Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Was this a trap?
Facing several dark gun barrels, Li Yuebai’s first reaction was that he had been set up.
After Ye Qing disappeared, Director Yang had asked him about Ye Qing’s whereabouts at least three times, and he had never answered once, always saying, “I don’t know.”
Could Director Yang possibly believe such an answer? Unable to get an answer after repeated questioning, he could only scrutinize himself with suspicion. The more he scrutinized, the more suspicious he became— why was he always involved in vampire-related cases with Ye Qing? Why did he never mention Ye Qing’s disappearance? Why did he go to see Liang Jing in the middle of the night? Why…why was he hiding so many secrets?
Therefore, the bureau was very likely to make a decision— to arrest him and interrogate him thoroughly.
How to arrest him? He was elusive and unpredictable; where could they arrest him?
The best method, of course, would be for him to appear alone at the city bureau at five in the morning, when all was quiet.
But how could he possibly obey orders and come obediently?
“Director Wang, did you and Director Yang… plan this all along?” Li Yuebai didn’t resist, but stood there, lowering his eyes and raising his hands to indicate that he had no weapons on him. “Director Yang is my most trusted and respected superior, so he assigned me a fake mission— to retrieve the dormant body from the safe, and then you brought people to ambush me…”
Director Wang didn’t answer immediately, but scrutinized Li Yuebai with a meaningful and serious gaze through his glasses, as if trying to see through his entire thought. Director Wang was getting old, and his body was no longer what it used to be, but the lines on his face were turning more and more deep, and his eyes were full of vicissitudes. When he scrutinized someone like that, the pressure was something that young people couldn’t easily bear.
After a long silence, Director Wang sighed and said, “Xiao Gu, asking such a question means you understand that now, you can only cooperate with the bureau and give a proper account. Don’t be evasive or evasive.”
“If you made this arrangement, I have nothing to say, but Director Yang…” A wave of betrayal and anger surged in Li Yuebai’s heart: “Until just now, I still trusted Director Yang, thinking he was truly at ease entrusting the task to me.”
“Evading the truth, showing no remorse.” Director Wang’s expression was filled with disappointment and condemnation: “Xiao Gu, although you are no longer a cadre of the Municipal Bureau, you are still an important witness in Ye Qing’s case. You have been avoiding the investigation at every turn and have not cooperated with the Municipal Bureau. Now you blame Lao Yang for not protecting you? I ordered Lao Yang to make that phone call. He was also conflicted, not wanting you to come to this point, but if he hadn’t done so, you might have been able to abscond. Who can bear that responsibility?”
“Director, did you all expect me to come?” Li Yuebai smiled bitterly.
“You’re too obsessed with the dormant body. How could you not come when Lao Yang said he was entrusting it to you for safekeeping?” Director Wang’s tone was filled with deep helplessness and reproach. “This is also one of the suspicious points about you. You must explain this clearly during the interrogation.”
Two police officers, guns at the ready, cautiously approached Li Yuebai.
“No need for that.” Li Yuebai sighed, unfastening the rattan-patterned silver-plated longsword from his back and throwing it to the ground with a crisp clang. “My sword is for dealing with vampires, not you…”
The two officers exchanged a glance, secretly relieved, but still couldn’t let their guard down completely. They maintained their composure, one hand holding a gun, the other pulling out handcuffs, and walked step by step towards Li Yuebai.
“Search him first,” Director Wang instructed in a deep voice.
“A body search?” Upon hearing these words, Li Yuebai suddenly asked, “Is this what you’re looking for?”
With a crisp snap, something fell from Li Yuebai’s body to the ground— a small black coffin bound with a sealing silver rope.
Li Yuebai gestured towards the small black coffin, raising an eyebrow: “Ye Qing committed a crime. I had no intention of protecting him. However, he is, after all, my apprentice. I was holding my breath, wanting only to personally bring him back. In a fit of anger, I didn’t cooperate with the bureau… I didn’t expect the chief to misunderstand. I’m very sorry. From now on, I’m willing to cooperate with the bureau. We’re all doing the same thing— fighting crime— and I don’t want to cause any more trouble.”
Gu Xisha’s personality was always assertive, so although Li Yuebai’s words sounded like an admission of weakness, his tone remained firm and unyielding.
Director Wang nodded slightly: “If you know your mistakes and can correct them, there’s still hope. However, for safety reasons, we still need to temporarily restrict your personal freedom…”
Before Director Wang could finish his sentence, Li Yuebai moved his foot and kicked the small black coffin next to an armed police officer.
The officer was stunned for a moment, realizing that this was an important item that had to be carefully protected. So, while still vigilantly keeping his gun pointed at Li Yuebai, he bent down to pick up the coffin.
