Chapter 85: Secrets

"I am looking for Miss Luosha."

After waiting for a while, Lu Chen sat back down behind the desk.

He lit a 555 for himself.

After quite some time, Luosha's voice finally came through.

"What is it?"

"Do you know if other factions were involved on the night of the attack?"

A hint of solemnity was on Lu Chen's face, his gaze fixed straight ahead outside the door.

His tone lowered significantly without him realizing it.

"I know."

Luosha's tone remained unchanged; she spoke again only after a few seconds.

"Do not concern yourself with this matter; it has nothing to do with you."

Her cold voice seemed to carry a hint of something that would not brook refusal.

"You knew all along, why didn't you say anything to me?"

A flash of sharp light crossed Lu Chen's eyes as he asked directly.

After finishing, he stopped speaking, waiting quietly for the voice on the other end of the phone, silently taking a puff of his cigarette.

A "click" sound came from the other end of the phone, followed by a pleasant inhalation sound; after a while, Luosha spoke again.

"This matter involves too much; even if your incident hadn't happened, it would have inevitably occurred."

Luosha took another puff of her cigarette, and after an exhale, she continued.

"I have already removed you from the situation; if you jump back in, even I cannot protect you."

"What if I must know?"

After Lu Chen silently finished his cigarette, his voice was somewhat hoarse.

"Are these two matters related?"

"It is not safe on the phone; come over tomorrow."

After a long silence, Luosha spoke, and after finishing, she hung up the phone directly.

Lu Chen was stunned for a moment, his brain feeling like it had instantly turned into a mush.

He reached out and pulled a 555 from the cigarette pack, lighting it only after several attempts.

After one cigarette, Lu Chen finally recovered.

After returning to his personal space, he took out the wooden box containing Luosha's letter, unconsciously fiddling with the Small Box.

His eyes held a hint of emptiness; after a long time, he put down the Small Box and sighed.

He went to bed.

Early morning.

Lu Chen did not eat breakfast, but instead called Chen Mo directly and arrived at Luochas Manor.

"The young lady is in the dining room; you haven't eaten yet, have you?"

Old Hou gestured slightly to guide Lu Chen to walk toward the other side.

Lu Chen nodded slightly and then spoke softly.

"Sorry to trouble you, Old Hou. I wonder if the turmoil in Nitan has subsided?"

"Your people can continue to work; the chaos caused by the power vacuum in Nitan has ended."

Old Hou bowed slightly, his calm tone carrying a hint of coldness.

He took a deep look at Lu Chen and spoke softly.

"Sorry to trouble you."

Lu Chen stopped speaking and just followed Old Hou silently.

In the dining room, Luosha was lazily eating breakfast, a trace of milk still remaining at the corner of her mouth.

"Mr. Lu, what would you like to eat?"

Luosha waved at Lu Chen, her lazy tone seeming to hold a hint of grogginess.

"Milk and bread will do."

Lu Chen nodded slightly, sat down opposite Luosha, and spoke softly.

"So what is the situation now? The things I hear from every old man are different."

"Then what do you want to know?"

Luosha put down the baguette she was gnawing on with both hands and took a sip of milk.

She looked up at Lu Chen.

"Who attacked Lord Wodehua, and why did my operation collide with theirs?"

Lu Chen silently took a bite of bread, and after a few seconds, he looked up to ask.

"The Saiyang Organization. As for colliding with you, your operation completely catalyzed theirs; that person died the moment they were caught."

Luosha shrugged, drank some milk, and then spoke.

"As for the Saiyang Organization, you don't need to worry about who they are; you only need to know that provoking them means a fight to the death."

After a while, Luosha continued.

"The Saiyang Organization is an out-and-out terrorist organization; they will always hide in the shadows, and as long as there is the slightest opportunity, they will strike. Your people acted as the seeds that created the chaos this time."

"Of course, I can also give you a piece of information, which is the intelligence on how Lord Wodehua provoked the Saiyang Organization."

Luosha wiped her mouth, leaned back in her chair, pulled a lady's cigarette from the pack, lit it, and took a deep drag.

"There is only this one chance; I will not tell you again in the future."

Luosha looked at Lu Chen, who continued to eat and drink, the corners of her mouth curling up slightly.

After Lu Chen drank another glass of milk, he let out a satisfied burp and wiped his mouth.

He pulled out a 555 cigarette, lit it, took a deep drag, and only then looked at Luosha.

"Then please go ahead, Miss Luosha."

"Follow me."

Luosha rolled her eyes at Lu Chen and stood up; her loose clothing revealed her fragrant shoulders, and after adjusting her short sleeves, she walked toward the reception hall in her slippers.

The study.

Luosha sat behind the desk and gestured for Lu Chen to sit opposite her.

She bent down and opened the safe on the side of the desk.

She took out a document bag bearing a Wax Seal.

"Wodehua's file."

She placed it on the table and pushed it toward Lu Chen.

"Inside is Wodehua's life story, as well as the entire process of how he provoked the Saiyang Organization; this kind of assassination has not happened for the first time, you were just unlucky."

Luosha gave Lu Chen a deep look and lit another cigarette.

"However, your subordinates will likely also be recorded by Saiyang, and who knows when they might be used by them again."

Lu Chen glanced at Luosha, then looked down at the document bag, his pupils constricting.

The Wax Seal on the document bag was an extremely peculiar emblem.

It was in the style of a strange whale, but with a single horn.

Lu Chen could not identify exactly what kind of animal it was.

After looking up at Luosha, he lowered his head and opened the document bag.

He pulled out about 4-5 pages of paper, densely packed with small text recording Wodehua's life, and at the point where he had provoked the Saiyang Organization, a mark had been made with red ink.

Lu Chen's hand gradually tightened on the paper, and only after a long while did he put the documents back into the bag.

"So they are doing all this to pursue a vague, ethereal stone?"

"To be precise, it's a fragment from a stone tablet; you also saw that Wodehua just threw it into the sea."

Luosha shrugged her shoulders and spread her hands with a look of helplessness.

"That's why they are a terrorist organization, lunatics, or perhaps martyrs—who knows? I don't get it."

"So, what are you?"

After a long while, Lu Chen finally looked up at Luosha.

A trace of inquiry and confusion flashed in his eyes.

"I'm just a weak woman who was pushed into this position."

Luosha smiled, not caring in the slightest about her neckline that had slipped down.

"Of course, if you insist on asking, a weak woman like me wouldn't be able to resist, would she?"

Luosha's tone quietly took on a hint of seduction, as if she were encouraging Lu Chen to do something to her.

"Miss Luosha, you can put that act away."

Lu Chen lowered his head to smoke a cigarette before fixing his gaze on Luosha's face, his eyes calm.

"You can choose to tell me, or not."