Chapter 64
Compared to before, its size had swollen to about four meters.
It was a true behemoth!
At first, they thought they could escape by hiding in the van, but little did they know that to the giant wolf, the van was merely a toy to be dismantled at will.
Standing beside the giant wolf's corpse was a girl in a high school uniform. In her right hand, she held a gun, its tip still dripping blood, speckled with bits of yellowish-white matter—fragments of the monster's brain.
Lin Lingling wiped the blood from her cheek and walked expressionlessly to Cai Yifan's side. The star's leg had been bitten off, and as she approached, he was mumbling incoherently, clearly in a state of mental disarray.
“Tsk, is this what a Shaolin disciple is like? Is this all the mental fortitude you have?”
Lin Lingling was speechless.
Thinking back to when she used to be a fan of Cai Yifan made her feel nauseous. Fortunately, after becoming a demon slayer, she had lost her illusions about so-called celebrities.
Celebrities were nothing at all.
This world was far more exciting than she had imagined.
Yet, before everything erupted completely, for the sake of social stability, everything was still being forcibly covered up. But you can't hide fire with paper; exposure was only a matter of time.
“Um, Miss Hero?”
Director Zhang wasn’t sure if that was the right way to address her.
He cautiously said, “There’s another wolf chasing after three other people, heading west. Please, you have to save them.”
“Another one?!”
Lin Lingling's eyes widened, her silver teeth clenched tight.
These people had barely survived by hiding in the van.
Those three others, with no cover at all, were probably already in the wolf's belly.
Damn it, damn it!
Lin Lingling, if only your senses were a bit sharper, how could such a tragedy have happened?
Without further ado, the girl quickened her pace and ran westward.
She could already smell the demonic aura in the air.
Time was of the essence!
Just then, the sky to the west suddenly lit up.
“Boom—!”
Lin Lingling paused for a moment, her eyes wide as she saw a flash of lightning in the dark sky.
Thunder struck down, sweeping away evil and punishing the wicked.
The wolf demon's aura vanished in an instant.
‘There’s someone else.’
In that thunder and fire, Lin Lingling felt a sense of righteousness and peace, and she immediately came to a conclusion in her heart.
Moreover,
It was a super big shot!
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Chapter 67: I Still Have Some Here
Lin Lingling followed the direction of the lightning.
Eventually, she found the charred corpse of the wolf demon in a five-meter-wide crater.
“The jawbone is shattered; the fracture suggests it was struck by a blunt object. That big shot's weapon might have been a hammer or a club.”
Since a big shot had already appeared and she hadn’t smelled any human blood, it meant the three missing people were safe. So, Lin Lingling studied the wolf demon's corpse without any burden.
She bent down and picked up a piece of wolf bone, which crumbled into powder at her touch. Her pupils constricted, and she murmured, “To be able to summon thunder for an attack, and with such immense power, could it be… a general-level?”
But how many general-level beings were there in the world?
Lin Lingling was astonished by her own judgment.
Currently, there were only four ranks for demon slayers: Bai (White), Shi (Master), Bing (Soldier), and Jiang (General).
Someone like her, at the Bai level, could only be considered a civilian demon slayer.
Civilian demon slayers had relevant endorsements but couldn’t be officially recognized as personnel.
In nature, they were somewhat akin to bounty hunters.
But there were benefits too; they weren’t forced to take on missions, could accept tasks at their leisure, and could earn a handsome reward for slaying demons and submitting their trophies. However, if they died due to overestimating themselves, no one would come to collect their bodies.
Lin Lingling relied on her earnings from slaying demons to pay for her tuition.
Otherwise, who knows where she would be working in some exploitative factory, tightening screws.
Her ultimate goal was to become an officially recognized demon slayer because only then could she experience a broader world.
“Hmm, what’s this?”
Lin Lingling bent down to pick up a piece of yellow paper.
This yellow paper was less than three meters from the wolf's corpse, covered in obscure characters drawn with cinnabar, and she could faintly sense a surge of thunderous energy brewing within it.
