The Villainess Cannot Escape — Five Beast Husbands Chase Her Madly-Chapter 172: Swan Rescues Qiuqiu
The night was black as ink. Inside the thermal incubation chamber, the threads of fate quietly tightened.
Qiuqiu, the little white-furred female cub, was curled up on a soft cushion. Her fluffy tail was wrapped around her body, and her small pink nose twitched slightly as if she were lost in a sweet dream.
Suddenly!
A bizarre red light tore through the void and, like a viper, burrowed into Qiuqiu’s body!
"Oof!"
Qiuqiu’s body suddenly went rigid, her small pink nose twitching violently.
She smelled danger.
"CRACK CRACK CRACK!"
The sound of twisting bones suddenly erupted. In excruciating pain, the petite female cub began to deform. Her snow-white fur was consumed by jet-black scales, and in the blink of an eye, she transformed into a ferocious male lizard cub!
Scarlet, slitted pupils opened, reflecting the phantom image of the Book of Fate.
’Escape. I must escape!’
He struggled wildly, his sharp claws tearing the soft cushion to shreds as he stumbled toward the window.
"CRACK!!"
The tempered glass shattered on impact, and a dark figure shot into the night sky like an arrow loosed from its bow.
All that remained were a few drifting Black Scales, which glinted with a cold and eerie purple light under the moon.
As if controlled by some invisible force, they spun slowly as they fell.
「The Alchemy Lab.」
Su An’an’s pink fox ears swayed contentedly as she tapped a finger, placing the last tube of blue gene stabilizer into a refrigerated container.
"Take this to Lu Chengfeng."
She handed it to a Cow Clan Warrior and was stretching lazily, about to head back to her room to rest.
Suddenly, Little Pink’s alarm blared in her sea of consciousness:
"Your Highness! Qiuqiu just went berserk and ran off!"
’What?’
Su An’an’s pupils contracted. When she burst into the cub’s room, all she saw were glittering shards scattered across the floor.
A few drops of blood that hadn’t dried yet, and that familiar, purple-glowing Black Scale.
"Qiuqiu!"
She knelt, and the moment her fingertips touched the lingering scale, her heart clenched violently.
The scale was glowing with an unnatural purple light—the mark of King’s Blood going berserk.
Su An’an’s voice turned chillingly cold. "Immediately recall Fei Zhao, Night Abyss, Ying Jiuyao, and Lan Cangming."
"Now! Right now!"
「Black Star, the outskirts of the Lion Territory.」
Fei Zhao had just finished threatening that group of stubborn lions and was about to head to the Rhino Clan with Lu Chengfeng.
His wrist-mounted smart device suddenly exploded with a glaring red light. Su An’an’s emergency summons flashed frantically on the screen.
His expression changed in an instant. He turned to Lu Chengfeng and said, "The Female Master is looking for me. I have to go back immediately."
No further explanation was needed.
Lu Chengfeng nodded at once. "Leave this to me. Hurry back."
Fei Zhao’s figure became a blur, pushing the speed of the Fox Clan to its absolute limit. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞
By the time he rushed back to the Waste Female Safety House,
Night Abyss was just folding his dragon Wings, and Ying Jiuyao and Lan Cangming had also arrived at the same time.
The four beastmen exchanged a look, seeing the same gravity in each other’s eyes.
’Something happened!’
「Inside the cub’s room.」
Su An’an’s fingertips dug so deep into her palm that the jet-black scale in her hand was nearly crushed.
"It’s all my fault!"
Her voice was so faint it seemed it might dissipate in the wind. "I knew Qiuqiu’s situation was unique, but I still neglected him."
Images of cold laboratory instruments and the chilling glint of light on a dissection table flashed through her mind.
As did the miserable state of the King Blood Beastmen who had been imprisoned for research.
Her body began to tremble uncontrollably, as if she could already see Qiuqiu strapped to an operating table.
Big Cat stepped forward and pulled Su An’an into his arms, his hand gently stroking her tense back.
"It’s not your fault. We will definitely find him."
"Qiuqiu wouldn’t go berserk for no reason."
