Meeting his icy gaze, Jiang Sui’s wrist, which had been frozen in mid-air, was grabbed by Lu Yunze, forcing her to stop.
“Would you like to play some more?”
“That… that was just a misunderstanding.”
“Oh? A misunderstanding? If I hadn’t woken up in time, would you still be calling it a misunderstanding?”
Faced with his questioning, Jiang Sui first closed her eyes to think, then decisively chose flight as the best strategy. Taking advantage of Lu Yunze’s momentary lack of reaction, she pulled her wrist free, turned, and ran toward the door.
But Lu Yunze was already prepared. He grabbed the back collar of her clothes, causing Jiang Sui, who had just sped up, to nearly choke herself.
“I think we need to have a good talk. About the forces behind you, and your purpose.”
Because she kept appearing around him, Lu Yunze was very worried she would cause harm to himself, Jiang Sui, and the Luo Family. He could no longer ignore her like before.
Lu Yunze’s arm wrapped around her slender waist, lifting the girl up and slinging her over his shoulder.
“Put me down, or I’ll get angry.”
The force of Jiang Sui’s struggles on his shoulder was like that of a kitten. Unable to match his strength, she could only pound his chest with her fists.
“You’re angry? I’m even angrier than you.”
Lu Yunze said this as he started walking toward the exit.
“W-wait! Let’s see if you’ll still be angry when we get to the police station!”
“Police station?”
Was she going to be turned in? In both her lives, she had always been a law-abiding good citizen and had never been to jail. Jiang Sui took a sharp breath, thinking to herself, ‘I’m not going to be handed over to the Execution Division, am I?’
More importantly, the Hidden One was missing, and she had inexplicably appeared here. The connection between these events, even if Lu Yunze truly had no brains, would seem suspicious.
If her identity were exposed, given his personality, he would definitely be furious and humiliated. Whatever goodwill he had would turn into pure hatred. Once she got out of jail, he would definitely take revenge on her.
Jiang Sui could even imagine the scene: a dim basement, a man venting his rage, and a bruised and battered girl forced to pant beneath him.
Just thinking about it made her thighs clench. It was a bit thrilling, but not good at all!
Even if someone were to be locked in a dark room, it should be me locking up Lu Yunze. Since when could a kept dog train its master?
Thinking this, Jiang Sui’s mouth couldn’t help but start babbling nonsense:
“You can’t just leave. There’s still a big secret here waiting for you to discover.”
“What?” Lu Yunze froze, his steps actually stopping. “What big secret? What else is hidden here?”
“Uh, well, it’s just…”
As she spoke, Jiang Sui began a frantic brainstorming session.
Seeing her hesitate, Lu Yunze frowned. “You’re not messing with me, are you? Huh?”
His palm came down hard on the girl’s bottom. The familiar, electric-like stimulation made Jiang Sui’s whole body tremble, her two black silk-clad legs rubbing together unconsciously.
In her panic, she directly repeated what the bar owner had said earlier.
“Put me down first, then I’ll tell you what’s going on. Do you know about ‘Boiling Blood’?”
“What’s that?”
Jiang Sui grinned.
“You won’t run away, will you?”
“Why would I run? We’ve cooperated three times already, three times! You still don’t trust me? Think about it carefully. If we just kill people and run without solving the root problem, they’ll just come back stronger next time.”
Jiang Sui spoke with conviction. “And let me tell you, they hold grudges. I have a friend who killed their leader and has been hunted ever since, even dragging me into it. They’ll definitely seek revenge for tonight. They might even drag you into it in the future. Could you bear to see Jiang Sui get hurt because of you?”
When she said the last sentence, Jiang Sui looked directly into Lu Yunze’s eyes, not flinching despite the coldness in his gaze.
Because of her words, Lu Yunze took a deep breath, his expression visibly softening, as if saying, ‘You win.’
“Ouch—”
Jiang Sui was still waiting for his response when she was suddenly dropped to the floor. The authentic, sour sensation of her bottom making intimate contact with the ground was unmistakable.
“As long as you explain clearly, I’ll consider letting you go.”
“O-okay.”
Jiang Sui got up, covering her poor little bottom, and put on an ingratiating smile.
“I guarantee you’ll be satisfied, Young Master.”
“What did you call me?”
“Huh? I, I mean… aren’t you a young master? Is it wrong for me to call you that?”
Lu Yunze didn’t speak.
It wasn’t something that needed to be kept secret anyway. He would find out eventually. Telling him now might even earn her his thanks.
So, Jiang Sui briefly explained the matter of “Boiling Blood” and then mysteriously added: This bar was actually a secret venue used by the Black Star Cult for trading Boiling Blood, and a significant amount of this contraband was stored here.
“Really?”
“Truer than pearls.”
“Then lead the way.”
“Hehe, right away.”
Jiang Sui breathed a sigh of relief, glad her little bottom had escaped punishment.
