Chapter 48: The Traces of the Scale-skinned Demon Mother

"Sister Mu, what are you looking at?"

Ai Tutu asked curiously.

Afterwards, she turned her head to look in Luo Chen's direction, then quickly turned around and sat up straight, shaking with excitement.

"What’s wrong with you?"

Mu Nujiao looked at Ai Tutu who was trembling all over and asked with some confusion.

"Sister Mu, why didn't you tell me that the person sitting not far from us was Senior Luo Chen!
It's over. I didn't dress up properly before going out. What should I do if I don't leave a good impression on Senior Luo Chen? "

These words immediately made Mu Nujiao frown, and she could only comfort him:

"You look great the way you are now!"

Ai Tutu finally felt relieved, but when he thought of Luo Chen not far away, his whole body tensed up instantly and he sat up straight.

"Is it necessary? He probably can't see your movements clearly!"

As the person closest to Ai Tutu, Mu Nujiao could naturally see her nervousness.

To be honest, Mu Nujiao didn’t quite understand why Ai Tutu was so nervous?
He was just another famous senior, and although he was extremely talented, he was, after all, just a high-level mage, and was nothing in front of Ai Tutu's family.

Mu Nujiao really couldn't understand why Ai Tutu looked so nervous...

"Because he is my idol! A 19-year-old high-level dual-element mage! Even my brother wasn't so outrageous back then!
When I decided to apply to Mingzhu Academy, I saw his photo at the Special Enrollment Challenge on the school’s official website. He was so handsome!
Later I found out that he had already entered the main campus. I thought I would have to wait until the second year to see him in person, but I didn’t expect to see him now!”

Ai Tutu's eyes suddenly lit up, and he excitedly introduced it.

Mu Nujiao listened to Ai Tutu's mumbling and nodded silently.

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The result of the beast fighting competition was naturally the same as in the original novel. Mo Fan recreated the scene that Luo Chen had experienced before, defeating more than 100 people in a row and snatching away all the resources of the system.

However, unlike in the original novel, Mu Nujiao did not choose to go on stage this time.

The resources that other colleges lacked were contracted by several major families in Magic City and used to make friends with this group of students from Mingzhu Academy in advance!

Seeing that Mo Fan had successfully won the fight, Luo Chen was about to stand up, but was stopped by Ai Tutu who came from not far away.

"Idol, can you give me an autograph?"

Ai Tutu took out a notebook and a pen from somewhere, handed them to Luo Chen, and said.

Mu Nujiao on the side had no choice but to follow, looking at Luo Chen with charming eyes.

The notebook and pen in front of Luo Chen couldn't help but remain silent for a while. In the past, other people basically avoided him when they saw him, and Ai Tutu was the first one to come for him.

However, Luo Chen did not refuse the signature. He wrote his name on the notebook and returned the notebook and notes to the other party.

Ai Tutu held the notebook in his arms with joy, as if it were some precious treasure.

Luo Chen looked at Mo Fan, chatted with the two of them casually, exchanged contact information, and then left Qingdou Hall...

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夜晚
Mo Fan excitedly took Luo Chen to the food stall in front of the school gate and had a meal.

Luo Chen didn't want to come at first, but when he heard that it was the miser Mo Fan who was treating him, he finally came...

Just as Mo Fan was paying the bill, Luo Chen suddenly received a call...

"Luo Chen, I found the information about the scaly-skinned demon mother you were looking for!
But it's not all good news, there's some bad news, which one do you want to hear first?"

When Luo Chen heard Lingling's news, he was shocked!
Luo Chen has been looking for information about the scaly-skinned demon mother since he started school, in order to prevent a disaster like the one in the original novel from happening!

Unexpectedly, it was not until today that Lingling finally found some clues.

"Tell us all!"

Luo Chen said concisely. "The good news is that, because of your reminder, I discovered this demon much earlier. This demon is still in the incubation period. The infected people are all women, living in a concentrated area, and the number is not too large...

The bad news is that more than 100 people have been infected, and, based on my observations, the mother body seems to be sending demons to other places starting tonight, so that the demon city will be fully infected...

The key point is that this is not the worst news. I found that once this demon finds that there is no hope of escape, it will directly consume the energy of all living things and transfer energy to the mother body!
This means that we cannot notify the city's demon hunting team or the Inquisition to send people to surround them on a large scale. We cannot even alarm the other side, lest they be cornered and cause mass deaths!
But if we don't surround them and just sit back and do nothing, once they succeed, more and more people will be dragged into the trap...

By then, the Demon City will be finished..."

Lingling on the other end said in a rare serious tone.

“This means that we can neither trap it to death openly nor let any demon escape alive in secret.

We can neither let the Scaleskin Demon Queen escape, nor force her into a dead end, causing the death of more than 100 people..."

Luo Chen repeated and said.

"Yes."

Lingling on the other end nodded silently. She also knew how difficult these requests were...

"Luo Chen, inform the Inquisition of this matter. This is no longer something that hunters can resolve..."

Lingling said in silence.

Luo Chen on the other end listened to Ling Ling's words, shook his head and said:
"I want to try..."

In fact, both Luo Chen and Lingling knew very well that handing the matter over to the Trial Council was actually the most reasonable option.

But reasonable does not mean correct, let alone appropriate...

The trial will face the same difficult situation, and the biggest possibility is that the lives of these 100 people will be abandoned for the safety of millions of residents in the Magic City.

Rather than passively letting the Scale-Skinned Demon Mother take more and more lives, it is better to use the lives of 100 people in exchange for the safety of millions of other people in the Magic City from the beginning.

This decision is the most reasonable, but as Luo Chen said before.

Reasonable does not mean correct, appropriate, or perfect...

Life should never be measured by numbers. The value of life cannot be quantified, let alone compared...

Luo Chen knew very well that the reason why this incident was resolved so easily in the original novel was because all the banshees were concentrated in the semi-closed environment of the school instead of being dispersed.

This is how the problem can be solved once and for all.

It is the same now. The best time to kill is when the enemy is still concentrated and has not completely spread out.

"After all, all it takes is one kill, right?"

Luo Chen looked at the location information sent by Lingling and said in a cold voice.

Lingling on the other end thought for a while, then responded:

"That's right, but it has to be done extremely fast, so fast that the scaly-skinned demon mother doesn't even have time to sacrifice her offspring, in order to have a glimmer of hope of survival...

And you only have one chance to make a move. Once the opponent finds out that you are a high-level mage, they will immediately choose to sacrifice themselves or run away...

In addition, the power should be concentrated as much as possible and the range should not be too large, otherwise, you may be charged with killing more than 100 people with your own hands!
And during this process, we can't let the other sub-demons really run out of range...

So, let’s leave this matter to…”

Lingling intermittently made a lot of requests, hoping that Luo Chen would change his mind and not get involved in this mess...

"You should leave it to us, right..."

Mo Fan on the side said into the phone.

"Luo Chen can't just attack casually. I'm a mid-level mage, the Scale-skinned Demon Mother won't be afraid of me, right?"

(End of this chapter)