Night Abyss was repeatedly reviewing the surveillance footage when his dark red, slitted pupils suddenly constricted. "Look at this!"
On the surveillance screen, Qiuqiu’s sleeping form suddenly twitched violently.
In that exact moment, a bizarre red light flashed in the air and, like a viper, burrowed into the cub’s body!
Lan Cangming formed an Ice Crystal at his fingertip, freezing the frame on the red light. "This isn’t an ordinary ability. It’s a secret technique from a special bloodline."
"Damn it!"
Fei Zhao’s fox ears shot up in anger. "Is it those Black Priests skulking in the shadows again?"
Su An’an shot to her feet, a terrifying storm brewing in her black eyes. "I don’t care who it is!"
Her voice was as cold as polar ice. "Anyone who dares to touch my Qiuqiu, I won’t let them get away with it!"
"Big Cat, lock down all exits on Black Star immediately. Fei Zhao, activate the underground intelligence network. Cangming and Night Abyss, you two analyze Qiuqiu’s possible destinations."
Her gaze swept over her Four Great Beast Husbands. "You must find him within 24 hours!"
"Yes!"
The Four Great Beast Husbands responded in unison, their figures vanishing from the spot in an instant.
「The monitoring room of a secret villa.」
Louis’s amber beast eyes glinted with greed in front of the dim monitor.
He toyed with a Blood-colored Compass in his hand—a Royal Blood Tracker bestowed upon him by Lord Red.
At that moment, the Blood-colored Compass was vibrating frantically in his palm. Its needle, like a viper that had scented its prey, was locked firmly on the direction of the East District mining caves.
"Run? Where can you possibly run to?"
He licked his sharp fangs, his fingertip tracing a bead of blood seeping from the compass’s edge. "The little half-breed’s blood is the best road sign."
He rose, went to the door, and waved at the Death Warriors. "Everyone to the mining caves! I want him alive if you can, but I want a body if you can’t!"
Like hyenas unleashed from a cage, the Death Warriors’ dark figures swept across the wasteland, heading straight for the caves.
「The deepest part of the abandoned mining caves.」
Qiuqiu was curled up in the darkest corner of a rock crevice. A purplish-black blood continuously seeped from his jet-black scales.
Every breath brought a searing pain, but he didn’t dare make a sound.
His pursuers were like hyenas that had scented blood; no matter where he hid, they would find him.
"CLINK, CLINK!"
The sound of rolling pebbles grew closer and closer.
Qiuqiu’s trembling claw reached for his throat, the sharp barb on it already pressing against his most vulnerable scale.
He would rather die than become a tool for the Rebel Army, and he certainly wouldn’t become a blade used to harm Su An’an.
The instant the tip of his claw pierced his flesh—
"BOOM!"
The mine shaft trembled, its rock walls cracking as rubble rained down.
A cacophony of miserable howls rose from outside the cave, mixed with the crack of breaking bones and the wet thud of flesh being torn apart.
All of it blended with a sound that was both elegant and cruel—the beat of wings!
Suddenly, "SWISH!" a blindingly bright Light Blade sliced through the darkness, precisely severing all the infrared sights. The screams of the Death Warriors stopped abruptly.
’He’s here!’
In the darkness, a pair of amber pupils slowly lit up, like smoldering embers in an abyss.
A Swan Beastman walked through the pool of blood. His left wing was as white as the first snow of winter, while his right was as black as the eternal abyss of night.
With every step he took, viscous drops of blood fell from his black wing, blooming like eerie blood-red plum blossoms on the rocky ground.
Sanctity and corruption blended perfectly in his being.
Qiuqiu, lashing out in terror, lunged for his throat, only to be caught by the scruff of his neck by a pair of slender fingers.
"Tsk."
Seville shook his wrist, where a bite had drawn blood, a trace of surprise flashing in his amber, avian eyes.
"I followed the stench of the Black Priests here, thinking they had snatched a Divine Female."
He pinched the cub’s cheek, sizing him up. "Turns out it’s just a little half-breed mutt?"
