Chapter: Chapter 214
When facing humans, Bai Ling really didn’t want to kill anyone if she could avoid it.
Although the malice of those people was obvious, as a protector of humanity, Bai Ling still did not wish to see them be killed by a demon.
“Your personality, tsk tsk tsk.” Leticia glanced at Bai Ling with a speechless expression. This girl’s double standards were truly laid bare.
She was so merciless when she cut down異族 (foreign races), but when facing these bad guys, she was hesitant and unwilling to deliver a killing blow. She didn’t know what to say about her.
Unlike Leticia, she never cared about a person’s race when she killed them. In her eyes, there were only two kinds of people: those who should be killed and those who shouldn’t.
Undoubtedly, the five burly men in front of her were, without a doubt, people who should be killed.
Don’t expect her to show mercy.
“Why don’t you go first? I’ll come find you after I’ve dealt with things here.” Leticia’s implication was also clear: she was going to kill these people today, and Bai Ling couldn’t stop her.
Bai Ling opened her mouth. She fell into a dilemma. These burly men deserved to die, there was no doubt about that.
Even if they were sent to the police station, they probably wouldn’t be severely punished. After all, in this place far from the city center, the power of officials was very weak.
At most, they would be detained for a while, or perhaps not even detained at all. It wouldn’t be strange if they were secretly released by insiders in the police station.
“Sigh.” Bai Ling knew that Leticia’s killing intent was already aroused at this moment. Even if Leticia gave up today under her interference, what about after they left?
Leticia had several bodyguards with her. Although these bodyguards were no match for Leticia, they could easily get rid of these five people without a trace.
The burly men, completely unaware that the scythe of death was already hanging around their necks, approached the two girls with sinister grins, spewing foul and provocative words.
Little did they know, every move they made was eroding Leticia’s patience and fueling her anger.
“I’ll count to ten. After ten, whether you’re here or not, I’ll kill them.” A cold light flashed in Leticia’s eyes. Her cute little face was frozen. Those vulgar words had completely angered her.
“One, two…”
Leticia didn’t slow down her counting. Bai Ling sighed softly. Should she stop Leticia?
Turn against her friend to protect these villains?
She couldn’t do that.
But she also couldn’t bring herself to do it. So, all she could do was avoid it.
The burly men only felt a blur before their eyes. The white-haired girl among the two disappeared, and an ominous premonition suddenly arose in their hearts.
The white-haired one was a superpowered individual.
But they were just ordinary people. A superpowered individual with such speed could definitely kill all five of them. Why did she run away instead?
“Your companion abandoned you, don’t you have anything to say?”
Abandoned? Leticia glanced at the inquiring burly man. This was Bai Ling’s concession.
At least for now, Leticia knew that in Bai Ling’s heart, her status was higher than certain clueless things.
As a demon, it was truly a happy thing to be given such status.
“Provoking discord at this time is useless. Instead of caring about useless things, you should worry about your own lives.” Leticia snapped her fingers with a flat expression. “I just heard very clearly, it seems like what you said was the most disgusting.”
“What?!” The burly man whom Leticia looked at felt his heart tighten, but before he could react, a green flame gushed from his feet, engulfing the nearly two-meter-tall man.
A person burning with green flames rolled frantically on the ground, their chilling wails echoing in the empty street. All of this was like a scene from some horror movie.
Leticia stood quietly in place, waiting for the burning man to stop struggling in a few minutes and be reduced to a wisp of green smoke by the flames.
Then, her gaze shifted to the second burly man.
Their companions were killed in such a terrifying manner, and the remaining burly men were already trembling with fear. At this moment, they knew that they were the prey, and that girl was a truly cold-blooded and ruthless hunter.
Her indifferent expression when killing told them that this girl was likely a true harbinger of death.
“Monster, monster!” A burly man with weaker mental fortitude, disregarding everything else, pushed his companions aside as if driven mad and staggered, wanting to escape this place.
But he had only taken a few steps before the green flames caught up to him, turning him into smoke in agony, just like his companion who had gone before him.
“I don’t like hearing that,” Leticia looked at the remaining three burly men. “I think you should know your situation, right?”
Fleeing meant death. The faces of the remaining three burly men were ashen. They had provoked such a person, and their death omens were truly flashing.
“What do you want to do by kidnapping people? If you satisfy my curiosity, perhaps I’ll spare your lives.” Leticia waved her finger, and a burnt hole appeared in the large bag that the burly men had tossed aside.
Looking through the opening, Leticia saw a昏迷 (unconscious) girl.
The girl should be a traveler. She was quite pretty. She didn’t know why she had fallen into the hands of these burly men.
“We… wanted to have some fun…” One of the burly men mustered up his courage and replied.
The next moment, he was engulfed by flames and followed in the footsteps of his two companions.
“Before answering questions, ask yourselves if this answer can satisfy me.” Leticia didn’t even bother to look at that burly man. Did he think he was an idiot? She wouldn’t believe such nonsense.
In less than a few minutes, three companions had already died at the hands of this black-haired girl. The remaining two burly men were terrified out of their wits.
Their courage was not as great as their physical appearance suggested. To put it more aptly, their courage when facing someone stronger than them was probably smaller than that of a rabbit.
“Is no one answering?” Leticia raised her voice slightly.
The two burly men exchanged glances, seeing only sheer terror in each other’s eyes.
If they spoke, they would be killed by their boss later. If they didn’t speak, they would be killed now.
They were already dead.
“I won’t say it!” One burly man said resolutely.
“Good, you have backbone.”
The flames engulfed another life.
