Chapter 665: Chapter 665: Demon Disappearance Case
Without dwelling too much on his name, Scarlett Jennings said directly,
“Regardless of the reason, using a living person’s body to nurture a Soul Fetus is against the Mystic Regulation Office’s rules. Moreover, the Soul Fetus residing in his body will continuously absorb his Primordial Energy. You should come with me now and extract the Soul Fetus yourself.”
Rose Spencer felt somewhat unwilling; the Soul Fetus of his child was damaged, and if extracted now, he wouldn’t be able to nurture it back to health on his own.
After a moment of hesitation, he suddenly gritted his teeth,
“I can follow you to retrieve it, but… you must agree to help me find my wife! Only then will I do it!”
Although he is a Serpent Demon, he is merely a small serpent demon who has just managed Transformation; his demonic power doesn’t even surpass Dashiell, who is an adolescent Flood Dragon.
Rather than relying on himself, it’s better to seek help from these few in the Mystic Regulation Office.
Rose Spencer thought it was a good plan, but he underestimated Scarlett Jennings.
Scarlett Jennings was willing to make this trip based on the principle of friendly negotiation, but it didn’t imply she was willing to be threatened.
“If you don’t retrieve it, I can forcibly extract the Soul Fetus. If the Soul Fetus gets damaged then, don’t blame me for not notifying you in advance.”
Scarlett Jennings maintained a calm expression, which startled the Serpent Demon. Surprised, he found it even more unbelievable,
“If you forcibly extract the Soul Fetus, the body of the person hosting it will also be damaged! Isn’t that your uncle?!”
“He is, but we’re not very close.”
Scarlett Jennings spoke the truth.
In her view, as long as Michael Jennings remains alive, it’s fine. As for any bodily damage, just consider it as a failed postpartum recovery.
The Serpent Demon realized she wasn’t swayed, feeling anxious, but as creatures without a backbone, they are always flexible.
Realizing that a hard approach was unsuccessful, he immediately softened, even showing a pleading expression,
“Dear friend, it was foolish of me. I’m willing to follow you back and retrieve the Soul Fetus, but regarding my wife, I still ask for your help. You are from the Mystic Regulation Office; you can’t ignore a demon disappearance like this.”
Rose Spencer’s swift change in attitude made even Dashiell click his tongue in disbelief.
But soon he chimed in,
“What he says isn’t wrong, this demon disappearance is indeed a matter for our Mystic Regulation Office.”
While speaking, he looked at Scarlett Jennings.
Scarlett Jennings: …
With the way you’re speaking, one would think you were part of the Mystic Regulation Office.
Dashiell responded with a mischievous grin.
Having joined the Mystic Regulation Office as a human Master, an exception, Scarlett Jennings knew this well and felt proud of it.
Though aware of the Mystic Regulation Office’s existence before, he never intended to interact with its demons.
But because Scarlett Jennings joined, he felt he should be a member of the Mystic Regulation Office too.
Seeing the sincere attitude of the Serpent Demon, which didn’t seem dishonest, Scarlett Jennings decided not to give him a hard time and simply said,
“Tell me about your wife’s disappearance.”
The Serpent Demon looked delighted and began to recount the story of his wife’s disappearance.
Rose Spencer’s wife was named Elara Spencer. They originally lived in a certain mountainous forest in Sea City.
A while ago, Elara Spencer was weak after laying an egg, so Rose Spencer sought out nourishing herbs to help fortify her health.
However, when he returned that day, he found the cave showing obvious signs of a struggle, a snake egg barely surviving in a corner, and his wife missing.
Given that demon offspring are hard to come by, he and his wife, unlike regular snakes, only produced one precious snake egg.
Sensing unfamiliar human presence and his wife’s residual demonic power in the cave, Rose Spencer realized that she must have been taken by humans.
Due to post-birth weakness, his wife’s demonic power decreased significantly, only allowing her to maintain her original form, and protect the snake egg during this time, leading to her capture by humans.
Angry and heartbroken, Rose Spencer first attempted to protect the snake egg’s damaged and weakened Soul Fetus before descending the mountain to Sea City with it.
