strictlysupreme Chapter 222 The Conman 22
Chapter 222 The Conman 22
"Ms. Zheng, we've arrived."
With a miniature camera hanging around her neck, Ling Yi spoke expressionlessly.
Beside her, the unscrupulous driver was still gesturing for her to be nicer to the customer.
Ling Yi ignored this.
This miserly old man betrayed his beloved apprentice for 500,000 yuan, making her livestream exorcise ghosts.
"Her beauty salon is on the seventh floor. Master, you can just swipe my card to go up there." Zheng Jia's voice came through the earpiece.
It has been almost a month since Zheng Jia met his biological parents. During this month, Ling Yi has been studying hard day and night, striving for five million yuan.
Zheng Jia, on the other hand, collected all of Hua Dai's client information during this month.
Do not check, I don’t know, I’m scared.
This small beauty salon has nearly 600 active customers.
The so-called active customers are those who consistently contribute a year's worth of lifespan to Hua Dai every month.
Zheng Jia even found that more than a dozen people had died of illness in the past two years.
They were all in their fifties or sixties, all clients of Hua Dai, and they all died by such a coincidence.
Holding the thin piece of paper, Zheng Jia's lips trembled.
Without her parents' protection, perhaps in about a year, she too would have become one of the names on this piece of paper.
Therefore, she became even more determined to get rid of Hua Dai, wishing she could personally take a knife and chop that painted-skin ghost to pieces.
"Humans have their own laws, so why don't ghosts have their own rules?" she grumbled. "Are the City God, Yama, and Buddha all fake? Why are they just allowed to harm people like this?"
As she spoke, the creator of the ghost rules was nestled in Ling Yi's arms, obediently playing the role of an ordinary little bird without any intelligence.
Upon hearing this, it showed no discomfort whatsoever, and even leisurely flapped its wings.
As an ancient demon, this world, which had just begun to recover its spiritual energy, was extremely barren to him.
After establishing a non-aggression pact with humanity and promising to oversee the resurgence of the ancient demon, he fell into a deep slumber, leaving the affairs of the Administration entirely to humanity.
The loopholes in human management allowed a little monster who had only recently become a spirit to harm humanity. What does this have to do with a bird that only knows how to sleep?
When Wu Jin's wing was pinched, he looked up and saw Ling Yi's warning look.
His golden pupils froze for a moment, his wings obediently rubbed against Ling Yi several times, and then he reluctantly chirped.
Okay, okay, we still need to do something about it. After all, the Administration Bureau is nominally under his supervision.
Therefore, on the surface, only Ling Yi and her apprentice were searching for the Painted Skin Ghost, but in reality, the Taoist priests and demons from the Administration Bureau had already surrounded the place completely.
Having been a police officer, Ling Yi knew all too well what teamwork meant. The Painted Skin Ghost was taking lives, so there was no need to talk about morality with her; everyone should fight side by side!
Outside the building, the Taoist priests and demons who had been suddenly summoned were mostly bewildered, staring at the faint demonic aura emanating from the place, wondering why Wu Jin had gone to such lengths to bring them here.
But some people began to feel restless.
Bai Chengye was practicing meditation in the Taoist temple when he suddenly found himself in a familiar place, where the elusive Mr. Wu happened to be.
At that moment, a sense of foreboding rose in his heart, yet he also harbored a glimmer of hope.
Hua Dai is just a modern-day imp who has become a spirit; such a large entourage probably isn't here to capture her.
Look who's here! Kunpeng, Dang Kang, Luan Niao—these legendary demons have all appeared here. What makes Hua Dai so special?
It definitely wasn't her...
As he tried to comfort himself, he heard Wu Jin's cold voice: "I called you all here today to watch a show."
Wu Jin would never say anything like "I'll watch my Daoist partner cleverly capture the little devil." He simply said in a serious tone, "From now on, all cultivators with human lifespans will meet the same fate!"
The fox from Qingqiu wagged her tail and said in a charming voice, "Your Highness, what are you saying? I had consensual relationships with those men, and I didn't mind their short lives. How can they blame me for using their lifespans to cultivate?"
"Roar!"
As soon as she finished speaking, a slightly effeminate man let out a deafening roar.
The next moment, the man's head transformed into a giant fish head, which swallowed the fox whole.
The space itself was bitten off by his sharp teeth, and the crowd could almost see the six-tailed celestial fox struggling desperately through the gaps between his teeth.
Such a terrifying scene terrified the Taoist priests present, who even took out their toy wooden swords, which drew mockery from the demons.
If not...
"enough."
The Kunpeng paused in its act of devouring the fox, then opened its mouth again, spitting out the six-tailed celestial fox along with two small fish.
No, this time it has five tails.
Kunpeng's voice was icy: "If you disrespect His Highness again, I will devour all the foxes of Qingqiu!"
All the great demons of Qingqiu are asleep. Now only this six-tailed fox is baring her teeth and claws. If she doesn't know what's good for her, Kunpeng won't mind giving him an extra meal.
The six-tailed celestial fox hugged its own tail, looking at Kunpeng with apprehension. After a long while, a sarcastic smile appeared on its lips: "You old dog who betrayed the Demon Court back then, now you know how to pledge your loyalty to His Highness. Have you forgotten how His Highness came to be?"
Kunpeng's expression changed, and an invisible vortex rose above his head, roaring as it swept towards the fox.
"Enough with the noise." Wu Jin flicked his sleeve, and all the strange phenomena in the world vanished instantly.
This is also why he doesn't like to be awake; these unruly fellows are just too noisy, and he doesn't want to be awake every day to be their referee.
Here, a fox's tail has been casually lost, while over there, the Taoist priests are practically summoning their patriarch.
These ancient demons were so terrifying that if they didn't use too much power, they would fall into slumber again. They suspected that the world had already returned to their rule.
Being watched by these terrifying creatures, what can we do? What can we do...?
"Chengye, what's wrong?"
Hearing his father's voice, Bai Chengye glanced at his father's serious face and said insincerely, "I'm just worried about... what exactly are they trying to do?"
He swallowed the disrespectful address, which earned him a glare from his father.
Then he said quietly, "Who knows? Let's make an example of them."
It's just unclear whether the monkeys being warned are the noisy demons over there, or these Taoist priests.
"Father, do you know what kind of monster this is all about?" Bai Chengye was extremely anxious, but he couldn't show the slightest sign of distress.
Father Bai gave him a meaningful look: "We were all summoned at the same time, how could I know these things?"
"Could it be that you knew?"
"Of course I don't know!" Bai Chengye denied it outright.