The Byoukidere Is Her Sweetie

Chapter 141: 141: Three Kills All Victorious, Ah Fang Confesses Superpower (First Update
 

Jiang Zhi shot her a glance, “Is it you causing trouble?”

It was a face he had never seen before.

At that moment, the police sirens sounded from below.

Zhou Xufang made a quick decision, kicking Ah Win out of the door and shutting it.

The room inside wasn’t big, but it had a window through which she shattered the glass with a baseball bat, then she took a rope out of her backpack and tied up the silent woman.

This woman appeared to be seasoned; she didn’t speak from start to finish, her expression unchanged.

Zhou Xufang tied her up and threw her onto the rooftop of the adjacent building, securing one end of the rope in her hand. After setting everything up, she pulled Jiang Zhi towards the window.

“I’m taking you flying, are you scared?”

Jiang Zhi shook his head, “Not scared. If I die, I’ll just be ghost lovebirds with you.”

“I won’t let you become a ghost.” She reached out, her arm encircling Jiang Zhi’s waist. “Hold on tight.”

He held on tight to her.

They both leapt out of the window.

Source: Webnovel.com, updated on ƝονǤᴑ.ᴄ0

Jiajing Garden.

It was already 10 p.m. After the fire alarm was canceled, the residents of the community dispersed, and Li Xiaodong had emptied his archrival’s den, not even sparing a data cable.

Yao An was taking statements from the landlord of that apartment.

The landlord was a local with four flats in the community, living off the rents; his background was all checked and there was nothing suspicious.

“I negotiated the rental contract online, and after finalizing it, they asked me to leave the keys under the doormat at the entrance. We never met face to face,” said the landlord. “I didn’t even know who was living in there.”

The signature and ID number on the rental contract were fake; easy feats for an expert hacker.

Yao An asked, “How long was the lease?”

“This is the eighth month.”

“And you haven’t seen them once in eight months?”

The landlord shook his head, explaining, “That was the tenant’s request; no one was allowed randomly in. I found it odd initially, but the rent was quite high so I…”

He was blinded by money.

“Did you communicate over the phone?”

“No, we only ever texted.”

“Give me the number.”

The landlord provided Yao An with the number.

Yao An turned and inquired to the security personnel of the community, “Is there surveillance in the community?”

The security replied, “The surveillance system breaks down every few days; the property management tried fixing it several times to no avail, and eventually they just stopped trying.”

That figures, the surveillance could never be fixed; Shuangjiang’s hands, give her a computer, she could cripple an entire city’s internet.

After concluding the statement, Yao An was about to report to his captain when Li Xiaodong pulled him aside, “Why the rush? Captain Qiao is wooing his girl; why bring up work now?”

The ‘wooing his girl’ Qiao Nanchu called the girl aside, “Has the locksmith arrived?”

Wen Baiyang shook his head, signalling with her hands, “It’s too late, they’ll only come tomorrow.”

He was responsible for breaking that lock.

So, he was responsible.

“Go upstairs and pack, you’re staying at my place tonight.”

Without thinking, she refused, “I can stay at a hotel.”

Qiao Nanchu frowned, “Hotels aren’t safe.” She had just come of age, and her staying in a hotel, what would people think?

She was still explaining, “It’s safe.”

Qiao Nanchu really wanted to just drag her away forcefully, but seeing her youthful appearance, he didn’t want to scare her, so he was as patient as possible, “Can’t you stay at my place?” His hands in his pockets, he looked down at the girl who had grown up to his shoulder height, “Haven’t you stayed at my place plenty of times before?”

When she first came to Imperial City at fourteen, he didn’t feel secure about her staying alone. Whenever her nanny wasn’t there, he’d have her stay with him.

And he couldn’t remember from when, but she hadn’t been to his place anymore. Occasionally she would bring him little dishes of chicken and eggs; forget staying over, she wouldn’t even step inside the door anymore.

And also…

How long had it been since she’d allowed him to attend a parent-teacher meeting for her?!

She indicated with her hands, “I’m of age now.”

Her hands were beautiful, small and very fair, always slow and gentle when she used sign language.

Qiao Nanchu prodded his cheekbone, watching her, smiling, “Yes, you’re of age now, and not listening anymore.”

