Arrogant Undercover

Xu Shulou covered the skull with one hand and gestured to his junior sister with the other.

Fortunately, Bai Roushuang knew her well enough and immediately understood her intention. While the skeleton was at a loss, she opened the trapdoor on the ground, looked up, exchanged glances with her senior sister, and jumped down without hesitation.

She felt like she had been falling for a long time. She was nervous at first, but then she became bored. She didn't know where she was. She couldn't see the ground when she looked down, and she couldn't see her senior sister when she looked up. A drop of water fell from the wall of the cave, and it was always at the same speed as her. Bai Roushuang raised her finger and lightly tapped it, and the drop of water splashed everywhere.

Now she had lost her only companion. Just as Bai Roushuang was feeling regretful, her feet suddenly touched the ground. She was unable to react and her legs bent, and she fell facefirst onto the ground.

She raised her head and looked around. There seemed to be no danger, so Bai Roushuang just lay there, waiting for her senior sister to fall.

Xu Shulou fell down not long after, dressed in green, and landed on the ground like a light leaf. He stood firmly and looked at his junior sister with a pair of beautiful eyes: "Why are you lying on the ground?"

Bai Roushuang sighed and got up by herself: "Is this the demon world?"

The sky was dark, just like the cloudy days in the mortal world when dark clouds covered the sun and a storm was about to come. Not far away, there were pedestrians coming and going on the street, and vendors were shouting their wares, just like the scene in the mortal world.

"It looks no different from the mortal world, except that the pedestrians have an extra arm or head," Bai Roushuang said in surprise. "I thought the demon world was all desolate, filled with blood mist, bloody winds, pools of blood and chunks of flesh, people being tortured everywhere, and wailing sounds everywhere."

"...You are talking about the underworld."

Bai Roushuang smiled sheepishly: "That's great, as long as we keep a low profile, we can probably blend in with them without being discovered."

"Um."

Bai Roushuang was immediately attracted by the strange object: "Hey, what is that?"

A round eyeball floated past the two of them, with bloodshot eyes and a few veins hanging underneath. It was about the size of a Cuju ball in the mortal world and was following closely behind a demon. When the demon stopped to pick something at a street stall, the eyeball moved over and gently bumped the demon's arm, as if asking for a caress.

"That's their spiritual pet. No, it should be called a demon pet."

The magical pets here were too bizarre. After walking a few steps, Bai Roushuang saw an ugly fish flying. Its teeth were sticking out from its lips, and a tentacle stretched out from its head. At the end of the tentacle was a light spot, like a small lantern. There was a small puddle under its belly. As it swam forward, the puddle moved with it in the air, ensuring that it was always in the water.

Bai Roushuang looked at its wrinkled skin and sighed, "It's so ugly."

Xu Shulou also sighed: "It should feel good."

“…”

Someone on the roadside was beating gongs and drums, shouting, "The new play 'Love and Resentment' has begun. It's about love and hate, and it's lingering and sad. Come in and have a look if you're passing by! Dear guests, those who have money can support the show with money, and those who don't can support the show with magic. The Dachang Opera Troupe, the Demon Lord, has seen it and said it's good!"

"There's actually a stage in the demon world?" Bai Roushuang was greatly surprised. "This is really no different from the mortal world."

Xu Shulou shrugged: "The people of the demon world also need to have fun."

Unable to suppress their curiosity, the two men stepped into the theater called "Da Chang", chose a seat, sat down, and watched for a while. They found that the play on the stage was actually a story about a demon being deceived by mortals.

Bai Roushuang's mouth twitched. This kind of drama of love and hate is applicable to all three realms. No matter which realm you go to, you can't escape it.

Seeing another martial artist jumping out on the stage, playing the role of a monk, the despicable mortal asked the monk for help, but the monk did not ask for any right or wrong and wanted to kill the devil.

Bai Roushuang complained inwardly again, it turned out that in the stories about the demon world, cultivators and mortals became villains and bad guys.

The demon begged for mercy from the mortal, asking him to spare his life for the sake of a night of love. His expression was so sad and sorrowful that the demon world spectators shed tears. A demon pet in the shape of an eyeball also began to shed tears, and it shed tears all over its owner's head. Bai Roushuang was sitting next to him and was also splashed with tears.

Under the stage, there were demons selling snacks. Bai Roushuang couldn't help but be curious. Could it be that they also sold peanuts and fried fruit like in the theaters on earth? She leaned over and saw that the basket was filled with food that looked like hairless mice. The hairless mice were still struggling fiercely. The spectators next to her bought a few snacks, one by one, and the snacks made sharp noises.

Bai Roushuang quickly retracted her head and stared at the stage without looking away.

Then another drink seller came over. She didn't dare to look at him anymore. Xu Shulou bought a cup, tasted the green and sticky drink, and commented, "It tastes like snot."

"..." Bai Roushuang was incredulous, "How dare you try everything?"

Xu Shulou smiled at her: "It's interesting."

The performance on stage reached its climax. The devil began to flee, constantly changing his costumes to avoid the monks' pursuit. The finale of the face-changing performance was interspersed in this section.

The beautiful female role raised her hand and waved it in front of her face, and her face changed from a young girl to a bearded man. After another wave, she turned into a giant worm crawling on the ground.

