A mysterious person appeared, and Shen Zhizhou was taken away.
Before Shen Zhizhou could erase everyone's memory of the Zhizhi concert incident, the online rumors about the attack that day spread like wildfire, and even Shen Zhizhou's identity was exposed. The online discussion was that Shen Zhizhou was an antisocial person who instigated a riot.
Shuyi was furious when she saw the comments online, so she directly confronted the person online.
"You don't even know him, what gives you the right to say such things about him? He's such a good person, you can't be allowed to smear him!" Shu Yi typed furiously on the keyboard, her face filled with righteous indignation, determined not to allow anyone to tarnish Shen Zhizhou's innocence.
Online replies came quickly, and soon a small comment section was filled with them. Shu Yi was so angry looking at the replies that her liver ached.
"The person upstairs is trying to whitewash you. Wait until you get hurt by antisocial personality disorder and you'll be crying."
"Top floor, I thought it was some naive and innocent person talking here, but it turns out they're all in cahoots. If you ask me, neither the poster nor that Shen Zhizhou is any good. I heard that Shen Zhizhou even stole someone's property before. He's no good!"
"You're talking nonsense! This is clearly slander. Shen Zhizhou was just helping to send Lili back to her owner. You don't know anything and you're just spouting nonsense!"
The overwhelming slander and defamation obscured Shu Yi's efforts to explain and clarify. Shu Yi angrily logged out of the account, refused to look at the computer, and forbade Shen Zhizhou from looking at the messy slander.
Knowing the magnitude of the matter, Shen Zhizhou knew he wouldn't let it go easily, so he pulled Shuyi to sit on the sofa and explained it to her in detail.
"This matter won't end so simply. The fact that it's gotten this big means someone is plotting something behind the scenes. Immediately pack your things and take those monsters away from here. Hide away for now and lay low. Remember, don't go anywhere owned by the Shen family! Take the Heart-Connecting Bracelet with you; I'll use it to contact you and bring you back if everything goes well. Also…"
Before Shen Zhizhou could finish speaking, they heard police sirens outside. He hurriedly urged Shu Yi to leave immediately, but Shu Yi grabbed Shen Zhizhou's wrist and shook her head, crying, "We'll go together!"
"I can't leave. The Shen family is here, I can't leave... Listen to me, you have to leave now. They can't do anything to me without real evidence, so go quickly!"
Shen Zhizhou pushed Shuyi against the backyard wall and told her to turn back into her original form so that she wouldn't attract attention. Shuyi looked back at Shen Zhizhou every few steps, and finally gritted her teeth and climbed over the wall to escape.
As Shen Zhizhou watched Shu Yi's departing figure, tears welled up in his eyes, but he forced himself to remain calm and face the police's questioning.
Upon opening the door, a police officer presented Shen Zhizhou with a summons and his police ID: "Hello, because you have recently been involved in the riots at the concert, we would like to ask you to come to the station to discuss this matter."
Shen Zhizhou raised his hands in agreement: "Of course, this is the duty of a citizen."
Shuyi watched from the tree as Shen Zhizhou got into the police car and was taken away. Only after the police car disappeared from sight did Shuyi wipe away her tears and jump down from the tree, preparing to go and meet up with the group of monsters.
As soon as he jumped down from the tree, he heard someone behind him laughing with his companion: "So that guy surnamed Chen really is in cahoots with monsters. He's a disgrace to the mystery-eliminating masters!"
Shu Yi didn't want to clash with them and turned to run away. But then the man threw out a net that trapped Shu Yi inside. Scriptures were densely packed within the net, pressing down on him from above. Shen Zhizhou had just been taken away and couldn't cause too much of a commotion, otherwise it would solidify his guilt. Thinking this, Shu Yi's eyes turned bloodshot, and he revealed sharp claws, tearing the net to shreds with a single rip.
The two mystery-eliminating masters originally thought that Shuyi was just a little monster attached to Shen Zhizhou, but they did not expect that her magic power was so strong. She could tear the inescapable net that monsters usually fear to shreds.
The two dared not be careless and hurriedly threw out their magic weapons to try to subdue Shuyi. However, Shuyi only wanted to leave this place as soon as possible to avoid causing trouble for Shen Zhizhou. Just as Shuyi was about to knock the two unconscious with its tail, Huang Daxian suddenly jumped out from the side, met their eyes, and began to hypnotize them.
"Forget about today's events, and go back to where you came from."
Caught off guard, the two fell into Huang Daxian's trap. Their eyes glazed over as they repeated Huang Daxian's words, then they staggered out. Huang Daxian seized the opportunity to grab Shuyi and escape.
"What are you doing here?" Shuyi asked as she ran.
"When I came to my senses, I realized something was seriously wrong, so I rushed to find you. But when I got to the intersection, I saw Mr. Shen being taken away by the police. I just stayed there, waiting for you to come out so I could ask you what happened... I'm so sorry about what happened that day, I dragged Mr. Shen into this."
As Shu Yi listened to Huang Daxian's apologetic ramblings, a pang of sadness welled up in her heart. She remembered Shen Zhizhou's instructions to have Huang Daxian take her to find other monsters.
