Chapter 58-58- Waiting for a long time

Irene Parker lived in an apartment building in a good location. When Yvette took a taxi and arrived, she saw two policemen walking down from the building with helpless looks on their faces.

She came to Room 805 on the eighth floor, knocked on the door, and saw the pale-faced Miss Irene open the door and say, "You're finally here, Miss Noname!"

After saying that, she didn't care whether they were familiar with each other or not, and hugged Yvette tightly, then hugged her tightly, carried Yvette into the room, and closed the door.

Yvette understood her feelings, so she didn't mind. She asked, "I just saw the police. What did they say?"

As soon as she received the voice message, she told Miss Irene to call the police. After all, the police could get there much faster than she could. Even if she maintained the voice call, all she could do was use her hacking ability to remotely control nearby networked objects - such as the hovercraft - to see if she could create some obstacles for the werewolf killer.

"The police told me not to look for them before a case happens in the future. They are not 24-hour bodyguards. They also asked me to hire another bodyguard myself..." Irene said with a depressed look on her face. It seemed that she was even scolded by the police.

Yvette didn't find it strange. The werewolf killer had committed so many crimes that it was impossible for him to provide 24-hour protection for just one possible target. Tennyson could have made a feint to the east and taken the opportunity to change the target of attack.

"Tell me about the situation," she said.

Upon hearing this, Miss Irene walked to the balcony and pointed to an apartment building of similar height across the street. "I was just here looking at the view... and then I noticed someone on a similar floor across the street, looking at my house from afar... He was wearing a mask, but the more I looked at him, the more he looked like Tennyson. We both have the same black hair color... When I saw him, he didn't hide, just staring at me like that. After I sent you a message, he suddenly walked away..."

Yvette walked to the balcony and looked. No one was there, but that didn't matter. The security systems in the apartments in this area were pretty good, at least they had surveillance cameras. Using her hacking ability, she quickly reviewed the previous footage and saw a masked man who matched the description.

In the video, after staring in the direction of Irene's house for a while, the masked man turned and left without any hesitation, and quickly walked into a poor neighborhood where there were no cameras, and could no longer be tracked.

Yes, the upper half of his face is exactly the same as in Tennyson's photo: black hair, deep eye contours, and high cheekbones. It's him... He wasn't sold to the Rustbone Free State, but actually became a werewolf killer, possessing the mysterious ability to transform into a wolf...

Yvette was a little confused. If it was really Tennyson, why would he do this? If he wanted to attack, he could just do it directly. If not, why was he there? Was he just trying to catch a glimpse of the girl from high school?

How did he get his power?

What was his motive for committing a series of murders?

"Have you done anything these two days?" Yvette suddenly thought of something and asked.

"I...I followed your advice and looked into Tennyson's disappearance after I got back..." Miss Irene said nervously, "Oh, and I made a discovery!"

"What did you find?"

"The AJSP investigation revealed that Tennyson was initially deceived by a scam claiming he could get rich in three months by smuggling daily necessities. I found the same scheme, but there's a problem." Irene's expression grew serious. "These schemes all require arriving in a border city before kidnapping and smuggling. However, the AJSP claims Tennyson was abducted in Agashe. This doesn't square with the traffickers' tactics."

She continued, "Then I contacted a journalist friend and looked into the missing persons cases from that period last year. I discovered that most of them were linked to a gang called the Black Shark Gang. Yesterday afternoon, I visited the Black Shark Gang's territory and found out that the gang disbanded six months ago. The leader fled abroad and died in an accident along the way... And then today, Tennyson showed up."

After a pause, she asked nervously, "Miss Wuming, do you think this information is related to Tennyson's appearance today?"

"There's no pre-crime warning for werewolf killer attacks. I guess this could be a warning." Yvette thought for a moment and said, "Tennyson doesn't want you to continue your investigation, so he deliberately appeared in front of you."

"He doesn't want me to continue investigating? Why?" Irene was puzzled. "Doesn't he want me to make his suffering public?"

