Chapter 458: 317 Facing the Demon of Fear!_4

Chapter 458: Chapter 317 Facing the Demon of Fear!_4

“Baxter, what does ‘goods’ mean?”

She asked quietly.

“It’s a disrespectful term, it belittles people. You shouldn’t copy that,” Shen Ye said.

Charlotte nodded, her hands sparking with Thunder Light, and she stamped them onto the knees of both men.

Two cracking sounds rang out simultaneously.

Then came screams as piercing as those of a slaughtered pig.

Both grown men writhed in pain on the ground, unable to stand up again.

The little girl turned back to look at Shen Ye.

Meeting her uneasy gaze, Shen Ye gently gave her a thumbs up.

The little girl immediately revealed a radiant smile.

“I didn’t provoke them, but they talked about me like that; they deserved it.”

“Let’s go, the snow is getting heavier. We need to find a safe place to eat and rest,” Shen Ye said.

“Okay, let’s go, Baxter!”

The little girl followed Shen Ye across the zebra crossing, taking a new route toward another direction in the town.

Along the way, everyone was just hurrying along with their heads down. Occasionally, one or two people noticed Charlotte walking alone and looked surprised, but then they simply moved on.

The weather was just too cold, and the snow was too heavy.

The two of them continued on their way.

Shen Ye looked up and surveyed his surroundings, then spoke:

“Go to that hotel.”

“Hotel?”

“The slightly larger building over there. But don’t go through the front door. Let me see… Hmm, we’ll go around to the back,” Shen Ye said.

“Okay!”

A few minutes later.

The two of them stood on a street behind the hotel.

By then it was very late.

Chilly winds mixed with large snowflakes, accumulating a layer of snow on the ground about seven or eight centimeters thick.

The streets were pitch-black.

Almost devoid of pedestrians.

“Find a place to hide, don’t let people see you. Wait for me for a little while,” Shen Ye instructed.

“Okay, Baxter.” The little girl shrank into a corner, activated “Heavenly Shadow,” and crouched motionless.

She began to shiver from the cold.

Shen Ye hastened, flying up and passing through the walls of the hotel, circling around the various floors for a while.

A few minutes later.

He flew back, landing in front of the little girl.

By that time, the little girl was covered in snow, and she briskly rubbed her hands together, saying:

“Do we have a place to rest? Or do we stay out here? I’m not afraid of the cold, Baxter.”

It was Charlotte’s voice.

Whenever Lancy faced pain and torment, Charlotte’s personality would emerge to endure it all.

Shen Ye quickly said:

“Charlotte, look up at that building. Count from the top down to the second floor, the fifth window from the left—see it?”

“The fifth window… I see it, it’s all dark, no light,” Charlotte said.

“There’s no one living next to that room, so even if we make some noise, we won’t have to worry about being discovered,” Shen Ye said.

“Are we going to stay there? Is there enough money?”

“We won’t be using money—not that I’m stingy, but because you’re too young and alone. Staying at a hotel by yourself could lead to problems.”

“So how can we stay?”

“Climb up.”

“…Okay.”

The street was completely deserted at this time, and most of the lights in the hotel’s rooms were extinguished.

People had settled into slumber.

Charlotte stood up, shook the snow from herself, and activated “Moonlight Deer Step,” moving swiftly along the wall, sprinting upward.

Before long.

She had climbed up to the window ledge of the sixth floor.

“The window is closed,” she said.

“The latch isn’t tight; just flick it like this.” Shen Ye demonstrated a flicking motion.

Charlotte copied the gesture, then flicked at the edge of the window.

The latch inside the window immediately sprang up.

“Push,” Shen Ye said.

Charlotte pushed accordingly.

——The window swung open at once.

“Wow,” she exclaimed.

Not so much for anything else but for the lack of the bone-chilling wind and snow in the room, and the comforting warmth that filled the air.

Charlotte slipped in like a graceful cat, then quietly closed the window.

The wind and snow were shut outside.

“Starving, right? Let’s eat first,” Shen Ye said.

