Chapter 99 Little Vampire VS Vampire Hunter (XI) Investigation...
Ruan Chao held the phone, looking confused. Her beautiful eyes showed surprise and confusion, as well as the bewilderment of someone suddenly hanging up the phone.
My cousin said he would come to check it out with him this weekend...
What to inspect?
Are you testing whether what he said is true, or testing Lu Xingyao?
No matter which result it is, it makes him feel very stressed.
Ever since he sneaked away from the banquet with Lu Xingyao, he has rarely contacted his family.
Apart from sending a few brief messages to his parents at the beginning to tell them that he was safe and not to worry about him, he selectively ignored some messages and phone calls.
If his cousin hadn't been so scheming as to call from an unfamiliar number, and if he and Lu Xingyao hadn't been in such a bad situation just now that they urgently needed a life-saving straw to break the deadlock, he wouldn't have picked up the phone.
Damn it! The timing of the selection was so perfect, just when he was not prepared at all, it was such a coincidence.
Besides, he hasn't told anyone where he lives now. Even if his cousin really comes to look for him, will he be able to find the right place?
Ruan Chao couldn't help feeling a little uneasy when he thought of this.
His cousin was able to track down Lu Xingyao from the little information he had omitted, and he might also be able to follow the clues to find out where Lu Xingyao lived. After all, the information networks of these "big shots" have always been terrifyingly tight.
"Are you done?" Lu Xingyao walked up to him at some point and started talking, interrupting his thoughts.
Ruan Chao nodded slightly and said "hmm".
Lu Xingyao raised his eyebrows slightly, and the corners of his lips curled up in a smile, "What's so shameful about it? And you still have to hide from me to answer it."
Although he was smiling, there was no trace of smile in the man's eyes. Instead, they were like frozen shards of ice, emitting bursts of icy coldness.
The temperature around seemed to drop to freezing point.
The hairs on the back of Ruan Chao's hands stood up, and a chill ran down his spine. He instinctively began to sense danger.
To be fair, Lu Xingyao now does have some of the aura of a vampire hunter. At least as a little vampire, he has already felt physiologically afraid.
It's a fear of being crushed and torn apart by a large prey.
"Are you angry?" Ruan Chao stared at his arm with some curiosity. He saw small pimples appearing on it. He blew gently and the pimples spread over a large area on his delicate white skin.
This physiological reaction made him feel extremely novel, like a child playing with a toy for the first time, with stars of exploration in his eyes.
Although his mind was telling him to get away from the danger as quickly as possible and hide in a safe place, he had to remain vigilant and be on guard against the other party's actions at all times.
However, Ruan Chao raised his eyes and his gaze fell on the man's handsome face, and he did not feel afraid in his heart.
In short, he is of vampire blood and is afraid of threatening vampire hunters.
But he himself was not afraid of the long journey.
Perhaps noticing his abnormality, Lu Xingyao retracted some of his outward aura, becoming much softer, and the temperature around him gradually returned to normal.
"Why?" Ruan Chao blinked and looked straight at Lu Xingyao, as if he had to get an answer from this. "Because I answered someone else's call, or because I was avoiding you?"
He took another step closer to the man, and the distance between them became infinitely closer, closer than ever before.
Close enough to see the color of the other person's pupils.
It was as black as the night sky, with a hint of ice blue. It was like a silent sea at midnight, with all the turbulent waves hidden beneath the calm surface.
This time, Lu Xingyao was the first to retreat.
A faint red flashed across the man's ears, his lips tightened, and his breathing quickened. Because he had never dealt with such a situation before, his eyes slightly avoided, revealing an imperceptible panic and helplessness.
Although he quickly regained his composure.
But Nguyen Chao still saw everything and got the answer he wanted.
He curled his lips quickly and stood up straight. Before he could say anything, a man's hoarse voice rang in his ears, with a hint of sharp stubbornness.
“…Who is it?”
"He's my cousin. We haven't been in touch for a long time, so he came to check on me." Nguyen Chao added, "Although I live with you, I still have the freedom to communicate with my family."
Lu Xingyao: "Cousin? When did you get a cousin?"
"I remember you told me before that you were the only one left in your family."
Ruan Chao was stunned for a moment, then he remembered that in order to get Lu Xingyao to go home with him, he pretended to be a lonely, helpless, hungry and cold little pitiful person. He even said that the banquet where the two of them met by chance was for the purpose of changing his fate and for a chance to survive, and he was willing to become a blood bag for the vampires at the banquet.
Anyone who heard this would shed a tear of sympathy for his miserable experience.
Of course Lu Xingyao softened his heart and tacitly agreed to let Ruan Chaolai stay in his house.
I had been telling lies for a long time, but they were exposed just because of my own negligence.
Ruan Chao chose to play dumb, "Really? No, you remembered it wrongly, I didn't say that at all."
Lu Xingyao narrowed his eyes, "No?"
Nguyen Chao looked him straight in the face without any guilt, "Absolutely not."
Although they both knew the truth, Ruan Chao was just being stubborn and relying on the fact that Lu Xingyao would not do anything to him, and he blatantly overturned his previous statements.
But Lu Xingyao still couldn't do anything to him.
In the end, I could only pinch his cheek as a punishment and say "liar" in a meaningful way.
Ruan Chao innocently curled his eyes, revealing the pear-shaped vortex filled with honey on his right cheek.
Use the softest and kindest tone to say the most brutal words.
"If you pinch my face again, I'm going to bite you again."
…
The days passed quickly and it was the weekend in the blink of an eye.
Rather than waiting for trouble to come to you and living in constant fear, you might as well be fully prepared to take the initiative.
