Chapter 277 Professional

Lili's "woof" wasn't exactly quiet, and it echoed especially clearly on the silent street, but Hao Ren wasn't worried that it would give them away: the husky girl's bark was just too professional. If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, who would've thought it came from a girl?

A dark, scruffy mongrel ran out from the corner of the street not far away. It was probably the "scout" that Lili had set up, but the unimpressive stray just looked at Lili's direction with a puzzled expression, then started searching around: Vivian's shadowy mist was interfering with the dog's senses, and it didn't realize that its boss was standing right in front of it.

Seeing this, Vivian opened a slight crack in the mist, aimed directly at the direction of the Chinese rural dog. The latter immediately looked over in surprise, clearly startled at first, but after seeing Lili, it quickly ran over, wagging its tail, nodding its head, and acting the part of a standard sycophant. Hao Ren realized that this dog seemed to have something wrong with its hind legs, as it ran slightly unbalanced, and then recognized it as one of Lili's top ministers: Ludou (Green Bean), though we should now call him Officer Ludou. Speaking of which, this dog looked even dirtier than it had a couple of days ago. It really couldn't break its habit of rolling around in coal piles. Its hind legs had been injured from falling off a coal pile years ago. It had absolutely no memory.

Lili crouched down and quietly communicated with Ludou. After a moment, she stood up and said, "That demon hunter is still alone. He's been wandering around here. There don't seem to be any accomplices nearby. He should be in the alley ahead now. Let's follow him carefully."

With that, Lili had Ludou lead the way, and the group tried to run silently toward a narrow alley at the end of the street.

Hao Ren was a little worried that so many people would startle their target. It wasn't that he doubted Vivian's shadowy powers, but his previous encounters with demon hunters had left him with lingering fear. Those extremists' abilities were too bizarre, and in some ways, it was like they were cheating: their weapons had infinite ammo, they came with full-screen teleportation, they were physically tough, extremely difficult to kill, and even resistant to curses and toxins from high-level werewolves and vampires. It could be said that they were just mysterious creatures wearing human skin. However, Vivian didn't seem too worried about this. She had been dealing with demon hunters for many years and knew where those hunters were weak: their perception was slightly weaker than that of the shapeshifters. This was the only place that they could show some humanity.

Vampires were the favored children of the night, and it was Vivian's home field advantage. In the dark night, she was confident that she could use her skillful shadow techniques to ambush most demon hunters, as long as they weren't as strong as that freak who stewed Fenrir back then.

There were many narrow alleys on both sides of this old street, and most of them were no longer inhabited. Ludou led the group to the mouth of one of these alleys. It scratched at the dirt with its paws, and dug out a runic card from under a large rock. It had clearly just been buried there.

Lili patted Ludou on the head in satisfaction and let it leave. The next things were not something a stray dog could participate in.

Under the cover of the shadowy mist, Hao Ren and Vivian took the lead, with the others following behind. The group cautiously slipped into the alley, and before long, they saw a tall figure in a long black trench coat not far ahead. The outfit was unmistakably that of a demon hunter.

The other person was facing away from the alley entrance, squatting on the ground, digging a hole with a small shovel. He was completely focused on digging. Hao Ren felt a little strange at this scene. The demon hunter profession had a high coolness factor from its equipment to its combat style. Just covering their face could get them on a movie poster. This posture of squatting on the ground digging a hole really didn't fit their image. It seemed that someone who could be cool 24 hours a day really didn't exist. Everyone had an unknown side.

After all, even the overlord of Western Chu probably squatted when he went to the toilet. He couldn't have used a flying swallow posture to get in...

Vivian carefully shrank the range of the shadowy mist, increasing the degree of concealment while also preventing the other party from sensing the weak magic fluctuations in the air. Hao Ren reached into his pocket to find a weapon, but then realized that he had forgotten to bring the data terminal. He had arranged for it to watch the children next to the little merman, and he had forgotten to bring it when he went out!

But apart from Hao Ren, there was another person present who was good at using hidden weapons. Lili had found half a brick on the ground and was holding it tightly. At this moment, while the demon hunter was about to stand up after digging the hole, when he was the least vigilant, she stepped forward, twisted her waist, and waved her right hand. The half-brick flew toward the other person's head with a shrill whistling sound!

