Chapter 174: You Are Breaking the Law
Chapter 174: You Are Breaking the Law
“Ah…”
Li Mengmeng almost couldn’t help but scream when she saw the expression on the cleaner’s face.
She couldn’t see the man’s face like Lu Xin could, but she recognized this expression.
This expression had appeared countless times on her friends and family.
The moment it appeared, it felt like she had fallen into a nightmare. Her legs were trembling, and her instinct drove her to flee.
Lu Xin gently pinched her arm. She snapped back to reality, hurriedly covering her own mouth.
But the look in her eyes already held a plea as she stared at Lu Xin’s face.
“Slut…”
However, the way Li Mengmeng looked at Lu Xin instantly provoked strong resentment from the person inside the cleaner. Her gaze at Lu Xin had become hateful. Her cold stare seemed to seep directly from her eyes as she lowered her coarse, raspy voice and hissed, “Listen, I don’t fucking care who you are. Get lost right now… I’ve already set my sights on this prey.”
“…”
Beside him, Li Mengmeng’s body trembled uncontrollably.
Everything she saw and heard was beyond her comprehension.
Instinctively, she clutched Lu Xin’s arm even tighter, grasping her only lifeline. Her soft figure beneath the hoodie trembled.
Lu Xin’s face remained calm. He signaled to Li Mengmeng not to panic.
He first glanced casually to the side. Little Sister hadn’t appeared yet…
She was really messing around, running all over the place.
She shouldn’t be in her rebellious phase yet, right…
Luckily, at critical moments, he could still forcibly tap into her power. It wasn’t skillful at first, but after honing it during this trip outside the city, it was much better now. So he wasn’t panicked. He just looked steadily at the cleaner before him and said in a low voice, “No one is your prey. I won’t leave. And… do you know what you’re doing now is against the law?”
The cleaner seemed dumbfounded by his words.
After a while, a strange, mocking expression appeared on her face. “You’re telling me about the law? Ha ha…”
Suddenly, the smile vanished, replaced by a sinister tone. “You have no idea who I am, no idea what I can do…”
“I don’t care who you are, but you’d better not cross me. Give me back my prey now…”
“…”
“I actually do know…”
Lu Xin looked at him with some helplessness. “I’ve seen your file. And my job is to take you back.”
“While you haven’t gone down the road of crime yet, come back with me.”
As he spoke, he sighed softly, looking seriously at the cleaner in front of him. “If you resist, I’ll have no choice but to fight you. But honestly, I don’t have much experience fighting Ability Users. If I hit too hard, you might die.”
“You…”
Lu Xin’s words stirred a strange feeling in both Li Mengmeng and the Ability User.
Li Mengmeng found it somewhat unreal.
She’d thought this young man was here to catch ghosts, but his tone? It sounded like he was catching a thief.
As for the cleaner, she seemed to show a flicker of wariness. She stared fixedly at Lu Xin, then a cold sneer appeared on her face. “You followed me from the Main City, didn’t you? Hmph, useless. I sensed someone watching me long ago, but I don’t care at all…”
“Go back and tell your people: what I want isn’t much. That’s your good fortune…”
“Therefore, I won’t bother you, and you’d better not come bothering me either…”
“You should just behave, it’s better for everyone. Otherwise…”
Her face twisted into a savage grimace in an instant. “Even those gentlemen at the very top of Qinggang? I could even kill one to show you…”
“…”
Her voice carried an affected tone, paired with an eerie expression, which actually had a bit of an effect.
Beside Lu Xin, Li Mengmeng was truly frightened. She could barely stand, practically hanging onto Lu Xin’s arm.
After hearing her out, Lu Xin just frowned and said, “You can go.” (Translator’s note: Meaning ‘You can go try to kill them’ – implying he doesn’t believe she can or will stop her)
Hearing this, the cleaner’s expression instantly froze.
At that moment, on the nearby smooth, gleaming wall, Little Sister crawled down slowly, still holding her bear in her mouth. Who knows where she had been running wild? She wore a slightly mischievous, excited expression. However, the moment she climbed down, she saw Lu Xin’s arm looped around a girl. Her face immediately showed surprise. She rapidly circled the girl once, her gaze finally settling on her chest.
