Chapter 324: A Special Exchange Method

There was no explosion that shook the heavens, no flames soaring to the sky, only a faint, dancing firelight.

The entire steel refinery, and everything inside it, was reduced to ashes by the Glazed Flames, leaving behind only some cinders as the final trace.

On the rooftop of a high-rise building, Ao Yulie stood, gazing at part of Xijing's nightscape, not speaking.

Tang Luo also leaned against the railing, the two falling silent simultaneously, pondering a serious problem.

That problem being: where the hell was Quan Er.

"Little White Dragon, why don't you know?" Tang Luo turned his head and asked.

"Master, how would I know!" Ao Yulie was a bit flustered; it wasn't his place — he was just a mount; how would he know which corner of Xijing Quan Er, that young master, was loitering in?

"Don't you know about that Jinxiu Commerce or whatever?" Tang Luo said casually.

"I only took a few extra glances." Ao Yulie said; he didn't even know who the Quan family head was, so where would he know where the third generation's dissolute young master would be?

"Come on, use your Third Prince of the Jade Dragon sleazy-roguish-cheap nature, think about where that kind of dissolute young master would go to play in the middle of the night." Tang Luo said.

Ao Yulie said: "Hotel? Bar? Home? What place can't he play at? But Master, I feel that Quan Er's dissipation is a kind of disguise."

"Oh?"

"Look, since he holds the Book of Life and Death, and killed so many people who were rich and unkind." Ao Yulie said, "Maybe this guy is the Batman type."

Staying in the real world for this time, Ao Yulie had learned quite a few new "postures".

"What a hassle, why don't we just announce it to the whole city——" Tang Luo said, and the phone in his pocket just happened to vibrate.

He took it out and answered; a voice came from the other end: "I thought you guys had run away."

"Hm?" Tang Luo raised his tone slightly.

"Heh." The other side didn't respond directly; the phone's location had just moved extremely fast, cutting almost across the entire Xijing, at a speed no car could achieve.

Making one suspect whether they had tied this phone to a bird.

"Ready yet? Give the address, we'll come exchange hostages." Tang Luo spoke a barefaced lie with a straight face.

Anyway, before leaving he had conveniently burned those three Shenmo Walkers to ashes, blending them into the dirty corners of the room; the other side fundamentally didn't know whether those three were dead or alive.

Moreover, everyone was treating this as a pretext.

The other side fundamentally didn't care about the life or death of those three Shenmo Walkers.

Like two ferocious beasts confronting each other, with a piece of meat placed between them, seemingly wanting to fight for that piece of meat.

In reality, the true goal was to tear the other's throat out, only then could they obtain the biggest piece.

"You care that much about their safety? Monk Xuanzang." The other side laughed sinisterly, "They're the ones who leaked your information to us."

"Since you know this poor monk is a monk, you should also know this poor monk likes to ferry all beings to salvation." Tang Luo said.

"Heh, the famous demon monk Xuanzang among the Eastern Shenmo Walkers, hearing these words come from your mouth is truly laughable." The other side said.

"Good, good." Tang Luo said.

The meaning of this "good" was that the title "demon monk" was much better than that Berserk Arhat or whatever.

"Cut the crap, when exactly do we start fighting?" Tang Luo said somewhat impatiently.

Right at this moment, a small black shadow darted out from behind Tang Luo, landing on his shoulder.

Xiaotian Dog returned.

"Don't rush, I'll find you again within three days." The other side was about to hang up.

"Wait a minute." Tang Luo lightly pressed one hand on Xiaotian Dog's head, opening his mouth to interrupt, "How about I trade one piece of information for one hostage?"

"What information?" The voice on the other end paused slightly, asking.

"Information about the Book of Life and Death." Tang Luo said, "I've already found out who the holder of the Book of Life and Death is, the Quan family's Second Young Master Quan, Quan——that one."

"……"

The other side fell silent for five or six seconds this time before replying, "You're joking?"

The agreement was to trade information; is there an "exchange method" where you directly leak the information like this?

"No, I've already told you the information, so release the person." Tang Luo said.

"Heh." The other side hurriedly hung up.

"Master, did Doggy find those people's tracks?" Ao Yulie saw Tang Luo toss that black phone into the high sky, and asked.

"Found them." Tang Luo grinned, "And then, they'll even lead us to find the Book of Life and Death, plan through, perfect!"

Battle of wits and courage? Actually not at all.

Tang Luo's method was very simple——find the other side, beat them to death, done.

"Let's go." Tang Luo leaped up, Ao Yulie transformed into a dragon and carried him, "No need to be too anxious, we can observe the situation."

"Master, what if they don't believe it and don't go look for Quan Chenghong?" Ao Yulie asked.

"Then just ferry them directly." Tang Luo said.

Be a good guide, and you can live a while longer.

Xijing, in a spacious, bright study of a certain luxurious villa.

