I Have a Golden Crow

"Here." Du Yu picked up the Ghost Demon figurine and tossed it to Zhang Qiming.

"Th-thanks, thanks Squad Leader." Luo Rui still looked shaken, stammering over her words.

Du Yu said his goodbye: "Alright, you two go play. I’m heading out."

"Squad Leader Du, where are you going?" Zhang Qiming mustered his courage and shouted, his roar doing a great job of masking the tremor in his voice.

"I’m going to find a Ghost Demon King and run a trial." Du Yu strode off, answering casually.

Kui Chou, the Supreme had a full ten Demon Skills. Du Yu at least needed to find a proper opponent and run through each Demon Skill one by one.

Winning or losing didn’t really matter.

In Du Yu’s view, urgent combat could speed up his fusion with Kui Chou’s Techniques.

Zhang Qiming’s heart stirred: "Squad Leader, we just ran into a whole group of Enchanting Ghost Demons. Our figurines were snatched on the outskirts by them."

"Oh?" Du Yu’s feet halted. "Which direction, how far?"

"We’ll take Squad Leader there!" Zhang Qiming grabbed his girlfriend at his side and quickly caught up to Du Yu.

Looking at this enthusiastic little couple, Du Yu felt a bit conflicted. Fact was, when he fought, it was way too easy for him to accidentally hurt others.

"Squad Leader, hurry! That Ghost Demon territory is huge, they’re patrolling everywhere. In a bit they’ll be gone without a trace." Zhang Qiming urged loudly.

Du Yu hesitated for a moment, then still picked up his pace: "Thanks."

"What are you thanking us for, this is our honor!" Zhang Qiming’s face lit up with delight; his mental state had adjusted quite well.

The three of them wove rapidly through the mountain forest at night, and actually didn’t run into any wild Demon Beasts.

Clearly, the Enchanting Ghost Demon Race ruled over this area, and other Demon Beasts didn’t dare step into this territory.

And along the way, the atmosphere was a bit awkward. The three had met a few times, but they honestly didn’t have much in common to talk about.

The few topics they did have were about Lin Family’s disciple—Lin Shihang.

Lin Shihang had once been Zhang Qiming’s squad leader and had had some clashes with Du Yu.

But later, Lin Shihang got beaten completely into submission by Du Yu, and whenever they met after that, Lin Shihang always detoured around him.

Zhang Qiming wanted to bring it up several times, but after thinking it over and over, he still didn’t say anything.

He was afraid that Du Yu had long since forgotten that kind of small fry.

Even if Lin Shihang was Lin Family, even if he came from the Ancient Pine Tower’s Demon Taming Family, to Du Yu...

Maybe he didn’t remember at all,

Maybe there was still some faint impression, but Du Yu was standing too high up now, he probably couldn’t even see this sort of small character anymore.

Speaking of which, during these several final exams, including when the Twenty-Ninth Bureau resolved the crisis, Du Yu had another Lin Family around him—Lin Shiwei guarding his side.

Rumor had it Lin Shiwei was the leading figure of the Lin Family’s younger generation, the strongest one.

Didn’t know before, but now, that girl had been staying by Du Yu’s side the whole time; she had to be.

Thinking of this, Zhang Qiming couldn’t help sighing with regret.

If back in the rookie training camp, he’d managed to seize the chance and leave together with Du Yu...

Then his future life might have been a whole different story.

But who could have predicted something like that?

Back then, Du Yu couldn’t even afford Demon Pet Food; he had to freeload off Li Mengnan.

Li Mengnan!

The moment he thought of that girl whose fame had spread everywhere, who was soaring smoothly upward, Zhang Qiming started feeling envious again.

He wondered, was it just because of those few meals of Demon Pet Food that the girl got taken along by Squad Leader Du and walked all the way to where she was today?

"I see them." Du Yu’s voice suddenly came from behind.

"Ah!" Zhang Qiming snapped back to his senses and immediately came to a stop.

"Thanks." Du Yu strode forward; as he passed Zhang Qiming, he casually patted the guy’s shoulder.

Zhang Qiming’s heart leapt with joy, and he hurriedly said, "Of course, of course."

Du Yu kept walking toward the monkey troop as he spoke: "You two stay back, don’t let the monkeys snatch your stuff again."

"Ji-ji!"

"Jiii-iii~~~" No sooner had Du Yu finished speaking than bursts of strange shrieks and eerie laughter rang out at the same time. Combined with swaying tree shadows, it made one’s hair stand on end.

Trying to leave?

Too late!

Seeing this, Du Yu raised the little figurine in his hand high, tapped the ground with his feet, quickly opening up distance from the young couple.

He shouted loudly at the monkey troop: "It’s right here!"

"Shasha~" The lush leaves shook in waves, and from one big tree after another poked out painted faces as ghostly as phantoms.

Terrifying, horrifying!

Du Yu stood fearlessly, striding forward.

He looked up at the monkeys in the trees, his eyes darting rapidly, locking onto the position of every Ghost Demon.

Walking willingly into the trap?

No, this was going in alone, blade in hand!

Amid the waves of creepy laughter, Du Yu reached the edge of the monkey troop.

"Ji-ji!" The outer monkeys struck first.

A pitch-black phantom leapt down from the tree. Its movement was erratic, actually tracing out a "Z" pattern before lunging straight at Du Yu.

"Smack!"

Du Yu stepped back half a step, suddenly thrust a hand out, and precisely grabbed the Enchanting Ghost Demon by the back of the neck, brutally crushing its Demon Breath Battle Robe.

"Squeak~ squeak!" The Enchanting Ghost Demon was terrified; in that burst of pain, it let out a flurry of panicked squeals.

Du Yu looked at the Enchanting Ghost Demon in his hand, whose body was less than a meter tall, and knew full well this was just a weak Heavenly Level Monster Beast.

"You really got guts, huh?" Du Yu grinned, holding the figurine as he lightly tapped the Enchanting Ghost Demon’s head. "Be a bit sharper next time."

With that, Du Yu flung the Heavenly Level Enchanting Ghost Demon aside.

"Uu?" The Enchanting Ghost Demon sprawled out, skidding backward several meters along the ground, staring blankly as Du Yu walked on.

It had been grabbed by the neck and had its Demon Breath Battle Robe crushed. Under circumstances like that, of course it was utterly panicked, even already foreseeing the terrible price it was about to pay.