What should you do if you encounter a human hero?

Of course, it's to—

Hide Scout Puki and do nothing!

Considering the situation earlier, the other party probably didn't notice Scout Puki. After all, there were so many people in the tavern, and Scout Puki hid quickly.

However, Lin Jun still felt awkward because this hero was completely different from the one in his imagination.

The heroes Dylan and Inanna talked about were big shots who challenged the heavens and the earth, killed the Demon King, and decimated the Demon Race hundreds of years ago.

Every time he thought about it, Lin Jun felt maybe he could also be that awesome one day.

But seeing this Level 18 hero suddenly on Slave Island as a Defense Commander, the gap was just too massive...

And how come there are other heroes besides me?

Lin Jun even began to suspect that the so-called heroes might be something like a breeding ground for Gu, where a bunch of them arrives, and only the one who achieves fame and success is the true hero.

Although he was puzzled about why a hero would appear here, Lin Jun decided not to associate with this hero; just thinking about it seemed troublesome.

So Lin Jun didn't even mention this to Dylan, just told him to avoid that Defense Commander.

...

After leaving the tavern, Dylan followed the address provided by the short guy and found a secluded basement, with a red flower pattern as the only marker at the door.

Upon pushing the door open, Dylan wrinkled his nose at the cloying sweet smell of opium smoke mixed in the air.

The basement was quite small, practically a narrow corridor leading to a counter at the end, behind which sat a woman smoking.

The woman lifted her eyes and looked at Dylan, somewhat surprised: "A guest, how rare."

As she spoke, intentionally or not, she pulled her neckline even lower.

[Name: Mengya]

[Race: Enchanting Demon]

[Level: 36]

A real Enchanting Demon!

Yet, Lin Jun didn't warn Dylan.

Seeing the woman flaunting herself, Dylan furrowed his brows even more—could the short guy have been messing with him by giving him the address of a red-light district?

However, Dylan cautiously said the code phrase: "Half a Sea Anemone?"

"Oh—" Mengya sighed listlessly, "If it's that kind of business... So, what do you want to know?"

Dylan looked at her, puzzled: "So... do your services also include entertaining guests?"

"Interested?" Mengya glanced at Dylan, seemingly preferring this line of work over selling information.

Dylan shook his head firmly.

"I'm here to inquire about a person named Bella."

To Dylan's surprise, as soon as he mentioned the name, Mengya pulled some documents from under the counter and threw them in front of Dylan, as if she had prepared them in advance.

"Two gold coins."

Dylan frowned deeply; at such a cheap price, it seemed like many copies had been sold...

After handing over two gold coins, he read the documents on the spot.

The information was detailed, clearly stating when Bella arrived on which ship and what she did on the island.

Only then did Dylan realize that the person who killed Glosa's secretary was actually Bella!?

And at the end of the report, it said: Escaped, whereabouts unknown.

This left Dylan both worried and relieved.

The final page showed a middle-aged Silver Level adventurer named Dylan, marked as having a father-daughter relationship with Bella...

Oh no!

Dylan reached for his sword, only to find himself staring into a pair of purple eyes.

Those eyes seemed like a vortex, and once Dylan met them, he couldn't look away, and his grip on the sword loosened.

[Fixed State: Charm]

"Really strange, how did you end up on the island? Mind sharing with me?"

The proprietress Mengya's hand slid across Dylan's face, but halfway through, she abruptly stopped her motion.

Frowning, she withdrew her hand, leaving a scratch on Dylan's face.

Injury revealed his true form. [Mimicry] failed, exposing Dylan's green face covered in fungal threads.

"Demon Race? Parasite type!"

In Mengya's moment of panic, Dylan's backpack suddenly sprang into action. Before she could react, the backpack straps were already binding her limbs, lifting her by her neck.

What!?

Mengya wanted to resist; all she needed was to command verbally, and this "charmed" Dylan would help her!

But the tentacles were too tight and only getting tighter, the suffocating pain mixed with pleasure surged through her mind.

She could no longer maintain her disguise, revealing bat wings and a thin tail.

Just as Mengya was about to pass out, a shadow with a dagger leaped from the ceiling.

However, Scout Puki was prepared. Only three tentacles bound Mengya, the fourth lashed up, knocking away the dagger and lifting the attacker.

[Name: Stinky Fish]

[Race: Goblin]

[Level: 26]

[Fixed State: Old Age (All basic attributes reduced by 20%)]

The Enchanting Demon was already rolling her eyes from being strangled, while the Goblin, who barely managed to move at first, suddenly said:

"Mercy, my lord! Have mercy! It's a misunderstanding, we're on the same side! Release Stinky Fish, I'll tell you everything!"

The goblin pleaded fluently in both the Human Universal Language and the Demon Language.

Goblin + Enchanting Demon.

This combination looked strange no matter how Lin Jun viewed it.

Mengya finally passed out, and at the same moment, Dylan, who had been standing still, regained his senses.

Only then did Lin Jun release the two creatures, though Mengya's limbs remained bound.

Once on the ground, the goblin began kowtowing earnestly.

"Thank you, my lord! Thank you! It was all a misunderstanding, Mengya was ignorant, she didn't know you were also imperial demons!"

After kowtowing for a while, Stinky Fish slapped Mengya to wake her up, dragging her to kneel nearby.

Lin Jun ignored the two demons occasionally glancing at Puki and had Dylan look for some rope to tie the Enchanting Demon properly since using fungal tentacles all the time was inconvenient.

Luckily, Dylan found not only rope under the counter but also whips and other miscellaneous items...

"Under which Duke do you serve?" Through Dylan, Lin Jun asked with a demeanor of a fellow Demon Race.

Finally, in full consciousness, the Enchanting Demon glanced at Dylan and Puki and then turned her face away, disgruntled.

"Hmph!"

Not cooperating, huh... then might as well...

"Oh, madam, why the sulk?"

The goblin, who was unharmed and not bound, kicked Mengya's butt, causing her to wriggle in protest.

The goblin then ran to the wall, pulled open a panel, and retrieved a stack of intelligence documents, once again kneeling before Puki.

"Sirs, we serve under Duke Night Kiss, we're on the same team! Don't mind her, anything she knows, I know too! Surely you have a mission here; feel free to look. It might help with your mission!"

Seeing the goblin full of survival instinct, even though Puki didn't know who Duke Night Kiss was, it nodded pretentiously.

However, Lin Jun was also quite conflicted at this point.

He hadn't expected the intelligence brokers here to be two members of the Demon Race, which seemed rather blatant, making it hard to believe no one had discovered this.

And now that Dylan knew about his daughter, what should be done with these two?

This goblin was so cooperative...

...

When Dylan left, Lin Jun thoughtfully locked the door behind them.

The two demons were left in the hallucination-spore-filled basement. As long as no one forcefully entered, they'd likely remain unconscious for a day.

He didn't kill them because of the short guy at the tavern. Dylan's visit to them had a traceable path, and killing them might unnecessarily complicate things.

If intelligence agents were killed, the other party would likely investigate thoroughly, but if they survived, they'd probably swallow their pride, thinking another peer exploited them.

In any case, since they were soon leaving Silver Sand Bay, there was no fear of petty revenge.

The intelligence in the hands of the two demons was diverse, covering all sorts of things about Silver Sand Bay.

What truly caught Lin Jun's attention was one of their latest tasks—surveilling Silver Sand Bay's new Defense Commander Tian Qi.

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