Reinforcements?
Li Yuqing looked stunned for a moment and instinctively glanced around, almost doubting his ears.
Wait, didn't you only bring one kid?
Where else were the reinforce...
"A Ran, you're up."
Tong Hua, acting director of Yacheng's North Mountain District, gave the order. "Keep the scale under control. Don't cause too much collateral damage."
"Understood."
Outside the factory grounds, the boy nodded. Spreading bone and iron light rose from beneath his collar, covering his handsome face and replacing it with a savage, wolflike mask of iron bones.
Brutal flames, crimson as blood, burst from his eyes.
Instantly, the coal trucks parked along the roadside shuddered, their metal panels splitting and twisting.
The mountains of coal dust and dirt piled in their beds churned. Mechanical beasts sleeping in the darkness opened their eyes and tore apart their disguises! Like a wolf pack, they crawled out of concealment and howled skyward, answering one another.
Scorching flames ignited within their bodies and surged upward.
They needed no commands, nor any effort spent controlling them. The instant An Ran awakened them, they responded to the will of the pack's master and lunged toward the warehouse district just ahead!
They soared like owls, raced like tigers and leopards, slithered like serpents, and even gathered into a surging swarm of bees... Their seemingly chaotic clashes were actually governed by an invisible hand behind the scenes, their coordination so tight they might have been a single entity.
Under the scrutiny of the drone-like bee swarm, every threat was marked. Immediately afterward, the burning metal monsters charged straight in and began their encirclement.
The mechanical birds circling overhead folded their wings the moment they locked onto their targets, diving like missiles and exploding in bursts of flame. The heaving, writhing darkness rapidly shuddered as it burned. Illusions