CH 359

It was just dawn and many were still off in dreamland, but there was already a delicious smell coming from the kitchen.

The pale white light spilled into the room, illuminating the girl’s soft hair and enveloping it with a faint glow. In order to focus, she already coiled her hair behind her head. It should be her blossoming youth years, but she buried her head at the kitchen as she carefully made delicious food. She was more like a virtuous wife making a tasty breakfast for her beloved husband.

“Phew… that’s everything!”

After packing everything she prepared into the lunchbox, ShenDai Ying smiled and clapped her hands.

According to the promise, she was going to make Lin Xiao’s breakfast and personally deliver it to him.

ShenDai Ying still couldn’t make out what secret Lin Xiao and Elena had, tossing and turning all night, but she still kept her promise. She got up early to buy fresh ingredients and then carefully made this bento of love.

“Hehe, I’m confident in my cooking skills…”

ShenDai Ying got onto a carriage with the lunchbox and set off.

The canyon was straight west out of Nightown. Ever since the demonic beasts blocked the canyon, the road rarely got used anymore. Not just investigators but convoys of merchants were also blocked nearby. Those pesky beasts really brought everyone a lot of trouble.

The investigators grouped up to try and get rid of them, but they failed twice with heavy losses. If it was something that even the alliance investigators couldn’t deal with, normal people wouldn’t stand a chance, so everyone could only place their only hopes on the next and possibly last attempt.

The third attempt would officially start the day after tomorrow.

Apparently, there was someone amazing who arrived, the wizard’s blood possessor. She was extremely strong, even more so than all the magicians at the office. It was said that she had a show of strength and obtained everyone’s respect, especially the manager Abra. He even pushed back the departure date so that she could rest.

That was what was circulating around Nighttown, but ShenDai Ying knew that wasn’t the case.

“Elena, what kind of secrets do you and Lin Xiao have…”

ShenDai Ying was bored on the road, so she began ruminating.

She knew that Elena wasn’t human and was a high-level demon, but she didn’t know the secret between them.

To outsiders, they say they have a master-servant relationship, but their relationship was unclear… Elena appeared to be a caring maid, but it didn’t seem like she herself thought so. She never yielded and always acted coldly so no one could see through her.

What made ShenDai Ying more curious was how Elena treated her… every time she wanted to get closer to Lin Xiao, Elena would have an annoyed expression, like she was jealous and it made her think that Elena had feelings for Lin Xiao, but neither Lin Xiao nor Elena realized it and maintained a certain balance.

“I don’t get it…”

It wasn’t just their relationship that was strange, strictly speaking keeping a demon as a maid was already against common sense, right? What would happen if the Holy Light Church found out? They would burn him at the stake.

But speaking of that… ShenDai Ying remembered that Lin Xiao had a good relationship with that Saintess called Snow. Snow may be a child, but she was a handful and couldn’t be underestimated. If Lin Xiao really got into trouble one day, then perhaps she would be able to protect him and exonerate him.

“But, it’s not like Snow became a Saintess for him, no matter how good of a relationship they have, she wouldn’t get involved with demons for him.” ShenDai Ying laughed and chased away her naive thoughts.

Lin Xiao seems to be lazy, mediocre, unimpressive and no one at Loran Academy thought he was anyone special. But ShenDai Ying knew that he was actually hiding so many secrets behind the scenes.

Unfathomable and calculative. Not only did he have a close relationship with the Saintess of the Holy Light Church, he also had an unspeakable secret with demons. What was more frightening, something that ShenDai Ying just realized was that through herself, Lin Xiao also had a relation to Shen Yue Ge and the Great Qin Empire.

He was clearly unrelated to any power, but he somehow got sandwiched in between and has vaguely become the center of the vortex of struggle…

Who was he? What did he want? All his actions thus far couldn’t have just been a part of a large game of chess for him, could it?

“Could it be… he purposely approached me because of my background and status.”

ShenDai Ying shivered when she thought of that possibility and it felt like she was just dunked into cold water.

Lin Xiao looked innocent and was actually very eloquent with his words and acting. He was lazy and would rarely show his dark side. He also wouldn’t hold back his craftiness against an enemy, so if he purposely wanted to deceive her, then she wouldn’t be able to tell and would definitely fall into his honey trap.

“Impossible, why would he trick me? What am I thinking about…”

Perhaps it was because it was too boring or she was worried, but the more she thought about it, the more agitated she became. So she just didn’t think about it and picked up the pace to arrive as soon as possible.

When she looked up, she saw a shocking scene.

At the entrance, the wreckage of the carriage was scattered everywhere. The wheels were broken into pieces and that poor horse was gutted and drained dry, so it was very bloody.

“Wait… i-isn’t this Lin Xiao’s carriage?” ShenDai Ying recognized it immediately.

It looked like it was destroyed by demonic beasts, doesn’t that mean Lin Xiao encountered an attack?

ShenDai Ying quickly jumped off her carriage and rushed over.

Other than the wreckage, there was a dead Jackalwere and a lot of scattered footprints, but no Lin Xiao. She arrived yet Lin Xiao wasn’t there and there was just wreckage in his place… what was going on?

Was Lin Xiao in danger?

With his strength, he shouldn’t be, but it was really dark last night and it wasn’t uncommon for accidents to happen… When she thought about that, she resolved herself to get to the bottom of it and she had to see him, dead or alive!

So, she brought the lunchbox she prepared and headed deeper into the canyon while trying to find traces of Lin Xiao.

“This seems to be their footprints…”

ShenDai Ying found footprints from two people. Ever since the demonic beasts arrive, no one would be strolling around here other than those two.

She calmed herself and gripped her sword as she carefully followed their footprints.

She may be confident in her own strength, but this place was filled with demonic beasts, so sneaking in was the smartest choice.

Who knows if it was because she was too successful at concealing herself or whether it was because there were no demonic beasts around, ShenDai Ying realized after a while that she never ran into a single demonic beast.

What was going on? Wasn’t this place supposed to be very dangerous?

Was the information about demons taking over the canyon fake?

ShenDai Ying couldn’t even dream that those demonic beasts were all dismissed by Elena last night, so the canyon was already restored to its usual peacefulness. The remaining demonic beasts weren’t aggressive so they were nothing to worry about.

As she explored the canyon, ShenDai Ying became increasingly flustered. She gripped her sword tighter and was prepared to deal with an ambush at any time.

She finally noticed something and saw a nocturnal lion monkey not too far away.

But…

“W-what? This…”

Just as she was about to draw her sword, she noticed that monkey was already dead!

Not just one, if she looked carefully, the surroundings were littered with corpses! The corpses were scattered in all positions, some had their limbs bent, some were just a pile of flesh…

“Did Lin Xiao do this?”

As she carefully maneuvered past the corpses, she noticed a detail.

These monkeys didn’t die from magic, they died simply by falling from a tall height like they linked up and jumped off to commit suicide. ShenDai Ying had originally thought this was Lin Xiao’s work, but after that, she was sure that it wasn’t him!

No matter how strong he was, how could he force the demonic beasts to do his bidding?

ShenDai Ying continued walking with a stomach full of questions, and then she saw something even more alarming.

“W-what is that? Seventh-level phosphorus poisonous scorpion!?”

Even she couldn’t afford to be careless against a seventh-level demonic beast, she was even full prepared to fight to the death… but after a while, it didn’t make any movements and just motionlessly. stayed there

“What… eh? It’s unconscious?”

ShenDai Ying was dumbfounded.