Chapter 30 : Can’t think of a chapter title, so I’ll leave that to you

“I’m glad I got away…”

Bai Ling muttered, caressing her neck.
The scales that hadn’t yet receded were hidden under her collar, and at this moment, they had a cold touch.

Xu Zhi’s body temperature seemed to still linger on her skin.
The feeling of her chest being squeezed by his two arms had not yet faded.
The girl only felt her cheeks slightly hot.

‘That guy…’

The girl gritted her teeth and pulled down the brim of her cap, her amber-gold pupils hidden in the shadows.

Under the full moonlight, controlling the restless demonic energy was much more difficult than the girl had imagined.
She could have controlled it, but she had just used her demonic energy to fight.
Alright, actually, this was only a little more difficult.
As long as she made an effort with the sophora flower bracelet, she could still suppress it, just like when she had instantly retracted her demonic energy in the corridor.

But who knew that from the moment she had climbed out of Xu Zhi’s arms, not only had her demonic energy started to become restless, but her heartbeat was also almost out of control.
Fortunately, after leaving him, her demonic energy had gradually cooled down, and she hadn’t completely turned into a snake demon.

But the scales spreading on her neck hadn’t receded yet.

It was a good thing she had run away in time.
If she hadn’t run, the girl would have performed a grand snake demon transformation in front of Xu Zhi, a member of the Demon Suppression Division.

The girl herself didn’t know if she could turn back before dawn if she completely turned into a snake demon on this full moon night.
Probably not.

In terms of not having confidence in herself, the girl was very confident.

She casually pushed a strand of falling hair to the front to cover the scales growing on her neck.
The girl blended into the crowd of people evacuating the campus.

But as she walked with the crowd to the north gate of Lin’an University, the girl suddenly froze.

A ray of golden light shot up from the ground, extending to the end of her vision.

She didn’t know what this light curtain, made of golden threads, was.
She only knew that her snake demon’s intuition told her that if she walked over, she would probably evaporate on the spot.

But the students seemed to not see this light curtain at all and stepped out.

This strong sense of crisis was exactly the same as last night on the nightclub rooftop.
At that time, when Xu Zhi had used the Demon Suppression Talisman, this kind of golden thread had also appeared.
At that time, the girl had accidentally touched a thread, and it had burned her palm like a red-hot charcoal fire.

This was probably also the work of the Demon Suppression Division.

‘Trying to leave but can’t…’

‘Why is this plot so familiar? Has the author run out of ideas?’

Alright, the girl didn’t know if the author had run out of ideas yet.
She only knew that she had to stay in Lin’an University until this light curtain disappeared.

In the bustling crowd, the students were still carefree, discussing whether this fire would cause the school to be suspended for a few days.
The dark clouds suddenly covered the moonlight.
When the pure white moonlight shone down again, the girl who had been standing there had disappeared.

“Ah!!! So annoying!!!”

In the shadow of the camphor tree, the girl irritably messed up her black hair, panting as she wanted to go back and kill that troublemaking Skin-Painter.

‘Wouldn’t it have been better to just die in that lake? Why did it have to come and mess up my university life!’

The emotions brought on by the agitated demonic energy had not yet completely subsided.
The girl had radical thoughts that she would never have in her daily life.

A faint, familiar scent drilled into her nasal cavity.
The girl instantly turned her head to look in the direction the scent was coming from, her amber-gold pupils drawing two trajectories in the shadows.

‘Wait, this one doesn’t seem to be the main body…’

In the dormitory building, the girl had witnessed the Skin-Painter’s ability to divide like a cell.
And this scent was obviously not something the main body could emit.

‘The scent of the main body was not this mixed.’

‘Forget it. Xu Zhi should be chasing the main body right now. I’ll just deal with this clone.’

‘I should deal with it quickly so that the Demon Suppression Division can get rid of this thing. Otherwise, the more this thing divides, the stronger the demonic energy will become, and sooner or later, it will turn Lin’an University into a demon’s den.’

The girl was not yet skilled at controlling her demonic energy.
Moreover, tonight was a full moon, and her demonic energy was so agitated that she couldn’t suppress it without the sophora flower bracelet.

But if the demonic energy was too strong, this thing would become ineffective, just like in the demon market.
The demonic energy in that place was so strong that the bracelet was useless, and the girl couldn’t even turn back in the demon market.

If her demonic energy accidentally leaked out, the girl had no confidence that she could hide from the Demon Suppression Division for a whole night.

The demonic energy hidden under her skin began to agitate again, and the scales on the girl’s neck climbed up a little further.

On the night of the full moon, the demonic energy was agitated.
Crazy mode activated again!

The evening wind blew.
In the residual heat of late summer, frost flowers actually condensed on the leaves of the camphor tree.

Chengzi felt that something was strange, but she couldn’t put her finger on it.
It felt like she was dreaming.

Yes, she must be dreaming.

