Skinwalker Belle – Chapter 274 – The Lesson of the Federation

The frigid wind howled across the Sichuan-West Plateau, thick with the stench of blood, yet it could not dispel the fiery enthusiasm that now burned across the battlefield.

The twenty thousand low-level Demonic Creatures that had once surged forth like a tide had now become corpses carpeting the earth.

No one needed to be rallied.

The veterans from Hangzhou and Jiangcheng, the Evolved beings who had once followed “Lei Li”—Lin Fan’s earliest followers—now had bloodshot eyes. Wielding tactical daggers, they dug frantically through the mountain-like pile of bodies.

“Faster! Pick up the pace!”

Ah Hu was bare-chested, his bronze muscles stained with blood that could have been from the Demonic Creatures or his own. He clutched a Mountain-Cleaving Blade, expertly prying out a second-tier Crystal with one hand while roaring at the people around him.

“This is Lei Jie’s stuff! Not a single one can be missing! If anyone dares to pocket one, I’ll twist their head off and kick it like a ball!”

Beside him, Su Xiaoxiao stood with a group of young fox-kin girls, looking somewhat at a loss as they watched this group of humans who were even more ferocious than the Demonic Creatures.

Su Xiaoxiao had originally wanted her fox-kin sisters to help, but this group of people wouldn’t let them get their hands dirty with such grueling work.

“Um… Uncle Ah Hu.”

Su Xiaoxiao cautiously sidled closer, her pair of fluffy fox ears twitching. “Was Sister… always like this?”

She was very curious.

The sister who was like a god in the other world, whose every frown and smile could make countless experts bow, a woman of infinite means and boundless charm—what kind of person was she on Blue Star?

“Uncle?”

Ah Hu’s movements stiffened. He rubbed his stubbled chin, then let out a hearty laugh.

“Ha! Right, I’m already thirty.”

He straightened up, casually tossing the Crystal into the spatial cloth bag Su Xiaoxiao was holding, a hint of reminiscence in his eyes.

“Lei Jie, huh…”

“Little girl, don’t just look at the Lei Jie of today who commands the wind and rain. Back in the day, about five or six years ago, the apocalypse hadn’t even started yet.”

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Ah Hu plopped down on a Demonic Creature’s corpse, not minding the filth, and pulled a crumpled cigarette from his pocket to light it.

“Lei Jie was only twenty back then.”

“But even at that time, in our neck of the woods, who in the underworld didn’t have to call her Lei Jie when they saw her?”

“I remember one time, more than a hundred guys from the next block over came to crash our turf, all armed with steel pipes and machetes.”

Ah Hu blew out a smoke ring, his eyes hazy as if he had returned to that era before Zombies, an era of only gangster loyalty.

“We were all scared shitless back then. After all, there were only a dozen of us.”

“But guess what happened?”

Nearby, Sun Jing, who was counting Crystals, couldn’t help but pause her work at his words. Her clear eyes, full of curiosity, looked over.

Even she had only met Lei Jie a few months ago and knew nothing about the mysterious woman’s past.

Ah Hu took a deep drag from his cigarette, his face filled with adoration.

“Lei Jie, all by herself, rushed out with two watermelon knives.”

“It was raining heavily that night, and I just watched Lei Jie in her leather outfit, hacking her way through an entire street!”

“The hundred-plus guys on the other side all ended up kneeling on the ground, calling her ‘Granny’!”

“From that day on, this life of mine, Ah Hu’s, has belonged to Lei Jie.”

Su Xiaoxiao’s eyes lit up as she listened, her fox ears standing straight up.

“Wow! Sister is so amazing!”

“Of course!”

Ah Hu raised his head proudly, as if he were the one who had cut down an entire street with knives.

“Alright, stop bragging.”

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A lazy voice came from the side.

Zhou Ming, hands in his pockets, appeared via Teleportation on a rock behind the group, looking at Ah Hu with disdain.

