Boss Lu's Gaze

Night wind brushed past, and Lin Xiaoqi leaned against the motorcycle, standing guard outside the bar.

Lu Yibai walked into Celebrity Bar alone.

The bar was very lively; the restless music and crowds radiating hormones made Boss Lu frown.

Boss Lu, who had already started carrying a thermos cup everywhere and drinking wolfberry water, looked completely out of place with the young men and women around him.

Bars strictly prohibited minors from entering, but they usually didn't enforce it too strictly, as long as people didn't look too young.

The kidnapped little girl might not even have started elementary school yet, making her far too conspicuous in a bar.

However, since the Illusion Demon could create illusions, bringing the little girl in was nothing out of the ordinary.

"Sir, you can leave your umbrella here," the employee at the entrance said to Lu Yibai.

Though he had no idea why this customer insisted on bringing an umbrella with him when there was clearly no sign of rain outside.

"No thanks," Lu Yibai said.

Since the customer insisted on bringing an umbrella inside, the employee knew better than to stop him.

Only then did Lu Yibai feel that an umbrella really was a convenient weapon; weapons like knives and swords were controlled items after all, and carrying them around was a huge hassle.

The bar DJ was really pumping now, and a large crowd of men and women down below was partying along.

On the stage, quite a few people were still twisting and turning, convinced that their healthy-living disco moves looked fantastic.

Lu Yibai strolled around at random, looking as if he were searching for friends who had arrived at the bar ahead of him.

Meanwhile, his Night Watchman Mark was quietly sensing everything around him.

"Handsome, wanna grab a drink?" a woman came over and said.

After getting close to Lu Yibai, her pupils dilated slightly, a look of seeing a ghost on her face.

A Night Watchman!

Lu Yibai was also a bit surprised to actually run into Ye Yiyi's kind, another Night Demon.

Did this Night Demon... happen to work here?

Being this close, no matter how faint the Night Watchman aura in Lu Yibai's body was, this Night Demon could still sense it.

He was different from when he first met Ye Yiyi; his strength had progressed far, far too much.

"Shh!" Lu Yibai made a silencing gesture and said.

The Night Demon immediately returned a "got it, I get it" look, though heaven knows what exactly she understood.

"Do me a favor, just do whatever you were doing and pretend you didn't see me," Lu Yibai said.

The Night Demon nodded, obediently listening, and went off to chat up other customers.

Lu Yibai wandered through the entire interior of the bar and discovered quite a few demons, but failed to find the little girl and the Illusion Demon.

That was strange; it didn't make sense.

To be honest, a little girl should be very conspicuous.

To take a step back, even if this Illusion Demon had put the little girl in a box and locked it up, it would still be easy to find. Who the hell would bring a container capable of holding a girl into a bar?

A living person had no reason to vanish into thin air.

With Lin Xiaoqi guarding outside, it was impossible for this Illusion Demon to have run out.

And for some reason, he kept feeling like something was off.

Thanks to the ghost inside the Lion Umbrella popping out to pull stunts every few days, Boss Lu had gained quite a bit of experience with these kinds of deceptive tricks.

He seemed to think of something. Could it be...

Lu Yibai turned back around, searching for the Night Demon he had just encountered.

The Night Demon was a bit bewildered that Lu Yibai had sought her out again.

She was just trying to do her job; did it really have to come to this?

"Cooperate with me and let me run a little test," Lu Yibai said.

The Night Demon felt completely lost in the clouds, but as a bottom-tier demon, she neither could nor dared to refuse.

Lu Yibai picked up the Lion Umbrella, pressing the cylinder at the tip of the umbrella straight against the Night Demon's lower abdomen.

He circulated the energy within his body, funneling a tiny portion of light dots into the Lion Umbrella, and a massive surge of yang energy spewed forth!

There was no reaction.

This Night Demon had no reaction!

She had just taken a direct blast straight to the belly and still didn't react!

There was no blissed-out "ying ying ying" like Ye Yiyi; she didn't react at all.

