Chapter 590 - 375: The Terrifying Fiend, The Lingering Nightmare

Chapter 590: Chapter 375: The Terrifying Fiend, The Lingering Nightmare

Inside the photo studio, Su Yue flipped through the two photo albums. After she finished, she nodded in satisfaction and placed the albums into a bag the owner gave her.

She took her phone out of her pocket, scanned the store’s payment QR code, and paid. Then, she left, carrying the bag with the photo albums.

The owner of the photo studio watched Su Yue leave and wondered to herself.

’That young man who took pictures with Teacher Su looked so ordinary. Could he really be her boyfriend?’

After Su Yue came out of the photo studio, the gazes of the passersby on the street once again fell upon her.

Accustomed to the attention, Su Yue ignored the stares and walked over to her white electric scooter.

She secured the bag with the photo albums, twisted the throttle, and drove her scooter onto the road, heading home.

’I need to stop by the supermarket before I go home,’ Su Yue thought to herself as she rode, remembering that she was running low on ice cream in her freezer.

...

In the dim room, brilliant golden sunlight squeezed through a gap in the curtains, providing a sliver of light.

GRUMBLE...

Lin Li suddenly opened his eyes in bed, woken by hunger.

"So hungry!"

Lin Li threw off the covers and got out of bed. He left his bedroom and quickly washed up in the bathroom. Then, he walked into the kitchen, opened the refrigerator, and took out a large pile of frozen food he had bought earlier.

He put a pot of water on to boil.

After a short wait, once the water was boiling, Lin Li dropped the frozen dumplings, meatballs, and other items into the pot.

While waiting for the food to cook, Lin Li, who was starving, went back to the living room. He grabbed a few slices of bread and started eating, hoping to tide himself over.

’They should be ready,’ Lin Li thought. After swallowing his last bite of bread, he lifted the pot lid. Seeing that the dumplings and meatballs were all floating in the boiling water, he turned off the stove.

He sprinkled some salt and MSG into the pot for some simple seasoning, then scooped out all the cooked dumplings and meatballs.

GRUMBLE...

The two slices of bread had clearly done nothing to quell his hunger.

Lin Li carried the large basin of cooked dumplings and meatballs to the dining table. After pulling out a chair and sitting down, he immediately began to devour his breakfast.

"Haaaah..."

After demolishing the huge basin of food, a full Lin Li let out a long breath. He patted his stomach and muttered to himself.

"Finally full. Waking up from hunger is a terrible feeling. There’s only enough Yellow Ox Exotic Beast Meat in the fridge for one more meal. I’ll have to go to the supermarket later to buy some more."

After leaning back in his chair and thinking for a moment, Lin Li got up to clean the pots and dishes.

After busying himself for a while, he finally finished cleaning the kitchen.

He went to the living room and sat on the sofa. Seeing that it was 8:30 a.m., he knew it was still early. There was no rush to go to the market for the ingredients he needed to make boiled fish for lunch.

Lin Li turned on the TV, then took his phone out of his pocket and logged into the Exotic Beast Hunter communication app.

He opened the discussion forum, where the trending posts were mainly about the suspected new species of Lizard Beast reported on the news yesterday.

"It’s just one bad thing after another lately! The Exotic Beast Group in the South District wilderness was just put down, and now an unruly Peak Tier Two Mutant Beast has popped up in the East District. And it’s a new, undiscovered species, no less."

"Tell me about it! This has been one eventful year."

"Everyone be careful. That Peak Tier Two Mutant Beast in the East District is active not far from the safe zone. It’s best if everyone avoids hunting in the East District wilderness for a while."

"I actually know the guy who was interviewed by the reporter on the news yesterday! Not long ago, our squad and theirs had lunch together out in the wilderness. I can’t believe that just a few days later, they’d run into such rotten luck."

"Normally, Peak Tier Two Mutant Beasts operate about a hundred kilometers away from the safe zone. For one to show up only twenty kilometers away is just too weird."

"The Exotic Beast Hunter Guild has already dispatched a special operations team to handle it. All we can do now is wait for news."

The Exotic Beast Hunters on the forum were all talking about the Red-Horned Purple-Scaled Lizard. Lin Li scrolled through several posts but found only useless information, so he exited the forum.

’Guess I’ll play a game for a bit before heading out.’ With nothing better to do, Lin Li opened a mobile game on his phone called ’National Shooting’.

...

「Spirit Realm, Dongwu City.」

Last night, the Red Blood Gang’s headquarters was set ablaze by an unidentified assailant, and more than half of it was burned to the ground.

The masked arsonist was called a fiend because anyone in the know understood that the Red Blood Gang was now backed by a powerful figure. No sane person would dare to do something like this.

And yet, the masked arsonist not only went through with it but was also ruthless in his methods. It was a complete disregard for the powerful figure backing the Red Blood Gang; calling him an audacious fiend couldn’t be more fitting.

Furthermore, the fiend who burned the Red Blood Gang’s headquarters was incredibly arrogant. When confronted by the Red Blood Gang’s new Gang Leader and his men, who had come to capture him, he didn’t flee. Instead, he chose to fight back.

In the end, not only did the fiend kill many members of the Red Blood Gang, but he also left the new Gang Leader severely injured.