Yu Sheng cautiously led Huli and Eileen to a spot near the end of the broken stairs. He tilted his head back and studied the enormous rift covering the end of the tower, while Eileen nervously hid by his feet, gripping his trouser leg with one hand and clutching the arthropod fragment with the other, trying to poke at the unstable space near the rift.
...It was hard to tell whether she was a coward or a reckless idiot.
The enormous spatial rift shimmered with dizzying, chaotic colors, as though distant starlight had been distorted again and again before being projected onto a pane of shattered glass. The area around the rift was littered with countless fragments of varying sizes. New fragments constantly broke away from the rift, while others disintegrated and vanished out of thin air. A low, buzzing hum echoed by their ears, faint and hollow.
Huli thought for a moment, then plucked off a tail and threw it across the rift.
The silver-white fox tail erupted with a bright propulsion flame in midair and instantly whooshed across the rift.
"Benefactor, the connection to the tail has been severed." Huli turned to look at Yu Sheng. "But I set it to fly back on its own ten seconds after the connection is interrupted—assuming it hasn't been destroyed."
Eileen was stunned. "What the hell? Your tails can be programmed!? They even have an offline mode? I thought once you fired that thing, it was just gone..."
Huli immediately planted her hands on her hips. "How could a fox tail be such an inconvenient thing!"
Yu Sheng also wanted to make a remark, but before he could speak, the corner of his eye caught a flash of fire. The next moment, a silver-white fox tail flew out of the rift