Chapter 33 - Midnight Party: Owner

Chapter 33: Owner

The lizardman’s expression was subtle, hidden behind thick head armor and deep, dark eyes that prevented others from discerning any abnormality. Xiangnu, more sensitive than the rest, felt a hint of… kindness in the lizardmen’s gazes directed towards him. Xiangnu narrowed his eyes, tilting his head, and looked innocently at the lizardman with a smile.

The lizardman lowered his head, shifted slightly away, and discreetly pointed to the edge of the stage to show Xiangnu. Four or five vigilant guards were stationed there, and the lizardman whispered, “After the one wearing a ceramic mask and Xiangnu escorted the inspectors out, everyone began searching the banquet hall and then found a switch…”

As the lizardmen gradually calmed down, Xiangnu’s eyes widened in amazement. Despite his striking beauty, he exuded a sharp and aggressive aura, contributing to the success of his disguise. Walking alongside Doctor X, no one doubted his ident.i.ty.

Feeling the pressure, the lizardman fell silent. Xiangnu spoke slowly, “Xiangnu? Do you know that officer?”

After a few seconds of contemplation, the lizardman, with a small opening in his head armor, softly admitted, “Yeah, I know him.”

Unperturbed, Xiangnu accepted the statement calmly. The lizardman suggested, “Find a quieter place to chat?”

“Bring your master, eh?” the lizardman deliberately emphasized, p.r.o.nouncing the word “master” with firmness.

Xiangnu calmly accepted the statement, showing no discomfort.

Xiang Nu glanced at the lizardman, then turned to look at Yu Su. Yu Su had already opened his eyes and was looking at the lizardman. There was no emotion in his pure black inorganic eyes, they were deep cold, and dark to the extreme.

Yu Su got up and walked over, standing behind Xiangnu, raised his hand to support him, and then said coldly to the lizardman, “Go out and talk about it.”

The lizardman nodded and the three of them were ready to go out, the woman who belonged to the ‘Painter’ organization with Yu Su couldn’t help herself and hurriedly came over to block in front of the three of them, she said, “Wait, the mission is for all of us, if there is any information, we should discuss it together, a few of you can talk here, why waste time to go out? Why do you need to go out and find a place where no one is around?”

Yu Su was very upset, “You eavesdropped on our conversation?”

The woman said as usual, “No, I didn’t do it on purpose, it’s just that your voices are not small, I accidentally overheard it.”

Xiang Nu observed her and trailed two steps behind Yu Su.

The woman looked at Xiangnu, her eyes flickered, “He…”

Yu Su looked at her coldly: “Get out of the way.”

The woman suddenly showed a look of unwillingness, she said dissatisfiedly: “Ding Long, we are an organization, what news cannot be exchanged? What’s more, the real purpose of our partic.i.p.ation in this mission is not for that point of life, what do you mean by defending against us like this?”

Ding Long should be the person Mr. Yu pretended to be.

Mr. Yu closed his eyes and tried to patiently put the woman through: “My mission is not the same as yours, so if there is anything wrong, I will explain it to you after I finish this copy. For now, step aside.”

The woman wanted to say something, but Yu Su suddenly opened his eyes fiercely, his gaze was dark and heavy, the woman was shocked by his eyes, and just when she wanted to say something, Yu Su took a step forward, and grabbed her by the neck.

Of course, he didn’t want to strangle the woman to death, he just used the action of strangling her to intimidate her a little.

As soon as he released his hand, the woman swayed in place, covering her neck and bowing her head.

Xiangnu watched her quietly, the woman didn’t respond, and someone came around, raised her eyes to look at Yusu, Xiangnu, and the lizardmen, and grabbed the woman’s arm concerned: “Sister Tao, are you all right?”

Disregarding Sister Tao’s response, the man hushed his voice and admonished Yu Su, “Hey, Ding Long, what’s going on with you? Despite your strength, Sister Tao is our leader and is in charge of organizing this mission. You should proactively collaborate with Sister Tao, sharing the information you’ve gathered with her. How could you hurt Sister Tao like that!”

