Chapter 81 Blackstone City. Ji Yang's gaze was intense, and his Adam's apple bobbed involuntarily...
Outside the Bat Hotel, after assigning everyone their tasks, Xie Lu accompanied Nan Ke to tie up a certain unlucky guy and capture Nan Ke, leaving Ji Yang alone to guard under a large tree diagonally opposite the hotel. Before leaving, Xie Lu emphasized, "Don't go alone."
"What about the two people?" Ji Yang asked.
Xie Lu was speechless, and gritted his teeth, saying, "Don't go in before the auction tonight!"
oh...
This made Ji Yang very bored.
Bored to the point that he could only sit under the tree and stare blankly at the hotel entrance, until Mr. V came out of the hotel and got into the car. Sensing that he was out of place with his surroundings, Ji Yang walked to the side of the road they always passed and squatted down. His fingers inadvertently brushed against his trouser leg, and a small paper doll-like thing was caught under the car as it passed by.
Then Ji Yang got up and dusted off his slightly wrinkled clothes. His gaze shifted from the paper figure that had failed on the ground to the car that had sped away. His eyes gradually turned indifferent. The person he had originally targeted was not in the car. The tracking of the paper figure had failed.
Back under the tree, Jiang Yang looked thoughtfully back at the entrance of the Bat Hotel. Just then, Jiang Yang walked out with a burly man, and the two headed towards a coffee shop not far from Ji Yang.
The young man was wearing a black overcoat today, with a section of dark turtleneck underneath peeking out from the collar. His fair fingers flipped through the menu, and his delicate Adam's apple was faintly visible as he looked up to ask the waiter a question.
Ji Yang's gaze was intense, and his Adam's apple bobbed involuntarily. The young man looked up and scanned the area in front of the coffee shop. He subconsciously hid behind a tree, and for some reason, he had the illusion that he was a perverted voyeur.
Ji Yang closed his eyes and took a breath. When he opened his eyes, Jiang Yang was talking to someone. He sent Jiang Yang a message saying, "Someone got into a car outside the hotel just now, but I found that there was no one in the car."
...
Inside the Bat Hotel, the elevator that Meng Jiang and his group took stopped at the second floor. Jiang Yang waited in front of the elevator, and the red light on the surface of the up button reminded him of what the hotel staff had said in private earlier: that the second floor was Mr. E's territory.
At the Bat Hotel, Mr. V and Mr. E each run their own separate operations, jointly handling the blood brokerage business. However, in a phone call with Kirby yesterday, Kirby mentioned that while the two appear to be on good terms, they are actually secretly competing with each other.
Kirby said, "The reason Blackrock City was able to be so easily breached by the Tower's forces a week ago is that someone inside Blackrock City had opened the fourth sector's defenses beforehand. The person who opened the defenses would be surrounded by a bat, and he would need to feed the bat with his blood until he closed the defenses."
Jiang Yang murmured, "Bat..." He had seen many bats in the fourth district, and he couldn't tell from the surface which one was the bat Kirby was talking about.
Kirby added, "After tracking the bats, the person disappeared after entering Zone 2, where there are no bats. If a bat were to appear, it would be detected immediately, except inside the Bat Hotel." This means that the person most likely escaped into the hotel and has not left since.
“But when we tried to search the Bat Hotel, Mr. E and Mr. V refused, citing the coexistence treaty between vampires and vampire heads. I suspect that one of them must be connected to this traitor, which is why I went to great lengths to ask you for help. Also, I think you are currently lagging behind another team and need to catch up with your opponents.” Kirby’s voice carried the childishness and gentleness of a boy, but when he spoke, he was mature and old-fashioned, which was completely opposite to his personality.
Jiang Yang asked a completely unrelated question, "Why are there no bats in Zone 2?"
Kirby sarcastically remarked, "Perhaps they're unwilling to confront the inhumanity they once possessed."
Jiang Yang asked again, "Why do you want me to go?"
"Um..." Kirby seemed to have some unspeakable secret, and when he couldn't say it, he childishly threw a tantrum and asked, "Just tell me if you'll help or not?"
"Sure," Jiang Yang chuckled, agreeing decisively, then changed the subject, asking, "But, does Xie Lu know?"
Kirby was silent for a long time before saying, "Don't tell him."
“I won’t tell him for now, but Kirby, Sheru is very worried about you.”
Kirby suspects a connection to Mr. V or Mr. E. Now that the people from the tank have entered Mr. E's reception room, Jiang Yang doesn't think the traitor will be exposed so quickly, but he has silently included Mr. E in the scope of his investigation.
Just then, the door to the reception room behind him was suddenly pulled open from the inside. Jiang Yang turned around and saw Mr. V walking out with two servants. He looked Mr. V up and down without making a sound and asked, "Mr. V, are you going out?"
Based on the keywords extracted from Kirby, the traitor would not easily leave the Bat Hotel, his sanctuary, in order to avoid bringing the bat into the detection area.