Then she puckered her lips, utterly unimpressed.
…
“You can go deal with those gentlemen. That has nothing to do with my job.”
Lu Xin felt relieved and looked seriously at the cleaner before him, smiling slightly. “But I don’t think you’ll be able to…”
The cleaner didn’t speak anymore, just stared at Lu Xin with a menacing coldness.
She seemed to sense something around her, her expression growing slightly wary. Then she suddenly hissed in a low voice, “Then you’re just asking to die!”
“Swish!”
As soon as she began speaking, she abruptly sprang up from the ground.
Her speed was completely unaligned with her seemingly weak body, coming remarkably fast. By the time she lunged at Lu Xin, she had already brandished a silver, small shovel-like object in her hand. It was a scraper blade, with keenly sharp edges.
She thrust this sharp edge directly toward Lu Xin’s eyes, a sinister and vicious expression on her face.
“Ah…”
Li Mengmeng, terrified by the expression on the woman’s face, instinctively began to shriek once more.
Meanwhile, Lu Xin suddenly said, “Easy.”
Li Mengmeng thought Lu Xin was speaking to her and hurriedly covered her mouth.
But at that moment, Lu Xin was looking at Little Sister.
Before the Cleaner lunged, Little Sister had already grabbed Lu Xin’s leg; a cold sensation spread all over him, and his state changed. His arm shot out as if propelled like a ghost, reaching straight for the Cleaner’s neck.
Under his ghostly speed, the Cleaner’s movements appeared excruciatingly slow in comparison.
It seemed as if she was deliberately offering her neck to Lu Xin’s grasp.
When Lu Xin said “Easy,” he was telling Little Sister not to use too much force, lest she truly hurt the woman.
As expected, when Lu Xin’s hand seized the Cleaner’s neck, her raised arms and ferocious expression vanished instantly. Her entire body went limp, collapsing like a Puppet with all its strings cut.
If Lu Xin hadn’t been holding her by the neck, she would have likely crumpled face-down onto the floor.
“Ah…”
The Cleaner’s face briefly went blank before slowly regaining awareness.
As her eyes focused and she found Lu Xin gripping her neck, she let out a terrified cry, frightened out of her wits. Waving her arms defensively, she opened her mouth wide in a panicked plea: “I’m sorry, guest, I’m sorry…”
She had no idea why Lu Xin was choking her, thinking she must have angered him.
“It’s alright. It’s not your fault…”
Lu Xin smoothly lowered his hand, supporting the Cleaner and carefully helping her lean back against the wall to sit.
Then, frowning, he looked around.
By this time, people in the lobby had heard the commotion and instinctively turned their gazes toward them.
Many looked surprised. Sensing something amiss, several Security Guards began approaching.
“Hmm, see?”
At that very moment, the Front Desk Girl by the counter—who had just helped Lu Xin register and taken his hundred yuan—turned her gaze toward him with a faint, mocking smile. She said softly, “We are not of the same kind now… Or rather, I am not the same as anyone else in this world. You are merely ordinary people, while I… right now, I am like a god!”
As she spoke, she no longer bothered to conceal her words from others, drawing puzzled glances.
Who was this Front Desk Girl? Her tone was so absurdly melodramatic…
……
…
“I think I’ve heard something similar before…”
Lu Xin looked at the Front Desk Girl and said quietly, “The one who said it was a lunatic. Feels about the same with you…”
He spoke while intently watching the little girl.
But beside him, Little Sister instantly understood his intention. Gleefully, she stealthily shot toward the front desk…
“Whoosh!”
Just as Little Sister was about to reach at the front desk, the little girl’s expression suddenly shifted, then turned vacant.
Simultaneously, a burly Security Guard who had sensed trouble earlier and was almost upon Lu Xin suddenly contorted his face with malice. Grabbing the rubber baton at his waist, he swung it with full force at the back of Lu Xin’s head.