Ah, I see! Those Great Blue Demons are from the Shan Hai Demon Race! Yaoyao must have found a way to infiltrate the Shan Hai Demon Race and is now acting as an informant!
I followed the path down the mountain, tracing Yaoyao's aura.
It was noon, and most of the townspeople were resting at home. Wisps of cooking smoke curled into the air, and a few children chased each other playfully in the streets. The roads were not wide, with few cars, but many electric three-wheelers, the kind that cost around ten thousand yuan. It was a quiet and modern small town, not bustling, but not worldly either.
I found Yaoyao's aura emanating from a three-story inn with about a dozen guest rooms. Besides the owner and a helper on the first floor, all the other lodgers were various kinds of demons. Could this be the headquarters for the Shan Hai Demon Race's planned battle of wits?
This small town was the closest to the designated "chessboard," only about a hundred kilometers away.
Yaoyao's aura was on the third floor, in the same room as a few Great Demons. They were close together, seemingly in a meeting?
Just as I was about to enter the inn, a familiar voice suddenly echoed in my mind.
"Why are you here!"
It was Yaoyao!
"Hmm? Didn't you ask me to come?" I asked.
"Idiot! They sent you the message using my phone!" Yaoyao was using a combination of qi sensing and telepathic projection to detect me and contact me.
"Using your phone... you've been captured!" I finally realized.
"Yes, hurry and leave!"
"Okay, I'm leaving now."
But I was afraid of going too far and exceeding Yaoyao's telepathic range. I couldn't initiate this ability myself; I could only wait for her to "call" me.
After walking about a hundred meters, I spotted a small, locked courtyard. I climbed over the wall and entered. It was an ordinary household with a two-and-a-half-story building. The door was locked, but the window was open. Perhaps the local folk were honest and trusting, only guarding against the honorable and not the wicked. I had no choice but to be the latter, climbing through the window, entering the house, and then ascending to the top floor.
The top floor was a half-story, quite low, estimated to be only 1.5 meters high. It was a small storage room. Fortunately, there were windows on three sides. I went to the window facing the inn, opened it slightly, and had a clear view of the inn's third floor. Using qi sensing, I located Yaoyao's room. However, the curtains were drawn, so I couldn't see the people and demons inside with the naked eye.
"Why aren't you leaving?" Yaoyao pressed.
"If I go any further, I'll lose contact with you. I'm hiding here, preparing for a rescue. Where are Daji and the others?" I asked.
"We got separated in the mountains. I encountered Long Yue and was captured."
Hearing that name sent goosebumps all over my arms. However, Long Yue's aura was not within my qi sensing range.
"Wait here, I'll come to rescue you," I said. There were four Great Blue Demons in Yaoyao's room alone, and some others in different rooms. I definitely couldn't defeat them and had to request backup.
"Don't worry about me, just leave!" Yaoyao could clearly see I had come alone and felt I was in danger.
"You don't worry about me. If I can save you, then Sabiyah's boss is here, and should be nearby. You should hang up now, don't let them detect anything unusual," I said.
"Bai Qingcheng?"
"Yes."
"...Okay." Yaoyao clearly didn't trust me as much as she trusted Bai Qingcheng, and severed the connection.
I looked around, but couldn't find Bai Qingcheng on WeChat. I didn't know if I had added her, I forgot. Even if I had, we probably hadn't chatted much. I could only look for Lin Xi. She had also come. I sent a WeChat message, but Lin Xi didn't reply. After a minute, I called her directly, but the call couldn't be connected. Perhaps she was in the mountains at that moment. However, I didn't think Sabiyah would enter the mountains without signal, so I contacted Shen Xingyue to ask how to contact Lin Xi.
"They have a satellite phone. I'll give you the number."
See, this is the power of humanity.
Shen Xingyue gave me a string of codes. I dialed them on my phone, and Lin Xi answered quickly. I briefly explained the situation. Lin Xi said okay and would bring people over immediately.
"It's not you who needs to bring people over. You need to invite 201. There are too many Great Demons in this town. You can't save Yaoyao," I said. It wasn't that I looked down on Lin Xi; she knew her own strength. It was already difficult for her to fight that one Blue Demon, Xie Liosha. How could she fight so many Great Blue Demons...