Colleagues are Enemies

Luo Tian Shenzi's distinct personality of "clear likes and dislikes" endowed Luo Chuan with the ability to perceive the likes and dislikes of others.

The rich woman's malice towards him was obvious from the very beginning.

Luo Chuan was simply playing along, seeing what the other party was really up to.

And now the answer has been revealed.

"The 300,000 bounty is nothing but bait, used to lure hunters into a trap and make them your prey."

As he spoke, Luo Chuan suddenly jumped back, dodging the sneak attack from the side and rear once again.

He looked at the person who had launched the sneak attack.

It turned out to be the middle-aged man who had been lying in bed pretending to be asleep just moments before.

"Whoosh!"

The middle-aged man let out a monster-like roar, and his body gradually twisted and swelled.

In no time, it transformed into a gigantic demon.

"Hmph!"

The wealthy woman on the other side, climbing on the wall, had also been completely demonized.

"roar!"

"Hmph!"

The two demons pounced on Luo Chuan from the front and the back.

"Etheric domination - unbreakable barriers."

A spherical ethereal barrier expanded outwards from Luo Chuan, easily blocking the demon's attack.

boom! boom! boom!

The two demons launched a frenzied attack on the etheric barrier.

Judging from the intensity of their magical power alone, they have already reached the level of second-tier demons.

Most E-rank hunters are second-tier warriors, and they might not be a match for this husband-and-wife team.

As Luo Tian gazed at the powerless and furious demon couple, his mind was elsewhere.

If the client turns into a demon, can you still get the bounty if you kill it?

Will the 300,000 yuan just go down the drain like this?

My money!

"roar!"

"Hmph!"

"It's annoying."

Luo Chuan pinched his sword finger.

"Heavenly Lock Sword Formation - Modified"

Six ether swords were formed.

One of them hovered behind Luo Tian, ​​while the other five each occupied a corner, circulating in a cycle.

"Five Elements Killing Sword"

As Luo Chuan finished speaking.

Five ether swords shot out, forming a formation of the five elements that generate and restrain each other, slashing repeatedly at the surrounding space.

In an instant, sword light crisscrossed, drawing countless pentagrams.

The sky was ablaze with light.

"Aww!"

The two demons in the middle of the formation let out miserable howls.

Countless sword wounds erupted all over his body almost simultaneously, so deep that bone was visible, and blood gushed out.

It was as if it had been dismembered like a butcher carving up an ox.

When the sword light dissipated, they lay limp on the ground, lifeless and unable to move.

"..."

Luo Chuan looked down at the two pools of rotten flesh on the ground, lost in thought.

He recalled the process by which the couple was demonized.

"Let's just consider it as payment for 300,000."

Luo Chuan exhaled a breath of stale air.

He dispersed the surrounding ethereal barrier, shaping it into six more ethereal swords.

A total of twelve ether swords were arrayed around him.

"Heavenly Lock Sword Formation - Modified"

Luo Chuan's face was solemn as he muttered to himself.

"The Twelve Earthly Branches - Dog (戌)"

In the next instant, the twelve ether swords resonated and combined to form a howling divine hound.

"Awooo—"

The divine dog howled to the heavens, without the crowing of a rooster, yet it stirred up a mighty, resounding wave of sound, causing all the surrounding evil spirits to retreat.

Drive away evil and ward off misfortune, protect my supernatural powers.

"Awooooo—"

As the dog howled, the two demons on the ground let out mournful screams, writhing and twisting their mud-like bodies.

Gradually, their bodies fell apart, revealing the human bodies inside.

They are a wealthy couple.

The two unconscious people's abdomens began to bulge.

Then their mouths suddenly opened wide, and a dark shadow darted out from each of them.

They fled into the distance at an extremely high speed.

However, before they could escape more than a few meters, a semi-transparent cube trapped them inside.

"Etheric Prison"

Luo Chuan clenched his fist loosely and smiled disdainfully.

"Hmph, trying to escape?"

He looked down on everything inside the cube.

They turned out to be two fist-sized, bizarre parasites with countless long, thin legs.

This kind of demon has never been recorded in the encyclopedia of demons.

"It seems things aren't that simple."

Luo Chuan narrowed his eyes slightly.

Just then, his phone vibrated.

It's probably Ms. Kobayashi.

"Feed?"

"Luo Chuan, don't go see the person who commissioned you yet. Something's wrong with that bounty mission!"

Ms. Lin's anxious voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Through my own investigations, I discovered a significant increase in missing persons cases recently, including many low-level hunters."

"The police have opened a case and are investigating, and even the Extraordinary Management Bureau has secretly intervened. Things may not be that simple."

"That 300,000 bounty mission is very likely a trap, so you must not act on your own. Just wait for the authorities to handle it."

"..."

Luo Chuan glanced around.

The windows were shattered, the walls were crumbling, the ground was a mess, two clumps of rotting flesh covered a human body, and there were mottled sword marks everywhere.

"Feed? Luo Chuan, can you hear me? Feed?"

"...Ms. Kobayashi."

"Hmm? What's wrong?"

"You're right, I am Unlucky."

Luo Chuan remained silent for a long time before finally speaking.

"..."

Now it was Ms. Kobayashi's turn to fall silent.

She was a little unsure and asked tentatively.

"Have you met with the client yet?"

"Yes, it's been resolved. You should get someone here to handle the cleanup."

"...Alright then, as long as everyone's alright. You just wait there, and the authorities will handle the rest. You don't need to worry about it."

"No, this is my mission."

Luo Chuan shook his head and declined Teacher Lin's suggestion.

because……

"Ms. Kobayashi, from this moment on, the nature of the matter has changed."

Luo Chuan glanced at the system pop-up window.

[Ding! The gears of fate begin to turn at this moment.]

They say rivals are enemies. On your journey to earn your first fortune, you stumble upon a conspiracy lurking in the shadows. You discover that while you're still struggling to build your own villainous force, your competitors are already thriving with their villainous ventures.

Objective: To find the mastermind behind this and nip his plot in the bud.

[Reward: 30 Destiny Points]

Objective: Eliminate the mastermind behind it all.

[Reward: 50 Destiny Points]

【I am the Emperor! —Forever Dead Octopus Head】

A reward of up to eighty Fate Points.

Adding the existing seventy points, and the fifty points currently being accumulated...

Just enough fate points to be reached for the next performance.

"Was this also part of your plan, System?"

[That's right! It was all part of my plan, meow!]

Damn it, they even picked up the lines!

Luo Chuan logged out of the system, hung up the phone with Teacher Xiaolin, and quickly went to the two parasitic demons.

He watched them struggle in their etheric prison.

This is Luo Chuan's only clue in his search for the mastermind behind everything.

"It's a pity that the Divine Firmament Proclamation is basically unusable, otherwise we could use the Immortal Pointing the Way technique to trace the source directly, and even if we're not in the same time and space, we could still dig out the mastermind behind it all."

Luo Chuan shook his head helplessly.

Of the three great skills of Emperor Gouchen, only the Heavenly Lock Sword Formation, which represents the power of war, can still be used with difficulty.

So, following the normal procedure, the next step is to study this parasitic demon, uncover the truth little by little, outwit and outfight the enemy lurking in the shadows, and finally pass the level in a thrilling way.

But how could Luo Chuan be so foolish as to be led by the nose and play hide-and-seek with the other party?

Ultimately, even without the Divine Firmament Decree, Luo Chuan still had other advantages.

"Strive to achieve the goal within three days."

Luo Chuan curled the corners of his mouth.

Backup hidden power source, activate!