Cheng Yizhou

A few people walked to a room, Mirror Ghost went ahead and opened the door, letting the three in.

"Stay here for now, someone will come to get you later."

The three kids wondered why Qi Ao's brother said someone would come to get them. They saw Qi Ao's brother leave the room and close the door behind him.

"Bro, are you leaving?"

Qi Ao opened the door but no one was outside. He scratched his head, confused about why his brother had left them.

Qi Ao looked around several times but didn't see his brother. Finally he closed the door as instructed and stayed inside.

Mirror Ghost hid himself on the glass opposite Qi Ao's room, making sure the human cubs inside were alright, waiting for the Resentful Ghost to lure people over.

As expected, the Resentful Ghost led two people to the room. Only then did Mirror Ghost feel relieved.

"Good brother."

"Don't praise yet, let's see if these two humans will take them along."

If they don't bring them, and the kids choose to go themselves, they'll eat these two people and find someone else.

The two monsters stood guarding outside, while inside the room the five people stared at each other.

"Bro, you're so slow!"

Qiao Ming complained unhappily. Qi Ao's brother had already found them.

The one called brother, Qiao Bai, looked at them warily. He didn't know why he had walked to this room.

His own brother was inside too, which made him cautious.

What a coincidence!

Seeing his brother not only silent, but looking at him like a stranger, Qiao Ming felt a little wronged.

"Did Qi Ao's brother ask you to come get us?"

Little Qian looked left and right, neither of her two friends were talking, so she had to ask herself.

Qi?

Lv Cheng caught the key word: "Who is Qi Ao?"

Called out by Little Qian, Qi Ao's tail would have wagged with joy as he stood tall and proud: "It's me!"

"Is Qi Yuan your brother?"

Qi Ao nodded vigorously: "Yes."

Lv Cheng squatted down to be eye level with the kids: "Are you all humans?"

"Of course, what a strange question."

Seeing all three kids nod, Lv Cheng reached out and ruffled Little Qian's mushroom head.

Qiao Bai also reacted, his claws reaching for Qiao Ming, but his usually cooperative brother actually twisted his head away.

"Hey, you're upset now. When facing monsters, you have to be more cautious or you could die without knowing how. You need to learn this well."

Qiao Ming looked up, using his eyes to ask his brother what he meant.

"Battling monsters isn't a simple thing. Some monsters will disguise themselves as someone close to deceive you."

"I know, the teacher talked about it in class."

Kids are easy to coax. Though he didn't say it, he allowed his brother to ruffle his head.

While Qiao Bai was deceiving his brother, Lv Cheng had gotten the story from the other two kids.

This was too strange. Brother Yuan had come to find his brother, how could he tell them to pick up three kids?

And shouldn't he have shown himself and told them directly to come find him?

Secretively leading them here felt off.

What if... that wasn't Brother Yuan?

With this thought, Lv Cheng instantly understood what had happened.

It was Qi's family guard. He was protecting Qi Ao but couldn't show himself, so he disguised as Qi Yuan to appear, then entrusted the kids to them.

He and Qiao Bai could be unknowingly led here, meaning the other was a high level illusionist.

But why entrust them to he and Qiao Bai?

There must be some reason behind it, something they could do that the guard disguised as Brother Yuan couldn't.

Lv Cheng sank into thought. The two kids looked at each other.

Big brother (Qi Ao's brother) was still the most reliable.

With finding his brother in mind, Qiao Bai planned to head home: "Let's go find the safe zone set up by the patrol team."

That's it! Lv Cheng's thoughts were connected.

The guard disguised as Brother Yuan couldn't pass the patrol team's inspection, but they could.

Lv Cheng excitedly stood up, always crushed by Brother Yuan, he had finally caught up mentally.

"Let's go find the safe zone!"

Lv Cheng's dramatic reaction scared the kids a bit.

Qi Ao pointed at his own head, then gestured at Lv Cheng, asking if his head was okay.

Little Qian understood and shook her head, indicating she didn't know either.

...

The wooden door was destroyed by the ghost bride, and their loud noise attracted other onlookers.

They noticed a flash of light, then the monsters behind them disappeared.

Following the noise, they saw a group of elementary school students sitting neatly around a seventeen or eighteen year old youth.

Without needing to ask, they knew the young man before them was not to be underestimated. The livestreamer held up his device to record footage for videos later.

Hurried footsteps sounded in the corridor again as a team of patrol officers came running over.

People quickly moved aside to make way.

Xue Shiyun entered the room, her expression unsurprised. She smiled and turned to say to the person beside her, "Captain Cheng, this is the powerful superhuman Qi Yuan living in our district. He's helped us a lot."

Though both captains, they had different responsibilities and statuses.

The Special Patrol Team led by Cheng Yizhou encompassed all kinds of talents, patrolling the dangers around the city year-round.

Cheng Yizhou smiled and said, "If I'd known he was coming, I wouldn't have tried so hard."

After Xue Shiyun left, Cheng Yizhou received a call for help from the Sixth Patrol Team and came to assist, successfully meeting up with the patrol team that was being chased and saving them.

"You know him too?"

"I was at the scene in Nanwu District last time too, but came too late and didn't do anything."

Cheng Yizhou didn't mention who he was with, but Xue Shiyun knew without needing to ask that it was the troublesome Superpower Association side.

The two tacitly skipped over that topic.

Cheng Yizhou walked closer to Qi Yuan: "Long time no see. Lin Cang couldn't stop praising you after he went back."

Qi Yuan immediately remembered that unlucky guy who was tricked by the lizardman, fell down and lost the fight, then had to be laughed at.

He smiled and said, "I can probably guess why he praised me."

If he didn't help clear things up, Lin Cang definitely wouldn't have wanted to go out for a while.

"Hahaha, there's more than just that reason. I thought he was exaggerating but now I see I was ignorant."

Cheng Yizhou still remembered that dazzling electric light and terrifying pressure.

In that instant, he had involuntarily thought of surrendering.

Having followed Qi Yuan in secret, and seeing the video of him instantly killing the lizardman earlier, Xue Shiyun had already become immune. She took the initiative to interrupt the endless loop.

"There's no point if you keep praising each other. Let's take the students to the safe zone first."

"You're right, I almost forgot the main issue."

The patrol team had started working as soon as they entered. Cheng Yizhou's support sped up their monster clearing. Plus Qi Yuan's AOE killing many monsters in one blow, they hadn't encountered any monsters along the way.

Those remaining were probably hiding away or had run very far.

The temporary safe zone was set up in the city's gymnasium, able to hold more people and form personal territories to keep ghosts out.

They handed the people over to the deputy principal temporarily in charge of logistics.

Just as Qi Yuan was about to ask if his little brother was in this safe zone, he saw Lv Cheng waving at him with his brother also by his side.