Chapter 48: It’s the Demon Suppression Division! Retreat!

Three balls of fox fire, wrapped in the scent of sulfur, shot through the air.
The faint blue cores of the flames danced with intricate incantations.

The moment the frost flowers and the demon fire collided, the ice crystals refracted a myriad of neon light spots.
The blast wave from the explosion overturned a trash can three meters away, and the rotting fruit peels were instantly carbonized into ash in the high temperature.

The steam from the explosion filled the entire small path by the river.

The moment the white mist rose, Gu Xiyan’s nose twitched.

“That smell is moving!”

Before she could finish, the branches of the sophora tree above her head suddenly exploded with wood chips.

“Demon slayer… demon…”

A pair of broken old boots stepped on the tree trunk and dove down.
The person’s sharp claws actually grew three feet of scarlet sword light, and the sound of the air breaking was like a hundred swords crying out in unison!

The snake demon girl’s palms burst with an ice-blue light.
A fifty-centimeter-thick ice wall instantly formed, and the wall was densely covered with a profound hexagonal ice crystal array.

However, the moment the sword light touched the ice surface, a hissing sound of some substance corroding was accompanied by a puff of black smoke.
The ice crystal matrix actually turned yellow and disintegrated at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The scarlet sword light drew five scarlet trajectories in the night sky!

‘This thickness of ice wall couldn’t even be broken by that big guy from Lin’an University!’

“Get out of the way!”
Seeing this, the snake demon girl pushed Gu Xiyan away, gritted her teeth, and attached a thick layer of ice shell to her arms, trying to block this killing move.

“Boom!”

The moment the sharp claws and the ice shell collided, countless dust was kicked up.

The moment Gu Xiyan was pushed away, she caught a glimpse of the trajectory of the ice shell cracking under the sharp claws—it wasn’t physical damage at all, but some kind of corrosive energy was eating away at the ice layer.

“What on earth do you want to do?!”
Gu Xiyan gritted her teeth and fired several shots at the blurry figure in the dust.
The bullets sparked in the dust.

‘That guy, actually…’

“I’m saving you, you idiot!”
The splashing ice shards scraped across the snake demon girl’s cheek, leaving a fiery red blood mark.

The sound of scales scraping came from the dust.
The ice armor on the snake demon girl’s arms was already covered with spiderweb-like cracks.
The person’s pale face was close at hand, and the black gas he exhaled etched honeycomb-like holes in the ice surface.

The river wind suddenly blew across the fluff on Gu Xiyan’s fox ears.
In a daze, she seemed to remember the bickering she had with Qing Lin when they were playing games together.

‘It seemed like he would also complain like this while protecting her, this squishy character.’

While the snake demon girl was blocking the scarlet sword light, another sharp claw had already stabbed at her side with a sword’s cry.

“Be careful!”

When the sword’s cry sounded again, Gu Xiyan smelled the rust mixed in the river wind.
There was only enough time for her to shout these two words.

“Clang!”

The moment the scarlet trajectory was about to pierce through the snake demon girl’s waist, a wolf’s claw tore through the night, bringing with it a fishy wind.
The tip of the claw and the scarlet sword light collided, exploding with a purple-black electric light.

The sound of metal clashing made the lamppost’s cover buzz.

The wolf demon fell from the night sky.
His custom-made leather shoes crushed the asphalt road.
The muscles under his Armani suit stretched the fabric into an exaggerated bulge.

He grinned, and the fangs under his wolf’s face glinted with an inhuman cold light in the moonlight.

“Sorry, young master.
We’re late.”

“Who the hell are you!”

The sudden turn of events made Gu Xiyan unable to determine whether the wolf demon was a friend or a foe.
She raised her gun and aimed.
Three balls of fox fire floated around her.

The tiger demon, who was nearly two meters tall, suddenly appeared behind Gu Xiyan.
His fan-sized palm casually clasped Gu Xiyan’s wrist pulse, and his dark-gold knuckle duster pressed against her ulna, making it ache.

“Don’t do that, little fox.”
His deep, guttural voice had a tremor unique to felines.

“Little girl… why are you risking your life?”

“I’m a human!”

The roar of a car engine suddenly sounded in the distance.
The sudden roar was not from an ordinary engine, but from the roar that was only produced when the unique Shanhe system of the Demon Suppression Division’s special operations vehicles was operating at high speed.

