Chapter 466 - 375: How Could They Possibly Resist Someone as Powerful as Chu He?
I had long since established an airtight, inescapable web of informants across the entirety of Jinshan City.
In this city, shrouded as it is by the forces of darkness,
even the slightest disturbance
was like a pebble tossed onto the surface of a placid lake,
and would immediately draw the heightened attention of their informants lurking in the shadows.
A person falling from a thirty-story building, yet miraculously surviving,
not only cheating death but also possessing such a tenacious and vibrant Life Force—
an event so strange and conspicuous
is bound to attract the attention of the Vampire Clan or the Werewolf Clan like a magnet.
I notified Ye Lingyun in advance,
telling the Vampire Clan that even if they learned of this matter and its potential implications,
they were to stand down and not act rashly.
And things developed with the exact precision I had predicted.
Just as expected, the Werewolf Clan couldn’t restrain themselves. They took the bait."
"So what’s our next move?"
Xia Chengli’s interest was clearly piqued.
She understood that
since Chu He had deliberately used Qu Yuxiu as bait,
there was bound to be a series of even more exciting and thrilling events waiting for them.
"We’ll follow them and see.
That guy, Sparrow... his status in the Werewolf Clan must be quite high.
I’m curious to see just where he’s taking Qu Yuxiu, and what kind of plot is lurking in the shadows."
As soon as Chu He spoke, he and Xia Chengli vanished on the spot like wisps of smoke,
as if they had never been there.
They left behind only the vast, silent rooftop,
shivering in the night wind, a silent witness to this dark, smoke-free game of strategy.
...
The pickup truck was like a steel beast that had crawled from a dark abyss,
exuding a bone-chilling aura.
After leaving the bustling, clamorous heart of Jinshan City,
it was as if it had been possessed by a Demon, instantly becoming an untethered, rabid beast.
Sparrow slammed the gas pedal to the floor.
Instantly, the engine, like an enraged behemoth,
unleashed a deafening, sky-rending roar.
The sound spread out in waves like a surging tsunami,
startling the birds nesting in the woods into a frantic, flapping escape.
At the same time, surrounding the pickup truck,
a mysterious and strange power clung to it like a shadow,
like an invisible, ghostly hand, constantly adding to its velocity,
causing it to race down the road like an arrow loosed from a bowstring.
The dense woods on either side of the road were like two silent, high walls.
As the truck roared past, a violent wind swept through,
whipping the branches into a violent sway and sending the leaves rustling, as if groaning in pain.
In the truck’s wake, dust billowed up like a coiling yellow dragon,
leaving a long, murky, yet conspicuous trail along the road under the moonlight.
"What if this truck drives straight into the Werewolf Clan’s headquarters?"
Xia Chengli asked, standing at Chu He’s side,
blinking her lively, curious eyes.
Her eyes gleamed with excitement and eagerness. "If we really do end up at the Werewolf Clan’s headquarters,
why don’t you and I just join forces
and raze their headquarters to the ground? Just wipe them out in one go.
That way, you won’t have to worry about that good-natured disciple of yours anymore.
Besides, without the Werewolf Clan to act as a check,
wouldn’t Ye Lingyun’s Vampire Clan become the sole dominant power in Jinshan City,
the one and only superpower?"
Chu He tilted his head up slightly,
his calm gaze fixed on the distant pickup truck as it receded into the night.
He simply said, unhurriedly, "Let’s wait and see."
In truth, deep down,
Xia Chengli’s proposal wasn’t entirely without merit.
If they could indeed follow the truck straight to the Werewolf Clan’s headquarters,
wiping them out in one fell swoop would be an excellent way to solve many of their problems for good.
But the hidden risks and unpredictable variables involved
were like a thick fog, making the outcome impossible to discern.
However, reality did not unfold as smoothly as Chu He and Xia Chengli had hoped.
After the pickup truck had been tearing along the mountain road like a crazed cheetah for a good half hour,
a villa slowly came into their view.
In front of the villa, a sturdy fence enclosed a rather spacious yard.
The yard was currently abuzz with activity, like a sea of revelry.
This was clearly not the Werewolf Clan’s headquarters.
More than a dozen men were gathered here,
in the middle of a boisterous and wild barbecue bonfire party.
Countless bottles of hard liquor were scattered carelessly on the tables and ground.
The bottles, reflecting the blazing bonfire,
shone with a tempting yet dangerous light, like scattered stars in the dark night.
Among this dozen or so men,
at least two-thirds displayed the distinctive features of Werewolf Clan members.
In the combined light of the blazing bonfire and the bright, high-hanging moon,
one could clearly see
that these two-thirds of the burly men had taken on a strange, half-human, half-beast form.
Some of the men’s heads had completely transformed into massive wolf heads,
their eyes glinting with a sinister, ghostly green light in the fire’s glow.
Their sharp fangs were like cold, gleaming blades,
looking all the more chilling and terrifying under the moon’s soft caress.