Chapter 570 - 464: Control of the Magnetic Pile: Red Cloud Descends

’Gao Xiaomeng, you are so damn... amazing!!!’ Gao Neng honestly had no idea how to express his current emotions.

He and Gao Xiaomeng had an agreement.

After taking down three cities, they were supposed to use the chaos to ’backdoor’ the aliens...

So, based on this agreement, they’d come up with a general strategy: Gao Xiaomeng would lay low and blend in with the army, while Gao Neng would be the high-profile one, drawing everyone’s eyes.

But what happened instead?

That girl Gao Xiaomeng had absolutely no concept of laying low.

Not only was she not low-key, she was at least twice as flashy as him!

He hadn’t even had a chance to act before Gao Xiaomeng made her move. And if that were all, it would be one thing, but after exposing a holographic projection scam, she actually swallowed a Bird of the Soul.

How reckless can you possibly be?!

Don’t you realize this is the battlefield for a massive war between the Human Alliance and the alien races?!

You’re a Cat King...

Going on a killing spree out here, whose side are you even on?!

A third party?

"She really is one of the aliens!"

"That Cat King... I’m afraid she’s still evolving!"

"What a terrifying Cat King!"

Just as Gao Neng expected, a wave of murmuring quickly spread through the troops.

After all, the matter of whether to ally with or go to war with the Cat Race had not yet been made public in the Alliance. For many of the ordinary soldiers, their minds were still fixed on the battle at the South District City Gate.

The Cat Race had already declared war on humanity!

So, what was Gao Xiaomeng’s allegiance? Who could possibly know?

"This cat... is truly impressive!" Qin Jianfei’s gaze now also fell upon Gao Xiaomeng, because the speed she had just displayed was absolutely not slow.

In fact, to a certain extent, she wasn’t much weaker than he was.

’Has this Cat King reached Tier Nine?’

Qin Jianfei clearly remembered that during the battle at the South District City Gate, Gao Xiaomeng had already displayed power far surpassing that of a typical Tier-Eight.

If the Tier-Nine vice-commander guarding the South District City Gate hadn’t personally intervened back then, Gao Xiaomeng would have been practically invincible.

The battle at the South District City Gate...

It hadn’t been that long ago.

’If she could break through again so quickly, what heights could this Cat King reach in the future?’

’Who could possibly predict it?’

"Gao Neng, I hope you can keep her under control." Qin Jianfei was, naturally, one of the few people who knew of the relationship between Gao Neng and Gao Xiaomeng, but even so, he couldn’t help but worry.

A Cat King, and one who had risen to power so abruptly...

Honestly, it was anything but normal!

"Gao Xiaomeng, get back here right now!" Gao Neng heard the soldiers’ murmuring below, and he could also see the looks on the faces of Qin Jianfei and the others.

Therefore, he had to demonstrate that he had Gao Xiaomeng under control.

Otherwise, even with his status in the Human Alliance being at an all-time high, he probably couldn’t withstand the trouble this girl was causing.

The moment Gao Neng’s words fell.

Fang Tangtang immediately spoke up as well.

"Xiaomeng, come here! I’ll make fish for you later!" Fang Tangtang said, opening her arms wide, as if waiting for Gao Xiaomeng to leap into her embrace.

"But..." Gao Xiaomeng hesitated, seemingly wanting to say something.

However, her gaze swept over the group of wide-eyed aliens beside her and the Human Alliance army charging toward the city wall. The words were on the tip of her tongue, but ultimately, she didn’t say them.

"Gao Xiaomeng, just come here first," Gao Neng said again.

"..."

The air seemed thick with tension.

It wasn’t just Qin Jianfei observing Gao Xiaomeng’s demeanor; even Li Tiannan and Sword Elder were watching the expression on her face.

"Fine, I get it!" Gao Xiaomeng pouted, then prepared to turn and leap toward Gao Neng’s position.

But in the instant Gao Xiaomeng turned around...

A blood-red cloud suddenly spread across the sky.

And then, a voice echoed.

"A stray cat... You’ve already come. Did you think you could just leave?!"

BOOM!

The red cloud pressed down.

A dense, bloody aura rolled directly toward Gao Xiaomeng.

"Stray cat? I am the Cat King of the Cat Race, Gao Xiaomeng!!!" Gao Xiaomeng threw her head back. Watching the dense, bloody aura bear down on her, she neither retreated nor dodged, but simply roared, "Get lost!"

