Looking at the smiling man before her, Mei Xue couldn't help but admire his courage.
He actually dared to come alone to their night base without bringing his formidable butler.
Mei Xue wasn't sure how Gu Yan had found this place, but she just hoped this man would leave quickly.
Her expression unchanged, she said with a hint of urgency in her voice: "So? What do you want to say? Say it and leave quickly."
"Don't rush," Gu Yan said as he took a bite of fried rice with eggs. "I'll talk while I eat. I didn't even have time for breakfast."
He added with a slightly satisfied expression: "This rice tastes decent, though not as good as mine."
Hearing this, Mei Xue glanced towards the kitchen. Seeing that no one there had heard, she said quietly to Gu Yan: "You'd better be careful. The others aren't as easy to deal with as I am."
Easy to deal with?
Gu Yan looked at her with some surprise.
Which easy-to-deal-with person tries to slit someone's throat upon first meeting?
However, compared to the descriptions of others in the original story, Mei Xue could indeed be considered one of the more humane ones.
Gu Yan shrugged: "Alright, alright. After all, this is your headquarters."
"So I'll get straight to the point," he said, eating while maintaining a casual conversational tone. "The plan has changed a bit. We'll meet directly in front of the police station at 8 PM."
"Here's the plan: Xiao Lin has been arrested and taken to the police station, but given that he's a martial artist and the young master of the Dragon King Palace, naturally someone will bail him out."
"This morning, you released control of the shadow slaves, so all those people became corpses."
"This framing tactic is at best just an annoyance to Xiao Lin, and can't really have any significant impact on him."
"But at the very least, it can delay the time it takes for people outside to bail him out."
"We need to drag things out until nightfall to act."
"After all..." Gu Yan took another bite of fried rice and looked at Mei Xue with a smile, "You can only exert your full strength at night."
Mei Xue frowned slightly.
Damn, this feeling of having all your secrets known by someone else is really unpleasant.
Gu Yan continued: "And what you need to do isn't to fight Xiao Lin to the death, or even to test out his full capabilities."
"What you need to do is also the first task I assigned to you."
"That is... to get something from Xiao Lin for me."
"Or rather, you just need to make him reveal that item."
Hearing this, Mei Xue had a rough idea in her mind. She took a light breath and asked, "What item?"
Gu Yan pointed to his own neck: "Half of a jade pendant. Xiao Lin always wears it around his neck, but usually keeps it hidden under his clothes."
"Half of a jade pendant?" Mei Xue asked, puzzled and curious. "Is that all?"
"That's all," Gu Yan said with a light smile. Then, after finishing his last bite of fried rice, he cautioned Mei Xue: "Don't think about going head-to-head with Xiao Lin. He's not an opponent you can handle right now."
"Not even you in the darkness of night."
It wasn't just the difference in cultivation level.
More importantly, it was the difference in luck and destiny.
Xiao Lin was the male protagonist in the original story, the chosen one of this world.
No matter how hard Mei Xue tried, she would never be able to defeat Xiao Lin.
Hearing this, Mei Xue clenched her fists and said disbelievingly: "My combat power at night can even rival a grandmaster. Even if I can't beat Xiao Lin, I should at least be able to force him to go all out."
"How could I be as helpless as you say?"
Gu Yan smiled upon hearing this and simply said: "Oh."
With that, he stood up and walked towards the cashier.
?
Mei Xue slowly raised a mental question mark, feeling inexplicably frustrated.
This "oh," while not saying much, seemed to say everything.
In any case, it made her very upset.
"That'll be 6 yuan in total."
At the cashier, a middle-aged man wearing sunglasses saw Gu Yan approach and put on a professional smile.
After paying, Gu Yan waved to Mei Xue, who had also walked over, and said with a smile: "Goodbye, Miss Mei~"
Ding-a-ling~
Gu Yan left.
Mei Xue felt a headache coming on as she heard that form of address and tone. This guy was indeed a good actor.
The man with sunglasses, unable to contain his curiosity any longer, teased: "Mei Xue, you seem quite familiar with that guy from the secular world, huh?"
Hearing this, Mei Xue sighed lightly: "We're just acquaintances."
After all, she knew nothing about Gu Yan and couldn't guess what he was really up to.
"I understand, but Mei Xue, don't get too caught up in the joys of romance."
"That would interfere with the master's plans."
The man with sunglasses said earnestly.
?
"Boss, what strange things are you saying?"
"Nonsense."
Mei Xue frowned and returned to the kitchen with a cold face.
That guy is the master's nominal husband, although I don't know what the master likes about him.
The shop owner shook his head. This child is just too tsundere.
However, that man is just an ordinary person with no cultivation aura. If he really gets involved in the world of ancient martial arts, it would probably be a disaster.
The two of them are likely to fail.
.........
..........
Meanwhile.
At the Jianghai City Police Station.
In the interrogation room.
Xiao Lin sat in the interrogation chair, facing the stern-looking Chen Yingyin across from him.
She held some documents in her hand and asked one by one: "Name."
"Xiao Lin."
"Age."
"24 years old."
"Gender."
"Can't you see that for yourself?"
Slap!
Chen Yingyin angrily slammed her palm on the table and said, "I'm the one asking questions here!"
Xiao Lin felt like crying.
He felt incredibly frustrated. Why was this happening?
He hadn't done anything wrong, so why did he have to endure this criminal-like interrogation?
Unfortunately, before coming down the mountain, his master had repeatedly instructed him to obey the laws of the secular world.
Otherwise, he would have left long ago.
But...
This woman called Chen Yingyin was quite beautiful.
Maybe staying here wasn't so bad after all.
Seeing Chen Yingyin's increasingly unfriendly expression, he snapped back to reality and replied: "Ahem, male."
Chen Yingyin's impression of Xiao Lin grew worse, and she became more convinced that he was the mastermind behind these incidents.
So her tone grew colder as she asked: "This morning, did you injure a person named Wang Yulan in Yulin Residential Area?"
!!
Xiao Lin was stunned. Wang Yulan?
Yulan? Considering the current situation,
He thought of a possibility and replied with a somewhat dejected tone: "Yes."
As he said this, he tightly clenched his fists.
Sister Yulan... reported it to the police?
But he was only trying to help her get away from that bad person.
Thinking of this, Xiao Lin raised his head and tried to explain: "But I... I didn't mean to! I didn't intend to hurt Yulan, I just..."
Before he could finish,
"Silence!" Chen Yingyin shouted sternly, her eyes full of anger: "Do you know that your punch almost killed her?"
"If it weren't for... someone taking her to the hospital,"
"She might have died!"