Chapter 65

Chapter 65

Xie Yunshen was awakened by the discomfort of his own awkward position. He couldn't remember when he had fallen asleep.

When he woke up, he found himself leaning against the edge of Yan Shiqi's bed, his head tilted, with Yan Shiqi's hand still resting on his shoulder.

He twisted his neck and saw the person on the bed sleeping soundly. After tucking the blanket around Mr. Yan, he walked out and headed to Yi Wuyi's room.

Yi Wuyi had been sleeping like the dead but was abruptly pulled up.

"Old Five! Stop sleeping!"

Yi Wuyi pressed a hand to his forehead: "..."

"Come on, let's go check out Room 603? Maybe that guy is jerking off to Black Impermanence's video right now?"

Hearing this, Yi Wuyi instantly became wide awake.

Before leaving, Xie Yunshen set up a clever mechanism outside Yan Shiqi's bedroom door—it only allowed exit, not entry—and set an alarm.

Afterward, the two put on masks and hats and stood outside Room 603.

"How are you getting in?" Yi Wuyi frowned.

"Knock." With that, Xie Yunshen started knocking on the door directly.

Yi Wuyi was momentarily stunned by this sudden action. He's got some nerve.

"Who is it?" came a wary voice from inside.

Xie Yunshen didn't respond. The two of them moved into a blind spot outside the door.

The person inside didn't open the door either.

After a while, Xie Yunshen reached out and started knocking again.

There was no movement from inside.

It seemed the other party was on high alert.

Xie Yunshen took a purification stone from a corridor potted plant and flicked it at the door from a distance, then hid with Yi Wuyi around a corner in the hallway.

The moment it hit, the door was violently yanked open from inside.

But no one came out. A small shaving mirror appeared at the doorway, scanning both ends of the corridor. Finding no one, the mirror was withdrawn.

Just as the door was about to close again, Xie Yunshen silently rushed from the corner, using his momentum to drive an elbow into the nearly shut door.

He pinned the man to the floor.

The man was still wearing a bathrobe, with a lipstick tattoo visible below the nape of his neck.

Surprisingly, the man didn't scream or struggle futilely in this situation; he just gasped with difficulty. Clearly, he had been subdued before he could see clearly, so he was a bit dazed.

Xie Yunshen signaled to Yi Wuyi.

Yi Wuyi swiped through three photos on his phone and held them in front of the man's eyes: "Do you know them?"

Of these three photos, only one was of Xie Yunshen; the other two were random stock images found online.

The tattooed man's voice was hoarse: "N-no... I don't."

"You don't know any of them?"

"N-no... I don't... but the one in the middle is really handsome..." He spoke between gasps.

"Are you using too much force? Why can't he speak properly?" Yi Wuyi looked at Xie Yunshen.

Xie Yunshen finally realized he had overestimated this guy. Clearly, Bai Lebai wasn't as cunning as he had imagined. He slightly eased the pressure of his grip.

"N-no... don't let go... mmm... like this oh ah..."

"..."

"..."

Xie Yunshen and Yi Wuyi exchanged a glance, simultaneously struck by a bad premonition, and looked beneath Bai Lebai's bathrobe.

They both cursed almost at the same time.

He wasn't wearing underwear, and his elephant was standing straight up, trunk raised!

No wonder they had subdued him so easily—the guy was actually enjoying himself!

They had given him a free handjob.

Xie Yunshen looked at Yi Wuyi: "You hold him down!"

"Why?" Yi Wuyi was somewhat resistant.

"Can't let me be the only victim here."

Yi Wuyi still took over, pressing down hard on Bai Lebai, ignoring the sounds the other man made.

Clearly, in this regard, Yi Wuyi's methods were more effective. Sweat immediately broke out on Bai Lebai's forehead.

Xie Yunshen took over the task of friendly interrogation (not really).

He pulled up the video of Black Impermanence's livestream from the old house: "Do you know who he is?"

"Black Impermanence..."

"I'm asking, do you know who Black Impermanence is?"

"No."

"Bullshit! You don't know him, yet you jerk off to him?" Xie Yunshen really felt like chopping him with a hand strike and being done with it.

"I didn't... I deeply respect Lord Black Impermanence..." The other man looked innocent.

"Ah, it hurts too much... sir, please be gentler..."

