I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

"Are you saying... as long as we check the soul contracts of the participants in yesterday's Slaughter Cup, we can get the Brain Spirit's soul information... and find him?" Bodekoli's left mouth opened and closed, asking the human skin.

"That's right! The soul contract records its soul..." Bodekoli affirmed, "It may be able to change its appearance, it may be able to change its scent... but it absolutely has no way to change its soul!"

Li Yue breathed a slight sigh of relief upon hearing this—damn it, I transmigrated in the arena, wouldn't it be normal for the soul to change?

"Then what about the soul contract?" Bodekoli asked himself, "It's still in the arena, I didn't take it..."

"Wait." Bodekoli's left eye twitched, and the flies around him fluttered their wings, as if summoning something from afar.

During the time waiting for O'Keeffe to retrieve the soul contract, the library hall fell into an eerie silence—the Book Demons closed their pages and stood still, the slave scholars inexplicably separated themselves from the giant dogs with wooden tables, the Mini-Minis shivered, and Li Yue, like all Brain Spirits, slowly floated in the air, feeling uneasy.

Bodekoli and the swarm of flies were like the gaping maw of the abyss, currently lurking in the shadows, but ready to open their bloody mouths and devour at any moment.

Budiboge's voice did not reappear, but all the demons had a feeling—the Brain Spirit Lord of the library was still watching here, waiting for Bodekoli's human-skin soul search.

Judging from a certain fragile logic, although Li Yue knew that the soul in his current body was definitely not the one that signed the contract, he was still a little afraid that some soul fragments remained, and that the human skin would sense something.

When the blue magic hourglass passed the distance of an inch, a group of piercing buzzing sounds also rang from the corridor—the creatures of the library turned their eyes to the door, and saw hundreds of large flies carrying a thin parchment scroll, arrogantly unfurling it.

It was time to reveal the truth. Bodekoli didn't waste any more words, and with one hand, he shook off the human skin, instantly tearing it apart!

The human skin was composed of hundreds of different people. At this time, once torn apart, it immediately showed a tendency to flee in all directions; Bodekoli swung his long whip in the other hand, hitting the air, and also bringing a "crack" sound!

The fleeing human skin suddenly closed together, obediently gathering in front of the parchment scroll and rubbing against each other...

Li Yue had prepared for the worst. Once a malicious prompt targeting him popped up, he would decisively "summon" an otherworldly demon to create chaos, and then take the opportunity to transform into a skeleton soldier and escape.

But inexplicably, Li Yue didn't think that the human skin could really find him through soul searching—the more powerful the spell, the more rigorous it would be. O'Keeffe was looking for the 15 Brain Spirits in the Fifth Library who signed the soul contract, what does it have to do with Li Yue?

Li Yue is a heterotroph, even among demons.

After performing the ritual for a long time, the scattered human skin was like snowflakes fluttering all over the hall, repeatedly floating back and forth in the hall dozens of times; during this time, sweat appeared on Bodekoli's forehead, and some carefree Mini even dozed off.

"Then what?" Bodekoli's left eye was about to crack open.

"The soul you are looking for... is not here..." Budiboge's voice sounded in a timely manner, announcing the failure of O'Keeffe's operation, "None of the Brain Spirits here... ever belonged to the Fifth Library..."

"Go back..." Budiboge dismissed the guests.

"Lord O'Keeffe... this is not right, the aura of that soul is here, it must be that there are too many Brain Spirits nearby, which caused my slaves to be confused..." Bodekoli would rather face the top 100 ace gladiators in the arena than stay in this embarrassing moment, "Or it has some way... to change its soul..."

Bodekoli, who had no way to escape, tried his best to explain, and he was right.

"Pa!" O'Keeffe burst Bodekoli's left eye, revealing a red fly, deeply embedded in that empty eye socket.

"Change the soul? Show me how you change it?" O'Keeffe mocked.

"Lord O'Keeffe! There must be too much interference! The escaped Brain Spirit will definitely reveal its flaws! I am willing to guard the library! Always guard here! Once it makes a mistake, I will find it! Make it pay the price!" Bodekoli understood O'Keeffe's style of doing things very well, and tried his best to find a way out.

Listening to the gladiator's plea, Li Yue didn't think that after today... he would still have a way to find him.

"Hmph... pay the price?" O'Keeffe was noncommittal, "But the next Slaughter Cup... is in three days..."

The nobles, demons, and scribes who suffered losses in yesterday's Slaughter Cup... all need O'Keeffe to appease as soon as possible, so how can he wait for Bodekoli to wait for the rabbit and catch Li Yue?

"Enough... I have given you opportunities... There is no one you are looking for here... Leave..." Budiboge issued another order to dismiss the guests, "There is still work... that needs the Brain Spirits to complete as soon as possible... We can't... waste any more time..."

