If it had only been Lu Yunze here, that would have been one thing, but why was Luo Yao here too?
More importantly, Jiang Sui noticed that Luo Yao was looking somewhat disheveled, with beads of sweat clinging to her face. Her slightly flustered expression made her look almost like a small animal that had just been roughly handled.
However, the moment Luo Yao met Jiang Sui’s eyes, her expression immediately turned serious.
“Why are you here?”
“You ask me… I should be asking you the same thing.”
Jiang Sui, who had been completely drained of energy just moments ago, suddenly perked up. She immediately scrambled to her feet and glared at Lu Yunze.
“Well, well, Lu Yunze. I never knew you were this wild. I can’t believe you’d actually do this kind of thing in a place like this…”
“What?” Lu Yunze looked utterly confused.
“I really underestimated a man’s desires. I never imagined you were actually this desperate.”
Jiang Sui looked at him with utter disappointment, as though she were looking at a child who had failed to live up to her expectations.
“I think you’ve got the wrong idea. It’s not like Luo Yao and I are the only ones here.”
The moment Lu Yunze finished speaking, another person, Luo Heng, emerged from the corner. He blinked at Jiang Sui.
Jiang Sui was silent for a moment.
“You’re actually doing a threesome here?”
“Threesome my ass! Isn’t it obvious that we’re hiding here for shelter?”
“Taking shelter, and then relieving your loneliness and stress while you’re at it, right?”
Lu Yunze was practically furious.
“You’re not even my girlfriend! What gives you the right to meddle in my business?”
Jiang Sui sucked in a sharp breath and was left speechless.
“In that case, Brother Lu, help me catch her. She’s an enemy of the Luo faction.”
“You two… when did your relationship get so good?”
Luo Yao’s furrowed brows didn’t relax in the slightest.
“No. We’ve never had a good relationship.”
“Brother Lu, help me hold her down.”
Luo Yao’s expression darkened considerably.
“Lu, are you listening to me?”
As she spoke, she raised her hand, and a small stream of wind began to gather in her palm.
This is troublesome.
She had chosen this small warehouse, only to escape the wolf’s den and walk straight into the tiger’s lair. It was three against one, and Lu Yunze was among them. This was going to be difficult.
The atmosphere became tense once again, and Jiang Sui was beginning to regret opening her mouth.
She had already decided to strike Luo Yao first, take her hostage, and use her to escape. The thick smell of gunpowder in the air felt as though it could ignite at any moment.
After Luo Yao urged him several times, Lu Yunze finally seemed to come back to his senses. His expression changed several times before he gave a firm nod.
“Brother Lu, help me hold her down. Lu, are you listening?”
Just then, the door of the small warehouse was suddenly slammed hard from the outside, letting out a shrill creeeak.
Everyone’s gaze turned toward it at once, as if some enormous creature outside were pounding against the old door with all its strength.
Every impact seemed to push the limits of their hearts’ ability to withstand the pressure.
“I know.”
Lu Yunze suddenly spoke.
“I know how to teach you a lesson.”
He suddenly grabbed Jiang Sui by the wrist and looked at her with a mischievous grin.
“A bad woman like you deserves this!”
Before Luo Yao and Luo Heng could react, the moment the warehouse door was smashed open, he yanked Jiang Sui forward and threw her outside.
But the next second, Jiang Sui crashed straight into the small mountain of dolls piled up outside, sending it tumbling apart. Dolls rolled across the floor in every direction.
Jiang Sui didn’t stop until her back slammed against a wall. She was just about to curse Lu Yunze when she suddenly realized something.
After Lu Yunze threw her out, he hadn’t followed up with another attack. And by the time Luo Yao reacted and tried to chase after her, she would need some time to get outside.
In the distance, Jiang Sui took a deep breath and immediately transformed into a cloud of black mist, drifting away.
“Ahhh! She got away!”
Luo Yao could only scratch her head in frustration.
By the time Luo Yao chased her outside, Jiang Sui had already disappeared without a trace.
“Brother Lu, let’s hurry and chase—”
Before she could finish, the dolls that had gathered once again filled her entire field of vision, causing her whole body to stiffen.
“Actually, if we just treat them as an attack by a mystic…”
“Maybe that’s exactly what they are.”
Lu Yunze muttered to himself as he rubbed his fists, preparing for battle.
They had been intimidated by the sheer scale of the sea of dolls when they first encountered them. On top of that, Luo Yao was afraid of ghosts, so they had chosen to temporarily hide inside the small warehouse.
But after seeing the Hermit casually escape from these things, Lu Yunze concluded that the dolls weren’t particularly strong individually. They could only rely on overwhelming their opponents with sheer numbers.
Luo Yao was no help here. Lu Yunze summoned his greatsword and rested it on his shoulder.
Sometimes, you just had to carve your own path forward.
“Na a ke.”
“What? You encountered an old opponent in there?”
After hearing Lu Yunze and the others’ report, Dong You’er from the operations team was taken aback.
“Can’t really call her an old opponent… It’s more like…”
Lu Yunze hadn’t even finished speaking before Luo Yao interrupted him.
“Brother Lu, she’s like a ghost that just won’t go away.”
“She’s not only troublesome, she’s also incredibly nasty. She’s so evil! There isn’t a woman in the entire world as bad as her.”
