Chapter 339 - 301: The Topic of Demon Hunting Starts Trending

Chapter 339: Chapter 301: The Topic of Demon Hunting Starts Trending

The night was dark and heavy.

Starlight was hidden behind a layer of clouds.

The hazy moonlight struggled to break through.

In the dead of night, Songshan City had gradually fallen quiet.

Occasionally, a few young men and women could be seen lingering on the streets.

A few taxis also sped by on the roads.

Aside from the city’s bustling center, which was still a blaze of lights, the residential districts had all returned to tranquility.

The lights in one building after another had all been extinguished.

Only the lonely streetlights remained, their glow pushing back the darkness.

BOOM—

A dark shadow shot backward out of an intersection like a cannonball.

The immense force of the impact sent it crashing into a trash can on the roadside.

The trash can was sent flying with it, slamming hard against a wall.

COUGH COUGH COUGH...

When the shadow landed, it was revealed to be a Pig Demon.

It had a tall, bloated body.

Like a punching bag, it had been completely unable to defend itself.

Its body was covered in wounds, and its already large pig head was now swollen to more than twice its original size.

Just as it slid down the wall to the ground, kneeling and gasping greedily for air,

several people emerged from the intersection it had just been flung from.

The one in the lead was none other than Lin Yi.

He was empty-handed, holding no weapon.

But behind him, Wei Nan, Zhou Qi, and Sun Tao all held their respective weapons.

However, their faces were all masks of utter shock.

"Lin Yi, are you even human?"

"You sent that Pig Demon, which has to weigh over three hundred pounds, flying twenty or thirty meters with a single punch?"

Wei Nan said in disbelief, following behind.

This was a 4-star Pig Demon.

Even if the four of them—Wei Nan, Zhou Qi, and the others—worked together, it would have taken a great deal of effort to kill it.

And yet...

When Lin Yi faced the Pig Demon alone,

he’d sent it flying with a single punch, leaving it on the verge of death?

Lin Yi didn’t say a word.

WHOOSH—

The next moment, after the Pig Demon had recovered slightly,

it had just begun to push itself up,

when Lin Yi flickered and appeared right in front of it.

In that instant, Wei Nan and the others clearly saw a flicker of panic cross the Pig Demon’s eyes.

It seemed utterly terrified by Lin Yi’s appearance.

But Lin Yi didn’t give it much time to think.

A layer of golden light once again enveloped his fist.

With that, he smashed another punch into the Pig Demon’s body.

THUD—

A dull thud.

PTUI...

The Pig Demon spat out a mouthful of fresh blood.

Its bulky body gradually went limp.

Its pupils rapidly dilated, losing their luster.

Until it collapsed onto the ground like a pile of mud.

Lin Yi stood there, waiting for a moment.

Then he turned back to Wei Nan and the others. "Let’s go. Time to find the next demon beast!"

After he finished speaking, Wei Nan and the others finally snapped out of their stupor.

"Wait, you’re not taking the body? A 4-star Demon Beast can sell for one or two hundred thousand..." Wei Nan said in surprise.

To the current Lin Yi, money was just a number; it was no longer that important.

Not to mention he had a monthly salary of a million.

His personal savings had already reached the tens of millions.

And then there was the bank card his older cousin, Tang Qinru, had given him. It held tens of millions more, and he hadn’t touched a single cent.

He didn’t need to spend money on compound potions.

The university also provided free room and board, so there was really nothing for him to spend money on.

For the current Lin Yi, hunting demon beasts was only for plundering their traits.

As for the demon beast corpses, they were no longer that important.

After walking a few steps, he turned back and saw Wei Nan storing the Pig Demon’s corpse into his bracelet.

"Hey, if there’s a Demon Core, leave it for me!"

"Sure, no problem!"

Wei Nan smiled and nodded.

Compared to Demon Beast Meat, the Demon Core was the truly rare material.

Not every demon beast had a Demon Core inside it.

Once a Demon Core was found, the higher the beast’s cultivation level, the higher its value.

They were especially valuable when used in medicine, as they could enhance the effects of a potion.

Lin Yi collected Demon Cores mainly to save them for Tang Qinru.

She herself was a Pharmacist who often refined various potions, and Demon Cores were an indispensable ingredient.

Ever since they arrived in the New District,

Tang Qinru had taken good care of them, even providing free compound potions every month.

If it were just Lin Yi himself, he wouldn’t have felt any psychological burden.

’She’s my cousin, after all...’

But with Wei Nan and the others also benefiting, he felt they needed to show their appreciation somehow.

After cleaning up the battlefield, Lin Yi, Wei Nan, and the others continued on toward other areas.

Using the [Uplifting Incense] talent,

Lin Yi could accurately locate the scent of demon beasts permeating the air within a hundred-li radius.

Then, he could lock on and track them.

He had located this Pig Demon using [Uplifting Incense].

He had then tracked it all the way here and killed it.

With the [Uplifting Incense] talent, Lin Yi felt more and more like a natural-born Demon Hunter.

Within a hundred-li radius,

no demon beast could easily escape.

The next moment, the group once again became like ghosts in the night,

flitting through the various streets of Songshan City.

