Chapter 29 Night Raid: "Screaming your lungs out won't save you..."
Fortunately, the two elderly people were clearly more concerned about "how to get the truth." Zhao Yuqing frowned: "So that means, magic won't work? Would calling the police be useful for something like this?"
“It works, I am a cop,” Jin Wanli said. “This has nothing to do with my brother’s magic. This little brat is too young. More importantly, the equipment is of poor quality.” He was furious. “I’m going to complain to the technical department when I get back!”
...It is clear that corporate slaves not only have to work overtime, but also have to take the blame.
"Then what should we do?" Qi Yun asked. "Should we get better equipment? And should your Super Management Bureau find an adult monster with a higher energy level than Nian Nian, and try again?"
Jin Wanli rejected the idea, saying, "No. Your Niannian's background is very special. The monsters in the Super Management Bureau can 'spy' on her, but they can't 'peep' at her. The key thing now is what happened before, not what is 'happening' now. No one can do it for her."
Qi Yun puffed out his chest with pride, but then worried: "What should we do? This isn't a real card game where you can reach the maximum level by spending ten yuan. Niannian is only this big and can't grow up immediately."
"What else can we do but follow the standard procedures?" Jin Wanli stood up and strode out the door. "I'll summon Yu Ming right now!"
As the head of the Special Operations Department of the Supermarket Management Bureau, Jin Wanli was quite efficient in his work. Just after noon that day, Tu Nan sneakily poked at Shu Qing, saying that several policemen had come to the door in the middle of the day and taken Yu Ming away; in the afternoon, people in the former colleagues' group tagged Shu Qing one after another, asking about gossip all afternoon and having a great time slacking off.
In the evening, Jin Wanli returned with the interrogation video, turned on the hotel's LCD TV, and projected it onto the screen for everyone to watch.
More than a month later, when Shu Qing saw Yu Ming's face again, she suddenly felt that the days of rushing to work early and late, sitting at her desk, and working hard to meet performance targets, were like a lifetime ago.
She knew she was a vengeful person and thought she would hate this person for a very long time. However, after just over a month, she had a new life and was going deeper and deeper into the mysterious world. When she saw him again, she was surprisingly calm.
She just happened to have a not-so-great colleague.
“I…I know about this,” the middle-aged man on the screen stammered, a stark contrast to his usual puffed-out, “elite” image. “But it has nothing to do with me…Someone claiming to be the vice president’s assistant came to me asking for her file, so I went to retrieve it. Even if it was leaked, it wasn’t me who leaked it…”
The interrogator's voice came out coldly, "You claim to be the vice president's assistant, have you confirmed that?"
"I..." Yu Ming trembled even more violently, "No, no. But he said it so naturally! He didn't seem like a liar..."
Jin Wanli paused the video and added, "It's been checked, he is indeed the assistant to the vice president of Huiyao Group. But... he's more than just an assistant."
Shu Qing immediately understood, "A part-time job?"
Jin Wanli still didn't give her a friendly look, deliberately humming twice. After being glanced at by Jiu Su, he honestly admitted, "Yes. We checked this person's accounting records, and there's a shell company that makes payments irregularly. We're still investigating more details, so we're not sure yet."
It was extremely efficient to find out so much information in just one afternoon, and Shu Qing had no objection to that.
The video, played at double speed, didn't have much focus afterward; it was just the interrogator repeatedly asking for details and the Super Management Bureau using magic to determine authenticity.
Shu Qing kept staring at the screen. The interrogator continued until the very end, uttering phrases like, "Be on your guard," and "If we gave you permission, you have to be responsible. Did you just give it to us without a second thought if we wanted your own information?" She looked away and shook her head at Jin Wanli—knowing Yu Ming as she did, she couldn't see anything amiss.
It seems that's how things are.
Jin Wanli turned off the TV, exchanged a few more words with the two monsters guarding them, and then returned to the Super Management Bureau. Shu Tong and Zhao Yuqing, a couple exhausted from their journey, wanted to rest early; Shu Qing and Qi Yun had gotten up early to pack their things and move to the hotel, and were now yawning constantly.
Everyone went back to their own rooms to sleep. Qi Yun booked seven rooms that were very close together, so no one had to squeeze in with anyone else.
Shu Qing had been making do on a cot for several days, but now that she finally had a soft, large bed, she couldn't help but roll around a few times and comfortably began to enjoy her sleep.
Half an hour later, a small crack suddenly appeared in the window of her room, and a small white snake, about the thickness of a finger, pushed open the window and poked its head in.
It's 10:30 at night. Jiu Su thought that in half an hour, it would be the cusp of midnight, the time when the yin energy is at its peak.
Tonight isn't a full moon night, but it's almost a full moon... well, at least it's a waxing crescent. The power of the yokai continues to grow stronger, and so does the power of the curse.
It's too dangerous for her to live alone. He's only here to ensure her safety, since he used to share a room with her every night.
Jiu Su thus concocted a perfectly legitimate reason for himself. He silently slipped through the window and swam to the ground. After thinking for a moment, fearing to disturb Shu Qing's parents next door, he didn't transform into a human. Instead, he climbed onto Shu Qing's bed in his snake form and silently approached her.