A man in his thirties suddenly started crying, tears streaming down his face like pear blossoms in the rain.

Xie Yunshen looked at him with disgust.

"Isn't this you?" Xie Yunshen swiped to the next video—the widely circulated clip of Bai Lebai masturbating.

The man's face turned frighteningly red, his eyes glazed over as he panted heavily: "Oh my god... to actually be... recognized... omg... oh..."

Xie Yunshen silently watched him, his fists clenching and unclenching as he restrained the urge to hit him.

Could there really be such a purebred pervert in this world?

Bai Le Bai stammered, "I couldn't control myself... I fell for White Impermanence at first sight..."

Xie Yunshen was stunned, and Yi Wuyi was stunned too.

White Impermanence?

Xie Yunshen swiped to the previous video. In the footage, behind Yang Zhongxu and Black Impermanence, in the corner, stood the man in the white shirt—the one netizens called White Impermanence... Yi Wuyi.

But in this video, White Impermanence was always just in the background, with very low presence, so no one paid him any attention.

Xie Yunshen suddenly understood. No wonder Bai Le Bai always used this video when he jerked off. It was the only video where White Impermanence appeared.

Xie Yunshen abruptly looked at Yi Wuyi. So, after all this, Old Five was the gay community's ultimate heartthrob?

"You saw his face?"

Xie Yunshen found it strange. Yi Wuyi had been wearing a mask and a hat back then. Where did this 'love at first sight' come from?

"Lord White Impermanence's vibe... is amazing... If possible, he'd be so, so delicious to eat..." Bai Le Bai closed his eyes, his face shy, with a slight smile.

"..."

"..."

Not only was he a pervert, but a total deviant through and through...

Xie Yunshen looked at Yi Wuyi with a complicated expression. "Maybe... I should be the one to hold him down?"

Amidst the man's perverse moans, Yi Wuyi remained surprisingly calm and composed. "At a time like this, focus on the mission!"

Xie Yunshen then remembered the purpose of their visit. He looked around the room and found Bai Le Bai's backpack.

From inside, he pulled out two phones and "carefully" used Bai Le Bai's fingerprint to unlock them.

Opening the favorites on one phone, it was filled with all sorts of hardcore gay videos—the kind so graphic they'd take your breath away.

Xie Yunshen tossed that phone aside and opened the other one.

Sure enough, it contained the raw footage of Yang Qingxi's murder.

So, Bai Le Bai was that Black Impermanence from the overseas site.

"Why did you kill Yang Qingxi?"

Bai Le Bai didn't speak. Yi Wuyi suddenly twisted his wrist. He broke into a cold sweat from the pain, but his face flushed even more with pleasure. "Oh... my love..."

Xie Yunshen: "..."

A genuine, purebred pervert.

Yi Wuyi bent his finger joints backward.

Bai Le Bai could no longer enjoy it this time. His face turned pale, and any hint of pleasure was gone. "It was an assignment from the organization... Someone paid... to have him killed, and it had to be streamed live on the site using the Black Impermanence identity."

"Was it Topstar Group?"

"...I don't know. But the organization insisted I obtain the secret in his possession."

"What secret?"

Xie Yunshen and Yi Wuyi exchanged a look, both bewildered and shocked.

The secret Yang Qingxi held was probably the document mentioned in Yang Zhongxu's will.

What exactly was it that so many forces coveted?

Suddenly, Yi Wuyi felt Bai Le Bai's wrist move violently, slithering out of his grip like a snake.

Then, with a freakish flip, *crack!* The joints of his shoulder and arm twisted at an angle impossible for a human body, wrenching him around to face the two of them.

Two pale hands simultaneously grabbed at them.

"Oh my, my... my dear delicacies, the game is over. Now it's my turn."

He excitedly licked his lips, his gaze fixed on them with a ravenous glint, as if they were two plates of delicious food.

Xie Yunshen and Yi Wuyi both felt a shiver run down their spines. This was even more terrifying than a ghost.

Yi Wuyi kicked him. The man slammed into the wall, his expression unchanged, his hands still clawing at them eerily.

Xie Yunshen grabbed a fringed cushion from the sofa and covered his head with it.

On instinct, Bai Le Bai let go to remove the cloth from his head. In that split second, the two of them dashed out the door in a panic.

