Chapter 321: Where Are You

Dou Yiqing looked at Tang Luo, her expression suspicious; even for a Fate Holder, this efficiency was too high.

Could it be that he was pretending to exert effort, but actually hadn't gone to investigate at all and was just slacking off?

Wait for the situation of the other two groups; if news comes from their side, the situation here can actually be confirmed as well.

Dou Yiqing's eyes lit up. Impressive! Why didn't she think of that from the start?

Whether a Fate Holder's strength is strong or not is debatable, but this ability to be slippery and cunning certainly isn't something an ordinary God-Demon Walker like her possesses.

"Then let's sit for a while and head to the location later?" Dou Yiqing thought for a moment and said.

It's impossible to go to the rendezvous point this quickly; it's better to kill some time first before going.

"I didn't find the person, but I know where his home is," Tang Luo said. "Let's go take a look there."

"You really found that person's residence?" Dou Yiqing asked, stunned. Not slippery and cunning, but actually found a solid, crucial lead?

"Yeah, as long as that Bureau Chief didn't lie to me," Tang Luo said.

Dou Yiqing couldn't help but ask, "Bureau Chief? Why would he tell you these things..."

A series of bloody tortures flashed through her mind, and she glanced at Tang Luo's clothes again; they were very clean.

"Of course I used Buddhist Dharma to convert him; I am Tang Sanzang, after all," Tang Luo said. "Tang Sanzang converting the world with Buddhist Dharma — isn't that a matter of course?"

"..." Dou Yiqing didn't know what expression to make for a moment; she just felt something was off.

"Let's go; with good luck we might even find the Book of Life and Death," Tang Luo said.

Dou Yiqing followed Tang Luo into the car and couldn't help but ask in a low voice, "There should be people guarding that place, right?"

"Most likely," Tang Luo said.

Dou Yiqing stopped talking; she figured it out — the Tang Xuanzang before her was an extremely arrogant and self-centered person.

All along the way he didn't express any opinions, just answering with "Oh," "Okay," "No problem."

Not like her and Pi Xiong, where everyone lacks opinions.

But rather he fundamentally didn't put the whole mission to heart, treating it with casual indifference.

If he thought of it he'd do it, not considering consequences or danger level, just charging straight in.

"Is this the so-called 'Buddha-style'?" Dou Yiqing felt the God-Demon Game really had all kinds of people.

Fortunately this person really has some genuine ability; he should be able to play a significant role.

X's residence was in an old district in Xijing built decades ago; the official arrest's confidentiality measures were done well.

Not many people knew this was X's capture location.

Only a few old men and women were chatting idly; this afternoon they saw several cars drive over, all black and large, blocking all the roads inside the district.

"No one guarding...?" Arriving near the building where X's residence was, Dou Yiqing observed.

She didn't discover any hidden surveillance personnel; were they hidden too well? Or had this place already been "scoured" clean, with no valuable clues left, so no one was left behind?

Arriving at the door, there were two doors before her; the outer one was that kind of hollowed-out railing iron gate, green, with quite a bit of paint peeling off.

The inner one was a deep red wooden door.

The outer door opened outward; the inner door opened inward.

The two doors looked closed, but in fact both locks were already broken; one pull, one push, and with a "creak" they were opened.

Tang Luo reached out, felt the switch by the door, and turned it on.

"Ah." Dou Yiqing, following behind Tang Luo, jumped in fright; how did the light just turn on?

This is a criminal suspect's home, less than a day since his capture!

A surprised, slightly pained cry also rang out from inside the house, accompanied by gunshots that had been lowered by silencers.

"..." Dou Yiqing's reaction was very fast; she immediately dodged to the side, hiding outside the door, and only poked her head out slightly after the gunshots stopped.

She saw three fully armed men lying fallen inside the house, dressed like special forces, with scattered firearms beside them.

On their heads, besides helmets, they also wore things similar to night-vision goggles.

"So turning on the light was for this?" Dou Yiqing's eyes widened.

These people were lying in wait with night-vision goggles, so he turned on the light to blind their dog eyes? Then seized the moment when these three lost their vision and sprayed wildly like headless flies to counterattack, crushing the enemy in one fell swoop.

Dou Yiqing glanced at the wooden floor and the bullet holes on the walls.

Even having lost vision, the guns fired for self-preservation still formed a hail of bullets.

Yet Tang Xuanzang was unscathed; is this the strength of a Fate Holder? Terrifying!

Dou Yiqing entered the room, "closed" both doors, her nostrils flaring twice, and walked toward the small room next door with its door tightly shut; that looked like the bathroom.

She opened the door and looked; Dou Yiqing's complexion changed slightly. In the bathroom's bathtub, three corpses were stacked.

They wore plain clothes, but still had bulletproof vests on; she also saw the topmost one had an ID hanging around his neck — a police officer!

"They aren't official personnel." After checking, completely confirming these corpses' identities, Dou Yiqing hurried out and said to Tang Luo.

These three fully armed people are not official personnel!

"I know; they are God-Demon Walkers," Tang Luo said. "Enemy faction."

