Chapter 53: You Want Guan Qing to Join the Demon Suppression Division? Are You Serious?

“Tsk, missed again.”

The cold white halo from the corridor’s ceiling light cast a long, twisted silhouette of Xu Zhi on the tiled floor.

He gritted his back teeth and stared at his phone screen.
The red warning box of the missed call stung his eyes, and his thumb unconsciously caressed the hot frame of his phone.
Bai Ling’s chat window was still on the milk tea photo she had shared three hours ago.
A pink cat-shaped straw was bubbling in the sparkling water.

For the past three hours, Bai Ling had not been replying to his messages or answering his calls.
Xu Zhi wanted to believe that this girl had simply gone to bed early, but he also knew that this girl was a night owl and wouldn’t go to bed until midnight.

The night wind blew in from the ventilation window at the end of the corridor, carrying the pungent smell of engine oil and smoke.
The sound of his colleagues’ leather boots tapping on the floor rose and fell downstairs, and the sound of metal weapon cases colliding was like a life-threatening pendulum.

They had already formed several patrol teams and would be patrolling the city day and night.

Xu Zhi loosened his collar to breathe.
The shirt under his tactical vest was already soaked in a cold sweat.
He paced back and forth mechanically, the rubber soles of his combat boots making a grating, creaking sound on the floor tiles.

Normally, he should go to rest immediately to prepare for the next patrol shift, but Bai Ling’s sudden disappearance made him uneasy.

“Boss!”
Lu Qingtian rushed into the corridor with an authorization letter.
The tactical belt on the young man’s chest was hanging crookedly, and his breath smelled of the energy drink he had drunk while staying up all night.
“Commander Ye has approved us to use the Xuan Shu sequence!”

He waved the authorization letter with its gilt-gold seal.
The paper glinted with a cold, hard metallic luster in the light.

Xu Zhi forced a smile, his Adam’s apple bobbing up and down, but his mouth was full of bitterness.

In fact, the set of armed systems called the Xuan Shu sequence was still in the testing phase.
The reason Ye Zi had approved their team to use it was purely because they were her confidants.
She needed Xu Zhi’s team to use these new armed systems to earn her enough military achievements.

He mechanically took the authorization letter, the edge of the A4 paper hurting his palm.

“Boss, aren’t you going to rest?”
Lu Qingtian tilted his head and asked.
The chain of his goggles glinted with a fine silver light on the side of his neck.

“Oh… you go and rest first.
I…”

His phone vibrated violently in his palm, and the edge of the tempered glass film hit his tactical glove with a crisp sound.
The screen lit up.
A-Lin’s cat-eared avatar was shaking rapidly in the cherry blossom background.
The exclusive ringtone for special attention, mixed with the sound of the armored vehicle’s engine from downstairs, pierced his eardrums.

“Hello?! Where are you?”*2

“The situation is very urgent now.
Listen to me first!”*2

What do you call ten years of cultivation to cross a river on the same boat, and a hundred years of cultivation to have perfect synchronization? This is it.

“I’m outside your dorm now.
I don’t know which room you live in, but just hurry up and come over.
I have something to tell you!”
The girl’s silver-bell-like voice was full of anxiety.

Xu Zhi pressed himself against the window frame.
The coolness of the metal window lattice pierced through his gloves.

“Wait for me there.
I’ll be right over!”

Then, he leaped and jumped out of the window from the 9th floor, leaving only Lu Qingtian holding an energy bar, at a loss for words.

Raindrops had begun to fall from the sky at some point, and in an instant, it had turned into a downpour.

The girl was hiding under the eaves in front of the main entrance of the dormitory building.
The neon lights were blurred into a large patch of light in the rain and mist.
The glass curtain wall of the Shanhe Group building was flowing with an indigo data stream.

A strange smell of instant noodles and gun oil drifted from the staff dormitory building.
A black combat uniform of the Demon Suppression Division was hanging out to dry from a window on the third floor, but it was now soaked by the heavy rain.
Who knew which unlucky person hadn’t had time to bring in their clothes.

