Chapter 129
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All eyes were on the phone in Lou Yan’s hand. Listening to the “ring… ring…” sound, the atmosphere grew increasingly tense, especially Director Lin Feng and the others, who anxiously hoped the call would be answered.
Although Lou Yan didn’t think Fu Xuezhou would answer his call, being stared at by everyone made him feel a subtle emotion. He glanced at the call screen on his phone, then deliberately looked away, staring at the floor tiles’ seams.
The office floor tiles were quite clean, and the pattern was nice…
Does Fu Xuezhou recognize his number?
Lou Yan thought absentmindedly. But then again, Fu Xuezhou might recognize his number.
Because after the first time his Ghost Marriage Contract heated up, Fu Xuezhou specifically called to warn him.
“Ring… ring…”
As time passed, everyone’s mood shifted from anticipation to heaviness, and finally to complete disappointment.
Lou Yan looked at the call screen that automatically disconnected due to no answer, unable to tell if he felt it was expected or slightly disappointed. He pretended to be prepared for this outcome and put his phone back in his pocket, looking at Cui Ansheng and Lin Feng and Lin You, “You saw it, he didn’t answer, and I can’t reach him either.”
Cui Ansheng was dumbfounded, embarrassed and disbelieving. He scratched his head vigorously, muttering to himself, “How is that possible… It shouldn’t be… How could Ah Zhou not answer your call…”
Lou Yan found it amusing to hear this. What relationship did he have with Fu Xuezhou? Why should Fu Xuezhou answer his call when he didn’t answer others’ calls?
But Cui Ansheng’s reaction still made him somewhat uncomfortable deep down. He forced a smile and said, “Mr. Cui, you’re joking. I’m not familiar with Fu Xuezhou, let alone knowing he left Chengjiang City. How could I contact him when no one else can? It seems like you’ve overestimated my relationship with Fu Xuezhou.”
Director Lin Feng said disappointedly, “Sigh, it seems we really can’t reach Fu…”
Before he could finish his sentence, Lou Yan’s phone in his pocket suddenly rang. The buzzing sound immediately drew everyone’s attention.
Lu Haoxiu, with quick wit, said, “Could it be Fu Xuezhou calling back?”
With this statement, Director Lin Feng and the others felt hope again and looked at Lou Yan with pleading eyes. Lou Yan’s eyelid twitched, and he slowly took out his phone from his pocket. His movements were as slow as a sloth, making Lin You standing beside him anxious, wishing to take the phone and answer it himself.
Fortunately, the caller patiently waited until Lou Yan successfully took out his phone.
Lou Yan glanced at the number displayed on the phone screen, his heart skipped a beat, and an indescribable expression appeared on his face. Director Lin Feng, who had been staring at him, noticed this and felt hopeful, cautiously asking, “Is it Mr. Fu calling back?”
Lou Yan’s mood was extremely complicated and subtle, difficult to articulate exactly what he felt. He lightly touched his tongue against his teeth and said, “It’s him.”
Cui Ansheng had a smile on his face, looking somewhat smug, as if he had won a bet, “I told you, Mr. Lou, you should answer quickly!”
Lou Yan’s finger hovered over the green answer button for a moment before finally pressing it. He casually put the phone to his ear, “Hello.”
The other end of the line was filled with howling wind, so loud it felt like it was scraping his eardrums, making Fu Xuezhou’s words fragmented and carrying a surreal and free feeling, “You’ve taken me out of the blacklist again?”
“Fu….fu….” The sound of the wind made Lou Yan even feel like Fu Xuezhou’s clothes were being heavily beaten against him.
I knew it…
Lou Yan thought to himself. He knew Fu Xuezhou’s first words would be this to mildly tease him.
Lou Yan glanced at the others in the room, then tactfully asked, “Where are you?”
As soon as he said this, Lou Yan realized his mistake. He shouldn’t have asked such a private question to Fu Xuezhou, and even if they knew where Fu Xuezhou was, it wouldn’t help. Lou Yan looked at the white wall beside him and quickly changed his words, “Forget it, forget what I just asked. When can you come back?”
Fu Xuezhou sat on the edge of the top floor of a hundred-story tall building, covered in blood, while the strong wind made his silver hair dance in the air. His once black eyes now turned crimson, Fu Xuezhou inserted his sharp Tang blade into the ground, holding a phone to his ear with one hand, while casually unscrewing the cap of a mineral water bottle with the other hand. He glanced down at the massive, anomaly black tentacles climbing up the outer layer of the skyscraper toward him and asked indifferently, “So, you miss me?”