Yu Su glanced at him, Tao sister lowered her head deeply, put her right hand on her neck, raised her left hand tremblingly, and said in a hoa.r.s.e voice, “I…am okay…huhu…”

Sister Tao gasped for breath and roughly exhaled, She never raised her head, hunched her back slightly, gritting her teeth she said, “Let them go, I understand what Ding Long meant.”

The man glanced at Yu Su and the others suspiciously, not knowing what Sister Tao understood, but after listening to Sister Tao’s words, he reluctantly gave way.

The three were ready to go out and talk at the stairway on the third floor, but they couldn’t stop, and another group of people stopped them.

But this time, these people didn’t bother anymore, just glanced at the lizardmen and said, “In fact, those who are invited to partic.i.p.ate in the mission are not very short of life points, as to whether the mission can be completed or not, we do not care about, nor do we care about that point of life value, we are just forced to partic.i.p.ate in this mission due to the update of the invitations and the copy logs.”

“We are not interested in the content of your conversation, the ident.i.ty of that inspector, and the abnormal part of this copy mission, nor will we force the two of you to share anything with us, we only have one request, after the two of you have talked, if you can deduce the ident.i.ty of the murderer, please don’t hesitate to directly uncover the murderer to end this copy.”

“We truly don’t care about the 100,000 HP, and we can even pay two HP each, as long as we can leave the dungeon.”

Xiangnu tilted his head, but the lizardman’s face did not shift, and Yu Su didn’t even take notice of them, so he took Xiangnu’s hand and walked around them.

The few people blocking the road looked at their backs and reminded: “Although this task is not difficult, the things hidden underneath are not simple. Believe me, everyone who stays will regret it.”

Yu Su and the three disappeared at the door of the banquet hall and appeared at the entrance of the stairs on the third floor. There were also some missionaries spa.r.s.ely stopping outside, and they seemed to be discussing something. When they saw someone coming out, they closed their mouths.

When their eyes fell on Xiangnu, who deliberately maintained a flat expression, their faces changed. They didn’t say anything, lowering their head and carefully avoiding a few people, they walked sideways through the door into the banquet hall.

The world suddenly became empty and dark, and Xiangnu was still wearing Yu Su’s coat. He raised his hand flicked the shiny epaulet, and asked with a smile, “Ding Zeming? Miao Dong? Hey, you will never be that stuttering Jiang Chao ba?”

The lizardman looked up at Xiangnu, raised his shoulders, and moved his muscles and bones, and the hideous leather armor slowly shrunk and shriveled, hanging on the skin as if it had lost its moisture, and finally melted into the body. Showing his human face.

The person under the surface of the Lizardman was Jiang Chao.

Xiang Nu was not surprised. As early as when the Lizardman pointed out his name, Xiang Nu estimated that the Lizardman was one of the last dungeon taskers.

After all, he had done two missions in total, and although the companions in the first mission didn’t die, it was almost the same as total annihilation.

Jiang Chao also thought of this, and he was quite surprised, “Last time was actually your second copy? No…… even if that was your second copy, you shouldn’t have locked my lizardman’s ident.i.ty to a companion from the second copy unless ……”

Xiangnu smiled and said imploringly, “In my first dungeon, all but me were wiped out.”

Jiang Chao was stunned, his words were suddenly not fluent, stumbling, “Before, copy, you, look, not like a bad.”

Xiangnu in the second copy was quite kind, which was why Jiang Chao revealed his ident.i.ty in this copy to find him.

At first, Jiang Chao didn’t think that Xiangnu could find out that the ident.i.ty of the lizard man was him, so he still had the idea of ​​deliberately catching Xiangnu’s interest, but now he was shocked by Xiang Nu’s words, and immediately regretted it.

Xiangnu wondered, “Why are you stuttering again, are you pretending to stutter?”

Jiang Chao: “Can’t… scared.”

Stuttering when scared?

Xiangnu was speechless, Jiang Chao also looked like a cool guy, why was the real character a coward?

Yu Su gave Jiang Chao a cold look, and suddenly asked, “Then if I scare you again, can you speak fluently?”

