Maintaining a cold expression, the man asked as if indifferently, “Recall carefully, what did that person look like?”
Bai Lixin glanced at Dijia in silence for a few seconds, then rubbed his aching head and said, “I’m done showering. Are you sure you want to keep talking like this? Not that I mind.”
“…” The man’s neck turned slightly red, and he quickly pulled the towel from the top of his head and handed it to the young man. “Here, dry yourself and come out. I’ll wait for you outside.”
After saying this, the man quickly stood up and hastily left the bathroom.
The well-lit room was a mess, and the air still carried the strong scent of heather.
Looking at the torn clothes on the floor, the man frowned and quickly walked to the window.
The curtain on the window was tightly drawn, and after hesitating for a second, Dijia didn’t pull the curtain open but chose to go through it and opened the window.
The moment he opened the window, he seemed to hear faint noises from outside the curtain.
—Crackle, crackle, crackle.
Dijia was momentarily stunned, then cautiously examined the space in front of him.
Although the curtain separated his line of sight, he could be sure that there was something on the other side of the curtain, outside the window.
It wasn’t a small creature like a gecko or a fly, nor a bird; it was something much larger.
‘What could it be?
A person?
But this is the seventeenth floor; how could anyone climb up?’
Dijia looked back at the quiet bathroom, and then at the curtain in front of him.
His eyes darkened slightly, and he reached out to the curtain, calmly pulling it open.
A pitch-black horror he had never seen before was stuck to the glass like a four-legged reptile, a pair of lantern-like crimson eyes almost touching Dijia’s face.
Dijia: “…”
‘What on earth is this?’
The huge eyes moved, seemingly assessing the room. When its gaze fell on the scattered white clothes on the ground, the monster’s eyes suddenly paused, and the black fog around it surged, as if boiling water had suddenly erupted.
Dijia’s heart sank: “…”
It reacts so strongly to Bai Lixin’s clothes. Could it be following Bai Lixin?
While he was pondering, footsteps came from behind, followed by the voice of the young man, “What about my clothes?”
Dijia turned around and saw the young man walking out casually, wearing a loose bathrobe and wiping his head absentmindedly. When the young man looked up and saw the black monster, his expression froze for a moment, “How did this thing end up here?”
Upon seeing Bai Lixin, the black fog around the monster intensified. The ugly, distorted black face with indistinct edges seemed to suddenly boil, and its body began to rush forward from the window crack.
‘This thing is indeed coming for Bai Lixin.’
Seeing that the black monster’s claw had already squeezed in, Dijia acted swiftly to close the window, and the monster’s arm was instantly severed and fell inside the room.
The severed hand continued to wriggle; it seemed to have acquired life and rapidly crawled towards Bai Lixin along the ground.
Just when the black hand was about to reach the young man, a pair of black leather shoes stepped heavily on it. The next second, the arm turned into a sticky liquid without a trace of life.
The man glanced at the young man with a dark face, then quickly turned and strode to the window, his deep eyes firmly fixed on the monster outside.
The monster was still raging; the black slime wriggled a few times in the place where its arm was lost a moment ago, and a new arm grew out.
It crouched outside the window, silently roaring through the glass, persistently attempting to break in.
The man’s icy gaze locked onto the monster outside the window, and he coldly uttered a single word, “Leave!”
As the word left his lips, dark fog surrounded the man, and his pitch-black eyes instantly turned into an eerie red.
The monster’s body suddenly stiffened, and the next second, it fell straight down from the window, disappearing into the night sky.
The man shrouded in swirling darkness stared at the transparent window expressionlessly. By the time he turned back and hurriedly checked Bai Lixin’s condition the red color had faded from his eyes.
At this time, the young man was sitting on the edge of the bed, staring at the black slime on the ground without blinking, as if he was petrified.
Under his gaze, the black slime gradually transitioned from black to translucent, and eventually disappearing entirely.
Dijia walked over to the young man, and his voice, even unbeknownst to himself, softened, “You weren’t scared just now, were you?”
“No,” the young man shook his head, “Thank you.”
Dijia lowered his eyes and inevitably noticed the skin hidden beneath the young man’s bathrobe.
After a pause, the man’s gaze quickly shifted to the bed beside the young man. “It seems like it came for you. From what you said when you saw it just now, it seems that you have seen it before?”
Bai Lixin: “Yes, I’ve seen it at the Fei residence. It appears outside my window after midnight. One time I forgot to close the window, and it crawled in. Fortunately, I reacted quickly and drove it away.”
Dijia looked somewhat surprised, “You didn’t tell Fei Taizong and the others about this? What is this thing, do you know?”
Bai Lixin: “I don’t know what it is. But I haven’t told anyone about it.”