“Mr. Fu, please don’t make such awkward jokes,” Lou Yan’s tone became more serious, “This is a question someone asked me to ask you. I’m currently at the Anomaly Control Bureau. Should I let the director here speak with you directly?”
Without waiting for Fu Xuezhou’s response, Lou Yan immediately switched to speaker mode and handed the phone to Director Lin.
Director Lin quickly took it and cleared his throat, “Is this Mr. Fu Xuezhou?”
Fu Xuezhou responded coldly, “What’s the matter?”
His voice, coupled with the chaotic wind, made the relaxed atmosphere in the office suddenly tense.
Lou Yan frowned, feeling that Fu Xuezhou’s tone was much colder than when he spoke to him just now…
The others hadn’t heard the two sentences Fu Xuezhou had said to Lou Yan earlier, so they didn’t have this feeling.
After hearing Fu Xuezhou speak for the first time, Director Lin could roughly gauge Fu Xuezhou’s character from the coldness in his voice. Without any unnecessary pleasantries, he directly stated his request.
“Hello, Mr. Fu. I’m Lin Feng, the head of the Anomaly Control Bureau’s Chengjiang City Branch. Currently, there’s an A-rank terrifying anomaly in Chengjiang City called the ‘Water Ghost.’ It has already submerged the height of the first floor in just one night. Can you come back and deal with this ‘Water Ghost’? If you can’t come back, Mr. Fu, do you know its weaknesses or how to deal with it? If Mr. Fu can help us at the Anomaly Control Bureau to get rid of this ‘Water Ghost,’ we can fulfill any request Mr. Fu has.”
Fu Xuezhou asked, “Any request?”
Director Lin replied solemnly, “Within the limits of the law, anything that the Anomaly Control Bureau can promise, I can promise you, even my position can be given to you.”
“No need,” Fu Xuezhou said, “Where’s Lou Yan?”
Director Lin was stunned, “Right beside me.”
Fu Xuezhou said, “Give him the phone.”
Actually, there was no need to give it to him. Lou Yan could still hear him through speaker mode. But Director Lin still handed the phone to Lou Yan. Lou Yan asked indifferently, “Mr. Fu, do you have something to say? We’re all here, and if you have any requests, I think everyone here would be happy to help you.”
He subtly reminded Fu Xuezhou to be careful of what he said, as everyone could hear.
Fu Xuezhou seemed to not understand, “Including you?”
This statement seemed inconsequential, but Lou Yan understood Fu Xuezhou’s meaning. Fu Xuezhou was asking if Lou Yan would also be willing to help him with his requests.
Lou Yan had a bad premonition. He felt that Fu Xuezhou was up to something. He was about to refuse, but Director Lin quickly interjected, “Comrade Lou Yan, why don’t we listen to Mr. Fu’s request first?”
Lou Yan rubbed his temples, “….What do you want me to do?”
Fu Xuezhou said, “Nothing much, just want to hear you say ‘you’re amazing’ to me.”
Lou Yan: “…”
Lou Yan: “………..”
How can you say such shameless things in such a calm tone?
The entire office breathed a sigh of relief except for Lou Yan, whose face changed slightly. They thought Fu Xuezhou might make some difficult requests, but it turned out to be just a simple sentence.
But only Lou Yan knew how embarrassing that sentence was. During the last time they were in the office together, Lou Yan was furious and cursed Fu Xuezhou with many words. Among them, he criticized Fu Xuezhou’s terrible skills the most, saying that Fu Xuezhou only knew how to act recklessly and that nobody wanted to sleep with him even if he paid them. He mocked Fu Xuezhou for being unskilled in satisfying others and suggested sarcastically that Fu Xuezhou should buy a basic physiology book and learn from scratch… The more viciously he cursed, the more aggressive Fu Xuezhou became. But Lou Yan remained stubborn and didn’t say anything nice.
As a result, this petty man actually remembered it until now and wanted to use this opportunity to make Lou Yan praise him as “amazing” in public?!
The others didn’t think there was anything wrong with this sentence. It was just praising Fu Xuezhou, who was indeed talented. But how could Lou Yan not know the difference between this “amazing” and the usual “amazing”? Fu Xuezhou was openly embarrassing him!
