The deafening explosion alerted the entire steel mill, and the shouting outside rose and fell.

"What just happened upstairs?"

"Not sure, it's on fire, go get the fire extinguisher quick!"

"Brother Long is still in that room, go check quickly, go, go, go."

The moment after the explosion inside the room, Xu Xiaoyou rushed in. Dense smoke billowed everywhere she looked. The smoke alarm blared from the earlier disturbance. Xu Xiaoyou dispersed the black smoke near her nose with a wave, observing the surroundings.

"Found you!"

At this moment, a pair of large hands whipped up a fierce wind. Xu Xiaoyou raised her arm to block on her side, the powerful strike dispersing the fog, revealing Brother Long's somewhat hideous face.

Taking the hit, Xu Xiaoyou merely took a few steps back, quickly retreating into the black smoke intending to leave the room first. The latter, like a shark tasting fresh blood, relentlessly drove away the smoke in front of him, charging toward her with large strides.

"Don't think about running!"

The thick black smoke obscured their vision, slicing the room's scene into fragmented pieces. As the beast-like presence approached, Xu Xiaoyou grasped the overhead railing, leaping up swiftly and delivering a direct kick to Brother Long's chest, sending the man retreating several meters.

"Damn, that guy was actually so good at fighting?"

Brother Long cursed under his breath, half-squatting and bending over, centering his strength, absorbing it into his waist and abdomen, energy reaching his soles, posing like a sumo wrestler ready to confront. As he lunged out the moment before, the girl's leg cut through the black smoke, striking the side of his face, making his massive body tilt over.

Before he could react, the girl's attacks followed incessantly.

One kick followed another—direct kicks, zigzag kicks, spinning kicks, downward slashes, side kicks, sweeping kicks—countless moves attacking from all angles, irresistible. Xu Xiaoyou's delicate form burst out with unimaginable strength, forcing the burly Brother Long, as large as a small mountain, to staggering left and right, nearly falling multiple times.

"Had enough fun? It's my turn!"

Brother Long amassed his strength, roaring, grabbing the girl's extended ankle, pulling her towards him as if to slam her to the ground. But the girl reacted swiftly, leveraging his arm, her body leaning forward, twisting her waist and hips, her legs transformed into powerful pincers clamping his neck, using momentum to slam him heavily to the ground!

"You... damn it."

Brother Long was thrown into a daze, unable to respond for a long while. Xu Xiaoyou then used two more Judo Techniques, holding a fist in one hand, spreading the other palm forward, maintaining calm eyes as always.

She wasn't sure of the other's profession, but judging from the thickness of his skin, it wasn't hard to deduce he excelled at defense. Her strikes at his body's weak points only brought waves of aching to her leg bone.

The smoke unknowingly dispersed, the two tangled in the black smoke earlier now saw each other clearly. The golden ponytail swayed behind the girl, and her guard uniform left Brother Long speechless, thinking he might have mistaken her for someone else.

The burly man, though appearing quite disheveled, mostly bore only a few scrapes. Charred black distributed across his body surface; he was not injured in the earlier explosion.

"Where is that guy!?"

Brother Long felt remorseful inside. Surprisingly, he fought back and forth with his subordinate earlier. Scanning the room again, except for Xu Xiaoyou and the scar-faced scar-head who was blown dizzy, where was Heidelberg?

That guy took advantage of the chaos to escape!

"Ouch, don't push me!" Mori complained.

"I can't hold the weight of three people alone; I'm about to break!" Owl shouted.

"Someone is about to pull off my pants!" Night Owl clutched his jeans desperately, feeling like dough being endlessly stretched, his legs bearing two people's weight, about to snap at any moment.

"Didn't expect it; usually seems so aloof, turns out wearing Magic Water Moon..." Sparrow grinned, her mouth twitching into a smile.

"Mind your own business!!" Night Owl roared in shame and indignation.

Finally, the Dark Night Walker crew could no longer hold on, tumbling down from a breach blown open in the pipe.

Xu Xiaoyou, Brother Long: "?"

"Ouch, that hurts." Mori grimaced, clutching her butt as she got up. Noticing the dangerous gaze from the burly man, beads of sweat rolled off the girl's forehead; she forced a smile, raising a hand in greeting.

"Busy, are you?"

"What are you doing here?" Xu Xiaoyou rubbed her forehead.

"You, it's a coincidence, haha. If nothing's up, I'll just be off." Mori awkwardly greeted, then lowered her head, intending to pull her nearby companions to run outside. At that moment, guards flooded in, diving in from the doorway, pointing guns at them, forcing them back.

"So many little mice got into our territory." Brother Long's face revealed a cruel expression. He obviously recognized Xu Xiaoyou as an infiltrator. Every sub-member here followed him, but he'd never seen this guy before.

"Capture them!"

Mori, seeing they were surrounded, hurriedly raised her hands high, leaping backward like a startled cat, afraid of a gun misfire, "Calm down, calm down, don't shoot, good man, let's talk this out!"

Simultaneously, she sneakily kicked her nearby companions, her eyes revealing cunning, "Execute Plan B!"

Everyone was stunned. Unexpectedly, multiple specially made smoke bombs rolled from beneath Mori's skirt, engulfing Xu Xiaoyou and everyone in a swirling white smoke. The two types of smoke fused and wrapped in the room, triggering some chemical reaction. Guards started coughing violently, the suffocation making them clutch their throats and dash out.

Mori seized the breakthrough, swinging a crowbar to knock over approaching guards trying to control them. Several companions swiftly reacted, cooperating to take down seven or eight approaching guards.

In the blink of an eye, the remaining guards in the room were all downed. Brother Long was about to roar when Mori suddenly hurled a red doll at him!

"I won't explode, I won't explode, I won't explode!"

The red doll traced an arc in the air, slapping its chubby hands vigorously, vibrating violently, red glow bursting in its eyes, emitting an incredibly dazzling white light from within, temperature spiking.

The red doll, with its large head and short limbs, cut through the smoke instantly, assaulting the face, its arms open wide, the girl's frenzied smile just inches away,

"Gotcha, I actually will explode!"

Feeling the intense danger contained within the red doll, Brother Long's eyes widened to the brink of explosion, cursing under his breath, "Damn it, you old bastard, see how you spoiled these brats!"

Boom——!

The explosion's flames engulfed Brother Long. Mori quickly ran to Xu Xiaoyou's side, pulling the latter's hand to run outside, only to find that she remained unmoved despite her efforts, simply smiling gently back at her, "You go ahead, Rice Wine, I have some personal business to handle, I'll be back soon."

Mori's face hesitated for a moment. Her arriving companions involuntarily dragged her away, her eyes watching helplessly as the golden-haired girl in the smoke grew further and further away, gradually enveloped by darkness. A strong sense of foreboding suddenly gripped her heart, her voice unwittingly shouting, "Hey, You, come back soon, I'll be waiting in your room!"

Xu Xiaoyou waved with a smile, bidding farewell to the girl.

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