A golden-haired beautiful youth put down the phone in his hand, brows furrowing; a simple action that made one involuntarily feel pity, wanting to reach out and smooth away those wrinkles.

"Quan Chenghong……" The golden-haired beautiful youth murmured the name, opened the computer, continuously searching for relevant data.

A few minutes later, he started contacting the other two Fate Holders: "I should have found the owner of the Book of Life and Death, go to the safe house to meet now."

The safe house was a stronghold they had in Xijing.

On their side, three people died at Tang Luo's hands, one Shenmo Walker who had passed six missions was killed by Ao Yulie.

Four casualties.

Six people remained, among them three Fate Holders, two currently maintaining Tier 1 combat power as Shenmo Walkers, and one slightly stronger than an ordinary person, who could serve as a battle-hardened soldier, a warrior.

The three Fate Holders had already left, the remaining three people were still staying in the safe house.

Guarding the captured Yu Yanbin and Xiao Han.

This beautiful youth who issued commands was named Gary Sweet; his name was slightly feminine, and his appearance was a beauty that transcended gender, a beauty that also carried a trace of fragile cuteness.

Like a little angel, making one unable to resist wanting to hold him in their arms and cherish him.

Without a doubt, Gary was the leader of the enemy camp that Tang Luo and the others faced this time.

But Gary was a rather special one among the three Fate Holders; his direct combat strength was not considered strong, and his sole Fate was "Cupid, God of Love."

This granted Gary the "Authority of Love"; he was a born favorite, and whether men, women, old, or young, all would harbor goodwill toward Gary.

Gary could not only manipulate two complete strangers into falling completely in love with each other within a mere day or two, but could also easily make others fall in love with himself.

Relying on Cupid's special ability, after arriving in the mission world, Gary quickly led the other gods and demons to gain a foothold in this mission world, while simultaneously securing his own leadership position.

After investigating some relevant information, even data ordinary people had no way to grasp, Gary believed that Tang Xuan Zang was not deceiving him!

The Book of Life and Death had a very high probability of being in Quan Cheng Hong's hands.

This was something Gary had completely not anticipated.

Because he had met Quan Cheng Hong once, he had completely never thought that that irritable, even somewhat deranged, dissolute young master would be the holder of the Book of Life and Death.

"His disguise actually managed to deceive even me," Gary thought to himself, "This is truly what they call 'darkness under the lamp.'"

When they met, he had paid a little attention to that Quan Cheng Hong.

Because he held the Cupid Fate fragment, Gary was extremely keen in perceiving people's emotions and feelings.

In his eyes, that Quan Cheng Hong was a surface-arrogant, bone-deep-inferior, both-irritable-and-incompetent pitiful worm, a piece of trash.

But after Tang Luo's reminder, Gary re-examined the data.

He discovered that those who died of myocardial infarction, besides the rather important class attribute of "rich and unkind," also had some connections with Quan Cheng Hong.

Quite a few people were "wine-and-meat friends" with Quan Cheng Hong, the kind who seemed to eat, drink, and play together normally, but would immediately turn hostile the moment things went against their wishes.

Quan Cheng Hong had fallen out with people, and people had fallen out with Quan Cheng Hong — all were those blindly muddling along in the second-generation, third-generation circles.

Among the dead, there was also a portion who were business rivals with Quan Cheng Hong.

And the latest to die, that little fresh meat idol star, also had a certain relationship with Quan Cheng Hong.

He was currently hyping a true-or-false scandal with another female star, and that female star was rumored to be Quan Cheng Hong's girlfriend.

Online gossip posts analyzed the relationship between the three from various clues with great relish, debating whether that idol star really cuckolded Young Master Quan the Second, or was taking over the burden.

"Is he using the Book of Life and Death to take revenge? His origins were bad, he suffered hardship as a child, then 'got rich overnight,' his mentality is probably twisted." Gary thought as he walked out of the study.

He believed Quan Cheng Hong's mentality was not normal; on one hand he greatly enjoyed his current life, on the other he hated his "second-generation identity" because of his childhood days.

But Quan Cheng Hong was only mentally twisted, not an idiot; he would never voluntarily give up his wealthy, carefree life, or commit suicide.

So, those who had conflicts with him became the targets of Quan Cheng Hong's revenge and venting.

And he even draped himself in the name of justice, cooking up an X.

That X was most likely also a scapegoat used to divert attention.

You must know, as the death toll increased, a series of events had already attracted widespread attention, and an investigation team was close to being formed.

Although there was the Book of Life and Death and no evidence to speak of, Quan Cheng Hong did things rather crudely.

Prompted by Tang Luo's clue, Gary had a direction, and combined with some internal data, basically confirmed that Quan Cheng Hong held the Book of Life and Death.

Once the investigation team was formed and kept digging, if a public opinion scandal formed, Quan Cheng Hong would definitely suffer severe impact; his origins were bad to begin with, and he might just be abandoned by the Quan family.

That was why there was this X's farce-like "sudden emergence."