Chapter 178 A New Face

Nothing is more awkward than watching an evil spirit baring its fangs and claws as it runs towards you, only to trip over its own feet halfway there and fall flat on its face. If there were anything more awkward, it would be that it fell again…

The figurine-sized evil spirit scrambled to its feet and immediately charged at its target once more, hissing and yelling, but it tripped again halfway there. This time, the fall was even worse. Hao Ren could even clearly hear the sound of its face hitting the ground. He immediately felt a bit of sympathy for this particularly petite evil spirit.

And this was supposed to be the embodiment of evil…

"It was probably dazed by my sister's water stream earlier," Nangong Sanba said, squatting next to Hao Ren, looking at the little creature writhing on the ground with sympathy. "Look, it keeps stepping on its own feet."

"How could such a small evil spirit appear?" Hao Ren was still troubled by this question. "Vivian, your splits are too careless."

Lily, on the other hand, was thinking clearly. She shook her head, "The vampire's clones aren't always accurate. She even created a sky-piercing clone in the Abyss. Why can't she produce one the size of a mouse here?"

The husky girl's thinking was always unconventional. Her conclusion immediately made everyone present nod in agreement. At this moment, the prostrate figurine had struggled to its feet once more. It seemed to realize that it was a little dizzy, so it shook its head vigorously and then switched targets, turning to pounce on Doudou, who looked easier to bully.

Doudou was already nervous because she sensed this "strange thing." When she saw it pouncing towards her, she was immediately startled. Without thinking, the little mermaid used her innate skill from her eggshell: the Koi Tail Swing. She flipped over and swung her tail… The figurine was sent flying, arcing through the air and landing next to Gun.

The cat girl saw something about the size of a mouse fall in front of her with a thud. Her cat instincts took over. She pressed down with her paw, just like when she caught a mouse, pinning the evil spirit under her hand. Then, she picked it up and stuffed it into her mouth!

The cat's movements were agile and swift. When Hao Ren saw it, he wanted to shout, but it was too late to stop her. But just as Gun was about to stuff the figurine Vivian into her mouth, she stopped herself, a thoughtful expression on her face. "Hmm, Big Cat doesn't allow eating mice at home…"

After so much education, this simpleton had finally remembered something!

However, in the moment of hesitation, the figurine evil spirit, who had been stunned by the fish tail, had regained consciousness. It saw the big face in front of it and let out a meaningless cry. Then, it waved its arms wildly. During the waving, a ball of black and red energy was launched from its hand, hitting Gun's cat ear directly!

"Meowwwww!" The cat girl let out a earth-shattering scream on the spot. She threw the evil spirit aside and jumped up and down, clutching her head. Finally, she slammed into Hao Ren. "Big Cat! Big Cat! I got hit by a mouse! I got hit by a mouse!"

Hao Ren was also startled by the sudden change. He first held down the silly cat who was jumping around, then shouted loudly, "Catch that evil spirit first! Don't let it run away!"

Nangong Sanba looked down. "Don't worry, it can't run away – Gun already smashed it unconscious."

It turned out that when the cat girl was in extreme pain, she shook her hand without looking and threw the figurine evil spirit towards the wall. The cat demon who had eaten the golden apple was no joke. She immediately smashed a fist-sized dent in the wall and knocked the figurine evil spirit unconscious in the process. Hao Ren was about to check the cat girl's injuries when he saw this and nodded to Lily. "Find something to lock this… little thing up first. Don't let it escape."

Lily said "oh" and went to find a suitable cage, but after searching around, she couldn't find anything useful. Because the figurine evil spirit was too small, saying it was about the size of a mouse was not an exaggeration! She even found a cat cage, which Hao Ren had bought out of desperation when he first adopted Gun, but it had been abandoned because Gun howled in it all night. But even this cage was useless. The miniature evil spirit could crawl out directly from the gaps in the cage!

In the end, the husky girl didn't know where she found an enamel lunch box full of the marks of time. Only then did she stuff the figurine evil spirit inside. To be safe, she also wrapped two circles of transparent tape around the outside of the lunch box. Nangong Sanba looked at the lunch box in the dog girl's hand with some concern. "Won't you suffocate it? Do you need to drill a few holes in the lunch box?"

