Chapter 548

129,600,000 people scolding you... How is that possible?

When looking at the red-haired Director's stubborn little expression, Li Ang actually believed her at first. Although the Director liked to lie when she was sober, she was so drunk now, surely she couldn't still subconsciously tease him, right?

However, Li Ang's trust lasted less than a second before he snuffed it out himself.

Although the Cleanup Bureau building covered a large area, compared to nearly 130 million humans, it still seemed too small. Let alone just the fifth or sixth floors of this building, even if the entire Police Department's area was included, it would be impossible to fit that many people.

How could it be anything but drunken talk?

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid."

Grabbing the red-haired Director's arm and draping it over his neck, incidentally bending his knees to nudge her bottom, and adjusting to a posture that was more effortless to carry her, Li Ang walked upstairs while coaxing her along with her words:

"I'm very good at scolding people. If those people scold you, I'll help you scold them back."

"Liar, you're so honest, how could you possibly know how to scold people?"

"I'm not lying to you."

"If you're not lying to me, why don't you look into my eyes? Are you afraid I'll see that you're lying?"

"..."

"Look at me quickly, I don't believe what you say with your mouth, you like to lie, I only believe what your eyes say."

"..."

So in your eyes, am I honest or not honest?

Seeing that the red-haired Director in his arms was struggling again because she hadn't received his reply, Li Ang had no choice but to open the badge interface, switch out the Silver-rank "Elite Performer" badge, and then look down at her and say earnestly:

"I'm not lying to you, I really am very good at scolding people. If those hundred million-plus people upstairs scold you, I'll help you scold them back."

"Then... then you must keep your word... If they scold me, you must help me scold them back!"

After staring into Li Ang's eyes for a long time, the red-haired Director, with her drunken, hazy eyes, finally calmed down, gripped his lapels, and whispered instructions:

"But don't scold them too harshly, I was the one who activated the object, so it's only right that they scold me... I'm just... just... I've been scolded for too long, and I'm a little afraid to go up alone..."

"..."

Looking at the red-haired Director curled up and on the verge of tears, Li Ang was slightly stunned. He vaguely felt that her words seemed to reveal some information, as if she wasn't just talking nonsense while drunk. There might really be something upstairs...

There wouldn't be any danger, would there?

After holding the red-haired Director and standing on the second floor of the stairwell for a while, Li Ang asked hesitantly:

"Director, those people who scold you... do they ever come down?"

"They don't."

The red-haired Director shook her head, leaning in Li Ang's arms, her eyes hazy as she said:

"They... all guard the fifth or sixth floor, responsible for guarding the top ten... twelve ant nests. Unless someone enters the fifth floor, they won't come down."

Twelve ant nests?

After noting down this ambiguous name, and hearing that those 130 million "people" wouldn't come down, Li Ang finally let go of his suspended heart. He held the red-haired Director and cautiously walked out of the stairwell, moving at a speed that was almost "shuffling" step by step, and entered the reception room where the Taurus board member had come last time.

After placing the red-haired Director on the sofa in the reception room, Li Ang rummaged through the messy room. Under a pile of empty wine bottles in the corner, he found a thick-looking cashmere blanket and covered her with it. Then he picked up a sofa cushion from the carpet, patted off the dust, and lifted the red-haired Director's head to place it underneath.

Phew... finally managed to take care of her.

Looking at the Director who was lying obediently on the sofa cushion without moving, only her eyes following him, Li Ang could not help but let out a long breath.

An ordinary drunkard was troublesome enough, but a drunkard who was suspected of having astonishing combat power and was full of secrets was twice as troublesome. But fortunately, everything went smoothly, and he finally managed to coax her up and settle her down, which could be considered slightly repaying the favor.

"It's very late, you should rest early, I'm going down to sleep too."

After greeting the red-haired Director, whose eyes were becoming increasingly hazy, Li Ang squatted down to help her tuck in the blanket, then turned to leave. However, just as he reached the door, he felt his vision blur, his whole body instantly lifted into the air, and he was actually pulled back to his original spot by an inexplicable great force.

"I knew you were lying to me~"

Reaching out to undo the buttons at Li Ang's collar, and using her little finger to hook out the hair tied around his neck, the woman with cheeks stained wine-red smiled triumphantly. She gently tugged on the hair tied around Li Ang's neck, pulling his face closer, and cunningly blinked her drunken, hazy fox eyes at him.

"You promised to help me scold them, but now that you've coaxed me into bed, you want to run away? You wish!"

"..."

Troublesome... If I had known, I would have fed her two bottles first, and only sent her up after she was completely passed out...

Looking down at the red hair hooked around his neck, knowing he probably couldn't break free, Li Ang had no choice but to continue coaxing helplessly:

"I wasn't trying to lie to you, it's just that it's too late now, and you're so drunk, I can't just sleep next to you, right?"

"Why not?"

Shrinking into the wide sofa and making enough room for one person to lie on their side, the red-haired Director pulled Li Ang directly onto the sofa and said with a smile:

"It's just sleeping next to me, nothing will really happen, what are you afraid of?"

"..."

"Come, lie down!"

Ignoring Li Ang's resistance, she pulled him down and forced him onto the sofa. The red-haired Director wrapped her arms tightly around his waist, buried her head directly into Li Ang's chest, and said with a muffled voice:

"Sleep, sleep, I'm so sleepy..."

"Er... sleeping here is fine, there's another sofa over there, I can move that sofa over..."

"No need, this sofa is wide enough."

"It's wide enough, but I like to toss and turn when I sleep, what if I fall off..."

"I'll hold you."

"..."

This is killing me...

Feeling the thigh that had suddenly draped over him, and the posture where it was unclear whose arms were around whom, Li Ang's scalp could not help but go numb.

He wasn't resisting this kind of thing, it was just... the combat power of the person in his arms was truly a bit too fierce.

As a normal man, when he was just pulled down, Li Ang naturally could not help but have some romantic thoughts, but when the red-haired Director started to wrap her arms around his waist, he clearly heard the "crack" of his lumbar vertebrae slightly dislocating.

So "killing me" here didn't mean killing him in another sense, but that it might really cost him his life.

The little thoughts that had just emerged had already flown to the nine heavens under this solid "bear hug of death." Now, Li Ang had no other thoughts; he just wanted to escape from the red-haired Director's bear hug as quickly as possible, lest he really be strangled to death by her in her drunken state.

"Director, Director! Damn it, loosen up a bit!"

After pushing twice without success, and instead hearing his bones creaking, Li Ang gritted his teeth and was just about to use some force when he felt a dampness on his lapel, and the red-haired Director in his arms began to tremble uncontrollably.

(End of chapter)