Black Sky - Chapter 49

When she heard the name “Wild Rabbit,” Bai Zi, who’s thoughts are sinking in the deep sea, immediately raised her eyes.

Although Bai Zi couldn’t see the person’s face because they were wearing a black mask, the other person’s identity was obvious.

After all, besides You Yuyi, no one else in this world called Bai Zi “Wild Rabbit.”

After the two looked at each other for three seconds, Bai Zi opened her mouth, “You…”.

Hearing her last name, a hint of joy appeared in You Yuyi’s charming eyes, but she immediately raised her curved eyebrows and interrupted Bai Zi, “Anything interesting happen lately?”

Before Bai Zi could reply, she seemed to have discovered something fun again, and looked at Bai Zi’s short hair with a smile, “It’s gotten so long, do people here still get hair extensions?”

Bai Zi sensitively noticed that several customers around them were curiously looking over because of their conversation. They, like Mao Mao next to Bai Zi, were staring at You Yuyi with suspicion, wanting to get a glimpse of the face hidden under the mask.

Although You Yuyi seemed very calm, she was obviously deliberately avoiding the surrounding gazes.

Although she had forgotten a lot of things, Bai Zi felt that she hadn’t forgotten anything related to You Yuyi.

She clearly remembered the scene when the two of them first met in the subway tunnel, and also remembered that You Yuyi had secretly given her blood packs, and even remembered every word she had said when she said goodbye to You Yuyi outside the subway car.

Soon, the people around them lost interest in You Yuyi and stopped looking over here.

Bai Zi was about to open her mouth to ask a question, but found that several people in uniforms were walking past outside the window.

At the same time, You Yuyi’s eyes changed slightly. Then, she quickly got up and sat next to Bai Zi, who was facing away from the bar entrance, sandwiching Bai Zi between herself and Mao Mao on the sofa.

The sudden closeness made Bai Zi involuntarily straighten her back. She instinctively wanted to distance herself from You Yuyi, but Mao Mao blocked her retreat.

At this time, Mao Mao couldn’t understand Bai Zi’s predicament at all. It was purely driven by curiosity, and while using its hand to cling to Bai Zi’s neck, it put its head next to Bai Zi’s cheek, moving its round eyes from side to side, carefully observing You Yuyi and Bai Zi’s faces, as if worried about missing something fun.

You Yuyi was amused by Mao Mao’s sly expression. She was about to open her mouth to speak, but the door behind them was suddenly pushed open forcefully, and three people in guard uniforms walked in quickly.

Just as Bai Zi was about to turn her head, You Yuyi suddenly reached out and put her arm around her waist. The two were now as intimate as a loving young couple.

In an instant, the faint scent of roses belonging to You Yuyi quickly enveloped Bai Zi, which made Bai Zi involuntarily remember that the other party had once gotten this close to her at the subway station.

As with before, Bai Zi immediately wanted to push You Yuyi away, but the guards behind her made Bai Zi realize that the current situation was very complicated. If she insisted on going against You Yuyi, it would cause a lot of trouble.

Therefore, she suppressed her instinctive reaction and tolerated You Yuyi’s closeness.

But what Bai Zi didn’t expect was that her “non-resistance” made You Yuyi take it a step further. Just before the three guards turned the corner and looked over here, the person next to her actually leaned over and pressed her cheeks against hers.

Although she was wearing a mask, part of the two people’s faces were still pressed together, and the warm touch made Bai Zi frown involuntarily.

“Wild Rabbit, you’ve gained a lot of weight,” You Yuyi’s slightly deep and magnetic voice, which made people feel numb, came from Bai Zi’s ear, “It seems that Miss Meng is taking good care of you.” Saying that, the hand around Bai Zi’s waist actually reached forward to her abdomen, “Hmm, quite firm…”

Bai Zi couldn’t bear it any longer. She immediately raised her hand and grabbed You Yuyi’s fingers.

At this time, Bai Zi and You Yuyi, who were pressed tightly together, were secretly competing with each other, but to outsiders, it looked like two loving lovers were whispering sweet nothings to each other. The sticky atmosphere made the slightly older guard captain only glance at them before turning his head away.

Bai Zi suddenly understood why she had been so resistant to You Yuyi’s closeness in the first place—it was as if, if she wasn’t careful, this seemingly gentle and harmless woman would swallow her whole, leaving not a single bone behind.

Completely unaware of Bai Zi and You Yuyi’s strangeness, the guard captain led the other two guards towards the bathroom.

After they turned the corner, You Yuyi finally stopped pressing her cheek against Bai Zi’s, but her hand was still tightly holding Bai Zi’s waist. Then, she raised her other hand, took off her mask, and naturally picked up the beer glass in front of her, taking a sip from where Bai Zi had just drunk.

“It’s so unpalatable,” You Yuyi frowned slightly.