Therefore, Ruan Chao, who usually stayed up during the day and went out at night, got up early in the morning and found an excuse to send Lu Xingyao out.
Then he put on a hat and a mask and quietly slipped out of the house.
I took out my cell phone and called my cousin, intending to arrange a meeting place with him.
Ruan Yu was still sleeping in the coffin, waiting for the sun to set before meeting someone, when he was awakened by a series of specially set ringtones: "..."
"Why are you making random phone calls in the middle of the day instead of sleeping properly?"
Ruan Chao heard the sleepiness in his cousin's voice.
As if his sleepiness was contagious, he yawned silently.
He pulled the brim of his hat down to hide his dark circles and slightly red eyes due to lack of sleep. "It's already so late and you're still sleeping. How can you sleep at your age?"
Ruan Yu snorted and laughed: "You've only been out there for a short time and you've already become a bad person. You even dare to talk back to your cousin."
Ruan Chao felt that he was being wronged: "...No, I was just joking."
He turned the phone in a different direction and softened his tone, changing it to a coquettish tone, clearly feeling that he was not in the right and wanted to coax people in this way, "Didn't my cousin say he wanted to see me? I just wanted to see you earlier."
Ruan Yu didn't believe it. "If you really miss me, come back earlier. Otherwise, if you are bullied, no one at home will be able to support you."
"Who dares to bully me? I'm so powerful..." Ruan Chao raised his voice and exaggerated his tone. He raised his fist and hit the wall. The wall's texture did not move at all, and not even a drop of paint fell off.
He knew his own weight and didn't use much strength, but a small red spot still appeared on his knuckle.
It looks very prominent on the white back of the hand.
Although there was no one else around, Ruan Chao still felt a little embarrassed. He quietly put his hurt hand into his pocket, looked left and right, and pretended nothing had happened.
It is really hard to imagine that this extremely adorable body belongs to a pure-blooded vampire with absolutely no mixed blood.
If one were to vote for the weakest pure-blooded vampire, he would definitely be far ahead with the highest number of votes, riding away in the dust, leaving the other pure-blooded vampires at the back with only their tail fumes visible.
Nguyen Yu obviously knew Nguyen Chao very well, and knew that Nguyen Chao was strong on the outside but weak on the inside. Because Nguyen Chao was disobedient, he did not give him any face when he spoke.
He sneered, "How powerful are you? Powerful enough to beat a grown human, or powerful enough not to be frightened by those mixed-blood monsters and scream like a kitten hiding behind me?"
Ruan Chao: “…”
"He can't even defeat the lowest-level mixed-blood monsters. His physical fitness is not even comparable to that of an adult human. And yet he dares to run away alone. He is really getting more and more courageous."
Ruan Chao whispered: "Although I am not powerful, Lu Xingyao is very powerful, and he can protect me."
Ruan Yu: "Is everyone in your family asleep? Is it your turn for outsiders to protect you?"
Ruan Chao: “…”
"Cousin, please don't be so sarcastic with every word you say. You weren't like this before." Ruan Chao searched hard in the corner of his memory, and several scenes of him and his cousin flashed through his mind. "You used to be patient and gentle to me, and you always gave in to me. You never spoke loudly to me."
He accused seriously, "You have changed."
It was clearly his younger brother who was being willful and causing him trouble, but Ruan Yu was the one who was blamed: "..."
"Okay, okay, okay, it's my fault." He suppressed his anger and tried to maintain the gentleness and patience that Nguyen Chao had remembered. "We'll talk about it when we meet."
The two agreed on a time and place to meet. Because Ruan Yu was still in the coffin, he needed some time to take care of himself, so Ruan Chao had to wait for an hour.
"Then you have to hurry up." Ruan Chao urged quietly, and calculated the time again, "I can only stay outside until half past ten. I have to hurry back when the time is up."
Ruan Yu was strangely silent for a moment, and when he spoke again, his tone became full of disappointment.
"You have to go out to see me without telling him. Why, is he still controlling you and not letting you go out? He can't be unaware that you have a cousin who is coming to see you today, right?"
Ruan Chao: "No way. I just felt that your identities were different and I was afraid that there would be conflicts when you met, so I didn't mention it to him."
"Why didn't I realize before that Chao Chao is so considerate?"
Ruan Chao heard the resentment and sarcasm in his cousin's words, but he also knew that what he did was wrong. His cousin was still a hundred years old, so he didn't bother with him.
He just said see you later and hung up the phone.
…
The agreed meeting place was a coffee shop at the end of the street.
There are not many customers in the store at this point.
But Nguyen Chao was embarrassed to occupy the seat, so he symbolically ordered a cup of coffee.
In the mist, Ruan Chao smelled the unique bitter taste of coffee, which reminded him of the milk tea that Lu Xingyao had bought for him before. It looked ordinary but tasted surprisingly good. It was the only food he could barely accept besides Lu Xingyao's blood.
Maybe this cup of coffee will be just as magical.
Ruan Chao lifted up the coffee cup eagerly and took a sip tentatively.
No miracle happened.
He spat the coffee onto a tissue and threw it into the trash.
Ruan Yu didn't let him wait too long and came over quickly.
The man looked to be in his early twenties, with the delicate and good-looking features that only pure-bloods have, with pale skin, black hair, and bright red lips.
The color of the eyes is very similar to that of the Nguyen Dynasty, but slightly darker and the outline is sharper.
The person in the "memory" overlaps with the person in front of me.
Nguyen Chao naturally developed a sense of closeness to him, and his heart, which had always been beating slowly, couldn't help but speed up at this moment, filled with long-lost memories and joy.