The young man smiled bitterly, “Because no one would believe it. How could there be unexplained supernatural beings in the world? Even if I told them, they would think it’s just a ridiculous excuse for avoiding what I’m supposed to do.”
The man’s deep eyes suddenly narrowed, “…”
‘Damn it!’
“But it’s okay,” the young man quickly added, “This monster isn’t formidable. As long as I close the doors and windows, it can’t get in. Even if it does, I can drive it away, as long as I’m alert when sleeping at night.”
“Now is not the time to worry about it. My clothes are torn and unusable. Can you please help me ask for a set of clothes from room service? It doesn’t need to be fancy, just enough to cover my body so that I won’t be embarrassed in front of others.”
Dijia pursed his lips, “Okay, wait a moment.”
He skillfully dialed a number on his phone, and the call was answered after just one ring.
“Hello, it’s me.”
“Buy me a white suit and send it over to Moon Bay Hotel, 17th floor, Room 1717.”
“…”
“Not my size; it’s for someone about 182 cm tall, on the slender side.”
As the call was about to end, he added, “Pick something good-looking.”
After hanging up, he looked at the young man again, only to realize that the young man was casually observing him with a hand supporting his chin, “Who did you call?”
Dijia: “My personal secretary. He’s very efficient; it could be here in as little as fifteen minutes, at most an hour.”
“Oh, thank you,” the young man blinked, “I guess I owe you another favor. Does this count as two now? Chasing away the monster counts as one, and getting me clothes is another.”
Dijia waved his hand casually, “Don’t worry so much. Since you say you can handle the monster yourself, even if I didn’t step in, you could still drive it away. I just happened to be here. As for the clothes, you could have contacted room service yourself. I’m just lending a hand, there’s no need to count these as favors. If you really want to repay a favor, think carefully about the person who pulled you into this room. I absolutely won’t allow such a tainted incident to happen in my hotel.”
Bai Lixin lowered his head, his face covered by thick, wet black bangs showing a complex expression, “My mind is in chaos right now. I can’t remember it for a while. I only remember…”
Dijia’s gaze became eager, “Remember what?”
The young man cleared his throat, “It was quite big.”
Dijia suddenly froze, “?”
‘Big? Quite big?
What’s big?’
He stumbled over his words, “Wha—what’s big?”
The young man was serious, “Strength. He had great strength. With just one hand, he pulled me in, pressed me against the wall, and I couldn’t move at all. What did you think was big?”
Dijia chuckled awkwardly to ease the embarrassment.
He cursed himself; he actually thought the young man was alluding to something. Why was he so dirty-minded?!
The young man continued, “Also, the shadow is very tall and robust.”
Dijia straightened up.
‘Very tall? Robust?’
There were quite a number of tall people in the banquet hall tonight, and many had robust builds.
But someone both tall and robust? There were only a few. This was a crucial clue!
Dijia quickly filtered through the people attending the banquet tonight and finally locked on one person.
“Is it Zhang Xiao? He’s very tall and robust. I don’t think I saw him in the banquet hall, and the timing fits.”
“…” Bai Lixin twitched at the corner of his mouth, “I don’t know. I don’t know who attended the banquet tonight. Are there no other possibilities? Isn’t it possible that you’ve overlooked someone?”
Di Jia was very earnest in his conviction, “Impossible! I’ve already filtered the visitor list, and only he matches your description. Besides, you don’t often come out, so you might not know – this floor is not open to the public, and the room has been locked. Only someone like Zhang Xiao, who manages the hotel’s usage rights, has the privilege to unlock the rooms here.”
“I guess he was probably waiting for you. Hw saw you go up to the seventeenth floor, followed you, and took advantage of your inattention in the darkness to push you into the room and commit the crime.”
“That scum,” Dijia coldly concluded.
Bai Lixin: “…”
‘You are quite confident when analyzing the case.’
“Uh,” Bai Lixin picked up a towel to wipe off the water droplets on his head, “The hotel has a lot of people coming and going. It might not necessarily be someone from the banquet group. Perhaps we can broaden our perspective a bit? Expand the target range? What if the culprit isn’t Zhang Xiao but someone else?”
‘For example, you?’
“You make a valid point,” the man was genuinely contemplating, furrowing his brows, “If that’s the case, I’ll need to check the hotel’s surveillance and registration records. If that’s the case, it has to be checked slowly, I can’t do it until I acquire this hotel. Don’t worry; it won’t take too long. I won’t let that scum off the hook.”
Bai Lixin: “…”
‘You keep calling him a scum so confidently.
I hope you can continue being this confident.’
S419M: [……]
‘Although it hasn’t developed to the later stages, I’m already starting to feel sorry for Lord God.
Help, the embarrassing habit has resurfaced.’