Charlotte unbuttoned her coat and laid out a big package of food and drinks on the table.

“Baxter, what’s this called?”

“Cake,” Shen Ye replied.

“And this?”

“Chocolate,” Shen Ye said.

“And this?”

“Braised chicken leg.”

“…”

Charlotte had a very small appetite, having eaten only a piece of chocolate and a slice of cake before feeling full.

She hung her wet coat on a hanger, and wearing only her undergarments, she crawled into the blankets.

“So warm…”

She hadn’t finished her sentence before she fell asleep.

Shen Ye flew out to take a look around.

Everything was normal.

At this time, apart from the hotel reception who was still on duty, everyone else was sound asleep.

Shen Ye returned to the room and silently watched over the sleeping Charlotte.

All was peaceful.

But—

Since Charlotte had successfully escaped, she should be considered to have won another round in this battle of personalities.

He should be able to go back now.

But it didn’t send him back to reality directly, like last time.

Could there be another incident about to happen?

A chill ran through Shen Ye’s heart.

He simply sat on the sofa in the room, quietly waiting.

One breath.

Two breaths.

Three Breaths.

…Time slowly passed.

Just as Shen Ye began to suspect he was being overly vigilant, the unexpected happened.

A flash of void.

A completely black silhouette drifted past the window.

“Who’s there?”

Shen Ye called out.

No response.

Looking out the window, all he could see was the heavy snow falling beneath the streetlights.

Did he see wrong?

No…

He was a Professional, how could he mistake such a thing?

Shen Ye stood up, walked to the bed, and shielded the sleeping Charlotte behind him.

“Whoever you are, have the courage to show yourself,” he said with a deep voice.

Then, a presence suddenly appeared outside the window.

It was a woman with hair draped over her face, pale in countenance.

She wore a red dress, her eyes sunken in, leaving only hollow sockets staring intently at Shen Ye.

Shen Ye got goosebumps.

—The figure had no facial features, just holes where they should have been, making it look eerie.

Besides, it was outside a sixth-floor window.

This thing couldn’t possibly be a ghost from the hotel, could it?

“Baxter,” the woman in red finally spoke:

“I have already thwarted your fate, yet you stubbornly continue to help Charlotte?”

Shen Ye instantly realized.

—The Demon of Fear!

This must be the primary personality of the little girl, the Demon of Fear!

But,

Lancy was supposed to be the original personality of the little girl.

“If you have even a shred of respect for me, call me Boss Ba; we like to address respected entities that way where I come from,” Shen Ye interjected casually.

This guy was really creepy.

—Even if he had to be persistent, he had to break the atmosphere the other was trying to create.

“Give up on Charlotte, and not only will I refer to you as Boss Ba, but I’ll also leave everything from the Death Planet to you,” the Demon of Fear proposed.

Thousands of black humanoid shadows emerged behind it, as if ready to strike at any moment.

“What if I say no?” Shen Ye asked.

“You seem to possess a special talent that allows you to continually gain the approval of the Dharma Realm, thereby earning ‘Names,'” the Demon of Fear stated.

“…You know about that too?” Shen Ye was surprised.

“Listen, Baxter, if I get serious, even the Dharma Realm will reject you, and you will no longer gain powerful ‘Names,'” the Demon of Fear’s voice carried an invisible pressure: “Look, you’re about to be overturned by one of my cards again.”

“—How much longer can you struggle?”

“Decide now whether you want to be my enemy, to be slowly dealt with by me; or escape this war, the further the better, so at least you can save your own life.”

“Oh, I forgot.”

“I could address you as Boss Ba.”

Shen Ye listened quietly, a smile gradually appearing on his face, and he shook his head as he said:

“One moment you threaten me with fate, another moment you want to destroy my power to earn ‘Names’, you make everything so complicated, and yet you expect me to listen to you?”

“—How about I just call you Miscellaneous Chief.”

“That’s a pretty nice nickname.”

“Listen up, Miscellaneous Chief, I will stand by Charlotte’s side until I completely defeat you, understand?”