Skinwalker Belle – Chapter 461 – Future Skins

Lin Fan’s heart stirred.

It was truly a case of a pillow arriving just as one felt sleepy.

“The underground spirit beast pens are heavy with yin energy and thick with the stench of blood.”

Long Junshan stared at her.

“You’re just a young girl—do you dare take it?”

Lin Fan raised her head and met Long Junshan’s eyes directly.

“As long as the military merit offered is enough, there’s nothing I don’t dare do.”

“Hahaha, good!”

Long Junshan let out a rare laugh and flicked a black bone token from his sleeve, landing it precisely in Lin Fan’s hand.

“Take this token.”

“From this moment on, anyone in the underground second level who forces their way in without a token is to be executed on the spot.”

“Understood.”

Lin Fan tucked the bone token into her waist and walked out of the main tent.

The night wind rushed in, making the tent flaps crackle and snap.

Long Xiao followed behind, his pace unhurried, as if deliberately slowing to wait for her.

“Tomorrow at mao hour, I’ll be waiting for you in front of the First Squad’s female barracks.”

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“Anything I should watch out for?”

“Don’t touch those cages.” Long Xiao’s steps faltered for a moment. “Those are strategic reserves directly under the Dragon Emperor Hall, sealed personally by the Fourth Elder. You’re only to conduct routine patrols, suppress riots, and maintain order.”

“Riots?”

“Those things, when starving, will tear at each other. The last warden lost focus while suppressing a riot and had his leg bitten off by a fourth-rank Mutated Beast that broke out of its cage.”

Lin Fan raised an eyebrow. “The Fourth Elder said he abandoned his post.”

“He did abandon his post.” Long Xiao cut her off. “After his leg was bitten off, he crawled out and ran into the Fourth Elder along the way. He was executed before he could even open his mouth to explain. The Fourth Elder doesn’t listen to reasons—he only looks at results.”

“Quite efficient.”

“So if you take this job, don’t let your leg get broken.” Long Xiao’s tone was impossible to read—whether joke or warning. “And if it does break, don’t crawl out. Handle it on the spot yourself, and wait for the next shift to arrive.”

Lin Fan nodded.

“Anything else?”

“That’s all.” Long Xiao stopped in his tracks and didn’t walk her any further. “Go pack your things. If you haven’t arrived by mao hour tomorrow, I won’t wait a second time.”

Lin Fan turned and headed toward the female barracks.

The moonlight was fine.

The city walls built of white bones gleamed with a pale, cold sheen under the moonlight. Campfires dotted the distance like scattered stars, and the air carried the burnt aroma of roasted meat mixed with the rank smell of earth.

Night had already fallen, but in the direction of the male barracks, low voices were still arguing—probably over formation positions.

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She didn’t walk quickly. Her mind was running through combinations and permutations.

Three days.

Long Junshan had given her three days to reorganize the troops, then the formation would open.

Her plan had to complete all preparatory work within those three days.

Step one: use her position as warden of the spirit beast pens to map out the complete layout of the underground breeding grounds. The operation method of the Teleportation Array, its energy source, the guard rotation patterns—all of it had to be obtained.

Last night’s Mental Strength Probe had already locked onto the location—south side, eight hundred meters underground, with a Mental Strength shielding layer over a dozen meters thick.

Entering the underground second level as a warden meant bypassing the outer defenses of the shielding layer entirely. Then, all she needed was to sweep inch by inch with her Probe during patrols, and she could carve the entire structure of the breeding grounds into her mind.

Step two was the real centerpiece.

Use the Mental imprint to contact Zhou Ming through Su Xiaoxiao or Su Yue, and use the Space Stone to anchor a positioning point underground, directly connecting to Azurewood City.

If she could obtain the operating principles of a Teleportation Array, it would mean she could freely deploy troops between Blue Star and the Dragon Spirit Continent in the future.

With that data in hand, Chu Chen could do ten times more than she ever could.

As for the low-level Mutated Beasts stockpiled in the breeding grounds—all of them were to be sent through the Teleportation Array to Azurewood City, where Long Teng and his two companions would lead the garrison forces to clean them up, with all Crystals recovered. Azurewood City’s Crystal Core Weapons were running low on energy, and this batch of Mutated Beasts was ready-made supply.

Kill two birds with one stone? No, three.

Once the breeding grounds were emptied, the Dragon Clan’s war machines being deployed to Blue Star would effectively be cut off from resupply.

The three thousand expeditionary forces charging through the Rift would no longer face a caught-off-guard old Federation army, but an iron defense line commanded by Chu Chen, anchored by Zhu Yan and Lu Yuan, and guarded by over a thousand sixth-rank Gene Warriors.

She was raiding their nest on this side, while the meat grinder on Blue Star was waiting to collect heads.

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As for those forty-plus sixth-rank women in the female battalion…

Lin Fan’s gaze swept toward the faint firelight emanating from the female battalion in the distance.

No rush.

They were following the army into battle—once they crossed the Teleportation Array and set foot on Blue Star’s ground, that would be her own doorstep.

Dealing with forty-plus sixth-rank peak fighters on her own turf, she just needed to find a secluded corner.

With that many people crossing the Teleportation Array into Blue Star, a few dozen disappearing wouldn’t even stir a ripple.

Acting now would be the stupidest choice. If forty-plus sixth-rank peak fighters vanished simultaneously, with three thousand pairs of eyes in White Bone Pass watching, even the dullest person would notice something was wrong.

Besides, Long Junshan was at early eighth-rank.

Lin Fan’s burst state could indeed go toe-to-toe with a peak eighth-rank.

But revealing her identity at this stage would be equivalent to telling the entire Dragon Emperor Hall: the white-haired woman you’re looking for is right here in White Bone Pass.

The breeding grounds gone, the Teleportation Array gone, and not a single one of the fifty Epic-grade Skins obtained.

Sacrificing the big picture for small gains—that wasn’t something she did.

Lin Fan lifted the tent flap of the female battalion and stepped inside.

Hu Ya was sitting on her bedding gnawing on some unknown animal’s thigh bone, the bone thicker than her forearm.

Seeing Lin Fan enter, she stopped mid-bite, nearly dropping the bone.

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“You’re fine?!”

“Fine about what?”

“The whole camp’s buzzing!” Hu Ya tossed the bone aside, leaped up, and grabbed Lin Fan’s arm. “They’re saying you slammed Mad Lion into the ground in the main tent! A seventh-rank Mad Lion! One of the Three Marsh Overlords! You snapped both his arms with one slap!”

“He had a foul mouth.” Lin Fan pried her hand off and walked over to sit on her own bedding.

“A foul mouth and you slammed him into the ground?”

“What else? Let him yap all night?”

Hu Ya’s mouth opened and closed, opened and closed again, then she slapped her thigh and burst into laughter. The tent poles shook with it.

“Hahahaha good! Satisfying! That bastard relied on his brute strength to strut around camp every day, looking down on everyone, even I gave him a wide berth. But you—your very first day here and you fixed him—”

“He told me to get lost.” Lin Fan took off her cloth shoes and rested her feet on the animal hide. “I’ve got a good temper, I just don’t take well to that word.”

Hu Ya laughed even harder, tears nearly streaming down her face. “You call that a good temper?”

Long Su across the way set down the sock she was mending halfway through and walked over.

Her expression was far more restrained than Hu Ya’s, but the curiosity in her eyes couldn’t be hidden.

“Ning Shuang, I heard Fourth Elder assigned you to watch duty?”

News traveled fast. Seemed there were sharp-eared people in the camp.

“Yeah. The underground spirit beast pens.”