Ye Tian had never seen Fatty Xu so serious before. Wasn’t he always cheerful, just like Maitreya Buddha? Why so serious today?
Xiaoqian didn’t say a word, just quietly watched the sky, as if nothing had anything to do with her.
Fatty Xu brought them to a hotel and booked three rooms.
"You’re not going to tell me this hotel is yours too, are you?" Ye Tian asked.
"Yes," Sixth Group needs funding, whether it’s for training people or distributing pensions, it all requires a lot of money. The state’s funding is limited, and waiting through numerous procedures, people’s hearts might cool down.
Ye Tian told Xiaoqian to go to her room, while he prepared to go out for a stroll. Being in such a great place and staying in the hotel would basically be stupid.
He had been having nosebleeds frequently these days, indeed his anger was a bit excessive.
Ye Tian decided to walk out and slowly admire the wildflowers by the roadside, but he forgot that his favorite wildflowers only bloom at night, tightly closed during the day.
Fatty Xu was also busy. He went to the local criminal police team and got all the information he wanted.
There were four bodies found in the trash bin, though they could hardly be called bodies anymore, as they were mostly reduced to bones. A body appeared every three to four days. The forensic department found that all victims were male, of varying ages. Since only bones were left, there were limited clues available.
This was the first time Fatty Xu closely examined the victims, nearly every bone had tooth marks on it, showing extraordinary biting strength. He began to wonder what exactly he was dealing with this time?
Taking the gathered information, Fatty Xu returned to the hotel and found Ye Tian and Xiaoqian.
"Xiaoqian, take a look. What could this be?" Fatty Xu asked seriously.
"I don’t know." Xiaoqian glanced at the photo and concluded.
"Then, may I consult Master Xu Kong?" Fatty Xu asked cautiously.
"He won’t bother with you," was the blunt reply.
Ye Tian couldn’t help but laugh, "Fatty, don’t daydream about asking for outside help. You should believe in your own capabilities. It’s just a small demon, what are you afraid of? Even if you don’t have the cleansing bottle, don’t you still have the Peach Wood Sword?"
Fatty Xu brushed off Ye Tian’s arm, his face a mix of helplessness and anger as he looked at Ye Tian, regretting why he ever came along with him. If he had known, he should have come with Qin Chuan, who was at least more reliable.
That night, persuaded by Ye Tian’s soft pestering, Fatty Xu went with him to that kind of place. Fatty Xu didn’t know where to put his hands, but Ye Tian was like a fish in water.
"We came here to work, not to enjoy," Fatty Xu told Ye Tian.
"Then tell me, why do you think after four incidents, no one has seen anything?" Ye Tian asked while holding a woman.
"How would I know!" Fatty Xu said irritably.
"It’s simple, it must choose a place where no one is around. No place is safe during the day, so I think it happens at night."
"At night and you come to such a place?"
"My intuition tells me, it’s related to places like these," Ye Tian said with a profound smile.
Powerless, Fatty Xu could only watch Ye Tian drinking and having fun, cursively muttering about this guy.
That night was calm, nothing happened, only Ye Tian was drunkenly helped back to the hotel by Fatty Xu.
It was the same the next day.
By the third day, Fatty Xu could hardly contain himself, but this time Xiaoqian was also with them, seemingly feeling that something was about to happen.
Xiaoqian was indeed exceptional, the extraordinary among the extraordinary. Originally, the room full of cheerful women abandoned the two men as soon as they saw Xiaoqian, all flocking around her. Only Fatty Xu was left with a look of astonishment and the displeased Ye Tian.
Somehow, Xiaoqian seemed to really enjoy chatting with them, continuing until closing time before the group left.
The three of them walked soberly on the street, where it was eerily empty besides them.
"At times like these, isn’t something usually supposed to happen?" Ye Tian’s lips curled in a faint smile.
"If we still don’t run into that thing, where should we go looking?" Xiaoqian yawned.
"Did you guys do something I don’t know about?" Fatty Xu now also felt something strange was going on.
"Don’t worry, we won’t let you be at a disadvantage!" Ye Tian hugged Fatty Xu, laughing heartily.
"I didn’t do much, just destroyed its lair during the day!" Xiaoqian’s voice was sweet but carried a heavy killing aura.
"How did you find its lair?" Fatty Xu asked incredulously.
"What’s so hard about that? Although we’re a bit inferior to our ancestors now, detecting demon aura isn’t difficult," Xiaoqian tilted her head looking at Fatty Xu.
"But when I examined the bodies, I didn’t detect any residual demon aura, yet it didn’t seem human either, after all, no human could have such a strong biting force," Fatty Xu had always been puzzled about what exactly was haunting them.