Chapter 749: Chapter 749: Defending Demon Rights
On this end of the phone, Gregory Xander paused for a second upon hearing Scarlett Jennings’ inquiry, his gaze sweeping over Lucienne Xander’s face on the tablet screen in front of him,
“You suspect Lucienne Xander is actually Elysia Xander?”
When it comes to familiarity, probably no one knows Elysia Xander better than he does.
If Scarlett Jennings could sense the similarities between this person and Elysia Xander, he naturally sensed it as well.
However, not having seen it with his own eyes, he dared not be certain.
Moreover, if she really is her.
How did she transform from one person into another?
And that spiritual power that was supposed to be completely sealed…
Despite the many questions flashing through his mind, Gregory Xander quickly said,
“After Elysia Xander was expelled from Capital Metropolitan, Preston Xander had one of the family elders place her elsewhere. I’ll have someone check whether she’s still there now.”
With that, he hung up the phone.
While waiting for news from Gregory Xander, Scarlett Jennings looked at the monkey demon she was leading behind her.
Even though this is a legitimate primate, simply bringing it back to the city is definitely not okay and might attract a lot of attention.
She reopened her phone, ready to call the housekeeper to arrange for animal shipping.
The task of finding the demon wasn’t issued through the Mystic Regulation Office, so returning it had to be done on her own.
The monkey demon couldn’t transform into a human shape, nor could she buy it a ticket to send it back, so she could only look for a pet courier.
As she was speaking, suddenly, a black hairy head poked over her shoulder from behind.
Previously, it had only pulled the chain to get her attention, but now it came directly, even tugging at the corner of her coat.
Scarlett Jennings looked down to see the black-haired head tilt up, revealing a somewhat strange large white face, grinning, then looking eagerly at her, rubbing its belly with one hand and pointing to its mouth with the other hand.
Although a demon with spiritual wisdom, it still couldn’t speak.
Even so, Scarlett Jennings could guess its intention at a glance and heartlessly said,
“Looking like this, I can’t take you to any restaurant for a meal.”
The Monkface Monkey instantly showed a somewhat sad expression, lowered its head, and once again revealed the top of its black hairy head to her.
Looking at that head, Scarlett Jennings resignedly pulled out the food delivery app on her phone after a while.
“Let me see if there’s any delivery nearby.”
The monkey demon immediately became excited, making a happy gesture of feeding itself with both hands.
Scarlett Jennings had the driver find a roadside near the town to wait.
Soon, a delivery guy came over on an electric bike, pulling out a bunch of food from the insulated box.
The driver got out to receive the delivery from the delivery guy.
It was the first time for the delivery guy to see someone with a luxury car order takeout, so he couldn’t help but peek inside the vehicle.
Then, the delivery guy’s face directly met the eyes of the Monkface Monkey inside the car, not even realizing it.
The anti-peep glass kept him from seeing inside, but the Monkface Monkey saw his face clearly, and the originally docile little monkey demon instantly became agitated.
Scarlett Jennings, who was sending messages, sensed the change in the monkey demon’s mood. As she turned her head, she saw the little monkey demon suddenly fling open the car door and jump out.
Startled, Scarlett Jennings almost instantly shortened the Spirit Light Chain.
The monkey demon, having just leapt out of the car, was bound in place, forced to watch as the delivery guy who had finished his delivery rode away on his electric bike.
“Ah ah!”
It let out a few urgent and angry cries, causing the delivery the driver was holding to shake along with his hand, not understanding why the monkey demon suddenly changed its attitude.
It couldn’t possibly go crazy just seeing food, right?
Scarlett Jennings didn’t know why it suddenly behaved like this; suddenly, it seemed like she thought of something, looked towards the departing delivery guy, and was about to question when she suddenly sensed a familiar aura.
In the next second, the delivery guy on the electric bike seemed to hit an invisible barrier, the whole bike crashing on the ground without being able to get up.
Turning her head, she saw Cassian Wolf, who appeared without warning, nonchalantly explaining to her,
“It’s saying that person was one of the kidnappers who took it from Capital Metropolitan to Sea City.”
The monkey demon completely calmed down upon seeing Cassian Wolf appear. When it heard his words, it hastily nodded its head at Scarlett Jennings, pointing at the fallen delivery guy with an expression that seemed to accuse.
He’s bad.
Scarlett Jennings asked the driver to call the police to keep the man under control, then turned back to Cassian Wolf,
“Why are you here?”
After a pause, she asked again, “Weren’t you supposed to have returned?”
Cassian Wolf merely glanced at her at her words, his expression haughty, “I go wherever I want.”
After saying that, he pointed to the monkey demon she had bound,
“The Mystic Regulation Office has the right to handle all demons in the world.”
Scarlett Jennings: …
So he’s saying that he, a top Great Demon of the Mystic Regulation Office, appeared here just to take back such a little demon that can’t even transform into a human?
You guess whether I believe it or not?
Evidently, Cassian Wolf didn’t care whether she believed it or not, pointing at the delivery guy lying on the ground, commanding her directly,
“He has accomplices. Go ask where they are and catch them all.”
Scarlett Jennings looked at Cassian Wolf with increasingly silent eyes, “Why do I have to catch the kidnappers?”
She was merely entrusted to find the demon, not to help it take revenge and vent its anger.
Cassian Wolf just said,
“You’re a member of the Mystic Regulation Office, so remember, you have the responsibility to preserve the demon rights of the demons.”
This point, whether based on her status as a member of the Mystic Regulation Office or based on her one-fourth demon clan bloodline, she must remember.
However, right now, based solely on this statement, Scarlett Jennings really had no way to refute it.
Though she didn’t know why Cassian Wolf suddenly had the free time to come here and demand that she help a little demon get justice, she wasn’t in a hurry to return, plus the little Monkface Monkey by her side started looking at her eagerly again, so Scarlett Jennings obliged.
The process of interrogating the other animal traffickers involved in kidnapping the monkey demon wasn’t difficult. Scarlett Jennings soon led Cassian Wolf and the little monkey demon directly to their doorstep.
In less than five minutes, they subdued the remaining people, then called the police, handing over the people to the officers.
Just as she finished up, Gregory Xander’s call came back.
Picking up the phone, Scarlett Jennings heard the heavy tone in Gregory Xander’s voice on the other end,
“Uncle Xander sent someone to her place to ask, and it’s said that she hasn’t been there for over a month.”
Elysia Xander had fled.
Or rather, she had transformed into the appearance of another person, reappearing before everyone.
And to achieve this quickly without Scarlett Jennings even noticing, Gregory Xander thought,
“She might have used the Life Transfer Technique.”
The very Life Transfer Technique that Nolan Snyder originally planned to use on Harry Whitley.
“Unlikely.”
Scarlett Jennings said, “The feeling I got was more like the Face Changing Technique combined with another evil technique to obscure her aura.”
Coincidentally, this technique was also used by Nolan Snyder before; Ava Zimmerman used it to switch Azura Loomis’ voice and most of her face.
It’s a technique that deprives the other party’s facial features from appearance to soul.
And from Lucienne Xander’s situation, it seems to have been successful.
…
At the show group’s end.
The guests were taking a break, and the live broadcast was paused.
Lucienne Xander was about to walk to her room when she saw John Dawn, the movie star, approaching, his tall figure blocking her in the corridor passage.
He looked at her, his eyes deep with a hint of complexity,
“Lucienne Xander, do you really not remember me?”
…
Meanwhile, far away in a dark room in Peaceful City.
A young girl was groping around in the empty room, the face devoid of facial features still faintly showing her distortion and despair.