Li Liwen, Sun Cheng, and Wang Peng all froze.
Under the gaze of those eyes, everything around seemed to become blurred.
The team leader's address of "Uncle Ma" made the two young team members realize that they had been discovered in advance.
Clearly, it wasn't just the team leader who couldn't forget "Uncle Ma," but the other party also remembered the team leader. None of them were deceiving themselves, so the possibility of getting away with it under these circumstances was practically nonexistent.
"Um... Mr. Ma, hello, my name is Li Liwen, we've met before."
Li Liwen quickly regained his composure. He paused for a moment at the beginning because he didn't know how to address her, but then he resumed speaking fluently.
Whether you stretch your neck or shrink back, you'll get cut sooner or later anyway, so you might as well be more open-minded.
Li Liwen stood up and walked towards the two people at the door, with Wang Peng and Sun Cheng following in their group leader's footsteps.
"Hello."
Li Liwen saw that "Uncle Ma" had reached out his hand, as if he wanted to shake hands with him.
He paused for a moment, then quickly reached out his hand.
The other person simply shook his hand briefly before extending it back, then smiled and said, "The average heart rate of the three of you is close to 180. Are you nervous?"
Then he turned to the waiter waiting on the side and said, "We have a reservation, Mr. Hong Quan's private room. The three of them are with me."
"Okay, please follow me."
After saying this, the waitress glanced curiously at Li Liwen and his two companions, clearly remembering that these three customers had just caused trouble.
The middle-aged giant who was following Uncle Ma glanced at Li Liwen and the other two with amusement, then followed Uncle Ma toward the left-hand corridor.
Li Liwen and the other two looked at each other, gritted their teeth, and followed.
The door to the private room opened, and Li Liwen reluctantly followed the two people from Xianfu inside. Only then did he realize that there were already six people sitting inside.
Hong Quan and the "little girl" named Windsor were both acquainted with each other, along with four other people.
Judging from his sitting height, he was definitely no less than two meters tall. He was also exceptionally robust, with a rugged and angular face, and an imposing gaze. His dark golden hair was slightly curled and loose, and his suit looked like a tight-fitting garment.
A young man with a weary face, chin propped up with a chopstick, head swaying precariously, and drooping eyelids, had a loose hood covering his head.
Two other people were sitting close together. One was an incredibly beautiful woman, whose ethnicity was hard to discern, and she was dressed very lightly despite the cold weather.
Finally, there was an old man whose exact age was hard to discern. He had deep-set eyes, completely white hair, and a long white beard that reached below the table. He wore an old gray robe.
When the five people went in, everyone inside except for the sleepy young man was already watching the door, as if they knew someone was coming.
"Hey, isn't this the kind young man from the high-speed rail station? You guys did a good job acting in the rest area just now."
Hong Quan chuckled and made a sarcastic remark towards the door.
Windsor gave Sun Cheng a slight smile, making the latter feel inexplicably flattered.
"Bang."
The door closed automatically.
"Please have a seat."
Hong Quan maintained his smile and greeted Li Liwen and the other two as if they were friends, inviting them to sit down next to the sleepy young man.
Everyone was seated, but the atmosphere was somewhat awkward. The three members of the special operations team felt like they were sitting on pins and needles. They wanted to say something, but someone spoke first. It was the burly man who exuded authority in both physique and eyes.
"Ma Yu, why did you bring them in?"
"They are people from the current court."
"so what?"
"That's why I brought it in."
Ma Yu spoke as if it were a casual and natural thing: "Oh, KFC is having a discount today, so I went and bought McDonald's."
The burly man paused for a moment upon hearing this.
"Alright, alright, since all the seats are full, let's start serving the food. The seafood here is really good, but it's a bit pricey. I usually can't afford it, but I'm going to eat my fill today since it's free."
Hong Quan happily pressed the service call button in the room, and as soon as the waiter came in, he shouted, "Serve the food! Serve the food!"
"Is it full?"
Wang Peng muttered something under his breath.
Sun Cheng and Li Liwen also had this question, since the main seat was still empty. But perhaps the fact that the seat was full just meant that everyone had arrived.
Li Liwen would prefer everyone to introduce themselves to each other, but it seemed that the group wanted to eat first.
Just like a normal dinner party, the people at the table opened bottles of drinks, and some even poured drinks for each other. Hong Quan specially brought coconut juice and ran over to Li Liwen and the other two, pouring drinks for them with a fawning expression.
