Perhaps it was the gentle light overhead, or the lingering darkness of the night.
Looking at Xie Chiyuan's handsome face, Yu An felt a little dizzy. He unconsciously grabbed Xie Chiyuan's arm and obediently closed his eyes.
Goodnight, Big Head.
Goodnight, An'an.
Xie Chiyuan dimmed the bedside lamp and stared at Yu An in front of him for a long time.
Yu An fell asleep as soon as he said he would, and in just a short while, his breathing became even.
Xie Chiyuan felt a warmth fill his heart just by looking at him.
It's really beautiful.
His An'an is getting more and more beautiful the more I look at her.
After satisfying his visual craving, Xie Chiyuan lay down. Just then, his phone rang again, and this time he finally caught the ringtone.
He took it and looked at it; it was a red bird.
Xie Chiyuan answered the phone casually, and the person on the other end seemed a little surprised: "Why did you answer this time? Aren't you enjoying your nightlife?"
Xie Chiyuan said calmly, "Just finished. Is there anything I can help you with?"
Red Bird paused strangely for a moment before saying, "Your stamina is good; you've managed to do this much."
Xie Chiyuan scoffed, feeling insulted: "What are you thinking? Who do you think you are, looking down on someone in such a short time? I was just playing with my own kid for a while."
He said, urging, "If you have something to say, say it quickly; otherwise, hang up."
He'll have good sleep conditions tonight and plans to get some rest.
"I've sent the magician to find you. Open the French windows." Red Bird calculated the time and reminded him, "They should be arriving soon."
Upon hearing this, Xie Chiyuan took his phone and got out of bed.
The balcony was next to the living room. Xie Chiyuan slipped on his slippers and walked to the balcony in a few steps.
He also found a cardboard box in the corner of the balcony.
The cardboard box was empty; it contained nothing.
"My balcony's French windows aren't closed, and the magician hasn't arrived yet," Xie Chiyuan said, not forgetting to give a heads-up: "Try not to look for me at night in the future, otherwise I won't talk to you."
In the middle of the night, isn't it nice to sleep next to your wife?
He works himself to the bone during the day, striving to protect humanity. He deserves some private space and time at night.
Otherwise, it would be a very long time before he could find a wife.
Red Bird was also annoyed by him.
After exchanging a few more words, Akatori hung up the phone first.
Xie Chiyuan put his phone away and looked up at the sky. There were stars and a moon in the sky, but neither was as lovely as the person in his bed.
I estimate that about ten minutes have passed.
Just as Xie Chiyuan was about to go back to sleep, the magician finally made it to the rooftop. Not only did he manage to get up there, but he also saw through Xie Chiyuan's scheme and didn't stab the glass.
"I'm a little curious. Your superpower doesn't allow you to fly, so how did you get up here? And you have good eyesight. I just cleaned this glass so clean, and you didn't even bump into it."
Xie Chiyuan sighed, clearly regretting that the magician hadn't run into him.
The magician had a dark expression on his face and didn't like Xie Chiyuan at all.
In the past, he could use his spatial ability to trap Xie Chiyuan. But last time, after he trapped Xie Chiyuan, he was thoroughly beaten up by Yu An, who brought A06, A08, and A09.
Thinking of this, he looked at Xie Chiyuan with even more displeasure.
Xie Chiyuan had no interest in making eye contact with him, so he simply pulled up a rattan chair, laid it down leisurely, and said, "Speak, what did Chi Niao want to say to me?"
"The first thing you've asked us to do is to get this over with."
The magician loathed making deals with Xie Chiyuan. If it weren't for Chi Niao's insistence, he would rather starve than eat the nutritional paste that Xie Chiyuan sold at a high price.
Xie Chiyuan still remembers that the first thing he asked Chi Niao to do was to find Xia Tianwu, who had escaped.
Is there any progress now?
Under Xie Chiyuan's probing gaze, the magician shared everything he had found in the organization with him: "Xia Tianwu has quite a few mutants. Besides mutants, he is also interested in raising zombies, but the latter does not seem to have been put into action yet."
“One of the aberrations under his command is a sister to one of the aberrations in our Red Birds.”
"After these two mutants got in touch, we learned about Xia Tianwu's whereabouts. He went to join the new leader of the East District, Zhai Man."
The magician continued, "As a gesture of goodwill in our collaboration with the East District, I heard that he has also contributed his most prized A10."
Xie Chiyuan listened patiently to him finish speaking, and finally asked succinctly, "Address?"
Summer's address.
Since we're here to seek refuge in the East District, it would be much easier if we could stay here right now.
His plan was sound, but Xia Tianwu and Zhai Man were no fools. Base No. 1 was hosting guests from various districts, and almost everyone who came had their own ulterior motives; no one was genuinely there for the funeral.