But the crisis wasn’t truly over. Although a random lie had made Lu Yunze lower his guard for now, she still had to find a way to escape from him later.
If the lie was exposed, tonight might not just be about her bottom… With so few people around now, if Lu Yunze really decided to do something to her, she wouldn’t be able to escape.
Thump.
Her foot suddenly kicked something. Jiang Sui looked down. It was the bar owner’s corpse.
“Let’s go, what’s wrong?”
The two passed through the corridor, Jiang Sui in front, Lu Yunze behind.
“Nothing.”
The atmosphere was somewhat stiff.
She could feel the impatience gradually growing in the aura of the person behind her.
As Jiang Sui looked around, she suddenly noticed a trembling figure crouched in a corner. Her face lit up with joy.
She grabbed the person, disarmed him of his gun, and interrogated him:
“You have a secret warehouse here, right? Where is it? Tell me quickly!”
She had just wanted to find a scapegoat to ease the tension, not really expecting there to be one.
However, the scapegoat’s reaction was beyond her expectations—he looked like he was about to cry, nodding incessantly:
“I’ll talk, I’ll talk! Just don’t kill me!”
Jiang Sui was stunned. There really was one.
What surprised her even more was that this deeply buried underground warehouse actually contained a large stockpile of Boiling Blood.
Following the directions given, they arrived at the underground warehouse. The moment the lights turned on, Jiang Sui’s breath hitched.
As far as the eye could see, countless vials of Boiling Blood were stored here. The warehouse’s area was unknown, but Boiling Blood occupied at least three-fifths of the space.
Row upon row of potions were stacked like mountains, a rather spectacular sight.
Jiang Sui pulled one out, watching the deep purple liquid flow slowly inside, and couldn’t help but purse her lips.
‘Good grief, this much.’
Lu Yunze rubbed his chin.
If the effects Jiang Sui described were true, once this much Boiling Blood got out, who knew how many people would be harmed.
“We can’t just stand by. We have to inform Uncle Luo.”
Central City was, after all, the Luo Family’s stronghold. Were they completely unaware of this much Boiling Blood circulating, or were they powerless to stop it? Or had the Black Star Cult just infiltrated, and the news hadn’t leaked yet?
Just as Lu Yunze was pondering how to handle this batch of Boiling Blood, Jiang Sui had already begun quietly moving toward the door in his blind spot.
Bzzzt—
The white fluorescent lights in the room instantly turned blood-red, and a piercing alarm blared.
Before the two could react, a sharp laugh came from the warehouse entrance:
“Haha, you’ll be buried here!”
It was the bar owner. He blocked the rapidly closing door. Though he had no hands left, he still laughed maniacally.
He wasn’t dead!
His life-saving item could be used twice. The first time blocked the black cat’s attack, and the second time saved his life from Jiang Sui’s scythe.
Having played dead for so long, it was finally his turn for revenge.
While Jiang Sui was still in shock, Lu Yunze had already charged forward. His heavy sword materialized, and with one slash—
The bar owner’s smile froze. The next second, his body split in two from the middle.
The enemy was dealt with, but Lu Yunze also lost his last chance to escape.
The door sealed completely shut, and the warehouse began releasing an irritant gas.
Inhaling even a little would cause dizziness.
Lu Yunze desperately pounded on the door, but his body gradually grew weak, unable to focus.
Thud.
Jiang Sui was the first to fall to her knees, her consciousness beginning to blur.
‘Careless…’
She coughed violently, as if trying to cough up her internal organs.
‘I’m going to die. I really overplayed my hand.’
‘Is my second life going to end here?’
An intense emotion surged from the depths of her heart. She slowly looked up and saw Lu Yunze also kneeling, his hands still tightly gripping the door.
‘Even he got dragged down by me…’
Jiang Sui slowly crawled behind him, pressed her forehead against his back, and whispered softly:
“Sorry…”
At that moment, another loud rumble came from within the warehouse. The ventilation system, which had stopped, suddenly activated, rapidly expelling the toxic gas.
Jiang Sui raised her head, collapsing completely on the floor, confused. ‘What’s going on?’
Meanwhile, in the monitoring room upstairs, someone watching this scene finally let out a sigh of relief.
“Don’t scare me like that again, Jiang Sui. And you, Lu Yunze.”
If Lu Yunze saw him, he would definitely exclaim: Mister Yan Chen.
He turned the ventilation system to maximum, then turned around with a flourish, only to see a cat standing outside the door.
“So you’re the strange man Jiang Sui mentioned?”
The man and the cat stared at each other, the atmosphere instantly turning微妙.
“No wonder Jiang Sui suddenly found this place. Did you put her up to it?”
“That’s an unpleasant way to put it. I was starting to suspect your motives.”
Yan Chen chuckled and swaggered past the black cat.
“If I truly had ill intentions, you’d already be dead.”
The black cat frowned slightly.
“Instead of worrying about me, you should worry about the Luo Family. Their people will be here soon.”