“Wait,” Director Wang stopped him: “This is a dangerous item, don’t touch it.”
As the head of the city bureau, Director Wang had some understanding of the dormant bodies. He stepped forward and personally picked up the black coffin with his gloved right hand.
The police officers present were all insiders of the vampire incident and knew the importance of the dormant bodies, but none of them had personally handled one. Seeing Director Wang taking matters into his own hands, they couldn’t help but shift their attention to him for a moment.
Thus, at that moment, there was a brief moment of attention gap at the scene.
From the moment the small black coffin fell from Li Yuebai’s body to the ground, Director Wang’s attention was diverted. Now, holding the black coffin in his hand, he focused almost all his attention on it.
Both the coffin’s appearance and the silver sealing ropes on it were undeniably genuine, leaving no room for doubt or forgery.
The other officers, who had been aiming their guns at Li Yuebai, couldn’t help but glance at the black coffin in Director Wang’s hand.
A single second of distraction was enough.
Li Yuebai, of course, wouldn’t let this opportunity pass.
No one saw his movements clearly, only that the two officers closest to him fell first, followed by the rest— Director Wang’s force wasn’t large, lacking unified command, and in a very short time, they all fell to several silent tranquilizer darts.
Ye Qing excelled at long-range precision shooting, but Gu Xisha was even more adept at this kind of rapid close-range firing.
No matter how skilled he was, he still couldn’t hit Director Wang— Director Wang reacted quickly, immediately opening the Sonata’s door and hiding inside, dodging the tranquilizer darts.
Li Yuebai also had no intention of lingering in the fight. After hitting his target with a few tranquilizer darts, he jumped back into his car at top speed, the engine roared, and he smashed through several roadblocks, escaping with a bang.
The tranquilizer gun was left behind by Ye Qing; he didn’t expect to use it so soon.
“Gu… Captain Gu, what happened…” Inside the Sonata, the driver was pale. He was Director Wang’s personal driver and didn’t participate in the arrest, so he had been sitting in the car the whole time, witnessing everything: “I clearly heard him say: This sword is for dealing with vampires, not you… Doesn’t that mean he won’t attack us? Why is he still…”
To everyone, Gu Xisha’s words sounded nothing more than a tragic hero’s statement; such a person should have surrendered without a fight.
“Swords are for vampires, tranquilizer guns are for us!” Director Wang slammed his fist on the dashboard in a fit of rage. “This Gu Xisha is no ordinary person, no ordinary person at all!”
Having been a leader for many years, Director Wang considered himself an expert at exploiting weaknesses, but today, he too had been caught in the same weakness— his attention was drawn to the black coffin.
“Then…should we issue an arrest warrant for him?” the driver asked, pleading. Director Wang remained noncommittal.
Damascus, Syria, 1 a.m.
In a deep underground cave, an entire wall was covered by LCD screens, scrolling through massive amounts of information. Anyone seeing this would be bewildered— was this a vampire’s lair, or some kind of stock exchange?
Of course, no living humans could exist here.
The moment the clock struck 1, the large screen suddenly went haywire.
The scrolling information was instantly replaced by a resume.
Gao Chengyu frowned upon seeing the resume.
The person on the resume was all too familiar; it was Gu Xisha, the police officer who killed him, though now a former officer.
“Your Majesty,” the subordinate respectfully reported, “Gu Xisha’s importance level has been raised again.”
“Previously, due to Gu Xisha’s obstruction, the people you sent failed to obtain the [Joker] and lost contact,” another subordinate reported. “Therefore, Gu Xisha’s importance level was raised, but not to the point where it absolutely had to be dealt with immediately. But now…”
“What happened again?”
The LCD screen operated through a fully programmed system that automatically calculated the importance level of certain individuals. When the program displayed a person in this full-screen format, it meant— this person had become extremely important and must be dealt with or apprehended immediately.
Even when Gu Xisha stole the Joker, his importance only ranked in the top ten. As the vampire king, he had too many things to deal with and too many humans to eliminate. Gu Xisha was in China and couldn’t pose a threat to the situation in Europe for the time being, so it wasn’t easy to take action against him. Therefore, the plan to eliminate him was repeatedly postponed.
“Your Majesty…” The subordinate’s voice was extremely excited, and his body, hidden under the black robe, even trembled slightly: “I must point out something to you— Gu Xisha’s resume displayed on the big screen doesn’t include a photo, especially not his latest photo.”
“Get to the point.”
“That’s because if his photo were posted, this entire underground palace would go crazy for him.” The subordinate explained, “Gu Xisha is now the only vila in the world.”
That alone was enough to drive all vampires mad.
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