Survivors

Hmm?

On the roof of the car, Su Mian looked around and frowned slightly.

Before stepping into the commercial street, she had clearly sensed quite a few things hiding here. Although most of the auras were not strong and could even be described as weak, even a mosquito leg is still meat, no matter how small.

Yet now that she had actually charged in, she found the place incredibly quiet.

What was going on?

Was her perception wrong, or…

While she was thinking, the girl inadvertently noticed the crimson aura surrounding her. It had become incomparably excited after eating the Hate Demon. She understood instantly and wore an expression of speechless realization.

This crimson light was so intense it nearly dyed the surroundings red, and the aura of desire was so reckless it had almost turned into a storm. Right now, she was basically a giant human-shaped lightbulb!

It was far too high-profile.

It would be a miracle if the hidden unknown entities nearby didn’t run away after seeing this!

After realizing the problem, Su Mian naturally did not hesitate. She quickly attempted to retract the crimson aura around her.

Although the fully activated crimson energy was unwilling to settle down, it wasn’t entirely mindless. Once it realized its own power would scare away the prey, it became quite cooperative.

This time, without needing the Succubus’s help, Su Mian quickly reabsorbed the crimson light back into her body. Even that intense desire of Gluttony was temporarily suppressed by her.

“This should be fine…”

After a detailed check to confirm nothing was missed, the girl crouched back on the roof. Her crimson eyes scanned the surroundings, quietly waiting for prey to arrive.

However, she didn’t know if the previous aura had been too terrifying and scared away all the anomalies nearby, but for a good while after, not a single demon or anything else came looking for them.

This made Su Mian a bit irritable, and the suppressed crimson light began to stir restlessly inside her body.

At the same time, although the people inside the car didn’t clearly know what was happening outside, the more sensitive ones like Jiang Xun vaguely sensed that the surroundings were a bit too peaceful.

Due to professional habit, this peace didn’t make them relax; instead, it made them increasingly vigilant.

Trouble was the norm; often, the quieter it was, the more abnormal the situation!

In the slightly tense and apprehensive atmosphere, Jiang Xun gave the others a look while pulling out his handgun loaded with special bullets.

The car continued forward along the mutated road. It was evident that the closer they got to the core area where the crimson light pillars were located, the more distorted the environment became.

Right at that moment…

“Help! Help us! Save us!!!”

A sudden cry for help caught everyone’s attention. Instinctively following the sound, they saw an ATM booth of a small bank by the roadside, and two people actually ran out from inside.

Leading them was a woman who looked to be under thirty, with a soft, beautiful face and exquisite makeup. She was dressed very fashionably and carried a designer bag, giving off a very wealthy vibe at first glance.

Her other hand was pulling a small girl who looked to be about five or six years old. The child’s shoulder-length hair was also neatly groomed, and her little dress was clearly custom-made.

The adult and child both gave off a high-society feeling. However, beneath the exquisite appearance was an uncontrollable panic—or rather, terror.

The woman had clearly been crying, as the makeup around her eyes was a bit smudged. Additionally, she had somehow lost her high heels and was barefoot.

Seeing them shouting and running toward the car, Jiang Xun told Old He to stop. He then opened the window—and aimed his handgun at them.

The black muzzle was more persuasive than anything else. The woman, who had been overjoyed a second ago because the car stopped, froze in place with a face full of terror in the next.

She seemed to want to turn and run, but then realized she couldn’t outrun a bullet. She could only raise her hands tremblingly and say in a voice filled with tears:

“D-Don’t shoot! I just want to understand the situation! I came out to withdraw money, and then everything around me suddenly turned into this…”

“It’s become so scary here and there are monsters catching people. I didn’t know what to do, I only saw your car… anyway, please don’t shoot! And save us! Oh right, money… we can give all our money to you!”

The woman was shivering, but she seemed to have maintained some rationality, at least making her words clear. She immediately opened her small bag, took out a stack of cash and several strings of jewelry, and tried to use them as a bribe.

As for the little girl, she kept hiding behind the woman, her large teary eyes looking at the group with confusion and terror.

But the members of the Administration inside the car were completely unmoved. Jiang Xun’s cold gaze landed on the two of them.

As mentioned before, the influence of the force field made this Influence Realm very chaotic and unstable, which caused existences from both worlds to easily wander in by mistake.

So, besides demons, there were definitely ordinary people from the real world dragged here, and the number was likely not small!

Normally, as members of an official organization, Jiang Xun and the others would certainly not sit idly by after encountering these innocent victims.

While it was impossible to take them deep into the zone, it would be no problem to help find a relatively safe place and do what they could.

Normally, that was the case.

The prerequisite was that they had to first ensure the person opposite was human!

In this extremely dangerous environment, one must be careful at all times, otherwise, it could easily bring big trouble to oneself and others. This was the experience summarized by generations of the Administration, and it was a lesson learned in blood.

So even though Jiang Xun had Old He stop, he didn’t approach immediately. At the same time, he used the gun to force the other side to halt. His eyes carefully observed the pair, trying to detect any hint of something wrong.

If the other party showed any abnormality, he would not hesitate to shoot.

As for the others, they were naturally not idle. Zhi Yuan and Zhen Zhu had gotten out of the car at some unknown point. They circled to the other side, both to avoid being wiped out in one go if something happened while standing together, and to ensure they could better observe the environment to act.

Under the many gazes, cold sweat broke out on the woman’s forehead. She vaguely sensed that the people in this car were not ordinary, but in this situation, she didn’t know what else to say.

Time passed second by second.

After a full ten seconds, Jiang Xun finally withdrew his gaze. He didn’t see anything wrong; this woman and the child behind her truly seemed to be ordinary people caught in the crossfire.

Thus, the young man lowered his gun.

This allowed the woman not far away to immediately heave a sigh of relief, but just at that moment…

“How do you feel?”

As Jiang Xun got out of the car, he suddenly looked up and asked the girl crouching on the roof. Su Mian was awkwardly pressing down her skirt to avoid an accidental exposure due to the viewing angle, while looking at the two people who were presumably mother and daughter or sisters. After a slight silence, she shook her head.

“There is nothing wrong, they are both human…”

Hearing this, the dispersed Administration members relaxed slightly. They didn’t want to deal with trouble either; if the other side was truly human, it was a win-win for everyone.

However, in the next moment, just as Zhen Zhu was about to approach and see if they were injured, they suddenly heard the Miss Demon on the roof continue:

“But inside that little girl’s body, there seems to be a non-human fellow hiding.”