Sylvia Snow and Yvette Liu sat in the "Night Emperor V" for ages, waiting for Shawn Young to return, but he never showed up. The two girls were starting to get impatient. Sylvia said worriedly, "What's up with Shawn? He just went to the bathroom, right? Why's he taking so long? Did he get drunk and pass out outside or something?"
"Uh—who knows! Maybe he's trying some kind of pee-escape trick? That guy's such a perv, but to just ditch us two gorgeous girls like this? That's not really his style!" Yvette Liu chimed in.
"I wonder if something happened to him? Maybe we should go outside and check—" Sylvia Snow was getting restless.
"Uh—what if we catch him in the middle of peeing?" Yvette Liu giggled.
"So what if we do? What's there to be scared of? Every guy's got one, his is no different! Let's go!" Sylvia said, standing up as she spoke.
"Hehe—looks like you really do like this guy, Sylvia. But honestly, I like him too. Let's go, we'll watch him pee together and see how big his thing really is! I mean, I've seen plenty of those in adult movies, but never the real deal in person!" Yvette Liu said with a laugh, keeping up her usual bold style.
"Oh, Yvette! Can you not with that topic? I seriously can't handle you—" Sylvia groaned, clutching her forehead.
"Alright! I'll stop, we'll just watch and not say anything—" Yvette Liu stood up and pulled Sylvia toward the fire exit door.
They quietly opened the door and slipped outside, but what they saw made them jump—yellow police tape was strung all around the alley, with a sign saying "No Entry for Unauthorized Personnel." A squad of armed police officers was blocking both ends of the alley.
"Ah! What happened here? Shawn—he didn't get arrested by the cops, did he?" Yvette Liu exclaimed in shock.
"No idea! This is driving me crazy! Let's go ask—find out what's going on!" Sylvia Snow saw the scene and grew anxious. Without hesitation, she dragged Yvette Liu over to the cordoned-off area.
"Ladies, please stop. Did you see the warning sign? This is a military lockdown zone. We're on official duty—no civilians allowed. Please leave immediately!" A squad leader from the armed police appeared and warned them.
"Uh—I just wanted to ask, I have a friend, male, young, pretty tall, wearing a beige casual outfit, kinda handsome, he just came here. Did you—did you see him?" Sylvia Snow asked nervously.
The squad leader shook his head, expressionless. "No. Now, don't interfere with our work. Leave, quickly!"
Sylvia froze, unwilling to give up, wanting to ask more. But Yvette had already noticed the squad leader's icy glare, so she quickly pulled Sylvia back into the Night Emperor V.
"No way—Shawn's gone missing, I have to find him!" Sylvia whipped out her phone and dialed his number. The call went through, but no one answered. She tried several times, still no luck. Sylvia was so frustrated she could spit blood. She gritted her teeth and muttered, "That damn Shawn—always pulling disappearing acts—I swear I'll find you!!"
Actually, Shawn had left in such a rush that he forgot his phone, so Sylvia couldn't reach him. Meanwhile, Shawn, Ken Lin, and the Lean Tiger & Fat Dragon brothers were busy prepping the necessary items. Ken Lin, with his connections, quickly gathered everything Shawn needed—including a whole ambulance's worth of blood plasma and control over the city's underground water drainage system.
Without Ken Lin's connections, pulling this off in such a short time would have been impossible. For the first time, Shawn truly appreciated the perks of having special privileges.
Once everything was ready, Ken Lin activated the drainage system as Shawn requested, draining and sealing off the underground water in the area near Night Emperor V—including the icehouse basement. This meant no sewage would flow into that zone for now, seriously weakening the Blackblood Sewer Fiend and its thousands of offspring's ability to control the water.
Then, the four of them, loaded with "special" gear, quickly headed back into the alley, slipped past the police barricade, and climbed down into the underground drainage system through a manhole beneath the icehouse.
Once underground, the four switched on their miner's lamps and started searching the sewers, wading through the filthy, stinking air. The pipes were over two meters wide, crisscrossing and covered in grime. In this disgusting environment, they hunted for the millennia-old demon—the Blackblood Sewer Fiend.
This zone stretched two kilometers wide. Finding the Blackblood Sewer Fiend in such a huge area was no easy task. Plus, rats are expert burrowers—if it sensed danger, it might dig a tunnel and escape, ruining everything.
Luckily, Shawn followed the path marked by his earlier "Earth-Sealing Spell" and, after a short walk, found the spot where the "Grand Five Elements Earth Seal" had been reactivated.
It was a reservoir chamber, with a tunnel exit nearby and a shallow pool of dirty water on the floor. As the four approached, their lamps swept the room and what they saw made their stomachs churn—a massive horde of demon rats was swarming around, gnawing furiously at the concrete walls with their sharp teeth. Chunks of cement had already been chewed loose, and in the lamplight, they could see an ancient charm covered in script carved into the wall. With so many crazed demon rats gnawing and clawing, the wall was starting to show signs of breaking.
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"Hmm—the Blackblood Sewer Fiend must be sealed under that wall, but it looks like we need to wipe out its offspring first!" Shawn said.
"Hehe—let's give these nasty rats a barbecue feast!" Leo Bright, the burly 'Fat Dragon,' couldn't wait. He whipped out a tube of green fireworks, lit it, and hurled it into the swarm—"Boom—whoosh!" Flames shot up, turning the reservoir into a hellish inferno. The air filled with the stench of burning rats and their screams. Even from twenty meters away, they could feel the scorching heat.
"Damn! That aviation fuel torch is intense! Awesome! I'm joining in—" Gavin Strong, the agile 'Lean Tiger,' saw countless demon rats dying in the flames and couldn't resist tossing in another tube.
"Whoosh—" Another blast of flames shot skyward, instantly roasting another batch of demon rats.
"Don't waste your ammo—these are just the small fry. The real big boss hasn't shown up yet," Shawn quickly reminded them.
"Oh! Oh! Even if that millennial rat demon shows up, it might not be able to handle our top-shelf gear! Hehe—uh—what the heck is that?!" Gavin Strong hadn't finished bragging when he saw something bizarre.
Suddenly, the charred corpses of demon rats scattered, and a group of huge red rats—bigger than house cats—emerged from the darkness. Strangely, these red rats had a pair of black, fleshy wings and eyes glowing blood-red, looking just like a swarm of giant bats!
"Watch out! Those monsters are the Blackblood Sewer Fiend's elite guards—Ironwing Bat Vermin. They're metal-type, immune to fire, bloodthirsty, deadly, and nearly indestructible! They're tough! Quick, let's take cover over there!" Shawn shouted.
"Holy crap—this millennial rat demon can really breed, there must be hundreds of them!" Leo Bright yelled in shock.
Before he could finish—"Screee—screee—screee—" the Ironwing Bat Vermin swooped down from above, diving straight at the four of them.
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