Otherwise, why would such a large thing crawl out of such a small express box? And it looked like a ghost.

And the people around were just scattering and fleeing, but their faces showed none of the panic that should be there when seeing something that shouldn’t exist.

It was just like a crowd scattering during a normal explosion or fire.

There were only two explanations: first, I’ve transmigrated, and this kind of thing is actually very common in this world, and everyone is used to it.
Second, I’m dreaming.

Given that she had often dreamed of this kind of thing in the past, Chengzi chose to believe the second possibility.

‘I must be dreaming.’

But the sound of the wind tearing as the tentacle attacked and the sticky feeling of the air flowing over the surface of her skin told her that this was no dream!

For some reason, at this life-and-death moment, what Chengzi was thinking about was the silver bracelet that was always on her wrist.

When her father had given her that silver bracelet, he had said that this thing could ward off evil, and she should remember to wear it.

The thing in front of her now should be considered evil, right?

Chengzi subconsciously felt that the silver bracelet should be useful.
Unfortunately, when she had returned to the dorm to take a shower today, she had casually placed it on the table and forgotten about it.

Who knew she would encounter this thing while just picking up a package?

‘I might…’

‘Die here, right?’

“Crack!”

A cracking sound, like water freezing, and a hint of a cold aura brushed against Chengzi’s cheek.

The moonlight shone down, and the savior appeared again!

Her ponytail swept across the moon.
The black shadow in front of her was frozen into a block of ice the moment before it could touch Chengzi.

For some reason, this savior, wearing a mask, gave off a cold feeling like a cold-blooded animal.

A flash of amber-gold pupils under the baseball cap, and the frozen black shadow instantly shattered into a pile of ice shards.

‘She was saved by her again…’

Chengzi suddenly felt that she didn’t understand this world at all.

‘Perhaps, people like this girl were protecting the peace she saw.’

The girl suddenly grabbed Chengzi’s wrist and pulled her away.
In that instant, the express box under Chengzi’s feet suddenly exploded.

The scattered black mucus flew all over the place, making a hissing, corrosive sound as it landed on the ground.
From each clump of black mucus, a thing identical to the black shadow from before crawled out.

“Get down!”

The savior girl suddenly spun and kicked a pouncing black shadow away.
At the same time, she pushed Chengzi down into a squat.

The next second, a tentacle shot out from the darkness, just barely grazing the cowlick on Chengzi’s head.

The kicked black shadow instantly froze and shattered into a pile of ice crystals on the ground.

“I’ll count to three, and you run towards the south gate.”
The girl’s slightly cold breath blew on the back of Chengzi’s neck.
In the high temperature of about thirty degrees at night, the hairs on the back of Chengzi’s neck stood on end.
“Then forget everything you’ve seen now, do you understand?”

Chengzi, huddled under the girl, nodded vigorously.

“One!”

The ice crystals shattered by the girl flew like shotgun pellets and blasted a black shadow away.

“Two!”

The hum of a long saber cut past her ear, and a black tentacle was cut in two.

“Three!”

The girl let go of Chengzi’s wrist.
Two drops of water were flung from the wide cuff of her jacket and condensed into ice prisms in mid-air, pinning the black shadow blocking the way to the wall like spears.

“Run!”

Chengzi immediately covered her head and fled.
The sound of ice shattering continuously echoed in her ears.

Before she knew it, she had already fled several hundred meters away.

“Bang!”

Chengzi, who was running with her head down, felt like she had hit a wall and stumbled to the ground.

She looked up and saw a young man wearing a bronze beast mask.

“Are you okay?”

The young man reached out to help Chengzi up.

“Run! There are demons!”

Chengzi didn’t care about anything else.
She grabbed the young man’s wrist and ran towards the south gate.

This boy looked to be seventeen or eighteen years old.
He was probably a bystander who hadn’t figured out the situation yet.

Although she didn’t know why he was wearing a bronze beast mask and holding a rifle in his hand.
It looked well-made, and she didn’t know where he had bought the cosplay prop.

But there were demons behind them!

The young man was stunned as he was grabbed by Chengzi and ran a good distance.

As the two turned a corner, a drop of black mucus happened to drip from the outdoor unit of an air conditioner hanging outside the building, making a hissing, corrosive sound as it landed on the asphalt ground.

A pitch-black figure wriggled out of the darkness.

“Why is there one here too…”
The young man pulled Chengzi behind him.
“Wait a minute.”

The young man raised his rifle and assumed a standard tactical shooting stance.

“Bang, bang, bang!”

With the sound of the safety being flicked off, three precise short bursts hit the black shadow’s chest on both sides and between the eyebrows in a triangular pattern.

The explosion produced when the bullets hit the black shadow blasted it into a pile of smithereens.

“This is Lu Qingtian. Those guys have already spread to the vicinity of the south gate.”
He pressed his headset and said,
“How long until the special operations team arrives?”