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Join the Server“I already told you! The Po Jun Protocol’s qi meridian interface didn’t pass the Luban Shu safety certification! Why is everyone acting like a bunch of lunatics?” Zhou Xuan stared at the warnings flashing on his tablet, his scalp prickling.
In theory, the Po Jun Protocol should have activated a safety lock before his blood loss reached the critical point. But because the qi meridian interface hadn’t passed safety certification, it hadn’t loaded even the minimum life-support safety lock. The overclock mode Xu Zhi had just used for his finishing blow had directly evaporated over 25 percent of his blood.
That also meant he had now entered a state of uncontrolled baleful aura. Not only would safely recovering him be a headache, the loss of control over his baleful aura was a huge threat to his own life.
Xiao Mochen had used Xu Zhi’s blood as a seal to suppress the baleful aura inside him. That kept him from being eroded by the baleful aura and avoided the misfortune it brought. But once he entered a state of uncontrolled baleful aura, the violent baleful aura would rapidly evaporate the blood in his body. He wouldn’t stop moving until the very last drop was gone.
And once the last drop evaporated, that would be his time of death.
“Zhou Xuan! We just detected the Xuan Shu Sequence deployment program activating. Report the situation!”
A second later, Ye Zi’s communication cut into the channel. She had used the acting Demon Suppression Supervisor’s highest authority, which meant she was very angry.
Report the situation? How was he supposed to report it? Xu Zhi illegally activated the Po Jun Protocol and ended up losing control of his baleful aura?
Never mind himself. The entire team would be held accountable by the Mystic Gate Council.
“Don’t be so angry.” Another communication suddenly joined the channel. It was Cheng Yu.
“I believe the kids can handle it. If they can’t, it won’t be too late to start the accountability process then.” Cheng Yu’s voice carried the faint sound of falling debris. He was sitting cross-legged in a corridor that had been mostly destroyed, a severed half of a power cable swinging behind him and spitting arcs.
In their recent fight with Night Owl, they had almost destroyed an entire building. Night Owl was now long gone.
“Oh? Who do we have here? Great Demon Suppression Supervisor Cheng, why show up now?” Ye Zi’s voice was icy. Anyone could tell she was building up her anger. “Why not keep disappearing?”
“I was carrying out a super top-secret mission…” Cheng Yu pulled out a cigarette and tried to light it, but it was soaked from the rain and wouldn’t catch no matter what.
Zhou Xuan listened to the two of them talking in the channel, then suddenly took off his headset and sprinted into the rain.
He understood. Cheng Yu was diverting Ye Zi’s attention to buy him a chance to salvage the situation.
“You two are having a great time! Why do I always have to clean up the mess?!!!!”
He ran toward the library, shouting as he went. His tablet accidentally fell into the rainwater, and he didn’t even have time to pick it up.
“This time, I really might lose my job!”
That was putting it mildly. If Xu Zhi, with his baleful aura out of control, hurt any of his colleagues, Xu Zhi could even be dragged into court.
Assuming, of course, the baleful aura didn’t evaporate his last drop of blood before that.
The other teams, led by Zhu Ning, had already reached the university town. He had to restrain Xu Zhi before they got there!
The Xuan Shu Sequence had an internal forced lockout device. If he could reach it, he should be able to forcibly stop that system. But he had no extra time.
****
Through the sniper scope, Xu Zhi turned his head. Those beast-like eyes, even from hundreds of meters away, made Lu Qingtian break out in cold sweat. His heart almost stopped.
He had never seen such terrifying eyes. Even a level-five vengeful demon would probably be scared to death on the spot by that look.
Fear made his index finger on the trigger tremble slightly. He nearly fired out of pure reflex, but he forced his finger to move above the trigger.
Wanting to fire instinctively was just a reflex born of fear, but no matter the situation, he couldn’t let fear control his actions.
Not just as a Demon Suppression Officer, as a subordinate, but also as Xu Zhi’s friend, he had to stop him!
The thought flashed through his mind like lightning. He immediately rolled over, dropped the anti-materiel sniper rifle that was longer than he was tall, and jumped off the rooftop.
‘I have to! I have to stop him before the situation spins out of control!’
He could have notified headquarters. He could have waited for Zhu Ning’s support. Why did he have to execute Feng Yi alone?
He roughly knew the reason. Xu Zhi was fighting so desperately because he wanted Feng Yi to rest as a human. But…
‘At this rate, he’s definitely going to die!’
The rain around him suddenly froze. A bone-chilling cold erupted overhead. The damp air was suddenly filled with the scent of osmanthus.
‘That snake demon?!’
The moment frost flowers covered the ground, Lu Qingtian realized it. That snake demon had appeared!
Her every appearance came with this kind of cold and frost. But why was she showing up here now?
‘Is it because of the boss?!’
Lu Qingtian raised his rifle like lightning and aimed at the streak of white cutting across the sky. But the instant his crosshair locked onto her, the hairs on the back of his neck stood up.
The sense of danger trained into him by the Demon Suppression Office drove him to roll instinctively. The next second, purple lightning exploded where he had been.
“Kid!” The wolf demon’s figure emerged from the purple lightning. He reached up and took off his sunglasses. Gray fur suddenly sprouted wildly from his human cheeks, transforming into a wolf’s face. “I advise you not to interfere!”
“Tch! Damn demon!”
Lu Qingtian angled his rifle and fired three bullets in answer.
But the wolf demon merely waved a hand and caught the three still-hot bullets in his palm.
“I said, don’t interfere!”
The wolf claw tore through the air and shattered the wall behind Lu Qingtian. If he hadn’t reacted fast and ducked, the thing that burst apart would have been his head.
“Don’t think I won’t kill you just because you’re from the Demon Suppression Office.”
This guy was strong. Lu Qingtian at least knew he couldn’t beat him.
But…
Lu Qingtian did a tactical roll to open distance and raised his gun to fire again.
‘Trying to stop me from saving my boss? Dream on!’
****
The baleful aura leaking from the gaps in his armor evaporated raindrops into steam the moment they touched. Even outdoors, the baleful aura within a hundred meters of the ruins was so thick it almost suffocated Bai Ling.
Frost flowers spreading from her toes melted instantly upon touching the edge of the baleful aura. The released demonic power gave off hissing white smoke, as if it had met some kind of corrosive substance.
To demonic power, baleful aura really was like sulfuric acid. It would break down externalized demonic power in an instant. That was exactly why baleful aura was like poison to evil creatures.
‘What should she say?’
Bai Ling looked at Xu Zhi standing at the center of the ruins. With this concentration of baleful aura, even she couldn’t block all of it.
‘Xu Zhi, oh Xu Zhi. You really do know how to make trouble for me…’
‘If you’d let me handle it like I said, this wouldn’t have happened, would it?’
The girl no longer thought about what Guan Qing had told her. There was only one thing she could do now…
She took a deep breath. The demonic power inside her surged. A vast cold exploded outward with her at its center, instantly freezing the raindrops around her into icicles.
Then she stepped forward into the dense baleful aura.
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