"Boss, the organization replied saying that the little girl Jiang Yueyue is just an ordinary human girl with nothing special about her," Lin Xiaoqi said to Lu Yibai.
This reply shattered Lu Yibai's expectations.
Yes, actually he had just been harboring expectations.
This Demon Organization was very mysterious and had only just popped up recently.
Every demon possessed a Life Token, and the Demon Organization must have spare Life Tokens prepared, which allowed them to clearly know whether a demon's mission had failed.
At the same time, a thing like a Blood Contract was just a bit insane!
Moreover, since they dared to send people to kidnap the same girl twice, they should have been acting with a sense of bold confidence.
If she was investigated and found out immediately, wouldn't their purpose be exposed?
Boss Lu was not a stupid person, and he could still analyze this little bit of things, but this did not mean he wouldn't be disappointed.
Thus, the disappointed Boss Lu silently ordered two more portions of crayfish on the delivery app...
Fortunately, Lu Yibai was a person with a very thick skin, and he rarely went down rabbit holes; if he couldn't figure something out, then he simply stopped thinking about it.
Rather than pondering these things, it was better to seize the time to improve his strength.
As the saying went: "Thirty percent is based on luck, seventy percent on hard work, and the remaining ninety percent entirely on blindly charging forward."
Thinking too much right now was of no use anyway.
What was more, Lu Yibai didn't know a single divine ability yet, making him look just like someone who had studied physical conditioning to the extreme.
How could he face people without some special effects? It was so infuriating!
The most urgent task was to advance to the Second Rank.
On the way to waiting for food delivery, idleness being idleness, Lu Yibai started reading web novels. A web novel called Teasing Entertainment was really fucking good to read; the author must have been a genius writer.
Lin Xiaoqi had initially been curious about what Lu Yibai was doing, staring at his mobile phone with such relish. Seeing that he was reading a book, Lin Xiaoqi lost interest.
"What? Have zero interest in web novels too?" Lu Yibai asked in surprise.
"Boss, I don't really like reading books. Back when I was studying, whenever I prepared to read seriously, this world would become extremely interesting, and any slight disturbance could attract me," Lin Xiaoqi said honestly.
Lu Yibai: "..."
To actually phrase being a poor student with such justifiable self-confidence!
Fine, your breasts are big so you have a point.
Lin Xiaoqi added: "I used to read some web novels before, but some of them have very low-level martial arts; I feel the protagonist isn't even as good at fighting as me, making them rather boring."
Lu Yibai: "..."
Apart from shouting "666", what else could I say?
It seemed you were suited for that kind of web novel where heaven and earth were destroyed, the kind where the male lead could glare and cause a planet to burst!
Soon, Lu Yibai's phone rang. The delivery guy had high efficiency and had already delivered it.
"Hey, Boss, how come there's no one inside this umbrella shop?" the delivery guy asked. He didn't know this wasn't an umbrella shop, but an agency bar.
"Wait a moment, I'm coming downstairs right now to pick it up," Lu Yibai said.
After taking the delivery, Lu Yibai did not forget to say thank you.
The night wind brushed past, and the old locust tree at the entrance of the Answer Bar rustled.
Lu Yibai carried the takeout, unable to help himself from looking up at the huge old locust tree.
For some reason, every time he stood beside the old locust tree, he always felt his inner self was exceptionally calm.
In the living room on the second floor of the bar, while Lu Yibai and the others were happily eating crayfish, Lu Yibai's phone rang.
It wasn't a call, but a WeChat video invitation.
The inviter was Ji Dekeng. This fellow had just requested Lu Yibai's WeChat ID from Lin Xiaoqi last week, and Lu Yibai directly saved him under the remark "KFC".
To be honest, Lu Yibai really didn't want to answer.
In the middle of the night, he really didn't want to have a video call with a gay man.
And opening video calls seemed to be Ji Dekeng's bad taste; he never made voice calls, and was accustomed to directly popping up video feeds.
But no matter what, Ji Dekeng was Lu Yibai's nominal guide, and right now he could also be considered his boss. Fearing there might be some urgent matter—although the possibility wasn't high—he still had to accept the video.
After the video connected, he saw Ji Dekeng's face smeared with a facial mask.
Through the thin layer of the mask, one could still faintly see his neatly trimmed mustache.
"You guys are actually eating crayfish in the middle of the night! Aren't you afraid of breaking out in acne?" Ji Dekeng said in shock.
Lu Yibai: "..."
Lin Xiaoqi: "..."
Ye Yiyi: "..."
Then, the two humans and one demon continued to lower their heads and eat.
The sound of eating was even extra loud, and their eating posture was extremely enjoyable.
Boss Lu wiped the oil stains off his fingers, and speaking nonsense right off the bat, he said: "If nothing's the matter I'll hang up the video first; today the Wi-Fi is broken, it consumes data."
"Hey! Wait a minute, wait a minute! Wait before hanging up, I have something to tell you!" Ji Dekeng said.
Lu Yibai nodded, indicating that he would listen patiently. As for Lin Xiaoqi, since there was still unfinished crayfish right in front of her eyes, she naturally blocked Ji Dekeng directly, entirely too lazy to bother with him.
La-la-la, the crayfish is really delicious, la-la-la.
Ji Dekeng cleared his throat and said: "I heard from Xiaoqi that your recent cultivation progress is not bad, you're already nearly at the First Rank peak, and the Basic Umbrella Technique has also entered the threshold, pretty good."
"Mm." Lu Yibai nodded naturally, accepting this wave of praise with great poise.
Ji Dekeng didn't mind either, and continued: "But just cultivating at home like this won't do either, don't you think?"
Listening to Ji Dekeng's words, Lu Yibai acutely sensed his meaning.
This was the rhythm of wanting me to go out and gain experience!
Boss Lu's current situation was just like the head teacher not being in the classroom, with only the substitute teacher present.
Ji Dekeng was the head teacher, and Lin Xiaoqi was like the substitute teacher.
Yet one day, you suddenly received a wave of care from the head teacher far away.
Separated by two hundred kilometers, the head teacher insisted on assigning problems online for you.
Damn it!
Could you just not let me properly unleash my true self?
He felt Lin Xiaoqi was pretty good, and had almost forgotten that Ji Dekeng was his proper, orthodox guide.
Consequently, Boss Lu looked at his mobile phone and once again said with a straight face: "Oh, the phone is running out of battery, I'm hanging up first."
In the end, Lu Yibai still didn't hang up the video.
Because he was not a stupid person, and he knew very well that he had already stepped into a new world. This world was dazzling, but it was likewise very dangerous.
If he wanted to survive, and even live more brilliantly, he had to have sufficient strength as a guarantee.
Gaining experience was indispensable.
If he didn't kill monsters now, in the future he would be the monster killed by others.
In order to be able to act cool to his heart's content in the future, he still had to suffer a bit more hardship behind the scenes.
It was just that Ji Dekeng always gave him an unreliable feeling, so he felt the job he found for him might very well be equally unreliable.
Boss Lu cast a "Courage Spell" on himself in his heart, silently reciting "just fight, don't chicken out, charge straight ahead" a few times.
After building his psychological foundation, he stared with his deadpan eyes and said: "So... what kind of job is it actually?"
"Graveyard keeping."
Keep your sister, oh!
"Oh, how magical! How come the phone ran out of battery again?"
(ps: Second update~ It's already one-thirty, time to sleep, good night.)
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