Chapter 27 : Defective Product

The demonic energy lingering in the corridor grew thicker.
Bai Ling’s fingertips, hidden in the wide sleeves of her jacket, tightened around the hilt of her sword.

This thing was clearly hiding in the girls’ dormitory!

On the night of the full moon, the Resentful Demon’s demonic energy had greatly increased.
The entire dormitory building number 12 was now a can of meat that it could open and eat at will!

The moonlight flooded the dim corridor of the dormitory building, casting a frost-like color on the tips of her canvas shoes.

Nine o’clock at night should have been a lively time in the dormitory building, but the corridor was now strangely quiet.
Bai Ling could even hear the sound of the evening wind blowing the hairs on the back of her neck.

She casually tied her long black hair into a ponytail, put on a black mask and a baseball cap.
The savior girl who had appeared at the nightclub last night had stepped into the moonlight again.
The blue light of the vending machine cast her shadow into a slender, ghostly figure.

“Crack!”

The glass cover of the fire alarm on the corridor wall was casually smashed by the girl.
The piercing fire alarm instantly resounded throughout the dormitory building.
A few seconds later, there were thunderous screams and footsteps.

Disheveled female university students rushed out of their dormitories and ran towards the stairs, their shoulders brushed by the scents of various cosmetics and skin care products.

The girl stood in the crowd like a stone pillar fixed in the middle of a river.

It was still too risky to find it in a crowded place like a dormitory building.
It was inevitable that innocent people would be hurt in a fight, but there was no good way to lure it to an empty place.

The girl could only use this method to turn the dormitory building into a deserted place.

‘I hope the firefighters won’t blame me…’

A moment later, the chaotic footsteps gradually subsided.
The motion-sensor lights, which had been brightened by the noisy footsteps, gradually went out, and the entire corridor was once again shrouded in moonlight.

All the students had already run out of dormitory building number 12.
At this moment, the only ones left in this building, besides the girl, were the Resentful Demon she had yet to meet.

A cold aura slowly crawled out from a dormitory with a half-closed door.
A viscous black liquid suddenly dripped from the gap in the ventilation duct above her head.

This demonic energy seemed to be mixed with a familiar scent.
The demonic energy released by each demon had a specific pheromone, so the demonic energy of each demon was slightly different.
But the girl was very sure that this demonic energy was mixed with a scent she had smelled before.

In other words, she had seen this Resentful Demon somewhere before!

The leaves outside the window suddenly danced in the wind, casting a shadow in the corridor.
And in that shadow, a pitch-black figure gradually stood up.

The moonlight shone on it again, illuminating its slender, strange, arm-like limb, which seemed to be sketched with chaotic lines.

“So it was you…”

The girl swung her hand, and the twenty-centimeter-long hilt slid out of her sleeve and was held in her hand.
A blade over a meter long instantly extended from the hilt.

“I was wrong.”

The girl walked forward slowly, the tip of her blade dragging on the ground, creating sparks.
“This dormitory building isn’t a can of meat you can open and eat, but your wardrobe.”

The pitch-black ghostly figure let out a screech like a stuck cassette tape, as if responding to the girl’s words.

This demon was the Skin-Painter that had been frozen in the lake by the girl, who had revealed her true form for the first time that night!

She just didn’t know why it hadn’t died in that lake and had appeared in the dormitory building without any warning.
Was the Demon Suppression Division just eating for free?

The evening wind blew in from the half-open window.
The demonic energy in the corridor was so thick it could almost condense into a liquid.

Demonic energy boiled in her blood vessels.
White scales gradually appeared on the girl’s wrist, which was holding the hilt.
Her pupils, which were slowly turning amber-gold, left two trajectories in the darkness as she walked.

On the night of the full moon, the demonic energy was agitated.
Even the sophora flower bracelet couldn’t suppress the girl’s leaking, agitated demonic energy!

“Crack, crack!”

The Skin-Painter let out an inhuman screech again.
A high-frequency sound wave instantly swept over, and the glass windows on the dormitory doors on both sides were all shattered!

In the flying glass fragments, the girl instantly ran, the tip of her blade dragging a long spark on the ground!

