Having the genes of a demon king, I never intended to be a kept man.

Half an hour later.

Ye Ge, Gao Shenxue, and Xia Xiyao, along with Jiang Xiaoming and more than thirty other students from the War Academy, arrived at a brightly lit mountain town.

This small town, located in the Hundred Souls Forest, is called Hundred Souls Town. It was built in recent years and is not large in area, but it has all the necessary facilities, including schools, hospitals, hotels, and restaurants. The townspeople are almost all scavengers, hunters, and adventurers who used to wander the wilderness.

Thanks to the construction of the Yejia High-Speed ​​Rail, the once barren and desolate areas of the Middle Ring Road and Outer Ring Road are now gradually coming to life.

In addition, since Long Ying took over, he has paid more attention to the first and second lines of defense, the Great Wall. Fewer and fewer monsters are entering the outer and middle rings, making this area much safer than before.

Ye Ge led the group to an inn in town.

"Squeak-"

Pushing open the hotel door, Ye Ge asked, "Is anyone here?"

Upon entering the hotel lobby, Ye Ge was surprised to bump into an old acquaintance.

Five young men and women dressed in Night Watch uniforms.

The leader was a female captain of the Night Watch who looked to be under twenty years old. She wore a long black trench coat, had her hair in a bun, was tall, and had a high-tech straight sword hanging at her waist. She looked exceptionally capable and dashing.

"You are... Nangong Qiuyue?"

Xia Xiyao blinked blankly.

Although they hadn't seen each other for many years, and Nangong Qiuyue's image, temperament, and attire seemed to have completely changed, Xia Xiyao still recognized her at a glance based on her facial features.

"Is it you?" Nangong Qiuyue looked at Ye Ge and the others, her willow-leaf eyebrows slightly raised: "Ye Ge, Gao Shenxue, Xia Xiyao?"

"Nangong Qiuyue... Huh??"

Jiang Xiaoming stared blankly at the powerful and charismatic female captain of the Night Watch before him, and the image of Nangong Qiuyue from his childhood flashed into his mind...

Nangong Qiuyue also participated in the Dark City mission eight years ago.

So of course Jiang Xiaoming knew her.

However, no matter what, it's impossible to imagine that the Nangong Qiuyue in front of me is the same person as the silly, chuunibyou little girl I remember from my childhood!

"Wow, you've changed so much!" Jiang Xiaoming said.

Nangong Qiuyue glanced at Jiang Xiaoming, hesitated for a moment, and said, "You... I feel like I've seen you somewhere before, but what's your name again?"

Jiang Xiaoming: "......"

"..."

"Captain, is this someone you know?" a young Night Watchman asked.

Nangong Qiuyue nodded and said calmly, "Yes, they are my classmates from the War Academy." Then she looked at Ye Ge and the others and said, "I didn't expect to see you here."

"I really didn't expect that." Ye Ge tilted her head. "But what happened to your voice? I remember you didn't speak like this when you were a child."

Nangong Qiuyue: "......"

In an instant, Nangong Qiuyue pouted angrily and glared fiercely at Ye Ge.

That expression could only be seen from the perspective of her and Ye Ge, and for a moment it finally resembled the carefree and naive girl she was when she was a child.

Ye Ge smiled and said softly, "That's more like it."

Nangong Qiuyue stretched out her leg and stomped hard on his shoe with her military boot at a very fast speed.

"Nangong classmate, what are you doing here?" Xia Xiyao asked curiously.

Nangong Qiuyue tucked a strand of hair behind her ear and said, "We were chasing a dark race of demonic offspring who had infiltrated human territory, and we've followed them all the way here."

Ye Ge squinted.

The Dark Race of the Demons...

He immediately remembered that Teacher Cangfeng had said that a demon had infiltrated human territory and was being investigated and hunted by the Night Watch...

"A dark race?" Xia Xiyao exclaimed in surprise, "Could it be the same person we encountered?"

Upon hearing this, Nangong Qiuyue's eyes flashed: "You've run into each other?"

"To be precise, it wasn't us who encountered them," Gao Shenxue said. "We ran into a vampire squad that kidnapped two of our students. It seems that this vampire squad had already met with that demon and a conflict had broken out. By the time we arrived, the demon had killed all fifty-odd members of the vampire squad."

Upon hearing this, Nangong Qiuyue frowned immediately: "What? A vampire squad of over fifty people? There's actually such a thing??"

The Night's Watch is responsible for guarding the Wall, but over fifty vampires have infiltrated Imperial territory without their knowledge!

“Don’t rush. In my opinion, these vampires didn’t just cross the Great Wall recently to sneak in,” Ye Ge said slowly. “They have probably been living in human society in human form for a very long time, but they just haven’t been exposed until now.”

"So that's how it is..." Nangong Qiuyue frowned. "But isn't this even more serious?"

“I’ve already told Long Ying about this through the system,” Ye Ge added. “By the way, have you Night Watchers fought that demon while you were tracking her down?”

"Yes, we've handed it in." Nangong Qiuyue nodded. "Her abilities are very strange, and her strength is also a mystery. Several of my team members were injured by her, which is why we chose to rest and regroup here tonight, and also to help my team members heal their injuries."

Night Song: "Could you describe what she looks like to me?"

"White hair, white eyebrows, a small character on her cheek below her left eye, like some ancient demonic character, her skin is as white as snow, and she is very beautiful." Nangong Qiuyue remembered something and took out a photo: "Right, this is a photo of her taken by our body camera during our fight with her."

Ye Ge took the photo and fell silent.

It really was her...

"What's wrong?" Nangong Qiuyue asked, looking at Ye Ge's expression.

"...It's nothing." Ye Ge handed the photo back to her: "You guys are really lucky."

Nangong Qiuyue raised an eyebrow, puzzled: "Good luck?"

"If she hadn't shown mercy, your teammate might be in much worse shape than just injured."

"You're saying she went easy on her? How do you know?"

"This demon-descended girl single-handedly killed fifty-three elite vampire warriors of the same level in the Hundred Souls Forest. Moreover, judging from the condition of those vampire warriors' corpses, it was clearly an instant kill. None of your Night Watch members died when they fought this demon-descended girl; they were only injured. Do you still think that she didn't hold back?"

Nangong Qiuyue paused, then pondered for a moment: "That makes sense..."

But... the other party is clearly a dark race. She showed no mercy to the vampire army, so why did she show mercy to the Night Watchers?

At this moment, Gao Shenxue turned her head and looked at Ye Ge with her clear eyes.

Ye Ge yawned: "Let's talk about other things tomorrow." Then he walked to the hotel reception desk: "Is the owner here?"