I Am Your Natural Enemy

After hanging up the phone, Wen Yan felt relieved.

He was worried there might be some misunderstanding, and by the time they figured things out, Brother Gou would’ve already started a killing spree—he wouldn’t be able to stop him.

Granny Fox is always gentle, even if you broke her grandson’s legs, she’d still talk to you nicely.

This time, for her to say something like ”If there’s a fight, we’ve got to kill them in one go,” it means the Great Demon here probably isn’t the gentle kind either.

It didn’t really surprise Wen Yan that a demon would cause trouble.

It’s like Tong Si, that kind of ghost—she suffered for hundreds of years over there, basically going straight from primitive society to the modern era. As long as she had a roof over her head, running water, and a water heater in her room, she’d feel that was the greatest life possible.

They feel that nowadays, people don’t just kill ghosts for no reason. Ghosts can work, make money, live freely. They don’t want to mess that up and cherish it a lot.

But just like a bag of rice feeds all kinds of people, there are always some weirdos who’ll use the convenience of modern life to fill that bottomless abyss of desire inside them.

Honestly, the convenience of modern times probably just makes some of their desires even stronger.

Especially ones like the Mountain Lord—been alive forever, but there’s a break in their experience. They don’t know what respect is, their values don’t fit this era at all.

Wen Yan’s already met several of these guys. Since the Spiritual Qi Resurgence, they’ve awakened from distant eras, and always have trouble fitting in.

In the beginning, King Guilong was like that too—at least he was raised by his mom, had a bit of upbringing, didn’t go too far. After getting his ass kicked, he mellowed out completely.

But that sense of being out of place with the era was still there.

Compared to King Guilong, some are truly chaotic-evil—no respect for anything, just do whatever they want.

Others, like the ones who still haven’t been discovered, take advantage of modern rules, hiding within the system to cross the line.

Those guys are even harder to spot.

The people they put on display are all living humans—maybe not even professionals, just ordinary people you’d see anywhere.

These folks are the blind spots.

They’re under the regular police system. Usually, unless someone gives the word, the Scorching Sun Department isn’t allowed to get involved.

The rights and responsibilities are all split up very clearly.

Only if it’s a top-priority incident does the Scorching Sun Department get absolute authority—can even call Hua Qianshu to put on a firework show, mobilize resources city-wide, transfer everyone out of the city if needed.

This was established way back when Scorching Sun Department was founded.

It’s impossible for the few people in Scorching Sun to handle everything. Even Wen Yan’s chat group from Nanwu, all their cases are basically forwarded from the regular police system.

”Brother Gou, be careful. There might be a revived Great Demon inside. Even if they’re not at their peak right now, they’re still a huge headache. You better not get killed—if you do, I’ll be stuck tutoring your daughter’s homework every damn day.”

”I got it,” Pei Tugou replied, nodding heavily.

With those words, the killing aura on Pei Tugou grew thicker and thicker, his murderous air ramping up hard.

Standing beside him, Wen Yan started to feel uncomfortable and took a small step away.

The spiritual vehicle parked to the side. The group got out. Tong Si followed Wen Yan, Grim-eyed didn’t even dare look at Pei Tugou, just stared into the distance.

”Up ahead there’s probably a... uh, a domain.

An isolated space. The energy in there is all mixed up, and there’s a really fierce vibe.”

Feng Wei squeezed up to Wen Yan’s right side, using Wen Yan as a buffer from Pei Tugou.

The girl who was a demonic corpse—supposedly vicious and brimming with resentment—was timidly hiding on Wen Yan’s right as well.

The demonic corpse girl’s anger and resentment had just died down completely. She just quietly led the way.

She’d realized: Compared to before, this terrifying uncle was really struggling to hold himself back; but now, he’s even scarier than before.

Just how many people has he killed to get an aura like that?

Forced by Wen Yan to calm down, awakened her mind, and then scared again by Pei Tugou—she honestly couldn’t think about anything else right now.

She knew herself—she probably wouldn’t be able to do anything crazy, but this uncle? Maybe not.

Wen Yan pulled out some snacks from his bag, popped one into his mouth, then handed one to everyone else.

”Eat it. Not a single crumb can be wasted.”

Pei Tugou didn’t ask, just swallowed his in one gulp, chewing fiercely—he even managed to eat more ferociously than the others.

Feng Wei, Tong Si, and the demonic corpse all looked at each other—was this even okay for a ghost or demonic corpse to eat?

”Go ahead. It’s fine. You can eat it.”

Only after seeing all three eat, Wen Yan relaxed.

Alright, team buffs before the fight are done. The rest is just wing it.

The group moved forward, the demonic corpse leading, Tong Si scouting ahead. They slipped through a side alley, and a few minutes later, Wen Yan could feel they were entering a domain.

Then, they saw threads of killing aura seeping through the air behind them—Pei Tugou charging ahead, forcing his way inside.

Inside the domain, a building appeared—looked like a two-story self-built house, but it covered a pretty big area.