Chapter 102: The Youming Infiltration

When the word “Youming” came out of Ye Zi’s mouth, Xu Zhi felt that today’s meeting was not simple.

On the day Feng Yi was buried in that deep well, Cheng Ming had called him alone to the Nine Abyss Prison. At that time, he mentioned the organization Youming.

That was an organization composed of ancient demons and fallen demonic humans. They always spread all kinds of urban legends, strange tales, and ghost stories.

Each one was fabricated with nine parts truth and one part falsehood, with detailed and logical content. It was so reasonable that people could hardly doubt the authenticity of these rumors.

The more people believed these rumors, the greater the possibility of grudge demons being born from them.

But the fact that “grudge demons are born from human collective consciousness” was top-secret information within the Demon Suppression Bureau. Even Xu Zhi didn’t know.

People believed that demons truly existed, so it was possible for grudge demons to be born.

And if the demon exterminators believed that human collective consciousness could give birth to grudge demons, then even more grudge demons would definitely be born!

Because demon exterminators who wielded spiritual power had consciousness strength dozens of times higher than ordinary people. The probability of demons being born from their collective consciousness was almost 100%!

Moreover, the grudge demons born from them would be dozens of times stronger than ordinary grudge demons.

So this was destined to be top-secret information known only to a few.

Ye Zi called this emergency meeting for only one reason: the Demon Suppression Bureau had obtained clues that Youming members had infiltrated Lin’an.

Those guys had already reached their hands into Lin’an so quickly!

And when their location was marked on the map, Xu Zhi’s head exploded.

That place was exactly the venue where Bai Ling went to attend the fan meeting today!

So after the few-minute emergency meeting ended, Xu Zhi immediately led the task force members to the scene. Fortunately, by the time he arrived, no large-scale incident had broken out.

But the current situation was a bit delicate.

Among the Youming members who infiltrated Lin’an, the most dangerous was the high ponytail woman in front of him who used a cyan snake tail to block bullets.

The third-in-command of the Youming Society, code name Snake Pearl.

And that white snake demon who had tangled with Xu Zhi several times, topped the Demon Suppression Bureau’s wanted list for a month, and had the internal code name Xuan Shuang, just now seemed to be fighting Snake Pearl?!

What did she want to do?

Kill grudge demons, rescue Professor Weasel hiding in human society, then protect Gu Xiyan twice, and even seem to have taken advantage of the chaos to absorb his yang energy after he lost consciousness.

Now she was confronting the third-in-command of the Youming Society?

Previously, the Demon Suppression Bureau had basically determined that Xuan Shuang was an ancient demon belonging to the Lin’an Demon Market. But why would the Demon Market oppose the Youming Society?

Unfortunately, the Demon Suppression Bureau knew very little about the Demon Market. After all, that place was off-limits to humans. The information that the demon intelligence personnel working in the Demon Suppression Bureau could obtain was extremely scarce.

“Xuan Shuang spotted!”

Beside him, Lu Qingtian turned his gun toward the white snake demon coiled on the lamp rack. In the night vision device, she was exhaling cold air.

But before his index finger could pull the trigger, his gun was already pressed down by Xu Zhi.

“She is not the mission target!”

“But…”

“No buts! Concentrate fire! Don’t waste firepower!” Xu Zhi’s tone was as hard as iron. He even took on the posture of reprimanding a rookie;

“I’ll handle Xuan Shuang myself!”

He said not to waste firepower and that he would handle it, but what was he actually thinking?

Only Xu Zhi knew this. Since the day at the library ruins, he seemed to have developed a faint, hazy feeling for this snake demon. He couldn’t even explain why.

He thought this feeling would gradually fade with time, but half a month passed, and it only grew stronger.

Even though Bai Ling was always buzzing around him adorably, and Lu Qingtian wanted to cook for him with a gentle and virtuous air, he only regarded Bai Ling as a childhood friend and Lu Qingyu as a friend. He had never felt this kind of happy yet conflicted emotion.

But she was a demon and Xu Zhi was human. This seemed destined to be a fruitless emotional experience.

…

‘Damn, how did Xu Zhi get here so fast?!’

Bai Ling twisted her snake tail and looked at the all-too-familiar figure, her heart noisy like gongs and drums.

Quickly, she folded the long saber in her hand and tossed it backward without looking.

This thing was given by him, said to be his spare saber. This kid would recognize it with just one glance!

By then, even if she had ten thousand mouths, she wouldn’t be able to argue her way out.

She had no choice but to toss it into the venue while chaos reigned, and secretly retrieve it after things were over.

She had long anticipated that the commotion she and that high ponytail green snake demon made would definitely be detected by the demon race. But even if detected, it would take at least some time from their departure to arrival here.

How come they arrived less than a minute after she transformed?!

And it was Xu Zhi who came!

Shouldn’t he be holed up in the dorm sleeping at this hour?

Just as she was thinking this, Xu Zhi had already dashed over with his saber.

‘Holy crap! Why are you charging with your saber?!’

‘Didn’t you say you liked my… my snake demon form?!’

‘Is this how you treat your sweetheart?’