Shu Qing is already asleep.
Having finally returned to a comfortable sleeping environment, her sleeping posture was... somewhat unrestrained. She lay in a "horse galloping across the sky" position, one leg pressed under the blanket, one hand across the pillow. Half of her face was buried in the pillow, her lips slightly parted by the pillow; half of her face was exposed to the moonlight, bathed in a soft, faint glow.
The little white snake curled up to one side, quietly watching her.
After a while, once he was sure she was asleep, he carefully swam over. He didn't dare to crawl under the covers, so he approached her hand and, as before, wanted to wrap himself around her fingers.
For many nights before, he had fallen asleep in her palm like this, the warmth of her hand something a cold-blooded animal would find particularly alluring. As dawn approached, he would quietly slip away, returning to his original spot.
Actually, he really wanted to hug her again... Ever since she broke down and cried yesterday, and he hugged her, some long-suppressed emotions were like a flood that had burst its banks, flowing wildly and no longer able to be channeled back into the planned riverbed.
It's incredibly difficult to rein in desires that have already spiraled out of control...
Even sages might not be able to do it, let alone a monster that's practically a wild beast.
But what can he do when he has no other choice?
Jiu Su flicked his tongue and kissed her fingers almost reverently. Then, as if seeking comfort, he clung to her, his cool scales touching her warm knuckles, trying to fill the coldness and emptiness in his heart with her body heat.
Unexpectedly, at that moment, Shu Qing suddenly closed her fingers and firmly grasped him.
Jiu Su looked up in surprise and met a pair of smiling eyes.
"I told you not to sneak into my bed in the dead of night." Shu Qing pinched the tip of the little snake's tail and chuckled in a low voice, "Let's see if you can escape my grasp this time."
The little snake demon instinctively tried to break free, but she held on tightly and couldn't escape for a while.
"Don't struggle like that." Shu Qing sat up, grabbed him and pulled him in front of her, and smiled smugly. "Screaming your lungs out won't save you... Oh, besides, you're a snake now, you can't even scream."
Jiu Su almost slipped out of her grasp with a burst of strength, but fortunately Shu Qing reacted quickly, grabbing him back with both hands.
"Don't move," she said in a low voice, threateningly. "If you make any noise, my mom might come in and catch you red-handed."
The threat worked, and Jiu Su really quieted down. He obediently lowered his tail and gently nudged her with his head, signaling her to put him down so they could talk properly.
But how could Shu Qing let him off so easily? She held him in her hands and played with him for a while until Jiu Su bared his teeth in threat, at which point she reluctantly let go.
The little snake glared at her fiercely, and pure white mist surged out. He transformed into a human form within the mist, his face still bearing a faint blush that he hadn't quite concealed.
Shu Qing also became uneasy.
She stayed up late at night, waiting to catch Jiu Su's snake tail. It was purely on a whim, wanting to outdo him. This wasn't her usual sleeping time; her biological clock wouldn't allow her to fall asleep. Just as she was closing her eyes to try and drift off, the window suddenly made a slight noise, startling her.
The girl, who lived alone, was extremely sensitive to the noise. Her heart rate instantly soared to 160. She didn't even dare to open her eyes, only prying her eyelids open slightly, fully on guard. As a result, she saw the little white snake sneaking in through the window.
"..."
New and old grudges surged into her heart, and she decided to scare him a little.
However, now that she has witnessed Xiao Hong transform into Jiu Su, she realizes the inappropriateness of tonight's events—the human form of Jiu Su initially appeared as a stranger. Although she rationally knows that Jiu Su is Xiao Hong, emotionally she has not yet regarded them as one.
It was only at this moment that she truly realized that Jiu Su was not her pet snake.
He was a man with whom she had a subtle, ambiguous relationship, and she needed to maintain the distance between them that of a normal young man and woman, rather than the distance between a master and a pet.
Shu Qing felt very embarrassed. She grabbed her clothes from the bedside table, threw them on haphazardly, and glared at him: "What are you doing here? Trying to take advantage of me secretly?"
Jiu Su was speechless. He could only fool himself with the reason of "protecting her from the curse," but to use it to justify himself in front of her would be too insincere, and he couldn't bring himself to say it.
"You..." Shu Qing scratched her head, guessing as she asked, "Are you not used to staying in a hotel alone?"
This reason was actually plausible; after all, he was a monster who hadn't fully adapted to modern life. If he had used this excuse, they could have tacitly gotten away with it, but Jiu Su remained silent, her lips pursed.
"Not really?" Shu Qing was even more confused. She yawned and glared at Jiu Su with dissatisfaction. "Then why did you come to see me? It can't just be to sleep with me, can it?"
This time, Jiu Su finally reacted. He didn't look at her, his eyelashes drooping as he gazed at the floor, and he softly hummed in response.
Shu Qing: "..."
"Are you out of your mind?" she said, almost laughing in exasperation. "Even if you really came here to spend the night with me, that would be fine!"
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