Chapter 216
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Chapter 216: You’re Hired
“Later, we tried our best to track him down, but he vanished into thin air, leaving absolutely no trace,” Hongying sighed. “He’s like a ghost in this city – we can sense his presence but can never get close.”
Lin Qiye’s brows furrowed deeply.
“That’s not all. Before, he only stole the corpses of ‘Mysteries’, but last month, we found traces of a ‘Night Killer Ghost’. Just as we were about to eliminate it, we discovered… it was already dead.
Half its body was frozen solid, completely torn apart, and similarly, half of its corpse was taken away.
“From stealing ‘Mystery’ corpses to actively hunting ‘Mysteries’?”
“Exactly. If this continues, I feel like we’ll all be out of jobs,” Hongying sighed helplessly.
Wen Qimo smiled, “Look on the bright side, isn’t it good to have someone helping us share the workload?”
“But I’m just not happy about it! With no battles to fight, I can’t spend all day helping uncles and aunties solve their relationship problems, can I?” Hongying said frustratedly. “I haven’t fought for almost half a year, I’m going crazy!”
Chen Muye walked over with dishes, calmly saying:
“No matter who he is or what his purpose might be, eliminating ‘Mysteries’ is the work of us Night Watchers. What he’s doing isn’t following the rules.”
Leng Xuan’s eyes narrowed slightly, “This time… I’ll definitely catch him.”
“I can try too,” Lin Qiye spoke up.
To be honest, he was quite curious about the identity of this “Mystery Thief,” and Lin Qiye had always suspected that during New Year’s, the mysterious person who passed him information about the Scorpion mercenaries was the “Mystery Thief.”
If so, he probably didn’t have any ill intentions… he might even have goodwill toward him, otherwise he wouldn’t have risked being caught to shoot that iron arrow.
“Let’s not talk about this anymore,” Chen Muye raised his wine glass, smiling as he spoke: “To welcome Seven Night back to Squad 136, cheers!”
“Cheers!!”
…
After the food and drinks, Lin Qiye returned to his room and lay down on his bed.
Just after leaving the training camp, events started happening one after another – the Teacher entering the city, the “Mystery” with the severed finger, the elusive “Mystery Thief”…
Those simple and leisurely days at the training camp seemed like they would never return.
He slowly closed his eyes, but didn’t sleep – there was still one important thing he needed to do before that.
Inside the mental hospital.
Wearing a white coat, Lin Qiye slowly walked down the dim stairs to the damp and dark prison area.
He stopped at the door of one particular cell.
Inside this cell lay a massive ground dragon, its size had shrunk to about one-fifth of what it was in the outside world. Even so, its body still nearly filled the entire cell.
Lin Qiye raised an eyebrow as he looked at the Flame-veined Ground Dragon before him.
He hadn’t expected the cells here to have a shrinking effect. The dragon that could once block out the sky with its wings was now only the size of a room.
Initially, he had been worried that when the Flame-veined Ground Dragon arrived, it might burst the cell…
The Flame-veined Ground Dragon seemed to sense Lin Qiye’s arrival and opened its eyes, filled with wariness.
Prisoner: Flame-veined Ground Dragon
Choice: As a mythical creature killed by your own hands, you have the right to decide its soul’s fate:
Choice 1: Directly extinguish its soul, making it vanish completely from this world. Choice 2: Let its ‘fear value’ of you reach 60, and you can hire it as a hospital worker, caring for patients while providing you with some degree of protection.
(Contract detected in creature’s soul, forcibly removed)
Current Fear Value:
Lin Qiye examined the Flame-veined Dragon’s information carefully.
Honestly, the dragon’s fear value exceeded his expectations. Logically, as a powerful “Sea” realm creature, there should be very few things that could frighten it. The fact that its fear value was so high could only mean one thing…
Lin Qiye, in his form as the God of Night, had traumatized it.
The Flame-veined Ground Dragon noticed Lin Qiye’s gaze and shrank its neck, the wariness in its eyes growing stronger, along with some inner conflict.
From the moment it arrived in this cell, it knew what fate awaited it and knew its destiny lay in the hands of the man before it.
It wanted to live, but its dragon pride wouldn’t allow it to bow and scrape to survive.
It was conflicted, and so was Lin Qiye.
This ground dragon… what could it do?
“Can you cook?” Lin Qiye tentatively asked.
The dragon shook its head.
“Clean?”
The dragon shook its head.
“Maintain the yard?”
The dragon shook its head.
“Entertain old ladies? Entertain old men? Sing? Dance? Make beds…”
Lin Qiye asked a series of questions, but the dragon just blankly shook its head to all of them.
Lin Qiye grimaced, “Don’t tell me you can’t even speak?”
The dragon nodded.
Lin Qiye: …
This is a useless one, assessment complete.
But as the first “Sea” realm Mystery that Lin Qiye had brought into the mental hospital, he felt somewhat reluctant to just kill it. Not only had he not gotten its corpse as a summoning sacrifice, but if he couldn’t even effectively use its soul, wouldn’t all his abilities be wasted?
He had been thinking that when he advanced to the “River” realm or “Sea” realm, being able to summon the ground dragon would definitely be excellent support!
But… this big fellow before him seemed to have no use except as a doorkeeper.
Seeming to notice the disappointment in Lin Qiye’s eyes, the Flame-veined Ground Dragon suddenly became nervous, as if it could already foresee its fate of being directly eliminated, and deep fear appeared in its eyes.
Could it be… would it die just like this?
The conflict in the Flame-veined Ground Dragon’s eyes suddenly intensified, and after a moment, it seemed to make up its mind. Its whole body began emitting a pale red light, and its massive form started shrinking at a visible speed.
The dragon scales on its body retracted one by one, its thick dragon legs began to shrink, and its fierce and majestic head also visibly transformed into human form…
After the pale red light dissipated, the originally massive and fierce Flame-veined Ground Dragon had disappeared.
In its place was a woman in her early twenties, tall and slender, with fine white skin, fire-red hair naturally falling to her waist, and a pair of dark yellow vertical pupils indifferently observing everything before her.
In the blink of an eye, the Flame-veined Ground Dragon had transformed into a shapely, cold and elegant red-haired beauty.
The only remaining dragon features were perhaps the faintly visible dragon scales on her lower abdomen and the long, soft red dragon tail behind her.
And because it hadn’t been wearing clothes to begin with, when she transformed into human form, she was naturally completely naked.
Lin Qiye’s mouth fell open as he stared at the scene before him in shock…
He swallowed.
“You’re hired.”