"Yes, I still have some things to take care of, but don't worry, I'll be back before the auction tonight." The auction was at six o'clock in the evening. Mr. V, wearing white silk gloves, patted Jiang Yang's face reassuringly twice. The elevator had been stopped on the third floor for a long time. Mr. V asked, "Why have you been standing here?"
Jiang Yang took a half step back, lowered her eyes to conceal the change in expression caused by the discomfort coming from her cheek, and gently bit the soft flesh of her lip with her teeth, hesitantly asking, "I...can I go out? Mr. V?"
[Black Rock City Observatory - Jiang Yang's Perspective]
"Brother, could you be any more unreasonable next time?"
"Me! Me! Me! I can!"
You can't!
No one would refuse Jiang Yang in this state. Mr. V narrowed his eyes, his gaze darkening. "Of course, you are my guest. Perhaps you would like me to arrange for someone to accompany you?"
Upon hearing this, Jiang Yang looked up and her eyes lit up. "Really?!" But the next second, the young man's fingers curled up awkwardly, and he said dejectedly, "Never mind, I don't have any money."
Mr. V gave a look behind him, and soon a servant brought out a heavy bag of black stones and handed it over. It looked like even more than what he had given to DisKi. Jiang Yang happily reached out his hand, but when he looked up, he unexpectedly caught a glimpse of reluctance in the servant's eyes. He then shrank back and shook his head, saying, "I can't accept it."
“Just take this,” Mr. V glanced at the man, and the servant immediately lowered his head in fear. He instructed, “You will stay by Mr. Jiang’s side today and do not cause any problems.”
"yes."
Three minutes later, Jiang Yang stood at the hotel entrance and watched Mr. V get into his car and leave.
Five minutes later, in front of a coffee shop in the second district, Jiang Yang and the waiter named Nar sat together on a chair in front of the shop. Jiang Yang asked, "You know..."
Before he could finish speaking, Nar asked, puzzled, "What?"
A message from Ji Yang suddenly popped up on the panel. After reading it, Jiang Yang silently dragged it to an inconspicuous spot. Just then, the barista brought over two cups of coffee. The young man pushed one of them in front of Nar, saying, "It's okay, don't be shy. Try it. If it's too bitter, you can add two more sugar cubes."
During the day, Blackrock City was virtually deserted, devoid of vampires. Nar politely thanked him, picked up his coffee, and sipped it. The two seemed to be completely immersed in the Blackrock City morning. Half a minute later, Nar felt sleepy, crossed his arms, rested his hands on the table, and closed his eyes.
Jiang Yang swallowed the last piece of bread, snapped his fingers, and asked, "How much?"
The shop assistant came out with the receipt. "Sir, the total is 15 black stones."
Jiang Yang gave her two 10-yuan black stone coins. "Keep the change. My companion is asleep. When he wakes up, please tell him that I have returned to the hotel."
"Okay, sir, could you please give me a good review?"
A red thread connected the two of them. Jiang Yang smiled and said, "Of course."
Jiang Yang discovered this in the morning after making a deal with Mr. V.
Bottom line, stance, commitment... whatever it may be, once it is reached, it's like a contractual relationship between two people, connected by a red line that can only be seen by each other, and this relationship cannot be mentioned to anyone other than the two parties to the contract.
Just like when Jiang Yang met Mr. V in front of the elevator and had the idea, he couldn't say it because of the presence of other people. He didn't know the consequences of not completing it, so he simply took the initiative to explore the Bat Hotel in the most primitive way.
In other words, monetary transactions.
Just to be on the safe side, Jiang Yang even asked Nar again. The result was obvious, but since Nar was always by Mr. V's side, Jiang Yang didn't intend to gamble on him with such a trick.
The problem is, Mr. V, who was supposed to get into the car and leave, is not in the car, according to Ji Yang. Jiang Yang looked up as if he had a feeling, wondering... where did Mr. V go?
Jiang Yang didn't know, but he thought he could be even bolder, so he simply bought some sleeping pills from the mall and secretly poured them into the coffee that Nar had just drunk.
Then, they returned to the Bat Hotel.
Through the transaction, Jiang Yang learned the location where the Blood Slave was being held: the top 10th floor of the Bat Hotel.
Based on the fact that the traitors were fed with blood, Jiang Yang guessed that the possibility of them being human was definitely greater than that of vampires. In addition, considering that they had not been out for a long time, apart from certain regular employees, only that group of blood slaves fit the criteria. Therefore, he decided to go and take a look first.
But when they got off the elevator on the tenth floor, they found that the only door was locked from the outside. Jiang Yang was tempted to force it open when someone inside shouted, "Who's there! Who's out there!"
Jiang Yang dodged to a blind spot on the side, crouching down and carefully avoiding the gaze of anyone who opened the door and peeked out. Fortunately, the chains wrapped around him limited the range of his vision.
"Who's outside?" another person asked.
"I don't know, I'm so hungry, and I don't know when the restaurant will bring the food today."
He closed the door, and Jiang Yang keenly caught the meaning behind his words: the restaurant was on the fourth floor.
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Author's note: Yay, I'm finally fully recharged today!
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