However, they did not expect that the woman with Baili Shangxie in her arms suddenly seemed possessed when they entered the room. A cloud of dark mist shrouded her face, and seemed to seep into her body, little by little.
"Ah! " The excruciating pain caused the woman to throw Baili Shangxie away immediately.
Her eyes were fixed on the child, as if she had something to say, but it was too late. The dark mist had penetrated her eyes and s.u.c.k.e.d the life out of her completely.
There were hardly any warning signs before her death. In a mere second, she had collapsed onto the ground, stiff and lifeless!
Baili Shangxie was standing right in front of her. His black, short hair was still sticking up as he had just woken up and his expression was extremely cool. L.i.c.k.i.n.g his thin lips in a cruel and bloodthirsty manner, he smirked evilly as though unsatisfied with the taste of something.
The woman's shrieks caught everyone's attention, which was why the human traffickers failed to notice Baili Shangxie's abnormality.
On the other hand, Little Qingchen was awakened by the noise. As he raised his small hands to rub his large eyes, he turned his head to look at Baili Shangxie, who was a child as well. His eyebrow furrowed, as he finally understood Baili Shangxie's true identity. He was a soul-devouring demon.
However, he had never seen a demon of his age before.
The demons would not usually show itself under normal circ.u.mstances.
Over the years, they had perfectly blended into human life and settled well, just like the Blood Tribe.
In fact, they lived more extravagantly and lavishly than humans, as most of them were from the noble families of various countries. The more elegant they were, the more it would conform to their nobility.
Aesthetics was said to be the only thing that the demons would pursue in life.
Even when they ate, they would have a smile on their face, decorous and mannerly without the slightest rudeness.
Baili Shangxie in front of him was the same as well. This made Little Qingchen feel extremely curious and really wanted to bring him home to raise.
However, he was not sure if Beauty Wei Wei would agree to let him keep a little demon around.
She would allow me, right?
He stretched out his small hand and grabbed Baili Shangxie's wrist and shook his head twice, it was a rather cute expression.
Baili Shangxie was not full yet, but after seeing his self-proclaimed little sidekick awake, he took a moment to show his concern and said, "Where did you buy the chocolate cake that you're eating?"
It seemed that his concern was for the chocolate cake, instead of his little sidekick.
The mention of the chocolate cake had strengthened Little Qingchen's decision of not letting these human traffickers be killed completely. In spite of that, it did not affect his conversation with the little demon, who looked slightly older than him. He replied, "I didn't buy it. My mother made it for me."
"Oh." Baili Shangxie had lived in the modern era for quite some time, but he had never felt the urge to look for his mother, until now. This feeling became even more intense, especially when Little Qingchen said that his mother made the chocolate cake for him. The little demon seemed slightly lonely when he heard the response.
Of course, Baili Shangxie's way of expressing his loneliness was very different. As he raised his eyelids and squinted his big, crimson eyes, he walked toward another man. It appeared that he was about to have his next meal.
Like a flash, Little Qingchen swiftly blocked in front of him. His expression was lovely, as he whispered in his ears, "We must keep them, so that their leaders can be wiped out too."
As soon as Little Qingchen reminded him, Baili Shangxie recalled the piece of chocolate cake that he did not manage to grab. His eyes instantly filled with malice and his voice was cool, as he uttered, "I see." He would keep them alive indeed, but not for long definitely.
Under such circ.u.mstances, the human traffickers were too exhausted to bother what the two little ones were talking about.
The scene just now was beyond their common knowledge and understanding.
The muscular man reached out his shaky hand, to check whether the woman on the ground was still breathing.
Another woman immediately pulled his hand back and whispered angrily, "Don't touch her! It's not clean! It must be something dirty in this inn! It must be!"
Her voice was hoarse as she spoke. This was the sign of a certain level of fear, as a normal person would not behave like this.
The man in blue had cold sweat on his forehead, but he was obviously different from the two human traffickers since he was professionally trained. He growled quietly at them, "Calm down!"
Someone next door was knocking on the wall, probably because they were too noisy. They had never encountered any of these situations in their previous tasks.
The sudden death of someone in the middle of the task could be very troubling for them.
As the man thought about it, he extended his hand and massaged his eyebrows. It seemed that he was having a terrible headache.
The woman was still trembling and wanted to leave the place desperately. She kept on thinking that there were some evil spirits in this inn, thus she did not relate the gruesome murder to the children.
However, the man set his probing eyes on Baili Shangxie and Helian Qingchen, whispering, "Why are these two kids so well behaved?"
He had trafficked a lot of children recently, and almost every child would cry desperately when they woke up the first time, without being quiet for a moment.
Children in this situation were most likely to trigger others' suspicion. That was the reason they took a rest at the inn before resuming their journey, instead of boarding the train.
The children would be hungry and exhausted after crying for some time, and would settle down then.
This was a common method used by human traffickers.
He had already prepared a cotton cloth to gag them. After all, the scene at the kindergarten made him feel rather uneasy.
