Chapter 123: An Unholy Alliance
Chapter 123: Chapter 123: An Unholy Alliance
Night was falling.
The pedestrians on the road grew sparse.
Sun Tao walked alone on a quiet path.
His pace was hurried, and he kept glancing over his shoulder.
Whenever people approached from the opposite direction,
he would be secretly on guard, watching their every move.
At this moment, Sun Tao had the distinct feeling someone was behind him, following at a constant distance.
And this wasn’t the first time he’d felt this way.
He’d had this feeling for several days in a row.
It was just that today, it was stronger than ever.
’It must be my imagination. It has to be...’
Sun Tao tried to calm himself.
But the more he thought this, the more nervous he became.
The news of several families being massacred last night forced him to be extra cautious.
Just as he turned off a small path
and emerged onto a main road,
the phone in his pocket rang without any warning.
"Ah..."
Sun Tao jumped in fright and quickly pulled out his phone.
A glance at the caller ID showed that it was his mother.
"Hello? Mom, I’m on my way home. Yes, I’m almost there.
Don’t worry about me. I’ll be back soon. Okay..."
After a few brief words,
Sun Tao hung up and glanced behind him again.
Other than a few pedestrians heading home like him,
the entire road was empty.
Occasionally, a few private cars would roar past.
The dim streetlights did little to dispel the surrounding darkness.
The nearby residential districts had also quieted down.
But lights were still on in many windows, perhaps waiting for someone to return from the night.
Sun Tao’s home wasn’t far from here, only about a ten-minute walk.
But today, this incredibly familiar road
seemed exceptionally long to Sun Tao.
He felt as if he could walk forever and never reach the end.
As the road ahead gradually emptied
and the sparse pedestrians disappeared one by one,
that inexplicable sense of fear in Sun Tao’s heart grew stronger.
The sound of footsteps was also slowly becoming clearer.
The strange thing was, Sun Tao could only hear his own footsteps.
There was no sound of a second person at all.
’Could it be my imagination? Is no one following me after all?’
Sun Tao thought to himself.
But in the next moment,
a chill ran down his spine. As a practitioner of Martial Arts, he instinctively dodged to the side.
He spun around warily, ready to counterattack.
But behind him, there was still nothing. The space was completely empty.
Instead, a police car, its red and blue lights flashing, had pulled up in front of Sun Tao.
A few officers from the Martial Arts Police Station got out of the car.
"Son, it’s dark. Why aren’t you home yet?"
an officer with a red armband approached and said.
The moment he saw them,
an inexplicable sense of security washed over Sun Tao.
He gradually began to relax.
A cool breeze blew past, and only then did he realize his forehead and back were soaked in a cold sweat.
"I am on my way home!"
"Oh, where do you live? Do you want us to give you a ride?
It’s not safe at night these days, with danger everywhere. You could easily be attacked walking alone. How about we give you a ride home?"
the police officer said patiently.
Under normal circumstances, Sun Tao might have refused outright.
A police car suddenly appearing in the dead of night, kindly offering you a ride home?
That in itself didn’t seem safe.
After all, the Martial Arts Police Station had never had a very good reputation in Xinghai City.
Especially at night, you would never see any of their officers.
But recently, things were completely different.
Police cars were patrolling the streets, and teams of officers from the Martial Arts Police Station were on foot patrol.
They were fully armed, carrying live ammunition.
Each team consisted of ten officers.
This daily routine had brought a considerable sense of security to this city filled with blood and sin.
Sun Tao glanced at the officer, then looked inside the car.
He nodded and said, "Okay, thank you!"
"Don’t mention it. Get in, we’ll take you home!"
The officer nodded with a smile, and Sun Tao quickly got into the police car.
The police car started up again and slowly drove away.
Not long after the police car had left,
from a dark alley,
a ferocious-looking Dog Demon and a Blood Drop Believer in a black robe
emerged one after the other.
