In front of the curved floor-to-ceiling window, it was quiet and silent, even the sound of turning pages stopped.
The young man standing with a knife turned his head and looked quietly at Director Dongfang who was sitting on the sofa. On the other side, under the soft floor lamp, the pages of the opened book closed. Bai Ning raised his face with a gloomy expression and put the book on the small round table beside him.
"What bad news. Could it be that those nerds in Z6 are so hot-blooded that they want to take a gamble on the eunuchs? Or have they recruited a more powerful figure to get involved?"
He looked in the direction where his gloomy eyes went and saw that the man on the sofa opposite him hadn't spoken yet, so he repeated it again.
"Both?"
A cold voice came back, and Dongfang Xu felt the depression spreading. He moved slightly, knowing that if he didn't speak, the person opposite him might get angry.
"Master, Z6 has indeed found someone, or two people. According to the news, they are very important..."
"Very big?"
Bai Ning stood up and walked to the French window. The young man holding the knife hurried forward and pulled open the curtain. The lighted glass reflected a feminine face. He stood still with a firm gaze. From here, looking at the night outside, it seemed as if there was something hidden in this darkness.
Immediately, his brows furrowed even more: "The Wolf King of the Northwest? Or did you pull Crow Xia Yi over?"
"Neither." Dongfang Xu stood up and walked behind the leader of the eunuch sect. He clearly felt the frozen atmosphere and a hint of coldness. He lowered his voice and said in a low voice: "Someone in the institute has seen him. He is wearing ancient costumes and... has inhuman strength."
As soon as he finished speaking, Bai Ning turned around and put his hands behind his back: "Among the people I have met, is there anyone who doesn't have inhuman strength?"
"This time it's different. The news that came out said it might be a deity, but they are still testifying. Tang Liren from Z6 and Gao Tianqiu know the details best."
The figure walking past the light fell silent. Dongfang Xu was unsure of the other party's attitude, so he clenched his fist, took a half step forward and followed closely, "I'll go back and check..."
Before he could utter the last word "查", Bai Ning in front of him suddenly raised his hand and interrupted him, "I don't think it's necessary. The person you mentioned..."
As he spoke, his face slightly turned towards the floor-to-ceiling window. The feeling that had just arisen in his heart surged up again, making his skin feel as if needles were pricking him. His eyes passed through the glass. The sound of wind blowing outside, sobbing as it squeezed in through the window gap, made the atmosphere even more mysterious and tense.
"… The person you are talking about may have already arrived."
As the words came out, the wind squeezed in through the gaps in the window frame. In the dark night, the outlines of tall buildings stood out. Even in the dead of night, there were still people who had not fallen asleep.
The lit window was pushed open, and someone was leaning against the window, smoking and talking on the phone with a cell phone, muttering something as if he was saying nice things to a woman over there.
"Xiao Li, are you alone? I'm alone, you know I'm thick-skinned, I need to be thick-skinned to find a girlfriend, so I call you... Hehe, you must have some thoughts, you can't be single in your thirties, right? You have to be thick-skinned."
The corny words floated above the window. On the rooftop above, there was a faint figure standing on the edge with his hands behind his back. His robe rustled in the wind. His eyes seemed to penetrate the darkness and distance, looking at the lighted building in the distance.
"There's something different about the aura of this demon star. It can actually sense me coming."
The black hair passed across the forehead, gently caressing in the scholar's sight. She didn't care about the intermittent love words coming from below. The moment she squinted her eyes, she spoke in a neutral and calm voice.
"Sir, why don't you come out and have a chat?"
The man who was talking on the phone at the window below did not hear it, but the woman on the other end of the phone heard the voice. When she asked him if there was anyone else next to him, the man was stunned for a moment and looked around.
"No... You know, I'm the only one at home, and I called you from the window, so how could anyone else come from here? I swear, I didn't say anything, and I won't lie to you, it's more real than the truth."
As they were talking, the curtains in front of the French windows on the distant high-rise building blew up and brushed across Bai Ning's face. A strong wind suddenly pushed the window open, and the pages of the book on the small round table were flipping rapidly.
Dongfang Xu showed a look of surprise on his face. He could not hear any sound, but he noticed the difference in the wind. He frowned and whispered, "Master, that person..."
The next moment, Bai Ning stared outside and raised his hand to grab. The young man holding the knife loosened his grip, and the slender black knife held horizontally fell into his hand. His figure turned into an afterimage in the eyes of the two men, and he leaped into the night outside.
Using his feet as leverage, the window frame vibrated with a buzzing sound, and his figure soared into the sky, passing through the cold moonlight in the night sky. The man who was lying in front of the window and making a phone call turned his head and saw the figure rushing into the night sky in front of him. He screamed in fright.
"Hey, hey... Xiaoli, I just saw someone fly past me. It's true. I didn't lie to you!"
…
On the rooftop, a figure that rushed up to the moonlight descended from the rooftop, and a slender black knife swept across to the side and gently fell to the ground. Bai Ning looked coldly at the figure opposite him with his hands behind his back. The scholar was wearing a green shirt and a white robe, with a bronze mirror hanging from his waist, and he was looking at him with a dull look.
"Are you the person Z6 invited to help?"
Over there, Lu Liangsheng was also looking at him. He was wearing a white tight-fitting suit, with a cold and feminine face, short white hair, and a weapon with a black scabbard in his hand, which was quite different.
After a moment, he nodded.
"Not much different. I learned from Tang Liren some things about the eunuchs. They do whatever it takes, but stealing is a bit despicable. It is even more unreasonable to detain people who come to question them. As a senior, I should help with things that the juniors cannot solve."
Hearing the words "steal" and "despicable", Bai Ning's face darkened. He put away the weapon at the side of his leg and slowly pushed the handle out from his thumb.
"Then let's see if you are able to help out."
The moment the words slowly came out of his mouth, the handle pushed out with a "clang" and a cold light illuminated the surrounding darkness. Bai Ning grabbed the handle of the knife and swung it away. The light of the knife seemed to cut through the air, and the lights and moonlight in the distance seemed to be stagnant and distorted in an instant.
Boom!
BANG!!
There was a sudden loud noise at the rooftop exit, and a smooth crack appeared on the building, which then slid down diagonally. There was another loud bang when the rooftop was hit, causing an earthquake. The lights in the windows of every household below the building were turned on, and many people who were awakened shouted.
"What's going on?!" "Earthquake?"
"Run, don't put on your clothes!"
"Hurry up and take the stairs downstairs."
"Bullshit, there are 30 floors. If you take the stairs, the building will collapse and you won't be able to reach it. Go to the roof. At least you won't be buried too deep!!"
On the nearest floor, a man holding a cell phone was leaning against the window, looking up with a horrified look on his face. He vaguely saw two figures standing on the left and right of the edge of the roof, and his voice became stammering.
“Xiao Li… I really didn’t lie this time. There were two people standing on the rooftop, fighting at the top of the Forbidden City… Hey, don’t hang up, I don’t know if it’s Ximen Chuixue and Ye Gucheng… Hey, hey… You really have to believe me, I’m so scared!!”