Chapter 80 The Price of Justice
After the Super Girlfriend video finished playing, Zhong Mengfan looked at me in disbelief. "That Super Girlfriend, what she said at the end of the video, was that... that kind of meaning?"
I replied, "Yes, she's a pimp."
"To a person with superpowers?"
I pulled my lips together with a mocking smile. "That's not necessarily true. Every year, there are many cases of fraud by people pretending to be superpowers or professional heroes to defraud money and sex."
Hu Qian nodded vigorously. "Yes! I suspect my brother Hu Hai was deceived by her! How could psychics and professional heroes possibly need such a thing?"
Zhong Mengfan couldn't help but ask, "So, can you really achieve what Super Girlfriend said by having sexual intimacy with multiple superpowers and awaken superpowers?"
I replied hesitantly, "Sometimes, it can be brief... just like she said in the video, only a few seconds. And it doesn't always happen. The body and blood of a superpowered person can't awaken normal people's abilities. The authorities debunked this rumor a long time ago."
Hu Qian said, "But many people are still deceived. Just look at the number of fans of Super Girlfriend. Becoming a superpowered person—just hearing about it—is enough to make people lose their minds."
She clicked on the chat log again. "This is the chat log between my brother and his girlfriend. He sent her a recent selfie."
Zhong Mengfan and I also saw Hu Hai’s selfie in the chat history. He was a handsome young man who looked similar to Hu Qian, and he also had a pair of fox-shaped animal ears on his head.
"After my brother sent the photo to his girlfriend, she and he must have added each other as friends to stay in touch. I don't have his phone, so I don't know what they talked about specifically. However, the chat logs on his computer show that their last scheduled meeting place was at a place called Manzi Club, and these were over ten days ago."
Hu Qian pulled down the chat history to the lowest level. "I tried to contact Super Girlfriend using Hu Hai's account, but he ignored me. I've also been to that place called Manzi Club."
Hu Qian's face turned slightly red when she said this. "It was a male strip club that only catered to female customers. After I entered, I was restricted to watching the performances on the first floor. The security inside was very strict, and I couldn't go anywhere other than the first floor. The club doesn't have only the first floor. The view of the performances on the second and third floors is obviously better, but they are not open to the public at all, and there is not even an entrance. And I can't see what's going on on the second and third floors from the first floor." Hu Qian was very frustrated when she said this.
Zhong Mengfan: "Then let us investigate the matter of finding Hu Hai."
I nodded as well.
"Thank you! Please help me find Hu Hai." Hu Qian carefully took out Hu Hai's photo and handed it to us again.
Manzi Club
Zhong Mengfan and I stood together on the roadside not far from the Manzi Club. Because it was a male strip club, the signboards hanging outside the Manzi Club flashed very ambiguous lights at night.
The waiters welcoming guests outside the gate were all tall, young, and handsome men. They wore black, form-fitting uniforms, though the styles were not entirely uniform. Some had their collars unbuttoned, revealing a bit of neck skin, or were left halfway open, allowing a clear view of their pectoral muscles. Some wore only a single vest, exposing their arms and showcasing their muscular build.
Every receptionist has a great figure and exudes the hormonal charm of a young man.
During the time Zhong Mengfan and I observed, female guests of all ages had been entering the Manzi Club, led by waiters. Some of the women looked nonchalant, evidently regulars, while others, with a touch of shyness, were ushered into the main entrance along with their companions by smiling waiters.
Zhong Mengfan asked me with a bitter face, "What should I do? Although I promised Hu Qian to find her brother Hu Hai, we can't even get in through the main entrance of the Manzi Club. They only accept female guests."
Maybe because we are men, we were a little conspicuous staying outside the Manzi Club, and the women passing by glanced at us out of the corner of their eyes.
Zhong Mengfan, feeling guilty, quickly pulled me up and walked quickly to another place around the corner.
I stopped and said, "Hey, stop. We're too far from the clubhouse. We're about to lose sight of the building."
Zhong Mengfan asked, "But two men standing near a strip club would be considered suspicious, right? Can we just show our professional heroes and go in directly?"
"Knowing you're a professional hero, they'll be more careful and hide things that can't be seen in public. Doing so will only alert the enemy."
"Then let's go directly to the second and third floors of the Manzi Club, which are not open to the public, and search them. Maybe we can find Hu Hai."
"Without evidence, even professional heroes don't have that much power. Besides, there's no way to be sure whether Hu Hai is actually involved."
"Are we just going to stay at the door like this? Or should we entrust a female hero to help us?"
I pointed to the advertisement across the street. "Didn't you see it? There's a job posting near the club's sign. They only accept female customers, but the only requirements for recruiting staff are young, healthy, and handsome men."
When she heard what I said, Zhong Mengfan immediately covered her clothes tightly with a terrified expression, as if she was about to experience a terrible chastity crisis.
“They’re hiring men who do striptease, right?!”
"Who was it that promised Hu Qian that he would find her brother before even starting the investigation?"
He stammered, "This sacrifice for justice is a bit too big. I've never even held hands with a member of the opposite sex... I have to perform a striptease dance and then be completely naked!" He seemed to regard himself as the protagonist in an erotic novel who had to sacrifice his body to achieve his goal.
To prevent him from getting carried away, I said, "No, even if you decide to sacrifice yourself for justice and do a striptease, the boss probably won't choose you to go on stage because you don't have the mature masculine aura that would spark women's fantasies."
Zhong Mengfan jumped up and down, "What do you mean by looking down on someone? Even at this moment, you still don't forget to mock me for not having masculine charm, don't you?"
"I just want to reassure you. Even if we go in, you won't be asked to stand on the stage and strip naked for everyone to see. Striptease and pole dancing require special qualifications and basic dance skills. The club recruits many types of male dancers. We can apply for warm-up type male waiter dancers, at most they will be exposed to the extent of the upper body."
"Oh, is that so? This makes me feel a little relieved." Zhong Mengfan breathed a sigh of relief.
She protested again, still taking my words very seriously, "But! You can't mock me for not having sex with the opposite sex."
I patted his shoulder and led him back to the Manzi Club. "Then I'll take you to see what those mature men who are truly popular with the opposite sex are like."
"This sentence sounds really bad and weird..." Zhong Mengfan complained as he walked.
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