Chapter 138 Lake Hunting, Zhuge Hui, Urushihara Liuli (asking for monthly tickets)

Above the Laojingwei Food Street, a giant snow-white pigeon carried a boy and a girl through the colorful neon signs, folded its wings and descended rapidly, finally landing in an empty alley.

Su Zimai put away her Tianqu in the alley and turned back into an ordinary high school girl.

She tied up her hair anxiously and was about to walk out of the alley in a hurry, but she stopped and turned back to Ji Minghuan and said, "You can take a taxi home first, you don't have to wait for me."

"Okay, go ahead." Ji Minghuan shrugged. "I'll wait for you outside to come home. Otherwise, if you're kidnapped by Ke Qirui again, Dad and Big Brother will be angry with me."

"It's up to you then."

Su Zimai frowned, put his hands in the pockets of his hoodie, walked out of the alley, and went straight to a large Hunan restaurant.

Ji Minghuan stood in the alley with his back against the wall. He lowered his head to play with his mobile phone while extending the restraint belt from the cuffs of his coat.

The restraints activated his senses, and the noisy voices poured in like a tsunami. He observed Su Zimai's back calmly.

Su Zimai stopped in front of the Hunan restaurant. Ke Qirui quickly came out to greet her. After listening to her say a few words, he turned back curiously and glanced in the direction of the alley.

At this moment, Ji Minghuan deliberately turned his head to meet her gaze, wanting to see whether Ke Qirui was willing to take him with him or planned to leave him outside.

Ke Qirui raised his eyebrows slightly, looked at Ji Minghuan from the shadow of his hat brim, then took out his mobile phone from his windbreaker pocket and lowered his head to send him a message.

【Ke Qirui: You won’t have dinner with us? 】

【Gu Wenyu: No, I was just dragged out by my sister, and she forgot about her appointment with you.】

【Ke Qirui: All right then.】

Ji Minghuan looked at the text message on his phone and thought to himself, "Although I really want Hei Pupa to do something to make him more visible in front of the people from Lake Hunter, this will definitely arouse Ke Qirui's suspicion. After all, she has suspected me many times before."

"Besides... the people in Lake Hunter are not ordinary people. Besides, Zhou Jiuya has such a strange temper. If I am recognized as Black Pupa, my sister will probably be implicated."

Recalling the conversation between him and Su Zimai on the pigeon's back, Ji Minghuan also understood how serious Su Zimai was in his determination to climb up in the world of exorcists, so he shrugged.

He thought: "Forget about it today. I'll just wait outside and try to see what the other three people from Lake Hunter look like besides Zhou Jiuya."

As a result, not long after Ji Minghuan took back the restraints, Ke Qirui and Su Zimai walked straight through the crowd and stopped at the side of the alley.

"What's going on? Aren't you going to have dinner with some important people?" Ji Minghuan looked up from his phone and turned to look at her.

"It's just an ordinary dinner party." Ke Qirui smiled, "We talked about ordinary things. You are here, so come with us. We can't leave Mai Mai's brother out here."

Is this dinner really ordinary? Ji Minghuan wondered.

Su Zimai and Ji Minghuan met each other's eyes, the former sighed, and the latter spread his hands helplessly.

"Don't talk nonsense later."

"For example, someone just cried on the rooftop?"

"Shut up!"

"Crybaby."

Finally, led by Ke Qirui, the two walked into the Hunan restaurant, went up to the second floor, passed two rows of slightly bowing waiters, and came to a private room with an orange glow.

After entering the room, Ji Minghuan looked sideways and saw two unfamiliar figures sitting in the box.

The first one was Zhou Jiuya, who was wearing a Zhongshan suit and had a shiny backcombed hair. He was taking a nap on the sofa with his eyes closed. His brows were relaxed and he looked like he was sleeping soundly.

The second one is a handsome young man with a long black braid and wearing a green Republic of China style long gown and jacket. He has picturesque eyebrows and eyes with a sharp light like a sword.

