The female demon angrily wiped a trace of blood from the corner of her mouth. "Are you Bai Ze reborn or not?"
Shrugging, I replied, "If you think I am, then I am. If you're afraid you can't account for yourself when you go back, you can also say I'm not."
"What's your name!" the female demon asked.
"Wu Chengfeng."
"..." The female demon was speechless. She glanced at her male companion beside her, then suddenly grabbed a handful of dirt from the ground and threw it at me. I dodged to the side, but Chen Ke, unable to avoid it, got a mouthful of dirt. When I looked again, the female demon was already running towards the toll station.
Bingbing shoved the dagger-gun into my hand. "Brother, can we just let her escape like that? We should report back!"
Because the trees were dense, the female demon had already escaped my line of sight. However, she didn't know about my Xiang Qi technique. After running more than twenty meters, perhaps because the pine needles on the ground were pricking her feet, she stopped, possibly looking back.
I took a deep breath, transformed my hands into gun grips, aimed at the female demon's aura, and pulled the trigger.
The female demon's aura froze in place. When I rushed over, I saw that I had hit her directly in the chest. This meant she had indeed turned back just now.
"Let's dig a hole and bury them," Bingbing suggested.
"We don't have any tools," I said. I couldn't use my dagger to dig; its main body was a gun barrel and wouldn't withstand the kind of bending involved in digging.
"Then let's forget it..." Bingbing said helplessly.
I grabbed the female demon by the ankle and dragged her back to the male demon. I didn't know what their relationship was, whether they were lovers, but it was unlikely. Demons rarely took their own kind as lovers. It was probably a simple superior-subordinate relationship. I searched both demons' bodies and found a Honda car key and two mobile phones.
Both phones had fingerprint locks. While they were still warm, I used their fingerprints to unlock them and check the information inside. These two guys were likely trying to claim the sole credit for "capturing Bai Ze reborn" and hadn't sent any messages about me to anyone else. I then smashed the two phones with stones and had Chen Ke throw them into the deeper parts of the forest, throwing them in two different places.
I gathered nearby pine branches and needles and hastily covered the two bodies in situ, symbolically throwing a few handfuls of dirt on them, considering it buried.
Holding the car keys, the three of us changed direction, climbed over the ditch, and returned to the service area.
The taxi driver was still waiting there for the young lady demon to come out of the restroom and add her WeChat. I walked over and told the driver that something had come up and I wouldn't be taking his car anymore. I scanned him a thousand yuan. The driver was puzzled, "What happened? That beautiful lady just now said she was looking for you! She went into the restroom, did you see her?"
"No, I didn't. I've been squatting inside the whole time, had diarrhea," I said with a wry smile.
The driver was a bit unwilling, "Then you go ahead, I'll wait a bit longer—by the way, how are you guys leaving?"
"We're going to the other side of the service area. A friend's car is picking us up there to go back to Tangshan," I said.
While I was talking to the driver, Zheng Bingbing had already driven the car away and was waiting for us at the gas station.
After covering for Bingbing, Chen Ke and I followed her. The three of us, driving the captured demon's Honda sedan, continued on our way. But this time, we didn't dare to go far or get off the highway. When we reached the Shanhaiguan station, a few hundred meters from the toll booth, we pulled over to the side, walked across the highway fence, and took a side path towards the city.
The demon's car was here, and the demons were in the woods tens of kilometers away. Let Shan Hai ponder the cause and effect himself.
After walking about a kilometer, we reached the outskirts of Shanhaiguan. I worried there might be Shan Hai demons watching, so I didn't contact Sha Wuji. I had Chen Ke disguise us again, and we bought three sets of clothes to change into. I also went to a supermarket and bought a pack of An'erle for Bingbing to deal with her own issues, preventing her from encountering wolf demons again.
After bandaging, we hailed another taxi. This driver was an old comrade; he drove very steadily, or rather, very slowly. Anyway, we weren't in a hurry. We smoothly passed through the checkpoint and entered Fengtian Prefecture. I even slept a nap in the passenger seat. Three hours later, as the sky darkened, we arrived at Shengjing.
At the highway entrance, Chen Lu, Daji, and Yaoyao were already waiting for us.