Chapter 77

Bao Jing's brain had already somewhat petrified, his whole body seemed like a soulless puppet, he stiffly turned his neck and stared rigidly at Ji Jiangci, suppressing the emotion about to burst in his eyes: "You also said it was temporary."

Before Ji Jiangci could react, Bao Jing suddenly went mad, lunging onto the front desk cabinet, grabbing the staff member's collar, like a trapped beast in desperation making a final struggle: "It's definitely your hotel that did it! Give Ye Xi'an back to me!"

Bao Jing's eyes were bloodshot, from the forceful pulling, veins bulged on his slender neck, he gritted his teeth, his visage shifting between human and hawk, almost unable to control his own strength.

The staff member being grabbed was just a part-timer from the Free Zone, never having seen such a scene, he hurriedly took out a walkie-talkie from the drawer and called the hotel manager.

"Something happened! A female went missing in the hotel, come to the lobby quickly! Better call the boss!" After all, if a female is truly missing, the hotel is finished.

Ji Jiangci furrowed his brows, seeing Bao Jing's ability about to explode, knowing that erupting an ability inside San Huan means jail, Ji Jiangci rushed over to pull him: "Bao Jing, calm down. You won't find Ye Xi'an like this."

Ji Jiangci kept pulling, then suddenly realized that as a level-three he couldn't even drag the enraged Bao Jing, he felt dumbfounded—could Bao Jing also be level-three? When did that happen?

"If you keep going crazy like this, Ye Xi'an will really die!"

Hearing that Ye Xi'an would die, Bao Jing's eyes blinked dazedly twice; yes, he needed to stay calm, his An'an was still waiting for him.

Bao Jing shoved off the staff member's collar, his hands slightly trembling as he reopened the surveillance, staring unblinkingly at every second on the screen, still coming up empty.

"How could there be nothing?" Bao Jing muttered to himself: "Could there be a secret passage in the bathroom?"

Saying that, Bao Jing was about to rush back, but Ji Jiangci grabbed him: "I already checked, there's no secret passage."

The two were completely at a loss, with not a single clue.

"What are you doing here?" Lin Zhi Jing frowned at the two still in bathrobes, with Yi Yang trailing behind him, bags hanging all over his body: "You left Ye Xi'an alone in the room?"

"No." Ji Jiangci struggled to say: "My wife went missing."

Lin Zhi Jing's aura shifted instantly, the lenses on his glasses shattered with a pop, pieces falling from the frames; he took off the glasses, now just frames, feigning calm as he spoke to the staff, but his trembling fingers had already revealed his panic.

"Can I take a look at your hotel's surveillance?"

The staff member cautiously regarded Lin Zhi Jing, sensing that this person was far more formidable than the two before: "Your family's people—those two have already looked, there's nothing to see."

But Lin Zhi Jing ignored the staff member's words, remaining silent, staring at him like a venomous snake.

The staff member spat, feeling unlucky, pulled up the surveillance again, just then someone arrived at the hotel.

A flying vehicle roared loudly at the hotel entrance, blue flames igniting the night; a female in a tight, irregular red dress stepped down, her face displeased as she hurried in high heels toward the hotel doors, followed by five males in erotic outfits, clearly having been in the middle of play when suddenly summoned.

"What female went missing?"

Tu Mei's fluttering eyebrows rose as she quickly assessed the scene.

Seeing Tu Mei arrive, the staff member immediately fawned, scrambling to her side and pointing at Bao Jing et al.: "Boss! They said a female from their family went missing, and blamed our hotel."

Tu Mei looked at Bao Jing, narrowed her eyes, and called out tentatively: "Bao Jing?"

She realized, Bao Jing's female missing—that's just Ye Xi'an gone missing, right?

Bao Jing's pupils contracted, recognizing Tu Mei, he stepped forward immediately: "Can you help me contact An'an?" He remembered Tu Mei and Ye Xi'an had added each other as friends.

"Ha, so it really is Ye Xi'an who went missing." Tu Mei had thought some female was missing from the hotel and was ready to pay a big price to retrieve them, but never expected it to be Ye Xi'an, so she had nothing to fear.

She had looked up Ye Xi'an's info—none of her four husbands were any good in a fight.

She crossed her arms arrogantly, lion-like mouth opening: "Fifty million."

"Courting death!" Lin Zhi Jing seized Tu Mei's throat; her males behind tried to intervene but were halted by the pressure of his emanating ability, feeling as if a mountain weighed on them, unable to stand, his eyes red, voice cold enough to condense ice blades: "Either contact her or die!"

"You dare use an ability inside San Huan," Tu Mei gritted her teeth in pain, eyes full of anger, but seeing her males subdued, she could only resentfully contact Ye Xi'an.

Really, she just wanted to tease Bao Jing, never expecting to provoke this male; who would have thought Ye Xi'an's family still had such a powerful beastman?

"I'll contact her, let go!"

After Lin Zhi Jing released her, Tu Mei opened the long-uncontacted profile of Ye Xi'an.

After Ye Xi'an teleported back to the room, finding no one inside, she immediately realized Bao Jing and the others might think she'd disappeared and had gone out looking for her.

Just as she was about to go look for Bao Jing, the half-body communicator on her wrist, which had never lit up on its own, emitted a beeping sound.

She opened the communicator, and a mini-screen appeared on her wrist, showing an unread message from Tu Mei.

"Where are you?" Ye Xi'an wondered, since returning Tu Mei hadn't contacted her; she had almost forgotten this person existed, so why the sudden contact?

Could she be asking for a loan?

"Forget it, I'll just reply."

Voice input: "I'm at home."

The other side almost instantly replied: "Which home?"

Ye Xi'an muttered to herself, bewildered, a normal person hearing the other say they're home wouldn't keep asking, right?

Then she saw the other side send a voice message.

Ye Xi'an opened it, and sure enough, Bao Jing's voice came through.

"An'an! I'm Bao Jing, where are you?"

Ye Xi'an realized, guessing that Bao Jing had run into Tu Mei while looking for her, which is why Tu Mei contacted her.

She blushed slightly, having judged a noble heart with a petty mind.

"I'm in the hotel, I've come back."

Hearing that Ye Xi'an had returned to the hotel, everyone in the lobby breathed a sigh of relief.

Yi Yang almost cried, thinking he'd lost his wife.

Bao Jing, Ji Jiangci, and Yi Yang, bags hanging all over his body, all ran toward the room, leaving only Lin Zhi Jing in the lobby facing Tu Mei's family.

(End of chapter)