Chapter 88 Tracking (2 more updates)

This is... the Evil Qi has dissipated?Fang Yu immediately sighed with relief, without this thing, there was no need to worry about being targeted by demons again.

However, on second thought, Fang Yu felt something was off.

He had just slaughtered the three pawnshop people early this morning, logically the Evil Qi should have accumulated again, so why did it dissipate?

Fang Yu couldn’t understand, the only possible explanation was... the experience during the interrogation.

"Is it related to altering the brain with Shuang Xuyao? Or is it related to the Artifact that even Li Baizhen greatly fears?"

Fang Yu felt the latter was more likely; after all, natural dissipation shouldn’t have been so fast, right?

It’s strange though, he clearly harbored Evil Qi within himself.

Yet, Yue Guang and those who knew my ’demon’ identity did not harbor any doubts about this matter, nor did they remark on it.

Could it be normal for a demon to inherently have Evil Qi?

Or is it that demons who consume humans imbued with Evil Qi will become tainted with Evil Qi?

There should be some explanation; otherwise, Yue Guang and the others wouldn’t just ignore a demon that contained Evil Qi.

Fang Yu was puzzled, but could not figure out the reason.

After all, he could only sense the Evil Qi on himself, he couldn’t tell whether others bore Evil Qi.

As to asking Yue Guang and the others, that would certainly be suicidal.

It seems like touching upon common knowledge concerning demons; better not mention it if possible.

Looking at the sky, there was still some time before the sun set.

Thinking it over, he decided to first make a trip to Youtiao Street and finish the tasks.

Exchange Silver Tael, the next target hadn’t been found yet, completing the task in Jiaziyin seemed to be the easiest to accomplish.

Holding one achievement point, there shouldn’t be a problem, right?

Or should he wait until the dead of night?

Never mind, first scope out the place.

He took a step and left, after about three streets, the time neared when most people were closing up for the day.

The streets became more crowded.

Fang Yu was not paying attention, but suddenly one person, as if drunk, bumped straight into him.

Fang Yu instinctively dodged, but caught a glimpse of the other’s health bar.

His body stiffened.

Thud.

The person lightly bumped into Fang Yu, brushed past him, and merged into the crowd.

At the same time, a piece of paper appeared in Fang Yu’s hand.

Damn!

That scared me; I thought he was going to attack me right there in the street.

Turns out it was just a messenger.

Silently continuing forward, after leaving the main street, he headed towards a less populated alley and Fang Yu took the opportunity to read the contents of the note.

"Tomorrow at noon, Che Lun Dock."

Tomorrow at noon?

Doesn’t that conflict with the time for the demon gathering?

Could I possibly Clone myself to go to Ling Yun Inn while also going...

Fang Yu’s thoughts suddenly halted.

He realized what was happening.

The demons changed the meeting place!

Ling Yun Inn was abandoned!

Did Yue Guang and the others discover something?

Fang Yu pondered deeply, but felt that wasn’t quite it.

Because Yue Guang and the five demons were hiding within Li Baizhen’s team, just to see how my result turned out.

Now that I haven’t exposed myself, it means the problem isn’t on my side, but there must be some news on their side that caused a sudden change of the meeting place.

Now the only remaining issue is...

"Do we need to send a signal?"

Fang Yu thought about it, Li Baizhen seemed to not have given him any secret means of contact.

For his undercover mission, there was only one assignment tomorrow.

Infiltrate the demon group and record the human appearance of each demon.

So, his task wasn’t to send signals and report every move of the demons, but to infiltrate till the end and expose all the human identities of the demons.

But that being said.

If people from the Foolish Underworld couldn’t timely notice that the information about Shuang Xuyao was outdated and behind, and that the demons’ meeting location had changed,

then they wouldn’t be able to support him in time.

There’s always a feeling of insecurity.

While Fang Yu was thinking about this, he suddenly noticed that on the street ahead, besides the sporadic health bars of pedestrians,

on the side eaves, there perched a gray bird, glowing with a health bar.

Fang Yu: ...

This bird, grooming its feathers, shaking its head, was lifelike and indistinguishable from ordinary birds.

If not for its lonely stance on the eaves, Fang Yu wouldn’t even have noticed it.

There was a demon, testing my reaction!

With this thought, Fang Yu did as he had seen done in TV dramas; he put the paper into his mouth and walked away as if nothing had happened.

The bird didn’t follow.

Instead, it stayed there for a while, flapping its wings with a plop, and leisurely flew into a courtyard.

In the courtyard, two people were playing chess.

One of them was Yue Guang.

The other was a middle-aged man with an empty eye socket.

His one eye, like a human’s, normally fixed on the chessboard, while the position of the other eye was just an empty hole with nothing in it.

If you looked inside the hole of the eyeball, you could see the internal flesh and organs slightly wriggling.

Suddenly, the bird in the sky swooped down and burrowed into the middle-aged man’s empty eye socket.

The bird, like burrowing into a hole, struggled a few times, its feathers and body turning into flesh, merging into the middle-aged man’s eye socket, filling it up to form a blood-colored lump.

Then, a human eyeball squeezed out from the lump. The eyeball was covered with a layer of human skin.

Looking at the middle-aged man’s face now, one couldn’t see any peculiarities anymore.

Snap.

He placed down the last chess piece and admitted defeat.

"This is the first time I’m experiencing the service of a Pure Blood Demon, your methods are impressive."

The middle-aged man gently touched the skin on his face, rotating his eyeball, looking as if he had not torn the skin apart at all, flawless.

"Tomorrow, you can freely act; with me here, you can recover the human skins you’ve worn for so many years anytime," Yue Guang said lightly.

After a pause, he asked, "Did Diao Deyi dispose of that paper?"

"It’s done, I saw with my own eyes, he swallowed that paper."

Yue Guang was silent, his brow slightly furrowed.

Could it be that I’m just overthinking?

"I don’t understand why you suspect him, so far, the moves arranged by Shuang Xuyao on this chessboard have infiltrated deeper into the Foolish Underworld than any of our long-infiltrating demons."

The middle-aged man rubbed his eye; every time he used this method, his eye tended to shift out of place.

Yue Guang slightly shook his head.

"I know Diao Deyi is doing well, but it’s this smoothness that makes me feel uneasy. Just passing the Foolish Underworld’s checks can’t explain why the Foolish Underworld would recruit him into their team."

"At the gathering tomorrow, you can ask him yourself." The middle-aged man chuckled: "If he really has issues, then tomorrow will be his end."

Yue Guang: ...

He said no more; after all, this was merely his own suspicion.

Judging from the current situation, Diao Deyi showed no problems.

"By the way, why did you suddenly decide to change the meeting place?"

"...It’s simple, there has been no news from Shuang Xuyao. I don’t trust it, so naturally, we had to change the place."