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Chapter 52: Heir

Chapter 52: Chapter 52: Heir

In the "rental room" of Yunlong City, Jiuyue once declared that they would become tainted with darkness, but now it seems that maybe there’s no need for her to do anything—Mr. Mingyuan is inherently dark.

The only difference is that those murderers have been put on Universe Company’s high-priced bounty list, their future lives destined to be mired in a cycle of killing and being killed, a path from which there’s no return. The weak soon fall into the company’s hands and are judged, while the strong band together, forming a criminal organization that even Universe Company dares not to underestimate.

But Mr. Mingyuan, after killing the Extraterrestrials, didn’t flee everywhere; instead, he stayed in Yunlong City and even joined the company of the Extraterrestrials, working right under their noses.

Watching the lady made of bones shrink back into the card, Jiuyue suddenly felt a sense of loss.

Their gazes crossed in the instant the other party leapt up.

The bone lady had clearly recognized her identity, and Jiuyue was ready to ensure she would keep the secret forever, but until the end, the bone lady did not mention anything about her, the skeleton devoid of flesh seemingly smiled at her.

It seems that Wangxu also has its variety of people.

Not only the criminals who thrive in chaos.

Although this was one of the contact points of Wangxu, the goal of the bone lady seemed to be the Extraterrestrials from beginning to end, to reclaim everything stolen from her family by them.

She will reclaim it.

And theirs as well.

Jiuyue clenched her fists and took a deep breath.

"Jiuyue."

"Present!"

"Don’t spread rumors, the news explained that the hover car’s propulsion system malfunctioned and lost control while flying, which caused it to crash into the company building."

Duan Mingyuan looked up at the moonlight.

Hover cars...

They really are dangerous vehicles indeed.

The shadowy backer of Congyun Hotel, "The Six Criteria for Barrier Assessment," as a senior, he had already fulfilled his mission.

"Mr. Mingyuan, shall we go home? Shall we try the pillow again tonight?"

"It’s not time yet."

Duan Mingyuan shook his head, "The battle over there should be starting soon."

"Over there?"

"You should have paid attention during the academic conference."

He sighed heavily, this little fox with ears atop her head remembered not a bit of important information, "The condition for the transaction between the Extraterrestrials and Qian Congyun was for his wife to live in seclusion in the attic, banned from teaching the knowledge she knew to the next generation."

After the academic conference, Duan Mingyuan felt that even if Jiuyue was slow to catch on she should have realized what that knowledge represented, "Think about it, the bone lady said that in their era, there were many like me. Unlike the tales from Congyun Hotel, she might have been that strong already during her time, but the tales of the hotel began after the death of the Extraterrestrials."

What’s more, the bone lady’s way of fighting was entirely different from what he had speculated about controlling the tales.

From this, it can be inferred that the Extraterrestrials were not targeting Qian Congyun’s wife herself, but rather her ability to control the tales, an ability that could be passed on to the next generation through some method.

All the people with special abilities were originally the Extraterrestrials’ targets, except they chose a relatively gentle approach.

Duan Mingyuan said, "It was the Extraterrestrials who first broke their promise, planning to seize the family’s last property."

"Are you referring to the gloomy waitress?"

Jiuyue was stunned for a moment.

"That must be the last heir of the family."

.........

The violent shaking stopped, and the moment the thunderous noise from the roof ceased, the gathered enthusiasts for the supernatural scrambled towards the stairs, fleeing downstairs in a panic.

The waitress, who had been actively maintaining order, stopped in her tracks, staring blankly at the top of the hotel.

Gone.

That familiar and comforting sensation was gone.

An unprecedented sense of confusion and helplessness surged inside her, and her body trembled. In a moment of distraction, a sharp pain erupted at the back of her neck, followed by a spreading numbness throughout her body.

She lost her balance and fell forward onto the ground, and at the same time, she heard an exclamation from behind, "Qianqian, what are you doing!?"

Yang Ping stared at Tang Qianqian in disbelief. He couldn’t believe that she would attack the hotel waitress at such a moment, especially using the Poison Fang Electric Shock Gun that he had modified.

He blurted out, "Could you be possessed?"

Indeed, there were tales of evil spirits possessing people at Congyun Hotel. As he spoke, he had already pulled out his own Electric Shock Gun, aiming at Tang Qianqian, who had suddenly turned violent.

"The reason I didn’t tell you in advance is because your acting is too poor, you can’t keep a secret to save your life."

Tang Qianqian pushed aside the Electric Shock Gun Yang Ping pointed at her. When the first earthquake started, the waitress took the initiative to appear and maintain order in the hotel, and from that moment, Tang Qianqian had been silently waiting for a chance when the other would be caught off guard.

On the surface, the waitress seemed to be a kind-hearted person unhappy with the lady’s rule, yet compelled to stay and seize any opportunity to help the tenants. However, Tang Qianqian grew suspicious after finding a clue buried under a notice board.

In the waitress’s own words, the lady didn’t care about them at all unless they disrupted the evening’s sacrificial ceremony.

"Three years ago, you said the same thing to the investigator who came here, didn’t you?"

"It is when the sacrificial ceremony ends that the lady is at her weakest."

"That is your only chance."

Offering false hope to avert attention from the imminent danger right before their eyes.

"Qianqian, how did you find out?"

"Have you forgotten what the senior said? He mentioned that the members of the previous organization were no different from expendable materials, and most of the information about the wicked spirits was obtained at the cost of human lives."

Tang Qianqian might indeed have been a slacker, but she valued her own life. She wholeheartedly agreed with the senior’s proposal for changing the ’expendable’ ethos. "But, given so much time to act, that missing investigator didn’t leave behind even a scrap of information."

The sacrificial ceremony took place at night, with enough time for them to even take a cab to visit Da Jiang and tell him everything before rushing back to Congyun Hotel.

This clearly wasn’t the way organization members were supposed to act.

"Yes, he trusted me a lot."

The waitress, who had been crouching on the ground, shakily propped herself up. Her eyes, wide with fervor, were filled with manic zeal, "’If I don’t come back, please make sure this letter gets to someone named Da Jiang,’ that’s what he told me. Ah yes, who could refuse the request of a cursed girl?"

Several more Poison Fangs struck her body.

"It’s betrayal, isn’t it?"

That was Tang Qianqian’s innate sixth sense, "Because the lady was once betrayed by Mr. Qian Congyun, you also wanted those who were sacrificed to taste the bitterness of betrayal before their death."

She noticed the frenzied look in the other’s eyes.

The waitress before her was never forced to stay at Congyun Hotel.

On the contrary, she worshiped the lady more than anyone else.