Volume 1 Chapter 107: Looks Like I Still Got Caught
Th-This isn’t right. I clearly called Shen Jingyi, so why is Amber the one here?
Bai Muxue leaned blankly against the soft cotton candy, looking stunned.
This big celebrity had also tracked her way here?
But Amber had never met Liu Li, and she did not know Lin Luoyu either. So how could she possibly have found this place?
Just by following the rumors spreading around Wangdu...?
If that was really the case, then her ability to act and investigate was honestly terrifying...
Come to think of it, did this girl follow me all the way to the top floor?
Why didn’t I notice her at all just now?
Bai Muxue subconsciously bit her lip.
Her original plan had clearly been completely ruined by this blonde girl who suddenly appeared out of nowhere...
Which meant she now had to rethink how to regain control of the situation.
Heidi is still waiting for my orders... I have to think of something...
Meanwhile, the horrifying twisted monster before them gave off a terrible stench. Its pale white eyes stared fixedly at the two girls while low growls came from its throat, sounding both like warnings and threats.
“Oh? So it’s a ghoul?”
Amber, standing in front of Bai Muxue, showed no fear at all. She casually spun the strangely shaped pistols around her fingers, and a teasing smile appeared on her lips.
“I’ve killed at least seventy of monsters at this level, if not a hundred!”
She turned around and blinked playfully at Bai Muxue.
“Don’t be scared, Xiao Xue. This young lady will come hug you in just a moment.”
Alright then. Looking at Amber’s confident expression, she clearly did not take the monster seriously at all.
Completely ignoring Amber’s teasing words, Bai Muxue quietly curled her lips.
A ghoul?
Did this girl just say... this monster was a ghoul?
Back when she worked in the Disaster Management Bureau archives, she had read information about ghouls before. But this was her first time actually seeing one in person.
Humanity currently knew very little about monsters overall.
But ghouls were one of the rare exceptions.
As monsters, they were simply too common. Almost every city’s hospitals, graveyards, and any place containing corpses had reported sightings of them.
Liu Li...
She was actually raising a ghoul!?
No wonder there were so many corpses inside the elevator...
The person involved had probably intentionally loaded the corpses into the elevator to use them as food for this monster!
Bai Muxue froze for a moment before finally understanding why Liu Li had worked so hard to hide the secrets of this building.
That woman...
Although she worked under Dian, she clearly had no intention of serving him wholeheartedly.
She had her own plans as well.
And so, she prepared this so-called “secret weapon.”
Although ghouls were considered a relatively common type of monster, they were still extremely dangerous. Their combat ability was far beyond what ordinary humans could handle.
And that made them a very powerful hidden card whenever Liu Li needed to handle shady business.
When ghouls became used to being constantly fed, falling back into hunger again would make them become even crazier.
Most importantly, they were very good at keeping secrets.
Neither magical girls nor the Special Investigation Department could ever get any useful information out of them.
And because ghouls fed on corpses, they were also very useful for destroying evidence afterward...
Not even scraps would remain behind.
Thinking about it carefully, it made sense.
Liu Li herself had used betrayal and backstabbing tactics many times before. Since she feared that one day she might end up suffering the same fate, how could she possibly serve Dian with complete loyalty?
Right now there was only one ghoul.
But what about later?
Who knew how many of these monsters Liu Li planned to raise inside this building?
At that thought, Bai Muxue suddenly felt lingering fear in her heart.
A single ghoul might not cause much destruction...
But what if there were many of them?
What if there was an entire army of ghouls?
If things truly got out of control, it would definitely lead to a disaster beyond repair...
Fortunately...
No matter how carefully Liu Li planned everything, she still failed to expect the existence of Bai Muxue.
And once she fell into a pool of blood without even a shred of dignity left, all her schemes disappeared with her.
‘Mhm! Looks like choosing to kill her immediately without wasting time talking really was the correct decision!’
Bai Muxue nodded secretly in her heart, feeling more and more certain that her decisiveness back then had not been wrong at all.
Otherwise, who knew what kind of plots that woman would have continued planning behind the scenes?
“ROAR—!”
Several deafening gunshots broke Bai Muxue out of her thoughts.
Bloody wounds had already burst open across the ghoul’s body.
With a painful scream, the ghoul suddenly swung its long tail toward a nearby pile of rubble. Sharp fragments instantly shot toward Amber like arrows.
One could easily imagine, if Bai Muxue’s current weak little body got hit directly by something like that… she would probably have to start preparing for her next reincarnation already.
But Amber was not Bai Muxue.
The girl let out a cold laugh and twisted her body in midair in a completely unrealistic way. Her slender and graceful figure stretched lightly through the air, and not even a tiny tear appeared on her clothes.
She landed gently like a snowflake.
“Amazing, amazing. As expected of a big celebrity. A little ghoul is completely no match for you...”
Bai Muxue had originally been wondering whether she should secretly help Amber a little.
But after seeing the girl easily handling the ghoul, she immediately changed her mind and obediently stayed in the corner as a cheerleader instead.
The ghoul looked terrifying, but Amber barely even used any of her special tools.
She simply dodged around skillfully while firing several shots.
The ghoul’s painful roars became more and more miserable, but it still could not even touch the agile Amber.
Finally, the ghoul’s fierce attacks gradually slowed down.
At the same time, the smile on Amber’s face became brighter and brighter.
Golden light gathered at the barrels of her guns, and several streams of light too fast to see clearly shot toward the monster like meteors, carrying terrifying force.
“BOOM—!”
The golden light instantly swallowed the ghoul’s body.
Even the floor around it was destroyed.
Bricks shattered, and dust exploded everywhere.
Thick smoke and dust quickly filled Bai Muxue’s vision. In an instant, everything she could see was covered by a sea of gray dust.
“Cough cough cough cough—!”
Unfortunately caught in the blast, Bai Muxue felt as if her throat was burning. She bent over and coughed nonstop. A sickly red color appeared on her delicate face, and tears were forced from her eyes.
She hurriedly waved her hand to clear away the dust, feeling as if she might cough out her lungs.
“Cough cough, Amber, can’t you at least—”
“At least what? Hold Xiao Xue tighter?”
A clear laugh suddenly sounded beside her ear.
Bai Muxue immediately looked up.
The slender figure of the girl before her stood like a mountain, completely surrounding and blocking her off.
“Ahahaha... Amber, long time no see...”