"Perhaps he's afraid you'll be implicated, or perhaps he's just making preliminary preparations and will attack you in a couple of days."

"What should I do then?" Irene shrank her neck, feeling her heartbeat quicken. She asked with a pale face, "Can I hire you to protect me, Miss Noname?"

"Can."

"Uh, can you beat him?" Irene thought of something and asked tentatively.

"able."

"I... I... I believe you!" Irene didn't quite believe what she said. She had never seen Miss Wuming take action. She just felt that she was quite mysterious, but that was all.

However, with her current financial resources, it seems that she cannot hire other mercenaries willing to take the order.

"Thank you," Yvette said, "but the best option for you is to leave Agashe and live in another city."

Erin fell silent. She wasn't from here, and her parents had paid for her education so she could establish herself in this big city. The cost of moving so far away was prohibitive, especially since she had already secured an internship at the Bird News through connections made by university professors, something she couldn't easily obtain elsewhere. She couldn't give it up.

Seeing that she was silent, Yvette did not try to persuade her anymore, but simply asked: "Will you continue the investigation?"

"I will continue, whether for the truth or for my career as a journalist," Irene said firmly.

"Okay." Yvette nodded. As a bounty hunter, this was also her hope.

To ensure her employer's safety, Yvette stayed at Irene's house that night. She had almost no luggage and only needed a sofa to sleep on, so she was very light in her movements.

The next day, she and Irene revisited the streets that were once controlled by the Black Shark Gang. However, unlike Irene's verbal investigation, Yvette's methods were more violent. She directly hacked into the police files of this neighborhood and hacked into the terminal devices used by many gang members. Among the countless illegal, gray, and pornographic information data, she found a keyword.

——A creature that has shed its unicorn shell.

It was a chat between a former Black Shark Gang member and others. In that chat, the former Black Shark Gang member believed that the then leader had a long-term and secret cooperation with the Lin Tui creatures, and that this cooperation was closely related to the Black Shark Gang's main business of human trafficking.

If this is true, it would indeed explain a lot of things, why AJSP did not tell the truth to Tennyson's parents, why Tennyson was able to gain powerful strength, and why Tennyson was suspected of warning Irene not to continue.

In Agasa, this is a topic that cannot be touched.

…

Yvette did not tell Irene the information she obtained through hacking. On the one hand, the results could not be 100% certain. On the other hand, they needed actual evidence after all. Evidence obtained through hacking would be useless, not to mention that it was just the chat records of the gang.

She can only do a little work on the direction, which is roughly equivalent to looking at the answer and guessing the process, and finding some useful information.

Of course, for Yvette personally, the truth is not important. She just hopes that Irene's continued investigation can lead to the werewolf killer.

She cared more about the 1 million yuan bounty than uncovering the secret of the unicorn creature.

…

Five days passed quickly.

During the ongoing investigation, perhaps because of the existence of the wizard Yvette, Tennyson never appeared again, and Irene felt that she was gradually approaching the truth.

After all, the Black Shark Gang was engaged in a large amount of human trafficking, so it was impossible for them to leave no traces. If you spend a little time to find out where those people were sold to and what routes the transport vehicles took, you will find that most of them disappeared in a suburb.

And that suburb is the industrial park of Lintui Biology.

It was another night, dusk was falling, swallowing up the outlines of distant buildings like ink splashes, and the dim street lights cast lonely circles of light in the night.

This was an empty highway, right next to the Lin Tui Biological Industrial Park. Yvette and Irene had walked in during the day, primarily to investigate where the Black Shark Gang's illegal human transport vehicles had disappeared to. After a brief exploration, it was almost time to return home.

Lowering her head, Irene began to swipe on the projection on the terminal, trying to summon a nearby online taxi.

In the quiet atmosphere, as if waiting for a long time, a huge shadow suddenly exploded from the bushes next to it.

It was a huge beast with pitch-black hair and a strong fishy smell. It pounced out suddenly at an unimaginable speed, leaving a trail of afterimages in the field of vision. Its bloody mouth was filled with fangs, and its eyes flashed with a crazy red light, like the burning embers in hell.

