"Jackson, what should we do with this guy?" Jamie asked, pointing at the Tree-Man's corpse.
"Let's move it to the room where you store the bodies. Once things are sorted, you can dispose of it then."
...
Midnight, 12 o'clock.
Sun Yan lay on the couch yawning, while Elise sat on the floor holding a controller and focused on playing the game.
Ever since she started playing Street Fighter, she had become extraordinarily captivated.
Even when Sun Yan had stopped playing, she continued to practice Menat's combos.
A full-fledged gaming addict.
Sun Yan stood up and stretched: "Why hasn't she come yet, Jamie, are you sure the landlady knocks on your door every night at this time?"
"Just about."
Jamie, who was tapping away at code nearby, looked up and said.
Bam bam bam!
Just as he finished speaking, a knocking sound suddenly came from the door.
Sun Yan instantly became alert, picked up the Golden Halberd, and walked towards the door. Through the peephole, sure enough, stood the long-gone landlady.
Putting on the General Sun Mask, Sun Yan opened the door and confronted the old woman at close range.
Sun Yan asked bluntly, "Who are you looking for?"
"Give it back to me, give me back my things." The old woman's eyes were pitch black, with no whites visible.
Her pale skin was covered with black blood vessels as if she were a revenant from Hell.
The old woman crazily attempted to storm into the house, knowing she would resurrect the following night after being killed, Sun Yan did not stop her.
Letting the old woman run inside, she went straight for the plastic box placed in the living room and devoutly picked up the pyramid inside.
"Mine, eternal life is mine, no one can take it." The old woman revealed a pleasant smile, laughing maniacally.
Within seconds, her body began to show signs of decay.
The flesh and skin flaked off like wood shavings, eventually completely disintegrating on the spot.
Only a pile of wood debris remained on the floor, the pyramid silently fell into the shavings, symbolizing the old woman's visit.
"She's... she's dead?" Jamie asked in disbelief.
He had killed the old woman dozens of times but could never resolve this monster, yet now the issue seemed to have been effortlessly solved with Sun Yan's arrival.
Sun Yan walked to the room filled with the old woman's corpses and opened the door; those bodies had also turned to wood dust.
"It must have been her dying obsession, wanting to see the goldware again, but the goldware had been taken by you. That's why she turned into resentment, haunting you daily. Have you ever wondered why the other residents in the apartment were never bothered by her?"
Sun Yan picked up the pyramid and threw it back into the plastic box, explaining to Jamie.
Jamie awkwardly scratched his head; who would have thought his trouble was self-inflicted.
If he hadn't impulsively stolen the old woman's goldware, he wouldn't have suffered such immense mental torment.
It was indeed self-inflicted trouble.
"There must be some demonic power infused in these goldwares; it turned the landlady and her son into this state. I need to take them back immediately for research, so I won't disturb you further.
Stay home and observe for a while; if the landlady reappears tomorrow night or anything strange happens, you can contact me on X. I'll be right over to help you handle it."
Sun Yan held the plastic box; since the matter was resolved, he had planned to return to the graveyard overnight.
"Alright, thank you, Jackson."
"Farewell."
Pulling Elise away from her obsession with Street Fighter, Sun Yan promptly led her out of the apartment.
Once in the car, Elise eagerly suggested, "Jackson, let's buy a PS5, it's so much fun."
"As long as you perform well and often help me with missions, I'll buy one for you as a reward."
Sun Yan casually promised, then stepped hard on the gas pedal, quickly driving away.
Late night.
Sosia lay in bed asleep in her room when suddenly she opened her eyes and looked out the window.
The werewolf sense of smell is very sharp; if a living creature approaches, it can immediately be detected and identified as familiar or not.
"Such an evil presence, smells like Blood Race stench."
Sosia grabbed the Demon Exorcism Shotgun hanging by the bed and jumped out the window.
She immediately saw a hunchbacked figure running from the wall's shadows toward the distance, without hesitation she raised her gun and fired.
Bam! Bam! Bam!
The shotgun bullets instantly hit the figure's back, followed by a piercing scream, and the thing collapsed to the ground.
Sosia stepped forward to investigate, her face slightly changed.
It was a humanoid creature with red skin, not much different from a human body.
The only difference was its feet were goat hooves, and it had two curved horns on its head.
"Demon?!" Sosia exclaimed in surprise.
As a Demon Hunter, werewolves have fought against not only the Blood Race but also demons summoned by Wizards into the real world during the medieval period.