While trying to distance herself from You Yuyi, Bai Zi asked, “Why are you here?”

She was clearly a wanted criminal, but she came and went freely in Bei City again and again, and always looked so carefree, which was simply inexplicable.

You Yuyi put down the beer glass, but didn’t answer Bai Zi’s question. She raised the hand around Bai Zi and poked Mao Mao, who was sitting on the other side.

Mao Mao, who had been poked in the head, was stunned. It thought that Bai Zi had poked it, so without thinking, it bared its teeth and patted the back of Bai Zi’s head.

Bai Zi looked at Mao Mao next to her with a puzzled expression. You Yuyi held back her laughter and asked, “Where’s Miss Meng? She wouldn’t have left you here alone, right?”

…

In a coffee shop less than a few hundred meters away from the bar, Meng Yilan was sitting by the window, taking a sip of coffee unhurriedly.

Although she was expressionless at this time, if you looked closely, you could see a hint of unease in her delicate eyebrows.

While listening to Lin Quwei, who was sitting across from her, speak, Meng Yilan lowered her head and looked at her watch.

“That year, I only found out that you were injured and hospitalized after I returned to China,” Lin Quwei didn’t notice Meng Yilan’s strangeness at all. He lowered his head and opened his laptop, “But you were in very bad condition at the time, and didn’t tell me exactly what happened. Later, after you recovered, I was busy dealing with other things…so, I still don’t understand why you were hospitalized in the first place.”

Lin Quwei opened a folder, and the computer screen was immediately filled with countless files.

Meng Yilan’s attention was immediately drawn to it. She leaned forward slightly, wanting to see the contents on the screen clearly.

“This is the information from the hard drive you gave me before,” Lin Quwei said, turning the computer screen directly towards Meng Yilan, “I followed your instructions and filtered out all the news related to fires that occurred during the time period before you were hospitalized.”

Meng Yilan moved the mouse, quickly flipping through the contents, “Is this all?”

Lin Quwei nodded, “After all, there’s no clear time and location, and the scope is too broad. I was afraid of missing important information, so I kept all of these.”

Meng Yilan didn’t reply, only frowning and continuing to flip through the files. Her focused expression made her cold temperament even more prominent. This kind of Meng Yilan always made the people around her want to get closer, but also feel intimidated.

Lin Quwei licked his lips, asking a little awkwardly, “Yilan, I don’t quite understand, why are you suddenly…investigating fire news from more than ten years ago?”

After more than ten seconds, Meng Yilan replied lightly, “I can’t tell you for now, because I still don’t know what happened.” As soon as she finished speaking, Meng Yilan seemed to realize that her tone was too distant, so she looked up at Lin Quwei, “Sorry, Quwei, thank you for your hard work these past few days.”

Lin Quwei heard Meng Yilan call his name softly, and his heart trembled involuntarily.

These days, Lin Quwei and Meng Yilan had spent a lot of time together, which made him feel both happy and confused.

He was happy that when he was busy with Meng Yilan, researching information or discussing things, he had thought several times that he had returned to those days many years ago when he and the other party were working hard for a common ideal, working from morning till night.

And what confused him was that he always felt that there was an insurmountable barrier between himself and Meng Yilan.

“Oh, right,” Meng Yilan said as if she had suddenly remembered something, turning her head and asking, “About the mutants before…”

“Oh, that,” Lin Quwei, who had been lost in thought, immediately came back to his senses, “I’ve already communicated with Dr. Wu. He’ll be back in Bei City in a few days, and we can go to his house directly then.” He said, lowering his voice, “Although those materials can’t be easily shown to others, he immediately agreed when he heard that it was your request.”

Dr. Wu was eighty years old this year. He had known Lin Quwei for more than ten years. The old man was upright and had dedicated his life to the career he loved.

The reason why he was willing to meet Meng Yilan wasn’t because of the so-called golden sign of “Hongya Group,” but because Dr. Wu himself admired Meng Yilan very much, and liked all the special reports she had done in the past.

Many years ago, Dr. Wu had taken the initiative to ask Lin Quwei to arrange a meeting with Meng Yilan, but it had always been impossible to meet due to various accidents.

Meng Yilan nodded, and then looked down at the time again.

“What’s wrong?” Lin Quwei finally noticed that Meng Yilan was acting strange.

“From the time she left until now,” Meng Yilan paused, and asked, “Has half an hour passed?”

Although she only said “she,” Lin Quwei immediately understood that she was referring to “Bai Zi.” He also lowered his head to look at his watch, and said with some hesitation, “Uh, it shouldn’t be half an hour yet…”

“If you add the five minutes it will take me to walk over there now,” Meng Yilan closed the laptop and stood up, “It’s already past the time.”

After saying that, before Lin Quwei could reply, she had already put on her coat and quickly left the coffee shop.