They stared at the departing police car.
The Blood Drop Believer said in a hoarse voice, "I told you not to be so impatient. See? You scared him off."
The Dog Demon beside him had a bloodthirsty glint in its eyes.
"I can’t wait to tear the flesh from his bones!"
"Idiot. If I hadn’t stopped you just now, we would’ve been exposed. You’re just a stupid glutton!"
"What did you say? You dare insult me?"
"So what if I did? A beast is a beast. You don’t even have a brain..."
"You... you’re dead! If I can’t eat that guy, I’ll start with you!"
The Dog Demon was enraged.
It bared its fangs, about to pounce on the Blood Drop Believer.
The Blood Drop Believer was also furious.
He drew a dagger from within his black robe.
Just as the two were about to kill each other,
the Dog Demon suddenly sniffed the air sharply a few times.
"Someone’s nearby..."
"What? Who’s there?"
The Dog Demon and the Blood Drop Believer quickly looked around.
As a result, they discovered that on a nearby rooftop,
a person wearing a Black Impermanence mask was sitting and watching them.
Seeing that he had been discovered, he shook his head in disappointment.
"I was planning to wait until you were both grievously injured before I sent you on your way.
I didn’t expect to be discovered so quickly!"
Black Impermanence leaped down.
Like a falling leaf, he landed lightly in front of the Dog Demon and the Blood Drop Believer.
"Who... who are you?"
The Blood Drop Believer stared in terror at the person who had suddenly appeared.
’Black Impermanence’ tapped his mask.
"Can’t you see? Master Ba, Black Impermanence, here to claim your souls and send you on your way!"
"What? You..."
Before the Blood Drop Believer could finish, a cold light flashed from a blade.
SHINK—
Blood gushed out.
The Blood Drop Believer’s eyes were filled with panic as he raised a hand to clutch his neck.
Blood surged from the wound.
While the Dog Demon beside him was still stunned by the scene,
’Black Impermanence’ flickered and appeared behind it.
THUNK—
A long blade pierced the Dog Demon’s back, right through its heart, and emerged from its chest.
The Dog Demon’s eyes flew wide as it tried to turn and look at ’Black Impermanence’ behind it.
However, the strength was rapidly draining from its body,
so much so that it couldn’t even turn its head.
With another soft SQUELCH,
the long blade was pulled from the Dog Demon’s body.
Its corpse slumped limply to the ground.
Black Impermanence glanced down at the Dog Demon’s corpse.
’Tier Four Realm. A bit on the low side, but it should still fetch a decent price!’
He then stored the Dog Demon’s corpse in his Storage Magical Artifact.
After dealing with the two of them,
’Black Impermanence’ walked out of the alley and looked at the empty street.
’Looks like Blood Drop and those demonic beasts are in cahoots.’
With that thought, ’Black Impermanence’ became a blur, racing toward Sun Tao’s home at incredible speed.
Because the danger following Sun Tao had not yet been eliminated...
「A few minutes later.」
The police car stopped outside the main gate of Fuyang District.
Sun Tao got out of the car and said gratefully, "Thank you, officers!"
"You’re welcome. Hurry on home. Don’t be out walking alone so late in the future. It’s too dangerous!"
"Yes, I won’t do it again!"
Sun Tao nodded and walked into the residential district.
Only after watching him enter the main gate
did the police car slowly drive away to continue its patrol.
But just then...
In a dark corner, a pair of scarlet eyes bloomed open.
The creature was like something completely fused with the darkness.
Only its eyes betrayed its presence.
Then, like a shadow, it vanished again, melting completely into the darkness.
The next time those scarlet eyes appeared,
they were already inside the district.
’It disappeared again?’
A long while later, when ’Black Impermanence’ tracked it to this spot,
he found he had lost the target again. He looked up at the residential district.
A look of understanding dawned on his face, and he nodded. ’It seems Sun Tao really is its target...’