Chapter 35 : VOLUME TWO : Beating Up the Old Professor

“Snakes, as cold-blooded animals, have a habit of relying on their body temperature.“
“They need an external heat source to maintain their body temperature, so they will approach heat sources.“

The zoology professor on the podium used a laser pointer to circle the skin of the snake dissection diagram displayed in the PPT.

“In addition, snakes will periodically shed their skin.“
“The shedding cycle of snakes of different types and ages is also different.“
“Generally, the shedding cycle of a young snake is 28 days.“

“Before shedding, snakes will instinctively ingest a large amount of food to ensure nutritional reserves.“

The professor’s lips opened and closed as he lectured.
The students below the podium rustled as they took notes.
These were exam points that would most likely be tested in the final exam.

Gu Xiyan pretended to be taking notes, her fingertip pressing the button on the cap of her pen.
The demon energy detector, disguised as a pair of plain glasses, showed the professor’s appearance on the stage.

An abnormal blue fluorescence was glowing under his carotid artery.
The fluorescence was the leaking demon energy, which meant that the other party was a demon.

“The evacuation of irrelevant personnel has been prepared.
The special operations team is preparing to break in.
Gu Xiyan, report the situation!”

Xu Zhi’s voice came through the invisible headset.

Gu Xiyan pretended to scratch her head, her fingers lightly tapping her ear bone three times.
This was the code for “target is normal, can break in.”

Gu Xiyan looked up at the professor on the podium.
That was the target of this mission, a demon hiding in the university city.

Two days ago, the Demon Suppression Division had detected demonic energy fluctuations in the university city.
After a series of investigations, they had finally locked onto this so-called biology professor as the source of the demonic energy fluctuations.

And when the professor’s gaze met hers, the fire alarm suddenly rang!

That was the alarm set off by the logistics team, aimed at using the fire alarm to evacuate irrelevant people, such as the group of students who were listening to a demon lecture.

The classroom was instantly in chaos.
Gu Xiyan kicked over a desk and grabbed the collar of a boy who had fallen at her feet, throwing him out the door.

“Go! There’s thick smoke in the corridor!“

She deliberately shouted very loudly.

With the click of the steel door bolt, only Gu Xiyan and the professor were left in the lecture hall.

“Demon Suppression Division?“
The professor was slowly packing up his teaching materials.
“So I was discovered after all.“

“We tracked your demonic energy fluctuations two days ago, but I didn’t expect you to swagger around and pretend to be a professor.“

Gu Xiyan took out the pistol hidden in her armpit holster and chambered a round.
The muzzle of the gun shifted slightly with the other party’s action of packing up his teaching materials.
“Aren’t you going to run?“

“I’m afraid I can’t escape even if I run to the ends of the earth when I’m targeted by you hyenas.“
The professor sneered, took off his gold-rimmed glasses, and took out a glasses cloth to wipe them carefully.

“Demonic energy…“

The professor suddenly threw out the glasses cloth, and the satin unfolded into an iron plate in the air.
The moment Gu Xiyan turned her head to avoid it, she pulled the trigger.
The bullet grazed the glasses cloth and flew past, shattering the electronic screen behind the professor.

In an instant, sparks exploded and glass shattered, and the confrontation escalated.

“Don’t you have it on you too?“

The professor’s fingertip pointed to his neck, indicating the bloodstain on Gu Xiyan’s neck.

The strong wind brought by that piece of glasses cloth had scraped the skin on Gu Xiyan’s neck.

“I’m a human.“

Before Gu Xiyan could finish, the floor-to-ceiling windows of the lecture hall instantly shattered.
Several special operations team members rappelled down from the roof, shattered the glass, and swung into the room.

The rifles instantly began to roar.
The faint blue trajectory unique to spiritual energy bullets wove into a net of light in the dust and broken glass and rushed towards the professor.

A strong wind suddenly rolled up in front of the professor.
The warheads suddenly froze when they were three feet away from him, like a swarm of bees hitting an invisible barrier.
The next second, they were ground into fine powder by the strong wind.

These spiritual energy bullets couldn’t break through that fierce strong wind at all!

However, the special operations team of the Demon Suppression Division was never the main force in demon-slaying operations.
They were always the backbone, the team that suppressed demons, assembled for team combat, and contained demons.

To put it bluntly, they were just pawns, righteous pawns, but they were never ashamed of being pawns.

The entire Demon Suppression Division was like a precision instrument, and every member was a screw on this instrument.
It was just that some screws were used to fix the base, while others were used to undertake important responsibilities.

Just like them, slaying demons was never their mission, and it was the same this time.