Lily immediately became anxious, hugging her lunch box and protecting it like a treasure. "This is from the Republic of China! I went to Peking University with this back in the day! I used this to smash Xu Zhimo, you know!"

Nangong Sanba: "... Um, I know it's precious. You don't have to introduce the background in so much detail. It's easy to get into trouble…"

"Don't worry, it definitely won't suffocate," Nangong Wuyue interjected at this time. "When do evil spirits need to breathe? Can't they survive on Mars?"

After Lily successfully "subdued the evil spirit," Hao Ren also helped Gun meow to the sofa in the center of the living room. The cat girl had calmed down at this time. In fact, she was completely frightened more than hurt. After Hao Ren pulled her hand away, he only saw a slight scratch on one of her cat ears, without even a few drops of blood flowing out.

"Big Cat, is my ear gone…" The cat girl said with tears in her eyes, "Am I only left with three ears?"

This fool, like Lily, had four channels after transforming.

"Idiot, you just broke a little skin," Hao Ren patted the silly cat's head. "Go look in the mirror yourself."

"Meow."

"That seemed to be my Corrosive Blood Arrow," Vivian came to Hao Ren's side, "but the dark energy concentration is higher, more inclined to chaotic and disordered attributes. It is indeed a characteristic of an evil spirit."

"Why did an evil spirit suddenly appear?" Hao Ren frowned. "And it's so small… Okay, I've complained about this many times. Let's not discuss the size first. How did this… thing sneak into the rat hole? We didn't even notice it."

"Each evil spirit has different power characteristics. Some are decay, some are pestilence. They are extremely powerful in the corresponding power characteristics. The result of adding all the talent points is dominance in a single area," Vivian analyzed with a frown. "Perhaps this evil spirit is particularly good at hiding its aura… Maybe its power characteristic is 'lack of presence'."

Everyone showed strange expressions. Vivian stuck out her tongue. "Okay, I'm just guessing, but her ability to hide her aura is indeed super strong. I only felt a little aura when I was close to the rat hole where she was hiding."

"How was it discovered by Doudou?" Nangong Wuyue looked at the fish baby incredulously. The little guy immediately puffed up her chest in response. She knew that she had made a contribution this time.

"Mostly related to something like 'life hierarchy'," the data terminal interjected. "She can sense subtle changes in the source blood. The essence of evil spirits seems to be corrupted and degenerated source blood creations. Maybe they are very conspicuous in Doudou's eyes."

"Then she said Vivian was eaten…" Hao Ren looked at the little guy thoughtfully and muttered in a low voice.

"She may have sensed that the thing had some of Vivian's aura, but it also contained various negative forces. Then she made a series of random associations… Children's thinking is basically jumpy."

The data terminal seemed to make sense, so Hao Ren didn't dwell on this issue too much. He looked at the enamel lunch box that Lily had placed on the coffee table. The evil spirit locked inside should have woken up. Now it was struggling inside, and the entire lunch box was jumping around on the coffee table as if it were equipped with a motor, constantly making banging sounds.

However, this lunch box really trapped the other party completely.

"I feel that this evil spirit's combat power is not as good as Doudou's," Nangong Sanba scratched his head. "The blood arrows released only broke a little skin on Gun. Being locked in an enamel lunch box makes it unable to escape. If Doudou rubbed a flame inside, she could burn a hole in the lunch box."

Lily poked the lunch box, which was constantly jumping around on the coffee table, with her hand. "The key is where did this thing come from, and how did it get into the rat hole…"

The data terminal flew over the lunch box and emitted a blue light beam to constantly scan the energy fluctuations inside the lunch box. It planned to sample the evil spirit to track the route it used to invade the house, but after scanning for a while, it made an even more amazing discovery. "Wait, there seems to be a problem… This evil spirit seems to be newly 'born'."

Hao Ren and Vivian said in unison, "Newly born?"

"After the last time we eliminated the evil spirit, this unit updated the database. At the same time, Raven 12345 also sent this unit a lot of research results in this area," the data terminal explained. "After this kind of evil spirit is generated, its energy reaction will become more and more stable and pure over time, just like self-purification. According to this rule, this unit judges that the evil spirit in the lunch box should have been born… um, only a few hours to a dozen hours ago."

As soon as these words came out, everyone's eyes fell on Vivian.

"Bat…" Lily hesitated to speak, "You seem to have split again!"