Chapter 72: Don’t Underestimate the Bond Between Us!

“Shh!”
Bai Ling pulled Chengzi behind the bushes.
A team of people dressed as school workers, holding rifles, passed over their heads in a very professional tactical formation.

“Xiao Bai Bai, are you some kind of secret assassin?”
After the team had gone far away, Chengzi finally asked.

“Xiao Bai Bai?”
The girl was puzzled.
Chengzi had never called her that before.
She had always called her by her name or just called her “girl.”

When did she get this nickname “Xiao Bai Bai”?

“I… um, actually, I’m a demon.”
The girl thought for a moment and decided to tell Chengzi the truth.
Anyway, her memory would be erased by the Demon Suppression Division later.
Even if there was no Demon Suppression Division, she would help this silly girl forget these things.

During the time she had been in seclusion with Guan Qing, she had not only learned how to control her demonic energy.

The girl knew a little bit about simple tricks like how to erase the memories of ordinary people and give them suggestions.

“Pfft!”
Unexpectedly, Chengzi suddenly covered her mouth and laughed.
“Mmm, mmm, I believe you!”

This was clearly not believing.

But the girl still admired Chengzi.
Just five minutes ago, she had seen her kill a person with her own hands, and now she could laugh carefree here.

This psychological adjustment ability was truly top-notch.

“So you really are that kind of secret assassin?”
Chengzi suddenly moved closer, with an overflowing scent of gardenia.
“The kind in the manga, the secret assassins who deal with those bad guys, and kill them all with a ‘bang, bang, bang’!”

She made a gun gesture with her fingers and shot at a non-existent enemy in the air.
“So cool! Can you teach me?”

“You’d rather believe I’m an assassin than believe that the fat uncle at the convenience store at the school gate is the world’s number one assassin.”
The girl poked her in the waist with a huff.

She always felt that she had smelled this overflowing scent of gardenia somewhere before, but she couldn’t remember where.

The girl calmed down, focused on her nasal cavity, and carefully captured the faint, rotten smell in the air.

The main task now was still to find Feng Yi.
She didn’t know what he had encountered to erupt with this concentration of corpse qi.

The downpour would indeed wash away the traces of corpse qi, but the concentration of corpse qi that Feng Yi had just erupted was too high, so high that even in the downpour, the girl could smell it from two kilometers away.

But…

‘Unable to locate!’

The corpse qi was pointing to too many locations, so many that the girl suspected that he had covered the entire Lin’an University City with corpse qi!

This intensity was probably three or four times stronger than when she had met him at the riverside!

‘I don’t know if I can beat him even in my fully demonized form…’

Hmm?!

A faint trace of demonic energy was suddenly mixed in with the faint smell.
That demonic energy was clearly from Gu Xiyan.

‘Who is she fighting with again?’

The girl suddenly realized that there seemed to be four forces lurking in Lin’an University now: the demon faction represented by her, the Demon Suppression Division led by Xu Zhi, the unidentified armed squad disguised as school workers they had just met, and perhaps the scum of the demon slayers represented by the young man she had just killed?

‘What the hell! Is Lin’an some kind of strategic location? How long has it been since the Skin-Painter incident? Why is it the center of a vortex again?’

‘Next time, will they say that there’s some thousand-year-old tomb under Lin’an University, and then a group of people will disguise themselves as students and teachers to sneak into the campus to fight for something in this tomb, causing a huge mess?’

The girl complained ten thousand times in her heart, but she still pulled Chengzi and prepared to find Gu Xiyan first.

‘It had forced her to demonize.
It must be a very difficult opponent.’

“The people of the Demon Suppression Division, are they going to protect that zombie?”
The cold, mechanical voice mixed with the sound of raindrops hitting the ground.
Fine water droplets slid down the jawline of Night Owl’s tactical mask.

“No, no, no, I wish that zombie would die right away.”
Gu Xiyan gritted her teeth and reloaded her rifle.
The rain soaked her neck, leaving a dark red stain on the bandage.
“But to hand him over to you guys who have come out of nowhere, that’s impossible.”

Her soaked fox ears twitched.
Three balls of faint blue fox fire appeared around her, making a hissing, evaporating sound when they touched the raindrops.

