After a night of panic, the demon hunters decided to wake everyone up at the break of dawn the next day. They wanted to do a targeted safety check on their pinkie rings to prevent them from encountering the demons and being unable to save themselves from the same situation again.
However, before they could send out the order, a sharp alarm interrupted all their plans.
"Is this … the death signal?!"
"Oh no!"
The demon hunters were shocked.
The death signal on the ring would only be triggered when the guardian's vital signs completely disappeared.
One of the guardians died quietly under their heavy protection.
However, before this, they did not receive any emergency help from the guardian. They did not even receive the emergency call for help that they had specially updated on their rings.
The information of everyone in the ring was quickly reported on the screen. The captain immediately informed the demon hunters nearby to deal with it. "Victim Xiao Qiu, B-level guardian, guardian of an eight-hundred-year-old vixen —"
Just as he said this, the death signal suddenly sounded again!
This time, it was not the guardian's ring that sent the message, but the vixen's demonic aura in the human's identity registration system. When the vixen died, the demonic aura dissipated, triggering the death signal.
And the victim was the little vixen he had just mentioned!
"Quick, team seven, go over immediately. Team eight, support!"
The captain's nose was sweating profusely.
A guardian, a vixen, had died in front of their eyes without them noticing. This was no longer a dereliction of duty, this meant that the intruder was terrifyingly powerful! They had to act immediately and race against time. Even if they were a second late, more people might be harmed.
However, it was already too late. The nightmarish morning had just begun.
Death signals rang one after another in the communication room, like the devil's screams, catalyzing the fear in everyone's hearts.
The captain's pupils shrank, and he almost collapsed to the ground.
These sounds meant that many people had died. The captain could not count …
How could this be? How could this be?!
He could not accept the reality. Gou Liang who received the trembling notification from the system was also in disbelief.
[Master, wake up! That demon is so cruel, she actually ate half of the district. I'm about to pee my pants!]
[What happened?]
[I'm sorry, Master. Her demonic aura is too strange. I couldn't track it, so I didn't notice what she was doing. Moreover, she was really cunning. She didn't drain all of their spiritual energy in one go. Instead, she left some for them, just enough for them to last until morning. They looked as if they were asleep, and I didn't see anything wrong. Now, it's revealed in one breath … Oh my god, the leader of the human race almost had a cerebral hemorrhage when he heard this news!]
[… This doesn't make sense. Isn't she afraid of dying from indigestion?]
The residents of the Fairy Community were all humans and demons with strong spiritual power. The spiritual power of more than half of the residents of this community added up to more than the spiritual power of the entire building she had devoured. It should be half as strong as that of the Demon Monarch.
Logically speaking, the demonic creature would have already self-destructed if it continued to devour the food like a hungry tiger!
[I find it strange too. I've already asked the main system. Master, please wait for a moment. Very soon … Ah, the main system's feedback is here!]
"Master, the main system said that this is probably a Goldfinger given to her by the Demon Mirror. That is to say, no matter how much she eats, she can directly absorb it without any buffer time … Oh my god, doesn't this mean that she has already digested the entire building of spiritual objects that she had eaten before? In addition to the guardians and little fairies in this community, isn't she now more powerful than Lord Long Yao?!]
[…]
Gou Liang also felt worried about the future.
He asked the system to prepare the items for escape first. He looked at Long Yao, who understood the seriousness of the situation from the message from the leader of the human race, and asked without much hope, "If we start a war now, is there a certainty that we will win?"
Long Yao threw away the phone, picked up the worried Gou Liang from the bed, and walked slowly to the bathroom, saying, "We can't rule out the possibility that the Demon Mirror has given her another Goldfinger. It's hard to say."
Hearing what he said, Gou Liang was almost sure that the Demon Mirror of Time and Space was going to do something.
After being put down by Long Yao, he put the toothbrush into his mouth tiredly, and asked vaguely while brushing his teeth, "I neglected a question before, if you die in the Demon Mirror of Time and Space, what will happen?"
Long Yao brushed his teeth side by side with him, and said, "Both body and soul will be destroyed."
Gou Liang, "…"
He was so scared that he swallowed a mouthful of mouthwash directly, and he stuck out his tongue because of the spiciness. But now he didn't care about his own embarrassment, and hurriedly grabbed Long Yao and asked, "Are you serious?!"
Long Yao nodded, spat out the water in his mouth, pulled the towel, and wrung it dry, and wiped his face. Gently frowning, Long Yao said in a somewhat dull voice, "At that time, I thought that if I was destined to not be able to keep you, it would be good to die with you here."
