Chapter 71: Times Have Changed

“Find a safe place and wait for me to come back!”

Bai Ling imitated Xu Zhi’s tone, acting it out in a comical way.

“You want me to run, so I’ll run?”
Frost condensed on the tips of her toes.
“Wouldn’t I lose face?”

A path of condensed ice crystals suddenly rose from the surface of the lake.

‘I don’t even listen to Guan Qing’s words.
How could I listen to you, Xu Zhi?’

The girl lightly crossed the ice crystal path and landed on the bank.

“Wait for me to cause you trouble!” the girl said mischievously.

Guan Qing had told her to deal with Feng Yi.
How could she hand him over to Xu Zhi?

Of course, if the girl were a little more honest, she would admit: she didn’t want Xu Zhi to be stained with Feng Yi’s blood.
If he had never regained his humanity from beginning to end, then it wouldn’t matter.

But he was like a human now.
If he were to be killed mercilessly, it might make Xu Zhi feel guilty and even develop some kind of psychological shadow.

‘This dirty work should be left to her, a demon.’

Besides, with Xu Zhi’s skills, it was hard to say whether he could even beat Feng Yi!

‘Won’t it be up to this young lady… no, this young master to make an appearance then?’

‘Why have I been unconsciously using a girl’s tone when I talk to myself recently, after learning to speak in a girl’s tone to Xu Zhi?’

The girl casually pushed aside a tree branch that was bent low by the raindrops.
Suddenly, she heard a commotion in front of her.

“Help!”

The voice was intermittent in the rain curtain, and it was very familiar.

‘Chengzi?!’

‘What is she doing here? Didn’t Xu Zhi say that the irrelevant people had already been cleared?’

The girl’s toes tapped lightly, and in an instant, she cut through the rain curtain like a stream of light.

‘What is the Demon Suppression Division doing?’

In the rain curtain, Chengzi was running and stumbling.
Behind her, a young man with dark golden hair was holding a knife, and was almost about to stab into the back of Chengzi’s waist.

“Get down!”

The girl roared.
Chengzi subconsciously lowered her head at the sound.
She saw a plain white figure fly over her head like a shuttle and a flying kick hit the dark golden-haired young man in the chest.

Rider kick!

The dark golden-haired young man was kicked and rolled a few times on the ground, sliding several meters away.

“Are you okay?”
The girl spun and helped Chengzi up.
The scent of gardenia lingered at the tip of her nose.

‘This scent…’

As a snake demon, the girl was very sensitive to scents.

‘Strange, has Chengzi changed her shower gel recently?’

‘She didn’t have this scent on her before.’

“Damn it, hand her over!”
The dark golden-haired young man got up from the ground, gritting his teeth.

Because she wasn’t sure who he was, the girl had deliberately held back her strength when she had kicked him, so as not to kill him with one kick.

But even if the girl had held back her strength, her kick was not something a normal person could get up from immediately.
It seemed that this guy was probably not some perverted murderer who had accidentally entered this place.

“You’re not some ordinary person, are you?”
The girl pulled Chengzi behind her and protected her, asking in a low voice,
“Chasing and killing an ordinary female university student?”

‘This guy didn’t have any demonic energy on him.
He was most likely a demon slayer.’

“It’s really strange.
There are also your kind among demon slayers?”

“You don’t understand! The bracelet on her hand…”
The dark golden-haired young man’s voice suddenly cut off.
He seemed to have realized that he had said something he shouldn’t have.

‘Bracelet?’

The girl glanced behind her.
The panicked look on Chengzi’s face was wet with rain.

The girl had an impression of the silver bracelet that Chengzi always wore.
When they had encountered the Skin-Painter at the lakeside before, that bracelet had erupted with a considerable amount of spiritual energy, forming a protective shield that had protected them.
If it weren’t for that bracelet, the girl, who hadn’t awakened her demonic energy at that time, couldn’t guarantee that they would have been able to come back alive.

Chengzi said that her father had given her this bracelet.
Although she didn’t know the origin of this bracelet, the fact that he could give her such a bracelet meant that her father was not someone to be trifled with.

‘He was probably also a civilian demon slayer or something.
It was normal for someone to covet this kind of thing that looked like a family heirloom.’

But…

Actually, the girl was more curious about why this dark golden-haired young man was like a very typical villain.
He would just say everything when someone asked.