Realizing this, her hand instinctively trembled.
If she were a demon, she would probably have been consumed by the thunderous energy in the talisman by now.
“It seems the thunder just now was triggered by this talisman.”
Lin Lingling gasped.
If that big shot could unleash such a powerful attack just by using a talisman…
It was simply unheard of, unseen before.
At least in her memory, the strongest demon slayer in the Hua District couldn’t do that.
Who on earth was this person?
She collected her thoughts and followed the trail further.
Eventually, she discovered a dilapidated ranger's cabin near the wolf demon's corpse.
…
“Why hasn’t the wolf come yet?”
“Huai'an, how can you say that?” Su Xingchen's face turned pale upon hearing Chen Huai'an's words.
The cameraman also looked speechless, “What, are you looking forward to it?”
“Well, not really. According to the law of conservation of safety and danger, our safety means another group is in danger.” Chen Huai'an stroked his chin and said casually, “With wolves that big, do you think Zhang Dao and the others could hide in the van and escape unscathed?”
Hearing Chen Huai'an say that, fear crept onto Su Xingchen and the cameraman's faces.
Yeah, once the people in the van were done for, wouldn’t it be their turn next?
In this vast mountain, how could they possibly escape the pursuit of wild beasts?
Just then,
Creak—!
The door of the small cabin suddenly swung open.
Moonlight poured in, casting a giant shadow on the wall.
But that shadow wasn’t a wolf; it was a girl.
Lin Lingling, using the moonlight, surveyed the three people inside the cabin, each with a different expression.
Two men and one woman: one bald, one a pure-hearted girl, and one burly man carrying a camera.
These people didn’t look like experts, and there was no sign of any powerful energy emanating from them.
So, the big shot isn’t here?
A hint of doubt flashed in her eyes.
Could it be that the big shot had already left?
Truly a general-level big shot, coming and going without a trace; someone like her couldn’t possibly detect it.
“Little sister, there’s a wolf outside. Come in and take cover.”
Su Xingchen felt relieved upon seeing a cute student girl enter.
Though she wondered why this girl was carrying a long gun on her back.
Cosplay?
Regardless, as long as she wasn’t a wolf, that was good enough.
“The wolf is dead.” Lin Lingling, with the long gun still dripping blood on her back, said in a fearful tone, “Oh, I was so scared! I was climbing the mountain when I stumbled upon a wolf's corpse and panicked, running in here. I’m so scared.”
Su Xingchen: “…”
She suddenly found this little sister quite suspicious.
Chen Huai'an's gaze fell on Lin Lingling, scanning her from head to toe, finally landing on the talisman in her hand. He blinked, “Little sister, where did you find this talisman?”
Lin Lingling glanced at Chen Huai'an, then looked again, and again, finally staring intently.
Damn, he’s so handsome.
She hadn’t noticed when she first entered, but now that she looked closely, she felt like she could just melt.
But being a dignified demon slayer, Lin Lingling forcibly suppressed her urge to gawk at the handsome guy, blushing as she coughed twice, “What talisman? I don’t know what you’re talking about; that’s just my keychain.”
As a demon slayer, sometimes it was unavoidable to be exposed to the public eye.
In the past, when there were fewer demons, they required complete concealment of their identities or forced witnesses to sign non-disclosure agreements.
Later, relevant departments even developed potions that could erase a segment of memory.
But now, with the increasing number of demons, it was gradually impossible to keep it hidden. The materials for the potions were also expensive, so it wasn’t feasible to give a bunch of witnesses a dose every time they went on a mission. Therefore, aside from particularly fantastical-looking demons, anything that resembled a wild beast was uniformly labeled as a mutated beast that had drunk seawater.
And demon slayers also publicly claimed to be martial artists who had trained since childhood.
Sometimes, when they went out with security, they were referred to as special enforcers.
In any case, they couldn’t reveal that they were demon slayers!
They couldn’t expose that this world was gradually seeing the emergence of demons!
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