To be precise, she was staring blankly at Lu Yibai, and inwardly she was probably thinking: What the hell is this? Why is this guy poking my belly button with a big black umbrella?

This Night Watchman adult really had a weird sense of humor.

Boss Lu looked at the Night Demon, who hadn't turned into a soft-legged shrimp, and frowned slightly.

He increased the amount of yang energy. If this were Ye Yiyi, she'd be flying high by now.

Just as he thought!

Heh, interesting.

If nothing goes wrong, I am currently inside an illusion! Boss Lu thought to himself.

When did he enter the illusion?

To be honest, it was quite embarrassing; Boss Lu had no clue whatsoever.

But that didn't matter.

What mattered was that witty old me had already seen through everything!

Clearly, this illusion was very clever.

The woman in front of him was definitely a demon, because the Night Watchman Mark never lied.

He didn't think this Illusion Demon's illusion could be so realistic that it could even mimic the warmth of his Night Watchman Mark.

Whenever a demon appeared within his sensory range, the Night Watchman Mark would grow slightly warm.

Since the "woman" in front of him was immune to yang energy, there was no doubt that while she was a demon, she was definitely not a Night Demon!

That was what made Lu Yibai find it so interesting.

This Illusion Demon's illusion could only manage to deceive the eyes, but it used it very cleverly.

It used illusion arts to disguise this woman as a Night Demon wearing a layer of skin, but in reality she was a completely different kind of demon!

That made the sense of realism very strong.

It probably knew that the Night Watchman Mark couldn't be faked.

So it added a bit of visual processing instead.

The world in Lu Yibai's eyes right now was a world processed through the Illusion Demon's visual filter.

The Night Demon he saw was actually some other demon, and the other demons he saw might very well be Night Demons he was familiar with.

After all, the Night Watchman Mark wasn't a Pokémon Pokédex; it couldn't tell demon species apart.

True and false, false and true—this kind of mixed illusion was top-tier!

It would make Lu Yibai mistakenly think he was seeing the real world, when in reality everything was a mess!

A complete mess!

It was just a pity that this Illusion Demon didn't know the function of the Lion Umbrella.

This was a divine artifact that could make any Night Demon fly high just by touching it!

Ye Yiyi was practically addicted to it now and couldn't leave Boss Lu at all.

This Illusion Demon had even begun to take desperate risks by using demonic power, so Lin Xiaoqi outside the bar should have sensed it by now.

Yet she hadn't taken any action.

Lu Yibai smiled slightly. He understood that Xiaoqi wanted to give him more combat experience.

However, Lin Xiaoqi couldn't possibly play games with the little girl's life; she was a Night Watchman with her own duties.

That being the case, she must have ensured that the little girl was temporarily safe.

Without a doubt, everything was already under Sister Xiaoqi's control. A mere Illusion Demon could be blasted to pieces with a single punch from her. She just wanted to see if Boss Lu could break through the illusion.

As Lu Yibai's mentor for newcomers, Lin Xiaoqi still hadn't forgotten to test him at a time like this; she was seriously dedicated as hell!

Then let's give it a try! Consider it clearing a dungeon!

At that moment, Lu Yibai even wanted to take out his earphones, turn up the volume, and play the exclusive detective theme song that played when the grim reaper elementary schooler solved cases in Detective Conan.

In my BGM, I am the wittiest bastard!

Soon, his eyebrows twitched slightly.

Lu Yibai didn't believe that this Illusion Demon's Spiritual Sense could cover the entire bar and observe his every move.

The Illusion Demon wasn't a particularly high-level demon; its personal combat power was extremely low, leaning towards support, and it was quite troublesome to deal with. But its Spiritual Sense range could never be this vast.

Since its Spiritual Sense couldn't perceive his every move, how could it precisely cast an illusion right around him?

That meant it was currently in a place where it could observe him!

At this thought, Lu Yibai smiled faintly and raised his head.

Then, he stared at the security camera in the bar, waved at it, and said:

"Hello!"

(ps: Second update, begging for recommendation votes for support, rushing the new book rankings!)