Gou Liang, "…"
The corner of his mouth twitched again, and he swallowed the heart that jumped to his throat. He angrily grabbed the towel and threw it on his face, yelling, "Are you crazy!"
Long Yao didn't deny it.
He wiped his face with the towel and said with a smile, "But now, I regret it."
"Oh."
Gou Liang responded, his eyes full of suspicion.
Long Yao threw away the towel, picked him up and took him to the kitchen, and slowly began to prepare breakfast, completely ignoring the chaos and panic outside.
The oil extracted from the silver fish was put into the pot, and Long Yao picked up the pot with one hand and shook it to let the oil heat evenly, and the other hand took out a strange beast egg from the void, and said calmly, "I can't bear to part with it, if it really comes to that point, I will do everything I can to send you out of here."
Gou Liang was stunned, looking at his back, he didn't know what to say for a while.
Before he could wipe out the strange emotion that made his heart tighten, he and Long Yao heard a voice at the same time.
[Ding, the executor's favorability for the target has been updated, current favorability: 1!]
Long Yao's entire body shook, and he suddenly turned to look at Gou Liang!
The sudden surprise made him lose control for a moment, and after a crack, there was a loud sizzling sound, and the oil pot suddenly began to smoke.
— — The strange beast egg had been crushed.
Long Yao forgot his lines.
Gou Liang didn't say anything.
Their eyes met, and after two seconds, Gou Liang exploded.
"Oh, my egg!!!"
He rushed forward in two steps, looked at the mixture of egg and eggshell in the oil pot, and then looked at the egg's corpse that was still dripping from Long Yao's hand, and he suddenly burst into tears.
This was the legendary dragon egg, a dragon!
Long Yao didn't know if it was because his slow nerves finally connected, or because he was amused by his howls, but he couldn't help but grin for a moment. Even though he didn't make a sound, Gou Liang was so angry that he stomped his feet, and he sternly accused his outrageous behavior, "You can still laugh, bastard QAQ!"
[Ding, the executor's favorability for the target has been updated, current favorability: Data is unstable, accurate calculation is in progress.]
Long Yao's smiling face suddenly froze.
Without waiting for Gou Liang to scold him again, his mind moved, and the scene in the kitchen suddenly returned to 30 seconds ago — —
As the system's voice fell, Long Yao, who was holding the pot in one hand and the egg in the other, turned to look at Gou Liang, and the surprised expression on his face slowly magnified.
He said, "Xiao Kener …???"
Gou Liang silently slapped his face, and forcefully crushed his overjoyed expression. "You think I'll forget your crime like this? You think you didn't crush the egg just now, but my IQ? Destroying the evidence, covering up the evidence, you're even more guilty, do you know that?! "
Long Yao, "…"
Well, time and space returned to 30 seconds ago perfectly, but Gou Liang's memory did not.
How could he forget that this reincarnation was controlled by the Space-time Demon Mirror, and the Space-time Demon Mirror originated from the Law of Darkness … In other words, Gou Liang was like a fish in water here, and he was the exact opposite.
Long Yao grabbed his hand, and his face was wooden as he deceived himself, "Nothing happened just now, and you think so too, Xiao Kener."
Gou Liang, "… Pfft!"
He really couldn't hold it in, and he couldn't stop laughing, "Haha, Long Yao, why are you so, so … Hahaha!"
He couldn't even find the adjectives, and laughed until tears came out.
For a long time, Gou Liang didn't stop, and Long Yao's stiff body was relaxed by his laughter. Putting down the pot and eggs, and turning off the fire, he helplessly straightened Gou Liang, who was laughing so hard that he bent over and hugged his stomach, and tucked him into his arms, to prevent him from laughing so hard.
When Gou Liang finally finished laughing, Long Yao picked him up and raised him up high. He didn't say anything, and just kissed the tears at the corner of his eyes, and then kissed his deep dimples. His eyes were helpless, but unbelievably soft.
Just one look made Gou Liang stunned, and he didn't even notice the soul power that Long Yao accidentally gave him during the kiss.
Until a burp rushed out of his throat, interrupting their affectionate gaze.
Gou Liang's face suddenly turned red!
He hurriedly jumped down, covered his mouth, and didn't forget to shout in panic, "This time, I didn't want to eat, burp! You're not allowed to burp! You've overdrawn my appetite for tomorrow! "
Long Yao nodded, and then nodded again, and smiled brightly and cheerfully.
He said, "Yes, it's my fault."