"Get lost!"

"..."

Her voice wasn’t loud, yet it forcibly tore a hole in the red cloud.

For directly in front of Gao Xiaomeng, a mass of compressed, churning energy was now suspended, swirling like a dragon with a faint radiance flowing within.

"The source of evolution?!" From within the red cloud, a head poked out.

A pair of red eyes stared intently at the mass of energy in front of Gao Xiaomeng, his expression one of utter disbelief, as if he were looking at a monster.

Meanwhile, Qin Jianfei, Li Tiannan, and the others also stared with wide eyes.

Because, in their eyes...

That mass of energy was none other than a ’Magnetic Pile’!

A Magnetic Pile!

The source of evolution!

These were two completely different terms.

But their meanings were extremely similar.

In human understanding, a "Magnetic Pile" was a method of unlocking a source of evolution. In the eyes of the alien races, however, Magnetic Piles and anything else that could be evolved were collectively termed "sources of evolution."

So, which of them was right?

A serious debate on the matter would take at least ten thousand words to resolve, so we won’t bother with an explanation here.

The critical question at the moment wasn’t about the source of evolution itself, but how a ’Magnetic Pile’ had suddenly materialized in front of Gao Xiaomeng!

"Could it be that she’s a conduit? Is this cat the channel to open that conduit?" Sword Elder looked toward Li Tiannan, as this seemed to be the only explanation.

"Gao Neng obtained evolutionary energy in the Magnetic Mountain, while this cat gained direct control over a Magnetic Pile?" Li Tiannan’s brow was deeply furrowed.

"If that’s really the case, then the two of them together..."

"Indeed. It’s terrifying!"

"..."

Li Tiannan and Sword Elder didn’t continue the discussion.

The reason was that they had already gotten a clear look at the face that had emerged from the red cloud.

A Strongest of the Blood Race!

"So, the alien Strongest have come, just as we thought." Li Tiannan and Sword Elder exchanged a glance. Both of them knew that unforeseen variables were about to enter the war.

But what they didn’t know was...

This Strongest from the Blood Race, the first to show himself, actually had another identity: he was the father of the recently deceased Blood Grand Marshal.

That’s right!

His name was ’Blood Marshal’.

The Blood Marshal was grieving the loss of his own son—the tragedy of an old father outliving his child. He was in the depths of sorrow and indignation when he suddenly saw the distress signal sent from above Ice City.

The humans had dispatched a Strongest and injured the White-faced King.

A message like that...

Ordinarily, it wouldn’t have affected him much.

After all, what the hell did it have to do with him?

This time, however, he felt it was very much his damn business!

His son had died in this very war. He was currently soaking in the Blood Pool, able to do nothing but talk.

Fury.

Combined with the humans’ breach of their agreement, it compelled him to rush over at the first possible moment.

But even so, he had only planned to make a small show of force and then return to the edge of his Blood Pool to listen to his pitiful son’s woes.

But what happened instead?

He’d stumbled upon an unexpected delight!

"A cat that can control a source of evolution? Excellent!" The Blood Marshal’s face was a mixture of shock and delight. Normally, after making one move, he wouldn’t immediately make another.

As things stood, his side didn’t actually hold the advantage. After all, he could already sense the presences of Li Tiannan and Sword Elder.

The humans’ two great Strongest were likewise holding the line behind the main army.

It was a tactic the humans excelled at.

If he were to force a confrontation now, without waiting for other Strongest to arrive as reinforcements, it would mean fighting one against two.

One versus two?

He might have a chance of winning, but victory wasn’t guaranteed.

However, when he saw the ’source of evolution’ that Gao Xiaomeng manifested, his thinking changed.

A cat like this...

If he couldn’t capture her and make her his pet, his life would be meaningless!

"What a fine silver cat, as white as snow. Excellent, truly excellent. Your name is Gao Xiaomeng? That doesn’t sound very impressive. Why don’t I bestow upon you a more formidable name? We’ll call you ’Dou Dou,’ and you can serve as my mount from now on!" The Blood Marshal tilted his head back and strode out from within the red cloud.

A Strongest of the Blood Race!

He stood a full seven meters tall!

His entire body was encased in red Scale Armor.

And on his forehead, two sharp horns glinted with silver light.

"Dou Dou?" Gao Xiaomeng blinked a couple of times, then turned her head away in disdain. "This Xiaomeng Queen doesn’t speak to morons!"