Chapter 2147: Meeting an Acquaintance
"I'm just an employee here, I'm not here to accompany drinks..." The young woman defended herself with a pale face, but unfortunately no one was listening. At Young Master Tian's impatient signal, the two people in the pool quickly swam over and pinned her arms behind her back. After swallowing a couple mouthfuls of water, the woman suddenly screamed, because two men had swum over underwater.
"No! No!" The young woman cried out loudly, continuously begging. Young Master Tian savored her expression, greatly pleased. "I want to see if this skin and flesh of yours is any different from others'..."
As soon as he finished speaking, two bursts of blood suddenly surged up near the young woman. As she struggled violently, the blood spread in all directions. The two men underwater were already decapitated, sinking to the bottom of the pool.
"Ah!" The two women responsible for holding her down screamed, going mad and uncontrollably tearing at their own bodies. Their long, sharp fingernails kept slashing, blood mixed with flesh floating in the water. They howled in agony, seemingly conscious, but their hands didn't stop, as if they wanted to gouge out their own flesh, dig out their internal organs and bones!
This sudden turn of events had already changed the expressions of those entertaining themselves upstairs and downstairs. Young Master Tian panicked, urging his bodyguards to take him away, but the door back to the hotel was closed. The bodyguards stood frozen in place, completely unresponsive, and the instruments they carried were now useless—they couldn't leave!
As if realizing something, Young Master Tian looked in terror at Dou Shengnan on the other side of the pool.
The expressions of the three players on Dou Shengnan's side weren't good either. The A-rank player responsible for conversation said in a low voice, "That's a member of the Tian Clan."
"Snap!" The pocket watch in Dou Shengnan's hand closed and didn't open again. She still didn't look at the people on either side, but instead controlled the men accompanying her on that side to pin down Young Master Tian and pull his pants off.
"What are you doing!" Seeing the people standing around him taking off their clothes one after another, Young Master Tian's face turned white. He shouted in shock and anger, ordering them to stop.
But no one heard him. It wasn't until the three people on Dou Shengnan's side made a move, killing all the standing men, that Young Master Tian, soaked in blood, didn't lose his momentum and ordered them to take him home.
Unfortunately, before he could finish speaking, he was split open from the middle like an eel.
"Dou Shengnan!" The Tian Clan A-rank roared in anger, but the next second his expression changed, because a hand had rested on the side of his neck, and at the same time, Dou Shengnan's voice sounded behind him:
"I also enjoy scenes of humiliation, but unfortunately, this one isn't satisfying enough."
The Tian Clan A-rank froze, standing still. "We're in a cooperative relationship. Doing this won't do you any good."
"I'll just find the next cooperation partner. It's not like your family is the only one that can calibrate dimensional positioning instruments." Dou Shengnan glanced back at the two players behind her who wanted to make a move. Black liquid seemed to appear out of nowhere, suddenly flowing from their seven orifices. The two people fell silently.
"The player you mentioned earlier—which area's player was it?" Dou Shengnan, lying on the chair, spoke.
The remaining A-rank player's eyes fell on the person in front of him, momentarily unsure whether his eyes were playing tricks or his senses were wrong, because the hand on his neck hadn't left.
And Dou Shengnan behind him spoke again, "Is it a player from Area 008, or a player from another area?"
"What difference does it make?" the Tian Clan A-rank said meaningfully. "Two fists can't beat four hands."
Only then did Dou Shengnan on the chair look up at him. "A huge difference. If it's a player from Area 008, I'll definitely give you a big gift package before I leave. This place is a bit too peacefully perverted (biantai), I can't stand it."
The Tian Clan A-rank's expression turned completely ugly. "Do you think you can run wild in Area 008?"
"Why not?" Dou Shengnan patted his neck. "Tell your boss, I'll be here waiting for the instrument to be calibrated. You'd better make me satisfied."
No other words were spoken, but the strong threat was still palpable.
After speaking, Dou Shengnan also disappeared from the chair.
Looking at the blood all over the floor and the few people scared stiff inside and outside the pool, this Tian Clan A-rank player notified the hotel to clean up the bodies before leaving alone.
The outside world knew nothing of this small disturbance inside the Tian Clan hotel. Although it was already very late, the entire city was extremely excited, constantly monitoring the information on the Message Collection Terminal.
Some people expressed anticipation for the cloaked figure from yesterday to appear.
"Is this you?" Outside the station city, the glasses-wearing player placed the saved photo in front of Xu Huo and asked.
"That's right." Xu Huo casually swiped, and there was a recorded video behind it, from when he came out of Kesi Biology.
"Do you have a connection with Block Fairy Tale City?" the glasses player asked, not believing he had followed Dou Shengnan all the way here.
"Somewhat." Xu Huo glanced at him. "Are you following Dou Shengnan?"
"Me, and a few other colleagues." the glasses player said. "We happened to encounter Dou Shengnan in a district under another C-rank wormhole point, and unexpectedly learned she was coming here, so we followed."
"Isn't a few people a bit risky?" Xu Huo asked. "You're at B-rank, and the few who came probably aren't that strong either."
"Waiting for an opportunity." the glasses player said lightly. "Dou Shengnan was never an easy target to kill. My original intention in coming here was to observe her combat style and prop (daoju) situation up close."
"Preparing for the future." Xu Huo nodded.
The man standing beside him took off his glasses, slowly wiped them, and after putting them back on, revealed a hint of a smile. "Running into you so coincidentally, it seems killing Dou Shengnan isn't completely without a chance."
"The chance you're talking about isn't sending me to charge into battle, is it, Team Leader Nie?" Xu Huo raised an eyebrow.
The meticulously disguised Nie Xuan patted his clothes and asked, "I thought my disguise was pretty good. How did you recognize me?"
Xu Huo looked at his feet. "Time power."
Nie Xuan's legs had been altered by space power, but this change could still be concealed with props (daoju). However, he had probably been affected by time power at the battle site of Carmen Field last time, so traces of time power remained on his legs, not completely hidden by the props (daoju).
Noticing his gaze, Nie Xuan instinctively touched his leg. "Every gift fate gives me comes with a price tag."
Xu Huo smiled and patted his shoulder. "At least fate still gave you a gift."
Nie Xuan didn't probe him but directly asked if he had made a breakthrough in time evolution.
"A small improvement. Fate puts a price on you, but for others, it's more like a chokehold." Xu Huo said. "If you brought any time props (daoju), you could use them."
"Didn't you track Dou Shengnan's movements to kill her?" Nie Xuan pointed to his pants pocket. "To deal with the impact of fully merging with the game world, our money and props (daoju) have been centrally allocated to the greatest extent. My pockets are clean too."