"A mere Brain Spirit, what important things can there be!" Bodekoli's left face showed a ferocious expression.

"Demon Expeditionary Force..." Budiboge uttered a word.

O'Keeffe seemed to have remembered something, and fell silent for a moment.

Li Yue gradually felt relieved, knowing that he was safe, and also understood some of the situation in front of him—the Brain Spirit Lord Budiboge owed O'Keeffe something, so he didn't dare to resist; O'Keeffe owed a huge sum of money, advanced the Slaughter Cup to three days later, and wanted to make a fortune, so he had to find himself.

Originally, O'Keeffe was of course unscrupulous, and he would not hesitate to detain all the Brain Spirits to complete the capture, but who knew that the "Demon Expeditionary Force" needed the Brain Spirits of the library to complete "something", O'Keeffe couldn't afford to offend them, and couldn't do it hard under the constraint...

Then what to do? Li Yue couldn't think of any way for O'Keeffe except to "retreat". As for the debts he owed to other demons... it's best to be enough to crush the King of the Arena.

But speaking of which, how could the Demon Expeditionary Force be related to the Brain Spirits? Li Yue still remembered that when translating the "Noble List of Kai Li 259", this word seemed to have appeared.

"Demon Expeditionary Force... want to stop me? No, no, no, I think you have some misunderstanding..." O'Keeffe's words were astonishing, and he still didn't want to leave!

"I said just now that today, I must take a Brain Spirit away."

O'Keeffe's swarm of flies suddenly dispersed, covering the entire hall of the library.

"Hmm..." Budiboge groaned, without making a direct response.

Li Yue became nervous again—was he going to draw lots? The probability of one in sixty, wouldn't he be drawn?

No, if the scope is limited to the fifteen Brain Spirits in the Fifth Library, it would be even more dangerous.

Li Yue didn't like this probability very much, but he couldn't understand what Budiboge was thinking at all—he obviously didn't dare to really tear his face with Budiboge, and he couldn't accurately find himself, so why did he still insist?

【Current object... Status: Rage / Unwilling...】

O'Keeffe's information has been included in the Demon Illustrated Book, Li Yue subconsciously analyzed it, and then remembered that O'Keeffe's "action prediction success rate" was only a pit-inducing 873%, completely unable to predict.

【Kill them... Kill them all... To hell with the Demon Expeditionary Force... Kill them all... Arena riot...】

Budiboge's thoughts were chaotic, Li Yue didn't even know which of his thoughts were real, and which were false.

Or perhaps... all of them are real.

"I've decided..." O'Keeffe said through Bodekoli's body.

"Budiboge, come with me!"

"You come to participate in the Slaughter Cup in two days, the one you owe me will be written off, and the soul contract will have completed its mission!"

Budiboge was silent, pretending not to hear.

"Budiboge, come with me!" O'Keeffe shouted.

【Let Budiboge pretend to be an ordinary Brain Spirit... Buy him to win... and then buy him to die...】

"Written off... huh..." Budiboge couldn't pretend not to hear any longer, and responded in a murmur, "Then I demand... that the Demon King come to watch the battle..."

"Hehe, are you afraid I'll play dirty tricks?" O'Keeffe felt happy, "Okay!"

【Once you're in my territory, can the Demon King protect you? Anyway, you didn't say which match...】

Li Yue kept reading O'Keeffe's heart like this, unfolding a ferocious picture. As for the bargaining process between the two demons later... Li Yue didn't listen too carefully, anyway, it had nothing to do with him—he was more worried about the "work" related to the Demon Expeditionary Force.

Finally, Budiboge and O'Keeffe finished negotiating, and the flies on the ceiling returned to Bodekoli's side, surrounding him.

He survived—the pressure in Li Yue's heart eased a little.

"Then... see you in two days." The red fly was still embedded in Bodekoli's left eye socket, even humming a little tune, "I am the Gambling Demon O'Keeffe~ I never play fair games~"

"My beloved King of the Arena, Lord O'Keeffe... I am willing to stay here, generation after generation, to capture Brain Spirits for you." With Bodekoli's words, Li Yue felt a little annoyed again.

"How can that be? The Brain Spirit Lord's Slaughter Cup debut needs a worthy opponent..." The red fly didn't mean to leave Bodekoli at all, driving the gladiator ranked 281st in the arena, to leave the library together.

Bodekoli could no longer utter any words, and didn't know how to get through the battle with Budiboge in two days. When he left, he scanned all the Brain Spirits in the hall, his whip like a snake, his eyes like fire, hating all the Brain Spirits.

Li Yue's mood, on the other hand, was like a long, gentle slope after a thrilling roller coaster ride—O'Keeffe found a scapegoat, found a way to get back his money... he wouldn't care about himself in a short time.

The Brain Spirit life in Demon King City returned to "normal".