They'd never run that fast in their lives.

Xie Yunshen and Yi Wuyi rushed into Yan Shiqi's suite, slammed the door shut, and leaned against it, gasping wildly in the dark, their hearts racing madly.

That guy was definitely the scariest foe they had ever encountered.

Xie Yunshen glanced at the trap at the entrance to Yan Shiqi's bedroom, making sure it hadn't been sprung, before taking off his hat and mask.

"Did you see that just now?"

"Saw it," Yi Wuyi said, also removing his mask and throwing it in the trash.

"His bones are different from other people's."

"The bone-contracting technique?" Yi Wuyi asked.

"No, it doesn't seem like it."

Yi Wuyi said, "He's probably a hitman from the BKB organization."

It suddenly hit him. He ran to the bathroom to wash his hands.

Xie Yunshen also went to wash his hands nearby, giving Yi Wuyi a sympathetic look. "Don't worry, we had masks on. He won't recognize us."

From the looks of it, that guy would actually eat people.

"It's fine. After we leave City C, that guy will definitely never appear in front of us again," Xie Yunshen said with a chuckle.

Xie Yunshen used the guest bathroom in Yi Wuyi's room, hopped in a cold shower, then removed the trap at Yan Shiqi's bedroom door and entered the room.

In the faint light, he crept over to the sofa, glanced at the person on the bed to make sure he hadn't woken him, then lay down on the sofa and closed his eyes.

Whenever he closed his eyes, Bai Le Bai's face—that devouring face—would surface in his mind, instantly breaking him out in a cold sweat.

Scarier than a ghost.

He soundlessly rolled off the sofa, rolled twice on the carpet, and ended up on the rug by the edge of Yan Shiqi's bed.

Being closer to Mr. Yan really was better for warding off evil spirits.

The next morning at five o'clock, Xie Yunshen opened his eyes out of habit. The sky wasn't light yet; the city beyond the curtains was still shrouded in night.

In the gloom, he saw Mr. Yan sitting at the desk, staring at the computer screen.

Xie Yunshen switched on the light. "Mr. Yan, looking at a computer in the dark is really bad for your eyes."

Yan Shiqi glanced at him but didn't speak.

"Oh, I get it, Mr. Yan! Were you worried about disturbing my sleep, so you didn't turn on the light?" Xie Yunshen made the connection and was so moved his eyes welled up like a puppy's.

"When I got out of bed this morning, I almost stepped on you." Yan Shiqi turned to meet a pair of bright, alert black eyes. "How did you end up rolling under my bed while sleeping last night?"

Xie Yunshen scratched his head. "...Really?"

"Hotel-provided product." Yan Shiqi looked down at the crown of Xie Yunshen's head.

Xie Yunshen touched his clean-shaven chin; he'd just shaved yesterday.

He walked into the bathroom, opened the shaving cream on the vanity, and brought it to his nose. He was instantly disappointed. While it was the same scent, upon closer sniff, it didn't seem particularly special.

It didn't smell the way it did on Mr. Yan.

Xie Yunshen frowned, finished washing up, and went to the guest bedroom to find his workout partner, Yi Wuyi. The two of them did a workout in the living room.

"Old Wu, last night, did you have any dreams?"

"I did."

"What did you dream about?"

"I dreamed Bai Le Bai sliced you into pieces and ate you dipped in soy sauce."

A shiver of horror went through Xie Yunshen, and he babbled, "Old Wu, he's obsessed with White Impermanence, that's you! Old Wu, he'd definitely eat you."

Yi Wuyi said abruptly, "Did he eat Yang Qingxi with soy sauce?"

The two exchanged a look of dawning horror and simultaneously ran to the bathroom to vomit...

At the buffet.

"What's wrong with you two today?" Yan Shiqi asked, noticing their pale faces.

Yi Wuyi had only taken two bites, and even Xie Yunshen, who usually had the best appetite, wasn't touching his chopsticks today.

"Mr. Yan, there's good news and bad news," Xie Yunshen said softly. "Which do you want to hear first?"

"I don't want to hear either." Yan Shiqi didn't play along.

Xie Yunshen pleadingly leaned closer. "No, listen to me. You'll want to hear this."