——Werewolf Killer! Wolf form!

Irene froze in place for a moment, her body frozen in a cold, frozen state, as if gripped by an endless terror. Perhaps it was Tennyson's treatment of her, his beloved, that had given her the illusion that he wouldn't attack her, that she could continue to act recklessly despite the danger—but it was clear that this was both an illusion and arrogance.

This is horrible, this is horrible... This is something that human power cannot resist at all...

Feeling the breath of death so close at hand, she thought in despair.

However, before his stagnant thoughts had time to regret, the nameless lady next to him responded unexpectedly in a timely manner.

She took two steps forward and suddenly kicked out, hitting the giant wolf's jaw as it pounced on her.

There is no doubt that this is an act of trying to stop a chariot with a mantis arm. How can a slender girl stop such a huge beast?

However, a scene that no one could have imagined appeared. Facing this kick, the giant wolf's reaction was as if it had been hit hard. It was kicked directly away by the small toes wearing small leather boots, and rolled and fell on the side of the road more than ten meters away. It no longer had the terrifying and heart-pounding oppressive force just now, and even became a little funny, like a husky that had been beaten and was whimpering in pain on the ground.

Kick...kicked it away?

Looking at Miss Wuming who retracted her foot as if nothing had happened, and listening to the painful howling of wolves in the distance, Irene was stunned again. She rubbed her eyes, shocked, wondering how such an outrageous development could have happened.

Could it be that I haven’t woken up yet?

…

Yvette didn't know what Miss Irene's mood was at the moment. Of course, even if she knew, she wouldn't care, because all her attention was now on the giant wolf in front of her.

She had been waiting for this walking 1 million for many days, more than half a month, and it finally came and did not disappoint her.

However, considering the werewolf killer might give important confessions, she was willing to keep him alive unless absolutely necessary, or simply escort him to the police station. As long as this news spread, she would probably be able to get a more advanced mission commission from Carters at the Floating Light Bar the next day.

After struggling for a while, the giant wolf got up from the ground. The kick seemed to wake it up a little. The red light in its eyes faded a lot, and it looked more clear and bright like a human.

But for some reason, even though it knew the chances of winning were slim, it still insisted on launching an attack and biting Yvette.

Yvette summoned rune rings. Her current limit is 12 rune rings, which means that 12 spells will bombard a target at the same time.

But the strange thing was that when facing this giant wolf, all the spells seemed to be bounced off the moment they approached, and shot to completely unexpected places.

Yvette narrowed her eyes. She knew the reason. This giant wolf actually mastered the means of spell hijacking. The moment all the spells were thrown, some parameters were modified, resulting in random paths and the effect of being bounced away.

This is also related to the fact that her technique has no safety protection design. There is no need for a spell firewall to fight against deformers. I didn't expect to see the consequences of not opening the firewall today.

But she didn't care because she could use her fists.

With the dual blessing of Scarlet Armor and Muscle Release, Yvette approached the giant wolf. These two spells were the few she had designed with firewalls, and they were very safe.

She raised her hand to block the wolf's sharp claws, like grasping a dog's forelimbs for a handshake. Then, using it as a grip, she slammed the wolf to the ground, pulled it up, and slammed it to the other side. After a dozen or so repeated slams, accompanied by the sound of a pile driver, the wolf's struggles finally weakened, and it became nearly dead. Two shallow, cracked pits appeared on the road, one in front and one behind.

Not far away, Irene was stunned. Perhaps because she was certain this wasn't a dream, the sight of the silver-haired girl toying with the giant wolf with her tiny body became even more astonishing. She looked like a peerless goddess—this was outrageous! Was this really a mage? Why was she so different from what I'd imagined?!

However, seeing that the giant wolf might die on the spot if it continued to be beaten, she quickly shouted, ran over, and stopped Miss Wuming from continuing to abuse the dog.

"Tennyson, is that you?" Then, after Yvette stopped moving, Irene immediately asked.

(End of this chapter)