Chapter 74: Fake! It’s All Fake!

“Phew~ It seems she didn’t follow us.”
In the empty classroom, Bai Ling let out a long breath.
She wrung the water from the hem of her cheongsam, feeling a lingering fear.

It wasn’t that she was afraid of that woman.
Her lingering fear was actually the gasoline that Chengzi had poured.
It had almost burned her.

She was very afraid of fire.
It was a snake’s instinct.

If Chengzi hadn’t snuck onto the roof and mixed gasoline into the rainwater to pour all over Night Owl, they might have really died there.

She really admired that silly girl for thinking of such a method.

But speaking of it, it was strange.
The smell of gasoline was clearly so pungent, yet Night Owl hadn’t smelled it.
Why?

And it was as if Chengzi knew she wouldn’t smell the gasoline, and poured it down immediately.

‘Forget it, now is not the time to think about this.’

“Are you guys okay?”
The girl glanced at the rain curtain outside the window and turned to ask.

Chengzi was fine.
As an ordinary person, she hadn’t participated in the fight from beginning to end.
She had only gotten a little wet from the rain and looked cold.

The girl casually found a jacket, which belonged to someone, in a desk drawer and covered her with it, so that this silly girl wouldn’t catch a cold again.

Gu Xiyan’s condition looked a little bad.
The pair of fox ears on her head trembled constantly, and her face was deathly pale, as if she had seen a ghost.

‘Had the baleful aura entered her body just now?’

Baleful aura indeed had a strong suppressive effect on demons.
No, it should be said that baleful aura was poison to all evil creatures, including half-demons like Gu Xiyan.

There was a saying since ancient times that those who were entangled with a baleful aura would not be approached by evil creatures.
It should be said that a half-demon like Gu Xiyan, who was only half a demon, was more susceptible to the influence of baleful aura.

But those who were entangled with a baleful aura would also attract all kinds of misfortunes and disasters.

In that case, Xu Zhi was…

“Ah!”

The girl’s thoughts were suddenly interrupted by Gu Xiyan’s cry of surprise.
This silly girl Chengzi actually wanted to touch Gu Xiyan’s fox ears?!

“What are you doing!”

The girl slapped Chengzi’s hand away in annoyance.
Although this girl was not seeing a demon for the first time, this was the first time she had close contact with a demon, especially a fluffy half-demon fox girl like Gu Xiyan.
‘These ears, this tail, she, Bai Ling, also wanted to touch them!’

“It’s really real,” Chengzi said with a look of surprise.
It was the first time she had seen a living beast-eared girl.

“Go, go, stop messing around!”
The girl shooed Chengzi away in annoyance, leaving only a strong scent of gardenia in the air.

She could only do this now.

She soothingly stroked the top of Gu Xiyan’s head.
Her other hand grabbed the jade pendant from her neck and held it in her palm.

Then, she placed the jade pendant on Gu Xiyan’s forehead, and a faint white light actually emanated from her palm.

‘The jade pendant is working?’

Xu Zhi had said that this jade pendant could block baleful aura, and it seemed he hadn’t lied.
When she had fought Night Owl just now, the baleful aura on her body had indeed not affected the girl.

But whether it could dispel the baleful aura, the girl didn’t know.
Fortunately, from the result, it seemed to be working.

Gu Xiyan’s deathly pale cheeks gradually turned rosy, and her trembling ears also gradually returned to normal.

“Hah!”
Gu Xiyan suddenly gasped heavily, as if she had recovered.

“Are you okay?”
The girl asked with concern.

“Wuwuwu, you stinky brat! I almost died!”
Gu Xiyan suddenly hugged the girl, and the pair of fox ears rubbed against the girl’s cheek.

It looked just like she was taking advantage of her.

But in reality, Gu Xiyan wasn’t lying.
She had indeed almost died just now.
The baleful aura had already invaded the vicinity of her heart, suppressing her heartbeat.
Originally, she could have resisted it with her demonic energy.
Even if she couldn’t expel the baleful aura, she could at least stall for a few hours to wait for the Demon Suppression Division to rescue her.

