Chapter 253: They might still need Me

At the dining table, if anyone was the most unrestrained, it had to be Dong Youer.

“Who else? I’m asking, who else?!”

She planted one foot directly on the dining table, pointing at everyone present.

“Can you still go?”

“I’m done.”

“Hmph.” Dong Youer grinned slyly. “What about you?”

“I’m done too.”

“Heh heh.” Dong Youer was smiling so hard her eyes squinted. “What’s going on, what’s going on? One after another, all of you are so useless, you’re really disappointing me. Is the entire Execution Division down to just me, one Commissioner, who can still fight?”

For the sake of having a good time, tonight’s banquet had ordered an entire crate of beer all at once, drinking heartily.

Even though she was the most reserved when the wine first arrived at the table, after Dong Youer let loose and started drinking, the alcohol tolerance she displayed shocked everyone present.

Despite looking like she was about to collapse into drunkenness, Dong Youer was already completely sloshed, her face flushed bright red, her eyes barely able to stay open.

“Useless, way too useless. You can’t even take me down.”

Yet she always managed to drink every challenger who came at her under the table. Her tolerance was simply astonishing.

Tonight, even Lu Yunze let loose and drank a few cups of the alcohol he normally never touched.

As for who hadn’t touched a single drop of wine, that was only Jiang Sui.

Due to Luo Yao’s presence, she spent the whole time watching Lu Yunze drink, while she stayed silent at the table, not interacting with anyone, eating the dishes, sipping her drink, and waiting for the time to head back.

Tonight’s banquet felt like it was in an entirely different world from her.

After stepping out of the hotel, standing at the entrance watching the cars drive by on the road, Jiang Sui grew bored of waiting. She simply got up and went outside to get some fresh air.

She stretched with a comfortable lazy motion, rubbed her somewhat cold hands, and breathed out a puff of white mist.

“It’s a bit warm in there. I came out to cool down.”

Following the voice, Jiang Sui spotted the black cat crouching under a tree and couldn’t help but let out a laugh.

Hearing this, the black cat studied her current outfit for a moment.

“Why not go inside? Why sit out here in the cold wind?”

Ever since winter began, Jiang Sui’s work uniform had also changed to a warmer style, switching from a short skirt to a long one, the large cutout on her back gone, and the thin stockings underneath replaced with thicker ones. If anyone asked, it was warm in winter and cool in summer.

“Did you find Gu Lan?”

“Not yet.” Jiang Sui shrugged.

“That’s good.” The black cat gave a slight nod. “Did she spot you?”

“No.”

“But you’d better be careful these days.”

“Is she hard to deal with?”

“She’s the type to repay every grudge, no matter how small.”

Jiang Sui pursed her lips. If what the black cat said was true, then she did need to be careful.

But she couldn’t even confirm whether the person in that private room was Gu Lan. They hadn’t met face to face, so even if the other party wanted revenge, they wouldn’t be able to find her.

After getting some air, Jiang Sui returned to the private room. Everything was exactly as she’d left it, and no one had even noticed she’d briefly disappeared from her seat.

The private room door opened again, and another waiter came in carrying a crate of wine. Seeing this, Jiang Sui’s expression turned dull.

Still drinking?

This time, the waiter didn’t just set the wine down on the floor and leave. Before long, several coworkers also came in, distributing the wine to each table.

Didn’t expect this kind of service.

As one of the waiters passed by Jiang Sui carrying wine, she suddenly froze.

Was that her imagination?

Jiang Sui immediately raised her hand. “I’ll take one here too.”

When another waiter walked past her, Jiang Sui quietly activated her Beast Transformation sense of smell, twitching her nostrils, and her entire body went stiff.

Once the wine was mostly distributed, the others were still immersed in the joy of the banquet, completely unaware that several waiters hadn’t exited the private room. Instead, they stood side by side in the corner.

They pulled guns from their pockets, the dark, hollow muzzles aimed at everyone present.

Besides Jiang Sui, the first to notice the abnormality was Lu Yunze. But even so, in the instant his eyes widened, the waiters pulled the triggers.

The roar of gunfire was like the sound of rain hitting the ground, even louder than the laughter of the people drinking to their hearts’ content.

Someone shouted:

“Enemy attack!”

The entire private room plunged into chaos.

Almost the moment the gunshots rang out, Jiang Sui dove under the table, narrowly escaping disaster.

Just as she was thinking about what to do, the table she was using as cover was suddenly flipped over. Lu Yunze lifted it directly, using it as a shield for everyone.

Plates, glasses, and other items all shattered on the floor, and the wooden tabletop couldn’t withstand the rain of bullets for long.

Lu Yunze kicked the bottom of the table, and the tabletop flew out, slamming directly into half the waiters, giving them an intimate encounter between the tabletop and the wall.

The remaining waiters froze for a moment and tried to keep firing, but those with fast reactions had already charged forward, disarming and subduing them.

“What, what’s going on?”

Dong Youer was also quite lucky. The moment the gunshots rang out, someone had already dragged her out from under the table. She only had a few scrapes.

She heard her phone ring and quickly answered. Her eyes, still hazy with drunkenness, immediately widened:

“What? The police station was attacked?”

