The woman controlling the pack of vicious hound familiars narrowed her eyes slightly, suspicion in her gaze as she looked at the scene before her.
“How come I feel like you two don’t know each other?”
“Huh? Don’t know each other?” Qin Ling was shocked.
He took a step back, pointed at Liu Xiyun in front of him, and shouted, “How could I not know her!? Even if she turned to ashes, I’d still recognize her! She’s that coworker Xiao Hong we met that one time!”
“Really?” The woman still didn’t quite believe him. Her eyes were full of doubt.
Smack!
Left with no choice, Qin Ling slapped Liu Xiyun on the butt, making a crisp sound.
Then he walked up in front of her, his face full of smug pride. “Hmph! Xiao Hong, oh Xiao Hong! You stole my food before, and now you’ve fallen into my hands and sis’s hands, huh? Now you’re in for it!”
“Hm? You still dare glare at me!? In the state you’re in, you can’t even move. You can only let me do whatever I want, let me mess with you however I please! What’re you gonna do about it? Bite me!?”
“Tsk tsk!” Liu Xiyun, unable to move, forced herself as if trying to struggle, but Qin Ling grabbed one of her cheeks in one hand.
“What, you still not convinced? If you can move, I’ll call you Dad!”
“...”
“...”
Liu Xiyun’s forceful struggling instantly died down in speechless silence. The woman controlling the hound familiars was also equally speechless as she watched the scene.
“With the way you’re doing this, why do I feel like she didn’t want to bite you to death before, but now she definitely does?” she said.
Qin Ling tilted his head after hearing that, then took a puzzled step back and looked at Liu Xiyun. “Does she?”
“...”
“Mm, no answer. Then definitely not.”
“Besides, even if she does, she can’t move right now. What’s she gonna bite me with? Right, sis?”
The woman rolled her eyes at him, but then her gaze shifted and she said, “Actually, that’s not entirely impossible.”
“Huh? What?” Qin Ling looked at the woman beside him in confusion.
She said, “Didn’t little brother just get worked up by big sis a moment ago? I’m not convenient right now, but this one delivered herself right to our door. You’re not gonna pass that up, are you?”
“You want her to bite you, right? You can do that now. You can bite her too. See how good big sis is to you?” The woman controlling the familiar smiled at Qin Ling, her gaze flicking between him and Liu Xiyun.
“Uh, well...” Qin Ling knew what she meant, but when he looked at Liu Xiyun, soaked like a drenched stray dog, he shook his head.
“Too ugly. Not interested.”
!
At that moment, Liu Xiyun truly had the urge to bite this bastard to death.
From childhood until now, no one had ever called her ugly.
Qin Ling was the first.
He really had guts.
“Ugly? I don’t think so.” The woman controlling the vicious hound familiar looked at Liu Xiyun’s curvy figure. Even soaked through, with her hair hanging loose, it was still obvious the girl was strikingly beautiful.
So the brat really was putting on an act for her.
“Exactly. How could she compare to you, sis~”
“Sis, let’s clean this up and switch locations before we go another round. Maybe next time it’ll be that fatty. What do you think?”
Looking at Qin Ling smiling at her, the woman smiled back.
She waved a hand. “No. We’ve already got a big fish now. This is our bargaining chip.”
“And...”
“Compared to this big fish, I’m even more curious about you, little brother.”
As she spoke, the woman signaled with her eyes toward the familiar shadow blocking the doorway.
Whoosh!
Bang!
The vicious hound familiar flashed forward. One arm slammed hard into the back of Qin Ling’s neck. His eyes widened as he fell toward the ground.
“You... tricked... me... agai...n...”
His eyes rolled back, his tongue lolled out, and Qin Ling passed out.
Looking at the unconscious Qin Ling before her, the unease in the woman’s heart finally eased a little.
Then she looked at the familiar in front of her, baring its fangs at Liu Xiyun and drooling uncontrollably, and ordered, “Enough! Stop drooling over her. She’s my important hostage. There’s no way I’m giving her to you!”
“Go call someone to take them down. This place isn’t safe anymore. China’s national security experts will probably be here soon. We’re heading back to base first!”
...
Liu Xiyun watched all of this from start to finish. Later, after entering a passage leading to a secret base, her vision was blocked. Then she and Qin Ling were taken together into the secret base’s dungeon.
...
“Have the people in the residential complex all been evacuated?”
Standing before the gate of Luxury District A, Pang Cheng frowned slightly.
After he arrived with Song Xiaoqian, he personally tried contacting Qin Ling, but got no response.
That meant Qin Ling had most likely already met with trouble.
And Liu Xiyun, who had just come over earlier, was nowhere to be seen either. She had probably fallen into danger as well.
That made him immediately mobilize nearby police forces and lock down the entire complex.
“All civilians have been evacuated. We still haven’t found Qin Ling or Liu Xiyun,” Song Xiaoqian came over and reported.
She said, “But our people found signs of a fight on the thirteenth floor of Building B. It’s probably connected to Qin Ling and the others going missing.”
“Then let’s go take a look.”
When they arrived at the place where Qin Ling and the woman controlling the vicious hound familiar had been fishing before, Pang Cheng saw the blasted-open door and the wet puddles on the floor.
He frowned, his expression grave. “This is Super Alpha Sedative. In sufficient doses, it can restrain an Earth Rank martial artist and completely lock down the movements of a Profound Rank martial artist. It’s the paralysis virus those people always use. Looks like Qin Ling and Liu Xiyun are in real danger...”