Yan Shiqi watched his "pleading" with interest and took pity. "Go on."

"The good news is, I'm not the one being sexually fantasized about by a psychopathic gay guy."

Back when he was a bodyguard, he had been sexually harassed by that old lecher of a Crown Prince and almost died there. Xie Yunshen was already traumatized by that experience.

This was good news for him.

Yan Shiqi's hand paused, and he closed his eyes.

"The bad news is, the one that psychopath has his eye on is Old Wu. And, he's likely a cannibal."

Yan Shiqi put down his chopsticks and looked at him. "A Shen, do you really dislike homosexuals that much?"

Faced with this sudden topic and Mr. Yan's deep gaze, Xie Yunshen was momentarily stunned, realizing he had to choose his words carefully.

"It's not a matter of liking or disliking. It depends on who he is to me. If he's very important to me, I don't mind his sexual orientation or the effect he has on me at all. Like Old Wu."

He also knew that most employers were fake homosexuals who, tired of the opposite sex, sought excitement with the same sex.

That kind of pervert was different from natural homosexuals like Yan Shizhou, and also different from those like Yi Wuyi who were 'bent' later in life.

Old Wu, sitting to the side, lowered his head and covered his forehead. "Don't use me as material every time."

Noticing the look on Yan Shiqi's face, Xie Yunshen chose his words carefully. "Mr. Yan, did I say something wrong?"

Yan Shiqi's gaze was profound, and he smiled slightly. "No, you're right. I agree with your point of view."

At that moment, Xie Yunshen saw Bai Le Bai entering the restaurant and his heart lurched.

He whispered, "Old Wu, that guy just came in."

Yi Wuyi's expression remained calm and unruffled. "He might not recognize us."

Out of the corner of his eye, Xie Yunshen noticed Bai Le Bai was scanning the guests in the restaurant.

His body and head remained completely still; only his inhuman eyeballs moved like machinery, slowly and evenly rotating. A purely psychotic smile was plastered on his face.

This was the hotel's breakfast buffet, for guests only. So, he was definitely looking for the two from last night. Anyone with a similar build would immediately be suspected.

All of a sudden! He started moving. Tap, tap, tap. The heels of his pointed leather shoes landed on the floor, one after another! In the slightly noisy restaurant, the sound stood out as particularly ominous and heavy, as if each step pierced the air with a tangible sharpness.

His hands were in his overcoat pockets, his head rigid. Even while walking, his upper body remained motionless, gliding parallel like a ghost.

He was walking towards them!

"Wait, yesterday, did you show him my photo?" Xie Yunshen felt like the sky was falling.

Yi Wuyi's voice was calm as he took a sip of milk. "Although I did, I specifically applied alien special effects to all three photos."

Xie Yunshen: "..." Old Wu, you're a genius.

"As long as we don't make eye contact with him."

Xie Yunshen felt this was just a useless statement, but there was nothing else they could do right now.

Ten meters, five meters, three meters...

Bai Le Bai's footsteps drew closer.

He's here!

Xie Yunshen and Yi Wuyi had no choice but to keep their heads down and focus on their breakfast.

At that moment, Yan Shiqi suddenly raised his hand.

A waiter came over: "Can I help you, sir?"

The waiter's appearance made Bai Le Bai hesitate for a second. His dark, heavy eyes shifted, about to fall upon their table.

This was a worst-case scenario, one Xie Yunshen had failed to foresee.

At this very moment, Xie Yunshen’s eyes turned icy and intense. He tightened his grip on the fork. If Bai Le Bai dared to glance at Mr. Yan, he would immediately jam that fork into his eye.

However, Bai Le Bai’s line of sight was obstructed by the waiter. It slowly swept past them, darting neurotically toward the distance, and he continued walking forward.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

Xie Yunshen and Yi Wuyi had just started to relax.

Suddenly, his footsteps stopped again. He walked to the table next to theirs.

He sat down practically right behind them, back-to-back.

His back was separated from theirs only by a thin row of small green plants.

Xie Yunshen and Yi Wuyi frowned simultaneously.

They had probably been discovered.

Suddenly, Bai Le Bai laughed. That neurotic laughter, along with his body, trembled, causing the small potted plant between them to shake.

Yi Wuyi and Xie Yunshen both felt the shaking plant bump against them.