Bridges, big sticks, and powerful backers

The Slaughter God" they were talking about was actually Rong Yin.

Slaughter God of Rong Yin, then... all that effort she put into making those expressions was for nothing.

If we're talking about Rong Yin...

Ye Jiang said, "There's no need to plan ahead. He won't go on a killing spree in the human world."

In fact, the Ability Control Bureau's "Monster Archives" states that Rong Yin was humanity's last line of defense.

Shi Li said, "Ye Jiang, you've been deceived by him. You have no idea how brutal and ruthless he is!"

"I didn't find him to be particularly violent or cruel." Ye Jiang said expressionlessly, "When I touched his face and body, he never bit my hand off once, so he didn't seem particularly violent or cruel."

"Ah?"

Shi Li and Dong Zhen were dumbfounded.

Ah?!!!!

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Ye Jiang was heading towards the west of the city, accompanied by two silent monsters. Dong Zhen and Shi Li flanked her like two protectors. Now, the two monsters believed their judgment of the Slaughter God was flawed. They believed the Slaughter God wasn't cruel and ruthless, and that the bloody storm in the Monster Realm three hundred years ago was either a misleading rumor or had some hidden story. Ye Jiang's rebuttal was unique and inexplicably persuasive; no other evidence could achieve this effect. It just made things seem increasingly strange, and Dong Zhen and Shi Li were still silently processing it.

Ye Jiang stopped on the rooftop of a tall building and asked the two monsters beside her, "Is it that residential area over there?"

The two monsters simply nodded in response, neither of them having recovered from the previous shock.

Ye Jiang glanced at them, then jumped off the high-rise building.

Ye Jiang was on her way to the home of the teacher she had her eye on.

I was just chatting with Dong Zhen Shi Li, and she stopped these two monsters from making unnecessary plans. But I unexpectedly learned that the high-level monster they wanted to join forces with was actually a very knowledgeable monster.

Dong Zhen described the monster like this. "Her identity on the human side is that of an elementary school teacher, teaching moral education. No, I should say she used to be a teacher, but she was fired by the school she taught at, so she isn't anymore."

"Why were you fired?" Ye Jiang asked at the time.

"Because she loved to extend class time so much! Once she stood on the podium, she wouldn't leave, even after the bell rang. Every time, the teacher of the next class had to call her away, which embarrassed the teachers, caused complaints from the students, and led to multiple reports. Finally, she was fired!" Dong Zhen said. "Her host was a Librarian, while she aspired to be a teacher. What a strange monster! Despite being a high-level monster, she disliked fighting and only liked human knowledge, saying that knowledge is power and that monsters are a bunch of ignorant fools... Sister, what does 'ignorant' mean?"

Ye Jiang: "..."

She remembered: No. 6 in "Monster Archives," the librarian.

The file states that human host No. 6 was a librarian at the largest library in City K. Due to a Polluted incident, the library caught fire, and the librarian perished. A monster, carrying the librarian's wish, descended to earth to protect the library's books. Afterwards, every time she was spotted by observers from the Ability Control Bureau, she was in the library reading. It turns out she came to City A and started teaching there. Her eyes lit up; this was the teacher she had been searching for!

When Ye Jiang left the mall, she originally wanted to find a human to teach the little monsters, but since she would be in contact with the little monsters every day, which human was more suitable than a monster?

That's her.

Ye Jiang decided to hire this teacher.

So, Ye Jiang urged Dong Zhen Shi Li to lead the way to find her beloved teacher.

Ye Jiang's contact with No. 6 went smoothly. Shi Li Dong Zhen visited No. 6 many times to discuss cooperation, using all sorts of tempting tactics, but all to no avail. Ye Jiang, however, simply presented an ordinary employment contract and entered the other party's home, where she was served tea and treated well.

The human figure No. 6 is a middle-aged woman who prefers to wear black shirts and trousers. Her straight hair is neatly combed and shiny, and she rarely smiles. Her surname on the contract is Luo, Luo Manyu.

Ye Jiang needed a teacher, Luo Manyu wanted to be a good teacher. Ye Jiang wasn't afraid of her going overtime, so the two hit it off immediately.

Something happened while signing the contract. As Luo Manyu put down her pen, a Blood Moon symbol suddenly appeared on her hand. Luo Manyu raised an eyebrow slightly upon seeing the symbol, but didn't ask any further questions. Ye Jiang, however, had a...

A momentary lapse in concentration led me to ponder the mechanism by which the Blood Moon symbol appears on monsters and Polluted beings.

Ye Jiang found the teacher and brought her back to the mall, along with Shi Li and Dong Zhen. She had the latter train the little monsters with 357. 357 was already too busy, and these two filled the gap perfectly. Although Shi Li and Dong Zhen complained, they didn't refuse her. They never even considered refusing her. It was like nothing had happened. They didn't know when it had become an instinct for them.