‘Isn’t this a little too obvious?’

‘Was he trying to make her notice this bracelet?’

‘And then he wanted her to kill him and steal his treasure, so as to achieve his plan of borrowing a knife to kill someone?’

‘No, buddy, aren’t you thinking a little too much?’

‘Don’t you know that Chengzi is my beloved friend, my sister?’

“I don’t care what you’re thinking!”
The girl’s eyes suddenly sharpened.
She spun and threw a side whip kick at the young man’s neck!

The young man hurriedly leaned back to dodge, and the heel of the girl’s high heel just barely grazed his nose.

The hem of her cheongsam bloomed into a long, spinning flower in the rain curtain.

Just as the young man had dodged Bai Ling’s kicks with a few consecutive back leans and side steps and was about to draw his saber to counterattack, a black gun barrel was already pressed against his forehead.

“Times have changed, don’t you think?”
Bai Ling tilted her head, her index finger resting on the trigger.

She had already drawn the pistol from the thigh holster on her leg when she had been kicking continuously.
It was just that the young man had been busy dodging the kicks at that time and had no time to notice her drawing the gun.

‘Should I just kill him here?’

‘Anyway, this kind of person is probably also a scum among demon slayers.
Xu Zhi had told her before that the Demon Suppression Division had an Inspection Bureau that was specifically responsible for cleaning up this kind of demon slayer scum.’

‘Then if he died here, no one would investigate, right?’

Killing someone, this was something that the usual Bai Ling would never dare to think of.
But now, the demonic energy under her skin was boiling in her blood vessels.
In this state, she was practically a madman.
The kind that no one could stop.

“Bang!”

The muzzle of the gun flashed.
The young man’s eyes widened in disbelief, looking at the green smoke coming from the muzzle, which was wet with rain.

A warm liquid flowed down from his forehead.
He suddenly lost all his strength and fell back into the rain.

The bullet had passed through his forehead, leaving a bullet hole the size of an index finger.
Blood spread out from the back of his head and was diluted by the rain.

“Phew~”
The girl blew on the smoke from the muzzle.
She wanted to do a beautiful gun spin like the agents in the movies and games and then put it back in her holster, but because she was not familiar with the center of gravity of the pistol, she almost dropped it.

The girl didn’t want to suddenly take on another side quest at this critical moment.
Reality was not like a game where the NPCs would just stand there and wait for you if you didn’t go to the quest trigger point.

And this guy was after Chengzi.
The girl didn’t have time to protect Chengzi now, so she might as well just kill him.
One and done.

The girl suddenly felt that killing someone was actually not a big deal.
She didn’t know if she was influenced by her demon’s instincts in this state.
This feeling was like going to the market to buy a fish, and then coming back to kill it and make a pot of fish soup.

It was a little uncomfortable, but the kind that you could forget in a blink of an eye.

“Ah, ah, ah, ah! Bai Ling, you killed someone!”
Chengzi seemed to have reconnected.
She suddenly realized what had just happened.

Her roommate in front of her had actually shot someone?!

Chengzi didn’t even realize where she had gotten the gun.

“Shh!”
The girl suddenly turned her head and covered Chengzi’s mouth.
Anyway, this silly girl had somehow run in.
Logically, after this was over, her memory of this would be forcibly erased by the Demon Suppression Division, so the girl was not worried at all.

The reason she had covered Chengzi’s mouth was that a group of people were approaching from not far away.
Perhaps the gunshot just now had attracted their attention.

Several human-shaped heat sources appeared in the girl’s vision.
They didn’t look like people from the Demon Suppression Division.

“Tsk…”
The girl clicked her tongue.

An unidentified armed force.
She didn’t know what their purpose was in entering Lin’an University at this time.
Could it be that they were also after Feng Yi?

She glanced at Chengzi.
It was unrealistic to fight that unidentified armed squad while protecting her, but it was also impossible to leave her here.

‘So in the end, I still have to take this silly girl with me?’

The girl sighed, pulled Chengzi, and disappeared into the rain curtain.

Tactical boots splashed water on the stone path.
A team of agents disguised as school workers pushed aside the drooping branches.

Only the diluted bloodstains were left on the stone path.

The girl had already left with Chengzi.
Even the young man’s body had disappeared.