Skinwalker Belle – Chapter 273 – The Era of Universal Evolution

The airflow high in the sky was violently torn apart by a white figure, forming a visible shockwave.

Lin Fan was hurtling toward the direction of Magic City from memory at a terrifying speed that surpassed the sound barrier.

The red and white shrine maiden outfit she wore, even under the protection of an invisible barrier constructed from Mental Strength, had its hem flapping wildly in the fierce wind.

Along the way, any mutated bird foolish enough to try and approach would be directly shredded into a pulp of flesh and gore by the invisible sonic boom and violent airflow before they could even make out her silhouette, scattering down from the sky.

Just then, a familiar mental wave crossed a vast distance and echoed softly in the depths of her mind.

It was Su Xiaoxiao.

“Big Sis! Big Sis, can you hear me?”

The little fox’s voice carried a trace of irrepressible excitement and nervousness.

Lin Fan’s expression remained unchanged, and her flight speed did not decrease in the slightest. She simply responded calmly on the mental plane.

“Yes. Speak.”

“I… We’ve arrived at Chuanxi Base! The commander, that guy named Chu Chen, is very nice. He listened to me and has already sent people to collect all the Crystals!”

Su Xiaoxiao reported quickly, “There are over twenty thousand of them! Big Sis, I’ve completed your mission!”

“Mm, understood.”

Lin Fan’s reply was as concise as ever.

To her, who now possessed the ability to purify Spirit Energy, twenty thousand low-level Crystals were less effective than a puddle of her own urine if they were just used for evolving ordinary people.

But this was a chess piece she had laid out. Its successful recovery meant that her grand design for Blue Star finally had a solid foothold.

“Also… there’s one more thing…” Su Xiaoxiao’s tone turned a little strange. “Commander Chu Chen asked me to tell you… He said… there’s no need to go to Magic City anymore.”

Lin Fan’s flying figure paused for a fraction of a second.

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“What do you mean?”

“He said… Magic City has been abandoned.” Su Xiaoxiao’s voice grew quieter. “Not just Magic City Base, but also the nearby Hangcheng Base, Jiangcheng Base… everyone from the eastern coastal defense zones, a total of over forty thousand survivors, have all… all been brought here to Chuanxi by him.”

On the other end of the mental link, the little fox’s tone was filled with disbelief at this turn of events.

And Lin Fan, the moment she heard this news, had a flicker of genuine astonishment cross her rainbow-colored eyes for the first time.

She stopped ten thousand meters high in the sky, like a levitating deity, looking down at the azure sea below.

Chu Chen…

That man who always seemed to have a lollipop in his mouth and looked sickly.

She had originally thought that he was, at best, a slightly smarter tactical commander. Under the dual pressure of the Federation’s higher-ups and the otherworldly Dragon Clan, holding the Magic City defense line would have been the absolute limit of his capabilities.

She had even prepared herself to arrive in Magic City only to find a field of ruins, or a group of defeated soldiers struggling in despair.

And yet…

He had cut the ground from under their feet.

This man actually had such boldness, directly abandoning the Federation’s most important eastern gateway and leading tens of thousands of survivors on a heaven-defying great migration across half the map of the Dragon Kingdom.

A little interesting.

A slight curve formed at the corner of Lin Fan’s mouth.

She instantly understood Chu Chen’s entire strategic intent.

With the Dragon Clan’s relentless assault, it was only a matter of time before the Rift in Magic City fell. Since the Federation’s high command had already chosen betrayal, any attempt to hold their ground was meaningless.

Rather than passively waiting for death, it was better to proactively break the stalemate.

He would concentrate all effective forces in Chuanxi, a plateau with complex terrain that was easy to defend and hard to attack, and far from the Federation’s center of power.

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And then?

Then, he would use Zhou Ming’s spatial ability to analyze the coordinates of the Chuanxi Rift.

Once the analysis was successful, these forty thousand-plus last embers of humanity could be directly transferred through the Rift to her great rear base in the other world—Azurewood City.

There, they would completely break free from the Federation’s control and gain a precious chance to catch their breath.

What a brilliant move of a golden cicada shedding its shell.

This Chu Chen’s decisiveness was a level higher than she had imagined.

As expected, someone she, Lin Fan, had taken a fancy to and invested in ahead of time was no simple character.

“Big Sis? Big Sis, are you listening?”

Having received no reply for a long time, Su Xiaoxiao called out anxiously.

“I’m here.” Lin Fan collected her thoughts, adjusted her direction, and flew toward the western inland. “Xiaoxiao, you did very well.”

“Tell Chu Chen I’m on my way to Chuanxi.”

“Also, relay a message to him for me.”

“What message, Big Sis?”

Lin Fan gazed at the distant horizon, her rainbow-colored eyes shimmering with a light called ambition. Her voice was calm, yet it carried a magical power that could drive anyone to madness.

“Tell him I have a huge surprise to give to all the survivors.”

“From this day forward, the era of universal evolution… has arrived!”

As her voice fell, Lin Fan held back no longer.

Boom!

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A violent explosion erupted from the air behind her, and a white, ring-shaped wave of air spread out wildly with her at its center.

The full might of her Level 7 power burst forth!

Her entire being transformed into a white streak of light, invisible to the naked eye, that instantly tore across the sky and shot toward Chuanxi.

…

Meanwhile.

Somewhere in the wilderness, an unknown number of kilometers from Chuanxi Base.

Another white light was circling in the air like a headless fly.

“This isn’t right… How come I’ve been flying for half a day and it’s all the same mountains?”

Lu Yuan stopped in mid-air, scratching his hair, which the wind had blown into a bird’s nest. His face was a mask of confusion.

After escaping from that massive pit in Magic City, he had been so shaken by Chu Chen’s “Scorched Earth Plan” that he had flown for several hours straight, thinking only of getting as far away from that godforsaken place as possible.

It was only when he came to his senses that he realized a fatal problem.

It seemed… he didn’t know the way.

When he had returned from the other world before, he had flown in a straight line from Sakurajima toward the coordinates of the Magic City Rift, not paying any attention to the geography along the way.

Now that Magic City was gone, he only knew that Chuanxi was to the west, but as for which specific west, he was completely in the dark.

“Damn it, I should have asked that female devil for a map.”

Lu Yuan cursed in frustration.

He looked down at the endless plains below, with the ruins of a few destroyed cities in the distance.

Was this the Central Plains or North China? He had no idea.

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“Forget it, I’ll find a ruined city and go down for a look. Maybe I can find some road signs or something.”

Lu Yuan sighed, picked a random direction, and flew off with resignation.

But a nagging sense of foreboding lingered in his heart.

That female devil was so smart, she must have calculated that he would get lost, right?

She wouldn’t be digging a pit somewhere waiting for him, would she?

Thinking of that impossibly beautiful face that sent chills down one’s spine when it smiled, Lu Yuan couldn’t help but shiver.

“Probably… not, right? I’m a mid-stage Level 6, after all, and her fellow countryman from Blue Star…”

Lu Yuan’s lopsided smile, at this moment, seemed to lack a certain degree of confidence.

“Achoo!”

He suddenly sneezed.

“Who’s talking about me?”

Lu Yuan rubbed his nose and looked around warily.

In the empty wilderness, there was nothing but the sound of the wind.

What he didn’t know was that, at this very moment in the distant Chuanxi Base, a group of people was collectively descending into a frenzy over a certain name.

And he, as a link in the female devil’s plan, was about to find that his “good days” had only just begun.

“Sigh, this godforsaken place… Chuanxi Base, which way is it again?”

A sigh full of melancholy dissipated into the cold wind of the apocalypse.