Jiang Chao looked at him vigilantly, not quite sure how Yu Su was going to scare him.

Yu Su gave a quirky low laugh, and Xiang Nu was stunned for a moment. He saw a Taoist priest with a whisk in hand and a pale face standing behind Jiang Chao. He didn’t feel evil, and he didn’t give that kind of particularly strong sense of terror. But in the end, he was different from ordinary people.

Jiang Chao saw Xiangnu was looking at his back intently, his face became pale, he turned his head slowly, the Taoist priest was almost standing close to Jiang Chao, Jiang Chao turned back, and the enlarged blue-grey face appeared in front of Jiang Chao.

Jiang Chao’s face turned white, and he took a step back while clutching his heart, out of breath. With that appearance, no one would suspect that he would die suddenly.

Xiangnu stretched out his hand behind Jiang Chao and held him, in case Jiang Chao fainted accidentally, he could hold him to prevent him from falling to the ground.

Seeing the scene in front of him, Xiangnu couldn’t help thinking of the scene when Yu Su asked him to open the door when he had just released the copy, and felt sympathy for Jiang Chao.

Yu Su asked, “Are you still stuttering?”

Jiang Chao covered his face, adjusted for a while, and spoke at a slower pace, but without stuttering although it was barely smooth. “I’m fine…Thank you.”

Yu Su ignored him and instead smiled at Xiang Nu as if asking for credit.

Jiang Chao hurriedly stepped back a few steps to distance himself from the ghost priest.

The ghost Taoist looked at Jiang Chao intently, and said leisurely, “It was you who called the police at Xuanyan before, right?”

Jiang Chao nodded at a loss, and said slowly, “I made a phone call…”

The ghost priest grabbed Jiang Chao’s hand, and Xiang Nu glanced at his hand. The ghost priest’s nails were very long, bluish black like they were covered with toxins. The skin on his hands was fine, not particularly delicate. But not too rough.

He drew back and forth on Jiang Chao’s hand, looking at the shape, similar to the lotus flower on top of his crown, but there was no real trace left on Jiang Chao’s hand, so Xiang Nu and Jiang Chao couldn’t figure out what the ghost Taoist was doing.

After the ghost priest made a mark on Jiang Chao’s hand, his eyes slowly fell on Xiangnu, who stood behind Yu Su and blocked his sight.

Yu Su narrowed his eyes dangerously and looked at the ghost priest for a few seconds. The ghost priest looked away, strode stiffly, and returned to the fourth floor.

Jiang Chao waited for his back to disappear, and immediately asked anxiously, “He, just now, action, what, what does it mean?”

Yu Su frowned and looked at him. Jiang Chao was afraid that Yu Su would scare him again, so he could only slow down and speak again slowly.

Only then did Yu Su say, “Your next dungeon will be Tian Yanzong.”

Yu Su said with great certainty, that Jiang Chao was at a loss, “Why?”

Yu Su looked at Xiang Nu, Xiang Nu glanced at Yu Su, although his expression seldom changed, but the temperature in his eyes would be different.

The most obvious thing was that when Yu Su was very angry and unhappy, his eyes looked extremely cold, which made people feel chills in their hearts.

But when he is happy, there will be more obvious color in his eyes, such as when he is talking to Xiang Nu, his eyes could even be called affectionate.

Xiangnu asked on behalf of Jiang Chao, “Mr. Yu, why did that Taoist priest appear in this copy, and he came for Jiang Chao… and me.”

Obviously, Xuangnu was also one of his goals, but he didn’t do anything because of Yu Su’s existence.

Xiangnu asked, “Jiang Chao and I are in this copy, does it have anything to do with that ghost Taoist?”

Yu Su’s expression was much softer. He liked to hear Xiangnu’s soft and sweet voice, which was very pleasant, like the moonlight in the night, cold and bright, everything was just right.

Yu Su nodded: “He did it, and you guys shouldn’t have come to this copy, so it wasn’t an oversight on the part of the Inspector General’s office.”