Maintaining a cold expression, the man asked as if indifferently, “Recall carefully, what did that person look like?”
Bai Lixin glanced at Dijia in silence for a few seconds, then rubbed his aching head and said, “I’m done showering. Are you sure you want to keep talking like this? Not that I mind.”
“…” The man’s neck turned slightly red, and he quickly pulled the towel from the top of his head and handed it to the young man. “Here, dry yourself and come out. I’ll wait for you outside.”
After saying this, the man quickly stood up and hastily left the bathroom.
The well-lit room was a mess, and the air still carried the strong scent of heather.
Looking at the torn clothes on the floor, the man frowned and quickly walked to the window.
The curtain on the window was tightly drawn, and after hesitating for a second, Dijia didn’t pull the curtain open but chose to go through it and opened the window.
The moment he opened the window, he seemed to hear faint noises from outside the curtain.
—Crackle, crackle, crackle.
Dijia was momentarily stunned, then cautiously examined the space in front of him.
Although the curtain separated his line of sight, he could be sure that there was something on the other side of the curtain, outside the window.
It wasn’t a small creature like a gecko or a fly, nor a bird; it was something much larger.
‘What could it be?
A person?
But this is the seventeenth floor; how could anyone climb up?’
Dijia looked back at the quiet bathroom, and then at the curtain in front of him.
His eyes darkened slightly, and he reached out to the curtain, calmly pulling it open.
A pitch-black horror he had never seen before was stuck to the glass like a four-legged reptile, a pair of lantern-like crimson eyes almost touching Dijia’s face.
Dijia: “…”
‘What on earth is this?’
The huge eyes moved, seemingly assessing the room. When its gaze fell on the scattered white clothes on the ground, the monster’s eyes suddenly paused, and the black fog around it surged, as if boiling water had suddenly erupted.
Dijia’s heart sank: “…”
It reacts so strongly to Bai Lixin’s clothes. Could it be following Bai Lixin?
While he was pondering, footsteps came from behind, followed by the voice of the young man, “What about my clothes?”
Dijia turned around and saw the young man walking out casually, wearing a loose bathrobe and wiping his head absentmindedly. When the young man looked up and saw the black monster, his expression froze for a moment, “How did this thing end up here?”
Upon seeing Bai Lixin, the black fog around the monster intensified. The ugly, distorted black face with indistinct edges seemed to suddenly boil, and its body began to rush forward from the window crack.
‘This thing is indeed coming for Bai Lixin.’
Seeing that the black monster’s claw had already squeezed in, Dijia acted swiftly to close the window, and the monster’s arm was instantly severed and fell inside the room.
The severed hand continued to wriggle; it seemed to have acquired life and rapidly crawled towards Bai Lixin along the ground.
Just when the black hand was about to reach the young man, a pair of black leather shoes stepped heavily on it. The next second, the arm turned into a sticky liquid without a trace of life.
The man glanced at the young man with a dark face, then quickly turned and strode to the window, his deep eyes firmly fixed on the monster outside.
The monster was still raging; the black slime wriggled a few times in the place where its arm was lost a moment ago, and a new arm grew out.
It crouched outside the window, silently roaring through the glass, persistently attempting to break in.
The man’s icy gaze locked onto the monster outside the window, and he coldly uttered a single word, “Leave!”
As the word left his lips, dark fog surrounded the man, and his pitch-black eyes instantly turned into an eerie red.
The monster’s body suddenly stiffened, and the next second, it fell straight down from the window, disappearing into the night sky.
The man shrouded in swirling darkness stared at the transparent window expressionlessly. By the time he turned back and hurriedly checked Bai Lixin’s condition the red color had faded from his eyes.
At this time, the young man was sitting on the edge of the bed, staring at the black slime on the ground without blinking, as if he was petrified.
Under his gaze, the black slime gradually transitioned from black to translucent, and eventually disappearing entirely.
Dijia walked over to the young man, and his voice, even unbeknownst to himself, softened, “You weren’t scared just now, were you?”
“No,” the young man shook his head, “Thank you.”
Dijia lowered his eyes and inevitably noticed the skin hidden beneath the young man’s bathrobe.
After a pause, the man’s gaze quickly shifted to the bed beside the young man. “It seems like it came for you. From what you said when you saw it just now, it seems that you have seen it before?”
Bai Lixin: “Yes, I’ve seen it at the Fei residence. It appears outside my window after midnight. One time I forgot to close the window, and it crawled in. Fortunately, I reacted quickly and drove it away.”
Dijia looked somewhat surprised, “You didn’t tell Fei Taizong and the others about this? What is this thing, do you know?”
Bai Lixin: “I don’t know what it is. But I haven’t told anyone about it.”
