Chapter 631: Chapter 364: Liuli’s Vision, Zeus Takes Action (Double Chapter)

Ayase Origami nodded silently, then took out a pair of gloves from her sleeve and handed them to him.

"A birthday gift," she said.

"When did you buy it?" Xia Pingzhou raised an eyebrow and looked at the black, plush gloves.

"When I went out with Jack."

"Why gloves?"

"She said that your group mark is tattooed on the back of your hand and can easily be seen, so it’s better to buy you a pair of gloves," Ayase Origami said. "Don’t you like them?"

"Although my birthday has passed, I’ll reluctantly accept them, thank you," Xia Pingzhou said as he took the gloves and put them into his coat pocket.

After finishing their late-night snack, they hailed a cab outside the sukiyaki restaurant. After a while, the yellow taxi stopped quietly along the long street, and the driver unlocked the door.

They got out of the car and, under the moonlight, walked into a deep alley, then pushed open a door and turned into a secluded corridor. Not long after walking, they saw the red and blue lights, marking the underground bar known as the "Grey Crow."

The leader said this was his friend’s bar, while other members said it was a bar once run solely by the leader’s sister, which was later handed over to someone else; Xia Pingzhou didn’t know which claim was true, or perhaps both were true.

By now, it was late at night, and the underground bar was deserted. At the entrance, on the bar’s iconic electronic sign, the grey crow was hiding in the shadows, its blood-red eyes still shining brightly, its silhouette blinking on and off.

Ayase Origami was already tired. Not being a night owl, she kept her distance from staying up late, so she quickly found a private room and lay down to sleep, soon falling asleep.

In the end, only Xia Pingzhou, the Bloodline, and Jack the Ripper were left in the empty bar. The Longevity Love-Chasing Old Lady still wore her iconic red dress, and Jack the Ripper still wore the same unchanging Japanese black and white school uniform.

They sat side by side at the bar, quietly drinking their beverages while looking up at the television hanging on the wall.

At this moment, the old antique TV was playing a video, collected by a hacker through various intelligence chains, showing the "Lake Hunting Quartet’s combat methods," mostly filmed by onlookers who were lucky enough to witness them on their demon-hunting quests.

The purpose of watching these videos, naturally, was not to see them showing off but to study their weaknesses, making it easier to defeat these monsters one by one when the battle begins.

It was said that the four of Lake Hunting were also not good at teamwork, mainly acting solo; in fact, no enemy had yet appeared that required their teamwork.

This is good news. Lake Hunting now has to deal with both the Nian Beast and the Seven Deadly Sins; the four of them will inevitably disperse, and that moment is when the White Crow Travel Brigade will strike.

"Where are the Doctor and Tong Zizhu?" Xia Pingzhou sipped his iced orange juice.

"Hai Fan City," the Bloodline said casually, resting her chin on her hand. "Unlike you and Miss, who are busy dating every day."

"Then what are they busy with?" Xia Pingzhou asked.

"So, you don’t deny you’re dating?" The Vampire Maiden smirked playfully, today without heavy makeup, appearing elegant, her gaze clear and spirited. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

"Can we not change the subject?"

"Tong Zizhu is busy looking for his mother, that woman named ’Su Ying,’ and the Doctor is searching everywhere for interesting human samples for experiments, he seems to enjoy removing people’s brain tissues. I joined the group relatively late, so I’m not very familiar with him," the Bloodline shrugged.

"Human samples... that term is really eerie," Xia Pingzhou said nonchalantly.

He had an average impression of Ryukawa Chiba mainly because Ryukawa Chiba could sense others’ emotions and knew Xia Pingzhou was a puppet without any emotional signals.

Just like the Great Bee Lord "Qiao" of the Light-Eating Bee, Qiao also saw Black Cocoon as a puppet without emotions. As long as Xia Pingzhou and Black Cocoon appeared in the same place, it would be easy for Ryukawa Chiba to notice something.

"’For many spiritual superpower users, humans are no longer humans. You’re not a spiritual superpower user, so you don’t understand this feeling,’" the Bloodline said, spreading out her hands. "That’s what the Doctor told me. If you have any questions, you can talk to him."

"Is it because they understand people too well?" Xia Pingzhou speculated, "Spiritual superpower users gain too much insight into people’s hearts, making it naturally difficult to interact with others like ordinary people."

The Bloodline tilted her head, turning her crimson eyes to Xia Pingzhou, "Maybe... no matter what it is, once you get too close, it becomes unrecognizable."

She paused and teasingly said seriously, "It’s just like how you’ve turned into a cat in front of Miss."

"What’s with this baffling logic in that last sentence?" Xia Pingzhou said expressionlessly, glancing at the girl in the black and white school uniform silently sipping her cocktail beside him. "What are you daydreaming about now?"

"The leader said he’s found his sister’s puppet," Yanmo Lin broke the silence after a while.

"What puppet?" Xia Pingzhou asked knowingly.

Actually, he was also very interested in the matter between Urushibara Ryuri and Urushibara Osamu. He was curious about how Urushibara Ryuri fell into the hands of the Salvation Society and why she later became one of the Father’s puppets.