Chapter 3384: Demon Record (7)

An Yujun had a gut feeling that this demon wouldn’t hurt her.

Although this demon sharp-tongued and often said awkward things, he clearly held no killing intent towards her.

During this period, she had encountered far too many demons. Some were terrifyingly grotesque in appearance, while others maintained a human form.

They wore human skin, yet could run extremely fast and bend steel reinforcement bars with their bare hands.

An Yujun had never known such dangerous creatures existed right beside her all along.

Ignorance was one thing. She had lived most of her life in naive ignorance, but now that she knew, thinking back on it filled her with immense dread.

The convenience store downstairs was a place she used to frequent for shopping, but as soon as she became pregnant and went to buy things, the clerk transformed into a demon that opened his mouth wide to devour her.

No matter what, she had to stay here until her children were born.

An Yujun felt very wronged. That man had vanished right after they’d shared one night of passion, and now, she was pregnant and being hunted by all sorts of ferocious demons.

She was forced into an unknown world, a bizarre and kaleidoscopic world entirely different from the simple human world she knew.

It was a dangerous world where every demon seemed to want to eat the children in her womb.

When would her children’s father come find her? She had had enough of this life on the run.

An Yujun stroked her belly. Seeing that Ning Shu was ignoring her and drawing instead, she felt like crying. When she was fleeing alone before, she felt she could endure it.

But now that someone had appeared, saved her, she felt both grateful and a little aggrieved. This person seemed somewhat harsh towards her.

When Ning Shu looked at people with her expressionless face, it made the person on the receiving end of that expression feel completely seen through.

An Yujun hated that feeling.

“What do you think you can do?” Ning Shu turned her head to look at the somewhat resentful An Yujun and asked.

“If I go out, I’ll be hunted by demons. Can’t I just stay at home? I can do housework, laundry, and cook.” An Yujun lowered her head and stroked her stomach as she spoke.

Ning Shu nodded and said, “Fine. From now on, our three daily meals and household chores are your responsibility. Oh, and I want meat with every meal. Cook plenty of meat.”

Strictly speaking, she and An Yujun were practically strangers. She had no reason to treat An Yujun like royalty.

Yuan Liang liked her, but that didn’t mean she liked her. She wasn’t into girls.

“Hey, Blind Eagle, my mommy is pregnant! Making a pregnant woman do all this every day, doesn’t your conscience hurt?” the little girl said angrily.

“Laundry, cooking, and cleaning every day? My mommy isn’t a maid.”

Ning Shu raised an eyebrow and pushed her glasses up. “My conscience doesn’t hurt at all. But you, kid, should speak with a little conscience yourself.

“I’m giving you food, letting you live here, offering you shelter. Isn’t it reasonable to do something in return? Even if your father is a great demon, you currently are not.”

The little girl said haughtily, “If you take good care of my mommy, my father will reward you handsomely. For a weak, insignificant demon like you, even the scraps from between his fingers would be enough to benefit you greatly.”

“Xiaoxiao, don’t speak nonsense,” An Yujun said. She patted her belly, then said to Ning Shu, “She’s just a child and doesn’t know better, please don’t mind her.”

“Why would I mind? She’s not my child. She can say whatever she wants, it’s none of my business,” Ning Shu said indifferently.

Judging by the little girl’s tone and ability to express herself, if measured by human age, her thinking was probably equivalent to a seven-year-old child’s.

As expected of a demon… or was it only the offspring of great demons that were like this?

Or was this a mutation specific to the offspring of humans and demons?

“Blind Eagle, you are the most unchivalrous man I’ve ever met,” the little girl said disdainfully to Ning Shu. “And to be so harsh to a pregnant woman, too.”

“I lack chivalry? Well, do those demons hunting you three down have any chivalry? If she were an ordinary pregnant woman, I might show some care. But you people are something else, you’ll be fine.”

Come on, let’s bicker. Let’s hurt each other.

An Yujun: …

Ning Shu handed An Yujun a pillow and a thin blanket. “You’ll sleep on the sofa. If you find the sofa too narrow, you can sleep on the floor.”

The heartless Ning Shu put her hands on her hips. “Don’t even think about sleeping in my bed.”

A kindness that was too great wouldn’t be reciprocated with appreciation

Human beings were inherently prone to taking things for granted.

And you’d end up eroding your own boundaries in the process.

Yuan Liang had been truly good to An Yujun. He hardly ever let her do anything.

On the rare occasions when An Yujun cooked a meal, Yuan Liang would eat it with tears of gratitude in his eyes.

Although love wasn’t supposed to demand repayment, after Yuan Liang died, he didn’t see An Yujun shed a single tear of sorrow for him. It was honestly disheartening.

How could she take him for granted to such an extent?

An Yujun took the pillow and thanked her.

Ning Shu returned to her room, took a cinnabar brush from a drawer, dipped it in red cinnabar, and drew talismanic symbols on the window frame.

She had bought these talisman-drawing tools from a shabby little shop.

The amount of demons in the city had caused the emergence of a new business, which was the business of demon extermination.

Some humans, who’d been harassed by demons and were unable to resist them, fueled this thriving trade.

The Special Investigation Bureau couldn’t possibly manage everything, so they relied on these civilian forces for extermination work.

Ning Shu was a demon herself, so when she went to buy talisman paper and tools, the shopkeeper was initially reluctant to sell to her.

The shopkeeper first thought she was a demon seeking revenge, but ultimately sold the supplies to her.

After Ning Shu finished drawing the symbols, celestial star energy poured down, passing through the window and shining onto her body.

Ning Shu hurriedly began to cultivate. If too much time passed, the power of the talisman would fade.

If the talisman lost its power, Ning Shu would have to draw it again.

Cultivating for one night required her to redraw it many times. Just as she entered the state, the talisman would stop working. She’d draw it again, then resume cultivating.

She had never had it so tough.

In this modern age of sparse spiritual energy, successfully drawing a single talisman was difficult, and its effectiveness was so short-lived.

Ning Shu felt like smashing the brush. What a fucking bummer.

What she got after cultivating all night wasn’t even comparable to what she’d gotten absorbing the energy for a single hour in a world rich with celestial star energy.

If this world continued like this, demons would also face their end.

Dawn broke. Ning Shu stretched, took a cloth, and wiped away the cinnabar symbols on the floor.

When Ning Shu opened her door, An Yujun was already up and busy in the kitchen.

Ning Shu slowly went to wash up, then lay down on the recliner on the balcony. She closed her eyes to rest for a while.

After cultivating all night, she hadn’t gained much power, but she had cultivated a bellyful of frustration. She’d been constantly drawing talismans, and not every attempt was successful, too.

Ning Shu drifted into a hazy sleep. An Yujun finished preparing breakfast and came over to wake Ning Shu.

“Breakfast is ready. Oh, I still don’t know your name. What is your name?” An Yujun asked Ning Shu.

“My name is Yuan Liang.”

An Yujun smiled at Ning Shu and said, “My name is An Yujun.”

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