Chapter 3404: Demon Record (27)

As long as one had enough faith points and merit points, one could exchange for anything one wanted in the system exchange marketplace.

But faith points and merit points were difficult to obtain. Without them, one could only stare at those items and drool.

So, it wasn’t really ‘cheating,’ because faith points and merit points were hard-earned through bitter effort and were very rare.

Ning Shu sat on the ground, unable to get up for a long time.

She had been fighting all night. Now, the sky was brightening slightly, and sunlight was beginning to spill in.

Ning Shu stood up. This room was clearly no longer habitable.

She saw An Yujun crouching in the corner, trembling. Ning Shu walked over and nudged her.

At the physical contact, An Yujun spasmed in fright and started shaking like chaff in a sieve. She screamed neurotically, “No! Don’t kill me!”

“My babies, my babies…”

“Don’t leave me, I’m scared…”

An Yujun’s eyes were unfocused. She muttered to herself, clutching a pile of dead snakes in her arms and calling them her children.

Ning Shu covered her nose. The smell on An Yujun was becoming unbearable.

“Hey, An Yujun, what’s wrong with you?” Ning Shu asked her.

An Yujun didn’t seem to hear Ning Shu. She hummed a strange tune, rocking back and forth while hugging the dead snakes.

Ning Shu frowned. Had An Yujun gone mad?

Did she lose her mind because she couldn’t handle the shock of her man and children dying?

Could she be faking it? Ning Shu reached out and nudged An Yujun again. “Hey, An Yujun.”

An Yujun shrank back into the corner in terror, crying snot and tears. Her expression was dull yet terrified. Her eyes darted around wildly, devoid of focus.

She hugged the dead snakes in her arms tightly.

“An Yujun, do you remember who I am?” Ning Shu brought her face close to An Yujun’s. An Yujun immediately lowered her head, clawing the air as if trying to scratch Ning Shu’s face.

Ning Shu leaned back, looking at the panicked and terrified woman.

Suddenly, Ning Shu cupped An Yujun’s face and leaned in close. “Look clearly. Who am I?”

“Ahhh…” An Yujun shrieked. Her face twisted, while her body started shaking so hard it convulsed.

Ning Shu let go of An Yujun’s head and frowned at her.

She was really crazy. Just like that?

Because her children and a man she spent one passionate night with died?

Ning Shu felt this was clearly an opportunity for her to start a new life—to go back to living as an ordinary person.

Even if she had given birth and had a man, starting over wasn’t impossible.

She could break free from the world of demons and live a normal life.

Ning Shu couldn’t understand why An Yujun had gone mad.

Was it because her life had been too smooth, so when she encountered something like this, she collapsed and lost her mind?

Ning Shu scanned the room. Aside from a few dead people and a room full of snakes… was it really that scary?

It seemed An Yujun simply couldn’t bear the psychological weight of losing her children and her man.

Ning Shu grabbed An Yujun’s wrist. An Yujun screamed and struggled, trying to shake off Ning Shu’s hand.

Ning Shu held her wrist tightly, preventing her from moving.

She placed her fingers on An Yujun’s pulse and felt it carefully.

An Yujun’s pulse was chaotic, fluctuating between strong and weak, and her muscles trembled uncontrollably.

Ning Shu let go of her wrist. An Yujun was truly mad. Gone.

Ning Shu shook her head and stopped worrying about her. She searched the pouch on the bureau chief’s corpse and found the demon king core.

As soon as her fingers touched the core, she felt waves of powerful demonic energy. It was incredibly alluring, especially to demons.

Ning Shu pocketed the demon king core, shouldered the snake king’s corpse, transformed into a giant eagle, and flew into the sky.

The reason she took the demon king core and the snake king’s corpse was simple. The bureau chief and the genius exorcist of the Nangong family had both died in that apartment.

Now that the demon king core and the snake king were missing, everyone would assume the snake king had fled with the core.

Naturally, no one would suspect her.

As for An Yujun… she was crazy.

She was immersed in her own world, rejecting everything from the outside—rejecting information and rejecting pain.

Ning Shu could understand An Yujun going mad over losing two children. But if she ended up like this because of a man she had a one-night stand with, Ning Shu couldn’t understand it.

With An Yujun in this state, Ning Shu didn’t want to lay a hand on her. Besides, An Yujun wasn’t in direct conflict with her.

She had saved her before because of Yuan Liang. Now, she wouldn’t bother with An Yujun at all.

Heaven helped those who helped themselves.

Ning Shu felt An Yujun could have pulled herself together.

She could have left the demons’ world behind and lived a normal life.

Maybe Ning Shu was cold-blooded, or maybe she just couldn’t understand their kind of love.

Ning Shu flew through the sky carrying the snake king’s corpse, but after flying for quite a while, she couldn’t find a place to land.

As far as the eye could see, there was only a gray forest of concrete with no end in sight.

This was why demons were forced to live like humans—because they had no place left to rest.

Ning Shu was already exhausted, and now she had to fly around carrying a giant snake. She needed a place to rest.

Especially since it was daytime—she couldn’t appear in front of humans as a giant eagle.

Ning Shu flew slowly, on and on.

Eventually, she would fly out of the city’s range.

She flew until nightfall, until she was starving. Although she had water to drink and fasting pills to eat, her stomach felt empty and incredibly uncomfortable.

By the time it was dark, she finally found a relatively remote small town and located a farm.

This place had fruit orchards and livestock pens. In this era, anyone owning a farm was basically a tycoon.

Ning Shu hid within the farm, found a spot to bury the snake king’s corpse, and sat by a stream looking at the demon king core.

Holding the core in her hand, she felt it brimming with power—and temptation.

Ning Shu rested her chin on her hand, idly playing with the demon king core.

The core possessed a powerful force that tempted the hearts of both humans and demons.

If one obtained this demon king core, they would have to shoulder the responsibilities that came with it.

To possess it was to walk a path destined by a certain mission.

With great power came great responsibility—that was the rule.

Ning Shu put the core back into the leather pouch, which insulated its aura.

She tucked the pouch into her clothes and had to think about where to go next.

Ning Shu didn’t plan to use the demon king core. she would keep it on her person. As for whether her entrustor would use it later, that was none of her business.

Obtaining power for free like this meant following the destiny bestowed by the core.

The war between humans and demons would erupt sooner or later.

When Ning Shu passed by the fruit orchard in the farm, she picked a peach and ate it.

Damn it, she was so hungry.

Ning Shu looked at the cows in the pen and drooled.

She had left in such a hurry that she didn’t even bring her bank card.

Should she go back home?

But the Special Investigation Bureau had probably already found the rental apartment by now.

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