This roar could deter low-level demons with its sound waves alone.

“Hey! The Demon Suppression Division is here!”
The tiger demon suddenly turned his head and said to the wolf demon.

The wolf demon’s sharp claws suddenly exerted force, knocking the long-haired figure back several meters.

The old military boots left two scorched marks on the asphalt road.
The long-haired figure stiffly shook off the purple-black electric light attached to its sharp claws.

“Traitor…”

His voice was still as jerky as metal scraping.
The whole figure suddenly dissipated like smoke.

“Tsk, the duck that was in my hand flew away!”

The wolf demon clasped the snake demon girl’s wrist with a backhand and threw out a talisman.

“Retreat!”

A green smoke instantly exploded, enveloping the three demons.

A sudden gust of river wind blew away the green smoke.
The three demons had disappeared without a trace.

The sound of tires scraping tore through the residual cold air by the river.
The dazzling searchlights of six armored vehicles illuminated the battlefield, making it deathly pale.

“Did they escape?”

Xu Zhi’s military boots crushed the unmelted ice shards on the ground, making a fine, popping sound.
His tactical glove brushed across the broken sophora tree’s cut—the cross-section was as smooth as if it had been cut by a laser, and there were still a few ice crystals embedded between the annual rings.

The guardrail by the river had been cut into smithereens.
Half of the trunk of the old sophora tree by the roadside had been cut off, and the asphalt road was cracked like a spiderweb.

And not far from the cracked marks, nine regular sword marks, more than half a foot deep, glistened with a mercury-like luster in the moonlight.
The edges of each sword mark still had a foul smell, as if someone had poured blood on the blade.

“Are you okay?”
Xu Zhi took out a needle of inhibitor from the pocket of his tactical suit, tore open the package, and stabbed it into Gu Xiyan’s neck.

“I almost died.”
The veins on Gu Xiyan’s neck bulged.
The moment the ice-blue medicine was injected, the ripples in her pupils were like a frozen lake—the faint blue light spots were gradually fading with the contraction of her blood vessels, and the golden-brown at the tips of her hair was turning back to a chestnut color at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In a moment, the fox ears, fox tail, and the faint blue ripples in her pupils had all gradually receded with the effect of the inhibitor.

“Tsk, it hurts so much every time.
I thought I was used to it…”

Gu Xiyan couldn’t help but grimace.
The effect of the inhibitor was always accompanied by a bone-deep pain.

Last time, at the artificial lake of Lin’an University, she had over-demonized herself in order to protect Zhou Xuan, who was supporting the spirit-trapping formation.
It had taken three shots to recover.

Of course, this also allowed her to take Zhou Xuan’s just-written report with a clear conscience.

“The residual demonic energy at the scene matches the characteristics of that snake demon.”
Zhou Xuan’s tablet emitted a faint blue ray.
The Luoshu system was reconstructing the battle trajectory.
“In addition, there is another aura of an undetermined type, which is consistent with the fluctuation at the scene of the boss’s attack that night.”

“That’s not demonic energy.”

“It really was him.”
Xu Zhi sighed, looking at the nine regular sword marks on the ground.
“Compare this.”

“What about that snake demon?”
Zhou Xuan asked.

“That guy mentioned demon slayers, demons, and so on, and also said the word ‘traitor’.”
Gu Xiyan suddenly stumbled and held onto the armored vehicle.
The inhibitor needle was still stuck in her carotid artery, trembling slightly.
“That snake demon saved me…”

“What on earth happened? When were you attacked?”

“A few nights ago, the Inspection Bureau said they would intervene in the investigation, so I didn’t make it public.”
Xu Zhi pinched his chin.
He felt that something was not right.
“That snake demon saved you?”

“She even bickered with me, but she’s most likely a perverted exhibitionist.
She was only wearing a set of underwear when she came…”
Before Gu Xiyan could finish, the communicator on Xu Zhi’s waist suddenly buzzed loudly.

“All personnel, return to the Demon Suppression Division headquarters immediately!”
Ye Zi’s voice in the communicator was unprecedentedly serious.

“This is troublesome…”
Gu Xiyan muttered and took out her phone, sending a message to Qing Lin.

“Big sis has to go first.
Remember to get on the game tonight ❤️~”

She glanced at the public toilet a hundred meters away.
That stinky brat had probably fainted from the burst of demonic energy.

Forget it, I don’t have time for her.