There are only a few people on the city streets late at night.酲
From the nightclub "Golden City" with flashing neon signs, the faint beat of fast-paced music can be heard.
A somewhat depressed young man walked out of the front door, taking off his suit jacket and half hanging it on his arm.
After he walked out of the door, he paused for a few seconds, took out his cell phone, took a look at it, and then went back cursing.
After connecting to the WiFi of the "Golden City" at an extreme distance, a notification sound of "clocking in and getting off work successfully" came from his mobile phone.
The young man breathed a sigh of relief, stuffed his cell phone into his pocket, and walked down the steps to the sidewalk with a slightly hunched posture.
Under the plane trees planted beside the sidewalk, the streetlights cast a person's figure thin and long.
After the young man saw it, his expression immediately became wary.酲
"Jiang Mingchen, right?" A short girl walked out from behind the tree.
The young man stopped, and from a distance of three meters, he carefully looked at the girl who called his real name through the light of the street lamp.
Like myself, he has a relatively standard oriental face, with medium and short flaxen hair, a slim oval face, and is wearing a loose jacket that is obviously one size larger than his body, and a pair of common blue jeans.
"Who are you? Are you from the organization?" Jiang Mingchen asked cautiously.
"I am Cocoon, a high-ranking priest, or purifier." The girl took out her hand from her jacket pocket and pointed the black muzzle directly at Jiang Mingchen.
Jiang Mingchen's eyes were wide open and bloodshot.
He asked in disbelief: "What mistake did I make? Why do you execute me?"
"What are you doing here? Recreation, entertainment, or something else?" Jane still raised her chin slightly to indicate to him the "Golden City" nightclub behind her.
Jiang Mingchen was stunned for a moment, and replied with a guilty conscience: "It depends on the situation... this is work..."
"Work? Isn't this the cover job provided by the sect for you?"
Jiang Mingchen nodded: "But I was exposed..."
"Cheng Taiyi took you in and asked you to work here?"
"Yes!" Jiang Mingchen's eyes gleamed when he heard Cheng Taiyi's name mentioned in her mouth, "Can you put down the gun first? There must be some misunderstanding, right? I didn't betray the sect."
Jane still smiled slightly and slowly lowered the arm holding the gun: "Is this a misunderstanding? I have to wait until I see Cheng Taiyi before I can draw a conclusion. Take me to see him."
"Now?"
"Now." Jane still said in a very firm tone.
Jiang Mingchen scratched the back of his head and showed an embarrassed expression: "But Brother Taiyi usually doesn't see people at this late hour. I don't dare to disturb him at this time."
"What's wrong? He has no position in the sect and is an equal member of the church like you. Why do you feel 'dare not'?"
"Having said that, people like me can survive until now only because of Big Brother's care..."
Jiang Mingchen refused to contact Cheng Taiyi at this time no matter what.
Jane's patience was about to run out, and she knew that Alitanova and Min Yuan, who were waiting in the dark, must have become anxious.酲
"Jiang Mingchen, please become my companion."
Jane still pointed at Jiang Mingchen, and a thread that was difficult to see clearly in the dark appeared between her fingers.
The other end of the silk thread penetrated into Jiang Mingchen's body. Although he didn't understand what happened, he felt strange in his heart.
Soon, Jiang Mingchen found that his body began to move uncontrollably.
He took out his mobile phone from his pocket, unlocked the screen and opened the address book, swiped to find the contact marked "Big Brother", and pressed the call button.
The call on the mobile phone was set to public mode, and after a beeping sound, the other party answered the call.
"Is it tomorrow morning? What's wrong?" Cheng Taiyi's voice did not sound unhappy.酲
Jiang Mingchen's eyes were filled with panic. He desperately tried to press his lips together, but the muscles in his cheeks relaxed involuntarily.
He spoke into his cell phone: "I want to meet with you. Is it convenient now? There are important things that need to be reported in person."
Opposite Jane, still smiling at Jiang Mingchen, she nodded and moved her lips, silently praising him for a job well done.
"Really? Then you can come up in about fifteen minutes." Cheng Taiyi's tone was very gentle, "It just so happens that my affairs are almost over."
Coming up? Jane still looked up at the huge neon sign of "Golden City", wondering if Cheng Taiyi himself was here too?
Although she knew that this nightclub was an industry controlled by the "Nightwalker Group", a gang led by Cheng Taiyi, according to the information Alitanova and Minyuan had obtained before, Cheng Taiyi's whereabouts were erratic and difficult to trace.
It was precisely because they were worried that Cheng Taiyi's cunning rabbit's three caves would be difficult to find that they wanted to create an opportunity to meet through Jiang Mingchen, a stupid young man.酲
"Uh..."
Jane was still slightly distracted, and Jiang Mingchen let out a short, strange moan.
Cheng Taiyi, who had not hung up the phone yet and was waiting for Jiang Mingchen's response, heard this "uh" and asked: "What's wrong? Is your matter urgent?"
Cheng Taiyi mistakenly thought that Jiang Mingchen was dissatisfied with him for asking him to wait fifteen minutes before reporting.
But even so, there was no anger in his tone, but a caring attitude.
"No, it's not."
"Then it's settled, I'll wait for you up there." Cheng Taiyi said, "Is there anything else?" 酲
"No more."
Jiang Mingchen's face twitched slightly. He tried his best to resist Jian Yiran's control, but it was difficult.
The invisible threads that invaded his body released by Jane's supernatural powers did not control his consciousness, but replaced his brain in giving orders to his body in a way similar to cutting off his neural circuits.
No matter what Jiang Mingchen is thinking in his head, his body will not act according to the instructions of his brain, but will give priority to obeying Jian Yiran's orders.
Once he tries to compete with Jane for control of his body, severe nerve pain will spread throughout his body.
"Don't resist my will, it will make you feel better." Jane still mouthed silent advice.
Jiang Mingchen's eyes almost burst into flames. No matter how innocent he was, he understood one thing at this moment - the high-level priest in front of him came for Brother Cheng Taiyi.酲
The person she wants to deal with is not herself, but Cheng Taiyi! This is even more difficult to accept than if she wants to kill herself!
"Never..." Jiang Mingchen suddenly bit his mouth hard, his teeth biting his lips and bleeding.
Jian Yiran's face suddenly turned pale, and she hurriedly retracted the "thread" that controlled Jiang Mingchen, but she still felt a sharp pain coming from her lower lip.
In order to control Jiang Mingchen, she had just been so closely connected with the other party's neural circuit that Jiang Mingchen's self-mutilation behavior also affected her.
"Brother Taiyi! I was..." Jiang Mingchen, who had regained his freedom, shouted into his mobile phone that he wanted to report to Cheng Taiyi.
But before he could finish his words, his legs went weak and his eyes rolled back and he collapsed to the ground.
Jane still looked down at the blood beads between her fingers, and picked up the phone with a stern expression.酲
The call is still ongoing.
She put the phone to her ear and listened silently.
A few seconds later, Cheng Taiyi's voice sounded again: "What did you do to Mingchen?"
"Look out the window." Jane still raised an arm.
High up in the nightclub "Golden City", the curtain behind a floor-to-ceiling glass window slightly opened a gap, revealing a small figure.