Chapter 483: Chapter 293: Electric Memory, the Last Undercover Agent
The carriage was brightly lit, yet silent, with only the roar of the large engine echoing in their ears.
Black Cocoon had put his mask back on, activating the voice changer, the metal fit snugly over his head, wrapping around the back of his skull.
He played Minesweeper on his phone with one hand while quietly reading a book, the restraint belt rustling as it turned the pages. Sitting across from him, Ke Qirui was also reading, but it was a detective novel.
"By the way, do your other collaborators know who you are?" Ke Qirui thought for a moment, then suddenly asked.
"Uh... so far, only you and my grandfather know." Black Cocoon said, "Of course, once I’ve achieved my goal, there’ll be no need to continue disguising myself; more and more people will know who I am."
"So you mean... even Xia Pingzhou doesn’t know who you are?" Ke Qirui asked curiously, looking up into his eyes.
"Xia Pingzhou? What is Xia Pingzhou? Does he deserve to know who I am?"
At this, Black Cocoon couldn’t help but shrug, "He’s just a dragon-level small fry, may I ask, apart from bullying the Diaper Demon, who else can he bully?"
"I see," Ke Qirui smiled, "I should be very honored to be the first to know this fact apart from your grandfather."
"Exactly, this is the privilege of an exclusive driver, even my brother and my father don’t know my identity."
"Why does that sound a bit like, ’My dad and my brother have never beaten me’?" Ke Qirui teased.
"Indeed, if they ever found out who I am, they’d definitely give me a good beating."
Saying this, Black Cocoon scratched his chin, "But by then, I’m likely already underground, they wouldn’t kick my tombstone to vent their anger, would they?"
Ke Qirui ignored his morbid joke and picked up a pipe, asking calmly:
"Speaking of which, do you have a crush on me at first sight?"
"Why do you say that?"
"You’ve only revealed your identity to me. I must declare first, I don’t date minors."
"You’re being a bit narcissistic, I’m a trans woman with an independent personality, the chance of having a crush on you is close to zero." Black Cocoon squinted, "Besides, it’d be more convincing if you said you don’t date men."
"What’s the convincing part?"
"Isn’t it obvious? Our Diaper Demon is head over heels in love with you."
Black Cocoon lowered his head and sighed disappointedly, "I thought my brother would step in to teach you a lesson, but surprisingly, he said, ’respect and understand, as long as Xiaomai is happy,’ I almost fainted with anger back then."
"Don’t joke around, if the big idol Blue Arc really comes to hunt me down, then I’d really have to take a train and flee overnight."
"He’s not a big idol anymore, in the eyes of others, he’s just a controversial dead man." Black Cocoon said lightly, "In the information age, it won’t be long before people forget him, a new replacement will soon appear."
"Your brother is quite determined too, abandoning the fame and fortune he fought for over the years, diving into a revenge journey with uncertain outcomes," Ke Qirui lamented.
"He’s always been that way." Black Cocoon said.
"Xia Pingzhou too," Ke Qirui suddenly said, "With his talent, if he had stayed in the Exorcist Association, he would’ve definitely been a prominent figure by now."
"Uh..." Black Cocoon looked up, "I feel like you’re overly concerned about Xia Pingzhou."
"Am I?" Ke Qirui raised an eyebrow.
"Isn’t it true that every time we meet, you have to ask about his situation?" Black Cocoon squinted, staring at her, "The frequency is a bit excessive."
"Actually, it’s because the president likes him a lot, often asking me for his news."
"The president?"
"The president of the China Li Jing Exorcist Association, also my adoptive father," Ke Qirui explained, "When Xia Pingzhou left the association because of the traffic light incident, the president often expressed to me how regretful he felt, that such a genius just left the world of exorcists, but the president didn’t force Xia Pingzhou to stay due to personal interests."
"Fate had its twists and turns, he surely didn’t expect Xia Pingzhou to end up in a more dangerous situation instead."
"Maybe that’s fate," Ke Qirui mused, "But, does he really only have dragon-level strength now?"
"Of course, wasn’t it obvious when he and the Diaper Demon were evenly matched in a fight?" Black Cocoon said slowly, "Only a fortnight has passed since the auction, even with Xia Pingzhou’s talents, he couldn’t have crossed the threshold of quasi-calamity level."
"Then the question is, how does he plan to defeat Jack the Ripper?" Ke Qirui said, "I just got the news from the president, they said the White Crow Travel Brigade attacked the New Leaf Village prison in Hokkaido, killed the catastrophe-level warden, and abducted a prisoner."
She lowered her voice, "You happen to be in Hokkaido too, surely you can’t tell me you don’t actually know about this?"
Without hesitation, Black Cocoon said, "From my investigation, the warden was from the Salvation Society, so I had a mutually beneficial collaboration with the White Crow Travel Brigade, thus gaining quite a bit of crucial information."
Ke Qirui already knew enough. Just the incident with the red light falling into the Salvation Society’s ears would cause a huge stir.
So he didn’t mind letting Ke Qirui know more, after all, the two were already grasshoppers on the same rope.
"I see, I was wondering how you got involved in this." Ke Qirui thought for a moment, "Actually, I’m more interested in the intel that mentioned Xia Pingzhou killed a quasi-calamity level soldier named ’Flame Demon’."