After two gunshots, the depths of the forest temporarily quieted down.

There were no wolf howls, no follow-up gunshots, and even the wind relapsed into silence, plunging the entire forest into stillness, as if waiting for a "response" from the group of people on the path.

At this moment, those two gunshots seemed like some kind of guidance, as if an invisible Hunter was trying to communicate with Yu Sheng and his group, pointing them in the right direction.

Erin glanced at the squirrel sitting in Little Red Riding Hood's hood: "The rules say not to be lured by temptations outside the path into the depths of the forest, but do the rules mention what to do when gunshots are heard from outside the path?"

The squirrel was dazed for a while, finally waking from its stupor. Hearing Erin's words, it immediately responded anxiously, "This has never happened before, this has never happened... The Hunter only shows up when the Wolf Grandmother appears... I, I don't know, I'm just a squirrel!"

Yu Sheng frowned tightly, one hand already taking the fearsome Tetanus Wand off his shoulder, tapping it on the ground, and said in a deep voice, "It's still a temptation from outside the path."

Little Red Riding Hood didn't catch on immediately: "What do you mean?"

"We came here looking for the Hunter," Yu Sheng sighed lightly, and after initial confusion and hesitation, his thoughts quickly regained clarity, "What else could be more tempting for us purposeful explorers to leave the path than the 'Hunter's gunshots'?"

Little Red Riding Hood paused, and when she understood Yu Sheng's meaning, astonishment instantly surfaced in her eyes.

"Pay no attention to the gunshots, let's keep moving forward," Yu Sheng said solemnly, then took the lead in stepping forward.

And as he expected, the moment the team moved forward, another gunshot came from the shadows of the Black Forest, "Bang," even sounding much closer this time.

This gunshot was like the illusions, also a "flower and mushroom" outside the path.

A trace of fear suddenly surged in Little Red Riding Hood's heart, for she knew "being lured away from the path" was the first and most dangerous prohibition in Black Forest, and just in those few seconds, she actually wavered—a wavering that should not occur for someone like her who had already experienced "awakening," a "Senior Little Red Riding Hood," but she was caught in a dangerous mental blind spot—

She had not expected that even "the Hunter" could be one of Black Forest's deceptive tricks, nor had she thought that this forest could find almost the perfect element to confuse everyone present in such a short time.

"The Black Forest seems very 'smart'," Erin whispered, "Its tricks are pretty powerful."

"It may not necessarily 'think'," said Little Red Riding Hood walking beside her, shaking her head, "Higher-level blindness may be no different from 'intelligence,' even more efficient than humans' so-called 'thinking,' the rules... are always so unreasonable."

"Doesn't matter, its temptation doesn't work on us," Yu Sheng slowed down, looking ahead, "Listen, the gunshots have stopped, nothing appeared."

"I thought the 'Hunter' would appear nearby next, inviting us over for a chat," Erin smirked, "Looks like even the Black Forest has its limits—if that Hunter really appeared, maybe we really would have been fooled."

Yu Sheng pondered, "It could be the limitations of the Black Forest, or possibly… the 'Hunter' himself is special."

After that, he stopped talking and continued walking along the path.

After a while, the streetlights on both sides of the path began to dim slowly—as dictated by the rules, all shelter in the Black Forest is temporary, the light will fade, the path will disappear, the flames in the fireplaces will gradually extinguish, even the cabins, will gradually be swallowed by the depths of the forest.

Along with the fading lights, the path became blurred, and the boundary between the road and the forest was disappearing. The previously fading wolf howls reappeared, becoming more frequent and closer.

Yu Sheng finally felt a gaze, the gaze of the "Evil Wolf" directed towards him.

"The wolf is coming, the wolf is coming," the squirrel suddenly started rambling nervously, "Where's the cabin... why haven't we reached the cabin yet..."

Yu Sheng looked up, vaguely seeing a gleam of light deep in the forest, but the light was still far away, while many vague, intangible shadows had already begun to appear in the nearby dense woods.

The Wolf Pack was coming, faster and more rapidly forming than before.

"It's over, the worst scenario! There's no connection between the cabin and the path, the path has been cut off by the Wolf Pack!" The squirrel saw the wolf shadows appearing in the dense woods at a glance, its tail fur bursting in shock, then it turned to Yu Sheng, urgently and frantically speaking, "We'll have to run soon! Run fast! Don't ever stop, understand? Don't get entangled with the Wolf Pack... What are you doing?"

The squirrel looked at Yu Sheng astonished, only to see him weighing the terrifying "club" in his hand, then pointing in a certain direction.

"Hu Li," Yu Sheng pointed into the depths of the forest, feeling the direction from where the "gaze" came, "See that? Range 3500, spread 120, sixteen rapid shots."

