Demon King: Hero, don’t run away!

Dark Cloud yelled and shouted inside the bubble with Yang Yu, trying to catch the attention of other Nine-Life Cat Demons.

But no matter how much he shouted, he couldn’t draw the attention of the other Nine-Life Cat Demons.

”What have you done! Why isn’t anyone noticing my voice!”

”I suspect it’s also the effect of that tool,” Yang Yu smiled, ”just obediently lead the way for us.”

The bubble Yang Yu and his companions were in collided with a giant pink bubble and passed through a thick barrier, just like the other bubbles led by the Nine-Life Cat Demons.

Their view broadened, revealing a vast city in front of Yang Yu and his companions.

One bubble after another surged up and down, being received by floating factories in the air.

The factories resembled giant bars of soap, and from beneath, four turbines emitting blue flames kept rotating, supporting the factories’ suspension in mid-air.

Seeing the giant factory, Dark Cloud’s mind was filled with turbulent thoughts.

The reason Yang Yu and his companions arrived here was likely through the mechanism of a broken Storage Magic Array, masquerading themselves as ownerless items.

Perfect! Perfect! Truly heaven is helping me!

We have allies in both the validation factory and at the Maze Management Department.

Every bubble entering here will undergo validation at the validation factory, and then we can contact our insider!

As long as I contact the insider, I will definitely be rescued and stop these humans from reaching the depths of the city to see the Queen.

Dark Cloud made his calculations silently in his heart, but who would have thought that the giant bubble carrying Yang Yu and his companions exploded before it reached the validation factory.

Yang Yu and his companions fell from mid-air, landing steadily on the lawn near the factory.

Dark Cloud stared ashen-faced at the validation factory in the sky, this was not what he expected at all!

Tico, curious, gazed at the distant city, couldn’t help but exclaim:

”Is this the realm of the Nine-Life Cat Demons?

The buildings in the distance, they look similar to the main structure of the All Things Library…

Is that where the Nine-Life Cat Demons store their knowledge?”

”Not at all.” Dark Cloud immediately refuted Tico’s idea: ”That’s just where we live. Those buildings contain many small rooms. After completing our work, we rest in those buildings.”

”Work… you mean guiding those bubbles?” Tico asked enthusiastically.

Dark Cloud pursed his lips and didn’t respond.

”Maybe, once we meet the ruler here, we’ll know. Dark Cloud, how do we meet the ruler here? Lead the way for us,” Yang Yu surveyed the unique Cat City while ordering Dark Cloud.

Despite Dark Cloud’s reluctance, his body obediently took steps forward.

There exists a supreme Queen among the Nine-Life Cat Demon race. She can effortlessly decide the life and death of every Nine-Life Cat Demon, enjoying sacred and inviolable rights.

Almost every Nine-Life Cat Demon knows the Queen’s location and can find her immediately to deliver intelligence to her.

As a Nine-Life Cat Demon himself, Dark Cloud naturally knows how to find the Queen in this vast Cat City.

Generally speaking, every Nine-Life Cat Demon should greatly respect their Queen, but there are exceptions to everything.

Following Dark Cloud into the city, the city where the Nine-Life Cat Demons live was much quieter than Yang Yu imagined, the streets were empty, and the shops were closed, as if avoiding something.

Clearly, before entering the realm of the Nine-Life Cat Demons, countless Nine-Life Cat Demons could be seen…

”Dark Cloud, what was that thing in the sky just now used for?”

”Who knows!”

”Why are the streets so deserted, not a single Nine-Life Cat Demon in sight?”

”Who knows!”

”You better tell me everything you know!”

”I know nothing! I know nothing!”

Dark Cloud, filled with frustration, casually brushed off the questions, leaving Yang Yu helpless and itching to pin Dark Cloud to the ground.

Gao Yuanyi crossed his arms behind his head and yawned:

”This scene looks quite familiar now.

The places we’ve lived…

In that ruin, we saw a similar scene.

The desolate state of a war-torn area with closed doors, just like now.

It can’t be economic depression, right?

The streets would be full of homeless people then.

Is there a war going on here?”

Spoken without intent, heard with concern.

The Nine-Life Cat Demon society should be different from Human society. Besides, if there were a war here, there wouldn’t be so many Nine-Life Cat Demons outside…

Yang Yu was about to say this when he noticed Dark Cloud breaking out in a cold sweat, his brows furrowing.

”So it is as I thought, there indeed is something unusual with the Nine-Life Cat Demons,” Yang Yu probed.

”There is no war! We Nine-Life Cat Demons are a very peaceful race, how could there be war?”

Dark Cloud’s panicked denial ironically confirmed what Gao Yuanyi had said.

The Nine-Life Cat Demons are an extremely mysterious race, and from the scale of their city, their numbers are not small.

Only about twenty Nine-Life Cat Demons are active outside at any time, and Yang Yu could not believe that the rest were idle inside the Nine-Life Cat Demons’ city.

”Then explain why you stayed in Human ruins, and why after hearing my words you acted without hesitation, loudly questioning me?”

Dark Cloud, unsure how to respond, could only lower his head and watch the road while silently praying in his heart.

Indeed, there is an earth-shattering war happening in this Cat City.

In the central park of Cat City, a Nine-Life Cat Demon dressed in a purple military uniform stood upright, with a submachine gun on its back, delivering an impassioned speech to the countless Nine-Life Cat Demons below the giant wooden crate.

”...Ladies and gentlemen!

I’m sure you’ve all seen the public execution a few days ago!

Our comrades who lived with us day and night, after being captured, were subjected to the brutal ’refresh’ by that woman!

They lost the memories of being with us day and night, lost the time of fighting for the future with us…

Although they live, they are no different from being dead.

To us, they have already become different people!

I absolutely will not allow such a thing to happen to any of our comrades fighting alongside us again! Therefore, we must fight, overthrow that woman’s rule, and firmly take our destiny into our own hands!

We Nine-Life Cat Demons have existed for over ten thousand years, but we have only memories of the last few hundred years at best, we are likely missing many precious memories from our past!

This will never happen again!

We have fought for so long for our future, and victory is within sight!

The Demon King has descended, and that woman, to adhere to an ancient agreement, has sent her few Personal Guards to various workplaces to maintain the System’s normal operation!

Because she has this weakness, I am 100% confident that we will achieve ultimate victory!”