"Haha, don't be shy, you three. Let's eat first and then talk. Um, my bakery's fire safety certificate has never been approved. Could you check it out for me sometime?"
Li Liwen quickly replied, "Of course, of course, it's no big deal."
"Team leader... look over there..."
Upon hearing Sun Cheng's words, Li Liwen and Wang Peng both turned to look at the "empty seat" in the main seat.
Windsor, who was sitting next to the main seat, filled the main seat's glass with orange juice. The orange juice in the glass quickly decreased and soon became an empty glass again. Windsor then poured coconut juice into it, which also disappeared in a short time, as if it were evaporating at high speed.
Holy crap, what's going on? There's a ghost sitting there?
"Hmph~ Humans can't see fairies."
The burly man seemed wary of the three, but his words made them realize that a "demon" was sitting there.
But what kind of demon is this? A fox spirit, a snake spirit, or something else?
"Watch your mouth! Why can't humans see fairies? But I can!"
Hong Quan said something.
The burly man simply replied with a "Hehe" and then fell silent.
These words startled Li Liwen and the others. Could it be that this burly man was not human?
The dishes were served one after another. The others were relatively normal, but three people ate the most ravenously: Ma Yu's big nephew, Hong Quan, and the burly man.
Li Liwen only saw that among the many seafood dishes, four whole roasted lambs were served. The others ate one lamb, while the three of them each had one lamb.
The three members of the special operations team were the most eager to finish their meal. Half an hour later, they finally saw it end, and the plates on the table were cleaner than if they had been licked clean. The kitchen staff probably didn't even need to wash them.
"Hiccup~~~~~~~~~"
Hong Quan burped and then stood up.
"First of all, welcome to Qiantang. This was originally just a welcome banquet, but since we have friends from the Chinese government here, let me give you some introductions. Anyway, with the advancement of technology on Earth, ordinary people are playing an increasingly important role, and sooner or later we will have to change from protectors to collaborators."
“I think that’s what Master Ma Yu brought them here for. The parliament has already decided to gradually reach out to various governments in the future, so why not start with China?”
Seeing that no one objected, and that Li Liwen and the others seemed to have been waiting for this, Hong Quan took the initiative to begin the introduction.
"The two who brought you here are True Person Ma Yu and Ma Xiaolin, people from the Immortal Abode."
The uncle and nephew nodded to the three of them.
"A clone of Big Head Son and Small Head Dad".
The one who said those harsh words was the burly man. Li Liwen noticed that, apart from Hong Quan, this guy was the most talkative person there.
However, neither the uncle nor the nephew reacted much to what was said.
Hong Quan's mouth twitched, and he continued his introduction.
"This talkative guy over here isn't human. I'm not insulting you, but you really aren't human."
"snort!"
"Its name is Batru, an extremely rare innate fighting creature with a lion-faced Vajra. Don't be fooled by its talkativeness; it actually uses abdominal resonance to produce sounds. Its oral cavity structure is not capable of human speech, and its humanoid appearance is also an illusion. It belongs to the Palace of the Light Creatures Beast King."
"The beautiful woman and the old man over here are Rowling and Rudolph, representatives of the moderate dark creatures and members of the Blue Order."
"Sluts and pretentious bastards."
Bartluth muttered something else, and Rowling casually winked at the three members of the special operations team.
“Ahem, this is Lady Windsor, the Templar Archon of the Undercity.”
Windsor, who looked like a little girl, smiled at the three of them.
"Hmph, you old hag pretending to be young!"
The sharp tongue rang out once again.
"Boom!"
The large round table, which was covered with empty plates, suddenly exploded.
The three of them, including Li Liwen, were experiencing a constant buzzing sound in their heads and felt extremely uncomfortable.
Through the blur, they could see many fragments hovering in the air less than ten centimeters away from them, while most of the shattered ceramics and glass shot towards Batru like bullets.
Ma Yu and the others hurriedly moved away from Batru.
A series of chaotic "clanging" sounds rang out. Bartlu was hit by flying shards and stuck to the wall behind him, with the surrounding walls embedded with debris.
Even after everything calmed down, Li Liwen's heart was still pounding, the three of them were still experiencing tinnitus, and beads of sweat were uncontrollably dripping from their foreheads.
A woman's age is indeed a fatal flaw, no matter who she is.
They were still sitting in their chairs, but the table in front of them was gone. They instinctively looked towards the wall, wondering if Bartru was still alive.