He was a bit angry.

It was ridiculous, he, debating with a young girl.

Seeing him annoyed, she immediately stood up straight, “I’ll listen.”

A girl not easily intimidated, yet claiming she was of age, he put the hood of her jacket on her, “Go upstairs and pack.”

“Okay.”

Wen Baiyang obediently went up to pack.

Qiao Nanchu smirked, amused.

Li Xiaodong found his captain’s smile quite cheeky, winking playfully, “Captain, your little girlfriend, huh?”

Qiao Nanchu, “Scram.”

Li Xiaodong chuckled as he scampered off. Treasuring her so much, if she wasn’t his girlfriend he’d write his name backwards!

The phone rang; it was Captain Xiao from the Drug Enforcement Team.

Qiao Nanchu stood under the streetlamp in the complex, his shadow trailing behind, lazy and casual, his eyes on the staircase as he picked up the call nonchalantly, “Hello?”

“Just now, don’t know who it was, but someone dumped a body at the entrance of the Drug Enforcement Team.”

Captain Xiao sounded quite excited.

Qiao Nanchu continued watching his staircase, “And then?”

And Captain Xiao got even more excited, “That package we’ve been sweeping all night also came with it.”

So, that was both the person and the goods, delivered straight to the Drug Enforcement Team.

Qiao Nanchu laughed, “Isn’t that perfect, a big help to you.”

“It did help, just didn’t leave a name.” Captain Xiao roped him in as an advisor for this police ‘wisdom tree’, “Who do you think it was?”

He deadpanned, “Could it be the justice-promoting Powerpuff Girls?”

Captain Xiao, “…”

He continued with the nonsense, “Or perhaps the upright and righteous Lord Ghost.”

Captain Xiao, “…”

“And let’s talk about the ‘punish evil and promote good,’ Lord Ghost, the Powerpuff Girls.”

She had interrogated the woman surnamed Zhang, but she couldn’t get anything out of her. Even when the dagger reached her throat, the woman kept quiet, not even blinking.

After sending the woman to the police station, she bought a bunch of medicine from a store and sat Jiang Zhi down on a chair by the riverbank, skillfully tending to his wound.

“Does it hurt?” The cotton swab was a bit rough as she squeezed ointment onto her hand and applied it with her fingertips.

The wound wasn’t deep and had already formed a scab.

Jiang Zhi shook his head, saying it didn’t hurt.

“How can it not hurt with such a long cut?”

She looked up, and he was watching her.

“Jiang Zhi.”

“Mm.”

He suddenly reached out to touch her eyes.

She instinctively pulled back, her gaze darting away, “You saw it, didn’t you?”

“Mm, red.”

Jiang Zhi was staring into her eyes.

She stopped dodging, locking eyes with him; her lovely phoenix eyes trembled with unease, “Then, are you afraid of me?”

Jiang Zhi asked, “Do you eat people?”

She shook her head.

She didn’t eat people; she even ate her steak well-done.

“If you ate people, I could let you bite me,” Jiang Zhi pulled out gauze from the bag and handed it to her, extending his arm for her to wrap, “I’m even prepared for that, do you think I would be afraid?”

Her eyes were sore, and she said nothing, solemnly wrapping his arm.

“Zhou Xufang,” Jiang Zhi removed the cap from her head, lifting her face, “Tell me everything, okay?”

She hesitated for a long while, then agreed.

“Do you still remember the first time we met?”

Jiang Zhi nodded, “You jumped into the sea.”

At that time, he thought she was ready to die.

Zhou Xufang finished wrapping the bandage and tied a bow, “I can breathe in water. In the water, my eyes turn red, and when I’m angry, they change color too.”

She was a dual human, the only one among humans.

Even though Jiang Zhi had mentally prepared for this, he was still shocked, reaching out again to touch her eye, “Like just now?”

“Mm, like just now.” Zhou Xufang didn’t dodge; her eyelids fluttered twice under his touch, “I’m also not afraid of the cold; my body temperature is only about twenty degrees.”

That’s why her body was always cold.

“I can’t eat eggs; eating eggs makes me react like you normal people do when you drink alcohol.”

Jiang Zhi remembered, “So that time at the porridge place, you got drunk from eating eggs?”