“And you, do you want to learn from your companions?” Leticia extended a slender finger, and a small green flame danced on her fingertip like a butterfly.
“Think carefully. If you tell me the whole story now, no one else will know what you’ve done. You can go back and make up any excuse, because dead people can’t refute you.”
Leticia’s words made the last remaining burly man waver. Who would want to die if they could live?
He was just taking money to do a job. Was it worth losing his life for something like this?
In a moment of resolve, he steeled himself and told her everything he knew.
It turned out that the five of them belonged to an underground organization in a coastal city. This organization was similar to a mercenary guild in novels, where people would often post missions, and the organization would assign missions to its members and distribute rewards.
Missions couldn’t be refused, but the organization wouldn’t assign impossible missions to its members. As for the rewards, the organization would definitely deduct a lot, but they didn’t know exactly how much.
The mission these five burly men received was to kidnap young girls from outside the city as discreetly as possible without alerting official forces, and then dump them in an alley in a certain block.
The employer would send people to pick up these ‘goods’.
“This is my first time doing this, please, miss, spare me.” The burly man knelt on the ground, wailing with tears and snot.
Judging by his demeanor, what he said was probably true.
“But missing persons cases have happened before. Could it be that your organization kidnaps one girl in exchange for a group of people?” Leticia continued to ask.
“No, no, it’s precisely because the previous incident left a trace that this mission has fallen upon us.” The burly man quickly shook his head.
As for the people who carried out the mission last time, they hadn’t been seen for a long time.
They were probably silenced permanently.
“Forget it, anyway, I’m not going to be a world-saving hero.” Leticcia yawned and waved at the burly man. “Scram, I don’t want to see you again.”
“Thank you, miss, thank you, miss!” The burly man scrambled and ran back the way he came.
Leticia didn’t pay attention to him anymore. She turned her gaze to another place, where a pair of bright black eyes were watching them.
“Come out, your half-baked peeping skills can’t hide from me.”
Hearing Leticia’s words, the girl who had been rolling on the ground moments ago walked out of the alley with trembling legs.
She had witnessed almost the entire process of Leticia eliminating the four burly men. At this moment, she was secretly rejoicing that she hadn’t caused too much trouble, thus saving her life from this black-haired demon queen.
“Um, are you really going to let that person go?” The girl didn’t know what to say, so she could only pick a less awkward topic.
Leticia gave the girl a meaningful look. “Of course not.”
It was just not her who would be doing the action.
Following her voice, a dark figure swept away the burly man who had already run far away.
Bodyguards, isn’t that what they do?
A few seconds later, Akari, dressed in night garb, appeared from the shadows. “Miss, it’s handled.”
This startled the girl. “Oh my god!”
Akari glanced at the girl and asked Leticia, “This one, should we deal with her?”
If Leticia hadn’t come after her herself, Akari would have sent a dark guard to take the girl’s life. How could someone dare to steal the Demon King’s possessions without paying a bloody price?
However, since Leticia had already punished the girl herself, and the Demon King lord didn’t seem to want to pursue the matter further, but this girl had seen Leticia commit the act of violence firsthand, this made Akari somewhat troubled.
Should she silence her? Or silence her?
Ahem, Akari was mainly worried that if she took the initiative to silence the young girl, Leticia would be unhappy, so she asked Leticia at this time how to deal with this girl.
Seeing the girl on the verge of fainting from Akari’s words, Leticia chuckled. “Forget it, I’m not a bloodthirsty person.”
She reached out and patted the girl’s head. “Take the girl in that black bag back, and don’t tell anyone about what happened here today.”
Hearing that she wouldn’t die, the girl’s eyes lit up. At this moment, she disregarded the pain in her body and immediately hobbled towards the large bag with the unconscious girl, digging the girl out of the bag.
Watching the small girl carrying a girl who was larger than her leave slowly, Leticia asked Akari with a bit of helplessness, “Am I that scary? The girl’s eyes just now made me feel a little hurt.”
Akari’s eyes twitched. “Your Majesty just now had the demeanor of a proper Demon King worthy of the title.”
Oh, so that meant she was indeed a bit scary.
Oh well, scary is scary, since she was a Demon King in the first place, she should be scary.
And today, she only personally annihilated four people. In the past, Leticia’s words alone would cause hundreds of heads to roll. That was when she was truly terrifying.
Without lingering in this place, Leticia flew directly towards the hotel.
Back in the room, upon entering the lobby, Leticia saw Bai Ling sitting on the sofa with her eyes closed and resting.
Miss Bai heard the sound of the door opening and looked up at Leticia. “Is… everything resolved?”
“It’s resolved, and it’s resolved cleanly.” Leticia didn’t want to lie to Bai Ling and say she let those people go. “You know, there’s no need to protect these people, understand?”
“I know.” Bai Ling lowered her head. “It’s just… I still feel a bit uncomfortable.”
Between these five evil men and Leticia, she chose Leticia. This itself was not something that would cause controversy.
Anyone else would have made the same choice as Bai Ling.
Her best friend versus five strangers filled with malice. As long as a person with a normal mind made a decision, they wouldn’t have any other choice.
“You really consider those people your protection targets? If you ask me, you should have killed all of them to protect more people.” Leticia walked to Bai Ling’s side and patted the white-haired girl’s head. “Why don’t we go and check if there’s anything wrong with your head?”
“Don’t mess around, I’m considering the matter very seriously.” Bai Ling seriously batted away Leticia’s hand.
“Alright, then I’ll go take a bath first. Little Bai Bai, you stay here and keep thinking.”