No one needed to think twice to know that the enemy was clearly after that man in the cell.

Lu Yunze was still checking the subdued waiters. Their movements didn’t look like those of professionals, and their aim was terrible. But they all had one thing in common: a fox tail growing from behind them.

Lu Yunze lifted their clothes and found that these tails were like blood-sucking parasites, attached to the waiters’ backs.

“What is this, a fox spirit bulk sale?”

Lu Yunze grabbed one of the tails. The twisting, writhing sensation in his hand was almost like a real worm.

He pulled hard, yanking the tail out by the roots, then stared at the bloody end of it. This thing was still squirming.

The waiter who lost his tail shuddered all over, then immediately started drooling and lost consciousness.

That confirmed it. They were poor souls controlled by these fox tails.

Lu Yunze crushed the fox tail in his hand, blood splattering all over his palm.

He thought back to those two prisoners from before. They were probably just like these waiters—poor people parasitized by fox tails.

As for the real enemy, they were probably still watching the show from somewhere.

When Dong Youer and the others learned the police station had been attacked, they wanted to leave the place, but the moment they opened the door, they all froze.

Outside, people had filled the area at some point. Their eyes were filled with killing intent, staring straight at them, and behind each of them was a fox tail that writhed on its own.

They didn’t have guns, but they all pulled out whatever weapons they could use and rushed forward together.

Dong Youer sucked in a breath and quickly slammed the private room door shut.

“We’re surrounded.”

“What do we do?” Luo Heng asked.

“Someone needs to clear a path.”

Luo Yao suddenly looked at Dong Youer. “I remember you’re a Secret Arts Practitioner too.”

Hearing this, Dong Youer immediately panicked. “I’m really weak. My Secret Art is useless in a fight.”

Luo Yao and Luo Heng both wore disappointed expressions.

Everyone gathered together again, discussing their next plan and dividing up the work.

“Leave clearing the path to the Luo siblings, mainly Luo Yao. Luo Heng’s Explosion Art takes too long to set up.”

“Once the path is clear, they’ll take Dong Youer and the others and leave this place. As for Lu Yunze, he volunteered to go find that Secret Arts Practitioner who’s been parasitizing people with fox tails. That’s the only way to end this attack.”

After the discussion, Luo Yao was the first to act. The moment she opened the door, she unleashed her Wind Control Power. A gale swept through the entire corridor, blowing all the controlled people every which way.

“Time to go!”

With Luo Yao’s shout, everyone charged out of the private room and split into two groups at the corner at the end of the corridor.

The task of drawing fire was left entirely to Luo Yao. Lu Yunze quickly found an empty room, temporarily hiding to wait for the right moment.

He leaned against the wall, let out a breath, and rubbed his temples hard.

“I shouldn’t have drunk.”

“Yeah, if only there were some hangover cure.”

“Yeah, that’s right… huh?”

Lu Yunze jerked his head up and realized that at some point, there was another person beside him.

Of all the people, it just had to be Jiang Sui!

“What are you doing here?” Lu Yunze was stunned. “Aren’t you supposed to be leaving with Luo Yao?”

Hearing this, Jiang Sui hugged her knees and pouted:

“I said I was staying to help the Young Master, and none of you objected.”

“Did I?” Lu Yunze wondered why he had no memory of that.

“Yes, yes.” Jiang Sui let out a sly giggle.

Lu Yunze’s expression didn’t relax because of her smile.

“You shouldn’t have followed. It’s too dangerous.”

Honestly, letting her go into the Foot Bath City with Luo Yao this afternoon had already made Lu Yunze extremely worried. Now she was daring to take such a risk.

“Aren’t you afraid of death?”

“If the Young Master isn’t afraid, then what do I have to fear? If you run into a situation you can’t handle, maybe I’ll be the one you need.”

Lu Yunze was speechless.

“Just stay right here. Don’t go anywhere, understand?”

Jiang Sui nodded. “Okay~”

Despite feeling extremely uneasy about her expression, Lu Yunze did his best to calm himself down.

But Jiang Sui thought to herself: My legs are my own. Where I go is up to me.

In a crisis like this, he had to sober up fast, or a battle that came down to every second would be fatal.

Just as Lu Yunze was about to stand up, the wall behind him suddenly shattered.

The two turned to look and found that a tail had pierced through the wall, stabbing straight in.

What kind of monster was this?

It wasn’t over yet. Lu Yunze grabbed Jiang Sui and quickly moved away from the wall. The moment they stepped back, more tails pierced through the wall, striking at their position.

They were fast, and there were a lot of them.

Lu Yunze shoved Jiang Sui aside, then grabbed the incoming tails, clamping them under his arm.

But he missed one, and that tail immediately wrapped around his mouth and nose.

The strong stench of fox wasn’t just foul—inhaling it also gave him an intense dizziness.

This thing was problematic.

Lu Yunze let go and tore the tail away. He wanted to take a big breath, but he’d accidentally inhaled too much, and his consciousness was already starting to blur.

No good. He was done for.

On the other side of the broken wall, pairs of dangerous eyes gleamed with a faint light.

Just as Lu Yunze was about to collapse, a figure stepped forward on its own…