Her petite figure brushed past the fire hydrant.
The water pipe inside the glass door was shattered by the high-frequency sound wave.
Water sprayed out like transparent blood, but it was frozen into ice crystals by the demonic energy steaming from the hilt before it could touch the tips of her hair.

“Boom!”

The huge sound of the thick black tentacle colliding with the blade drowned out all the noisy sounds.
Ice crystals and glass fragments were blown away by the blast wave, leaving mottled scratches on the wall.

“You’re so noisy!”

At the point where the girl’s blade and the black tentacle made contact, frost gradually extended from the blade and instantly covered the black tentacle.

“Crash!”

The frozen black tentacle was cut into a pile of fragments by the girl the next second.
But the moment they landed, they had already melted into pools of asphalt-like black liquid.

Then, black shadows crawled out from the black mucus.
They were of different sizes, but each one had the same posture as the main body.

The girl’s hand, holding the hilt, was still trembling slightly.
The residual force from her struggle with the black tentacle just now had not yet subsided.

‘This thing seems to be much stronger than when I saw it at the lakeside a few days ago!’

“That’s more like it!”

The tea-haired woman stood on the rooftop water tank, the mottled rust on the iron tank being crushed by the thin heels of her high heels.

“Twist your waist! A snake demon relies on its waist for strength, you know?”

At this moment, she was holding a pair of military binoculars and looking at the situation in dormitory building number 12 of Lin’an University in the distance.
In the lenses, the girl and the Skin-Painter clashed several times.

“You should be the director of the department!”

she said with admiration, and cheered for the girl’s agile movements, as if she were watching an exciting action movie playing out in reality.

“It’s just a simple stitching together of the remains of two demons. I’m still far from it, big sis.”

The dark-gold-haired boy stood behind the woman, the tips of his hair being blown by the evening wind.

“What are you talking about! Isn’t this much stronger than before!”

The tea-colored woman slapped the boy on the head, and the strong scent of gardenia instantly filled the boy’s nasal cavity.

“But it no longer has the ability to disguise itself as a Skin-Painter. According to the product requirements, it should be a defective product, right?”

The boy raised his arm and pulled away the tea-haired woman’s hand.
“And its resistance to extremely low temperatures is still a bit low. It should have resistance to low temperatures.”

“What’s low-temperature resistance?”

The woman suddenly leaned over and pinched the boy’s earlobe.
“Haven’t you noticed that its proliferation speed has increased by 410% during a full moon?”

“If we put it in Lin’an University like this, will it cause any deaths?”

the boy asked again.

“Oh! That move is cool, little snake!”
But the tea-haired woman was still focused on the battle in building number 12.
She even had the leisure to cheer for the girl.
“Don’t worry! Trust the grassroots of the Demon Suppression Division. They’re not like the high-level guys who only know how to sit around and do nothing.”

“Oh…”

Hearing this, the boy also stood on his tiptoes and looked in the direction of building number 12.
Without binoculars, he could only see sparks and cold light flashing in the darkness.
That was the commotion created by the girl and the Skin-Painter fighting.

“It’s about time.”
The woman noticed that several black SUVs with the Shanhe Group logo had entered the campus.
“The Demon Suppression Division’s support has arrived. That kid should be arriving at the scene soon. Make your move.”

“Okay.”

Hearing this, the boy took out a small bottle from his pocket.
In the transparent bottle, an asphalt-like black mucus was writhing strangely.

He opened the lid of the water tank under his feet and poured the black mucus from the bottle into the water.

The moment the black mucus touched the surface of the water, the several tons of clean water stored in the water tank began to boil.
In just a few seconds, it had all turned into that asphalt-like black mucus.

“Boom!”

With a loud bang, a black tentacle pierced through the water tank.
Black mucus spewed out from the cracks in the broken stainless steel and fell to the ground.
Countless black figures stretched their tentacles in the moonlight.

And the two who had just been standing on top of the water tank had already disappeared.

At the same time, a faucet that was not turned off somewhere in Lin’an University was slowly dripping black mucus.
Fine black tentacles were extending from the grated manhole cover on the side of the road.