Love letters are not allowed in the exorcism notebook!-Chapter 423 - 1 The Moonlight Tonight is Probably Beautiful

Li Mumu ate her ice cream with grace.

She took small licks at a constant pace, and after finishing, she even held onto the ice cream stick, never tossing it away carelessly.

At this moment, contemplating whether eating pineapple ham pizza with ice cream would cause diarrhea is a real mood killer.

Wang Yunxiao actually didn’t like Western food all that much, especially not such exorbitantly priced pizza. Even though it was ridiculously high in calories, it just didn’t feel as satisfying in the stomach as sorghum rice and flatbread.

But under the current circumstances, he had no room for choice.

Proper local diners, even if they weren’t closed at this hour, lacked the service consciousness to offer delivery.

Of course, these were all trivial matters. What he ate wasn’t important; who he ate with was.

Eating pizza on the hospital rooftop with Eldest Miss Li was a very happy thing.

"You must have guessed by now,"

Wang Yunxiao said softly, "Although my brothers and I have a rather unsavory reputation outside, we’ve actually never done anything outrageous. On the contrary, we even draw a salary from the police department."

"Hmm..."

In fact, ever since that last time Wang Yunxiao went with her and her dad to the police station, acting as if he was familiar with everyone, Li Mumu had her suspicions.

"The previous director was removed due to his misconduct. The new Director Qin was transferred from the military, bringing his own soldiers who were clueless about the situation in Tianmen City. Hence, they co-opted us local snakes to deal with some jobs that were inconvenient or unfamiliar to them."

Wang Yunxiao selectively relayed the facts.

"So you’re basically the militia?"

"Something like that," he replied.

Hearing Wang Yunxiao say this, Li Mumu understood.

The Federal Government’s Safo City even had an armed militia, and not a small one at that.

The weaponry and organization of these armed militias far surpassed the standard police level.

"This time, the police department mobilized almost all available forces to investigate the Western heretical sect. We were running around with them and unexpectedly caught bacterial viruses from those cultists who were no longer behaving like humans. Everyone in the Nantong District police department, from the director to us irregular soldiers, got infected."

This was the truth.

Wang Yunxiao still couldn’t figure out how the Holy Grail Church had managed to spread the bacterial virus so rapidly. The only suspects were those Salvation Army Knights who, like nanobots, could reassemble at any time, but this did not explain why the soldiers in the outer blockade area were also getting infected.

It just goes to show... you’ve come up with such an advanced form of bioweapon attack, so why cling to some primitive form of Lilith worship like religious fanatics?

It felt like using 21st-century high-tech weapons in an old-fashioned firing squad execution, a bizarre anachronism.

Time and space...

An idea struck Wang Yunxiao, could it be some damn futuristic meddler’s shenanigans again?

"Aren’t you afraid of me?" he asked.

"What?"

Wang Yunxiao was preoccupied with his thoughts and didn’t immediately catch what Li Mumu was talking about.

Turning to look, he saw the tomato sauce sticking to the corner of the young girl’s mouth.

"I never told you about my mother being a witch."

Li Mumu blinked, her cheeks flushing slightly.

"Ah, about that... I wouldn’t say I’m scared, but the key issue is that I don’t understand what a witch is!"

Wang Yunxiao glanced at Li Mumu with skepticism, "Didn’t you say you didn’t inherit the witch bloodline?" 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

"I did inherit it, but inheriting the bloodline and having talent are two different things."

Li Mumu complained, "Everyone says that people of Ming are all skilled in martial arts, what do you think? To become a witch, one needs to learn a lot of complex professional knowledge. I’m just too dumb to understand any of it, that’s why my mom thinks I’m useless."

Wang Yunxiao couldn’t help but ask curiously, "What knowledge do witches have to learn?"

"Math, biology, astronomy, space physics..."

"Alright, stop there, I get it!"

Just hearing the names of these subjects, Wang Yunxiao could empathize with Li Mumu’s suffering.

"If you ask about any witch abilities I inherited, it’s probably prophecy."

Li Mumu sighed, "But it’s not the kind of detailed prophecy about what happens on a certain date and at a certain place. It’s more like a sudden intuition if someone is planning something against me."

Spider sense, huh? So you’re not the Scarlet Witch, but Spider-Man?

Wang Yunxiao thought to himself that he could rest easy now. If you said you were the type to stew potions in a big cauldron, tossing in lizard tails and frog eyeballs, I really couldn’t deal with that.

"What about your family’s hereditary illness, is it a side effect of the witch bloodline?"

"It’s not so much a side effect, more that my own lack of talent doesn’t allow me to tap into the real power of the witch bloodline. It’s like a car engine that’s not good quality: the car won’t run smoothly, and if the gasoline doesn’t burn completely, you’ll smell the pungent odor inside."

Li Mumu gazed at the city lights in the distance and spoke solemnly, "I know I’m not smart and sometimes act without thinking. Today, I almost caused a huge mess. When I was studying in Safo, those foreigners discriminated against me for being a witch’s child, alienating me no matter what. After returning to my own country, I was hoping to conceal my past..."

"Don’t worry, I won’t be prejudiced against you, and I won’t tell anyone about this."

Wang Yunxiao patted his chest to guarantee it.

Eldest Miss Li, why lack confidence when you’re so wealthy?

Forget your mom being a witch; even if you grow three heads right now, considering the donations you made to the school, we could actually accept that.

This child is all good, just too naïve.

But what can you expect? She’s a teenage girl; how mature could she really be?

But her mother...

Recalling his last visit to her home, Wang Yunxiao remembered Li Ya’s eerie demeanor.

At that time, he hadn’t thought much of it, but now, hearing her speak, he felt that something was off.

Li Mumu’s last disappearance, could that have been her mother’s doing?

Phew... Finally smoothed over today’s incident, this fool doesn’t seem to have any suspicions. Dammit, I even had to resort to using my charms, but for the sake of today’s pizza, I’ll let it slide.

Li Mumu watched Wang Yunxiao, and Wang Yunxiao also watched Li Mumu.

After opening up to each other, both felt their relationship had grown closer, and they couldn’t help but share a knowing smile.

Tonight’s moonlight... sorry, there was no moon, but that’s Earth’s fault, the moonlight must still be beautiful.