When Xiangnu first received the invitation, he complained in front of Yu Su that the inspector’s office’s method of selecting taskers was too perfunctory. Yu Su remembered it firmly, and now he deliberately defended it.

Xiang Nu glanced at him, said nothing, and made a note in his heart.

Xiangnu continued to ask: “Then why did he want to summon Jiang Chao and me into his copy, Mr. Yu, do you know?”

Yu Su shook his head: “It may be because the phone call you made was very important, but I don’t know the specific reason, and it is impossible for him to expose his weaknesses and anomalies to us.”

“Is that so…” Xiang Nu looked at Jiang Chao, the cool young man raised his eyebrows with a worried look, and said slowly: “That copy feels a little scary.”

Xiangnu comforted: “Think about it from another angle. At least you know the information about the copy in advance. You can ask someone to inquire about it and make some preparations, right?”

Xiang Nu touched the mole on his palm and said, “Let’s add each other. After you get out of that dungeon, I can ask you for some experience. If I accidentally enter that dungeon in the future, I will not be afraid.”

Jiang Chao said slowly: “You have a ‘master’, no need to be afraid.”

Xiang Nu pursed her lips and smiled softly, feeling a little shy this time.

Yu Su was a little dazed and didn’t understand why Xiangnu suddenly laughed and smiled so beautifully.

This made him look at Jiang Chao with a bit of displeasure.

With his hands behind his back, he rubbed his fingers a few times. After a few seconds, he reminded them, “You guys should finish the task early and leave?”

Xiangnu wanted to ask what the secret behind the party they entered by mistake was, but after meeting Yu Su’s slightly condensed gaze, he swallowed the words unconsciously.

He didn’t have to worry, he could wait until the dungeon was over before asking Yu Su,

Xiangnu looked at Jiang Chao and asked, “I left for a while, and I don’t know what happened in the banquet hall. Can you tell me about the clues that have been discovered so far?”

Jiang Chao nodded and glanced at the banquet hall at the door. They stood a little around the door. Although they couldn’t see all the scenes in the hall, they could at least see the general movement inside.

The atmosphere in the hall was not good. There were not many people doing their tasks seriously. They gathered in groups in twos and threes, and they didn’t know what they were discussing.

Jiang Chao said slowly: “Didn’t the hall suddenly darken before the middle-aged man died? Later, everyone checked the hall after the inspector left, and found a switch around the man.”

“Switch?” Xiangnu murmured, having an idea in his heart.

“Let  me think…” Xiangnu recalled the scene when the lights suddenly went black. There were several people around the middle-aged man. It was quite lively and not isolated, but there was a stone pillar around the middle-aged man. Judging from the location of the stone pillars in the banquet hall, they are not quite central.

Jiang Chao said a lot of words slowly, and it was extremely uncomfortable. He felt that such a slow speech was not as fast as stammering word by word, but unfortunately, Yu Su stared at him, he could only slowly speak, feeling anxious and uncomfortable.

Xiangnu asked: “There was a stone pillar next to him before he died. Is there a switch for the banquet on the stone pillar? Then the b.u.t.ton may still be around the middle-aged man?”

Jiang Chao was a little surprised, then nodded and asked, “How did you guess?”

Xiangnu smiled, arching his eyebrow, “Because some people say that the middle-aged man died a long time ago, but in fact, he should have just died a short time ago. Plus that b.l.o.o.d.y hole in his head ……”

Xiangnu gestured with his fingers and turned out half a circle: “The skin around the blood hole is rolled outward as if something popped out of his brain.”

“So I guess, that middle-aged man may be the ‘murderer’, he was killed before he entered the banquet hall, something lodged in his body to control his movements, and then found a chance to fly out of the middle-aged man’s body, looking for a new prey. ”

Jiang Chao shook his head and said slowly: “I don’t know, the middle-aged man was dragged to the fourth floor after he died. We didn’t have time to examine his body, so we only took a brief look.”

Xiangnu pondered and asked, “He is not the first one to die. Isn’t this task given because he killed people on the streets of the holy city before? Haven’t you seen any previous corpses? If you see it, it should be easy to identify the attributes and type of the murderer from the corpse, right?”

