I'm Investigating妖怪Cases in the Human Realm

As a fake half-demon, Yue Jiuling feels that living in the human realm is actually pretty good. However, this is only true if she can retrieve her original body and separated soul. There's no c...

Chapter 174 Crocodile and Wild Boar Monster

Thanks to Yue Jiu Nian's excellent cooperation, Lao Hei and she both passed the test easily. Next up are Lao Wu and Yue Jiu Nian.

Actually, after seeing that everyone had passed the level, Yue Jiu Zai really wanted to pass it as well, but an accident still happened when they were walking over!

Just as Yue Jiuzai was being pushed by Lao Wu past the crocodile-boar monster, a leaf suddenly drifted slowly down from the sky and landed precisely on the crocodile-boar monster's nose!

When he saw this, Lao Wu's face turned black, and even Yue Jiuzai's face changed color instantly!

I don't know what kind of tree the leaf was from, but it was very large and had some tiny thorns on it.

Whether it was the small thorns or the leaf being too big, when the leaf landed on the crocodile-boar monster's nose, the monster twitched its nose slightly and then widened its eyes!

"Ah! Run!"

To be honest, Yue Jiu Nian felt that when the crocodile-boar monster opened its eyes, besides surprise, there was also delight in its eyes, perhaps even more delight than surprise! After all, it was strange that it wouldn't be delighted to see so much 'food' suddenly appearing around it.

After discovering that the crocodile-boar monster had woken up, everyone was terrified and ran forward as fast as they could, while the crocodile-boar monster excitedly began to chase after them.

Yue Jiu Nian was always tied up with a rope by Lao Hei, so during the run, she could only passively follow Lao Hei, and Yue Jiu Zai followed Lao Wu in the same way.

At first, everyone ran together, but later they felt that running like that made them too big of a target, so they decided to run separately.

As they separated, Old Wu shouted, "Let's split up and run! There's only one of them, so it won't be as easy for it to catch us. We'll use a signal flare to regroup when we reach a safe place!"

After he finished shouting, he grabbed Yue Jiuzai's rope and pulled her to one side, while Lao Hei led Yue Jiu Nian in another direction.

"Hey, where are we going?"

After running for a while, Yue Jiuzai realized that the crocodile-boar monster had stopped chasing them and gone after someone else, so he asked Lao Wu.

Old Wu led Yue Jiuzai to hide behind a large rock. He carefully looked around and, finding no danger, whispered, "We're not running anymore. We'll wait here. As long as that monster doesn't chase us, we'll be safe."

Upon hearing this, Yue Jiuzai pretended to be still shaken and looked like he had just survived a disaster, saying, "Alright, but that monster was really terrifying. What exactly was it?"

Old Wu glanced at Yue Jiuzai, then said with a serious expression, "It... it should just be a tomb guardian."

After he finished speaking, he stared intently at Yue Jiuzai and said, "Girl, if you want to live a little longer, it's best not to ask so many questions. I believe you can probably guess what kind of people we are, right?"

Yue Jiuzai pretended to be a little scared and said, "We know, but we sisters were captured by you, so we weren't going to die anyway, were we? We already guessed it."

Upon hearing her words, Old Wu fell silent. After a pause, he said, "Hmph~ Who told you to be so unlucky? If you hadn't come up the mountain at this time, how could we have caught you? You deserve it!"

Yue Jiuzai initially thought he had a change of heart when he was silent, but it turned out he hadn't. She rolled her eyes at Lao Wu and said, "Hmph! Aren't you afraid of being punished by heaven for doing such bad things?"

"Heavenly retribution? Heh, you're being too naive. If there really were such a thing as heavenly retribution, we would have been taken long ago. Now that things have come to this, I'm not afraid to tell you: none of us here are any good people. So, you've just been unlucky to have met us."

"Tsk~ You guys are really something..."

"What do you mean 'really'? Are you trying to say we're scum? Humph~"

After hearing what Lao Wu said, Yue Jiuzai frowned. She could guess that there weren't many good people in this team, but she didn't expect Lao Wu to say such a thing directly. So, if that's the case, should they stop showing mercy when the time comes?

After all, they weren't exactly good people, and if something happened, she and Yue Jiunian wouldn't just play the good guys.