Chapter 632: Looking for Nan Zhi
Qi Yongrui turned around and looked at Fan Meilin, who was staring at him with a look of sheer annoyance.
"I should be the one asking you this very question. What are you doing roaming around at such an odd hour?" Qi Yongrui asked with a hint of a frown on his face. He thought that everyone was asleep, but Fan Meilin was walking around the farmhouse. Was he planning on playing the role of a ghost or something? But then again, since when did racers start acting?
Fan Meilin rolled his eyes and said to him, "I am not roaming around for no reason." he raised his hand and showed the phone that he was clutching onto and explained, "I received a call from the company. They want me to return and join the seasonal race. According to them, as the ace racer, I have my own responsibilities that I need to bear."
As soon as he finished speaking, his lips curled up in a mocking sneer. He was truly shocked by the shamelessness of the people. It was Liao Hong who suspended him and tried to coerce him into giving in. She even pulled a more charming and younger racer to topple him from the position of the ace racer.
Fan Meilin didn't say a word against it, as he truly didn't care about the position of the ace racer. The one thing that he liked was racing, and he could enjoy it at any time, so even if someone replaced him, he would have silently stepped back. Even if it meant losing what he had gained.
But he never expected the company to put his name down in the race without him giving his permission. The call that he received was from the management, who simply relayed to him that he needed to join the race before ending the call. Fan Meilin had indeed called back, as he wanted to curse the wretched man who had called him in the middle of the night to tell him that he needed to join the race.
Oh, how he wished to brutally beat the shit out of the sly man who called him in the middle of the night, as he knew that Fan Meilin would be too tired to speak or understand anything, and by the time he understood what was going on, that bastard ended the call.
Fan Meilin then dropped his hand to his side and questioned Qi Yongrui, "But what are you doing here? What happened?"
He thought that Qi Yongrui was outside his room because he wanted to digest his food or something, but by the time he finished listening to what Qi Yongrui had to say, he was stunned.
But soon his temper rose, and he said to Qi Yongrui, "Just what is the meaning of this? How could they allow a child to step out of the hospital without even checking what was wrong?"
Qi Yongrui sighed. He said to Fan Meilin, "That's what I was thinking as well. I cannot believe that the nurses actually allowed a child to walk out of the hospital without caring to see what and where that girl was until it was too late."
Qi Yongrui was also worried, but it was already too late for them to do anything. If the nurses had at least bothered to peek inside Nan Zhi's ward before the girl left the hospital premises, they could have at least done something. But knowing that the child was long gone, there was little to nothing that they could do at the moment.
"And what did you mean by that the girl is the vessel of a hollow?" Fan Meilin asked with a frown on his lips. He had seen the little girl, and she didn't resemble a Hollow vessel. But then again, it was nearly impossible for his wife to be wrong. She was the only one who could handle Glooms and Hollows. If Luo Huian was the one who said that Nan Zhi was a vessel for Hollow, then there was a very good chance that the girl truly had a Hollow within her.
Even if there was not much known about the people who would become the vessels of Glooms and Hollows, there was one thing in common between them. They were riddled with desires to kill and were quite depressed because of their sufferings.
Maybe Nan Zhi, who suffered at the hands of her stepfather, had unconsciously brought in a Hollow and become its vessel.
Fan Meilin's expression turned a bit worried. Even though he knew that Luo Huian could deal with the Hollows and Glooms without any worries, as a husband who had finally accepted his wife, he couldn't help but worry and look at the expression on Qi Yongrui's face; he finally understood why this mer was sitting in front of the balcony and staring at the moon instead of going to sleep.
With such worries, who could sleep!?
On the other hand, Luo Huian, who had made two of her husbands worried out of their minds, had no idea what was going on. She was currently driving back to the city and calling Luo Qingling. When the woman picked up the call, she relayed everything that she knew and said to her, "I think that girl might be heading to the gambling house or the apartment building where Ye Jinglan lives or usually goes. You should send someone to check it out."
Luo Qingling didn't expect such a turn of events. If she had known that things would blow out of proportion like this, she would have released the evidence a bit sooner. However, she thought that the matter had just started to gather heat; it was better for it to become bigger and bigger before she released the evidence, such that Ye Jinglan would never be able to wash away the stain of tormenting his stepchildren and killing his wives.
Who would have thought that just a little delay would cause such trouble? She pinched the space between her brows and then said to Luo Huian, "I will send some of the hunters to see if that girl has sneaked close to Ye Jinglan."
However, inwardly, Luo Qingling didn't have much hope. Nan Zhi had left the hospital three hours ago, which meant that she was already in the city. Even if she were to send the hunters to track down Ye Jinglan, it would still be too late because Nan Zhi knew Ye Jinglan better than they did. If Nan Zhi was already in the city, then Luo Qingling was certain that the little girl would most probably have gone looking for Ye Jinglan by now.
Even if the hunters went looking for her now, it would be too late for them.
Of course, this was something that Luo Huian knew as well. The only reason she called Luo Qingling was because of a 'what if' situation. If they could find Nan Zhi before the infestation of the Hollow exploded, it was well and good, but if they could not, then she could only hope that the hunters would be able to hold it back until she arrived in the city.
This was something that Luo Qingling already knew. She didn't need Luo Huian to tell her these things. Luo Qingling gave Luo Huian her word that she would hold off the hollow as long as she could without the council interfering and killing it, but at the same time, she urged Luo Huian to hurry back to the city.
Though the hunters were the ones responsible for killing the Hollows and Glooms, there were times when the council would step in. With Gu Sirou against their guild, she was almost certain that the woman would make a move the second she realised that they were trying to hold the Hollow off and not kill it.
Luo Huian frowned upon hearing this. She had seen Gu Sirou at the last meeting, and she hadn't liked the presence of the woman. Even though she had never run across that woman before in her life, something about her simply irked Luo Huian to the point that she wished to either clear the woman off the face of the earth or stay clear of her path.
"I understand," Luo Huian said to Luo Qingling before ending the call. She then patted Xiao Hei on the back and said to him, "You heard her; if we don't arrive at the city, I am afraid things will get out of hand."
"So, hurry."
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While Luo Huian and Luo Qingling were rushing to look for Nan Zhi, the little girl had snuck back to the city. She went to look for Ye Jinglan at the apartment, but the mer was not there, and he wasn't at the gambling house either. Nan Zhi's frustration was running high but soon she remembered that there was another place where Ye Jinglan liked to go when he was free, which meant —