Without sufficient spiritual energy, many of them couldn’t even maintain their humanoid forms and were ultimately dealt with by the Special Investigation Bureau, all to prevent mass panic.
Ordinary people believed they lived in a world governed entirely by science, and the government made sure nothing emerged to shake that belief.
It was all about maintaining public order.
Some demons worked diligently, while others caused trouble.
Her entrustor, Yuan Liang, was an eagle demon.
He had always lived alone and worked as a webcomic artist.
Just imagine an eagle sitting in front of a laptop drawing webcomics—what a disturbing image.
He was a total shut-in, and he barely made enough to get by.
He was an eagle, so his eyesight should’ve been excellent, but he wore glasses and stared at a screen all day. Even demons were getting myopia now.
Computers and phones were truly toxic.
Originally, Yuan Liang had been just an ordinary demon, who also was a hopelessly single, reclusive otaku.
One day, while out shopping, he ran into a girl.
There were quite a few demons chasing after her.
She bumped into Yuan Liang in a panic.
Then, she hid behind him and begged for his help.
From her scent, Yuan Liang could tell the girl was human. However, she carried demonic energy on her body.
A human with demonic energy. And not just any—it was dense.
Such thick demonic energy was irresistibly tempting to demons.
The girl must be pregnant with a demon’s offspring.
And possibly the offspring of a powerful demon, given how rich the energy was.
In this modern society where spiritual energy was rapidly disappearing, devouring the girl—and the demonic fetuses in her womb—would provide demons immense benefit.
Which meant this girl was basically like Tang Sanzang’s flesh. She was irresistible to demons.
The girl hid behind Yuan Liang.
Yuan Liang was a demon after all. His fingers morphed into talons, and he swiftly drove off the little demons.
Only then did the girl breathe a sigh of relief and thank Yuan Liang.
Yuan Liang picked up the items that had fallen to the ground, lifted the bag, and prepared to leave.
But the girl followed him.
The demon fetuses inside the girl’s uterus was greatly appetising to Yuan Liang. He nearly lost control and almost plunged his hand into her stomach to extract the demon offspring and stuff it into his mouth.
Human food had no energy to speak of.
Yet the girl believed Yuan Liang was a good person. After all, he’d helped her drive away those demons from earlier, and she insisted on tagging along with him.
She practically clung to him shamelessly as she followed Yuan Liang all the way home.
Yuan Liang was on the verge of tearing the girl apart and devouring her flesh and blood.
But the girl didn’t seem to notice. She kept trying desperately to get closer to him.
In the end, the girl moved in with Yuan Liang, and he even had to expend his own energy to conceal her demonic energy.
Otherwise, other demons would keep come swarming in to her.
And so began their cohabitation.
The girl was carrying a snake egg. As an eagle, snakes were Yuan Liang’s natural enemies.
That feeling was unbearable.
Several times, while he was sound asleep, Yuan Liang’s hands had turned into talons, ready to slice open the girl’s stomach.
But when he looked at her peaceful sleeping face, he couldn’t bring himself to do it, and forced himself to suppress his instincts.
He kept replaying the girl’s expressions and smile in his mind.
Yes, that was right—Yuan Liang seemed to have fallen in love with her.
As a shut-in demon, Yuan Liang was pathetic enough to fall for a girl who was pregnant by another man.
He kept looking after her until she gave birth to two eggs.
Then he continued caring for them until the little snakes hatched.
He should have torn the snakes apart immediately, but instead, he found himself stroking them, tending to them.
He treated them like his own children by doing things like buying meat for them, and not just any meat, but the good stuff.
Yuan Liang felt that this kind of life was actually quite nice. Even though he was raising two greedy little snakes…
Living with the girl was worth it.
She was the first reader of his webcomic, and she’d even give him feedback.