Watching Xu Zhi getting closer and closer, only one thought remained in Bai Ling’s head.

That was: run! Run quickly! Run without looking back!

So her snake tail tensed, and she shot away like an arrow, disappearing into the darkness of the lamps in an instant.

Wait, wait!

Behind her, Xu Zhi’s shouts followed.

Bai Ling screamed inwardly and dove into the maintenance tunnel.

But Xu Zhi was chasing closely. His speed now was only slightly slower than when equipped with the Xuan Shu sequence.

The Xuan Shu sequence had flame thrusters!

For the first time in her life, Bai Ling discovered that this kid Xu Zhi could run so fast.

Her snake tail left frost all over the maintenance corridor. Bai Ling originally wanted to use this method to slow Xu Zhi down, but when she looked back, she found that this kid had released his baleful aura without even thinking!

The high temperature of the baleful aura instantly melted the frost into water stains and then evaporated it into faint steam.

Didn’t you almost die from losing control of your baleful aura half a month ago? Don’t you even hesitate for a moment?!

Stop!

Ding!

Xu Zhi’s shout and the sound of the long saber stabbing into the metal wall rang out simultaneously.

Seeing that he couldn’t catch up, this kid directly threw his long saber. It stabbed into the wall and activated a small demon-trapping formation.

A faint golden light screen spread out from the tip of the blade, forming a cage that completely trapped Bai Ling inside.

“Phew~” Xu Zhi let out a breath. Looking at Bai Ling, who was trapped by the demon-trapping formation with no way to escape, he stepped forward across the light screen and grabbed her wrist.

Can you tell me what exactly happened after I lost consciousness that day?

The cold touch from his palm felt somewhat familiar to Xu Zhi. Intuition and past experiences with this snake demon all told him that this snake demon did not intend to harm him.

He even remembered that time with Professor Weasel, when she actually scolded him in a coquettish manner to stop his reckless behavior that would get him hurt.

“I…” Bai Ling choked. That day? Wasn’t that the day Feng Yi was executed?

‘I was trying to save your damn life that day! And what do I get? You come and interrogate me like I’m a criminal?’

‘I should have let you die there!’

No, if the Demon Suppression Bureau was the police, then as a snake demon, she did seem to be a criminal…

She suddenly pushed Xu Zhi away.

“How could I possibly tell you?!”

“Xu Zhi, watch out!”

Two girlish voices rang out one after the other, followed by a grenade that grazed Xu Zhi’s shoulder.

The grenade landed precisely half a meter in front of Bai Ling. Because the demon-trapping formation could only trap demons, it could pass through the light screen without hindrance.

Boom!

The grenade exploded instantly. The dust took several seconds to settle, revealing the situation inside: a large hole was blown in the floor, and the demon-trapping formation had failed because the long saber serving as its core was blown away.

As for the snake demon?

She was long gone, probably escaped through the large hole.

But before the grenade exploded, when the snake demon said “How could I possibly tell you?!”, Xu Zhi seemed to see her face red as a tomato.

Xu Zhi’s palm still seemed to retain the touch of her wrist. He didn’t know if it was an illusion or if the steam was too thick, but he even saw steam rising from the snake demon’s head.

She still got away, and he still didn’t know what happened that day…

“Gu Xiyan!”

Xu Zhi turned his head and glared at the girl behind him. He was furious.

“Oops~” The grenade launcher attached under the rifle in Gu Xiyan’s hand was still smoking.

She tapped her head, tilted it, and stuck out a bit of her pink tongue: “I missed~”

“Go back and write me a self-criticism! Twenty thousand words!”

“Okay, okay!”

Gu Xiyan joked.

Anyway, Zhou Xuan would help her write the self-criticism.

“The pursuit failed, Snake Pearl escaped!” Suddenly, a task force member’s voice came through the earpiece. Xu Zhi was silent.

This was also expected. How could the third-in-command of the Youming Society be caught so easily?

When Xu Zhi returned to the lamp rack beam, Snake Pearl had disappeared, and the short guy frozen in the ice was also gone. It seemed Snake Pearl had taken him.

The live demo in the venue below just ended. The suddenly lit spotlights illuminated the entire hall. On stage, official cosplayers appeared one by one, posing in various signature poses from the game for promotional photos.

Standing on the beam, Xu Zhi could just see Bai Ling standing timidly among a bunch of professional cosplayers, cute as a husky that had wandered into a wolf pack.

“Boss, what about her?” Lu Qingtian pointed at Guan’er lying on the beam. The girl was covered in scrapes, but she was sleeping sprawled out, and she was even snoring.

“Take her down and wake her up. She might know something.” Xu Zhi pinched the bridge of his nose helplessly. It seemed this girl was also an official cosplayer. Her wounds suggested she had been in a fight before they arrived.

But for some reason, she was sleeping soundly here. Even the huge commotion just now didn’t wake her.

But when Lu Qingtian lifted her up, Xu Zhi suddenly saw, in a gap in the lamp rack not far away, a twenty-centimeter-long knife handle stuck at an angle.

That wasn’t…

Xu Zhi narrowed his eyes and, without showing any emotion, pulled it out and tucked it into his tactical suit.

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