The young man smiled slightly, fanned the folding fan in his hand, turned his head and said to Zhou Jiuya: "Zhou Jiuya, your cousin is here, why are you still sleeping?"

"The aftermath of the auction..." Zhou Jiuya closed his eyes, "Her people haven't gathered yet, can't they take a break?"

Ke Qirui took off the Deersteck hat on his head and put it on the hanger, teasing, "Didn't you say that 'Lin Xingshi' would also come? It's not just our people who are late. We can't count him as late just because he is the captain of the Lake Hunting Team."

"Lin Xingshi said he had something urgent to do and probably won't be able to come." The handsome young man smiled.

Ke Qirui said politely: "That's a pity, but it's an honor to meet the famous Zhuge Hui."

"What honor? This guy is at the bottom of the Lake Hunters." Zhou Jiuya yawned.

"You really don't give me face... Old Crow, I suddenly feel a little regretful for accompanying you out to dinner." Zhuge Hui said as he opened his folding fan and waved it towards Zhou Jiuya's face.

Zhou Jiuya didn't even open his eyes, he just stretched out two fingers to press against the fan, "It's okay for my cousin to act like a spoiled child, but don't act like a spoiled child with me, or I will really kill you."

"Why do you two give me the feeling of high school students?" Ke Qirui teased.

"So...who are the little sisters and brothers you are taking care of?" Zhou Jiuya opened his eyes.

He slowly turned his head, and his eyes with a faint golden glow swept across the entrance of the box.

Su Zimai and Ji Minghuan stood there motionless with their backs against the door of the box, like primary school students being punished by the teacher. Both brother and sister were trembling a little.

Su Zimai was nervous because this was the first time she met the people from Hu Lie. Who were Hu Lie? They were recognized as the strongest team of exorcists in the world. Behind every member stood an exorcist family with a huge background and a long history.

But Ji Minghuan is different.

He had seen with his own eyes the might of the tiger in the lake hunter. Previously, in Xia Pingzhou's first-person perspective, Zhou Jiuya gave people a sense of oppression like a fucking villain boss terminator - Li Qingping and Bai Tanlang had fought to the point of collapse, but Zhou Jiuya didn't wake up, and was not affected by the fight between the two. He just stood there with a chair from beginning to end without moving.

The last time he appeared, he instantly killed two dragon-level members of the White Crow Brigade, making an example of them.

If it wasn't for his good luck, maybe it wasn't Lan Duoduo who died in the auction, but his second unit. After all, in order to save trouble, Zhou Jiuya picked the weakest Dragon-level members to attack, and Xia Pingzhou was one of them.

As a result, Zhou Jiuya had become one of his own overnight, chatting leisurely with other people in front of him as if they were at home. Ji Minghuan was somewhat uncomfortable with this sense of dislocation.

He had to remind himself that he was Gu Wenyu, not Xia Pingzhou, for fear that while he was eating, a bronze pillar would suddenly fall down on his head, and his eyes would go black and he would die. His No. 1 machine would be sent to hell to meet Uncle Takiying and Hong Kong girl Lan Duoduo.

"This little sister is called Su Zimai."

Ke Qirui smiled slightly, put his arm around Su Zimai's shoulder while introducing him, and then took out a pipe from his windbreaker pocket.

She put the pipe between her lips and continued, "She only awakened as an exorcist half a year ago, and now she has been promoted to the second level. Even the president praises her highly, saying that she is a rare genius."

Su Zimai's eyes twitched slightly. She felt that what Ke Qirui said was just like when her teammates were bragging to the top players during a game, "She spent half a month to get from bronze to silver. Don't you think it's amazing? Isn't she very talented? She is simply a gaming genius?"

She was so embarrassed that she wanted to find a hole to stick her head in, and in the end she just gently bumped Gu Wenyu with her shoulder.

Ji Minghuan rolled his eyes at her and thought, what does it have to do with me if your captain tortures you?