Bai Roushuang was amazed: "How did you do that?"

Xu Shulou explained softly: "This must be the Painted Skin Demon that is unique to the demon world."

"Painted skin?" Bai Roushuang was shocked when she remembered the storybook she had read. "He used... no, it couldn't be human skin, right?"

"Hey, how can you talk like that? Are you sent by another theater to cause trouble?" The people in the nearby troupe were immediately displeased when they heard this. "What era is it now? Still using human skin? We use pig skin, which is carefully drawn bit by bit. It requires much more skill than the ready-made human skin that is directly peeled off!"

"...I'm sorry." Bai Roushuang apologized awkwardly.

After thinking for a while, she asked again: "Speaking of which, why is your theater named Dachang?"

"You are ignorant," the man glanced at her, "Have you heard of the famous 'Chouchang' theater in the mortal world? Our Dachang is named after that."

“…Good idea.”

Bai Roushuang turned her attention back to the stage. The demon had escaped from the monks' pursuit and returned to the demon world covered in wounds.

Some spectators in the audience were immediately dissatisfied: "Why don't you take revenge on that mortal and the monk?"

"Well, you don't know this. Right now the higher-ups don't allow us to perform plots about revenge. They're afraid that if this play gets spread to the cultivation world, they'll think we're going to cause trouble again."

"Why? We didn't do anything?"

"Who knows? Every ten years or so there are rumors that the cultivation world is going to invade us, and we don't know if it's true or not."

“…”

After the play on stage, Bai Roushuang felt that she had just wronged someone and now wanted to make amends by giving them rewards, but she was not sure whether they would accept spirit stones.

Xu Shulou reminded from the side: "Gold from the mortal world and spiritual stones from the cultivation world can all be circulated here."

To be cautious, Bai Roushuang took out a piece of gold, and the man on the stage immediately cast a wink at her: "Miss, do you want any other service?"

Bai Roushuang rubbed the goose bumps all over her body: "Are you a man or a woman?"

"We in the Painted Skin Clan do not distinguish between men and women. If the girl likes to watch male demons, I will become a male demon. If she likes to watch female demons, I will become a female demon. If the guest has any other preferences, I can also turn into a skeleton, a rotten corpse, or something like that."

Seeing his face starting to rot from his eye sockets, and a maggot was stirring inside as if it was about to crawl out, Bai Roushuang hurriedly stopped him: "No, no, no, that's not necessary!"

"Girl, you really don't need to?" The man raised his finger and hooked it at her, motioning her to come closer. "I like people like you who have a head and two eyes."

Bai Roushuang laughed dryly: "Then your range of mate selection is really quite large."

The man flicked his handkerchief, bringing a gust of fragrant wind: "Last time I slept with a guy with three heads. Those three mouths kissed me at the same time. It was so disgusting. It's better to have a one-head like you. You have a good-looking appearance."

"..." Bai Roushuang's face was wooden, "I'm leaving!"

"Tsk, that's boring!" The man was rejected coldly by her, and he stomped his feet and walked away with a complaint.

Bai Roushuang wiped her sweat and said, "The people in the demon world are quite enthusiastic."

"Maybe he really likes you," Xu Shulou explained with a smile, "People in the demon world believe in enjoying life while they can, if they make eye contact, they can confirm the relationship right away."

"..." Bai Roushuang trembled, "Senior Sister, you have to protect me."

The two of them left the theater and wandered around the street. Xu Shulou was very interested in the food being sold by street vendors. As they walked and stopped, a vendor took the initiative to greet them: "Girls, would you like a bowl of thick soup with the flavor of phlegm?"

Bai Roushuang couldn't understand: "...Are there any other flavors?"

"There is also earthworm soup with a mud flavor, but it doesn't sell as well as the phlegm flavor. Would you like to try it, girl?"

"No," Bai Roushuang tried to control herself from showing disgust, lest others would see through her flaws, "Let's...go shopping some more."

The two walked down the street and didn't notice that some of the demons around them looked strange.

"Isn't that Xu Shulou? I felt he looked familiar in the theater just now."

"What?"

"She is a very cruel monk. It is said that even many people in the cultivation world are afraid of her!" said his companion with two heads, three arms and four eyes. "How come you don't even know this? In recent years, haven't they often posted portraits of cruel monks at the border exits, telling us to be careful to avoid them when we go out?"

"Who has time to remember that? Uh, huh... does she eat kids?"

"Maybe you want something to eat?"

"Then why did she come to the demon world? Aren't there enough children in the cultivation world for her to eat?"

"Who knows? Come undercover?"

"What is she going to do to us?! Ugh, this is scary."

"Don't look at her! Walk forward, and don't look to the side. We must not let them find out that we have discovered their identities."

The companion was confused by the awkward second half of the sentence: "What?"

The undercover agent Xu Shulou swaggered along the street, while the demons who were the masters of this place walked past her cautiously with their shoulders hunched.

"It seems like someone is watching us?" Bai Roushuang stood on the street and looked around. "I'm so panicked. There are demons everywhere."

The demons passing by also trembled: "It's so scary, there's a Xu Shulou around."