"Received!"

The fox girl's face instantly revealed an excited smile, and then, under the astonished gaze of the squirrel, she suddenly spread her arms wide.

The silver-white Fox Tails suddenly bloomed in the dusk-lit dense forest, a misty luminescence rose behind the demon fox, followed by an explosive burst of Fox Fire sending out a thunderous roar—

One after another, the silver-white cones rose rapidly in the dazzling blue flames, quickly adjusting their angles in the air, then the flames intensified a second time, instantly transforming into a bright flash that almost illuminated the entire forest, a continuous wailing sound piercing the air, its shriek like that of a banshee, the first eight Fox Radish Missiles quickly flew towards the distance.

As the first batch of Fox Tail Missiles detached, Hu Li quickly adjusted her breath, with a "buzz", the second batch of tails emerged, another round of rapid firing ascended.

Borne by blue propulsion flames crossing the Black Forest sky, like meteors flying backward, carrying death from above.

With a "buzz," the tails behind Hu Li were replenished again, but this time she did not launch them, instead maintaining a cluster of shining light at the tip of each tail, casting her gaze towards the shadows within the surrounding woods.

A deafening roar came from afar, the ground trembled, the air roared, trees shook violently and toppled over from the impact, as if the entire forest was shaken; and those howls from the shadows paused only momentarily, then, as if thoroughly enraged, transformed into countless chaotic, frenzied roars.

The Wolf Pack materialized from the void, countless ferocious giant wolves surged out of the dense forest, charging towards the "uninvited guests" challenging the laws of the Black Forest.

Fox Fires suddenly transformed into several dense tongues of fire, a barrage like relentless torrents whipped into the midst of the Wolf Pack, sweeping everything around, tearing those materialized wolves to shreds, and blowing the towering trees at their waist, setting the dry twigs and leaves found everywhere aflame; the gorgeous blue Fox Fire intertwining with the red wild fire rose up.

"Ratatatata——"

Hu Li gleefully mimicked the sound of her Fox Radish machine gun, her eyes shimmering with golden-red light, her face filled with excitement.

Yu Sheng raised the Wolf Fang Club soaked in his own blood high, and fiercely smashed it down onto a giant wolf that had rushed to his front, the fierce monster let out a sharp, brief howl, instantly smashed into a bloody mess and collapsed to the ground.

Then he swung the club again, knocking away a giant wolf that tried to sneak attack Hu Li from behind.

Erin tightly held onto Yu Sheng's hair with one hand, just about to raise her other hand to summon threads when Yu Sheng interrupted her, "Don't move your hand yet! These are just ordinary wolves, wait until we encounter something that Hu Li and I can't handle."

"Got it!" Erin quickly responded.

Yu Sheng then swung his bat again, knocking down another giant wolf, pointing his hand towards a distant light in the front.

"This way, Hu Li, clear a path."

"Okay!"

Hu Li shouted, then directly swept her twin tails towards the direction Yu Sheng's hand pointed, followed by three more Fox Radish Missiles soaring into the depths of the dense forest.

Amid the relentless bombing and the wildly spreading demonic fires, those gathered wolves along with the forest were forcefully torn open.

"Yes! This is what I wanted to see!" Yu Sheng grinned broadly, his smile radiant and excited, like finally playing with a long-desired toy, "Just like this! Cyber Fox Deity beating up children's literature! Keep fighting, keep clearing the path, let's go find Wolf Grandmother!"

He swung that fearsome club, striding forward on the path torn open by fierce flames and roaring artillery, with more wolves continually emerging from the shadows, these monsters that acted entirely by the rules, completely unaware of fear and pain, ferociously charged wave after wave at Yu Sheng, most were immediately killed by the dense bursts sweeping towards them, and the rest could hardly escape the club in Yu Sheng's hands—yet occasionally a monster would slip through, only to be torn to shreds by the Shadow Wolves summoned by Red Hat.

The squirrel watched all this dumbfounded.

Trembling all over.

It screamed neurotically, passed out, then awoke in shock, as if it had fallen from one absurd nightmare into another even more bizarre Dream Realm, hearing the entire Black Forest echoing with terrifying roars, hearing something deep within the forest howling—the order of the forest being challenged, despised, trampled, and then the forest began its counterattack, the stronger the invaders, the more wolves appeared, countless wolves converging within the forest.

"No, no, this isn't right..." the squirrel screamed, its voice nearly drowned by the surrounding explosions and howls," It's not supposed to be like this!"

"But I think it's great!" Only Red Hat heard the squirrel's shrill voice, she slightly turned her head, her face carrying a never-before-seen joy and relaxation, as if suppressed since her childhood, "Even if just for once—I think it's great!"

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know < report chapter > so we can fix it as soon as possible.