Bang—!
The Illusion Demon's body was sent flying backward.
The bar was simply too noisy. The sounds coming from the surveillance room were impossible for the people outside to make out.
They were immersed in their own world, having the time of their lives.
Just how strong was Lu Yibai's enhanced body now?
His strength was several times that of an ordinary person.
Aside from its illusions, the Illusion Demon's physique was even weaker than an ordinary person's. This was now a complete one-sided crushing!
Hypnosis might work on people with weaker vital energy, essence, and spirit, but Lu Yibai followed the path of Body Refining. His physique, vital energy, essence, and spirit were all far stronger than those of ordinary people, making him extremely difficult to hypnotize.
This could no longer be considered practice. It was now a complete one-sided crushing!
A dozen minutes later, Boss Lu walked out of the surveillance room dejectedly.
To his surprise, Li Youde was already waiting quietly outside the surveillance room.
There was still a mess inside for him to clean up.
The Assistance Department existed precisely to deal with such aftermath.
Although the bar was noisy, Li Youde was standing outside the door, so he could still vaguely hear the howls of agony coming from inside the surveillance room.
This new Wucheng Steward seemed easygoing enough, but he appeared to be even more violent than Li Youde had imagined.
Dejected, Boss Lu arrived at the entrance of the bar, where Lin Xiaoqi was squatting by the roadside and teasing three cats.
The night wind brushed past, lifting her hair and the hem of her clothes. The peaceful scene helped Boss Lu calm down somewhat.
"Oh! Boss! You're done already?" Lin Xiaoqi said to Lu Yibai as she picked up one of the cats.
She seemed to have noticed Lu Yibai's dejection.
"I couldn't get anything out of it. It suddenly died, and it died... horribly." Lu Yibai frowned.
"Boss, it was the Blood Contract." Lin Xiaoqi stroked the cat in her arms.
The orange cat was probably a domestic cat. It was quite fat, and it comfortably licked its chubby paw while nestled in Lin Xiaoqi's arms.
"Blood Contract?" Lu Yibai did not quite understand.
"Mm. It's a commonly used contract among demons. Higher-level demons can use a Blood Contract to make lower-level demons submit. Once they betray them, their entire bloodline will burn." Lin Xiaoqi explained.
That matched the phenomenon when the Illusion Demon died. It had nearly turned into a dried corpse.
"Boss, did you abuse it? You actually made it develop thoughts of betraying its master. Otherwise, the Blood Contract wouldn't have activated."
Lu Yibai: "..."
He might have hit it a little too hard just now.
Lu Yibai looked at the other two cats beside Lin Xiaoqi. Both cats stretched out their paws and lightly hooked her shoelaces, looking as if they were saying, "Pick me up, lift me high!"
He squatted down with a smile and picked up both cats. In response, he received two slightly disdainful looks.
Who the hell asked you to pick us up?
How strange. Are they really this intelligent?
Oh? You don't want me to hold you? Then I'm definitely not letting go!
"Let's go, Boss. Li Youde will clean up the mess, and the little girl has already been sent home by people he dispatched." Lin Xiaoqi put down the orange cat in her arms.
Lu Yibai nodded.
"Boss, you seem to like cats quite a lot. Why don't you take one home and raise it? The two in your hands are both strays." Lin Xiaoqi smiled.
"No need. They don't seem to like me very much." As he spoke, Lu Yibai put down the two cats that had been struggling in his arms.
Under the streetlights, Lin Xiaoqi walked ahead while he followed behind.
Looking at Lin Xiaoqi's graceful back, he thought to himself, Besides, haven't I already raised one?
"Boss, Sister Xiaoqi, you're back?" Ye Yiyi said.
It was already very late, and the bar on the first floor had stopped operating.
After all, Answer Bar was a quiet bar. Unlike the Celebrity Bar they had just visited, it did not stay open so late.
"Sister Xiaoqi, you look a little tired. How about I go to your room later and give you a massage?" Ye Yiyi suggested.
"Sure, sure!"
Lin Xiaoqi gave her a look that said, "You're the best."
She was indeed a little tired. The Hundred Cats Night Walk had left her exhausted.
It was likely that the raucous scene in Lin Xiaoqi's room later would make people's noses bleed.
It was obvious that Lin Xiaoqi and Ye Yiyi got along quite well. This was also related to Lin Xiaoqi's carefree personality.
But precisely because of this, Lu Yibai became certain that Lin Xiaoqi was human. Although she could perform the Hundred Cats Night Walk, she probably had nothing to do with cat demons.
Among demons, higher-level races naturally suppressed lower-level races through their bloodlines, just as the strong suppressed the weak. Lin Xiaoqi was so powerful, yet Ye Yiyi had not been affected by any bloodline suppression.
On the contrary, when the little loli, Sakura Ning, appeared, Ye Yiyi had felt afraid.
That said, Boss Lu really had been raising Lin Xiaoqi as a cat-eared girl.
"Sister Xiaoqi, I'll go wash up first. I'll come to your room later and give you a massage!" Ye Yiyi said.
With that, she entered her room to wash up.
In the living room, Lu Yibai and Lin Xiaoqi sat on the sofa. He asked, "Xiaoqi, why do you think this Demon Organization chose this little girl both times?"
This was something Lu Yibai had always been puzzled about.
It could not possibly have been randomly kidnapped the first time, and then, after the mission failed, they had simply become obsessed with her and insisted on capturing this particular little girl.
That made no sense.
Even taking the most extreme possibility, why would demons capture children?
To refine the energy of troublesome children?
Lu Yibai had found another Life Token on the Illusion Demon. It was similar to the one he had found on the Rat Demon, except that the number was different.
The Illusion Demon's number was C051. Judging from the number, it ranked much higher than the Rat Demon.
He had no idea whether the numbers were arranged according to strength.
What exactly was this mysterious Demon Organization trying to do?
"Boss, we don't know for now." Lin Xiaoqi leaned against the sofa.
After a while, she added, "If nothing unexpected happens, this little girl might be somewhat special. But Boss, you know that our lineage is simply good at fighting. We're not very skilled in other areas."
Lu Yibai: "..."
He actually found that difficult to refute.
Ever since Lu Yibai had begun cultivating, Lin Xiaoqi had indeed only taught him combat techniques. He had learned nothing else.
So it's not that I can't learn yet. It's that Xiaoqi doesn't know how to do it either.
It seemed they could only report this first and see whether the Night Watchmen would send someone over to investigate.
As for the little girl's safety going forward, Lin Xiaoqi had patted her ample chest and said to leave it to her.
If nothing unexpected happened, the number of stray cats in the residential complex where the little girl lived would increase crazily in the days to come.
There might even be cats appearing at the little girl's doorstep, actively seeking adoption.
On the expressway leading to Crow City, a Volkswagen sped along.
As soon as he got off the expressway, he pulled over and parked.
The man picked up the backpack from the passenger seat and took out two Life Tokens.
One belonged to him, while the other was the spare Life Token of the Illusion Demon he had been responsible for assisting.
"Damn it, why did it shatter?" The man stared at the Illusion Demon's spare Life Token in bewilderment.
At that moment, the Illusion Demon's crystallized vital essence on the Life Token had already shattered!
That meant it was dead!
"They promised to reimburse my fuel and toll expenses. I've suffered a huge loss this time!"
After saying that, he immediately turned the car around and drove away from Crow City.
This was Crow City. It was better not to linger here!
(PS: Second update.)
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