He believed it would be easy to track his wife following her demonic aura, but her aura seemed to be concealed by something, leaving him unable to sense it.
Fortunately, while he couldn’t find his wife, he sensed the presence of the person who took her outside this club.
He purposefully transformed into a human form and entered this club, aiming to find the person who took his wife and harmed his child!
He believes that finding him would surely lead to his wife.
Rose Spencer then retrieved the snake egg from the employees’ storage room.
Ever since his wife and child encountered trouble, he brought the snake egg wherever he went, but despite nurturing it with demon energy, the Snake Treasure’s Soul Fetus remained very weak.
“This child’s Soul Fetus has been damaged since birth and hasn’t recovered. I feared it wouldn’t survive before finding Elara… that’s why I thought of extracting the Soul Fetus and nurturing it within a human stomach.”
After all, the responsibility for hatching the egg always fell on his wife.
He also feared that if he found his wife and hadn’t preserved their child, Elara would be heartbroken.
After listening to Rose Spencer recount his and his wife’s experiences with reddened eyes, Scarlett Jennings fell silent for a moment.
If his claims are true, their plight was truly undeserved.
However, such occurrences of humans hunting animals still happen frequently even now.
If profit is to be had, those people can ignore the natural regulations.
“I’ll report this to the Mystic Regulation Office.”
Scarlett Jennings paused, meeting Rose Spencer’s earnest gaze, and added, “I will also help you find your wife.”
Rose Spencer’s eyes brightened, “Really?”
Dashiell patted him, “If Scarlett says she’ll help, then she definitely will, rest assured.”
Others may not know, but Dashiell knows Scarlett Jennings well.
Before dinner time, Scarlett Jennings brought Rose Spencer back to the Jennings house.
By then, Michael Jennings had already woken up from his coma, but thinking there might be a Snake Fetus in his belly, he was still dispirited.
Until Scarlett Jennings brought Rose Spencer over, Rose Spencer held the snake egg and extracted the Serpent Spirit’s Soul Fetus from within Michael Jennings and carefully placed it back into the egg.
Probably because the Soul Fetus had been nurtured in Michael Jennings’ stomach for several days, he was even able to see the tiny form of a Serpent Spirit when it was removed.
Michael Jennings’ eyes widened initially, then… he fainted again.
Seeing this, Rose Spencer was a little nervous and quickly explained to Scarlett Jennings, “It wasn’t me!”
This guy is playing the victim!
Scarlett Jennings: …
“I know, he’s timid.”
Rose Spencer then asked, “I can’t sense Elara’s demonic aura. Do you have any way to find her?”
Scarlett Jennings pointed at the snake egg where the Soul Fetus had just returned and said,
“Though the demonic aura is concealed, there is a natural blood connection between the snake egg and the mother, allowing it to be used for sensing.”
As she spoke, she didn’t care whether Rose Spencer understood, and directly drew a quick array before extracting a wisp of Soul Energy from the snake egg and blending it into the array.
Not long after, a small light lit up on the positioning map within the array.
That was precisely where Elara Spencer was located.
…
Meanwhile.
In the basement of a tycoon’s mansion area.
A two-meter-long Floral Serpent lay still in a specially-made glass enclosure, with several wounds on its body that refused to heal and its demon energy slowly seeping away from the wound areas.
A middle-aged man stood in front of the glass enclosure, frowning as he looked at the Floral Serpent inside.
“Is this Floral Serpent going to die? Why isn’t it moving?”
The person in charge of feeding it beside him immediately laughed,
“Don’t worry, boss. It’s just to let it suffer for a few days which makes it easier to tame later; we definitely won’t kill it, if you don’t believe me, look.”
Saying this, he picked up an iron rod beside him and poked it through a special opening in the glass enclosure, casually prodding the Floral Serpent.
The Floral Serpent remained motionless.
Suddenly, the serpent’s eyes shifted to vertical pupils.
The previously still Floral Serpent sprang into motion, with sharp fangs bared, angrily and swiftly lunging towards the two outside the glass enclosure.