Reborn As A Villainous Cannon Fodder

“Yino, you clearly grew up in the Grand Tutor’s Mansion, so why are you so familiar with the roads of Demon Abyss City?”

Walking through the streets of Demon Abyss City, the red fox girl clasped her hands behind her back, curiously observing the outsider in front of her who seemed more familiar with the area than the locals.

A few hours ago, after Yino and Liuli said their farewells at the cliff’s edge, Jinyue had been princess-carried by Yino as they jumped into the Demon Abyss together. Lily hadn’t followed Liuli, but like the Nine-Colored Deer, had been bound into a contract with Yino.

According to Yino, he was taking Jinyue somewhere next.

He said that on the outskirts of Demon Abyss City, there was a hidden mining district, and beneath that mining district lay a peerless secret treasure.

Jinyue listened with a confused expression.

Though she wasn’t a local of Demon Abyss, since joining the Witch Tea Party, Jinyue had made countless trips to Demon Abyss and was now very familiar with its layout and connections.

The Full Moon Sect, the Witch Cult, the Divine Abyss Gate, the Fallen Immortal Tower…

So-called Demon Abyss City was nothing more than a villain headquarters jointly established by several cult organizations that had spawned from the Demon Abyss, plus several antagonist organizations that had been exiled by the Great Dragon Dynasty.

And the mining district Yino described, Jinyue naturally knew about it long ago.

The outskirts of Demon Abyss City were almost entirely mining districts. After all, this godforsaken place had nothing else—just plenty of demon crystals scattered everywhere. You could dig anywhere and easily uncover entire veins.

However, demon crystals were also notorious for their corrupting properties.

These mining districts built on the outskirts claimed thousands upon thousands of miners each year who contracted demon crystal disease and were buried beneath the mines.

Naturally, these blood-and-sweat factory mining districts were monopolized by the major powers beneath the Demon Abyss.

Since they were either cults or villain organizations with no moral pressure to begin with, they could easily capture slaves from the Western Region to work as black laborers in the mines.

When Jinyue first arrived at the Demon Abyss, she deeply despised these mining district slave masters.

Over all these years, she had seen far too many fox clan compatriots captured for forced labor. They died from demon crystal disease infections, still being whipped and cursed by overseers until their final breath…

But now, Jinyue had grown numb to such suffering.

After working with the Celestial Master for many years, she had gradually seen through the nature of fate. Killing overseers and helping her people escape the Demon Abyss were meaningless acts, because everything in this world was planned by invisible hands.

It was very likely that even Jinyue’s acts of saving her compatriots were within those Celestial Masters’ prophecies…

If she couldn’t defeat the organization that truly manipulated fate, no matter how much Jinyue saved these suffering masses, it would all be in vain. If the Celestial Masters wished it, they could create another Demon Abyss descending upon the world at any time, destroying their homes.

Her chaotic thoughts reaching this point, Jinyue’s couldn’t help but feel somewhat depressed.

After all, this was Demon Abyss City—jointly managed by several major cults, filled with drug trafficking and bloody violence, absolutely embodying the law of the jungle as the freest nation.

Walking down the street, the roadsides were filled with either mentally disturbed homeless people or dying patients infected with demon crystal disease or overdosed on forbidden drugs…

The rulers of Demon Abyss City didn’t care about them.

After all, the city had no internal circulation to speak of. Every year, thousands of fresh blood still poured into the city, either voluntarily joining cults or being trafficked and tricked into the Demon Abyss.

Thinking of this now, Jinyue couldn’t help but recall a certain girl wearing a spirit kite mask.

She wasn’t a good woman either.

Because Jinyue remembered that in the most prosperous district of Demon Abyss City stood a building called the Fallen Immortal Tower.

On the ninth floor of the Fallen Immortal Tower was the same Hundred Spirits Pavilion sign as the Great Dragon Dynasty’s black market.

That woman… She imported contraband from the Western Region to sell in the Central Plains Dynasty, then purchased goods cheaply from the Central Plains Dynasty to sell at high prices to the poor souls beneath the Demon Abyss.

This was why Jinyue had long heard of the Hundred Spirits Pavilion Master’s reputation.

She just hadn’t expected… Such a black-hearted profiteer would turn out to be Yino’s aunt, and had been living in the Grand Tutor’s Mansion long-term. Indeed, whether in the Western Region or Central Plains, any power that held authority was no good!

“Jinyue…”

“Jinyue…?”

Lost in thought, Jinyue dimly heard someone calling her name.

She was about to look up when she crashed headfirst into Yino’s back.

“I say, your inner world seems a bit too rich.”

Jinyue rubbed her slightly aching head, while the black-clothed boy who had stopped ahead turned around helplessly.

During their conversation, Yino had already turned to look at her behind him, and Jinyue snapped back from that long internal drama.

“How… how did you know…”

“Your expressions were too rich—dejected one moment, excited the next, then looking like you were gritting your teeth thinking of some enemy…”

Yino said while curiously observing her expression.

Jinyue pouted, she didn’t want to discuss Xinyao with Yino, so she quickly changed the subject:

“So… There are at least seven or eight mining districts in different directions outside the city. Which mining district are we actually going to for that secret treasure you mentioned?”

Returning her thoughts to reality, Jinyue tilted her head slightly as her charming eyes blinking like a little fox full of curiosity.

On the other side, Yino stood at the corner of a small alley, leaning against the wall and sighing helplessly:

“To be honest, I don’t actually remember where that mining district is…”

“Wait, you don’t remember?”

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