Chapter 37: Brave Advance

Little An was very satisfied with Canyue’s immediate execution of the order, but…

“Very good! But—I am exposed, and very likely doomed, can you not be so happy?” Little An’s focus was indeed on this.

The girl named Canyue on the other end of the phone was stunned for a moment, and suddenly let out a scream: “Ah—the Queen has encountered a Demon General! The Queen is exposed! What do we do, what do we do? What should we do then? What is the Queen doing now? Shouldn’t she escape immediately? Why is she still running towards the city center?…”

Chen Fengshi covered his face speechlessly; this girl’s attributes had completely defeated him.

“We must find the Fungal Demon Main Body and destroy it as soon as possible. If we can control the exposed information from spreading further, the crisis will be resolved. Turn on the cameras installed along the way, report any situation immediately, and let Little Huo and Alcohol help.”

“Yes… yes… yes, Little Huo has a date tonight, he reported in and turned off his phone; Alcohol turns off his phone every day when he sleeps.”

“Wake Heiyang up to help, make him go knock on doors one by one!” Little An was in a very bad mood. Could she not count on this group of unreliable companions from the Demon Extermination Association at a critical moment?

“Heiyang works the day shift! Now is my shift time. If you wake him up, and he asks how tomorrow’s time will be calculated, how am I supposed to answer?”

Chen Fengshi clasped his hands towards Little An’s phone, bowing to the girl on the other end of the line; he was so impressed he wanted to lie flat on the ground.

Little An indeed exploded, squeezing out a few words from between her teeth: “Do you need me to first calculate the problem of you guys playing around during the day shift and sleeping until dawn every night shift?”

“Yes, my Queen! I will pass it on just like that, Heiyang definitely won’t dare to say anything else. At least when I sleep during the night shift, I’m sleeping in the Base, and I can get to work immediately if anything happens. He always has his calls forwarded during the day, and only turns on the Queen’s grocery cart to rush back to the Base when there’s an issue. If we really calculate it, deducting a month’s pay from him wouldn’t be unjust at all!” The girl Canyue babbled on, clearly a person who loved to chat.

However, Little An was in no mood at all right now. “I want some quiet.”

“Hehe, who is Quiet?” Canyue continued to pick up the conversation happily.

“I want to be quiet for a moment!” Little An directly snapped. Canyue finally spoke in a fearful tone: “Yes, yes, yes, my Queen, I’ll shut up, please don’t get mad.”

Chen Fengshi guessed that Little An not only wanted to get mad, but very likely wanted to hit someone, so he swayed his head sixty degrees, stared straight ahead, looked grave, as if thinking about the upcoming danger, and kept silent, resolutely refusing to touch the landmine beside him.

Little An took a deep breath, her voice extremely serious: “From now on, until the matter is resolved, except for necessary words, not a single extra word is allowed! One useless word deducts one hundred!”

On the other end of the phone, the girl named Canyue instantly went silent. Sure enough, only Little An knew how to deal with her.

“Where can you find such a cute beauty?” Chen Fengshi guessed the current mood of the girl on the phone who was holding back from speaking.

Canyue’s mood was of course very depressed; she really wanted to talk! She was especially curious about this new partner with an unfamiliar face who was so handsome, had such a sweet mouth, and a nice voice. Instant impression score: one hundred percent!

But, one word deducted one hundred; if she said a sentence, several thousands would be gone. She could not afford that!

“Home-raised, non-returnable.” Little An breathed a sigh of relief and introduced Canyue concisely. “The butler’s youngest daughter, lived together since childhood, refused to do a proper professional job, heard the Demon Extermination Association logistics had a monthly salary of fifty thousand, and begged desperately for it.”

Canyue on the other end of the communication was almost holding back internal injuries at this moment; she felt so wronged! She wasn’t just in it for the money. Mainly, she was worried about outsiders. Clearly, it was Little An who said she couldn’t find anyone reliable, so she gave up her great future and threw herself into the great cause of fighting the Fungal Demon!

At the very least, the job arranged by Little An’s mother for her had an annual salary of six hundred thousand! It was just pre-tax, that’s all. The Demon Extermination Association was just a post-tax monthly salary of fifty thousand in cash. Could that little difference be the main reason she joined the Demon Extermination Association?

Canyue especially wanted to say, money was only one of the main reasons!

But, but she couldn’t explain! One word deducted one hundred! She could only work silently, organizing the footage from the cameras they had installed on the outer walls of various large and small buildings along the route, then transmitting it to Little An in real-time, while turning on the recognition and automatic analysis software to compare and analyze the situations in the video footage.

On Little An’s phone, twelve parallel screens appeared. She handed the phone to Chen Fengshi and said: “Keep an eye out for abnormal situations.”

Chen Fengshi certainly did not dare to be careless. Tapping a screen could immediately make it full screen, so he could see more clearly. He was secretly surprised; it seemed that although the Demon Extermination Association had few people, their value was still very great.

“It would be even better if it were a tablet or a laptop.”

“The cameras haven’t been fully deployed yet; the original plan was to prepare portable devices for every member.” Little An answered every question this time, probably because they were sharing hardships at the moment, and were undoubtedly already partners.

“Truly impressive!” Chen Fengshi sighed with genuine admiration. Leaving other things aside, they had been speeding along for six or seven kilometers now, and real-time footage from cameras at various angles had been transmitted along the entire way. He didn’t even know how they managed to avoid being detected.

