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Join the ServerBai Ling chased the black cat out of the backstage and out of the venue. The silly cat seemed to be playing with her. Every time, it darted off in a few bounds and vanished, only to wait for Bai Ling around the next corner.
“Meow, meow~ Don’t run, okay~” Bai Ling had to soften her tone and imitate a cat’s cry to make it drop its guard.
But the black cat kept playing with her, slipping into an empty corner, stretching and yawning.
“No place left to run, huh?” Bai Ling braced a hand against the wall. Her shadow fell across the black cat in the sunlight. “Be good and let me catch you!”
And then…
Then the black cat suddenly leaped up and transformed midair into a girl in a black sailor uniform, looking at her like she was an idiot.
‘Huh?’
Bai Ling froze. This cat was a demon too?!
Thinking about it, the one she’d seen most often in the old alley in the north of the city, besides Guan Qing and Su Xuanhu, was this cat.
Guan Qing turned out to be the lord of the Demon Market. Su Xuanhu was human, but she still came to the Demon Market every few days to heal people. And this black cat was a demon too.
Were there any normal humans left in that old alley?!
“Young Miss.” A Qi still had that look in her eyes, like she was staring at an idiot, but for courtesy’s sake she bowed to Bai Ling. “My name is A Qi. This is the first time I’ve met you in this form.”
“Ah… uh… mm…” Bai Ling didn’t know what to say, so she scratched her cheek and made an awkward sound. “Hello.”
She had heard the name A Qi several times from the Tiger and Wolf Demons. They said she was Guan Qing’s trusted right hand. But this was the first time Bai Ling learned she was that black cat.
“The Boss is very angry. She wants you to come back tomorrow.” A Qi didn’t beat around the bush. She stated her purpose directly. “Six tomorrow evening. If you’re one minute late, she’ll break your tail. Those were the Boss’s exact words.”
“Oh, oh, okay!” Bai Ling said that out loud, but inside her mind exploded.
‘Bad. This was bad!’
She had been hiding from Guan Qing for almost half a month, thinking she’d wait until Guan Qing forgot about that business with Feng Yi before going back.
Instead, Guan Qing hadn’t forgotten, and now she was angry because Bai Ling had been avoiding her?!
If she found out Bai Ling had been living in the Demon Suppression Bureau dormitory this whole time, wouldn’t she be furious enough to make her nose crooked?
‘She had to think of a way to calm her down!’
In an instant, Bai Ling thought of several plans. The first was to find Su Xuanhu. As long as Su Xuanhu was there, no matter how angry Guan Qing got, she wouldn’t attack directly.
Just like in any family, as long as outsiders were present, parents would give their child some face and not beat them on the spot.
Without realizing it, Bai Ling had already put Guan Qing in the position of a parent.
But then she thought again. Earlier at the Demon Market, Guan Qing had already said, “Doctor Su, go ahead and attend to your business. What comes next is my family matter.”
If that was the case, Su Xuanhu being there probably wouldn’t help.
Besides, dragging that old lady Su Xuanhu into this would be bad.
Maybe she should bring two boxes of milk when she went back?
‘Damn, she didn’t know what Guan Qing liked…’
Bai Ling’s mental storm was quickly interrupted by A Qi. “Also, there’s a vengeful demon in this venue. I’ll leave it to you.”
Before Bai Ling could answer, A Qi turned into a pitch-black shadow and melted into the shadows of the building.
“Die, demon!” Guan’er’s voice suddenly came from behind her. The girl was swinging a selfie stick like it was a Green Dragon Crescent Blade.
But halfway through the swing, the Green Dragon Crescent selfie stick stopped.
“Huh?” Guan’er tilted her head and blinked. The bronze bell on her wrist, which had been ringing clearly, suddenly went silent.
“Nothing?” She patted the bronze bell on her wrist like an amateur repairman hitting a broken old TV. “What are you going crazy for?”
So this silly girl was a demon exorcist.
She suddenly looked up and saw Bai Ling sizing her up. She quickly grabbed Bai Ling and pulled her back into the venue. “Don’t tell anyone, okay? I’m a demon exorcist!”
