Ye Bing smiled and offered no explanation. After all, he was a Chaos Mage at school who couldn't even cast spells yet. If people knew he was actually an Ice System Middle-Level Mage, how would he explain it? To avoid trouble, silence was the best option.
"Alright then, let's play together next time," Ai Tutu said dejectedly.
"Mhm, next time for sure," Ye Bing nodded in agreement.
After seeing Mu Nujiao and Ai Tutu off, Ye Bing continued to wander around the mall until 4 PM before heading to the mission location.
As soon as Ye Bing arrived at the designated street, he saw Lingling holding a tablet, standing at the street entrance.
"Lingling, so early? It's not even time to meet yet," Ye Bing said as he walked over to Lingling.
"I'm not you. I need to set up the cameras in advance," Lingling replied without lifting her head.
Ye Bing rubbed his nose and looked at the tablet in Leng Lingling's hand. He saw dozens of dense screens, showing street corners, sewers, and even views from above.
"How were these cameras installed?" Ye Bing asked in surprise.
Leng Lingling took out a lollipop, licked it, and said, "You don't need to worry about that. I have my ways."
"Amazing. Now, do we just wait until dark?" Ye Bing gave Lingling a thumbs-up and then asked.
"Mhm, once the metallic noise starts, we'll know whether it's a person or a ghost causing trouble," Lingling nodded.
Two hours later, dusk fell, and all the pedestrians on the street had dispersed, leaving it empty. Clearly, they all knew that this street was eerie at night and dared not linger.
After a while, a series of harsh metallic noises suddenly echoed through the street.
Lingling handed Ye Bing a pair of earplugs and said, "These are special headphones that can block out noise."
Ye Bing took the earplugs from Lingling's hand and put them on. The world instantly became quiet, and Lingling's voice came through the earplugs: "No abnormalities detected on the surveillance. Let's go find the source of the metallic noise."
After Lingling finished speaking, she took a decibel meter and headed towards the sound source.
"Hey, wait for me!" Ye Bing hurriedly followed. He didn't know why Leng Lingling was so brave; she was clearly just an elementary school student with no fighting ability.
Ye Bing followed Lingling to an alley. Lingling frowned and said, "The source of the metallic noise is below here, but there are no sewer entrances around. What should we do?"
"Is it just down here? No problem, watch me. Lingling, get back a bit."
After Ye Bing finished speaking, his magic power surged, and the Golden Core in his dantian spun rapidly.
He pressed his hands to the ground.
"Seal!"
Ye Bing controlled his energy within a one-meter radius around him, transforming that area into a world of ice and snow. Then, a colorless Chaos Magic energy rose from his right hand, and he smashed it into the frozen ground.
Rumble~
The frozen ground instantly turned into ice powder, revealing a large hole with a diameter of one meter.
"Oh no, the thing below is trying to escape! Quick, catch it!" Lingling glanced at her instrument and immediately said to Ye Bing.
Ye Bing jumped directly into the hole. The sewer was pitch black, but Ye Bing was unaffected. As soon as he went down, he saw a monster made entirely of blades.
This monster made a harsh sound when it walked on the metal pipes.
"Lingling, what kind of monster is that? Why is its whole body made of blades?" Ye Bing asked into his earphone.
"Hmph, it's definitely another demon created by some organization. Ye Bing, can you catch it? If not, even a complete corpse will do," Lingling snorted coldly.
"Understood," Ye Bing replied, then extended his right hand, and an extremely cold blizzard blew towards the Blade Demon.
The Blade Demon sensed danger and immediately threw out several daggers and short swords that flew towards Ye Bing.
"Chaos - Order!"
Ye Bing reacted instantly to the Blade Demon's resistance. A surge of Chaos Magic energy enveloped the sharp weapons flying towards him. The next second, those weapons changed direction.
The Blade Demon was also frozen in place by Ye Bing's blizzard, emitting an ugly, harsh cry. Of course, Ye Bing was wearing earplugs and couldn't hear the Blade Demon's cries.
Just as Ye Bing thought the matter was over, the blades all over the Blade Demon's body glowed red, and the ice that had frozen the Blade Demon melted from the red light. Ye Bing instinctively felt a deadly danger.
"Damn it, this thing isn't going to self-destruct, is it?" Ye Bing cursed. Subconsciously, he mobilized all his magic power, and even his Golden Core spun wildly, squeezing out every last bit of magic power.
"Absolute Zero - Great Cold Without Snow!"
A powerful ice-blue magic energy erupted around Ye Bing. The sewer was instantly frozen, and the temperature on the ground throughout the entire street plummeted by more than ten degrees. Even the grass was covered in white frost.
"What did Ye Bing do? Why is it suddenly so cold?" Lingling said, sneezing twice at the entrance of the hole.
Ye Bing, who had unleashed this magic, was gasping for breath in the now ice-blocked sewer. Not far from him, the Blade Demon, now an ice sculpture, still maintained its self-destructing posture, but the red light on its body had disappeared.
"Lingling? Lingling, can you hear me?" Ye Bing called out weakly.
"Hey, I can hear you. Ye Bing, what did you do? The hole is frozen again, and there's a thick layer of ice on the street. It's so cold!" Lingling's voice trembled slightly.
"Can you get someone here? That Blade Demon tried to self-destruct, and I used all my magic power to freeze it completely," Ye Bing said weakly.
"Ah? Okay, okay, I'll go get someone right now. Don't you dare die!" Lingling replied.
Who knows how long passed, Ye Bing's eyelids grew heavier and heavier. Just as he was about to fall asleep, he heard the sound of ice breaking above him.
"Ye Bing, Ye Bing, are you okay? Hurry, someone! Also, that Blade Demon monster is here too!"
When Ye Bing woke up, he was in an unfamiliar room, and the little girl Lingling was sitting by the bed reading a book.
"Lingling? Where am I? How long have I been asleep?"
Lingling heard Ye Bing's voice, turned her head to look at him, and then said, "This is Qingtian Hunter Agency. You've been asleep for a day. How embarrassing! It was just a Servant-level man-made demon, and you, a Middle-Level Mage, actually ran out of magic power."
Facing Lingling's taunts, Ye Bing could only give an awkward smile. After all, Lingling was right; he had suffered from his lack of experience. If he had killed that demon at the very beginning, none of this would have happened...
"Lingling, don't say that about little Bing. Little Bing did nothing wrong. That Blade Demon wasn't an ordinary Servant-level minor demon. It had several concentrated magic stones inside it. If it had self-destructed, the entire street would have been blown sky high! Little Bing did very well by completely freezing those magic stones, which prevented a disaster!" Bao Laotou's voice came from the doorway. It turned out he had sensed Ye Bing's awakening and had also come to Ye Bing's room.
"Grandpa Song, what exactly was that Blade Demon? What's the deal with man-made demons?" Ye Bing asked.