Jiang Chao said blankly: “I don’t know, no one told me…”

Xiangnu fell silent, and after a few seconds, he said, “So, what we are looking for is the murderer and the victim. Judging from the simple and brutal way of death of the middle-aged man, the way the parasite entered the human body. It should not be hidden, and there may be obvious wounds on the victim’s body. However, no victim has appeared yet, so the wound should be relatively hidden, and it may be in some places covered by clothes…”

Jiang Chao said slowly: “Let them undress for inspection?”

Yu Su glanced at him, Xiangnu had no opinion, and stated the facts: “They may not cooperate.”

Jiang Chao mentioned the group of people who stopped them last: “They said they would help us with life points to find the murderer.”

Xiangnu had a general feeling towards those people and said lightly: “They are just talking about it, they don’t want to conflict with us. Of course, it does not rule out that they want to cooperate with us. In short, we have to choose a foolproof one. The way to make them have to cooperate with us.”

Xiangnu touched the nameplate on his coat: “For example, I called the inspector and ordered them to cooperate?”

Jiang Chao retorted: “What if, those, parasites, directly attack us?”

“Find someone to protect us?” Xiangnu asked.

Jiang Chao asked inexplicably, “Who are you looking for?” You didn’t even need to ask about Yu Su, it’s okay to protect Xiang Slave, and he would definitely not protect him, even if Xiangnu made a promise, he wouldn’t believe it!

But Jiang Chao thought about it too much, and Xiangnu never thought about letting Mr. Yu protect Jiang Chao. Seeing him ask, he gave Jiang Chao an idea: “You can go up and find that ghost Taoist, doesn’t he want you to go to his copy.? There must be a purpose, he should not sit by and watch you die, you go to him now, and use him to help you get rid of the immediate crisis!”

“In this case, even if you accidentally die in his copy later, you will feel a lot more at ease. Because you have used him, you haven’t suffered in the end.”

Jiang Chao was angry: “Don’t, curse me!”

Xiangnu smiled and asked, “What do you think?”

Jiang Chao glanced at Yu Su, who was not very in a right state, and was a little suspicious: “Are you sure, he will help you?”

Xiangnu’s eyes wandered, and his eyes gradually fell on Yu Su, he walked to Yu Su’s side, pulled his sleeve with his hand, and his voice was as sweet and intoxicating as honey: “Mr. Yu, I’m your little puppet, right? ~”

Yu Su was slightly startled, thinking about his current disguise, and nodded.

“Then if the master’s puppet is in danger, the master will definitely protect him, right?”

Yu Su’s heart was beating so fast that it was like breaking the hour and minute hands on a clock, without any rules, he couldn’t help raising his hand to cover his slightly flushed ears, and said slyly, “I don’t know why, but you calling me master always gives me a very strange feeling.”

Jiang Chao looked at the wall with his back to the two of them expressionlessly, and complained in a very low voice: “In public, flirting is not enough, isn’t that weird enough? No, shame on you!”

After being pointed out by Xiang Nu, Jiang Chao felt that he was right, that Ghost Taoist had gotten him into this copy and then left a mark on him just to make sure that he would be able to enter his copy in the next world.

The Ghost Taoist went through all this trouble, so maybe Jiang Chao’s existence is a bit different. He’s not going to let him just die?

The more he thought about it, the more it made sense to him. Jiang Chao’s mood gradually stabilized, and he even dared to open his mouth to make a few mocking remarks.

Yu Su’s ear tips moved, and he glanced at Jiang Chao unexpectedly, then stared at Xiang Nu with a thoughtful look.

Xiangnu also looked at Yu Su, and looking at Yu Su’s eyes, he felt a little unsure. Could it be that Mr. Yu’s expression was enlightened?

The author has something to say:

Jiang Chao: Dog food is hard to eat, stinky, and shameless

Xiang Slave: No enlightenment, no enlightenment, no enlightenment (in broken thoughts)

If you think about it, you will become incapacitated.