…

And at this time, Bai Zi was being forcibly held around the waist by You Yuyi, sitting stiffly in the bar.

“Wild Rabbit,” You Yuyi said seemingly casually, but actually using all her strength to hold Bai Zi’s waist, but said in a lazy tone, “If I hadn’t run into you, I would have left this broken bar long ago. You know, I’m taking a considerable risk to stay here and talk to you.”

Bai Zi couldn’t help but roll her eyes, “Then you don’t have to hold me so tight.”

You Yuyi raised her eyebrows in confusion, “If it was before, you probably would have kicked me away long ago, what’s wrong today? Do you miss me too much?”

Hearing this, Bai Zi immediately tensed the muscles in her hand, as if wanting to push the person next to her away, but You Yuyi immediately added in a low voice, her tone like she was acting spoiled, “I’m just teasing you, just help me out, give this wanted criminal some cover.”

Only then did Bai Zi relax her strength, but she still straightened her back, not letting her body get too close to the other party.

“What’s wrong with you?” You Yuyi noticed that Bai Zi was acting strange, and asked.

Facing the only person she had met in the new world who was like her, Bai Zi trusted You Yuyi very much. She answered straightforwardly, “Those people gave me an injection. After that, I forgot a lot of things, and I might have changed a lot in other ways too, I’m not sure.”

“An injection?” You Yuyi let go of her hand. She turned her head and looked at Bai Zi’s face carefully, as if wanting to confirm that the other party wasn’t joking.

What Meng Yilan saw when she walked into the bar was this scene—Bai Zi was facing away from the door, sitting closely with a slender woman, and Mao Mao, wearing a pink down jacket, was sitting on Bai Zi’s other side.

The backs of these two people and one orangutan looked very warm to outsiders.

A waiter walked to Meng Yilan’s side to talk to her, but Meng Yilan ignored the other party, only turning around and sitting in a small booth by the wall. Then, she turned her head again, looking at the two people who were still pressed closely together.

At this time, Meng Yilan was expressionless. She seemed to have no reaction to the scene in front of her, but her gaze never left the back of Bai Zi’s head.

You Yuyi, who had been secretly paying attention to the movements around her, had long discovered Meng Yilan, but she didn’t make a sound, and didn’t put on her mask. Instead, she leaned closer to Bai Zi, as if deliberately letting their breaths intertwine, “Wild Rabbit, I thought you would definitely be safe and sound, it seems that I overestimated Miss Meng.”

After saying that, You Yuyi curled the corners of her mouth, turning her head to make eye contact with Meng Yilan, who was sitting by the door.

Seeing You Yuyi’s face, Meng Yilan, who had been expressionless, immediately frowned slightly, and then raised her chin slightly, as if she was enduring something.

Bai Zi, who was completely unaware of this, said lightly, “It has nothing to do with Meng Yilan, it was just my own decision at the time.”

She didn’t think that Meng Yilan had done anything wrong to her, and it was the same now as it had been before.

“Wild Rabbit,” You Yuyi suddenly put away her smile, and leaned close to Bai Zi’s ear, saying sincerely in a low voice, “Bei City will become more and more dangerous, and it’s especially not suitable for people like us to stay. If you want, you can leave here with me.”

Bai Zi frowned slightly, and then shook her head, “I have other things to do, but…anyway, thank you.”

You Yuyi was stunned, and couldn’t help but chuckle, even reaching out and pinching Bai Zi’s cheek, “You’re too well-behaved now, you’re even thanking me?”

Like a frozen lake suddenly cracking, Meng Yilan, who was not far away, finally stood up and walked towards the two of them. Although she was still expressionless, her walking posture was unusually hurried.

You Yuyi turned her head again, and while looking at Meng Yilan, who was approaching, she chuckled softly in Bai Zi’s ear, “It’s up to you, anyway, you know where to find me.”

Without needing to think too much, Bai Zi immediately guessed that the place You Yuyi was talking about was Pingyang County, which You Xin had mentioned before.

At this time, hurried footsteps came from behind Bai Zi.

She immediately turned her head, and saw the guard captain, who had entered the bar with two subordinates a few minutes ago, walking quickly from the direction of the bathroom. He seemed to want to rush to the bar, but he bumped hard into Meng Yilan, who was approaching Bai Zi.

Meng Yilan?

Seeing that the other party was about to fall, Bai Zi almost instinctively broke free from You Yuyi.

But her strength was too great, and even pushed You Yuyi backwards. However, Bai Zi didn’t care, only getting up and striding forward in an instant, steadily catching Meng Yilan in her arms.

When Bai Zi had just gotten close, Meng Yilan had already smelled the strong scent of roses that didn’t belong to Bai Zi. She couldn’t help but frown, but still raised her hand and tightened her grip on Bai Zi’s waist, refusing to let go even after she had steadied herself.