"Amazing!" Zhuge Hui slapped the table with his folding fan. "Even our boss Lin Xingshi took almost a year to reach the second level. This sister will definitely have an extraordinary future."

He paused, turned his head to look at Ji Minghuan, and asked with a smile: "Who is this?"

"Maimai's brother is named 'Gu Wenyu'." Ke Qirui found a seat in the box and sat down, resting her chin on one hand. "Gu Wenyu happened to be accompanying her shopping, so I asked him to come along."

"Oh...does this little brother know about the exorcist?" Zhuge Hui asked.

Ji Minghuan nodded: "I know, although I am just an ordinary person."

"That's good, that's good." Zhuge Hui said.

"What are you still standing there for? Find a place to sit down." Ke Qirui turned his head and looked at the brother and sister.

So Su Zimai sat next to Ke Qirui, and Ji Minghuan sat next to Su Zimai.

Both of them sat in a very obedient manner, with their heads hung.

"What is lake hunting? Are these two people very powerful?" He leaned close to Su Zimai's ear and asked in a low voice.

"Very powerful." Su Zimai also lowered his voice. "Lake Hunter is equivalent to Rainbow Wing in the Outliers. It is the strongest organization among the exorcists. The difference is that they only have four people, and Rainbow Wing has twelve people... If we use the rating of the psychics, then everyone in Lake Hunter is a natural disaster level, and it is possible that they are even more powerful than the natural disaster level."

"Who will win in a fight between Hu Lie and Hong Yi?" Ji Minghuan raised his eyebrows and continued to ask.

"Lake hunting." Zhou Jiuya suddenly interrupted and continued to rest with his eyes closed.

"Can you please stop eavesdropping on other little brothers and sisters' conversations? Where's your character?" Zhuge Hui asked.

"I just don't understand why others praise Hong Yi so highly." Zhou Jiuya said.

"Don't say that... I feel like we may not win against Hongyi, especially that 'Urushihara Liuli'. Her abilities can really restrain me." Zhuge Hui waved his fan.

"That's because you're too new." Zhou Jiuya said, "After all, you're at the bottom, and no one has high hopes for you."

Zhuge Hui disagreed and continued, "I am the one who usually gives advice. Otherwise, how could you three reckless men survive to this day? Wouldn't you have died long ago? You don't regard the military advisor as a human being, right? You are alienating my efforts by doing this."

As the two were chatting, Ji Minghuan, who was sitting opposite them, was slightly stunned, and kept repeating the names of the Hongyi personnel that Zhuge Hui had mentioned in his mind.

"Urushihara...Ruri?"

He murmured to himself, suddenly recalling the announcement he heard at the Salvation Society that day.

"Disaster-level esper, number 10059 - 'Urushihara Ruri' requests to meet with the instructor."

"Wait a minute," Ji Minghuan was slightly stunned, "That is to say... among the twelve people of Hongyi, there is a natural disaster-level supernatural power user affiliated with the Salvation Society? Has the power of the Salvation Society infiltrated Hongyi?"

He thought for a moment: "And...more importantly, why does this last name sound so familiar?"

At this moment, the name of the leader of the White Crow Brigade flashed through Ji Minghuan's mind:

——“Paint Principle”.

"What's the captain's last name? Is there any connection between Urushihara Ruri and Urushihara Rin? Assuming they are related, is the captain also related to the Salvation Society?"

"But think about it another way...if there is some kind of connection between them, wouldn't that be a clue that can be used? The captain may not know the relationship between Urushihara Ruri and the Salvation Society, or even that Urushihara Ruri is a member of Rainbow Wing."

"When we need to send Hei Pupa to meet Urushihara Ruri, we can mention it to him. First, let's see if the captain knows this 'Urushihara Ruri', and then we can determine whether the captain has any connection with the Salvation Society..."

Thinking of this, Ji Minghuan curled the corners of his lips slightly, "If the facts are as I thought, then after killing Jack the Ripper, I have another excellent bargaining chip to save my life."

(End of this chapter)