Free Web NovelAt 10:15 AM, the plane from Liming City landed in Hua City. Hua Xieyu arrived in Hua City as planned, nearly two hours earlier than Lu Yibei.
Huacheng Airport is built on top of a small mountain not far from the city center. Stepping out of the airport terminal and looking forward, one can see the lush green mountains and, nestled among them, the city's outline like a sand table model.
Hua Xieyu, carrying a worn-out backpack, stood in the open space outside the terminal building, bathed in the bright yet somewhat harsh sunlight, welcoming the gentle breeze that carried a faint floral scent, and stretched lazily.
“This place is alright!”
As a newcomer, her initial impression of this unfamiliar city was quite good.
The air was much better than in Liming City, where there was a faint smell of burning and occasionally the lingering scent of gunpowder. There were also no hidden Psychic or urban legend among the people coming and going.
The entire city was filled with a warm atmosphere, like a fervent but not harmful flame.
This was completely different from Liming City, which hid its man-eating fangs and claws, only showing a glamorous exterior. This wasn't a psychological effect, but the result of her Spiritual Energy touching the free-floating Spiritual Energy around ★ 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 ★ her. The principle was similar to the chilling sensation one feels when entering a haunted house where terrifying urban legend reside.
Hua Xieyu had heard a certain Psychic from Xiang Niangzi Cave mention that this phenomenon was related to a city's earth vein aura. However, she didn't know how the earth vein aura was affected.
As a D+ level Psychic, she couldn't even access the earth vein aura, so knowing wouldn't do her any good.
“But at least here, I don't have to worry about walking down the street in broad daylight and being held at gunpoint from behind, dragged into an alley to be robbed and assaulted, right?”
Hua Xieyu shrugged, took out the file bag the man had given her from her backpack, opened it again, pulled out the documents inside, and began reading.
The contents of those documents could be roughly divided into three parts. The first part was a nineteen-year-old girl's information.
Her surname was Yu, her given name Jianqiu, she was nineteen years old, a sophomore in Chinese Language and Literature at Huacheng Institute of Technology. In addition, there were major events Yu Jianqiu had experienced from the age of three to nineteen.
This was the new identity the man had created for Hua Xieyu. The second part was Lu Yibei's information.
However, the content was only about his hobbies, simple experiences, and the like. There was not a single word about his Spiritual Energy fluctuation level, the Power he held, or his various aliases.
The third part was about the customs and traditions of Yue City.
This part of the content was to help Hua Xieyu better portray herself as a native of Yue City.
Yue City is adjacent to Hua City, which allowed for better fabrication of some “life intersections” between “Yu Jianqiu” and Lu Yibei over the past decade or so. It felt as if they had passed through each other's worlds countless times without noticing or stopping, until they met today.
The entire document was thirty-two pages long, nearly ten thousand words, and included some pictures.
Aside from Lu Yibei's related information, it could be said that everything was real except for the person. Even if Lu Yibei used the Night Watch's archive system or the power of the Monster Story Chat Group to investigate, he wouldn't find any clues.
Considering that Hua Xieyu would need some time to establish a relationship with Lu Yibei, the man had originally given her three days to familiarize herself with the document's content.
However, the flight from Liming City to Hua City was two hours and fifteen minutes, and Hua Xieyu only took a little over an hour to basically memorize the entire document's content, even taking a half-hour nap in between.
Based on the document's description, the mission difficulty wasn't high.
Hua Xieyu felt that she had been worrying a bit too much before.
In comparison, she was more concerned about the damage done to her skin from staying up almost all night thinking about sending the children away last night.
After spending over ten minutes in a coffee shop near the terminal reviewing the entire document, Hua Xieyu's gaze lingered on the small red text at the end of the document, a playful smile appearing at the corner of her mouth.
“Forbidden to fall in love with the target during the mission? Ridiculous! What kind of person do you take your Sister Hua for?”
“As long as the object changes quickly, there's only desire and no love, how could this old lady be stuck on one tree?” “But speaking of which, that man said not to worry about her identity being exposed because it's all real.” Could it be that they killed a girl and had me take her place? Hua Xieyu thought.
In fact, similar things happened frequently in Liming City; she had seen it more than once. “Forget it, that's none of my business.”
Muttering to herself, she stuffed the documents back into the file bag, stood up, left the coffee shop, and as she passed the trash can outside the coffee shop, she casually threw the file bag in.
The file bag fell into the trash can, and a wisp of black sparks instantly rose from the corners, then the sparks quickly spread, incinerating all the documents in the blink of an eye, leaving not even a trace of ash.
Hua Xieyu stood in front of the trash can, leaning forward slightly, witnessing the entire process, her eyes slightly wide.