Even if Zhai Man and Xia Tianwu were both out of their minds, they wouldn't come to Base No. 1 to discuss cooperation.
Sure enough, the address the magician gave was not at Base 1.
They were in S City, a city known as the "Zombie City." S City was originally the most prosperous city, but its leaders did not pay any attention to it at the beginning of the zombie outbreak.
At the time, they simply thought that the citizens were sick and that they could recover as long as they received proper treatment.
As the situation dragged on and on, City S became a city of death.
The most outrageous thing is that the zombies in S City did not migrate outwards. It's as if they have an emotional attachment to S City. Even if they occasionally go hunting outside the city, they will return to S City after the hunt.
An army attempted to raze the area, but at a crucial moment, they heard the voices of living people inside. The army abandoned its assault and tried to rescue the survivors, but every squad that entered never returned.
S City is a city in the East District. The previous leader of the East District saw that the zombies in S City were difficult to deal with, and that these zombies would not run too far.
So he simply abandoned the city.
Nobody knows what S City has become now.
Zhai Man's ability to arrange for Xia Tianwu to come here is undeniably courageous. Moreover, it would be extremely difficult for outsiders to enter this place.
The magician gave them the exact location, and now they just need to work together to bring Xia Tianwu out.
Xie Chiyuan frowned. Should he go find Xia Tianwu or Ying Jian? This was a choice.
The magician was still telling him the time: "We'll set off tomorrow morning. While Zhai Man is currently focused on dealing with guests, let's hurry and get to S City."
Xie Chiyuan raised his eyes and looked at the magician: "With the abilities of your Crimson Birds, could it be—"
"I can't do it."
The magician was very clear-headed. He coldly interrupted Xie Chiyuan: "Xie Chiyuan, we only said we would cooperate with you to find the person, but we didn't say we would bring the person directly to you."
Xia Tianwu is a dangerous person. He also has a deadly weapon like A10. The magician does not intend to risk the lives of the Red Bird Organization members to complete the mission.
Their eyes met, and Xie Chiyuan stood up from the rattan chair: "Wait for me for a few minutes."
After leaving the rooftop, Xie Chiyuan dialed his father's number late at night.
The elderly father, woken up by the phone call, sat on the bed with a look on his face that said, "If you weren't my son, I would have killed you."
"dad."
Xie Chiyuan called out "Dad," trying to ease the tension between father and son. He soothed his father and explained the current situation to him.
Upon hearing this, Yin Qin pondered for a moment and gave his advice: "You don't need to go find Ying Jian anymore, just go directly to S City."
Ying Jian is a human being, but none of the people in City S are human.
Yin Tan could send others to find Ying Jian, but sending people to S City would be like throwing meat buns to a dog; very few of them would return.
Xie Chiyuan's thoughts coincided with his father's.
After they finished discussing it, Xie Chiyuan stopped disturbing his father's sleep. His father's sleep quality had been poor ever since he left Uncle Ruan.
In his youth, Uncle Ruan was a renowned academic genius, and his father had always secretly admired him.
Later, when he found an opportunity, his father tricked Uncle Ruan, saying that he suffered from insomnia every night and that he could only rest properly when Uncle Ruan was around.
Uncle Ruan believed it to be true and, feeling kind-hearted, let his father stay by his side.
After a while, the father managed to get his hands on her.
In the past, when Uncle Ruan was away, the old father often told Xie Chiyuan how he had schemed against his wife back then. But the shrewd son had long since discovered the truth of what happened—
Uncle Ruan had taken a liking to his father, but pretended not to know anything, though he had been controlling the situation all along.
Thinking of the past, Xie Chiyuan felt even more pity for his elderly father.
He returned to the rooftop, arranged a departure time with the magician, and then sent the magician away, saying, "Hurry up and go, I need to close the window."
The rooftop windows can only be opened from the inside out, not from the outside.
The magician finished telling him what was going on and didn't want to stay a second longer.
"Splat—"
The magician disappeared swiftly and cleanly, while Xie Chiyuan casually closed the window tightly.
When he arrived at the bedroom, Yu An was fast asleep, completely unaware of what had just happened.
Xie Chiyuan lay back down, gently touched Yu An's face, and then closed his eyes.
Two more hours passed.
It was still dark outside, but it was almost time for the moon and stars to go off duty.
A few playful kittens, having run off, performed a cool, low spin in the night, just before landing—
"Bang."
Their faces slammed straight into the glass.
The little butterfly, seeing stars from the impact, slowly slid off the glass like a tiny sheet. The miniature mushroom and the little octopus sitting on his back had already crashed.
Chapter 66