly and lowered his eyes to gaze at the communicator in his hand.

She had tried to contact Mu Hang many times after communications had been restored, but all the messages she had sent seemed to go into the sea without any response.

Gazing at the well-organized scene before him, Wen Yao takes a deep breath and walks over to the technician.

She asked, speaking succinctly:

"Where was Chief Mu's communicator signal last seen?"

The technician was in a bit of a bind:

"I don't have that access ......"

Wen Yao : "I am now the commander of this operation."

"This ......"

The technician looked somewhat shakily at the dry brown-eyed, brown-skinned woman in front of him.

The other party was calm, his eyes were firm, and he looked as if he was a rock that remained unshaken in the storm, giving people a strong sense of security.

Finally, after a brief moment of hesitation, the technician settled down and began to locate on his computer the last known location of Mu Hang's communicator.

Wen Yao organizes the squad and heads for the locator.

She subconsciously slowed her pace and gazed at the scene in front of her in shock.

The mountains and rocks crumbled and the ground was scorched black, leaving nothing but a ruined wreckage.

Although the blaze had been extinguished, the concentration of magic power remaining in the air was still so strong that it was suffocating.

There were deep indentations everywhere, as if scars were firmly embedded deep in the ground, and they looked shocking.

Just by looking at it with the naked eye, one could guess what terrible battles had been fought here.

The team behind them couldn't help but soften their voices:

"Captain, this ......"

The sound snapped Wen Yao out of his daze.

She gathered all the emotion from her face and ordered, "Search."

"Don't let go of all the clues."

"Yes!"

The squad members spread out in an orderly fashion and began to carpet the scorched earth.

Wen Yao slowly stepped forward and walked forward in the direction of the sword marks.

Suddenly, her pace lurched slightly.

Wen Yao slowly moved his feet and looked down.

Under the feet of several cut off charred black limbs, has been burned completely, completely unable to see the original appearance, blood was burned and roasted dry, a strong pungent smell of scorching came.

She leaned over and twisted up a remnant of fabric.

It's an Administration uniform.

Wen Yao felt his heart sink.

It was at this point that the shouts of the team came from behind.

"Captain! Officer Mu's communicator has been found!"

Wen Yao turned around, only to see one of the team members running in a hurry.

The evidence pouch in his hand contained a communicator that was completely crushed and almost impossible to put back together.

Wen Yao closed his eyes hard and said:

"...... I know."

Soon, all the severed limbs and remains on the wasteland were collected and uniformly transported to the autopsy office.

The elderly autopsy officer leaned down, picked up one of the body parts and held it in front of his eyes for a half-dozen moments of careful scrutiny.

He looked up and spoke to Wen Yao:

"Well ...... although it was more severely damaged, the victim should have died before it was charred."

He points to the smooth-edged fracture surface and shows Wen Yao, "Sharpshooter cut."

Sharp, swift, vicious.

Wen Yao was stunned and frowned.

All the clues confusedly twisted into a ball in his mind.

Bodies of Administration members, Mu Hang who lost contact, burn marks on land ......

Wen Yao was a bit exhausted from working for so long.

She took a deep breath and raised a hand to pinch the bridge of her nose.

Suddenly, she snapped to attention.

...... could potentially be an entry point.

Wen Yao was energized.

She turned and walked quickly outside, hastily calling her subordinate to her, "Where is the student I asked you to stop earlier? Where is he now?"

The cramped interrogation room.

Shi Rui waited there, fidgeting.

It had been a long time since he had been brought here, but no matter what attitude he used, no matter what excuse he used, the Administration people would not let him go.

He clenched his teeth in a death grip, his fingers twisting the corners of his coat as he mentally reassured himself over and over again.

The group assured him of that.

No one will know that he let the people in.

It won't.

*

Shi An flapped her wings and glided through the blistering wind.

Suddenly, he slowed down.

A hint of confusion flashed in the depths of the gargoyle's red-gold eyes.

Now one should return to the cave with the loot.

But ......

Where is his cave?

Shi An remembers that he originally had a cave.

Huge, dry, dark caves filled with shiny gold and jewels, where you can take a long nap after burying yourself.

However, Shi An has a vague concept in mind.

The cave is gone, and so is the treasure.

Where did it go?

--stolen.

The depths of the dragon's flaming vertical pupils ignited a destructive hostility, the agitation that had just been smoothed out rose in the bottom of his heart, and a strong desire to destroy surged up again, the red color of flames floating between the scales from his chest to his neck.

