65: Contact
"What's wrong? You're laughing so happily, while our honorable Parliant mber is still raging at his subordinates." Lu Siyu passed by behind Xia Hongying carrying a plate of cut apples. Hearing the girl's bell-like laughter, she asked.
Xia Hongying took off her headphones and answered with a smile: "I'm chatting with a friend, the cute little girl I t online that I ntioned to you before."
"Oh, that die-hard tsundere?" Lu Siyu nodded knowingly. "You're eting this Wednesday, right?"
"Right, I'll introduce you to my friend too." Xia Hongying said happily. The friend ntioned in her arrangent with Leticia was Lu Siyu beside her.
Xia Hongying and Lu Siyu had known each other for a very long ti—they had already t in elentary school.
As for that blonde guy, they had t him in high school.
"You really don't give Parliant mber any face. He's panicking over there while you're here thinking about eting internet friends." Lu Siyu complained. Although she and Blonde Youth were also slacking off, at least they weren't obvious about it.
But Xia Hongying was different—she basically had "I want to slack off" written on her face.
"Why should I give him face? I'm not a detective—I can't help him find the criminal." Xia Hongying shrugged. She hated thinking the most, especially this kind of thinking that was the sa as not thinking at all. She had absolutely no motivation.
"Besides, you saw his attitude toward us. He basically wanted to slap 'hurry up and get lost' on our faces." Xia Hongying pouted unhappily. This was the first ti she had received such treatnt.
She was a prodigy in every sense of the word. From childhood to now, no one had dared treat her like this.
"But he is a Parliant mber after all, and we did accept the Association's mission to assist him. We can't really just sit here and watch him struggle alone, right?" Lu Siyu shook her head. She was a girl with a strong sense of responsibility. After all, that thing had been taken away right in front of them—emotionally and logically, they should help.
Xia Hongying obviously had different opinions. Thinking about what happened that night made her break out in cold sweat. They had really almost died that ti.
Those two incredibly powerful villains—how could the three of them possibly win?
The Association sending them to assist the Parliant mber definitely wasn't really for assistance.
If the Association really wanted to help the Parliant mber, they would absolutely send elite S-rank hero squads. Otherwise, how could they match the reputation of the so-called Black and White Duo?
Speaking of this Black and White Duo, Xia Hongying had even more doubts. She, Lu Siyu, and Blonde Youth had never heard of such a powerful pair of villains in Central City.
This was very abnormal. With those two's strength, they couldn't possibly be nobodies.
It wasn't that Xia Hongying was being modest—villains who could beat the three of them to hospital beds using just physical prowess were definitely major villains, the kind who could be main antagonists in superhero movies.
It couldn't be that those two had only recently beco villains, right?
"What exactly are those two people in black and white? The Association seems to know sothing, but we're completely in the dark." Xia Hongying muttered.
Lu Siyu handed the apple to Xia Hongying. "Don't think about it so much. We just need to complete the mission the Association assigned us."
"Sigh."
......
"Soone is inquiring about information regarding ?" Closing the scroll in her hands, Qila looked puzzled at the cold-faced woman with a capable aura standing before her. "Are they asking about Su Qi, or about Qila?"
"They're asking about Princess Qila of the demon race." The woman pointed at Qila, her tone flat.
"That's interesting. Although my coming to the human world isn't exactly a secret, who would be so coincidentally inquiring about here?"
"According to reports from other agents, the other party isn't just gathering information in Central City, but is investigating in various cities throughout the human world."
"Wow, what a big operation. Do we know who it is?" Qila was curious. Going to such great lengths to investigate information about her—what were they planning to do?
Co to eliminate her?
"We don't know yet, but judging from the identities of those making inquiries, the opposing force won't be weak." The woman told Qila all the intelligence gathered these past days. "In Central City it was that snake woman, in Sacred City it was that bishop..."
One after another, famous nas from the underworld were reported by the woman. Just from these nas alone, one could see how influential the person behind them was.
"Oh? What does the other party want to know, or rather, what do they want to do?" Qila propped her chin, her eyes sparkling with curiosity.
The woman thought for a mont before informing Qila of the other party's purpose: "Their story is all the sa—so important figure wants to make a deal with you."
"A deal?" Qila beca even more curious. What was it that they had to trade with her specifically?
"Yes, the other party says it's sothing you've coveted for a long ti, and recently, you just missed obtaining it."
"Mythological Age Magic Studies!" Qila imdiately thought of the answer. That person behind the scenes was the mysterious individual who had intercepted the book that concerned the world's fate.
Knowing she desired that book, knowing the details of her transaction with that Parliant mber, able to use such clever thods to trick away the book that should have been hers—Qila was already thinking about what kind of demand this mysterious force would make.
That man surnad Wang had been eager to get rid of the book because he urgently needed financial support, but the mysterious force that intercepted it probably wouldn't be so hasty.
"This is getting a bit troubleso." Qila was sowhat troubled. "I can't stay in the human world too long. Once the elves and beastn free up their energy, that book will start getting tangled up again."
"The other party hasn't nad their price yet. Should we send soone to make contact first?" the woman inquired.
"Good, figure out their background as quickly as possible. It would be best to get the book within a week." Qila naturally wouldn't object.
"Yes!"
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