To his surprise, they turned out to be the quietest. Looking carefully at those little faces, they seemed inexplicably pale.
"They must have been frightened." The woman was babbling with a quivering voice, "Children are psychic and they can see supernatural things that other people can't. Something's wrong with this inn, it must be!"
The man simply sneered, "So what even if there are supernatural things? Don't forget who's the one behind us. I've told you guys previously that the transaction this time is a huge one. The master will do it himself, so why should you guys be afraid of ghosts! It's nothing but some evil aura. When we meet the master, everything will be fine. It's good to have some ghosts around too, at least they can keep the kids quiet."
The woman did not expect her companion to have such guts. She opened her mouth and wanted to say something.
The man waved and said, "Enough, stop screaming now. Just drag the person on the floor and hide her under the bed. Let's get prepared before we leave. We still have four hours to go before the check-out. Four hours later, someone will come and knock on the door. The inn will not find out anything for the time being, but we can't continue staying here anymore. So, let's just follow our original plan. You and Xiao Wang will be on the same line, and I will be on another line alone. We will send these two goods away separately."
As soon as Baili Shangxie heard that he would be separated from the sidekick whom he wanted to keep, his crimson eyes turned menacingly cold.
To Baili Shangxie, Little Qingchen was his countless pieces of chocolate cakes.
That person had already knocked out half of his chocolate cake. Now, he even dared to steal all his future chocolate cakes from him.
Baili Shangxie sneered in his heart, and the lamp above him seemed to have sensed something, as it started to make a buzzing static sound.
The woman and the muscular man were already uneasy, so their eyes widened in horror when they witnesse
d what was happening.
However, the whole room was suddenly plunged into utter darkness before they could even let out a scream.
For a moment, the woman felt a gush of cold wind sweeping past her, but she could not see anything at all in the total darkness.
She slumped to the floor and her voice was cracking in fear as she yelled, "Haunted, it is really haunted!"
"Nonsense! The circuit breaker has tripped!" The man in blue reacted quickly by taking his mobile phone and shone it to the side. Then, he restored the power by pushing the switch up.
The woman heaved a sigh of relief. Just as she was about to stand up, she saw the muscular man beside her lying stiffly on the ground. He looked exactly the same as the woman who died after they entered the room.
She reached out and grabbed the man's sleeve as she could no longer contain her fear anymore, frantically saying, "We can't stay here anymore. We must go! Let's bring the kids and leave this place immediately. Why don't we just take the same train since we are heading to the same destination? No matter what, we must get out of here! If you want to stay, suit yourself, but I'm leaving anyway!"
"Take it easy!" The man said so, but his back was completely drenched in sweat. The inn was extremely bizarre, and they had to disguise themselves as a couple to avoid any trouble. Leaving together would be the best since the woman did not have much trafficking experience. Having that in mind, he shoved the muscular man underneath the bed and anxiously said, "Let's take the same train. Each of us takes one child. Come, let's go now!"
The woman, of course, could not wait to check out immediately. Without saying a word, she bent down and held Little Qingchen.
Little Qingchen was very cooperative though and merely peered at Baili Shangxie in the man's arm, the idea of raising a little demon intensifying in his mind. Involuntarily, he extended his little hand and patted Baili Shangxie's head…
Chapter 899 - 895
Baili Shangxie's short hair was spiky and bristly.
He had never been patted on his head before. As he raised his eyes to glance at Little Qingchen, he licked his thin lips, as if he had just eaten something.
However, such little food was barely enough for him.
Luckily, he was not in a hurry to kill.
The demons enjoyed watching the intense fear of human beings on the brink of death, rather than taking their lives directly.
This was what Baili Shangxie was doing now, as he watched the woman's trembling back. He found the scene extremely amusing.
Nevertheless, he was still very hungry…
Feeling a shiver creeping up her back, the woman turned her head around, only to find nothing.
The man in blue was making a phone call. It appeared that the phone line was being transferred, before he finally reached the person he was looking for.
As soon as the call had been put through, he immediately lowered his voice and hurriedly said, "Master, we seem to have encountered some dirty things. Two people had inexplicably died."
"Dirty things?" The person on the other end squinted his eyes, he was somehow unconcerned as he replied, "We shall talk about it when you guys come back. How about the goods? Are they still okay?"
The man seemed to show great deference to the master and replied respectfully, "The goods are fine, I'm just afraid that the inn may find out something by then."
"It's just an inn. Just make sure you hide the corpse well. It should go undiscovered for about 10 days to half a month. So, don't worry, since the inn neither has any surveillance cameras, nor does it require any registration of identity card. You won't get into trouble even if they found someone dead. What's more important is to guard the goods and send them here as soon as possible. If you encounter any strange thing again, just stick the Chinese talisman that I gave to you. It can ward off evil spirits."
The man's eyes lit up when he heard the reply. After he hung up the phone, he asked the woman to take out the Chinese talisman from his backpack.
