After eliminating the convoy, the tiger demon glanced at me, licked its whiskers, and a greedy look appeared on its face.
I knew what she meant. As a human, I hesitated for a moment, but eventually compromised, signaling her to enjoy the spoils of victory.
However, I gave her one instruction: "The fight is over. Let the survivors live!"
As for the dead, do as you please.
I couldn't bear to watch the scene, so I sat in one of the demon hunter's vehicles and smoked, using the smoke to dissipate the smell of blood in the air.
I felt that with the look the tiger demon gave me earlier, I could restrain these demons. Or rather, they recognized my identity as "Executive Deputy Leader" – the leader, of course, was Yaoyao. But I didn't want to break the natural order of the food chain. As the apex predators of the global food chain, under appropriate circumstances, they were entitled to consume "inferior beings."
Today, the "appropriate circumstances" were that the demon hunters had sought trouble themselves. Seeing the demon horde, they didn't retreat, but instead wanted to hunt demons and seize their cores.
This wasn't a dinner party; it was a fight to the death!
The victors gained, the defeated lost their lives. Before the battle, both sides were aware of these stakes, so I had no reason to be "saintly." They deserved it.
From now on, I would set two bottom lines for these demons under my command: First, do not harm innocent people. Second, no torture or cannibalism of captives!
After smoking two cigarettes, the demons finished clearing the battlefield. Six demon hunters survived. I didn't make things difficult for them, making them squat by the roadside to collect their companions' bodies after we left.
As for the spoils of war, the demons had no interest, and I was indifferent. So, they were returned to the captives.
I rode the deer demon, and the eagle demon retrieved the string of money hidden in the mountains. I had Mengmeng carry it. The team assembled and took the mountain path they had just cleared. The straight-line distance from Qipanshan to here was surprisingly short, only crossing a few ridges. No wonder they arrived so quickly.
Upon arriving at Xijiangyue, I remembered to contact Yaoyao and informed her about the battle at Benxi. Yaoyao expressed satisfaction with my handling of the situation, and she was also on her way back.
Half an hour later, I was smoking by the window when I saw a Didi car with a Fengtian license plate pull up in front of the building. Yaoyao got out of the back seat. The other car door opened, and out stepped Elder Mr. Jin. The front passenger door opened again, and out stepped Jin Xiaomei.
It seemed Yaoyao had apprehended them. I hadn't asked for details on the phone, but I guessed that Elder Mr. Jin had deduced I had demons when I ordered weapons through him and had notified demon hunters to intercept us. He hadn't expected us to turn the tables.
Jin Xiaomei transferred money to the Didi driver, and the car drove away. The three of them went upstairs.
I "welcomed" them in the conference room. It was pretty much as I had guessed, but one detail I hadn't anticipated was that they not only guessed our demon identities but also that we were the eight demons who had escaped from Jiuxian Cave. Although Jiuxian Cave had only happened a few days ago, the news had already spread like wildfire throughout the Yanxia martial world, given the value of those eight demons, close to a hundred million!
Elder Mr. Jin hadn't intended to reveal anything. He and his granddaughter Jin Xiaomei were returning to their villa in Shengjing to further research the possibility of taking our arms business. Manufacturing weapons for demons was not an issue in itself, but if demon hunters encountered the eight demons and died by weapons from the "Jinqiangmen," the Jin family would be held accountable. Even if the demon hunters didn't seek them out, Shabiya would question them.
However, eavesdropping in the villa was not only Yaoyao but also a spy from the demon hunter organization lurking within Jinqiangmen. This spy, an old subordinate within Jinqiangmen, entered the room immediately after hearing Elder Jin and his granddaughter discuss matters. He coerced Elder Jin into revealing my location and the address of the 8 million. When Yaoyao appeared and killed the spy, it was too late because the spy had entered the villa with his phone still connected to a call.
After eliminating the spy, Yaoyao immediately called me to warn me. But she hadn't expected the spy to have so many accomplices, thinking it was only one or two people. She planned to let me face it alone, and if things went south, she would come to my aid. Little did she know that this was the largest demon hunter organization in Northeast China – the Mohe, numbering hundreds of members. What I had encountered was merely their Benxi detachment...