Once I wake up, I can complete the novice mission of “surviving 24 hours.”
At that time, I’ll be able to acquire two new skills: “Elementary Universal Lock Picking” and “Elementary Unpickable Lock Making.”
“Lock Making” isn’t very useful yet, but “Lock Picking” might assist me in stealing the antidote.
Pondering her survival plan, Jiang Ke’er ambled to the entrance of a pharmacy.
Wulei City isn’t big, but it has many pharmacies.
Jiang Ke’er could see many pharmacies just by walking casually on the street.
However, the procurement signs displayed at the entrance of these pharmacies sent shivers down Jiang Ke’er’s spine.
[High-priced acquisition of demon materials above the Two-Form Realm, acquiring live snakes, bears, tigers, and other demons.]
In this Xiao Kingdom, demons truly have no human rights.
However, unless it’s a type like the snake demon, who voluntarily latches onto powerful figures to elevate her cultivation, other demons would certainly hide deep in the mountains and old forests early on, absolutely not daring to foolishly show their faces and offer themselves up like the little fox demon.
That little fox demon was truly foolish enough; if no one had seen through her fox demon identity, and furthermore, she had no exploitable value, she would probably have been cooked before I even arrived.
Just as she was hesitating whether to enter this pharmacy, she heard a flurry of shouts from the pharmacy entrance.
“Dragon Hunting Squad urgently recruiting fighters! Requirements: cultivation above the Four-Form Period, able to skillfully use at least two offensive spells. Experienced old hunters with dragon hunting experience are prioritized for high-priced recruitment!”
“Fortune favors the bold! Unaffiliated cultivators who want to get rich overnight, hurry up! Medical cultivators are already in place, just a few more power-type cultivators with fierce cultivation methods who can tank and fight are needed!”
“Recruiting lightning spirit root spellcasters who bring their own offensive spells of fourth rank or above! Time is running out, last call for dragon hunting, sign up quickly!”
Jiang Ke’er was stunned.
This recruiting stance clearly had the immediate sense of forming a group to clear a dungeon, preparing to gang up on a world BOSS.
And from the meaning in their words, the target of these people, like the demon-catching squad, was that Dragon Clan Saintess.
“This Dragon Clan Saintess is too pathetic,” Jiang Ke’er mumbled, “What sin did she commit in her previous life, that everyone in this life wants to flay her alive?”
However, she then had a change of thought, realizing that her future wouldn’t be much better than the Dragon Clan Saintess’s.
If her fox demon identity were exposed, she might even cause a worldwide scramble, being caught to become a plush toy.
“I need to be more careful,” Jiang Ke’er secretly sounded the alarm in her heart, “My face isn’t covered tightly enough. I was too careless and showed my true face in the tavern before. It’s very likely that an expert recognized my true identity… Fortunately, everyone in the tavern at that time was a noob, no one noticed me.”
If she had been targeted by bad people in the tavern, with her current strength, she wouldn’t even have had a chance to resist.
After thinking about it, Jiang Ke’er ultimately endured the pain in her back and left the pharmacy, not going in to buy bruise medicine.
Pharmacy assistants have long-term contact with demons, and there might be discerning experts.
Even if I wear a hood, there’s a high probability of my true identity being discovered… It’s too dangerous, this isn’t a place I can be right now!
She silently turned and left, gritting her teeth, enduring the pain as she walked to a few blocks away.
She couldn’t go back to the tavern from during the day; she had to find a new inn to stay.
Although her purse was bulging after a hard afternoon’s work, enough to gather seven magic crystals, she still chose a small inn that looked dilapidated and very simple.
“Shopkeeper, a single queen bed room for one night,” Jiang Ke’er took out a few shattered spirit stones and gently placed them on the counter, saying.
The shopkeeper didn’t even lift his head: “ID card.”
“Ah?”
Jiang Ke’er was startled.
What the hell, does staying in hotels in this fantasy world also require real-name registration?
“ID card… Uh, I forgot to bring it,” Jiang Ke’er hesitated.
The shopkeeper frowned and finally looked up at Jiang Ke’er, but when he saw the clothes Jiang Ke’er was wearing, he was startled.
That was the demon-catching squad’s uniform; although it was a low-grade uniform for demon slaves, it still meant she was a member of the demon-catching squad, someone he absolutely couldn’t afford to offend!
He quickly put on a smiling face: “Oh, it’s a young lady from the demon-catching squad! Why would you need an ID card to stay here? Please, come in, come in! I’ll immediately arrange the best room for you, the Heaven-Class One Executive Suite!”
“Does it have air conditioning?” Jiang Ke’er asked.
“What’s that?” The shopkeeper was puzzled.
“It’s something that provides warmth, hiss—”
Jiang Ke’er felt very cold, strange… The lobby’s stove was burning brightly, and the heroes resting in the lobby were all sweating profusely, yet she felt a bone-chilling cold.
“Oh, you mean floor heating!” The shopkeeper suddenly understood and chuckled, “Of course we have that! In this icy, snowy land of North Juzhou, and with our Xiao Kingdom located in the northern part, how could we live without floor heating?”
“Oh, I see,” Jiang Ke’er felt a little relieved.
“From your voice, you don’t sound very old. Is this perhaps your first time staying in an inn? Otherwise, why would you forget to bring something as important as an ID card?”
“Yes, it is.” Jiang Ke’er nodded quickly.
She was trembling with cold, her teeth chattering, making clicking sounds.
Her vision was spinning, and she felt like she might faint at any moment.
“You look like you’re frozen solid. I’ll arrange a room for you right away!”
The shopkeeper no longer dared to delay and personally escorted Jiang Ke’er to the Heaven-Class One Executive Suite.
As soon as the door closed, Jiang Ke’er collapsed onto the soft bed, wrapping herself tightly in the quilt, feeling all her strength drain away.
Still cold.
What in the world, why is it so cold…?
In a daze, she seemed to see a dark figure standing by the bed.
The figure was completely covered from head to toe, as if it truly were just a shadow.
Hmm… What’s going on? How did this guy get in?
She struggled to get up, but her strength had completely vanished, and her back was burning with pain, making it impossible to move.
“You little demon are truly interesting.”
The dark figure spoke, its voice hoarse, muffled, eerie, and unsettling, indistinguishable as male or female. Just hearing it made Jiang Ke’er shudder, thinking the other party was definitely up to no good.
She wanted to say something but couldn’t make a sound.
“One moment you’re sneaking around, the next you’re willing to risk your life to save a child you don’t even know. You’re clearly not long for this world, yet you sing, ‘I’m a hardworking and not clingy little demoness.'”
Jiang Ke’er was inwardly startled.
How did this person know all that?
How long had it been following her?
Logically, even a Seventh-Star Realm expert shouldn’t be able to see through her thieving methods, yet it knew everything so clearly!
Could it be that its strength was above the Seventh-Star Realm?!
What a scam! Didn’t the system say there were no more than ten beings in all of North Juzhou stronger than the Seventh-Star Realm? Where did this old monster come from?!