Gou Liang was instantly satisfied, and his eyes turned into crescents as he smiled.
[Ding! Current favorability of the executor: 2!]
Gou Liang's face that had just returned to normal temperature suddenly became hot. Damn, can you stop the live broadcast, Xiao Si, my precious darling!
"Xiao Kener …"
Long Yao's smile couldn't be seen, and Gou Liang saw him walking towards him, and didn't know what to do for a moment. Luckily, the sound of the Demon Hunters breaking in helped him out.
Seeing that there were living people in the room, the Demon Hunters were first shocked, and then surprised.
The Demon Hunter captain came forward with a face full of joy, "Mr. Qi, Mr. Liu Mao, it's great that you're okay!"
The entire building was in trouble, and only Gou Liang and "Long Qi" didn't respond to the death signal. But they didn't respond to the emergency call, so the Demon Hunters didn't dare to have too much hope before they came, and now they were relieved to see them.
Gou Liang turned around, and Long Yao had unknowingly turned into Long Qi's appearance.
Gou Liang said, "Sorry, there was a small problem with the tail ring, and I didn't reply in time, sorry to have worried everyone."
In fact, neither he nor Long Yao thought of this, but the Demon Hunter captain couldn't care less about the authenticity of his words, and was more than happy to see them well.
"It's okay, as long as you're okay. You should know what happened before, the leader and the minister have sent us a message to escort you to a safe place as soon as possible, can we depart now? "
The Demon Hunter captain asked, and didn't expect to get a negative answer.
Long Yao said directly, "Inform the leader of the human race, and arrange for a hundred Grade-A Demon Hunters to gather here, and the rest to evacuate. I want to see people in thirty minutes. "
The Demon Hunter captain was shocked, "But your safety …"
Long Yao interrupted him, "Just go and inform them, I'll arrange for the Demon Hunters."
He then waved his hand, and signaled for the Demon Hunters to leave.
The Demon Hunter captain was hesitant, but he didn't dare to disobey, so he left. As he closed the door, he saw Gou Liang and Long Yao walk into the kitchen, and then he heard the sound of the fire …
The Demon Hunter captain was sure that it was an illusion, and left with a stiff face.
Long Yao made a simple thousand-layer omelet, and even though it was the smallest egg, the portion was not small, and he made a total of five different types of omelets.
The dragon eggs did not disappoint Gou Liang's expectations. The color and aroma of the eggs surpassed all the eggs that Gou Liang had ever eaten. Coupled with the jam, meat sauce, and meat floss produced by "Dragon Glory", every taste was so delicious that it made him happy.
But this time, Gou Liang didn't hesitate to give two-fifths to Long Yao.
If everything went well, he would be able to reach adulthood soon, and grow into a demon who didn't need to control his diet. Under this condition, he had to make sure that Long Yao was in his best eating condition at all times, so Gou Liang didn't feel bad about giving him supplements.
The only fly in the ointment was that the smile on Long Yao's face never fell from the beginning to the end. The silent smile on the corner of his mouth made Gou Liang feel very uncomfortable throughout the meal.
Even with his head lowered, he couldn't escape Long Yao's burning gaze, and Gou Liang glared at him fiercely. But the warning had the opposite effect, seeing Long Yao smiling like a fool, Gou Liang couldn't help but smirk, "Isn't it just two favorability points? Look at how happy you are, like you've picked up a treasure, is it that rare?"
Long Yao didn't say anything, only smiling as he reached out to wipe the jam off Gou Liang's mouth. Before he could take it back, Gou Liang grabbed his hand and licked the jam off his fingers, not letting anyone take advantage of him.
Long Yao's eyes darkened when he saw her haggling over every ounce.
Gou Liang keenly sensed the change in his mood, and looked at Long Yao in confusion. Gou Liang let go of his hand and quickly licked the jam off the corner of his mouth, saying warily, "What are you looking at me for if you're not eating?"
As he spoke, he didn't forget to move the thousand-layer omelet in his direction, looking at Long Yao with his small eyes, as if he was afraid that he would snatch it away.
Long Yao didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Looking at his clear eyes without a trace of charm, he couldn't do anything other than rub his temples helplessly. It really wasn't easy to provoke Gou Zhengzhi who had lost his memories.
The System was worried for Long Yao. Its dear master's many years of driving experience was written off just like that, so pure that it couldn't bear to see it.
The System stuffed spare life-saving items into Gou Liang's bag and sighed, "Hopefully, when master regains his memories and explodes, he won't be caught in the crossfire."
In this day and age, the System was also a high-risk profession, sob sob sob.