Her words were full of confidence and pride. From her tone, it sounded less like she didn’t want people to know and more like she wanted the whole world to know she was a demon exorcist.
“So you’re that kind of…” Bai Ling stared at her face and suddenly felt like teasing this silly girl.
“Mm hm!”
Guan’er nodded like a metronome, eyes full of expectation, as if she wished Bai Ling would bow down to her just because she was a demon exorcist.
This girl definitely wanted Bai Ling to think she had a mysterious background, heaven-reaching powers, and was hiding in plain sight as a cosplayer and part-time streamer, while secretly being a hero who vanquished demons.
“You’re that kind of chuunibyou!”
Bai Ling nodded as if confirming it, as if she had decided this girl was simply having an episode.
“Huh? Why are you like this…” Hearing the second half of Bai Ling’s sentence, Guan’er drooped, tears almost seeping from the corners of her eyes.
“I really am a demon exorcist! If you don’t believe me…”
“If I don’t believe you, then what?”
“Then don’t believe me!” Guan’er dragged her Green Dragon Crescent selfie stick forward.
If Bai Ling didn’t believe her, there was really nothing she could do. She had only learned a few cheap tricks from a wandering Taoist.
So far, all she had learned was how to attach spiritual power to objects to strengthen them, and with those cheap tricks she had dealt with a few small vengeful demons below level three.
She couldn’t even smell demonic aura like a proper demon exorcist. If the bronze bell the wandering Taoist gave her hadn’t rung, she wouldn’t have noticed any demonic aura at all.
If you asked her to prove she was a demon exorcist with talismans or spells, she really couldn’t, unless a small vengeful demon popped out right now so she could knock it into a concussion in a few moves.
‘So teasing people was this fun?!’ No wonder Gu Xiyan always teased her every day, relying on being a year or two older.
Bai Ling was actually pretty happy. Teasing this silly girl even made her forget the death sentence A Qi had just delivered.
‘But there was a vengeful demon in this venue?’
Bai Ling suddenly narrowed her eyes. For some reason, when she took human form and didn’t use demonic power, her perception was much weaker than in her demon form. She had asked other demons in the Demon Market about it, and it seemed she was the only one with this symptom.
But even in human form, her perception shouldn’t be so weak that she couldn’t sense a vengeful demon’s aura.
Unless this thing had some tricks, like a special ability to hide its aura.
That meant this vengeful demon was not something Guan’er could handle.
Bai Ling had been a demon for a while now. She had exchanged blows with members of the Demon Suppression Bureau many times. With her experience, she could now judge an exorcist’s level at a glance.
Even without Guan’er saying anything, she could tell this silly girl only knew a few cheap tricks. She’d struggle to handle even a level-three vengeful demon in the Demon Suppression Bureau.
So of course she couldn’t let her fight.
She’d have to handle it herself.
Besides, the venue was getting more crowded. The live event was about to start. If the vengeful demon suddenly appeared then, it would cause no small amount of trouble.
‘She had to pin it down the moment it leaked demonic power!’
“Qinglin!” Guan’er dragged her Green Dragon Crescent selfie stick to the elevator. She turned, saw Bai Ling standing there spacing out, and quickly walked back to grab her wrist. “The live event is about to start.”
“Oh, oh!” Bai Ling was pulled into the elevator.
But just as the elevator doors slowly closed, the LED display above the opposite elevator suddenly changed from -1 to 1. With a ding, the alloy doors slowly opened.
A woman in a cyan vest and tight leather pants stood there, her high ponytail swaying in the air-conditioned breeze that blew into the elevator. She glanced at the floor number and rolled her eyes helplessly. Her cyan snake-shaped earrings swung with the motion.
“Didn’t I say the third floor?! How is this the first floor?!” The black-clad young man beside her slapped the short guy who had pressed the elevator button, nearly knocking the bowler hat off his head.
“I don’t know either!” The short guy who had pressed the button looked aggrieved. “I clearly pressed the third floor…”
“You need an elevator card to go up.” The woman with the cyan ponytail looked at the two like they were idiots. “Go get a visitor card from the front desk!”
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