“That's something! I was thinking if this kind of thing had some sort of read-and-burn restriction, it should probably be retrieved and burned.”
Muttering to herself, Hua Xieyu pouted, took out the phone included in the file bag from her jacket pocket, and pressed the power button.
As the boot screen flashed, the phone received a message.
Teacher Lin: “Everything is ready, in room 305 of the airport hotel.”
“Teacher Lin? Oh, right, he's Yu Jianqiu's Counselor. Is he the contact person?” Hua Xieyu couldn't help but scoff after reading the message, “Pfft, this operation is truly unprofessional!”
After saying that, she deleted the message, put away her phone, and walked quickly towards the airport hotel. An hour later.
After some disguise, Hua Xieyu, who had transformed into “Yu Jianqiu,” arrived at the domestic arrivals exit on time, waiting for “Yu Jianqiu's” Grandma and the mission target to appear.
Just then, her phone rang. It was Teacher Lin calling.
“The mission target has slipped away. The plan has changed. Immediately go to parking space 235. There's a taxi waiting for you there. The license plate number is Shu G-T45564.”
“Got it.” Hua Xieyu asked as she walked towards the parking lot, “But why did he slip away?” By chance, he had the opportunity to meet a beautiful girl of this level, and he actually slipped away?
That guy either has a problem with his brain or his orientation! Hua Xieyu thought.
“Simply put, he wasn't interested in you and was scared away.”
Hua Xieyu, “???”
Not interested, scared away? Heh, this old lady will get revenge.
Forget it, I won't bother with someone who has a problem with their brain!
After a two-second silence, before the other party hung up, Hua Xieyu said, “Wait, wait, don't hang up yet! I'm telling you, your arrangement for the contact person this time is problematic, you know?”
“Problematic? What problem?” A confused voice came from the other end of the phone.
“First of all, what kind of male teacher sends hotel room numbers to female students for no reason? Secondly, no teacher would casually call a female student.” Hua Xieyu said.
“Although it's not impossible, isn't the character you've set up for Yu Jianqiu just a simple and beautiful country girl?”
“If this call and message were accidentally seen by someone, they might imagine all sorts of messed-up scenarios! If it gets to the mission target's ears, the character will be completely ruined, you know?”
A harmless identity with a clean background is very necessary. Given Lu Yibei's personality, if she directly used her beauty to seduce him, he might just catch her the next day and search her memory.
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The other end of the phone was silent for two seconds, then answered with a somewhat strange voice, “Got it, we'll arrange adjustments immediately. Are there any other questions?”
“No more. I see the taxi you mentioned here. I'm hanging up now.” freewebnøvel.coɱ
After Hua Xieyu finished speaking, she hung up the phone, deleted the call history, walked up, pulled open the car door, and got in. Fifteen minutes later.
The Shu GT45564 taxi carrying Yu Jianqiu and her Grandma, after speeding all the way, collided with a black SUV at the Huacheng Airport intersection with a “bang!”
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Zhang Shan's car moved forward, getting closer and closer to the pair of Grandma and granddaughter standing on the street corner. “Uncle, are we friends?” Lu Yibei asked expressionlessly.
“Most of the time, yes.”
“Then for the sake of friendship, can we not pick up those two?”
“Now is a special situation outside of most cases.” Lu Yibei, “...”
So, completely disregarding Lu Yibei's feelings, Uncle Zhang Shan parked his car next to the crashed taxi. The driver of that taxi saw Zhang Shan from a distance and waved to him, shouting, “Brother Zhang, it's great that you could come!” After saying that, he turned around and said something to the Grandma and granddaughter next to him, and they walked over.
“Young man, it's you? I didn't expect to meet you again.”
The old lady seemed very happy to see Lu Yibei, her eyes narrowed into slits as she smiled, then she waved to the girl who was putting luggage in the trunk.
“Qiūqiū, come here, come here, this is the young man Grandma just told you about, the one who helped Grandma on the plane.”
“Qiūqiū, let me tell you! There really aren't many young people like this young man nowadays. If it were someone else, would they be willing to chat with an old woman like me all the way? After a few sentences, they'd probably find me nagging.”
Lu Yibei, “...”
Grandma, you probably misunderstood something. I didn't chat with you at all, you were the one talking, okay? If I hadn't been reluctant to spend the money, I would have upgraded my seat long ago!
Just as Lu Yibei was complaining in his heart, the girl finished putting away the luggage, came up to the old lady, and waved at Lu Yibei through the window, “Hello, Student Lu.”
As she spoke, a smile appeared on the girl's face, her lips red and teeth white, reminiscent of a metaphor used by a poet in the Elizabethan era to describe a woman's smile — “roses containing snow.”