The monsters were all hiding in the area where He Yong used to live. When they saw Huang Daxian bringing Shuyi, they only dared to peek out and look at Shuyi with their eyes. They knew that they had caused trouble and implicated Shen Zhizhou and Shuyi. They wanted to apologize to them but were afraid of being blamed, so they could only hide and secretly peek at her apologetically.
Shuyi sensed the monsters' apology, but there was no point in pursuing the matter further now, especially since it wasn't their fault in the first place. She clapped her hands to draw the monsters' attention to herself. Shuyi knew that Shen Zhizhou had been taken away for investigation, and now she was the only one who could help Shen Zhizhou and lead the monsters.
"Everyone, look at me. I know none of you did it on purpose. Can you tell me the specifics of what happened that day? The more detailed the better, because only in this way can we rescue Shen Zhizhou!"
The monsters rushed to Shuyi one by one to tell her the details. They had all been suddenly awakened to their demonic nature, and a voice in their heads was controlling them to hurt people. Even if they resisted, the voice was like a plant growing inside their heads, rooted in their minds and impossible to remove. Some even lost their minds and were directly controlled by the voice.
"What did you eat or touch before this?" Shu Yi asked anxiously.
The monsters thought about it carefully, and finally shook their heads. Before this, they had not gathered together, but lived their own lives as usual.
Shuyi began to recall the things that seemed off before, and borrowed paper and pen from the monsters to start writing down what she felt was wrong.
From the initial feeling that something was wrong regarding Ji Yao's reaction to helping the demon race, to the demon escaping from the warehouse and her own serious injury, to finally catching the offending demon only to have him escape again, Shu Yi felt that it was impossible for this to happen without help.
Shu Yi had a rough idea in mind, but she was worried that the truth would hurt Shen Zhizhou. However, it was all just speculation and there was no actual evidence. Shu Yi used a more tactful way to express it.
"Has anyone seen Sister Ji? She hasn't come back, I'm worried she might be in danger..."
As if remembering something, Zhizhi flew to Shuyi's shoulder: "Sister Ji, you don't need to worry. When she came to see me the day before the concert, she told me that she was going back to her hometown, and she even gave me an evening dress made of her feathers..."
"A gown made of feathers, Sister Ji?" Shu Yi asked, frowning.
"Yes, it's the one I wore on stage at the beginning. It's a pity that it was left at the concert after I turned into my original form. Maybe it's ruined now..." Zhizhi lowered her head, feeling a little sad. This was her first concert since she was born as a demon, and now it was all ruined.
Thinking that she would never be able to appear in the human world again, she felt sad and hid under her wings, secretly shedding tears.
Shuyi patted the feathers on Zhizhi's shoulder to comfort her and warned the surrounding monsters, "We can't stay here for long. I suspect the Oddity Eliminator will find us soon. We must scatter and hide here until Shen Zhizhou comes out to deal with these matters. For now, everyone should hide in their original forms. Those who showed their human faces before can no longer use them. Now everyone should hide quickly. I will contact you in the monster language after things have calmed down. Please be careful!"
Seeing that the monsters had all left, only Zhi and Huang Daxian stubbornly refused to leave, saying that they wanted to stay with Shuyi and help out no matter what.
"I'm going to steal that evening gown from the venue, are you guys coming too? It's really dangerous, don't follow me..."
"While you're dawdling here and we're babbling on, we could have arrived already. Hurry up... We're not cowards, otherwise we wouldn't have refused to work with you without even thinking about it."
Seeing Wong Tai Sin's determined gaze, Shu Yi remained silent. The three demons then cautiously searched the trash cans at the entrance of the venue.
"So many people...and even a mystery exorcist!" Wong Tai Sin squinted his beady green eyes as he surveyed the outside world.
"With such a big incident, it's not surprising that there are police and anomaly removal specialists. The most important thing now is how to sneak in unnoticed."
Shu Yi remembered that when they first met, Shen Zhizhou said that he was not actually a demon, but a divine beast, the Treasure-Spitting Rat. This was why Shu Yi was not afraid of talismans and magical artifacts at all.
"You guys wait for me outside. I don't have any demonic aura on me, so I won't be discovered if I sneak in. Just be careful. If anything happens outside, call me in the demonic language."
Huang Daxian and Zhizhi nodded, watching Shuyi run towards the lawn to hide herself. Shuyi crawled forward in the grass, observing the crowd coming and going, and seized the opportunity to blend in.
The anomaly remover was talking to the police, pointing at the stage. Shuyi crept up to the ventilation duct and peered down, trying to find the whereabouts of the evening gown. She remembered that the evening gown had fallen onto the stage.
With wide eyes, she looked at the empty stage, with no trace of the evening gown. She wondered if the evening gown had been taken by the Oddity Eliminator. The feathers of the Three-Headed Pheasant Spirit could be used by the Oddity Eliminator to forge magical artifacts, so they wouldn't be discarded casually.
Shu Yi slipped into the ventilation duct through the vent and slowly crawled towards the stage. She saw that after the conversation, only one Oddity Remover remained in the venue. The Oddity Remover looked around and, after confirming that no one was there, took the evening dress from behind the curtain, put it in a bag, and took it out.
Shuyi secretly followed behind. When they reached the safety passage, the anomaly remover carefully observed the surroundings and opened the door after confirming that no one was around.
Shuyi, peering through the door, heard a voice inside, its tone unclear and unrecognizable as either male or female, say: "You brought the things, didn't you..."
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