I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

"Why do you ask this? Why do you want me to leave you? I won't leave you."

Yingying was very firm.

"I'm doing this for our hunt."

Seeing Yingying's mood starting to drop, Li Yue immediately explained, "We don't have any helpers, we can only rely on ourselves, and this hunter is just annoying by following us without making a move."

"Hunters usually prepare thoroughly and then capture their prey with one strike,"

Yingying analyzed the hunter's thinking.

"So that's why we need to find him before he's ready and kill him,"

Li Yue nodded.

"As long as we can find the path that the hunter will inevitably use to track us, you can lie in ambush there, which would be a simple trap…"

"Then where do you want me to go when I leave? I can't leave you,"

Yingying said sadly.

"Are you talking about not being able to leave in terms of the rules, or in terms of your feelings?"

Li Yue patiently tried to find the root of Yingying's worries.

"I just don't want to leave."

"Then… we can only grit our teeth and keep going like this, waiting for the hunter to get ready and find us…"

Li Yue pretended to be dejected, not forcing Yingying.

But it was even more effective than forcing her.

"Okay… I can leave your brain, but I still need to be close to you,"

Yingying covered Li Yue's body, massaging his skin and bones.

"You mean… you can exist attached to my joints?"

Li Yue asked more carefully, "Can you split?"

"I can't yet… But why would I split?"

As she spoke, Yingying broke Li Yue's arm, pulled out a section of his forearm bone from the opening at the elbow joint, and threw it far away into the mine tunnel.

Li Yue didn't understand what Yingying was doing.

Then, in the blink of an eye, Yingying instantly flashed to the forearm bone.

"You're very fast…"

Li Yue was surprised.

"I can move in this way anywhere there is your bone, tentacle, or skin,"

Yingying indicated that she didn't need to split.

"I can even communicate with you using your shadow."

As Yingying spoke, she picked up the shadow of the forearm bone, and the shadow of Li Yue's main body was also pulled away from the ground.

"That's great…"

Li Yue didn't expect it to be so convenient.

"Is there a distance limit?"

"I don't know, a few kilometers?

Anyway, it's enough to cover the underground of Saint Ore Town,"

Yingying silently gestured, drawing a picture of a small town with the shadow.

"Very good, then we can try making a trap…"

An idea quickly took shape in Li Yue's mind.

"How do we do it?"

"Imagine you are a hunter, chasing a tiger…"

Li Yue began to use a metaphor.

"What is a tiger?"

The Chaos Continent didn't seem to have this kind of animal, and Yingying was very confused.

"You are a hunter, chasing a gecko… Do you know what a gecko is?"

Li Yue changed the metaphor.

"I know, tiger-striped gecko, psychedelic gecko,"

Yingying nodded, signaling Li Yue to continue.

"The gecko's tail suddenly breaks off, what do you do?"

"I eat its tail?"

"Correct,"

Li Yue nodded.

"Oh, so the gecko's main body can escape, and its tail becomes food for the hunter…"

Yingying sometimes expanded and sometimes shrank.

"But I'm not food…"

"Wait, are you going to abandon me?"

Yingying felt that something was wrong.

"Listen to me finish…"

"Or you are an experienced hunter, knowing that the gecko is trying to escape by shedding its tail,"

Li Yue continued.

"So you continue to track the gecko's main body, leaving its tail behind."

"Then what?"

"Then? What if this gecko's tail can eat people?"

Li Yue asked Yingying rhetorically.

"So you want to leave behind many tails, if he eats the first tail, you come back and eat him, if he ignores the tails and chases you, you will use the tails to surround him!"

Yingying understood.

"Yes, what do you think?"

In a short time, Li Yue could only come up with this method to lure out the tracker and counterattack—when the prey flees quickly, the hunter doesn't know its destination and will inevitably show himself.

"I think it's cool,"

Yingying became excited.

"Then let's do it, time is tight, don't wait,"

Li Yue said, starting to take off his clothes and stuff them into the Shadow Space.

Having spent these days together, Li Yue and Yingying already had a silent understanding, and Yingying had become an important backpack for storing gold coins, dominoes, minerals, and sundries.

Tearing out all the bones from the opening in his skin, leaving only a skull, Yingying tied these bones to Li Yue's skull, so he could control the rhythm of the tail shedding.

"Remember, if he fights with you, don't get entangled.

I guess if he destroys the shadow of your attachment, you will be in great danger, so you have to escape,"

Li Yue finally told Yingying a few words.

Yingying didn't speak, with a strange feeling.

"While escaping… call me back, and we'll deal with him together,"

Li Yue didn't notice Yingying's strangeness, and pointed to his shadow.

"I will,"

Yingying hugged Li Yue.

Although Li Yue was very confused, he didn't waste time, and quickly stretched out a tentacle from the opening in his collarbone, looking for a suitable direction to run.

"Let's run towards the mine first, the terrain and distance are more suitable…"

"If he doesn't chase us, we'll just light up the anchor point there…"

In order to improve efficiency, Li Yue set the destination at the Liejin Mountain mine.

"Go!"

Yingying held a finger bone and landed on the ground, then poked Li Yue, sending him flying.

Li Yue waved his tentacles, accelerating wildly underground.

… …

"Huh? He found me?"

On the outskirts of Saint Ore Town, a hero was standing on the treetop of a tall tree.

The hero was wearing an indigo blue robe, slightly bowed his head, revealing hawk-like eyes and a sharp mustache.

From a distance, he looked like a nobleman, or an explorer.

He was Hunter Hentlar, who was resurrected from the stones of Zilo Mountain and came from afar.

After delaying for some time in Red Oil Town, Hentlar carefully examined the bodies of the Red Oil cultists, knowing that the target left with a horse and a large box.

The horse named Rocinante had been found and was now tied under the tree.

There were no extra clues on the horse's body.

Hentlar tracked all the way from Zilo Mountain to Liejin Mountain.

After inquiring about Li… that is, Don Quixote's actions, he still didn't understand the person's purpose.

Hentlar didn't even understand the purpose of tracking Li.

He only knew that there was a voice in his heart calling him, calling him to Li's side.

So, after robbing many merchants and enriching his reserve of various arrows and traps, Hentlar still didn't directly go to find the culprit who caused the "Masked Society Incident."

Mainly because he hadn't figured out how to deal with it.

Kill him? Eat him?

Why can't I remember anything…

Hentlar's memory was still stuck on wanting to go to the Demon King's City to hunt the only prey, and then complete the promotion of "Hunter King."

At that time, faith had not collapsed, and the Holy City had not yet become a ruin.

Hentlar didn't understand why after sleeping, the entire continent seemed to be different.

His map was also gone…

This was very inconvenient.

After inquiring that the Demon King's City had come out in full force and invaded the territory of the Old Holy See, Hentlar temporarily gave up the attempt to confront the demons head-on, and decided to wait until the empire officially fought them before looking for the only prey…

Hentlar felt that he had forgotten very important information.

And this information was hidden in Li's body.

"This is a bit too sensitive… How did he find me? What is he hiding?"

On the tree, Hentlar tilted his head, staring at the underground with eagle eyes.

"Forget it, since I've been discovered, let's meet…"

Hentlar jumped off the treetop, weaving through the forest, following Li Yue's trajectory.

"I found a shadow…"

Yingying quickly wrote on Li Yue's shadow.