The woman's hands, which were still holding Little Qingchen, relaxed a lot when she saw the Chinese talisman. A smile worked its way across her face as she professed, "With the master's Chinese talisman, any evil spirit will simply be hurling themselves into the trap if they come!"
Little Qingchen took a glance at the Chinese talisman and silently patted Baili Shangxie's head.
Baili Shangxie found it hard to stop Little Qingchen due to his direction. While keeping a straight face, he was thinking of making Little Qingchen pay him a piece of chocolate cake for each pat. After all, he could not just let anyone touch him for nothing.
The train station was not that crowded at night. Furthermore, this was a small city, thus the number of people entering the station was relatively small.
The two human traffickers were so busy that they had not eaten anything yet, not to mention that someone had died at the inn. No matter how cold-blooded they were, their mood was still somewhat affected. Being bone-tired, they wanted nothing but some hot soup to warm them up.
So, the woman stayed to watch the two kids, while the man took the wallet to buy two bowls of instant noodles to eat.
The woman was completely drained, both physically and mentally. She would most probably have broken down, if it was not for the Chinese talisman.
The place that sold the instant noodles was right inside the waiting hall, but the place to get boiling water was slightly far away.
Hence, the man asked the woman to drug the two little ones. It was not necessary to put them into sleep, making them listless like now was more than enough.
The woman responded, but she did not take any action. As she watched the back of the leaving man, she rubbed her face with her hands.
They had trafficked so many kids before, but they had never been in such a mess as now.
This woman was illiterate and in fact, she had children too. Nevertheless, being blinded by greed, she only cared about her own children. She knew well that child trafficking could bring easy money and she never felt guilty, despite doing all sorts of heartless things. Why should she ever bother about others, as long as she could have a good life?
She had also been interrogated by the police before, but that was not a big deal. As a human trafficker, they knew how inefficient the police would be. Everything would be fine, as long as she swore blind that she did not do it.
She did not think that she was guilty, nor did she think that the dirty things in the inn were their karma. She simply felt that they were out of luck and entered an inn which they should not enter.
As for these two children, one of them happened to have a pair of red eyes. This made it rather difficult for them to take action.
Some human traffickers would secretly vent their frustration and anger on the kids after they kidnapped them.
That woman was one of them. She reached out her hand with the intention to give Little Qingchen a good smack. After all, people would merely assume that she was disciplining a disobedient child if the child started crying.
The two little ones were looking curiously at the ongoings in the train station, with their heads leaning together. Little Qingchen was hungry and his stomach was growling, but he did not expect the woman to suddenly hit him.
However, before her slap fell on his back, a tiny wrist abruptly pulled her hand away. Those fingers were as fair and beautiful as his father's.
"I was thinking of playing with you for a little longer, but you humans are so foolish! Not only that you have a death wish, but you also touch my chocolate cake again and again!"
Little Qingchen who was addressed as a chocolate cake was utterly speechless…
"Even if you are dead, we still have someone else to take us there." With this in mind, Baili Shangxie shedded his disguise as his eyes shone with a demonic light that uniquely belonged to a demon.
When the scene unfolded upon her, the woman's eyes were wide open in utter hopelessness.
For the first time, she was overwhelmed with intense regret
. She wanted to scream, but her voice was trapped, as if something was stuck at the back of her throat.
Sharp tingles raced along her scalp when she saw the bloodthirsty, evil smile on that handsome face.
What the hell did we just kidnap!
The woman hardly had time to move and she could not even fling the porcelain-fair hand away, before a dark mist swiftly shrouded her from head to toe.
The pain was so excruciating, it etched into her soul.
With her mouth agape, she fell f.o.r.c.i.b.l.y back into her seat instantly, with her neck hung stiffly as if she had fallen asleep.
However, Little Qingchen knew that she was not asleep. Instead, her soul had been swallowed by Baili Shangxie.
Speaking of this, he seems to be able to eat a lot.
Little Qingchen turned his head and threw Baili Shangxie a glance.
L.i.c.k.i.n.g his thin lips, Baili Shangxie's voice was cool as he asked, "What are you looking at?"
"Eating too much is bad for your digestion." Little Qingchen was rubbing his stomach as he talked. Then, he lifted his head and looked at Baili Shangxie, saying, "I'm hungry too."
Baili Shangxie had no experience in taking care of human beings. He simply jumped off the seat coolly and opened the small bag that the woman carried with her. Taking out all the available cash, he then said in a domineering manner, "Let's get you some food once we board the train."
"Okay." Qingchen nodded. He thought for a second and added, "By the way, I'm not chocolate cake."
Baili Shangxie retorted seriously, "You are. Other people are all ham, you are chocolate cake, and you even have a milky smell on you. I can smell it. Don't underestimate the demon's sense of smell."
Deep down, Little Qingchen thought to himself… Beauty Wei Wei, the little demon is a glutton. What should I do?
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