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Former Cheng Second District, residential compound entrance.

Li Youde deeply inhaled the Black Liqun in his hand, then extinguished the cigarette butt and threw it into the trash can.

Our Bureau of Deception... pui! Our Assistance Department really works so hard.

Just like the Night Watchmen organization, there are performance evaluations inside the Assistance Department too.

Li Youde was a man with ambition, and he valued performance quite a bit.

See, he was terrified that the little girl would get lost again.

Oh right, Li Youde had checked the information on the little girl's family, and this girl who had managed to get lost twice was called Jiang Yueyue, currently attending the senior class of kindergarten.

Aside from looking rather cute, neither she herself nor her family seemed to have anything special about them.

One could say they were extremely ordinary.

Heaven knows why this Demon Organization went to abduct her; since when did Demon Organization start engaging in such lowly scams as human trafficking?

"Boss, go back and rest for a bit. We'll just keep watch," a subordinate beside Li Youde said.

"You do a farting bit of watching! Do you want me to post your wretched look after you got caught in an illusion last time onto Moments?" Li Youde said with displeasure.

Hearing this, the subordinate instantly shrank his neck.

He had watched the video recorded by Li Youde himself, and needless to say, it was the first time he discovered that he could look so wretched.

Heh heh.

However, the scene in that illusion the other day was truly unspeakable; even now, recalling it made him feel as if his body was about to be hollowed out.

"Boss, have you noticed that there are a bit too many stray cats in this residential compound lately?" the subordinate spoke up.

As he spoke, a stray cat was rummaging through a trash can by the roadside.

Hearing this, Li Youde furrowed his brows slightly.

Recalling carefully, it really did seem like he had been frequently seeing stray cats wandering around over the past few days.

Especially at night!

Creepy!

However, upon thinking of the grand spectacle of the Hundred Cats Night Walk that night, Li Youde's heart settled as well.

If nothing unexpected happened, the stray cats in this residential compound were Sister Xiaoqi's handiwork.

These stray cats were patrolling!

Li Youde felt very confident in Lin Xiaoqi's abilities.

Since she had already made a move, he only needed to cheer "666" on the sidelines.

Yet as a cautious and highly ambitious assistance head in charge, he still decided to stay here and observe for a few more days.

After all, stray cats had no combat power and could only be responsible for patrolling, while they—at least had guns!

Answer Bar was still the same as always, and business wasn't bad every day.

Boss Lu was magnanimous, and he was very generous to the two employee chicks under his command; everyone's income was not low now.

Of course, with business being so good, it was largely thanks to Lu Yibai having Ye Yiyi record Douyin videos.

The video recorded Ye Yiyi's back profile as she entered Answer Bar, along with a series of actions as she opened the secret mechanism, and it even gained over three hundred thousand likes on Douyin.

Of course, some people liked it for the bar's ingenious mechanism, but more were attracted by Ye Yiyi's curvaceous figure.

This video spread widely among the young people of Crow City, boosting the popularity of Answer Bar.

Boss Lu was as diligent as ever when it came to cultivation, but his progress was at a turtle's speed.

Naturally, this was relatively speaking; to others, his "menstrual pain" cultivation speed was already heaven-defying.

Right now, Lu Yibai eagerly hoped to hurt a little every day, to hurt even more!

Because this represented his breakthrough.

He had slowly transitioned from enduring the pain to getting used to it, and then to enjoying and even craving the pain.

Recovering from the meditative state, Lu Yibai's body was still covered in cold sweat.

Even though his mental plane had become somewhat immune to pain, his body still wasn't accustomed to it and would produce some instinctive reactions.

Especially as males should all understand, certain bodily reactions aren't necessarily something the mind can control, like morning... cough cough.

After taking a cold shower, Lu Yibai sat cross-legged on the carpet, quietly sensing the energy light spots within his body.

Right now, the energy light spots inside his body were roughly three-quarters the size of a palm.

How awkward, it looked as if he really was going to cultivate a palm that glowed.

Is he still going to learn a set of palm techniques descending from the heavens? Lu Yibai complained in his heart.

Based on his understanding of his cultivation status, he should currently be at a high-stage state of a First-tier Night Watchman, and it wasn't very far from Second Rank.

According to Lin Xiaoqi's instruction, after reaching Second Rank, even "Body Refining" Night Watchmen like them could learn some "divine abilities" to varying degrees.

Some "divine abilities" were even personal exclusives, such as Lin Xiaoqi's previous Hundred Cats Night Walk, which even Ji Dekeng presumably didn't know.

According to Lin Xiaoqi's account, it was because she raised a black cat.

Mn, precisely that mysterious black cat that was still wandering outside, which Lu Yibai had never even seen.

If not for a cat bed on the second floor of the bar, Lu Yibai would have doubted whether such a cat even existed.

After finishing his cultivation, Lu Yibai went downstairs and picked up the lion umbrella from the umbrella stand, beginning his practice of the Basic Umbrella Technique.

He had basically mastered the second stance of the Basic Umbrella Technique, sweep, and next was the third stance, pick.

To be honest, after learning pierce, he inexplicably felt that all the other movements had become quite handy, not nearly as difficult as they were at the beginning.

Actually, just relying on shutting himself in and building carts behind closed doors was far from enough; many times, practical combat practice might also be necessary.

After finishing the practice, Lu Yibai put the lion umbrella back into the umbrella stand. Strangely, the ghost inside the lion umbrella had been very quiet lately, as if it had simply calmed down.

This instead made Lu Yibai feel somewhat unaccustomed to it.

He felt that a lot of fun was missing from his life.

Walking back to the second floor, he knocked on Lin Xiaoqi's bedroom door and said, "Xiaoqi, are you eating midnight snacks?"

"Eating, eating!" Lin Xiaoqi hurriedly opened the door, poking her head out to say.

She didn't even ask what they were eating, agreeing quite fast.

She was truly easy to raise, not picky about food at all.

Though thinking carefully, it made sense; otherwise, how could she have developed so well?

Ye Yiyi also had the habit of eating midnight snacks, and soon the first floor of the bar would close up business, allowing her to come upstairs and eat together.

The domestic and foreign takeout industry was truly leading the world; to be able to fully enjoy delicious food in the middle of the night, only our great China could do it.

After ordering three takeouts on his phone, Lu Yibai sat on the sofa and played with his phone.

Lin Xiaoqi walked out of her room and sat beside him, waiting for the arrival of the takeout deliveryman.

"Speaking of which, after you reported the little girl's incident, the organization still hasn't given a reply?" Lu Yibai asked.

"Nope," Lin Xiaoqi replied.

It had already been a week; the efficiency wasn't very high.

"Ding." Lin Xiaoqi's phone chimed.

"Boss, what a coincidence, there's a reply," Lin Xiaoqi said.

Before sending the little girl Jiang Yueyue home, they had taken a few strands of her hair and couriered them to a certain department of the Night Watchmen organization.

That's right, they couriered it...

It wasn't to study the little girl's DNA or anything; the Night Watchmen had their own set of methods internally.

The little girl being abducted twice should be rather special, and they just wanted to know what made her special.

"What's the reply?" Lu Yibai asked.

(ps: First update, I don't mean to use cliffhangers with malicious intent; I really didn't finish writing it. I am now staying up late to continue writing, moved by my own diligence.)