A mystery exterminator who can hear the thoughts of yokai

Shuyi, carrying all his belongings, stood by the bustling roadside, watching the passing vehicles and pedestrians. For a moment, he couldn't remember why he, a monster who used to frolic in the mountains, would come down from the mountain.

Biting her fingers and racking her brains for a long time, she still couldn't remember anything, so she simply stopped worrying about it, picked up her bag and started wandering around. Looking at the world that had undergone earth-shattering changes, Shuyi curiously looked left and right, her eyes full of novelty.

As Shuyi walked, she caught a faint scent of blood in the wind, along with a hint of demonic energy. Curious, Shuyi sniffed hard, wondering if some demon senior had been injured in the human world. She followed the scent of blood all the way to an abandoned building.

Looking up, a six-story shopping mall comes into view. The dilapidated walls and advertisements show the former prosperity. At the entrance, a children's rocking horse is swaying in the wind, as if someone is sitting on it and rocking happily. However, the Mickey Mouse smile on the front of the horse has decayed and rusted, leaving only a pair of empty eyes to watch the visitors on behalf of its owner, which shows a bit of eeriness.

Shu Yi glanced around casually and stepped into the building. As soon as she entered, she felt a chilling wind and saw that the building was in a state of disrepair. However, a pair of footprints were clearly visible on the dusty floor.

Shu Yi removed the jade ring from her right ear, turning it into a weapon and holding it in her hand. She warily observed her surroundings. The building was silent; Shu Yi could even hear her own breathing echoing within it. Shu Yi made her way to the top floor.

The further you go into the top floor, the more terrifying it becomes. Inside the dilapidated and abandoned building, a heart has grown out. The heart is beating vigorously and constantly emitting black energy, which transforms into streaks of black lines, seemingly fighting against something.

Shuyi concealed his presence and stealthily crept over to investigate.

At the end of the corridor, countless black lines wove a cage, and the figure at the center of the cage, even with his collarbone pierced, was still struggling to hold on.

Shuyi frowned as she looked at the man covered in blood, but the unconscious child in his arms was completely unclothed. It turned out the blood she'd smelled in the wind was human; it seemed a demon was devouring people.

The man in the black line gritted his teeth and pulled out a talisman from his pocket. He clasped his hands together, interlocked his thumbs to form a ring, then bit his finger and dripped blood onto the talisman, silently chanting: "Lin Bing Dou Zhe, Yi Si Po Zhen!"

The entire building began to shake, and the heart inside began to pound and scream violently. Sensing the talisman taking effect, the black lines on the man's body began to slowly retract. Shu Yi seized the opportunity and threw out the jade ring, severing the black lines around the man in the air and pulling him out of the danger zone.

"Thank you, my name is Shen Zhizhou... You, you are a demon?" Shen Zhizhou recognized Shu Yi's demon identity, his eyes widened, and he hugged the boy in his arms tightly, pressing his sword against Shu Yi's throat.

"So what if I'm a demon? I just saved you! You're like a meat bun for a hungry ghost, only wanting to eat but not opening your mouth." Shu Yi glared at Shen Zhizhou angrily. She knew that people were prejudiced against demons. There are good demons too, right?

Shen Zhizhou looked at the round face and upturned nose in front of him, a pleasing face with a slight upturn at the corners of the lips even when not smiling, and big, dark, grape-like eyes staring at him. Knowing he was in the wrong, he pursed his lips and remained silent.

Shuyi didn't want to argue with an injured person, so she thought she should rescue the person first and then go their separate ways. So she went up to negotiate with the monster in the black line.

"Senior, could you please give me the honor of letting these two people go? I'm willing to do something for you in return."

"Hehehe, if that's the case, then you can kill them for me. I'll let their corpses go back as a way of fulfilling my promise." The voice coming from the black line was hoarse and indistinguishable between male and female.

Shu Yi gripped the jade ring tightly and stood in front of Shen Zhizhou, knowing that a tough battle was inevitable today.

"Can you still stand up? If you can, take the child and get out of here. Run as far away as you can and don't come back." Shu Yi assumed a fighting stance, ready to attack once Shen Zhizhou had run out.

"I'm not leaving. I'm a mystery eraser, dedicated to clearing away human anomalies and maintaining peace in the world." Shen Zhizhou leaned against the wall to stand up, took out a talisman from his pocket, and wanted to stick it on the child in his arms to protect him.

But the next second, the little boy opened his eyes and his five fingers, which had become claws, plunged into Shen Zhizhou's abdomen.

Shu Yi stared in disbelief as blood splattered on Shen Zhizhou's beautiful face. The blood slowly slid down the beauty mark on the lower left corner of her face and onto the ground, blooming into a dazzling sea of ​​flowers.

"Shen Zhizhou!" Shu Yi caught Shen Zhizhou's falling body. The little boy casually jumped out of Shen Zhizhou's arms, stood aside, licked the blood on his hands, his eyes bloodshot and his expression excited.

"It's actually top-grade blood! Eating one of you is worth ten years of my arduous cultivation, hahaha!" After licking every last drop of blood off his hands, the little boy commanded the black lines to surround the two of them.

Shu Yi held Shen Zhizhou with her left hand and kept dodging, while waving the jade ring with her right hand to resist the black line attacks.

"He's trying to wear us down. Put me down... let's go!" Shen Zhizhou tried to push Shuyi away, but he was too badly injured and his strength was like a kitten scratching an itch.

"What time is it? Stop going crazy! I can't just watch you die in front of me. I'll get you out of here." Shu Yi lowered her head and looked at Shen Zhizhou with a determined gaze. Although she was just a rat demon, she really couldn't bear to see someone die. After all, it was a life.