Dong You’er gave a serious grimace.
“I see. I understand. You two go get some rest. Leave the rest to us and the logistics team.”
“Is she really that troublesome?”
Dong You’er adjusted her glasses.
“This Hermit you’re talking about seems to have been hounding you since last year?”
Seeing the anger radiating from Luo Yao, Dong You’er didn’t even know what to say.
“There were quite a lot of dolls for the operations team to deal with, but fortunately, their individual combat strength was low. There also wasn’t any situation where a quantitative advantage suddenly turned into a qualitative one. Team Leader Fu quickly organized a group and led them into the theater.”
About an hour later, they came back out. Every moving doll inside the theater had been smashed to pieces. As for the remaining dolls, perhaps the mystic behind all of this had realized the situation was going badly and fled. In any case, they all returned to being ordinary dolls.
After coming out, Luo Yao kept complaining about the Hermit getting away. It was obvious that she was extremely resentful.
“Brother Lu, you’re really something. How could you be so careless?”
“Ahaha… I just got carried away in the heat of the moment and didn’t think things through.”
“Don’t make the same little mistake next time.”
“Understood, understood.”
Lu Yunze gave an embarrassed laugh before looking up at the moon hanging high in the night sky.
If you asked whether he regretted letting the Hermit escape, the answer was definitely no.
After all, she had saved his life at the hotel before. Helping her escape Luo Yao’s clutches this time could be considered repaying that favor.
He had originally wanted to question her thoroughly, but in the end, he abandoned the idea because Luo Yao was being far too irrational.
With the mission over, everyone returned home. They were all exhausted after the day’s events.
Jiang Sui, who looked as though she hadn’t done anything at all, collapsed straight onto her bed when she got home and rubbed her battered shoulder.
The black cat had already been waiting in the room for quite some time.
“Lu Yunze really threw me way too hard.”
Her shoulder was still aching. It was seriously painful.
“Looks like you guys went and caused another big ruckus?”
“Yeah, pretty much.”
Jiang Sui sat up.
“It felt a bit like exploring a haunted house.”
“What happened? Where did you go that you’re talking about haunted houses?”
“If you had encountered moving dolls in an old theater, Senior, you’d probably have felt the same way I did.”
“What?”
The black cat suddenly froze.
“Dolls? What kind of dolls?”
Jiang Sui thought for a moment.
“Just ordinary life-sized dolls, except someone had cast a mystic technique on them, so they could move. One or two wouldn’t be dangerous, but there was a whole horde of them. I only have two hands, you know.”
The black cat lowered her head without saying anything, apparently deep in thought.
“Oh, right. Those dolls also kept repeating the same word. I think it might have been a name or something.”
“What?”
“Wei Xin.”
The black cat and Jiang Sui stared at each other for a moment before the black cat looked away.
“If you encounter enemies like that again, remember to notify me first.”
“Are they dangerous?”
“Very dangerous.”
The black cat answered almost instantly.
“You probably only triggered a trap that the mystic had left behind. That’s why you managed to escape unscathed. If the mystic had personally made a move, you and Lu Yunze wouldn’t have gotten off so easily.”
Jiang Sui fell silent as well.
The black cat turned around and leaped out the window, leaving her alone in the room.
So Gu Lan had been telling the truth after all?
After leaving Luo Qiaoying’s residence, the black cat wandered along the road.
“At first, I actually thought she was just trying to scare me.”
Fortunately, Jiang Sui had encountered the dolls before her.
Perhaps because her thoughts were somewhat unsettled, the black cat shook her head vigorously and quickened her pace.
“Looks like I’ve been far too careless.”
She quickly crossed the city, passed through several alleys, and eventually arrived at a relatively secluded mountain.
Skillfully avoiding the dead ends, she finally arrived in front of a small hut.
The black cat pushed open the door and entered the wooden cabin.
Moonlight streamed in from outside, allowing her to make out the objects inside.
There was a grave.
No words had been carved onto the tombstone. It simply stood there cold and silent.
The black cat paced around the grave twice before jumping onto the tombstone and lying down on top of it.
She closed her eyes as if she were lying on a comfortable bed.
Meanwhile, at the headquarters of the Execution Department…
“Team Leader Fu, you’re still not off work?”
“Mm. I’m reviewing today’s combat results.”
“Then make sure you get some proper rest. You work so hard every day.”
“I’ll return those exact words to you.”
After saying goodbye to a colleague he was close with, Team Leader Fu immediately wiped the smile from his face. He continued reviewing the combat report while operating something on his computer.
He picked up a pen and underlined one of the entries:
“An enemy wearing a grayish-white robe with purple hair, known as the Hermit.”
He put down the pen and looked at the computer screen, where a video was playing.
A girl dressed in a maid outfit quickly ran into an alley. Several minutes later, when she emerged again, she had already transformed into another girl wearing a robe.
The person in the video probably never imagined that members of the Execution Department had already installed surveillance cameras around the Grand Theater—and in extremely well-hidden locations at that.
Team Leader Fu watched the footage while tapping his pen against the desk.
Although the girl’s face couldn’t be seen clearly, Team Leader Fu had already found what he was looking for.
He closed the video.
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