Zhou Xufang nodded, continuing, “I can jump very high, run very fast, and am much stronger than an average person, probably by more than thirty times. My vision and hearing are also particularly good.”

What else?

She took a dagger from her pocket and extended her other hand.

“What are you doing?” Jiang Zhi reached out to grab her hand.

He missed, and she lightly slashed the back of her hand with a dagger; blood immediately surfaced. “Have you seen vampire TV dramas?” Then she extended her hand in front of Jiang Zhi’s eyes, “My body’s self-healing and regeneration speed is eighty-four times that of a normal human, a recovery speed visible to the naked eye.”

Jiang Zhi watched the back of her hand as the wound quickly stopped bleeding and then began to scab over. It healed so rapidly he could even see the dynamic changes.

“It won’t even take a day for this wound to leave no trace.”

“And the pain?” Jiang Zhi reached out, not touching the wound, but gently rubbing the skin around it. “Does it hurt?”

Zhou Xufang nodded, “The faster it heals, the more it hurts.”

Jiang Zhi frowned, took some disinfectant, and used a cotton swab to clean her wound. “Then why do you cut yourself?” He squeezed some ointment left over from earlier onto his hand and smeared it over the wound on her hand. “Is it congenital?”

He was very calm, more calm than she had expected.

A Dual Human, a creature in human skin but with bizarre self-healing abilities like a Red-eyed Monster, isn’t that scary?

Biology could no longer define her; perhaps, she wasn’t human at all?

She wiped the cold sweat from her palm onto her clothes. “I don’t know. My earliest memory is from a genetic laboratory when I was fourteen.” No, she shook her head, correcting herself, “Maybe not, I can’t be sure.”

The gloom in Jiang Zhi’s eyes seemed to deepen, “What happened then?”

She relayed it very lightly, in a single sentence, “Then those experts made me very strong, and I beat them all down.”

Jiang Zhi knew without asking how those experts had made her strong.

Such human experimentation was common in foreign countries, using drugs, radiation, electric currents, or inducing cancer—various innovative methods to treat people like lab rats.

How many experiments had she endured to become as indestructible as she was today?

Jiang Zhi wanted to ask but couldn’t bring himself to do so.

“Jiang Zhi, I don’t know if I was abnormal from the start or if I’ll become even more abnormal later. I’m not a little fairy, I’m an anomaly, and perhaps, my offspring will be like me, anomalies as well, or maybe I won’t be able to have offspring at all,” her eyes reddened, and her voice choked up as she looked at him, resisting tears, “would you still want me?”

She had intended to wait until he loved her so much he couldn’t live without her before telling him.

She was afraid he wouldn’t want her anymore.

She knew that having her meant a future that wouldn’t be tranquil or stable. The genes in her body, the ones that would astonish the entire field of genetic biology, were like a ticking time-bomb. She could never forget the moment her superpower emerged, the greed and ambition in that biologist’s eyes.

“Of course, I do,” he said.

He said it so casually, without a hint of hesitation, “Even if you were a demon or ghost, aren’t you still Zhou Xufang?”

Her eyes blinked, tears she couldn’t hold back fell.

She didn’t want to involve him, didn’t want to drag him into trouble, but she couldn’t bear it; she desperately wanted him, would exchange all she owned for him.

“Fang Bao.”

Jiang Zhi reached out, touching her head: “What do I need to do so you won’t feel so insecure? Can’t you see, I can’t live without you, it doesn’t matter if you’re an anomaly or whatever, I accept it all.”

He moved closer to her, cupped her face with both hands, and gently pecked the tears on her face.

They tasted salty.

Her tears were cold.

She cried pitifully, and he didn’t know how to console her, just held her and gently patted her back, patiently spoke to her: “It doesn’t matter if we can’t have offspring; am I not infertile too, and you still want me, don’t you?”

He then said, “If we do have a little anomaly, we’ll just secretly raise them, not letting anyone know.”

He asked, “Sound good?”

Zhou Xufang, her eyes red, nodded vigorously. “I would love a little anomaly. As long as it’s yours, I’ll love it.” Even an egg, she’d love it!

Jiang Zhi was amused by her goofy words. “And that laboratory?”

Sniffling, she said, “It was blown up.”