Although she knew that Xu Zhi lived here, she had never been to his dormitory and didn’t know which room it was.

She held her phone against her chin, and the plastic phone case was pinched into a crescent shape by her nails.
In the distance, the roar of armored vehicles and SUVs sounded as they rushed into the rain curtain.

It seemed that the zombie had indeed caused a storm in Lin’an.

This place was full of demon slayers.
Although Guan Qing had trained her to be able to completely fool the demonic energy detection mechanism, she, a demon, was still a little guilty for swaggering into the territory of the Demon Suppression Division.

But here, she didn’t have to be afraid of the wolf demon and the tiger demon chasing after her.
No matter how bold they were, they wouldn’t dare to capture the girl back in the territory of the Demon Suppression Division.

The girl ground the wild grass growing in the cracks of the ground with her heel.
In the distance, the charred smell of grilled squid came from the night market, mixed with the faint fishy smell from the drainage ditch.

Next, all she had to do was wait for Xu Zhi to come over, then put him in a sack and take him to the demon market.
After Guan Qing had completely dealt with that guy, it would be fine.

But that guy Xu Zhi, what color of sack would he like…

“A-Lin!”

The maple leaves suddenly rustled.
Xu Zhi’s figure crashed through the rain curtain and rushed over, the hem of his combat uniform flinging out fine water droplets.

The girl hurriedly hid the sack behind her, and the canvas scraped against the metal railing with a “rip.”

A small drone used for night patrol was circling in the rain curtain above her head.
The military-grade searchlight cast a cold white light spot on the road.

“Blind Xu…”

“Lin’an has been unstable recently.”
Before the girl could finish, Xu Zhi had already grabbed her wrist.
“Don’t run around alone.
Let’s go up first!”

His tactical gloves smelled of smoke, and half a bloody bandage was exposed from the cuff of his black combat uniform.
The girl was pulled by him and stumbled half a step.
Her high heels drew a silver arc on the watery road.

She had never worn high heels before, and she was already staggering when she walked.
Who knew that woman Guan Qing’s wardrobe only had high heels?

The dormitory building’s entrance suddenly lit up with the red light of an iris scan.
The girl took the opportunity to kick the sack into the shadows behind a potted plant.

The red light cast a spiderweb-like raster in front of Xu Zhi’s eyes.
The old scar on his forehead had a dark purple sheen in the red light.

“Listen to me first!”
The girl grabbed the tow strap of Xu Zhi’s tactical vest.
The metal buckle creaked between her fingers.
“My master said that the thing that attacked you was a zombie!”

“The Inspection Bureau has just declassified the relevant files…”

Xu Zhi subconsciously pressed the bronze beast mask on his waist.
The green light of a successful authentication swept across the side of his neck.
“Your master knew from forty kilometers away?”

‘This is it.
How did I blow it again?’

The roar of the steel cable twisting came from the elevator shaft.
The girl subconsciously took half a step back and stepped on the charging station of an automatic cleaning robot.
The hem of her cheongsam was stained with coolant, dyeing it with an indigo pattern.

“She… she has special channels.”

“Oh…”
Xu Zhi didn’t think too much of it.
Xiao Mochen had said before that the one protecting the girl was a master.
Since it was a master, it was reasonable for her to have her own channels within the Demon Suppression Division, just like his master.

“It seems I’ll have to pay her a visit sometime.”

“I wonder if she’s interested in joining the Demon Suppression Division…”

“No, you’d better not! My master hates strangers…”

The surveillance camera in the corridor was slowly turning overhead.
The girl stared at the faintly visible Demon Suppression Division’s arm badge on Xu Zhi’s arm.
When she said this, she almost bit her tongue.

‘You want the master of the demon market in Lin’an to join the Demon Suppression Division? Are you serious?’

‘I’m afraid you’ll be killed as soon as you meet her.’

The girl complained in her heart as the electronic lock hummed and opened.