Chapter 985 - 737: "Venting" (Part 3)
Xiao Jin saw that the female had no intention of continuing anymore, sighed inwardly, and his leopard tail drooped down in disappointment, sweeping the ground, knowing he wouldn’t get to eat meat this time.
However, he forcefully licked a couple of spoonfuls of broth, at least satisfying his craving somewhat.
Let’s find another opportunity next time; it must be somewhere good, without interruptions!
He swallowed his throat, pretending to calm down, and glanced back at the door, asking, "Tangtang, what’s with this Xiao Xue? Could he really be your son?"
Although he had followed her all the way, when he found her, Xiao Xue was already present, so he didn’t know the origins of Xiao Xue.
Shen Tang was speechless, "What are you thinking? Could I have such a big son?"
"Then he is..."
"He’s Yin Zhou, something happened to him, and when we were with the Ghost Snake Clan we encountered members of the Parasite Clan..." Shen Tang briefly recounted the earlier events.
Xiao Jin’s face was shocked, realizing that’s how it was.
He rubbed his chin, after a moment of silence, said, "Can this snake stay like this forever?"
"Of course not, once Yin Zhou’s powers are restored, he should transform back."
Xiao Jin felt somewhat regretful, "This little one is quite cute, but when grown, it hurts a bit."
"What hurts?"
"My butt hurts."
"Huh?"
"Tsk, his tail is too strong, it lashes painfully."
"..." Shen Tang was speechless, couldn’t that stupid leopard just leave him alone?
Shen Tang then asked Xiao Jin, "By the way, I haven’t asked you yet, did you leave to find Lu Xiao this time?"
Xiao Jin nodded, because at the time, he didn’t want to expose his identity too quickly, so he didn’t mention it to Shen Tang. Initially, he thought he would bring him back soon, but unexpectedly, so many things went awry later.
It was his negligence.
"Then what about Lu Xiao? Did you see him?" Shen Tang asked worriedly, "How is he now?"
"He..." Xiao Jin didn’t know how to reply, "I did see him, his situation is alright, but he insists on staying in Sky City and doesn’t intend to come back with me."
"Why? Is it because of ’Return Nest’?"
"Yes and no..." Xiao Jin looked at her, pursed his lips and said, "In short, the reasons are quite complicated, staying there must have his own considerations."
He sighed, "Sometimes, I think he’s quite like you, actually both of you are stubborn mules, impossible to convince back!"
...
The already uneasy Sky City suddenly stirred up a big storm.
Last night, there was a major attack incident, not only assaulting the city’s guard army but also the envoys sent by the Divine Hall, and the temporary base built by the Divine Hall was destroyed as well.
This counts as the largest incident over the decades!
What enraged the Big Boss most was that his daughter, Wu Wei, went missing during last night’s attack!
The City Lord personally led his men to search every nook and cranny of the city, even issuing bountiful missing person notices in all areas under his jurisdiction, yet not a trace was found to this day.
Wu Wei seemed to have vanished into thin air, without a trace, her fate unknown.
Those below whispered among themselves, saying that this Missy might have been captured by enemies! Perhaps she had long since been annihilated!
Upon hearing these rumors, the Big Boss Mo Yan killed those people straight away.
And after these two days of investigation, along with the intelligence from the Hand of Creation—
It turns out that the beastman who attacked the base is a Black Panther Beastman, and that Black Panther Beastman is the recently new Clan Leader of the Hunting Leopard Clan!
Mo Yan finally discovered traces after reviewing surveillance throughout the investigation, he caught a glimpse of a shadow darting through the royal palace, after meticulously checking dozens of times detected that the shadow appeared to be a Leopard Clan Beastman.
Precisely the beastman who attacked the base that night.
The superpower matches up, considering the Hunting Leopard Clan, possessing top-notch instant teleportation ability!
Moreover, after this leopard went to the royal palace, apparently visited Lu Xiao’s place once.
Mo Yan immediately called in a person, one he arranged as a spy beside Lu Xiao.
Although those spies among Lu Xiao’s close associates were dealt with, this agent merely undertook daily palace cleaning, hence was not dealt with.
According to this beastman, at that time, Lu Xiao indeed went away to his room alone.
Lu Xiao had links with that Black Panther!
According to the video replay sent by the Divine Hall, that Black Panther’s attack was to rescue a female.
And that female felt familiar to Mo Yan.
Though Mo Yan had never seen Shen Tang’s appearance, she gave him a sense of familiarity, Mo Yan suddenly recalled the female rescued by Lu Xiao at the birthday banquet.
The appearance of that female was not the same as this one, far from being as stunning as this one, but Mo Yan had been the Big Boss in Sky City for decades, his perception was exceptionally sharp.
Appearance and body can be altered temporarily or even permanently through external means, but human intuition is hard to change.
Furthermore, he knew some black markets sold specially-made human skin masks, and even certain drugs and clothes that could alter aura and physique.
When Mo Yan saw Lu Xiao saving such an ordinary-looking female, he was puzzled, with Lu Xiao’s looks and talent, how could he fancy such a plain foreign female, but if that female originally hid her appearance, and this was her true appearance, everything made sense.
And combined with Lu Xiao’s past interactions with this leopard beast, it further cemented his hypothesis.
Mo Yan’s face instantly became extremely grim, he punched the wall fiercely and then swung his sleeves, and angrily turned away.
"Come, assemble a team, directly surround the residence of the Third Boss!"