“You’ve told us this story in Hangzhou at least eight hundred times, if not a thousand. My ears are growing calluses from hearing it.”

“And I remember you used to say Lei Jie was holding a baseball bat, right? How did it turn into watermelon knives now?”

“Get lost! What the hell do you know!”

Ah Hu’s old face flushed red, and he waved his hand in embarrassed anger.

“The baseball bat was the early stage! The watermelon knives were the mid-stage! Don’t you understand artistic license!”

The crowd burst into roaring laughter.

The nerves that had been taut from the great battle relaxed slightly amidst the banter.

Sun Jing smiled and shook her head, her gaze turning toward the distant east.

That woman.

No matter where she was, she seemed to be the backbone for everyone.

Even when she wasn’t here, just the mention of her name would bring a light to the eyes of this group of people struggling to survive in the apocalypse.

…

At the same time.

In an underground base surrounded by mountains.

This was an underground fortress built entirely of steel and special glass, filled with a cold and oppressive sense of technology.

Around a massive circular conference table sat seven or eight figures.

They wore exquisite Federation uniforms. Although they looked no different from ordinary people, the energy fluctuations emanating from each of them were at least at the peak of the fifth level.

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The old man seated at the head of the table had an even more unfathomable aura, faintly reaching the peak of the sixth level, just a step away from the seventh.

On the holographic projection in the center of the conference room, footage of the ruins of Magic City Base after the nuclear explosion was playing, along with the smoke rising into the sky from the Sichuan-West base.

“Magic City is gone.”

A middle-aged woman spoke coldly, her fingers tapping lightly on the tabletop.

“That madman, Chu Chen, initiated the Scorched Earth Plan.”

“We originally thought the base had fallen, but the latest feedback from the intelligence department shows that the core supplies and personnel within the base began transferring five days ago.”

“This wasn’t a defeat at all.”

“This was a betrayal.”

The bald, burly man sitting opposite her slammed his fist on the table, instantly denting the alloy surface.

“Damn it! We clearly made a deal with the Dragon Clan!”

“Even if the base fell, they would only occupy the area around the Rift and not continue to seize nearby regions, just like in Sakurajima!”

“To cooperate with them, we even deliberately cut off the reinforcement forces around Magic City!”

“Now look, Magic City has been flattened, the Dragon Clan’s so-called vanguard is gone, and those big lizards are definitely going to go crazy!”

In the words of these so-called high-level Federation officials, there was not the slightest grief for the loss of their territory, but rather complete anger over a failed transaction.

In their eyes, the more than forty thousand survivors, and even the entire eastern defense zone, were nothing more than bargaining chips for a deal with the powerful beings from another world.

“Chu Chen…”

The old man at the head of the table slowly opened his eyes, a sinister glint flashing in his murky pupils.

“I’ve met this young man.”

“Very smart, but precisely because he’s too smart, he’s prone to overthinking.”

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“Since he chose to take his people to Sichuan-West and took the initiative to destroy the Rift, it means he has already guessed our plan.”

“He might have even… already made contact with some resistance forces.”

The old man’s withered fingers gently rubbed the armrest.

“He can’t be left alive.”

“Since he won’t obey, then let’s replace him with someone who will.”

“But…”

The middle-aged woman hesitated.

“The news from Sichuan-West says that among the people Chu Chen brought, there are many powerful individuals, and they even saw people from the other world.”

“Relying on that good-for-nothing Chen Mo alone, I’m afraid he won’t be able to take them down.”

A cruel arc formed on the old man’s lips.

“Chen Mo?”

“That idiot is naturally not enough.”

“But don’t you all forget, I’ve put a lot of thought into the Federation’s recent supplies.”

Hearing the word “supplies,” the expressions of the others present changed, and then knowing, vicious smiles appeared on their faces.

“So you were prepared all along.”

The old man said no more.

He just slowly closed his eyes, and an immense Mental Strength erupted.

“Let’s give those who won’t obey… a little lesson.”