He just broke up with his girlfriend and is already living with the devilish rich girl.

Night fell, and all was quiet.

Inside a room in a residential building.

The man gently closed the bedroom door, a hint of weariness on his face.

He had just put his daughter to sleep.

Back in the living room, he slumped onto the sofa, rubbing his aching neck.

He's been living in constant fear of being next in the company's layoffs.

Sigh... I should have known better than to participate in that damn project back then.

Now I'm in a precarious situation... and I've committed such a huge sin...

What a sin!

Just then, he felt a slight itch on the back of his neck.

He instinctively reached out to scratch, but touched a sticky liquid. When he looked at his hand, he saw that the liquid was black and had a faint fishy smell.

The man looked up in confusion at the ceiling.

On the ceiling, the monster lay there silently, its limbs outstretched like a giant gecko.

Its eyeless dog face had a wide-open mouth staring directly at him.

Drops of black saliva dripped from the corners of his mouth.

"ah……!"

The man's mind went blank; fear, like a cold hand, instantly gripped his heart.

His legs buckled, and he slid off the sofa and knelt on the floor.

The monster climbed down from the ceiling, its long, thin limbs making no sound as they touched the floor.

It walked step by step towards the man.

Lower that ferocious dog head and bring it close to his face.

A putrid stench assaulted my senses.

"...Where...is it...?"

The monster emitted a hoarse, broken sound from its throat, like two pieces of sandpaper rubbing together.

It seems to be questioning something.

"I...I don't know anything...I really don't know..."

The man was terrified, tears streaming down his face.

"Please... spare me... spare me..."

The monster seemed very dissatisfied with his answer.

It slowly turned its head and looked at the tightly closed bedroom door.

A warm, soft light shone through the crack in the door from a nightlight.

The little girl, fast asleep, was hugging a teddy bear and had a slight smile on her lips.

"No...no! No!"

The man instantly understood what was happening. He scrambled over and grabbed the monster's leg, frantically kowtowing and begging for mercy.

"Please! Don't touch my daughter! She doesn't know anything! Please!"

However, after the monster saw the sleeping girl in the bedroom, its body suddenly began to tremble violently.

An indescribable rage and fury erupted from it.

It seemed to have been stimulated by something.

"Why...why! Why! Why!!"

It let out a shriek that sounded inhuman and abruptly flung the man at its feet away.

Like a maddened wild beast, it pounced on the bedroom door.

At that very moment—

"Bang!"

The living room window shattered with a crash!

A complex magic circle, shimmering with golden light, appeared out of thin air in front of the monster, blocking its path.

"I'm sorry."

A languid and alluring voice rang out.

The tall nun raised one hand, and a gust of wind rushed in through the broken window.

The wind made the hem of her black nun's habit flutter loudly.

A pair of long, slender legs encased in black stockings were revealed, glistening alluringly in the moonlight.

"This road is blocked."

The monster showed no intention of continuing the fight when it saw the nun suddenly appear.

It immediately turned around and pounced on the broken window, trying to escape.

However, just as it jumped out of the window and its body leaped into the air...

A petite figure descended from the sky like a cannonball.

"Sorry!!! You scum!!! No flying allowed here, hahaha!!!"

The petite nun Evelyn, dressed in the same style of nun's habit, stomped hard on the monster's back.

"boom!"

She stomped the monster down from mid-air.

It crashed heavily onto the lawn below, causing the ground to tremble.

The moment it hit the ground, the monster immediately tried to transform into a black shadow and escape into the shadows.

But a tall figure had already blocked its way.

The tall priest, wearing white gloves, delivered a powerful straight punch without saying a word.

It slammed hard into the monster's face.

"Bang!"

The monster was knocked off balance.

The priest, having gained the upper hand, pressed his advantage relentlessly, unleashing a barrage of punches.

Each punch whistled through the air, forcing the monster to retreat repeatedly, emitting painful roars.

Finally, the priest delivered an uppercut that sent the monster flying into the air, then looked up and shouted.

"Arya!"

The tall nun Arya descended from the sky, her hands clasped tightly in front of her chest, as if in prayer.

Golden light gathered in her hands.

A more complex magic circle rapidly unfolded around her.

Countless mysterious runes flowed and combined in the air, forming a huge golden cage.

"Announcement—"

"I am an instrument of the Holy Spirit, and my words are the keys of divine pronouncements."

"Use prayer as your guide, and faith as your anchor."

"To unfold the Ninth Sacred Domain here."

"Power restrictions lifted."

"Arya! Can you hurry up?! Stop showing off!! Just cast the spell already!!"

"Besides, this thing is only a B-rank; what kind of Sacred Domain are you going to unleash?"

Evelyn was so anxious that she stamped her feet as she watched the barrier, which was clearly ready but wouldn't be released until she finished chanting.

"Sister, you don't understand, this is called a sense of ritual."

The golden magic circle suddenly contracted, about to completely capture the monster.

In that very instant!

The monster suddenly let out an extremely piercing scream!

"grumble--!!!"

The sound was no longer a roar, but a sonic attack that could directly shock the brain and soul!

The golden magic circle trembled violently at the shriek, and countless cracks appeared on it.

"not good!"

Arya's expression changed.

The magic circle was interrupted.

It was just a tiny bit off.

The monster seized the opportunity to transform into a shadow and vanished into the night in an instant.

"Arya! Are you an idiot?! Could you at least shorten your prayers next time?!"

Petite Evelyn stormed over, pointing her finger at her sister and yelling.

"I finally managed to stomp it down! You were just one step away from finishing it off! And you let it get away! Are you an idiot?!"

"Hmm~ That's quite unexpected."

Arya showed no remorse whatsoever.

Instead, she had an expression that suggested everything was under her control.

"If we just take him back, the China Special Administration Bureau will definitely come to demand his return."

The priest then came over and asked.

"Arya, do you sense anything?"

"Hmm~ The secrets hidden on this thing don't seem so simple, so I've anchored it. Let's see what little secrets it's hiding~"

……

……

The back door of the supermarket.

Bai Ziheng, who was on night shift, and Maoyou, who had just finished his live stream, each brought a small stool and sat by the back door.

The cat yawned again, took out two cigarettes from its pocket, and handed one to Bai Ziheng.

"Ugh, I'm exhausted. The top spender on my leaderboard bought ten more Carnival items today and insisted I bark like a dog. I'm just..."

The two were just about to light up cigarettes and take a good rest.

Suddenly, a piercing shriek came from afar.

The sound pierced the silence of the night, like a sharp knife, stabbing fiercely into their eardrums.

"Holy crap, meow! What the hell was that noise, meow!?"

The cat was so frightened that its fur stood on end, and it dropped the cigarette in its hand to the ground.

Bai Ziheng stood up, looked in the direction from which the shout came, and frowned.

Others might just find the sound jarring.

But he could tell.

Deep within that shrill cry lies something...

A sorrow that borders on despair.