My Avatar is Becoming the Ultimate BOSS-Chapter 765 - 396: Lake Hunting’s Infighting, Battle at the Hospital

"No."

Lin Xingshi shook her head without hesitation.

"That's right." Zhou Jiuya said slowly, "Humans are humans, demons are demons, even if it's a lion that has never eaten a person, it must be locked up in a zoo in the human world. Where would you see a lion proudly walking down the street?"

After saying that, he looked up, glanced at Lin Xingshi, and suddenly let out a low sneer.

"Why are you laughing?" Lin Xingshi asked, puzzled.

"If that doesn't work, you could always contract with the Child of the Year Beast."

"Ha..."

"Anyway, your Celestial Driver still has an empty slot, this way it's good for you, good for everyone, you'd have fewer troubles, wouldn't you?" Zhou Jiuya tilted his head as he spoke.

"Contract with the Child of the Year Beast?" Lin Xingshi shrugged, teasing, "Interesting, the fact that you came up with that, old crow."

She paused, chuckling as she shook her head, "If the Year Beast Monarch found out his son signed a contract with a human, just imagine how furious he'd be. He might just lead an army of undead from Hell and attack us."

"You chose to be so unconventional, our Lake Hunting never encourages contracting with demons, saying it affects the purity of the Celestial Driver." Zhou Jiuya said, "Only you gave up the potential of the Celestial Driver. When the Lin Family first found out you independently contracted with a demon, those old folks almost died of anger."

"Isn't that typical?" Lin Xingshi scooped a piece of cream cake with a spoon and put it into her mouth, "I just like going against them, and even after contracting with a demon, I still became the world's top Exorcist. I really don't know where their theories come from."

"Could it be that you're just an exception, rather than their theories being wrong?"

"If you say so."

While they were chatting, Zhong Wujiu suddenly opened the door and walked in from the hallway.

At this moment, Zhong Wujiu, having removed his ghost mask, revealed his face. Half of his face was a bluish-black color, like a beast's fierce snarl, at times resembling a tiger, sometimes a bull, and other times a sheep.

This was the side effect of the Celestial Driver's "Twelve Beast Nuo Mask" — half of his face was affected by the Beast Spirit. Thankfully, his other half retained its original appearance, delicate, with sharp and handsome features, making him quite the charming figure.

Only the people from Lake Hunting had seen Zhong Wujiu's true face; he usually wore a mask to avoid scaring others with his half face.

"What's up, Wujiu," Lin Xingshi asked.

Zhong Wujiu remained silent.

At that moment, Lin Xingshi and Zhou Jiuya suddenly noticed he held a mask in hand. Blood was splattered on the ghost mask, beads of blood dripped from the mask's edges, drop by drop, to the ground.

Zhong Wujiu's other hand was behind his back, his face expressionless, a flash of lightning illuminated the sky like daylight, and the hospital room lit up slightly, his face half in light, half in shadow, with beast-like eyes in the dark glowing with a blood-red gleam.

The two were slightly startled, a chill in their hearts, but then Zhong Wujiu slowly pulled out a chicken from behind his back.

"I just slaughtered a chicken to make some soup for you," he paused, "luckily, there's a kitchen in this hospital."

Upon hearing this, Lin Xingshi and Zhou Jiuya were silent for a moment, then slowly moved their gaze from the chicken blood on the floor to Zhong Wujiu.

"You're really something." "Gave me a scare."

The two almost spoke in unison.

"Did I scare you... Hm, birthday surprise." Zhong Wujiu said expressionlessly.

"What kind of surprise is this?" Zhou Jiuya said, annoyed, "You're still the same, missing a screw."

"Let's not tease Wujiu any longer." Lin Xingshi laughed lightly. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

Zhong Wujiu looked up at the two, then calmly said, "I'm going to make the chicken soup."

Zhou Jiuya sighed, "Save your energy, we could just go find a restaurant later."

"Typhoon day, where would a restaurant be open?" Lin Xingshi glanced at the ominous sky outside the window.

"The typhoon hasn't arrived yet, has it?" Zhou Jiuya asked.

"Actually, I just wanted to cook. Haven't been in the kitchen for a while, whether you drink it or not doesn't matter."

After saying this, Zhong Wujiu left with the chicken and the blood-stained mask.

"Boom... boom boom..." The sound of rain hitting the windows grew louder.

Lin Xingshi turned her head, feeling inexplicably uneasy, as if the rain was going to flood the city, with storm clouds devouring daylight. In the distance, the sea roared with waves, fishermen docked their boats and rushed to the port wearing raincoats.

And because of the Celestial Driver's effect, rain always made Zhou Jiuya feel endlessly sleepy.

Luckily the rain wasn't heavy enough yet, far from being as torrential as at that time in Tokyo, otherwise he might have fallen asleep right there.

At this moment, Zhou Jiuya merely leaned his head against the window sill, yawned, hugged his shoulders, and closed his eyes to take a nap.

Lin Xingshi silently watched outside the window. After a while, she suddenly heard the news broadcast get cut off, replaced by a crackling noise.

She raised her eyebrows, looked at the TV, first seeing static snowflakes randomly jumping, then a strange pattern appeared on the screen.

It was a Hexagram pattern, with a circle in the center and a larger circle outside connecting each corner of the Hexagram.

For some reason, Lin Xingshi felt the pattern on the TV was familiar, though she couldn't recall where she'd seen it before. It seemed like when approving records of an Exorcist criminal, that Exorcist seemed to have the nickname...