When Ye Jiang returned to the supermarket, she saw the young man. He was sitting at her supermarket checkout counter, looking down at a picture book. It was the one Ye Jiang remembered looking at, the one she later used to make toy replicas. She didn't know where he had found it.

Upon suddenly encountering an old object from her memory, Ye Jiang was momentarily lost in thought.

Rong Yin noticed her and looked at her.

"Someone has come in to make a purchase," he said. "I've put the money in the register."

The deserted supermarket finally welcomed its first customer, which was cause for celebration. However, the owner, Ye Jiang, was not focused on her business, but rather on the young man at the checkout counter.

She stared at him, intently, until he couldn't help but look at her questioningly. Suddenly, Ye Jiang spoke up, asking, "Was it me who said that to the Ability Control Bureau?" She asked the young man, "That line about guardianship written in the Ability Control Bureau's ' Monster Archives,' saying that when humanity is truly at its lowest point and has nowhere else to turn, that was what I said to the Ability Control Bureau?"

Today, when Ye Jiang talked about Rong Yin with Shi Li Dong Zhen, she recalled this sentence. She felt a strong sense of déjà vu when she first saw it. At that time, she did not know that she and Rong Yin had known each other for a long time. This shopping mall helped her pick up some memories.

Why does it feel familiar?

Is it because she said those words?

If so, under what circumstances did she utter those words, allowing her to subdue this feared monster with just one sentence?

The little monsters in the toys upstairs were her creations, so they unconditionally loved and were close to her.

What about Rong Yin?

If it was what she said, and Rong Yin was willing to be bound by her words, then what kind of feelings did he have for her?

Ye Jiang's mind drifted back to the image of Rong Yin, the little Coal Ball, and her expression gradually turned serious.

She blurted out, "Are you also my illegitimate child who was lost away from home?"

Rong Yin: "."

Chapter 139 Bridges: The Big Stick and the Big Thigh.

Silence fell; the supermarket became as quiet as a nighttime wilderness.

Ye Jiang watched as Rong Yin's hand froze on the cash register, his well-defined fingers appearing somewhat cold and stiff.

"No," he said, "That statement from the Ability Control Bureau wasn't made by you."

Ye Jiang's previously serious expression vanished at the word "no," and she let out an "Ah," her gaze, which she had been trying to focus, fading away. Oh, okay, no. She had been presumptuous.

That's not the question. So, what's the next one?

She looked at him, waiting for his answer.

Rong Yin did not answer.

He slightly raised his eyes to look back at her, and in the silence, the darkness in his eyes grew deeper and deeper.

He remained silent.

Ye Jiang: "..."

Her question was so outrageous that it angered even a calm, aloof monster, making him so angry he didn't want to talk to him anymore.

Okay, okay.

Ye Jiang's face twitched slightly. She looked away and didn't press for an answer to the question.

She instantly reverted to her dejected state, her eyes drooping, her face pale. She propelled her slender frame forward as if floating, ignoring Rong Yin still sitting behind the counter, and leaned down without any sense of social distance to pull the cash register. After all, this was her first investment, and it held special significance; she wanted to confirm it personally.

There was a thin banknote lying in the cash register, with a face value of 10 yuan.

She reached out and smoothed out the rolled-up corner of the banknote, unaware that a strand of her casually tied little bun had come undone, the end of which brushed against the monster's hand. In fact, when she suddenly leaned closer, Rong Yin had already leaned back to avoid her, but his hand, which he forgot to retract, was still brushed by the end of her hair.

It's very light, slightly cool, and a little itchy.

Rong Yin twitched his fingers, his Adam's apple bobbing up and down.

Then, he stopped his hand from pulling back, letting the strand of hair brush against the back of his hand.

His eyes were dark, a struggle between restraint and excitement churning within them, their light flickering. Ye Jiang sensed something, and when she looked up, she only saw a deep stillness in his eyes, both restraint and excitement suppressed. She noticed nothing, paused for a moment, then lowered her head again, poking at the coins in the cash register with her fingers.

"... so little money," she muttered.

After the incident involving the forced mother, Ye Jiang realized that she still knew too little about monsters. The gaps caused by her amnesia could not be filled by the information provided by the Ability Control Bureau's "Monster Archives." So she went upstairs to find Shi Li and the thousand-year-old monster Dong Zhen to learn about monsters from them.

Once she went upstairs, she actually learned some new things.

Ye Jiang knew that monsters were divided into high, medium, and low levels, but she didn't know that high-level monsters were all regional overlords, and there weren't as many of them as she imagined.

Shi Li said, "No one has actually kept count, but everyone basically knows that in the vast Monster Realm, the total number of high-level monsters is definitely no more than 10. Three hundred years ago, Rong Yin killed... uh, he even killed two. It's really hard to say how many are left now."

Shi Li didn't say that it was because Rong Yin killed two high-level monsters that his reputation as Slaughter God spread so quickly. Before that, no monster had ever imagined that a high-level monster would fall at the hands of another monster.