Mao Mao sensitively sensed that the atmosphere around them was not right. It quickly jumped off the sofa, and jumped behind Bai Zi and Meng Yilan.

And You Yuyi had put on her mask in this instant, retreating to a dark corner.

Just at this time, a slightly angry shout came from the bathroom, “That package isn’t mine, I was having diarrhea in the bathroom just now, and you suddenly rushed in…”

Bai Zi turned her head, and saw two guards dragging Old Mao out of the bathroom.

One of the guards was holding a package in his hand. He pushed Old Mao, and shouted fiercely, “Still trying to argue,” saying that, he handed the package to the guard captain standing by the bar, “These things were found on him!”

The guard captain opened the package, and found that it contained more than a dozen watches used to prove identity.

Worried that something would happen to Old Mao, Bai Zi immediately let go of Meng Yilan, but because she was being held tightly around the waist by the other party, she couldn’t step forward, and could only ask, “He was drinking with me here just now, why are you arresting him?”

The guard captain narrowed his eyes and looked at Bai Zi, and then looked at Meng Yilan, who was holding her. After looking the two up and down, he sneered at Old Mao, “What’s wrong, are these two women your accomplices?”

As soon as he finished speaking, the guard next to him suddenly leaned forward and whispered a few words in the guard captain’s ear.

Then, the guard captain’s face changed slightly. He put away his smile, and said softly to Meng Yilan, “Miss Meng, I didn’t recognize you just now, I’m really sorry.” He turned his head to look at Bai Zi, pointing at Old Mao and asking, “Is this your friend?”

Bai Zi was about to speak when Meng Yilan whispered, “I’ll handle this.”

Then, Meng Yilan stepped forward and stood in front of Bai Zi, “Yes, he is my friend. What exactly happened?”

“Miss Meng,” the guard captain raised his eyebrows, “We are not employees of the Hongya Group, and we have no obligation to explain these things to you.”

“You’re framing me!” Old Mao, who was being held down on the ground, was furious, his face flushed red, “You stuffed this bag of things into my pocket! And even if these watches are mine, so what? Can you arrest people at will?”

The guard captain was taken aback, and then smiled as he took out a small machine from his pocket, with a very conspicuous red button on it, “Indeed, hiding watches is not a crime, but if you’re hiding fake watches, that’s a big crime—didn’t you know?”

Before Old Mao could react, the guard captain suddenly pressed the red button on the machine, and immediately, all the watches in the bag emitted a rapid “beep beep beep” sound.

But apart from that, the same sound actually came from the corner. Everyone immediately turned their heads and saw You Yuyi, who was hiding in the corner.

Just as everyone was stunned in place, You Yuyi reached out and grabbed the window sill, leaping nimbly and quickly jumping out of the bar.

“Catch her!” the guard captain shouted sharply.

The guard who was holding down Old Mao immediately took out his handgun and jumped out of the window as well.

“Alright,” the guard captain rubbed his hands with a smile, turning his head to look at everyone, “Today’s a great harvest, it’s worth the trip.”

Things happened so fast that Bai Zi didn’t react at all. She only felt that after You Yuyi jumped out of the window, Meng Yilan’s grip on her waist suddenly tightened a lot, as if she wanted to lock her next to her.

“Miss Meng,” the guard captain turned his head to look at Meng Yilan, “I’ll take the person back first, I hope you have a pleasant time today.”

Old Mao looked at Bai Zi in horror, “I didn’t hide fake watches…” He turned his head to look at the other hotel customers, shouting angrily, “I’ve been framed, they’re framing me!”

The guard captain turned around and nodded to his subordinates. Then, the two guards escorted Old Mao, who was constantly shouting, out of the bar.

Everyone followed them out to watch the excitement, leaving only Bai Zi and Meng Yilan in place.

“Don’t worry,” after they left, Meng Yilan released Bai Zi, comforting her softly, “I’ll find someone to investigate this matter.”

But Bai Zi didn’t respond. Noticing that her expression was not right, Meng Yilan spoke again, her tone a little colder than before, “Bai Zi, you absolutely can’t interfere with You Yuyi’s affairs, understand?”

At this time, Lin Quwei walked into the bar, quickly walking towards Meng Yilan, “What’s wrong? What happened?”

“Nothing,” Meng Yilan shook her head, taking Mao Mao’s hand, “It’s getting late, let’s go home.”

Lin Quwei glanced at Bai Zi, who was standing behind Meng Yilan. She was expressionless at this time, lost in thought.

Just as Meng Yilan was about to walk to the door of the bar, Bai Zi suddenly grabbed a handkerchief from the table, unfolded it, and quickly tied it on her face, using it to cover her face.

Hearing the commotion, Meng Yilan immediately turned her head. When she saw Bai Zi’s covered face, she immediately cried out, “Bai Zi!”

But Bai Zi had already jumped out of the window, disappearing without a trace.