Yifei! Look Into My Eyes!

Li Yifei? How was that possible? How could he be the Snake Demon's true body!

After hearing Zhou Meng's words, Lin Qiye found it inconceivable.

For a moment, he even wondered if Zhou Meng was lying to him.

After spending this time with the god, Lin Qiye felt he had come to understand his personality. On the whole, he was a god who loved amusement and particularly enjoyed playing pranks.

But on second thought, something didn't add up. No matter how much Zhou Meng wanted to amuse himself at Lin Qiye's expense, he was a patient in Lin Qiye's Mental Hospital and had never shown him any ill will.

The traits he gave might have been a little strange, but they were reliable. He would never use a method like this to make Lin Qiye suspicious of the classmates around him.

Could there really be something wrong with Li Yifei?

Lin Qiye began retracing everything Li Yifei had done since coming to the office to report the incident, looking for anything suspicious along the way.

But he felt there was only one thing even remotely suspicious: Li Yifei's sick-leave note.

There were two possibilities. The first was that he had already gotten the note, planning to skip school and go have fun today, only to happen upon Liu Xiaoyan eating the dean of students last night.

But if he really was the Nanda Snake Demon, then he had planned everything in advance. He knew the Nightwatchers would come, so he had long since prepared to enter with them! That was why he had gotten the sick-leave note beforehand!

But that was the only suspicious detail Lin Qiye could think of.

Aside from that, throughout the entire incident, Li Yifei had followed Lin Qiye's instructions without the slightest deviation.

He had also had the time and opportunity to act on his own, yet he hadn't taken the chance to escape or create more snake spawn.

Lin Qiye felt as though a layer of fog had settled over his mind. The truth lay behind it, but there weren't enough clues for him to discover what that truth was.

Lin Qiye shook his head and spoke to Zhou Meng in his mind, deeply skeptical. Brother Meng, how is that possible? Could you have made a mistake?

A mistake? Qiye, Qiye, since when did you start questioning your dear father? Tell me, in all the time since I entered the Mental Hospital, when have I ever led you astray?

Lin Qiye couldn't see Zhou Meng's expression, but everything about what he said and the tone he used made Lin Qiye want to enter the Mental Hospital and duel him right then and there.

Have you forgotten tricking me and getting Nyx to chase me around with a feather duster and beat me?!

Still, Zhou Meng had a point. The whole affair did seem to have gone a little too smoothly. As a cunning Mythical Creature, the Snake Demon should have been suspicious after hearing the principal's inexplicable assembly announcement. At the very least, it wouldn't have sent all its snake spawn to an enclosed place.

Now, either Li Yifei was the Snake Demon's true body, as Zhou Meng had said, or its true body was still somewhere in the school!

Better to kill the wrong one than let the right one go! Besides, verifying the truth didn't mean he had to stab Li Yifei to death right off the bat.

With that thought, Lin Qiye walked over to Hongying and whispered something to her, then went over to Li Yifei.

"Yi Fei, come here a moment," he called.

"Qiye, what's wrong?" Li Yifei had no idea what was going on. He stopped checking on the teachers and students with Si Xiaonan, wiped his hands on his clothes, and walked over to Lin Qiye.

"Yi Fei! Look into my eyes!" Two golden furnaces suddenly flared in Lin Qiye's eyes. The Blazing Angel's divine might poured out of them and surged straight into Li Yifei's mind.

He passed out without so much as a grunt.

Almost immediately, a strong hand shot out and gripped Lin Qiye's wrist. Li Yifei's eyes opened again.

But these were not human eyes at all. They were a pair of unnaturally deep, sinister slitted pupils.

"Lin Qiye, it seems I underestimated you! How did you discover me? With your Cup Realm perception?" The Nanda Snake Demon's voice was full of venom and bewilderment.

Lin Qiye continued to unleash his divine might, but he was no less astonished than the Snake Demon.

If he had relied on his own deductions, he would never have connected Li Yifei with the Nanda Snake Demon's true body, two things that seemed completely unrelated.

If Zhou Meng hadn't warned him, he would definitely have taken Li Yifei back to the Nightwatchers' office. Given how decisively he had followed orders, swiftly slain the Snake Demon, and properly cared for the teachers and students, the captain would surely have given him a chance to join the Nightwatchers.

If he really had joined the Nightwatchers, the consequences would have been unthinkable!

By then, never mind No. 2 High School—its offspring might have been everywhere throughout the entire city!

Although Lin Qiye couldn't make sense of how it had happened, the result was right. The Snake Demon had revealed its identity under Michael's divine might, and this was the perfect chance to finish it off once and for all!

"Sister Hongying! Do it!" Lin Qiye shouted.

A long spear suddenly thrust from Hongying's hand, trailing rose-red flames with a sharp whistle.

In a single strike, it pinned the Snake Demon to the wall.

The Snake Demon howled in pain, the rage and venom in its eyes seeming ready to devour Lin Qiye.

Lin Qiye tightened his grip on his saber, charged in, and hacked furiously at the Snake Demon pinned to the wall.

The Nanda Snake Demon was not a Monster skilled in combat to begin with. It relied only on its scales, claws, and mobility, but now the spear had completely sealed off its movement. It couldn't pull the spear out, so it could only use its claws to fend off Lin Qiye's attacks as best it could.

In that state, how could it stand against Lin Qiye? Its scales were no match for the flashing blade. The Snake Demon could only cry out in pain and watch as it was butchered like a fish on a chopping board.

One final, precise slash sent its upraised snake head tumbling to the ground. It rolled forward until it came to rest at An Qingyu's feet.

"I see. So the sense that something was off just now came from this Snake Demon's true body disguised as a human? How did you discover him?" An Qingyu sounded immensely curious.

Today's haul is incredible! Lin Qiye actually guessed something even I couldn't deduce! And then there's this Mythical Creature that looks so interesting. What exactly does its internal structure look like?

Looking at the somewhat deranged expression on An Qingyu's face, Lin Qiye felt for a moment that the biggest problem here didn't seem to be the Snake Demon.

At that moment, Zhou Meng, who had been watching the spectacle in his mind all along, withdrew his consciousness.

He sat up on his hospital bed, left the ward, and headed for the dungeon beneath the Dean's Office.

He didn't care what story Lin Qiye made up. Zhou Meng was going to the dungeon to give this new guest of the Mental Hospital a proper welcome.

No, wait—a new servant!