“Actually, the question you care about is the monthly salary of the Demon Extermination Association warriors, right?” Little An suddenly popped out with this sentence, which made Chen Fengshi stunned, but he quickly understood and smiled. “When it’s safe, I will definitely think about this, but right now, I’m not in the mood.”

“Fine!” Clearly, Little An did not believe that Chen Fengshi was unmoved by the income, looking as if she was waiting for him to slap himself in the face and take back his lofty words about not wanting the Demon Extermination Association’s salary.

This question, Chen Fengshi truly hadn’t thought about right now. Whether the crisis could be resolved, whether he could live on, was still unknown, so how could he have the time to think about money? He didn’t even have the time to think about Sister Yao getting the remaining payment from Young Master Wang tomorrow. What he worried about most was how sad his mother would be if he became a wanted criminal…

If he died, he truly worried his mother would collapse!

Thinking of these problems, Chen Fengshi involuntarily clenched his fists, saying to himself over and over in his heart: ‘Live on, must live on!’

Then he thought of what Little An said about the Mutual Aid Association, which possessed the Power of Life but was unwilling to fight the Fungal Demon, only wanting to passively escape, and he felt that such an escapist attitude was actually understandable. However, this attitude was not suitable for him.

The car sped on the road; would everything go smoothly ahead?

And the noodle stall owner?

The noodle stall owner, after Little An and Chen Fengshi drove away, sat back down and continued doing business as usual.

However, what he didn’t remember was that in that brief moment just now, the Fungal Demon inside his body had already sent information and instructions to the Fungal Demon Parasite responsible for intelligence investigation.

Thus, late at night, the patrolling police on duty on the streets, covered in red mist, sent the information to people they knew in various neighborhoods. ‘A relative’s noodle stall encountered two rich people who dined and dashed, help keep an eye out, heavy reward guaranteed.’

The patrolling police on night duty in various districts memorized the license plate and characteristics one by one.

Those patrolling police and traffic police possessed by the red mist in various districts each used their network of connections to spread the message down. As a result, those people still wandering in nightclubs and on the streets in the middle of the night all became informants. It was just that most people didn’t take it to heart, while those possessed by the red mist were especially attentive.

Not long after, a security guard on night shift at a certain parking lot spotted the Black Wild Horse driving in, and then the white Wild Horse driving away. Thus, the white Wild Horse became the focus of many attentive people.

The girl Canyue was at the Demon Extermination Association Base. The circle of walls in the room was covered with monitors, and the footage from many cameras was changing in real-time on them simultaneously. The automatic comparison and detection system suddenly issued an alarm. Some cars, motorcycles, police cars with abnormal trajectories, and pedestrians in varying numbers were magnified and appeared on the screen.

Then it was sent to Little An’s phone. Chen Fengshi saw the direction those people were moving, and it was very obvious that they were going to be completely surrounded.

Canyue had held back for a long time and finally had a chance to speak. At this time, no matter how naturally cute she was, her voice revealed tension. “My Queen, the alarm has escalated, your car is definitely exposed! Now… the best choice is to go to the old district of East Road and switch to a motorcycle to pass through the old residential area.”

Yes, the situation was not optimistic. Little An’s car being exposed meant her identity information was also exposed along with it?

However, Little An gave Chen Fengshi a reassurance; the situation wasn’t that bad, because this car was neither under her name nor under her parents’ names. Although the Fungal Demon Parasite could investigate and find out that she was the actual user, that would take some time.

They had to be fast, faster!

The white Wild Horse quickly drove into an old residential area on East Road. These residential buildings were quite old; the community entrance didn’t even have a security guard. They were fund-raising houses built by local villagers in the past, and there was no property management to speak of.

On the back of a certain building in the middle of the residential area, there were some green areas occupied by private individuals. Two iron pipes and an iron chain became the guarantee for a private parking spot. Some had poured cement over the grass to level it, while others just parked directly on the grass.

Little An got out of the car, dug out a key from the soil at the base of a bush next to an iron pipe, unlocked the iron chain, and then opened the back door at the end of the parking spot. There should be quite a few back doors like this in the community; just in this one building, six or seven first-floor households could be seen having them installed, but this one’s door was especially wide.

Little An dug out another key from a flower pot on the adjacent balcony and opened the door. Chen Fengshi found that it was very empty inside. Rather than a living room of a house, it was better to call it—a garage!

Little An drove the car directly in, covered it with a car cloth, and then pulled off the cover of a Horizon motorcycle parked inside. The pitch-black body had a nice shape, but this bike was different from what Chen Fengshi had imagined. Even a slightly enthusiast-level rider wouldn’t choose this kind of bike unless they had no money.

But on second thought, this was an emergency backup in the first place; not being eye-catching was probably the top requirement.

“Hurry up and change clothes.” Little An tossed a black riding suit to Chen Fengshi. It was a bit tight on him. “Is there a larger size?”

“This was originally prepared for Little Huo; he is thinner than you, just make do with it.” Little An quickly came out of the next room, also having changed into a black riding suit. When she was about to push the bike out, Chen Fengshi rushed over and grabbed the handlebars, smiling confidently: “I’m a rookie at driving cars, but riding a motorcycle is no problem for me. Wouldn’t it be too eye-catching for a girl to carry a guy around the streets?”

This was the truth, so of course Little An didn’t argue.

After locking the main door, putting the chain on, and putting the key back in the soil, Chen Fengshi started the ignition and hooked his hand at Little An, saying: “Beauty, get on, the handsome guy will take you for a ride.”