The real sharp knife had just aimed its blade at the demon at this moment!

“Boom!“

A black long saber split the wall behind the professor, and Xu Zhi’s blade, wrapped in a dark red light, pierced under the professor’s ribs.

“Lu Qingtian! Demon-Suppressing Talisman!“

Xu Zhi’s long saber continued its momentum and pinned the professor to the ground.

The blade trembled, and the professor’s demonic energy continuously leaked out from the wound.
His facial hair grew wildly, and his fangs pierced his lips.
A weasel-like face gradually appeared on his face.

“Coming, coming!“

Lu Qingtian jumped out of the hole, waving the Demon-Suppressing Talisman he had just taken out of his waist pouch, and stuck it on the weasel professor’s forehead.

As long as the Demon-Suppressing Talisman was stuck on him, the profound golden threads would bind his soul until he was burned to ashes.

“The Heavenly Law is manif…“

But he had just begun to chant the incantation when he was interrupted by a sudden sound of tearing through the air.
An ice prism suddenly shot out from the shadows, grazed the web of his hand, and pinned the talisman to the wall.

Frost patterns spread across the concrete wall at a terrifying speed.

Then, the frost flowers exploded into a sky of ice crystals like a bomb.
The blast wave from the frost explosion overturned countless tables and chairs, and a cold and thick demonic energy spread out with it.

The ice crystals flying in the sky instantly clung to the bodies of everyone in the classroom, fixing them in place and unable to move.

The tactical headset transmitted a noisy electric current, which mixed with a “dada” sound coming from far to near and drilled into everyone’s ears.

That was a sound similar to high heels tapping on the ground.
It seemed that someone was gradually approaching this classroom!

This sound!

It’s that snake demon!

The ice shards condensed in the fibers of Xu Zhi’s combat uniform were making a faint cracking sound.
The ice crystals covering his entire body only allowed him to roll his eyes.
The seemingly thin layer of ice crystals was as strong as steel and could not be broken free.

The ice crystals condensed on Gu Xiyan’s eyelashes reflected the figure of the snake demon girl coming on a mist of ice.
White frost flowers bloomed where the tips of her feet touched the ground, and her amber-gold vertical pupils swept over everyone.

“Don’t struggle, you’ll get hurt.“

The snake demon girl’s light voice was like an ice cube falling into a whiskey glass, cold and lazy.

Xu Zhi bit the tip of his tongue, trying to break through the ice seal.
The smell of blood filled his mouth.

“I said don’t move!“

The snake demon girl suddenly turned her head, her vertical pupils staring at Xu Zhi.

But for some reason, Xu Zhi actually heard a hint of coquettishness in this warning.

It was as if this snake demon girl didn’t want him to get hurt.

Everyone in the classroom was covered in ice crystals and couldn’t move.
At this moment, they were completely lambs to the slaughter in front of the snake demon girl!

Xu Zhi tried hard to stimulate the violent aura in his blood vessels, trying to create a high temperature to melt the ice crystals.
But before he could successfully melt the ice crystals, the snake demon girl had already made a move.

She didn’t attack the people in the classroom.
Instead, she grabbed the professor’s collar and retreated three steps, her figure disappearing in a suddenly exploding ice mist.

The next second, the bone-chilling low temperature suddenly disappeared, and the ice crystals covering everyone’s bodies all melted.

The frozen bloodstains on the floor tiles were still reflecting the lazy afternoon sun outside the window, but everyone in the room was a little confused.

“What on earth does she want to do?“

Xu Zhi shook the water droplets from his bangs.
This snake demon girl was too strange.
From the first time they met, she had revealed a logic of behavior that Xu Zhi couldn’t understand.
She was a demon, but she was hunting demons, but this time she had saved a demon?

“Is she saving her own kind?“

Gu Xiyan’s high heels crushed half a piece of unmelted ice crystal residue.
The residual demonic energy in the ice crystals was rapidly dissipating at a speed visible to the naked eye.

“Last week, she froze that big guy from Lin’an University into a pile of ice shards.“

“She could have killed us.
Why didn’t she?“

Lu Qingtian sat slumped by an overturned desk, panting heavily.

“Who knows!“
Xu Zhi took off his bronze beast mask in frustration.
“Maybe it’s a cat playing with a mouse.
How can a demon have mercy?“

“Buzz—“

The inner pocket of his tactical suit suddenly vibrated.
A message was jumping on the screen of the phone Xu Zhi took out.

“You promised to pick me up later.
Don’t forget!“

The cat-eared avatar of “A-Lin” on the screen was glowing faintly.