It was at this point that he felt his tail being wrenched down.

Shi An was stunned.

He lowered his eyes and looked in the direction of his tail.

Shiny silver light reflected in his eyes, and the warmth of human body heat slowly seeped into the crevices between the scales, sinking in and inexplicably giving him a strange sense of satisfaction.

My booty.

Mine.

Shi An turned around and forgot about the anger she had just felt and became happy again.

The scent of humans and the cacophony of the city instinctively displeased Shi An, so he flew in a direction away from the people, away from the dust and clamor.

Finally, at the edge of the city, Shi An saw an extremely high, barren mountain.

He scrutinized the peak in front of him with a critical eye.

It's barely okay.

Just redo the nest right here.

After making up its mind, the dragon opened its mouth and scorching flames spewed out from deep in its throat.

The air was scorched and twisted by the high temperature, and the pitch-black rocks were melted into black and golden magma in an instant, flowing down the cracks of the stone blocks of the barren peak.

This isn't Shi An's first time making a nest, and he's gotten pretty good at it.

With his own claws he crushed the rocky chunks that were in his way, scooped them up, and tossed them aside.

Soon, a huge, deep cavern took shape.

Shi An gathered his wings and landed contentedly.

The ground hadn't cooled completely and it was a little hot paw paw.

Shi An alternated between his right and left claws, bouncing around the cave twice as the mountain shook and debris that hadn't quite set in fell from overhead, crackling on the ground.

He was smashed square in the head.

Shi An got angry, and he raised his head and let out a roar towards where the falling rocks had come from.

The stones finally stopped falling.

Shi An crouched down prettily, curling her paws under her belly before wrapping her tail around her body and gazing at the human trophies she had brought back to her new den.

The man's eyes were closed tightly, his silver eyelashes leaving deep shadows on his pale face.

He had passed out on the way.

Shi An plopped down and brought her head forward, carefully pawing at the human in front of her with the tips of her claws.

Mu Hang's disheveled silver hair was stained with dust and blood, his jacket was in tatters, and his shoulder still bore claw marks deep enough to see through to the bone.

At Shi An's touch, the wound on the human's shoulder crumbled and the blood gushed even more fiercely.

But still, it didn't move.

Obviously the eyes are so pretty, why don't they open?

Shi An gazed suspiciously at the human in front of him, feeling very confused.

He always felt like he had to do something more.

Although the collection is already in hand, somehow it seems to be missing a process ...... a very important process.

What was it again?

He couldn't remember.

Shi An explored the claws.

The sharp tips of claws capable of crushing rock rested above the man's skull, the golden-red vertical pupils cold and cruel.

Rip it off?

Shi An thought long and hard about it, but eventually withdrew her claws.

...... doesn't seem to be.

That wouldn't be pretty.

However, the harder Shi An tried to recall, the more confused her mind became, and no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't find any clues in her mind.

I don't know if it was due to the fact that he was starting to feel sleepy due to the amount of magic he had just consumed.

Shi An yawned, blinked her red-gold eyes, and plopped down again.

He poked out his silver-white tail and wrapped the pointed, thin tip of it around the human's waist, circling him firmly and dragging him to his side.

Wake up and think about it.

*

After a long time, the three demons finally came up for air and hurriedly arrived.

Eyes: "Is this the place?"

"That's right." Devil Worm nodded.

As the belonger who had followed the dragon for the longest time, he was the most sensitive to Shi An's scent.

"What do we do now? Follow?"

Black Smoke was a bit hesitant, "I don't think we'll be killed by the lord, right?"

After all, it was very self-aware of its own strength.

The one who can fight with the giant dragon in a back and forth manner, there will not be a second person in the whole world except for Mu Hang I guess, and as long as they are discovered ...... they will probably only be burned to a charcoal.

A gargoyle that has lost its mind will show them no mercy from its claws.

"Let's be quiet, we shouldn't be noticed."

"Yes, after all, we need to make sure the lord is okay." Eyeball agreed.

--It would be best if that human were dead.

It prayed in its heart.

The three demons sneak closer, then carefully poke their heads out and look down through the gap above the cave.

In the empty cavern, the gargoyle huddled between the junction of shadow and light, its scales glimmering with the slightest hint of the morning sun.

The silver-white tip of his tail wrapped possessively around the man's waist, firmly encircling the other man.

The dragon cradled his only treasure and fell into a deep, peaceful sleep.

The whole scene looks both peaceful and eerie.

Three Devils: "......"

Couldn't read it, but I was greatly impressed.