Chapter 97: The Drunkard’s Vengeful Demon

No doubt, that stench came from the vengeful demon A Qi had mentioned. Only a vengeful demon gave off that kind of demonic aura.

Bai Ling sprinted down the corridor. The blade extended from the long knife in her hand gave off a faint glow.

After the Feng Yi incident, she had carried the long knife Xu Zhi gave her everywhere, in case something like what happened by the river happened again. Folded, the hilt was only about twenty centimeters, just a little bigger than a phone, so she could keep it on her.

After all, she had to hide her snake demon identity among humans. She could not casually use demonic power to form ice crystals as temporary weapons, and she was not good at bare-handed fighting. Xu Zhi’s gift was exactly what she needed.

Her pupils had turned into amber-gold vertical slits. Her sight passed through walls. People behind the walls had a layer of blood film floating over them. The stinking demonic aura twisted into a black thread in her vision, pointing her the way.

Judging by the aura’s density, this thing was not very strong. She should be able to finish it quickly and return to the fan meeting.

After turning the last corner and dodging a cleaner pushing a cleaning cart, Bai Ling finally saw the source. The black thread of demonic aura was seeping out from the closed elevator doors. It looked like the thing was hiding in the elevator shaft.

She just did not know how it had escaped her senses. She had taken the elevator up and down two or three times already and had not noticed any demonic aura at all.

She grabbed an “elevator cleaning in progress” sign from the cleaning cart parked by the restroom. The cart’s owner seemed to have gone to the restroom, which gave Bai Ling her chance.

She placed the sign in front of the elevator and stabbed her long knife into the crack of the closed doors.

“Creak…”

The alloy doors let out a grating sound as Bai Ling forced them open with her knife.

“Ugh, so rank!” The moment the doors opened, wind carrying the stinking demonic aura blew up into her face. She had to cover her nose with her sleeve, shut her eyes, and jump into the shaft.

Then the alloy doors slowly closed.

“Hey, have you heard?” The second the doors closed, the cleaner came out of the restroom holding up his waistband, chatting with a coworker. “That guy who got drunk and fell into the elevator shaft and died…”

“Yeah, I heard the guy was drunk and pestered his friend, and then both of them… fell down.” The coworker nodded. “They say he was a drunkard.”

They were talking about the news that two bodies had recently been found in the venue’s elevator shaft. Supposedly, during construction, a worker drank too much at night and dragged a coworker with him into the unfinished shaft, and both fell to their deaths. At the time, the two were filed as missing persons. Their bodies were only discovered three years later, not long ago.

Normally, ordinary people like them should not know such details. But recently someone posted on a city forum, claiming it was leaked from the police. The post was detailed and did not look made up.

As a result, the story spread among the venue staff and made everyone nervous. The person in charge even invited monks to perform a ritual.

“Drinking ruins everything…” The cleaner’s words cut off. He looked at the cleaning sign by the elevator and scratched his head. “Didn’t we just clean it?”

…

‘Bad move!’

That was Bai Ling’s first thought after jumping into the elevator shaft. The place was covered in dirty oil and dust, and at the bottom was a pool of sewage deep enough to swallow her calves.

Landing like this would ruin her clothes.

Why had she not thought of that before jumping?

There was no time to go back and change now.

She had no choice but to release a thin layer of demonic power around her clothes so she would not return looking filthy.

She had wanted to avoid using demonic power…

Luckily, this little bit should be hidden by the vengeful demon’s aura. Besides, the only demon exterminator here was Guan’er, and with her clumsy skills, she definitely would not notice.

Her toes touched the sewage. The surface instantly froze into a layer of ice crystals.

‘Next, I just need to deal with you!’

Bai Ling suddenly thrust her knife backward. Behind her floated a pale figure…

She finally saw the true form of the vengeful demon. Or rather, should she say two?

The thing looked like two people had been crushed into one. It had a head on its neck and another growing from its chest. Its four arms bent at strange angles, twisted together like braided dough, each pair holding a broken liquor bottle and a steel cable.

A smell of alcohol suddenly rushed into her nose. The transparent liquid flowing from the vengeful demon’s pierced belly was liquor?

“So you really are a drunkard. Drank yourself to death, huh?” Bai Ling twisted the hilt and slashed hard. The figure was cut in two in an instant.

The scent of alcohol faded. The vengeful demon began to dissolve the moment it was severed.

Too easy.

Bai Ling flicked the liquor off her blade. A vengeful demon at this level might be a big problem for a half-baked exterminator like Guan’er, but to her it was something she could destroy without effort.

After all, the first vengeful demon she killed was the Red-Clothed Ghost. That one had reached level six in the Demon Suppression Bureau’s demon power rating, and she had still killed it easily.

Although she had been in full demon form at the time, even without any demon transformation and with her combat strength reduced, dealing with something that was at most level four was a piece of cake.

Now that this was handled, it was time to go back and be her background character again.

Bai Ling put away her long knife and looked up the shaft, calculating how high she needed to jump to reach her original floor.

“Tap, tap!” The sound of heels touching the floor suddenly came from above. The sound waves hit the walls and scattered into confused echoes.

There was someone else in the elevator shaft?

Her amber-gold vertical pupils shrank to needle points. In the endless darkness, she saw a pitch-black figure. The person was crouched on a beam in the shaft. From the look of it, it seemed to be a boy.

“Crack!”

The figure in the darkness tossed something down. It landed at Bai Ling’s feet and broke in two.

It was an ancient copper box painted blue-green. The broken surface was carved with patterns like snake scales. They moved and coiled like snake shadows, slowly revealing what was inside.

A snake scale.

‘Damn!’

The thought flashed through Bai Ling’s mind like lightning. The next second, the elevator beneath her feet shook violently. A demonic aura so thick it was almost hard to breathe exploded from the snake scale.

An aura like this would soon spread through the entire venue. Everyone would be corrupted by it.

Thinking that, Bai Ling immediately released her demonic power. Frost spread quickly from her toes, climbing the shaft walls in an instant and forming a crystal dome above.

The crystals interlocked with micrometer precision, locking the thick demonic aura tightly inside the narrow elevator shaft.

She had wondered before what use micrometer-level demonic power control had besides providing a flawless disguise. Now she was using it.

You really could never have too many skills…

As Bai Ling thought that, fine scales quickly climbed up her cheeks as her demonic power spread. The figure above seemed to have left already. But the thick scent of alcohol suddenly pierced through the demonic aura and stabbed into her nose.

The drunkard vengeful demon, which had been cut in two and was already dissolving, suddenly released demonic power again. The transparent liquid from its wounds turned sticky, like glue, and forcefully stuck the two halves of its body back together.

“Why are you still here…”

Bai Ling felt the same helpless annoyance as seeing a small mob suddenly transform into an early-game boss. She had seen this before. Back when she first played that game nicknamed XX Old Thief Theme Park, she had just ridden her horse across the battlefield before the royal city and watched a small mob hiding in a crater transform in a flash of golden light into an early-game boss nicknamed the tutorial teacher.

This drunkard vengeful demon was the same damn way. Now it was wrapped in demonic aura, like a small mob that had become a mini-boss.

About three times stronger.

To her current self, it was still a weakling, but it was annoying as hell!

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