The Hidden Demon Lord: The Empress Demands Responsibility
Chapter 626

Side Story: Liao Huami and Zou Wan

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In the demon realm, another struggle for the Demon Lord's throne had quietly come to an end.

Crash!

Dark clouds pressed down heavily, lightning flashed and thunder roared, and torrential rain poured from the heavens. Flames across the battlefield struggled bitterly beneath the downpour, while blood was washed away by the rushing rain, flowing in rolling streams across the earth.

A group of scavengers entered the field of corpses and began searching every body for anything of use.

In the demon realm, war never ceased. There were countless displaced people with nowhere to return, and this had given rise to many professional scavengers.

Whenever war broke out somewhere, once it ended, they would inevitably swarm in and take away everything they considered useful.

A woman with a filthy face covered in pockmarks searched among the corpses alongside the others.

Being a woman, she could only stay far from the main battlefield, looking for useful things around the outermost edges.

As she searched along the way, she inadvertently arrived at the entrance of a cave.

The cave entrance was not large, barely enough to fit one person.

Curiously, she leaned in to look. Inside, a richly dressed man drenched in blood was slumped against the cave wall.

At first, she thought he was merely someone unfortunate who had hidden here and died. But when she stepped forward and reached into his robes, she was shocked to find that his chest was still warm.

He was still alive...!

Only, his injuries seemed extremely severe. Without timely treatment, he probably would not last much longer...

Zou Wan looked at the man before her, who was hanging by a thread, then at the pile of weapons and armor she had scavenged nearby. Her expression grew conflicted.

With her strength alone, there was no way

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