Of course, Lili paid attention to her strength, because Vivian had emphasized before they set off that they should try to capture him alive. So, this brick was aimed at knocking the other party unconscious. Otherwise, with this girl's barbaric strength, a brick would probably pierce a mammoth from head to toe.

But an unexpected accident happened: just as Lili's brick left her hand, the demon hunter suddenly sneezed, and as his head lowered, the brick grazed his scalp and flew out, hitting a telephone pole in the distance with a bang.

The demon hunter was immediately shocked and ran away. Seeing that the sneak attack had failed, Vivian stopped maintaining the shadowy mist. She retracted the spell, flapped her giant wings, and immediately rushed into the air, swooping down on the other person, while shouting, "Capture him alive!"

Lili howled and jumped up, a flash of light in her hands as she summoned her ice and fire fist blades. Her figure was extremely fast, like a white lightning bolt, her momentum several times more powerful than when she had swung her arm and thrown the brick just now. Izhaks took a step in place, and then appeared directly at the other end of the alley, blocking the other person's escape route. Hao Ren also rushed up with his shield raised, and taunted the enemy, "You son of a b*tch!"

Quick as lightning, everything happened in the blink of an eye. The silence under the night was broken in an instant. Vivian, Lili, Izhaks, and Hao Ren, four figures divided into various directions from the sky to the ground and rushed toward the demon hunter, completely leaving the other person with no way out. Hao Ren's taunt was the most abrupt sound in the night. The demon hunter was obviously stunned for a moment. During this moment of daze, Lili's claws had already reached toward his back. Feeling the sharp wind behind him, he jumped to the side at the critical moment, only to meet Vivian's swooping route. The vampire girl kicked him ten meters away, and Izhaks was waiting there. The two-meter-tall giant opened his arms and easily caught him, then pressed him down, pinning him to the ground so that he couldn't move.

The whole process was seamless. Hao Ren was amazed at how his family only had such a high level of tacit understanding when they were ambushing people.

The demon hunter was pinned to the ground by Izhaks like a little chick and couldn't help but cry out in pain: "Ouch, ouch, ouch... Can't you be gentle?!"

Vivian was falling from the air and was stunned when she heard this: "Hey, doesn't that sound a little familiar?"

Hao Ren was also stunned at this moment, because he had caught a glimpse of the other person's face the moment the demon hunter was pressed down. The appearance vaguely seemed familiar. He quickly took three steps and made two and ran over, asking Izhaks to lift the other person up and take a look. He immediately exclaimed: "It's you?!"

The other person was also shocked when he saw Hao Ren and the others' faces: "It's you?!"

The person being held in the air by Izhaks by the collar was none other than Nangong, the half-baked demon hunter who he had met once in England and had even fought alongside!

No wonder Vivian had kicked him away so easily, and he hadn't used the demon hunter's signature teleportation skill until he was caught. It turned out to be this half-baked guy...

"How is it you?" Lili also followed from behind, shouting in surprise. "Have you been causing trouble around our house these past two days?"

"Your house?" Nangong blinked. "So you live here?"

It seemed that he didn't know about the situation of Hao Ren's house full of shapeshifters, and that expression wasn't fake at all.

At this time, Nangong also calmed down from his initial panic. He then noticed the bat wings on Vivian's back, Lili's werewolf form, and the glittering shield on Hao Ren's body. He revealed an unbelievable look, but still understood, and then lowered his head in dejection: "So you guys are actually shapeshifters. I really didn't work hard enough... Can you give me a quick death for the sake of us fighting side by side that day?"

Vivian looked at Hao Ren with some embarrassment. She didn't expect the situation to develop like this. If it was an ordinary demon hunter, it would be easy to decide whether to kill or punish him, but this Nangong... Even Vivian didn't know what to do with this goofy young man.

But just as they were struggling, Nangong Wuyue's voice suddenly broke the stalemate. The Siren girl shouted aggressively from behind, "Brother, it's you again!"

(Li Jiada'er, an author in the same group, has written a new book called "My Shadow is the God of Cookery." Everyone can go support him. Although I haven't read the book yet, this is the first time I've seen a web novel with a cooking theme, and it feels very fresh. As a foodie, I'm promoting it.)