"Then just close your eyes, anyway you're a demon and you can escape..." After saying that, Shen Zhizhou exhaled a mouthful of blood foam. Since he had become a mystery elimination master, he had already prepared for the outcome.

Shu Yi looked at Shen Zhizhou, who was lying in her arms, looking very tired with his eyes closed. After thinking for a moment, she reluctantly took out a pill from her pocket and stuffed it into Shen Zhizhou's mouth, then covered his mouth to prevent him from spitting it out.

This was a life-saving pill that she had painstakingly refined. Giving it to this kid was really too good for him, Shu Yi thought with a pout.

Shen Zhizhou stared blankly at the monster in front of him. He told her to leave first because he was afraid that the monster would join forces against him, a human, and secondly because he still had a life-saving talisman in his arms, which might accidentally hurt the little monster who had just helped him if it were to be activated.

Unexpectedly, she actually gave him her life-saving pill... Thinking of this, Shen Zhizhou's eyes were filled with a deep sense of inquiry, and he gripped the peach wood sword inlaid with lotus patterns and covered with copper coins even tighter.

Shu Yi looked at the person in his arms staring at him without saying a word, and assumed that Shen Zhizhou was seriously injured and had the will to die, so he had to search his mind for words of comfort.

"Don't be sad, I think you won't die... at most you might be paralyzed, it's okay!"

Shen Zhizhou's lips twitched. It would have been better if he hadn't said anything at all; not a single word he wanted to hear was uttered.

Just as he was about to say something, Shen Zhizhou's ears twitched as if he had heard something and he said urgently, "The heart, he said the heart is the key to life."

Shuyi remembered the heart she had just seen and immediately told Shen Zhizhou its location.

"Go find the heart, and once you find it, just stick this dagger into it." Shen Zhizhou took out a dagger from his pocket. The dagger was covered with scriptures and lotus flowers and wrapped in special cloth.

Just as I was about to remind Shuyi to wrap the dagger in cloth before using it, Shuyi simply snatched it and put it in her bosom.

Shen Zhizhou was quite surprised to see that Shu Yi had been completely unharmed by the dagger. Any demon would have been burned by this dagger, but the little demon in front of him was completely unharmed.

Shen Zhizhou finally looked at the little demon in front of him carefully and asked in a deep voice, "What is your name?"

"Shuyi, what's wrong?" Shuyi tilted her head, not quite understanding why Shen Zhizhou suddenly asked her about the meaning of her name.

Shen Zhizhou softly repeated Shuyi's name, nodded, and looked on with interest. A simple, naive demon who was not afraid of talismans and treasures was perfect for eliminating strange tales with him.

Shu Yi looked at Shen Zhizhou, whose eyes flashed with a sharp light, and unconsciously shrank back, touching the goosebumps that had suddenly risen on her body. She felt that humans were a bit strange.

"You go and break the demonic power in his heart, I'll deal with him and buy you some time." Shu Yi handed the dagger back to Shen Zhizhou, then rushed forward with the jade ring in her hand.

The little boy creaked and twisted his body, his skin gradually stretching and thinning. Some of his skin even tore due to the excessive stretching, but even though the skin was stuck together, not a drop of blood flowed. Shu Yi felt a chill run down his spine as he watched the little boy's slender body and increased attack power.

"Why are you working so hard? Here's what we'll do: you stay here, and I'll give you half of this person, just because we're both demons." The little boy wasn't in a hurry to launch an attack; instead, he advised Shuyi in the tone of someone who had been through it all.

"Humans are all cruel. They look down on monsters and enslave them. If I hadn't been lucky enough to receive help from my senior, I would have already been reduced to my original form and my soul would have been scattered! I know you have only recently taken human form and are easily deceived. Believe me... kill that exorcist, and I will tell you a way to improve your cultivation without having to study hard."

Shu Yi looked at the slender figure in front of her whose mouth was opening and closing, but her eyes were a little blurry. She took a deep breath, closed her eyes, and then opened them again. Her eyes were clear.

While talking to Shuyi, the little boy used his bewitching magic to bewitch people. Although Shuyi had no memory of what happened before she went down the mountain, it did not affect her inexplicable instinct to hate the evil spirits.

Shuyi felt a chill run down her spine when she looked at the thin, humanoid figure who was cloaked in the skin of a child under five years old and was lecturing her on profound truths. She never imagined that her fellow demons could be so cruel.

Shu Yi didn't want to say anything more. He threw the jade ring into the air and created countless clones to fight with the black lines and attract their firepower. His main body sneaked around to the back of the little boy, took out the talisman that Shen Zhizhou had secretly given him before leaving, and stuck it on the little boy's back.

As the talisman on his body gradually took effect, the little boy screamed and roared as he pierced Shu Yi's right arm with his poisonous claws. Seeing the poisonous lines spreading from the wound, Shu Yi collapsed to the ground in pain.

Meanwhile, Shen Zhizhou, struggling to find the heart that was constantly emitting black lines, pulled out a dagger and stabbed it forcefully, but then realized something was wrong.

That monster just now deliberately let me hear your thoughts to separate you from them.

They fell for their trap!

The information provided by Sister Ji is that a man-eating silkworm demon is hiding in the abandoned building. It uses kindness to lure people into the building, then eats their lungs and hearts. It is good at disguising itself to lure them in.

Although the heart beneath the dagger is that of a silkworm demon, the demonic power it continuously outputs actually comes from another demon, which means there are two demons inside this abandoned building.

But where is the other one? Shen Zhizhou's gaze drifted into the depths of the darkness.