But she had always considered herself a human, hated demonic energy, and rarely used it.
Even when she demonized during combat, she only used her demonic energy to enhance her physical fitness.
She couldn’t even retract her demonic energy and turn back into a human on her own.
She had to rely on a demonic energy inhibitor every time to suppress the activity of the demonic energy in her body.

Therefore, her control over her demonic energy was very weak, so weak that even the novice snake demon Bai Ling could easily surpass her.
This level of demonic energy control couldn’t resist that baleful aura at all.

If the girl hadn’t cleared the baleful aura with the jade pendant in time, her heart would have stopped beating in less than half an hour.

“Let go!”
The girl was flustered as she was hugged by Gu Xiyan.
The force was so strong that it almost suffocated her.

‘This is not a fox girl, it’s a bear girl, right? Why is she so strong?’

“I won’t let go! I can’t repay your life-saving grace, so I’ll just offer myself to you…”

It had to be said that this girl Gu Xiyan really had some flair.
Who else could be so energetic immediately after recovering from a near-death experience?

“Who wants you to offer yourself to them? Let go!”

The girl was also a little dizzy now.
Didn’t this girl like Xu Zhi?
Now she wanted to offer herself to her.
What was this? NTR?

“Just accept me! I’m very easy to keep!”

“Get lost!”

The girl finally managed to break free from Gu Xiyan’s bear hug.
She really didn’t know what this silly girl had eaten to grow up like this.
Her brain was missing a screw.
Were all the people from the Demon Suppression Division problem children like this?

The girl’s cheeks were flushed with embarrassment as she tidied her collar, while grumbling and scolding Gu Xiyan.

Gu Xiyan suddenly saw that the back of the girl’s cheongsam collar was hanging crookedly, revealing her jade-white neck, and…

Those fine scales were faintly glowing.

She was all too familiar with those scales.
The snake demon she called “Ice Pop Girl” was covered in these scales…

When she had fought Night Owl just now, she had been suffocated by the pressure and the baleful aura.
In a daze, she had also seemed to see those ice cones in the sky.
That was also the snake demon’s move…

‘So Bai Ling was actually that snake demon?’

“What are you looking at?!”
The girl suddenly turned her head.

She still didn’t know that the scales that had appeared in response to the stress when she had fought Night Owl had not been retracted and had now been seen by Gu Xiyan.

“N-nothing!”
Gu Xiyan swallowed her saliva and reached out to adjust the girl’s collar.
“Your collar is crooked…”

‘She was actually that snake demon? The snake demon who had saved her twice?’

‘No, counting this time, it was already the third time…’

“This jade pendant actually glows?!”
Chengzi, who had been watching for a long time, suddenly had enough.
She reached out and snatched the jade pendant from the girl’s hand.
“Let me see!”

“Eh?”

The girl stared blankly at her palm, which was empty.
She hadn’t even seen Chengzi snatch the jade pendant from her hand.

‘Wasn’t she an ordinary person?’

“Give it back!”
The girl immediately reacted and reached out to grab Chengzi’s shoulder.

Not only was this jade pendant a treasure that could block baleful aura, but just the fact that this jade pendant was given to her by Xu Zhi was enough for her not to let anyone else touch it!

‘That was Xu Zhi’s family heirloom!’

Well, she just simply couldn’t bear to let others touch it.

But just as her hand was about to grab Chengzi, Chengzi lightly leaped over several desks and landed on the podium with a tap of her toes.
The air, filled with the scent of gardenia, drilled into the girl’s nasal cavity with the airflow of the air conditioner.

‘Something is wrong!’

Chengzi simply couldn’t have this kind of skill!

There had been many suspicious points about her from the beginning.
Chengzi had never used gardenia-scented perfume or shower gel before, and her reaction to her killing the young man was also very strange.
Although she had been panicked, she had calmed down quickly.

An ordinary person living in daily life simply couldn’t have this level of psychological adjustment ability!

‘It was the same when she poured gasoline on Night Owl! It was as if she had been sure from the beginning that Night Owl wouldn’t notice that gasoline had been mixed into the rainwater!’

The girl should have noticed these suspicious points, but the continuous string of events had left her with no time to think carefully.

“You’re not Chengzi? Who are you?”

The girl instantly became highly alert.