Bartlu's suit was completely torn, the clothes hanging on his body like shredded cloth. Although he looked like he was grimacing, he didn't seem to be injured.
Because the room was in a relatively remote location and had been specially soundproofed, diners outside only heard a noise from that direction and assumed that a food delivery cart had fallen over. After the waiter explained, they quickly continued their meal.
The door to the private room was opened from the outside, and a waiter rushed in.
"What happened? You guys didn't...?"
She saw the scene inside the room, and the rest of her sentence got stuck in her throat.
"It's nothing, it's just that the bowl got knocked over."
The sleepy young man looked at the waiter and said this, and the waiter paused for a moment before repeating, "It's nothing, it's nothing, just a bowl spilled, it's nothing, it's nothing, just a bowl spilled..." before closing the door and leaving.
A soft, delicate voice suddenly rang out.
"Windsor! I haven't finished my orange juice yet! My orange juice!"
"Ahem, Lady Ellen, I'll buy you a whole new bottle, the unopened kind, later."
"That's more like it!"
Hong Quan shrugged helplessly at Li Liwen and the others.
"Then I'll continue. Hey you, stop messing around. You know the Lion-faced King Kong is almost extinct, right?"
"snort..."
For some reason, Li Liwen felt that this "humph" sounded much weaker than the previous ones.
"You must have heard the voice just now. That was indeed Lady Ellen, the little fairy, a rare light fairy!"
Li Liwen and the other two stared wide-eyed toward the main seat, only to see an empty chair and nothing else.
"Lady Ellen, you'd better show yourself. Ordinary humans can't see your natural form..."
"Hehehehe~~ Really, you should have said so earlier~~"
With a silvery laugh, a fantastical creature, no bigger than the palm of your hand, appeared in sight, its body radiating soft, diffused light.
With its delicate and adorable appearance, dressed in a well-fitting little dress, and four transparent, fluorescent wings that occasionally flap behind it, the trail of its flight seems to leave behind glittering fragments of light.
This is a real, fantastical creature, more beautiful and vivid than any similar being depicted in animation or film.
This was even more shocking to the three of them than Windsor's outburst just now. Although it seemed that the sharp-tongued one wasn't human either, they hadn't actually seen him.
Li Liwen was alright; he had witnessed it once in Sichuan and had also "experienced" it more than ten years ago. Sun Cheng and Wang Peng, on the other hand, couldn't help but pinch their thighs.
"Ahem~ The one who can't wake up is the Sleepless One. As for me, I'm a Tree Shepherd. Perhaps you'll find out what I do in the future."
"Well, that's all for now, given the current situation."
Li Liwen adjusted his breathing.
After everyone else has finished introducing themselves, it's naturally your turn.
He took out his ID and showed it to him.
"I am Li Liwen, the leader of the fifth category of special task force for national security emergency response. These two are my team members, Sun Cheng and Wang Peng."
"My main responsibility is to investigate and come into contact with some supernatural events. To be honest, this is only the second time I have come into contact with real supernatural forces. We are eager to figure out what things in this world are inaccessible to ordinary people."
Hong Quan listened with a smile as he finished speaking.
“I know, I know. Your leader must be worried that we might cause some harm or social unrest. I can understand that. It’s the same in every dynasty.”
"First, please convey our goodwill to the upper echelons of China. Second, you can think about it: from ancient times to the present, including after the founding of the People's Republic of China, apart from some unofficial histories and myths, we have not left any trace. If we wanted to create social unrest, we would not have been so low-key."
Li Liwen nodded, but after a while, his mindset returned to normal, and he wouldn't believe these words so easily.
"But if you never reveal yourself, why did you bring me here to have this meal? And you just said that the parliament plans to contact governments of various countries, so why are you starting to contact us now? And what is the parliament anyway?"
"Hmph, so many questions!"
Bartlu seemed to have regained his spirits.
Hong Quan ignored it, his smile gradually fading. He looked at Li Liwen and the other two, and said, word by word.
"Because our planet's power has entered a period of recovery in recent years. When we were weak, we struggled to hold on, but now, we will settle accounts with those scum who once attacked us. We will unite all forces that can be united, and the strength of ordinary humans should not be underestimated."
P.S.: This is a combined chapter. I was busy today, so I apologize to everyone. Thank you to Mu Zi Li for the generous donation of 10,000 yuan, and thank you to the other generous readers for their donations as well. Thank you to all the readers who have supported me all this time.
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