novellhall Chapter 27 Can a monster tell you what it wants?
Chapter 27 Can a monster tell you what it wants?
"I'm so sorry, this guy is under too much academic pressure and his mental state isn't quite right." In the office, Qi Fei pressed Shi Yan's head down, and together they bowed and apologized to the angry middle-aged man. "Please forgive him, considering he grew up without parents, was expelled from school for self-harm due to depression, and now can only make a living by doing vulgar live streams with me. Of course, I'll deduct your medical expenses from his salary, and he won't be eating meat for the next three months."
The middle-aged man, who had originally come to demand an explanation, quickly lost his anger after hearing these words. He waved his hands repeatedly, saying, "No, no, no, there's no need to go to such lengths. This kid isn't very strong; he didn't hurt me at all. Don't be too harsh on him."
"No, no, no, we have to teach him a lesson! How about this, you punch him too, I promise he won't fight back!"
"No, no, no, there's really no need for that. He's just a child."
"A child? To be honest, he turned 18 two months ago! He's old enough to be criminally responsible! Here's what we'll do: I'll take him to the police station right now and lock him up for ten days or two weeks..."
"Are you deaf?!" The middle-aged man suddenly stood up. "I said it's nothing, and I mean it. I said I wouldn't hold it against you, and I mean it."
After saying that, he strode away, but stopped before leaving the house, turned back and gave Shi Yan a deep look, his eyes full of encouragement.
"Young man, life is long, please don't give up on treatment!"
Shi Yan: "..."
After the middle-aged man left, Qi Fei immediately wiped non-existent sweat from his forehead, looking very relieved: "That was close. If I hadn't come up with a quick thinking, things would have been much worse. I should learn from that."
I really don't want to learn this technique...
Shi Yan sighed, then turned to Gao Ping and apologized, "I'm sorry, Deputy Director Gao, I've caused you trouble."
"Hey, it's nothing, just a little misunderstanding." Gao Ping waved his hand. "You don't need to worry too much. After this is all over, I'll have Lao Ding go to the hospital for a checkup as soon as possible. You don't need to worry about him getting hurt. And compared to that..."
Gao Ping's expression gradually turned serious.
"You really see demonic energy on all of us, including me?"
"Yes." Shi Yan looked at Gao Ping's face and said honestly, "In my eyes, even the breath you exhale is demonic."
Gao Ping's face turned pale, and he was so frightened that he dared not breathe.
"Stop saying such scary things." Qi Fei patted Shi Yan's head again, then looked at Gao Ping and comforted him, "Don't worry about it, it's not that serious."
Gao Ping, as if grasping at a straw, asked, "You mean, everything Shi Yan saw was fake?"
"Oh no, that's probably true," Qi Fei said. "Although I can't see it, I can smell it. You do indeed have a rotten, demonic stench."
Gao Ping: "..."
"But there's really no need to worry too much. After all, you've been with that monster for so many days, it's perfectly normal for you to have absorbed its aura." Qi Fei then looked at Shi Yan, "As for you, I didn't expect you to master the method of resonating with demonic power so quickly. I should have given you a heads-up."
"Demon power resonance?"
"Hmm," Qi Fei explained, "It's about resonating with the power you extracted from the demon, achieving a limited degree of 'demonic transformation,' and thus seeing demonic energy. Since this isn't a method used by us sword wielders, it's not easy for me to teach you, so I can only let you figure it out yourself. I didn't expect you to have such good comprehension."
"How did the swordsman sense the demonic power?"
"Is that even a question?"
Qi Fei pointed to Tang Shi, who was standing to the side. Tang Shi then tapped the black box he carried with him twice in response.
No wonder they're called Swordholders.
But this also made Shi Yan understand why Qi Fei was unwilling to tell him even the method of resonating with demonic power.
It wasn't that they were riddle-solving people, but rather that they didn't know either. As the saying goes, "a trade is like a mountain," and Shi Yan felt like a civil engineering student who had mistakenly entered the humanities. He was surrounded by senior students who were well-read and elegant, while he was as dark-skinned as if he had just come back from mining coal.
You have to figure everything out for yourself.
But this isn't necessarily a bad thing. The less they know about Shi Yan, the more likely Shi Yan is to keep his secrets. If it were really at Zhaitingliao, it might have been exposed on the very first day.
Getting back to the main point, Shi Yan had genuinely thought that there were no living people left in the museum, only monsters, which really scared him.
"What are you thinking? If there really were that many monsters, we wouldn't have entrusted this to you." Qi Fei shrugged. "Even I couldn't handle it. So many monsters gathered in one place can only mean one thing—a monster of the Melting-level or higher has appeared here. In that case, for the Sword-Holding Bureau, this is no ordinary event; we need to take decisive action."
"What kind of powerful punch?"
"Summon all the sword-wielders we can, with Si Ming leading the team, to subdue this monster. But such an event is rare, and it's not something you should be concerned about right now," Qi Fei said. "You should think about how to find the monster we're dealing with now."
Hearing Qi Fei say that, Shi Yan's head started to ache again.
I thought seeing the demonic aura would be enough, but when I opened my view, the demonic aura swirling around the entire venue was comparable to that of an opium den during the Republic of China era.
In this situation, let alone finding the monster, Shi Yan himself wouldn't be able to hold on for that long.
Yes, although the "scarlet" already belongs to him, it is still the power of a demon. Shi Yan's human body simply cannot resonate with the power of a demon for a long time. According to Qi Fei, this resonance can only last for a maximum of ten minutes. Once this time is exceeded, Shi Yan's body will be tainted by demonic energy.
However, in just ten minutes, it would be virtually impossible to find and defeat the monster in such a large venue.
"You find it difficult, right?" Qi Fei patted Shi Yan's shoulder lightly. "But for us demon hunters, this is the norm. We are not demons, so we can't use demonic power recklessly. In most cases, we also have to consider the obstacles from the real world. But that doesn't mean there's really no way out. You have to learn to listen to the voices of demons."
Shi Yan was somewhat surprised: "Listen to the voice of a monster?"
"Yes." Qi Fei nodded slightly. "But I'm not talking about the specific sound, but its actions, its characteristics. Most monsters don't have reason or consciousness, but they act according to certain instincts. Like now, why does it keep transforming into other people, and why does it just linger in this arena and refuse to leave? Figure this out, and then take targeted action. This is the 'listening' in 'observation, listening, questioning, and palpation'."
Qi Fei's words suddenly enlightened Shi Yan, who murmured, "Studying the characteristics of monsters can actually be done like this?"
"Of course." Qi Fei shrugged. "What else did you think it was? You really want to listen to what a monster says? Don't be ridiculous. Even if there really were talking monsters, do you think they would tell you what they want?"
Uh……
"When are you going to stop dawdling here?" Crimson grumbled impatiently in his mind. "The deal's done, where's the Phoenix Clan? Give it to me now!"
...It seems like it really does.