“A half-demon from the Demon Suppression Division, shouldn’t be considered a civilian, right?”
Night Owl slowly drew his combat saber and shook off the water droplets.

“I’m a human!!!”
Gu Xiyan roared, and three balls of fox fire shot out like lightning.

“Human? Just a half-breed.”

Night Owl lightly split the fox fire with his saber.
Gu Xiyan took the opportunity to fire continuously.
The bullets passed through the rain curtain but only sparked on Night Owl’s combat saber.

A cold light suddenly appeared in the rain curtain.
In an instant, Night Owl was as close as a ghost!

‘This is bad!’

Gu Xiyan cried out in her heart and hurriedly retreated, but Night Owl’s approach was too fast.
There was no way to avoid this slash!

She could only use the gun in her hand to block this slash!

“Tss!”

The moment the combat saber touched the gun barrel, the Demon Suppression Division’s standard-issue rifle was cut like butter with a hot knife.
The parts clattered to the ground.

But the good news was that its sacrifice had successfully bought Gu Xiyan time!

Gu Xiyan had successfully retreated two steps.
She instantly spun and threw a side kick at Night Owl’s neck.
A short blade protruded from the heel of her high heel, glinting with a cold light!

“Half-breed!”

Night Owl leaned back in time.
The short blade grazed his mask by a hair’s breadth, shattering countless raindrops.

And his combat saber was about to touch Gu Xiyan’s calf.
If this slash had landed, it would definitely have broken her leg bone!

“Bang!”

A bullet suddenly flew from the back left.
Night Owl hurriedly retreated, and the bullet that had been aimed at his forehead only shattered half of his mask.

A centipede-like scar snaked across the half of his face under the mask.
If it weren’t for the scar, this half of his face alone would be enough to be called beautiful.

Who would have thought that the head of the Enforcement Department, Night Owl, was actually a woman?

“Who are you calling a half-breed?!”

The mask fragments landed on the ground with a crisp sound, and the girl’s voice pierced through the rain curtain from the back left.

“You brat, your aim is so bad!”
Gu Xiyan also got a little breathing room from this shot.
She kicked off her high heels and stepped barefoot in the rain.

She pulled off the two heels, and the half-short blade in her hand became a pair of daggers.

“I’m a legend! What are you talking about, you stinky gold!”
The girl rushed over, her pistol continuously firing.

The bullets pierced through the rain curtain and shot towards them, but were dodged by Night Owl’s ghostly movements.

“Is that how a legend fights, by running?!”

Gu Xiyan wielded her twin daggers and engaged in close combat with Night Owl.
The bullets fired by the girl had already limited Night Owl’s position to the greatest extent, allowing Gu Xiyan to gain a considerable advantage in close combat.

But Night Owl’s movements were ridiculously fast.
Gu Xiyan had only fought her for a few moves before she was kicked several meters away.
And the girl who was rushing over was also about to get close to Night Owl.

“Whoosh, whoosh!”

The moment Gu Xiyan was kicked away, she threw out her twin daggers.
The black-coated blades turned into two streams of light in the rain curtain.

“Naive!”

Night Owl only tilted her body slightly, and the pair of daggers had already brushed past her shoulder.

“Dropping your weapon on the battlefield is the most foolish choice…”

Her words were suddenly interrupted by the cold touch on her neck.
The moment she turned her head, the pair of daggers were already pressed against both sides of her neck.

‘It’s that girl!’

She suddenly realized that Gu Xiyan had thrown the two daggers not to cause damage to her, but to throw them to the girl!

‘In that case…’

She suddenly turned her head, and a black gun barrel was already pressed against her forehead.

Gu Xiyan was holding the pistol, her finger on the trigger, ready to fire at any moment.

Just now, her attention had been drawn by the two daggers thrown by Gu Xiyan.
She hadn’t expected that the girl behind her had also thrown the pistol over her head at the same time.

These two had completed a weapon exchange with pure tacit understanding, without any effective communication, and had also tricked her!

“Don’t underestimate the tacit understanding between us gaming buddies!”

Gu Xiyan sneered.

“It would be even better if you hadn’t lost your cool the last time we played Overcooked.”

The girl suddenly exposed her.

“I really underestimated you.”

The half-face exposed under Night Owl’s mask suddenly curved into a charming arc.

“Boom!”