They continuously sought out demon beasts lurking in the city and hunted them down.

They continued until the sky gradually began to brighten.

Dawn replaced the darkness.

Songshan City returned to its usual hustle and bustle.

Early in the morning, the streets gradually grew lively.

The vegetable market was abuzz with the clamor of vendors’ calls and the sound of haggling, filling the streets and alleys.

The number of vehicles on the road also began to increase.

The events of last night hadn’t affected anyone.

They certainly hadn’t affected their normal lives.

Sitting in a breakfast shop, Lin Yi, Wei Nan, and the others discussed who had killed the most demon beasts while they ate.

"I killed three demon beasts yesterday!" Sun Tao said, taking a sip of millet porridge.

Wei Nan, Zhou Qi, and Shen Mengyi shot him a glance.

"You have the nerve to say three? Didn’t Wei Nan and I help you with two of them?" Zhou Qi said with a look of disdain.

Sun Tao laughed. "Doesn’t matter who helped, I got the last hit, didn’t I? Even in a video game, when you’re in a party raiding a dungeon boss, all that matters is who lands the final blow!"

"If you’re going to talk like that, how about we split up tonight and hunt on our own?" Wei Nan said with a smile.

At that, Sun Tao’s expression changed.

"Alright, alright, you win. I only killed one, okay?"

"Honestly, at our current level, if we really split up, we’d just be waiting to die!"

"Haven’t you guys noticed something?"

"The demon beasts here are nothing like the ones in Jail City!"

"In Jail City, the demon beasts are all separated by zones and cultivation levels!"

"The Demon Hunting Area we went to as freshmen was the lowest level!"

"The highest-level demon beast there was only a 3-star. But it’s different out here. Of all the demon beasts we ran into yesterday, how many were low-level?"

"Most of them were 4-star or 5-star; we barely even saw any 3-star Demon Beasts. Go solo? I’m afraid we wouldn’t be Demon Hunting—we’d be making a delivery, and we’re the meal!"

After Sun Tao finished his speech,

everyone couldn’t help but laugh.

At their current cultivation level, they were a long way from being able to fight alone.

And they were even further from being comparable to Lin Yi.

Lin Yi could kill a 5-star Demon Beast with a single punch.

But if it were them, the four of them would struggle just to hunt one 5-star Demon Beast.

Someone would probably even get injured.

As they were joking around, Lin Yi frowned and glanced at them.

"Have you guys noticed a problem?"

"Huh? What problem?"

Startled, they all turned to look at Lin Yi.

"It seems like there are more demon beasts in Songshan City than the day before yesterday."

"Wei Nan, do you remember when you were watching the news yesterday? There were only about three or four demon beasts in Songshan, five at the most."

"The day before that, there were only one or two!"

"The mutated beast Captain Chu and his team ran into, plus the bat that was killed earlier, that’s only two total!"

"But last night... we killed seven or eight demon beasts in total!"

After Lin Yi finished speaking,

the smiles on Wei Nan’s and the others’ faces gradually faded.

They exchanged a look. "You mean the number of demon beasts isn’t decreasing, it’s actually increasing?"

Lin Yi nodded. "Logically, the security in the New District should be much better than in the Old District."

"It shouldn’t be easy for demon beasts to invade the city!"

"Besides, most of the demon beasts and mutated beasts in the New District are held back outside the Restricted Area. The military is stationed there as Defenders; they shouldn’t let any demon beasts slip through easily!"

"But this time, the appearance of these demon beasts is definitely not a coincidence!"

"And the numbers are still rising..."

Lin Yi didn’t have to finish his sentence; the others all understood what he meant.

They looked at each other, and a terrible thought surfaced in all their minds.

Wei Nan lowered his voice. "You mean, at the Restricted Area Battlefield..."

Lin Yi shook his head, signaling for him to stop.

It was enough that they all understood.

If words like that got out, it would probably cause a huge panic.

Panic was like a contagion.

Once it started, it would spread rapidly.

And once a large-scale panic was created, it wouldn’t be so easy to quell.

So, they couldn’t just say things like that, especially not if it could cause a negative outcome.

Lin Yi said no more, simply lowering his head and continuing to eat his breakfast.

The others also stopped talking.

They furtively glanced at the other people around them, seeing that no one was paying them any attention.

Only then did Lin Yi, Wei Nan, and the others breathe a small sigh of relief.

However, the matter of the Restricted Area Battlefield made them feel even more certain that the problem originated there.

It was like a signal, a premonition that something big was about to happen.

After the group finished their breakfast,

they left the shop and prepared to take the subway back to the university.

After hunting demon beasts all night,

and having finished breakfast, a wave of sleepiness and exhaustion washed over them.

Right now, they wished for nothing more than to return to the university and sleep for a whole day.

But what they didn’t know was,

a video of their Demon Hunting from last night had been uploaded to the internet.

And in just a few short hours,

the number of shares, likes, comments, and its overall popularity were skyrocketing.

By a little after eight in the morning,

six of the top ten trending topics were all dominated by the video from last night.

The discussions all revolved around hashtags like #DemonHunting, #Students, and #XingwuUniversity...