“What a baffling fellow,” Su Xiaojiu said, daring to peek her head out from under the counter after the person had left.
However, she was still in an invisible state, and no one could see her.
“You think it’s baffling?”
“Otherwise? This Hanzi (Man) seems like a big shot, right? He suddenly came to you in the middle of the night, dropped a few words, and then left. Isn't that baffling?”
Indeed, among the people following Yuan Lihuan, there was even a Public Security Bureau chief, so his own status must be even higher.
How could someone with such immense power run to a small internet cafe in the middle of the night just to find him, the person who reported the incident?
At most, they would just arrange for a police officer to come and ask some questions.
“Still can’t figure it out?”
An Chen sighed, listening for the sound to pinpoint Su Xiaojiu’s head, and tapped it with his knuckles.
“He already found you.”
“Huh?”
Su Xiaojiu gasped in surprise, covering her head and revealing it from her invisible state.
“Found me? How is that possible! I didn’t feel any Spiritual Qi fluctuations from him, so he shouldn’t be able to see me!”
Moreover, when that group of people came, she had been hiding under the counter, and Yuan Lihuan’s gaze couldn’t bend, so how could he have seen her?
“I told you you were silly, and you really are silly!”
An Chen covered his head and sighed.
“Knowing someone exists doesn’t necessarily require seeing them with your own eyes. If someone’s home has two sets of toiletries out, two pairs of slippers, and even two tidied bedrooms, do you think only one person lives in that home?”
“No…”
“That’s right.”
An Chen snapped his fingers, looked at the business card, and rubbed the three large characters “Yuan Lihuan” on it with his thumb.
“Anyone with good observational skills should have realized that there was more than one Cultivator here last night.”
An Chen turned around and glanced at the wall where the surveillance camera used to be. There was still a scorched circle, a mark left by Su Xiaojiu’s fire.
An Chen also recalled Yuan Lihuan’s Look Back as he left the police station last night.
“Perhaps I already caught his attention yesterday, and today I happened to be the one who reported the incident… How can there be so many coincidences in the world? He must have already set his sights on me.”
By now, Yuan Lihuan might have already pulled up and reviewed his identity information.
“Then do we have to run?”
Su Xiaojiu tensed up.
“Will he send people to arrest us later?”
“No.”
An Chen shook his head and explained:
“The fact that he gave me this business card already shows his benevolent attitude. If he wanted to directly capture us, there would be no need for this extra step.”
An Chen held the business card up to his eyes again, his gaze lingering on the line of small characters below the three large characters “Yuan Lihuan.”
“Kunpeng Organization Leader”
Kunpeng?
An Chen had never heard of this organization.
His first thought was the name of a special forces unit, like Dragon or Eastern Divine Sword, but there was no code name ‘Kunpeng’ in the publicly disclosed special forces sequence.
The military did have a large transport plane with that name, but that had nothing to do with an organization.
An Chen pondered, first saving the number in his contacts and adding a note.
“This Kunpeng Organization… it’s almost certainly an official special organization. As for what it does, I can’t be sure yet, but it’s highly likely related to the current Transmigration incident.”
After that Hanzi (Man) was killed yesterday, this Yuan Lihuan seemed to have rushed to the scene as an investigator. Today, after another incident involving a Transmigration Cultivator occurred, Yuan Lihuan appeared again.
Only a ghost would believe there’s no connection between the two.
“So what do we do now?”
“Wait and see.”
An Chen picked up the fork again, carefully put the business card close to him, then thought for a moment and took the business card out again, taking a photo of both sides with his phone.
“Since he has no ill will towards us, we’ll just maintain the status quo. As long as we don’t try to test his bottom line, he shouldn’t act against us.”
An Chen tore the business card in half and suddenly discovered a small metal chip inside, about the size of a SIM card but much thinner.
An Chen pried this small metal chip out of the business card’s interlayer, tore the “useless” business card into pieces, threw them into the trash can, and then carefully examined the small metal chip.
“What is this?”
“From my many years of experience, this is a tracking and positioning chip.”
In truth, An Chen wasn’t sure what it was, but besides this possibility, there seemed to be no other. After all, surely no one would put a SIM card in such a business card, right?
Yuan Lihuan was certain that he wouldn’t throw away this business card, and in fact, An Chen had originally planned to keep it, as more connections meant more opportunities.
But fortunately, An Chen had an extra thought.
He hadn’t expected this honest-looking Yuan Lihuan to have such a trick up his sleeve.
“Tracking and positioning? Is it the kind that can tell where you are, and he can find you wherever you go?”
“Exactly.”
“Then let’s destroy this thing!”
In Su Xiaojiu’s view, there was no benefit to holding onto such a thing.
Letting others know her exact location, in Jiuzhou… she couldn’t even imagine it.
Some people specifically left marks on others to track them, then either robbed and killed them or sold the information.
In any case, nothing good would come of it.
She hadn’t expected that in this foreign world, someone would do the same!
“This person named Yuan Lihuan definitely has no good intentions!”
Su Xiaojiu’s eyes darted around twice, and she suggested:
“How about we try to kill him? I think I can handle him!”
He hadn't felt any Spiritual Qi fluctuations from Yuan Lihuan; generally, there were only two explanations for this: either the other party was stronger than him, or the other party was not a Cultivator.
In this foreign world without Spiritual Qi, it was clearly not the former.
“I must state that this is a society governed by law.”
An Chen shot Su Xiaojiu a sidelong glance.
“Does your society governed by law allow people to install such tracking devices on others?”
Su Xiaojiu was greatly shocked.
An Chen awkwardly cleared his throat.
“Actually, it’s not allowed, but there’s always a portion of people in this world whose actions, even if they seem to go against the so-called law, are permitted, because they are the rule-makers.”
Yuan Lihuan clearly belonged to this type of person, An Chen was very sure.
He had no direct evidence, only knew that this middle-aged man named Yuan Lihuan was the leader of the so-called “Kunpeng” Organization.
But he had a gut feeling.