He was grabbing one of their heads, holding him suspended in mid-air.

"This is a trap?!" Dou Yiqing's face changed drastically.

"Doesn't count," Tang Luo said, casually shaking his hand.

A sound of bones shattering emitted from that person's body, and he died instantly.

"Doesn't count?" Dou Yiqing was puzzled.

"These people are just small fry," Tang Luo said. "The enemy faction has ten God-Demon Walkers total, among whom three are Fate Holders; all actions are led by those three. The other seven, including these three, are just subordinates following orders. They haven't even survived six missions; they're only slightly stronger than ordinary people."

"They don't know much."

While speaking, he picked up a gun from the ground and tossed it to Dou Yiqing.

Dou Yiqing, only slightly stronger than an ordinary person, received the gun Tang Luo tossed over with a bewildered expression.

"This 'farce' wasn't staged by them, but they have indeed hooked up with local forces, same as us, taking action — this is just one instance." Tang Luo said.

"Then will the others run into these people too?" Dou Yiqing said. "Didn't you run into any at the police bureau?"

If enemy Shenmo Walkers are moving about here, then places like the police bureau would naturally have them too.

"No, I went straight to see the Bureau Chief, didn't meet anyone else." Tang Luo said. "Pity they don't know the whereabouts of the Book of Life and Death either."

Only then did Dou Yiqing discover that all three were already corpses.

Where's the promised Tang Seng? No wonder the fake name he gave himself was Tang Sanzang.

But these three Shenmo Walkers are far too lacking in resolve — no wonder they're used as subordinates, even as cannon fodder.

Still, our own camp is relatively more democratic — of course, that also has to do with everyone's strength being about the same (on the surface, not much difference), and the small headcount.

Only Dou Yiqing is a bit weaker in strength; can't very well just order her around alone.

"I'll go look and see if there's a Book of Life and Death." Dou Yiqing said somewhat unwillingly.

"Mm." Tang Luo didn't mind either.

This house of not even a hundred square meters had already been turned over thoroughly twice — once after the official arrest of X, when they took away a pile of things that might become clues.

The second time was these three Shenmo Walkers, who turned it upside down even more thoroughly.

Basically no possibility exists of finding the Book of Life and Death.

Tang Luo crouched down, fished out a black special cellphone from one of them, unlocked it with a fingerprint, and dialed a number.

After a while, the other end picked up and a voice came through: "Number 5, what's the situation?"

"Number 5 is already dead." Tang Luo replied.

Aside from the three Fate Holders, among the remaining seven people, three are Shenmo Walkers who have survived six missions, possessing combat power beyond ordinary people.

The other four have not survived six missions.

All seven of them refer to each other by codenames 1 through 7, simple and crude.

"... You are, the other side's people?" The other end fell silent for two seconds, then said.

"Yes." Tang Luo admitted it openly, then directly provoked, "Where are you? I'll come over and kill you all."

"—Hahaha!" The other end fell silent again, then burst into an exaggerated fit of wild laughter. "Kill us all? Don't you want your companions' lives anymore?"

"Hm?" Tang Luo raised an eyebrow slightly.

A burst of noisy voices came from the other end, followed by a weak, feeble voice: "Sorry, we slipped up and got caught."

Although somewhat distorted, Tang Luo still recognized it — this voice belonged to Yu Yanbin.

By that reckoning, both he and Xiao Han have already fallen into the other side's hands.

"Interested in coming out to exchange hostages? Since you're so confident." The person on the other end said.

"Sure." Tang Luo agreed in one breath.

"Really confident." The person on the other end said. "Then keep this phone; I'll contact you anytime."

With that, they hung up directly, and a busy tone came from the other end.

"This is the situation I like." Tang Luo smiled.

He's not afraid they won't show up; he's afraid they'll stay cowardly, cowardly until the end of the world.

To Tang Luo, all missions are best when everyone just meets face to face and fights, without so many detours.

So-called: a moment of fighting, a moment of thrill; keep fighting, keep thrilling.

Like the last mission, Tang Luo liked it quite a bit — Bei Yuan Great Wu, kill! Evil heretics, kill! Great You Yao Mo, kill! Dao-less Monarch, kill!

Directly killed open a vast, clear world.

But this mission, Tang Luo doesn't like it much — finding people, finding things, really isn't his forte.

Now it's good; the other side jumped out directly, and Tang Luo is very happy.

Here the call ended, and there Dou Yiqing walked out, shaking her head: "No, I didn't find any trace of the Book of Life and Death."

Tang Luo shook the phone in his hand and said: "Put the Book of Life and Death aside for now; I've made contact with the enemy camp."

"Hm?" Dou Yiqing froze, what did that mean.

"Yu Yanbin and Xiao Han have been captured." Tang Luo said. "We've agreed to exchange hostages; we'll be able to meet soon."

"..." Dou Yiqing pointed at the three corpses and said, "But where do we get hostages?"

"Doesn't matter; when the time comes we'll just kill them all, then no hostages needed." Tang Luo said.