A certain petty silver-haired man didn’t hear Lou Yan’s response, so he continued in a calm tone, “Can’t do it?”
Lou Yan said, “…You’re amazing.”
There was silence from Fu Xuezhou’s end for a few seconds, then a faint chuckle sounded.
“….” Lou Yan took a deep breath without showing any trace of it and suppressed the urge to crush the phone screen. “Can you now tell us about the ‘Water Ghost’?”
“Sure,” Fu Xuezhou said, “Director Lin Feng?”
Director Lin quickly said, “Yes?”
Lou Yan had expected Fu Xuezhou to mention the weaknesses of the ‘Water Ghost,’ but he didn’t expect Fu Xuezhou to say, “Lou Yan can deal with the ‘Water Ghost’.”
“…Just that?”
Lou Yan almost laughed out loud.
Fu Xuezhou calmly responded with a “Yes.”
So, in the end, you didn’t say anything, but you managed to get a “you’re amazing” from me?
“I have to go now,” Fu Xuezhou paused and then suddenly said, “By the way, I’m in Daxi City, Province D.”
Who cares where you are? Everyone in the room just wants to know how to deal with the ‘Water Ghost.’
Just before Fu Xuezhou hung up the phone, Duan Zege, who had been silent the whole time, walked briskly to Lou Yan’s side, casually put his hand on Lou Yan’s shoulder, and leaned in toward the phone with a lazy smile, “So, Mr. Fu, you’ve gone to such a faraway place. You can rest assured and focus on your work. I’ll take care of Lou Yan for you.”
The faint provocation could only be sensed by Fu Xuezhou at the other end of the phone.
Fu Xuezhou’s hand, about to hang up the phone, paused.
The voice of Duan Zege was not familiar to Fu Xuezhou, especially since Duan Zege had lowered his voice at this moment, carrying a somewhat unique hoarse tone that seemed intoxicatingly deep, making him sound like a stranger to Fu Xuezhou.
Duan Zege chuckled softly, with a meaningful tone, “Whether it’s day or night, I’ll take care of him to his satisfaction. After all, Lou Yan is my…”
He lifted the hand holding the phone closer to his lips and whispered the last word in a voice almost inaudible to anyone else at the other end of the line: “…baby.”
The scent of gunpowder was thick to the extreme.
The word was so low that even Director Lin and the others in the same room couldn’t hear them, but Duan Zege was certain that Fu Xuezhou, with his superhuman hearing, definitely heard them.
Duan Zege smirked and decisively hung up the call, regardless of Fu Xuezhou’s possible reaction.
After hanging up the phone, he adjusted the volume to a normal level and smiled to the others in the room, “Lou Yan is my lifesaver, after all.”
Lou Yan also heard the words “baby.” His arm was covered in goosebumps from the cheesiness of it all. He turned to look at Duan Zege with a strange expression, “What nonsense are you talking about?”
“I wasn’t comfortable seeing you forced to praise him earlier,” Duan Zege lowered his voice and said softly in Lou Yan’s ear, “So, I decided to tease him a little. Do you think Fu Xuezhou, after hearing what I said, might be enraged?”
Lou Yan imagined Fu Xuezhou’s possible reaction and thought it was quite possible.
After all, Fu Xuezhou’s desire for control was a bit twisted.
“I also did a good deed,” Duan Zege chuckled and shrugged, “Who knows, after he hears my provocation, he might be so angry that he rushes back from Province D to Chengjiang City. By then, maybe we can let him handle the ‘Water Ghost’ himself.”
Upon hearing this, a smile crossed Lou Yan’s face as he patted Duan Zege on the shoulder. “Well done.”
Even if Fu Xuezhou didn’t rush back faster, it wasn’t bad to set up this trap for him this time.
Some feelings only sprout faster after experiencing external stimulation.
***
Fu Xuezhou swiftly swung his Tang blade to cut off a black tentacle waving towards him, causing it to fall to the ground and twitch like a live fish for a few moments.
The phone in his other hand cracked from the tremendous force, starting to split apart from the screen, and soon turned into a pile of scrap metal that fell from Fu Xuezhou’s palm.
“Baby?”
The author has something to say:
Little Fu: Hmm, he’s cheating.
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