She seemed a bit prettier than in the photo, but still not as pretty as Miǎo Pā Jiàng! Lu Yibei thought.
At this time, the old lady naturally took the girl's hand and reminded her, “Oh, right, Student Lu Yibei is also from your school, Qiūqiū. You can get to know each other more in the future if you have the chance!”
“Okay, okay!” The girl nodded, a faint blush appearing on her face. In response, Lu Yibei merely nodded expressionlessly.
It was as if the person in front of him wasn't a delicate and beautiful girl at all, but a bag of garbage that some bastard had left at his doorstep.
Every cell in his body seemed to be whispering, “Heh! Women? Completely uninterested!”
Lu Yibei's reaction surprised Hua Xieyu, even making her feel a bit ashamed and angry, with a strange urge to punch his deadpan face twice.
It's one thing if you're not interested just by looking at the photo, but with such a living, breathing beautiful girl in front of you, at least give some reaction, brother! Wait, the information says this guy is extremely obsessed with that magical girl or whatever.
Could he be the type rumored to only be interested in two-dimensional girls, completely dislike, or even detest real people? Hua Xieyu thought secretly, carefully helping the old lady into the passenger seat of the taxi as planned, then pulled open the car door and sat in the back.
After sitting down, she put her feet together, hands on her knees, lowered her head, and maintained a not-too-close, not-too-far distance from Lu Yibei, ensuring that Lu Yibei could smell the faint, unique scent of a young girl emanating from her, while also appearing shy and reserved.
Immediately after, noticing Lu Yibei's peripheral vision on her, her face turned red, and she explained in a voice as quiet as a mosquito's hum, “I, I'm sorry, Student Lu, my Grandma gets carsick, so sitting in the passenger seat will be better.”
Lu Yibei didn't speak until Uncle Zhang Shan started the car again, then he said faintly, “If you get carsick, sitting in the passenger seat is indeed better.”
“However, if a serious car accident happens, the death rate in the passenger seat is the highest, over 46%.” Hua Xieyu, the old lady, “???”
What the heck? Does this person know how to talk?
Pausing, Lu Yibei turned his head to look at the girl beside him and added, “Oh, I forgot to mention, I often ride in this driver's car, and honestly, he drives pretty wildly.”
“Do you know? One time in the old town where camera coverage isn't high, his speed reached 150, and he suddenly said to me,'Sometimes I feel like living is pretty meaningless.' It scared me.”
Zhang Shan, “???”
What's wrong with this guy today?
Although I did reach a speed of 170, wasn't that because you scared me?
In fact, there were times when Uncle Zhang Shan was so scared that he fled the scene in a hurry, not to mention 150, he even went over 180. No wonder he's called the second car god of Hua City? He still has some skill.
After Lu Yibei finished speaking, a brief silence fell over the car, with only the sound of the song “Drifting” playing on the car stereo echoing. “Here, the engine sound is like an instrument”
So, the wind whistling by is exciting
So, I'm drifting around the bend
Step on the gas, drift to the end, look closely
Soon, Uncle Zhang Shan noticed the atmosphere was a bit strange, subtly changed the song, forced a smile, and was about to explain, but Lu Yibei spoke again before him.
“Master, I won't go to the place I mentioned before. Please stop at the department store ahead. I want to buy something.” Yes, Lu Yibei could have gotten off earlier, but he just wouldn't!
Hearing this, Uncle Zhang Shan stepped on the brake and parked the car at a parking spot by the roadside.
Seeing that Lu Yibei was about to get out of the car, Hua Xieyu pursed her lips and softly called out, “Wait, wait, Student Lu, what?”
“Uh, thank you for helping take care of my Grandma on the plane. If it's convenient, could, could I have your contact information? I, I'll treat you to a meal another day.”
Lu Yibei was silent for a few seconds, then shook his head, “No need for a meal? If you really want to thank me,”
Saying that, he took out his phone, brought up the payment code, and handed it to Hua Xieyu, “How about just transferring the money? I'll go eat by myself.”
Hua Xieyu, “???”
After waiting a few seconds and seeing no reaction from Hua Xieyu, Lu Yibei put away his phone and shrugged, saying, “Forget it, just kidding.” As he closed the car door, he suddenly dropped a line, “Be careful later. If the driver's speed goes over 150 and he suddenly starts talking about life with you, just invite him for a foot massage. It's guaranteed to work!”
Watching Lu Yibei's gradually receding back through the car window, Hua Xieyu's mouth twitched slightly.
Although she had seen this level of scumbag before, if she were in Liming City, she would have a hundred ways to make Lu Yibei crawl on the ground and call her mommy.
However, this was Hua City, and with Yu Jianqiu's identity, she had to restrain her actions.
Therefore, in the first encounter, she lost, a complete loss.
