Ten Secret Affairs

The wind on the rooftop was a bit boisterous. Lin Mo dangled his legs, looking down at the old city district below with a distant gaze.

Suddenly, his feet suspended in mid-air stopped moving.

"Oh? Where did this little bat come from!"

Lin Mo curled his lips and reached out a hand. Majestic spiritual energy instantly condensed into a massive invisible hand, grabbing fiercely toward the windowsill of the Lu family below.

There, a black bat was hanging upside down silently, like an inconspicuous shadow.

It couldn't see anything, but some biological instinct of terror made its body stiffen, and it almost instantly tried to flap its wings and flee.

Too late.

An invisible palm reached out from the void and grabbed it. The force was so great that it almost crushed it into powder.

But the next second, Lin Mo raised an eyebrow.

The captured bat didn't struggle at all. Instead, with a bang, it exploded violently within the spiritual hand!

Blood and flesh mixed with shattered bones turned into a mist of blood, which was then immediately erased by a bizarre power. Even the energy fluctuation that had just erupted dissipated without a trace.

Clean and neat, leaving no trace behind.

"Interesting."

Lin Mo withdrew his hand, took out his phone, and dialed a number.

Downstairs, Liu Zheng, who was just about to leave, immediately had his phone ring.

"Someone was eavesdropping. The information leaked. It was a bat." Lin Mo's voice betrayed no emotion, but it made the person on the other end of the line tense up.

Liu Zheng's expression changed drastically. He hung up the phone and grabbed the wrist of Xia Zhi next to him: "Go to Yixian Academy immediately! The other party already knows Professor Lin's identity, and they are probably already on their way!"

His movements were so fast and urgent that Xia Zhi even stumbled a bit.

Lu Mingxin, who was left behind, looked bewildered and hurriedly asked: "Then... what about me?"

Liu Zheng didn't even turn his head. His voice came from ahead: "You're safe. They know the item isn't with you, so they won't come looking for you anymore. Stay at home and don't go out."

After saying that, Liu Zheng walked outside.

Lu Mingxin stood dumbfounded in place. His tense nerves finally relaxed, and a sense of exhaustion washed over his entire body.

He didn't have the slightest bit of sleepiness now either.

He could only see the two of them out the door first.

Blocking his parents' worries and questions behind the door, Lu Mingxin returned to his room alone. He picked up his phone, his fingertips repeatedly rubbing over the gray profile picture that would never light up again.

"It's all my fault for making you provoke those guys. It's all my fault."

Regret and pain gnawed at his heart. He buried his face in his palms, his shoulders trembling silently.

Downstairs.

Liu Zheng and Xia Zhi got straight into the car.

"Drive, to Yixian Academy."

Old Bai in the driver's seat had an unlit cigarette dangling from his mouth. He glanced back.

"What about Lin Mo? We aren't waiting for him?"

"He has his own arrangements," Liu Zheng rubbed his temples, a trace of exhaustion flashing in his eyes.

He paused and added: "If I'm not mistaken, the ones who came this time are from Britain's MI10."

Hearing this, Old Bai spat the cigarette butt out the window and cursed as he slammed the gas pedal to the floor: "Damn it, it's these vampires again, lingering like ghosts!"

MI10 was similar to MI6, except that this MI10 was Britain's equivalent of the Yanhuang Awakening.

Every country definitely had its own organization of metahumans.

Watching the car drive away, Lin Mo still remained on the rooftop. He just sat quietly at the edge, except no one downstairs could see his figure.

A self-destructing bat, and the ability to erase energy fluctuations.

Lin Mo raised an eyebrow, but he didn't leave.

A moment later, another black sedan glided silently downstairs, stopping right where Liu Zheng and the others had just left.

"Sure enough, they still came."

The car door opened, and a blonde, blue-eyed man stepped out.

He was tall and handsome, but his skin was excessively pale, as if he hadn't seen the sun in years, exuding a morbid beauty in the night.

The man looked up at the floor where the Lu family lived. His nostrils flared slightly, as if sniffing the scent in the air.

Then, he revealed an arrogant smile, seemingly having locked onto his target.

It was quite normal to have foreigners in an international metropolis like Yangcheng, but to appear here at this very moment was very abnormal.

On the rooftop, Lin Mo watched this scene, a glint of amusement flashing in his eyes.

"When distinguished guests arrive, there must be some hospitality."

He formed a hand seal with one hand and softly spat out two words toward the empty street below.

"Formation, activate!"

Buzz—

A barely audible tremor sounded in the air. A pillar of light invisible to the naked eye shot up from the ground, instantly sealing off the surrounding dozens of meters of open space.

Inside the formation, the blonde man who had been walking leisurely suddenly stopped in his tracks.

He looked around. The invisible barrier completely cut off all sound from the outside world, leaving only a deathly silence.

A trace of astonishment appeared on his handsome face. Then, he spoke in fluent Chinese, albeit with a heavy, theatrical British accent.

"What on earth is this?"

"Still looking? I've come to collect you."

A figure descended silently from high in the sky without stirring up a single breath of wind. When his feet touched the ground, he was as steady as a mountain.

Lin Mo just stood there, his expression placid, as if he had merely come out for a stroll.

The moment the blonde man saw Lin Mo's face clearly, his blue pupils suddenly contracted, but that astonishment was quickly replaced by the ecstasy of a hunter discovering his prey.

He snapped his fingers in excitement, "You have an old saying that goes..."

He furrowed his brows, seemingly trying his best to search his impoverished vocabulary.

"A wise man submits to circumstances?" Lin Mo kindly reminded him.

"No! No! No!" The blonde man shook his head vigorously with a look of you are so uncultured, and triumphantly announced the answer: "It's wearing out iron shoes searching for something, only to get it without any effort!"

Very well, his Chinese was indeed taught by a P.E. teacher.

Lin Mo couldn't be bothered to correct him. He just looked up at the sun overhead and slowly raised a hand like a curious baby.

"Let me ask you something. I've seen in movies that you vampires can't be in the sun, right?"

How did he know the other party was a vampire? It was simple. His divine sense was like an X-ray machine, easily seeing the two sharp canine teeth hidden in his upper jaw.

From this, it could be deduced that the handsome blonde guy in front of him was a vampire.

Hearing this, the blonde man let out a sneer. The laughter was full of the superiority of being a higher race.

"Another ignorant lamb deceived by movies. Those cheap silver-screen stories are nothing but lies to cover up the existence of our noble bloodline.

In fact, sunlight only makes us feel a little uncomfortable. Walking during the day is no obstacle to us at all."

Damn! These foreigners are really dishonest.

Our zombies and ghosts are all afraid of sunlight, okay?

However, Lin Mo also caught a more crucial piece of information.

His gaze fell on the blonde man's face, which was written all over with arrogance, and he spoke plainly: "You know me?"