"Jiuling, Jiuling, are you done yet? Hurry up!"

Outside a hotel corridor, Ya Zi was knocking on Yue Jiuling's room door, while inside, Yue Jiuling was hurriedly getting dressed and packing her things for the trip.

Ya Zi had been waiting at the door for almost five minutes. He was extremely anxious and just wanted Yue Jiuling to come out.

"We're here. It's just asking them to wait a bit. Why are you in such a hurry?"

Just as Ya Zi was about to push the door open and go in, Yue Jiuling finally opened the door and came out.

"Hey~ let's hurry up, it's only because they're rushing us, otherwise I wouldn't be in such a hurry~"

As soon as Ya Zi saw Yue Jiuling finally come out, he immediately grabbed her and hurriedly left the hotel. As he walked, he complained, "So annoying! Didn't they say they were going somewhere else? How come that dead centipede is still in the city?"

Yue Jiuling was also unhappy as he dragged her away. The reason was that it was the middle of the day, and the two of them were still sleeping in their respective rooms when they suddenly received a call from the K1 department. They were told that the fugitive demon centipede spirit, who they thought had fled to another city, had actually reappeared in the city and had even injured some colleagues. Therefore, all the city's administrators were asked to help capture the fugitive.

It was because of this annoying fugitive that Ya Zi and Yue Jiuling rushed out without getting enough sleep, and Ya Zi even waited 'agonizingly' outside Yue Jiuling's room for a few minutes.

The two rushed out of the hotel, hungry and without eating anything, and took a taxi straight to the scene of the accident.

"Oh, we're finally here! How much, driver?"

Upon arriving at their destination, Yue Jiuling could see the director of the K1 department and many of his colleagues in the distance.

The place where the incident occurred is actually a resort. The scenery and environment here are very nice, and it attracts many tourists all year round. However, because of this incident, the resort has been sealed off, and all the staff have been evicted.

"Director, what's the situation now?"

As soon as Ya Zi got out of the car, he walked straight to the director of the K1 department. When the director turned around, he saw the two of them and shook his head with a troubled expression, saying, "Well, it's a good thing that the people who came to arrest him all have good backgrounds, otherwise he might not have been injured, but dead."

When Ya Zi and Yue Jiuling received the call, they already knew that four or five colleagues had been injured, so they had a general understanding of the situation.

Yue Jiuling also leaned over and looked at the reception hall of the resort hotel, saying, "It's good that we were able to save our lives. By the way, were there any clues left at the scene?"

"No, when we arrived, only those few wounded people were left. They were the first to receive the message and rushed over, but unfortunately, none of them were a match for them. By the time we received the distress call and arrived, they had already escaped."

The head of the K1 department said that he was also very troubled. He originally thought that the centipede demon had left the city, but he didn't expect that it hadn't left at all, but had been hiding in this resort. If it hadn't been discovered this time, they would have had no idea that it was still here.

"Alright, let's look around again and see if we can find anything."

Seeing that the area was full of management staff, Ya Zi said to Yue Jiuling, "Jiuling, why don't we go inside the scenic area and take a look?"

Yue Jiuling was looking around when she heard Ya Zi's suggestion and nodded in agreement: "Okay, there are so many people outside anyway, we can go in and take a look."

Because they heard that the centipede demon came from the tourist area, everyone walked around that area for a while. After finding no clues, they went out to search other places.

Actually, everyone's thinking was very simple: they believed that since the giant centipede had already come out, it probably wouldn't go back.

"Yazi, do you think he'll come back here after he hurt someone when he came out of here?"

Yue Jiuling stood by a small bridge in a scenic area and asked Ya Zi.

This scenic area has a somewhat rural atmosphere, with beautiful mountains and clear waters all around, and the air quality is exceptionally good. As soon as Yue Jiuling entered, she felt that this place was much better than ordinary tourist attractions. If they weren't currently working, she would have wanted to relax properly.

"Well, it's hard to say. After all, sometimes the most dangerous places are the safest."

With his arms crossed and a smile on his face, Ya Zi said, "Besides, the environment here is so nice, it's quite suitable for its kind of creatures to recuperate."

"Sure, let's wander around here and see if we can find something else."

Yue Jiuling skipped and hopped on the grass as she walked deeper into the scenic area.

This scenic area is quite large, and the further you go in, the more pristine it becomes. It's essentially a remote, untouched mountain. Not many people usually live in such remote mountains, and with this area being developed into a resort, the chances of people living there are even lower.

Just as Yue Jiuling and Ya Zi were walking further and further away, an old man carrying a hoe suddenly appeared on the mountain path beside them.

The old man looked to be in his fifties or sixties. He was quite robust, tall, and had dark skin, which suggested he was someone who often did farm work.

As soon as the old man came out, he called out to Ya Zi and Yue Jiuling in broken Mandarin, "Hey~ what are you two doing? Don't go there, it's deep in the mountains, very dangerous~"

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