"Old White, is this your girlfriend?"
Qian Jiahui was very curious about what kind of girl Lin Baici liked.
Lin Baici lay down again, rubbing his nose. Despite the open window, the scent in the dorm was still unbearably strong.
Especially Xu Daguang’s smelly feet—absolutely horrendous.
"She must be chasing after you, right? Otherwise, why would she be video-calling you so late at night?"
Fang Mingyuan analyzed.
In his opinion, if the girl wasn’t interested, she would have brushed it off with an excuse like ’I’m taking a shower’ a long time ago.
"Mister Official, what does that girl look like? Did you see her?"
Qian Jiahui, who couldn’t sleep, said, "Should I go buy some beer?"
There was a student-run convenience store inside the dorm building that would go around to each dorm room every night, peddling snacks, mostly instant noodles and sausages.
Xu Daguan blinked: "But her voice isn’t bad, and it sounds kind of familiar!"
Qian Jiahui got excited, like he’d discovered a new continent: "Does it sound a bit like Hua Yue Yu?"
"Actually, it really does!"
Xu Daguan was surprised but felt in his heart that she definitely couldn’t be as cute and sweet as Hua Yue Yu.
After all, my Little Merperson is the best in the world!
It was Saturday, 9 a.m., when Xia Hongyao picked up Lin Baici in a jeep at the school gate to drive him to what she said was a great place.
"Do you have a special fondness for this type of vehicle?"
Looking at the plain green jeep, Lin Baici couldn’t muster any affection for it.
"I drive what’s available!"
Xia Hongyao wasn’t a car enthusiast.
These vehicles were for public use at the Safety Bureau, but generally, no one drove them because with their salaries, they could afford Mercedes-Benz and BMWs.
The city was crowded with vehicles, so they couldn’t go very fast. Xia Hongyao drove for over an hour to reach the southern part of the city.
This was the old district, evident from the low and dilapidated buildings.
"If these houses were demolished, each household would become multimillionaires. But with the current real estate market, it’s not easy to tear them down."
Xia Hongyao drove the car onto a pedestrian street.
There were quite a lot of shoppers!
"There are more than ten famous old restaurants on this street!" Follow current novels on novel[f]ire.net
Xia Hongyao parked the car and led Lin Baici on foot.
The two walked for fifteen minutes and turned into an alley. Since it was daytime, the signs above the doors were not lit.
Lin Baici looked around and saw that they were all small bars and dance halls.
"Do you like rock music? There are several underground music venues here where bands not famous enough to perform on stage often come to play!"
Xia Hongyao led Lin Baici through a series of twists and turns, opened an iron door, and walked in.
After traversing a thirty-meter-long dim corridor, they came to some stairs leading downward, which were decorated with colorful lights the size of peanuts.
"Are you taking me to an underground deal?"
Lin Baici surveyed his surroundings, feeling that this place seemed ripe for criminal activity.
At the bottom of the stairs, there was a corridor with doors along its walls.
Xia Hongyao stopped in front of one of them.
"Remember, it’s this door. If you come by yourself, don’t get it wrong!"
After Xia Hongyao spoke, she pushed open the door.
Inside was another corridor leading to a door at the end. When they opened it, jazz music floated into Lin Baici’s ears.
Lin Baici felt a pang of hunger.
Scattered throughout the room were glass tables and sofas. In the southwest corner, there was a small stage where a dwarf in a green suit was performing magic tricks.
On the north side, there was a bar with a bartender in a shirt and vest meticulously mixing cocktails.
"This is my first time in a bar!"
Lin Baici looked around. There weren’t many people, about twenty, mostly men, either drinking or chatting.
"You seem a bit disappointed?"
Xia Hongyao was surprised.
"Aren’t there supposed to be lots of women in bars on TV? White-collar women, women out to hook rich guys, basically places where you could flirt and drink."
Lin Baici treated Xia Hongyao like one of the guys, so he wasn’t very guarded with what he said, speaking his mind freely.
Xia Hongyao couldn’t help but laugh and patted Lin Baici on the shoulder: "Kid, you’re feeling stifled, huh?"
Lin Baici rolled his eyes.
"The kind of bars and nightclubs you’re talking about are a dime a dozen. The one we’ve come to, called Dragon and Beauty, is a place only God Hunters know about."
Xia Hongyao briefed him: "Sometimes when God Hunters encounter a job they can’t handle, they post bounties for it here. If you take on a task and complete it, you get a reward."
"This place also has the latest news from the hunters’ circle, and it’s a spot for buying or selling Taboo things. In short, think of it as a place where hunters exchange information."
Not everyone roams the Origin forums or trusts others because that’s online. If you get scammed, you’d have a hard time finding someone to blame.
But it’s different offline.
"Does the Safety Bureau allow this kind of place to exist?"
Lin Baici was surprised.
"It’s better to drain than to dam. Instead of letting the God Hunters meet in secret, it’s better to keep them under our watchful eye!"
Xia Hongyao, clearly a regular here, led Lin Baici towards the bar, where the bartender had already greeted them proactively.
Xia Hongyao sat down.
"Just a soft drink for me!"
Lin Baici, emulating Xia Hongyao, sat sideways on a chair by the bar, turning his head to look at the people in the bar: "Are these all God Hunters?"
"Two ’Red Cherry Hearts’, definitely!"