Something's wrong with this demon.

"Knock knock knock!"

Zhang Jiu arrived at the door and began knocking and calling out.

His tone was full of excitement.

The urgent knocking sounded particularly jarring in the quiet backyard.

"Boss Zhang, I'm not feeling well."

Luo Qingchen looked at the door and refused.

"Are you feeling unwell?"

Zhang Jiu stopped knocking, paused, and sighed, "What a pity. I was hoping to call you to see how we killed that heart-ripping monster! We chopped off its two arms—they were women's arms! Hehe, it's not going to escape today!"

Luo Qingchen paused for a moment, then said, "Congratulations, boss."

Zhang Jiu laughed, "Brother Luo, once that beast is dead, I won't have to live in fear all the time anymore. Alright, I won't disturb your rest any longer. I need to go and call a few more men over. Tonight, we must tear that beast to pieces and slice him to pieces!"

Having said that, he quickly left.

Silence returned to the outside.

Luo Qingchen stood in the dimly lit room, her chest heaving, her body covered in sweat, and her expression subtly shifting.

But he quickly cleared his mind and continued his cultivation.

He had no time to waste.

"Whoosh!"

A single punch can weigh as much as a thousand pounds.

However, before he could finish a set of punches, his gaze involuntarily drifted to the pink purse on his clothes on the bed.

He stopped.

He stood quietly in the room for a while, then went to get dressed and went out.

I washed my face by the well in the backyard.

He looked up at the murky sky, then went inside.

It was still dark at that time.

The guests have not arrived yet.

Some of the girls were still sleeping, while others were already putting on makeup.

He went straight up to the second floor, arrived at the innermost room in the corridor, paused for a moment, and then raised his hand to knock on the door.

The knocking echoed down the quiet corridor.

But no one answered the door.

Just then, Xiaolian came up from downstairs. Seeing him, she quickly whispered, "Guard Luo, do you need to see Qingmei? She's still sleeping. No one should disturb her while she's sleeping. If you wake her up, she'll get angry. If you have something to say, Guard Luo, please come back tonight."

Luo Qingchen glanced at the door again, nodded, and walked out into the corridor.

Xiao Lian carried the tea into another room.

When Luo Qingchen reached the stairwell, she suddenly stopped.

He hesitated for a moment, then turned back to the door of the last room and placed his hand on it.

"Click!"

The latch behind the door suddenly broke.

Luo Qingchen pushed open the door and went inside.

The room was dimly lit.

A delicate, feminine fragrance wafted towards me.

Behind the innermost beaded curtain, there was a wooden bed.

The bed was covered by curtains, and the blankets on the bed could be vaguely seen bulging, as if someone was sleeping inside.

Luo Qingchen glanced at the bed for a few moments, then walked straight over.

"Ding-dong..."

The beaded curtain rustled softly and swayed gently.

Luo Qingchen entered the inner room, stopped by the bed, and then reached out and slowly parted the curtains.

...

"Selling steamed buns!"

"Sweet potatoes! Selling sweet potatoes!"

The streets are more lively in the evening than during the day.

The workers were all preparing to go home, and on the way, they bought some food on the street.

The town is not big.

Luo Qingchen quickly found out the location of the mine.

In fact, it's obvious without even asking that many people have received the news and are heading in that direction.

People were talking about it all the way.

"I heard the town guards finally caught that heart-ripping monster?"

"They haven't caught them yet, they've just surrounded them."

"But I heard that the heart-ripping monster had both its arms cut off by the town guards, and they were even women's arms!"

"A woman's arm? Is that monster a woman?"

Luo Qingchen followed a group of people and soon arrived at the location of the mine.

However, at this time, the area around the mine had already been surrounded by people from the town's garrison, and those who came to watch the excitement were not allowed to enter.

Of course, they didn't dare go inside; they just stood outside excitedly discussing it.

Luo Qingchen saw a familiar-looking guard, walked over and said, "I am a guard from Baixianglou. Boss Zhang asked me to come and help."

The guard, who had followed Zhou Qingyang to Baixianglou a few days ago and had seen him, quickly stepped aside upon hearing this, saying, "It's Guard Luo! Your leader Zhang just led his men in. You should go in now."

Thank you.

Luo Qingchen took a few steps, then turned back and asked, "What's the situation inside now?"

The guard said, "That heart-ripping monster is badly injured and trapped in the cave. The captain and the others are blowing smoke into the cave, and it's estimated that the beast won't be able to hold out for long before it comes out. However, there are too many cave exits, and we're afraid that the monster might run away, so we called you over to help."

Luo Qingchen asked again, "How do we surround it?"

The guard laughed and said, "It's all thanks to your Chief Zhang. He was carrying a protective amulet, and that monster still dared to come out and attack him. Our captain was already on high alert. That monster was already injured and probably wanted to eat your Chief Zhang to replenish its strength, but it fell into the trap and brought about its own death."

Luo Qingchen nodded and walked inside.

The mine is located in a small hill.

The mountains were barren, devoid of any vegetation, only black stones.

The entire mountain peak was pitch black.

Even the air was filled with black particles.

Luo Qingchen saw several people gathered at the entrance of a cave ahead, talking. As soon as he walked over, one of them spotted him, waved, and called out, "Brother Luo!"

This person is Zhou Yan, a guard in the building.

Zhang Jiu was naturally among them. Seeing him arrive, he asked in surprise, "Brother Luo, weren't you feeling unwell? Why are you here again?"

Luo Qingchen said, "I wanted to come and see that monster."

Zhang Jiu laughed and said, "We won't see it for now, but we'll definitely see it tonight. By the way, if Brother Luo is curious, you can go and take a look at the monster's two arms. Tsk tsk, those arms are different from the ones that attacked us that night. Brother Luo will definitely be shocked when you see them."

Luo Qingchen said, "I heard it's a woman's arm?"

Zhang Jiu laughed and said, "Come on, let me take you to see it first. It is indeed a woman's arm, but it didn't look like this when it was cut off."

The two soon arrived at a pile of black, jumbled rocks.

There were seven or eight guards nearby, keeping a close watch to prevent the monster from suddenly appearing and snatching back the arm.

The two bloody women's arms were resting on a black rock.

The cut was clean, the arm was slender, the ten fingers were pale, and the blood vessels under the skin were faintly visible, so it did look like a woman's arm.

"When we first severed these arms, they were long, large, and monstrous arms and claws shrouded in black mist. After the demonic energy dissipated, they became the arms of an ordinary woman."

Zhang Jiu explained from the side, seemingly still seething with hatred, and stepped forward to stomp on it a few more times.

Then, gritting her teeth, she sneered, "I wonder which bitch is chasing after me! Tonight I'll definitely find out who she is! I'll tear her to pieces and grind her bones to dust!"

Luo Qingchen stood to the side, quietly watching the two bloody women's arms on the stone.

His gaze followed the arm, slowly moving downwards.

Then, it landed on the woman's ten pale, bloodless fingers.

The nails on the fingers were painted.

Bright red, like blood.