*
A hundred Demon Hunters gathered in the community square. They were the strongest among the human warriors, and the demons also sent a hundred S-class noble demons.
They were all in the same place, so humans couldn't sense them. But to demons, even if they didn't taste very delicious, they still had a fatal attraction. Their spiritual energy was so strong that no demon could resist it.
It wasn't an exaggeration to say that the moment the tail rings were removed from their bodies, Gou Liang's legs almost went soft.
Except for a different kind like Long Yao, any demon who smelled this scent would immediately turn into a demon and rush towards the food without any reason. For a demon cub like Gou Liang, this was an instant kill. If he wasn't picky about food, he would have been embarrassed.
In fact, the demons were no less inferior to the demons. If they hadn't been selected for their noble bloodline and enjoyed a lot of human tributes, they would have already lost their minds.
At this moment, Gou Liang understood Long Yao's intention.
This was a simple and crude trap.
— — using these two hundred humans with powerful spirit energy and noble demons as bait, it was specifically designed to hunt down demonic creatures.
Long Yao had already driven away all the demons within a ten-mile radius, leaving only the demon that had devoured half of the community last night. And she didn't disappoint Long Yao, showing up without making them wait.
A cloud of black gas slowly condensed into a human figure in the air. She took a deep breath of the rich spiritual energy and laughed, "Yao, my good child, the tribute you prepared is excellent, I like it very much, hahaha."
This sentence revealed Long Yao's identity, but to her surprise, neither the humans nor the demons in the square reacted to her words.
Long Yao stood in front of Gou Liang and dispelled her doubts, "These people's five senses have already been frozen by me. Mother, you don't have to worry about what you want to do or say. Speaking of which, we mother and son have never calmly talked to each other before. This might be the last chance. If mother wants to talk about the old days, you can take your time. "
The demon snorted and turned back into black gas, flying in front of Long Yao. A tyrannical demon with the power to corrode everything stabbed towards Long Yao's face.
Long Yao raised her hand to block. The attack failed, and the demon didn't persist.
She retreated and stood in front of Long Yao in her human form.
Only now did Gou Liang see her appearance clearly. She was a beautiful witch, enchanting and proud, like a blooming blood-colored rose.
She was the previous Demon King, Mo Yan — — a female demon who had once terrorized the human and demon realms, but who had been buried in the hands of her lover.
Seventy percent of Long Yao's five-star appearance came from the Demon King, Long Qi, but it was also because of her that his incomparably handsome appearance was created. Relatively speaking, Long Yao's personality and temperament were more like his birth mother's, but less extreme and passionate, and more resolute and indifferent.
Mo Yan looked at Long Yao's face, her gaze as sharp as a knife.
She sneered and said, "I don't want to talk when I look at this face. If you really welcome me, you wouldn't use this face to annoy me."
Long Yao smiled, "Is that so? Then I'm sorry."
"I thought that compared to my face, mother would like this appearance more. After all, he used this appearance to trick you into giving birth to me even though you knew it would greatly damage your demonic power. That was why he suppressed me in the forbidden land of the demonic beasts for a thousand years. "
Mo Yan's expression twisted for a moment, easily enraged.
Even though a thousand years had passed, time still hadn't extinguished her feelings for that man.
Perhaps it had fermented into a bone-deep hatred, or some other more complicated emotion that she couldn't describe, but there was no doubt that she couldn't forget him. His influence on her was still the same as before.
"Since you're so considerate of me, then you can die with this face," Mo Yan said calmly.
Mo Yan said calmly, but the black aura around her surged towards Long Yao.
Long Yao protected Gou Liang as he dodged, saying regretfully, "Didn't you say that you wanted to see him one last time? I originally just wanted to fulfill mother's last wish, but since you've changed your mind, I can only let you go to the place you should go with regret. "
Mo Yan heard the hidden meaning in his words and asked with narrowed eyes, "What do you want to say?"
Long Yao was still smiling as he said something she hadn't expected.
"Mother probably doesn't know yet, but I was heavily injured before. The demonic beast king Long Qi, the man I call father, was bewitched by something and used all his demonic power to save me. Haha, mother, you also find it very surprising. It's a pity that he didn't die at my hands, so of course, he won't have the chance to die at your hands either. Mother, tell me, isn't this man just as irresponsible as before? "
The roiling black Qi dissipated for a moment before it attacked Long Yao from all directions.
Mo Yan's emotionless voice sounded coldly from the black Qi, "Since you've devoured his demonic power, you deserve to die even more. Go down to hell with him! "