The young man smiled bitterly, “Because no one would believe it. How could there be unexplained supernatural beings in the world? Even if I told them, they would think it’s just a ridiculous excuse for avoiding what I’m supposed to do.”
The man’s deep eyes suddenly narrowed, “…”
‘Damn it!’
“But it’s okay,” the young man quickly added, “This monster isn’t formidable. As long as I close the doors and windows, it can’t get in. Even if it does, I can drive it away, as long as I’m alert when sleeping at night.”
“Now is not the time to worry about it. My clothes are torn and unusable. Can you please help me ask for a set of clothes from room service? It doesn’t need to be fancy, just enough to cover my body so that I won’t be embarrassed in front of others.”
Dijia pursed his lips, “Okay, wait a moment.”
He skillfully dialed a number on his phone, and the call was answered after just one ring.
“Hello, it’s me.”
“Buy me a white suit and send it over to Moon Bay Hotel, 17th floor, Room 1717.”
“…”
“Not my size; it’s for someone about 182 cm tall, on the slender side.”
As the call was about to end, he added, “Pick something good-looking.”
After hanging up, he looked at the young man again, only to realize that the young man was casually observing him with a hand supporting his chin, “Who did you call?”
Dijia: “My personal secretary. He’s very efficient; it could be here in as little as fifteen minutes, at most an hour.”
“Oh, thank you,” the young man blinked, “I guess I owe you another favor. Does this count as two now? Chasing away the monster counts as one, and getting me clothes is another.”
Dijia waved his hand casually, “Don’t worry so much. Since you say you can handle the monster yourself, even if I didn’t step in, you could still drive it away. I just happened to be here. As for the clothes, you could have contacted room service yourself. I’m just lending a hand, there’s no need to count these as favors. If you really want to repay a favor, think carefully about the person who pulled you into this room. I absolutely won’t allow such a tainted incident to happen in my hotel.”
Bai Lixin lowered his head, his face covered by thick, wet black bangs showing a complex expression, “My mind is in chaos right now. I can’t remember it for a while. I only remember…”
Dijia’s gaze became eager, “Remember what?”
The young man cleared his throat, “It was quite big.”
Dijia suddenly froze, “?”
‘Big? Quite big?
What’s big?’
He stumbled over his words, “Wha—what’s big?”
The young man was serious, “Strength. He had great strength. With just one hand, he pulled me in, pressed me against the wall, and I couldn’t move at all. What did you think was big?”
Dijia chuckled awkwardly to ease the embarrassment.
He cursed himself; he actually thought the young man was alluding to something. Why was he so dirty-minded?!
The young man continued, “Also, the shadow is very tall and robust.”
Dijia straightened up.
‘Very tall? Robust?’
There were quite a number of tall people in the banquet hall tonight, and many had robust builds.
But someone both tall and robust? There were only a few. This was a crucial clue!
Dijia quickly filtered through the people attending the banquet tonight and finally locked on one person.
“Is it Zhang Xiao? He’s very tall and robust. I don’t think I saw him in the banquet hall, and the timing fits.”
“…” Bai Lixin twitched at the corner of his mouth, “I don’t know. I don’t know who attended the banquet tonight. Are there no other possibilities? Isn’t it possible that you’ve overlooked someone?”
Di Jia was very earnest in his conviction, “Impossible! I’ve already filtered the visitor list, and only he matches your description. Besides, you don’t often come out, so you might not know – this floor is not open to the public, and the room has been locked. Only someone like Zhang Xiao, who manages the hotel’s usage rights, has the privilege to unlock the rooms here.”
“I guess he was probably waiting for you. Hw saw you go up to the seventeenth floor, followed you, and took advantage of your inattention in the darkness to push you into the room and commit the crime.”
“That scum,” Dijia coldly concluded.
Bai Lixin: “…”
‘You are quite confident when analyzing the case.’
“Uh,” Bai Lixin picked up a towel to wipe off the water droplets on his head, “The hotel has a lot of people coming and going. It might not necessarily be someone from the banquet group. Perhaps we can broaden our perspective a bit? Expand the target range? What if the culprit isn’t Zhang Xiao but someone else?”
‘For example, you?’
“You make a valid point,” the man was genuinely contemplating, furrowing his brows, “If that’s the case, I’ll need to check the hotel’s surveillance and registration records. If that’s the case, it has to be checked slowly, I can’t do it until I acquire this hotel. Don’t worry; it won’t take too long. I won’t let that scum off the hook.”
Bai Lixin: “…”
‘You keep calling him a scum so confidently.
I hope you can continue being this confident.’
S419M: [……]
‘Although it hasn’t developed to the later stages, I’m already starting to feel sorry for Lord God.
Help, the embarrassing habit has resurfaced.’
