Chapter 114 – Brother In A Foreign Land (2/2)

“I just happened to come back after finishing my errands so I can drive you two. What, you don’t want me to?”

“Of course we do. Brother, then we’re gonna…”

“Then hurry back, don’t you have to go on the return flight tomorrow?” Hu Jiong said nonchalantly.

Bidding farewell to her brother and promising she will see him next time; the three drove off from Hu Jiong’s place.

“Xin Er, what does your brother do for a living?” Lei Yu seemingly asked in a casual way.

“I don’t know, my brother never mentioned it. But he does go to work somewhere around here.”

“How long has he been in the U.S.?”

“For several years now. He has returned home twice but usually rushes back to the U.S. I really don’t know why he’s always so busy every day.” Xin Er was somewhat complaining how she rarely sees her brother. Even if she sometimes flies to the U.S. for work, it’s not definite that she would be able to see him because he’s usually disappeared off somewhere.

“Okay, you two go up and rest up, I still have some things to do and will be going out.” Without realizing it, Lei Yu had already driven them to the front of the hotel. The two girls reluctantly walked into the hotel but would keep looking back at Lei Yu. They knew they would be leaving tomorrow so they wanted some extra looks at the rich, considerate and handsome guy. Looks like they don’t have such good fortune to land him in their arms.

Watching the two enter the hotel, Lei Yu turned the car around. His goal was the residence of Hu Jiong who he had just left from.

“Bzzt, bzzt!”

The doorbell gave off a weird sound. Opening the door, Hu Jiong was somewhat surprised. “Lei Yu? Why are you…?”

Lei Yu smiled. “Can I chat with you for a bit?”

Thinking for a short time, he fully opened the door and Lei Yu went inside.

“I’m very curious about your real identity. Oh, don’t worry; I don’t have any malicious intent. When it comes to dealing with my fellow Tenglong citizens, I’m usually very polite.” Lei Yu said this while playing with the ring on his finger while smiling at Hu Jiong.

“Who are you? Why are you curious about my identity? Did you intentionally come with Xin Er today?” Hu Jiong was highly vigilant while he watched Lei Yu with a frown.

“No, this whole thing was a coincidence. But my curiosity was piqued after meeting you so I came back. I am looking for a person and he’s really important to me. I heard from Xin Er that you’ve been in the U.S. for a long time so I was hoping I’d find some clues through you.” Lei Yu said so openly without any nonsense since this was his style of doing things.

“What do you want to know about?”

“I want to know any information related to mutants.” Lei Yu’s eyes were staring at Hu Jiong in front of him, his deep profound eyes not giving anything away. The atmosphere in the room seemed to have frozen as the two did not say anything while staring at each other.

A short while later, Hu Jiong smiled. “I don’t understand what you’re talking about.”

“Oh, really? As a bounty hunter, would they not have any information on mutants? That’s just too much of a joke.” Lei Yu wasn’t looking at Hu Jiong anymore. He stood up and walked towards the wall with a cow skull hanging on it, carefully observing it in detail. “I don’t think this is a cow’s skull, this should be a human skull after it transformed right?”

When Lei Yu arrived in this apartment with Xin Er, he already felt this skull didn’t really belong to the cattle species; this was due to the residual essence that was detected by Lei Yu. He also knew about a habit about bounty hunters. They were similar to ordinary people who went hunting in the mountains; they liked to hang their prize on the wall as a show of glory. But bounty hunters could not be so reckless as to start hanging human-like heads on the walls, so Hu Jiong chose to hang mutants that changed with cow features as his decoration.

Hu Jiong breathed in a cool breath of air. With his extraordinary strength, he quickly recovered from the surprise. “It’s my turn to be curious towards your identity… You’re right, I’m a bounty hunter. And I’m the only bounty hunter here with a Tenglong country nationality. So can you tell me who you are?”

“I’ll get straight to the point, we don’t fight amongst fellow citizens and we were never enemies to begin with.” Pausing a bit, Lei Yu then continued: “You should know who I am… many people call me the young master.”

Hu Jiong looked like he turned into a stone statue as he stared at Lei Yu in a daze, not saying a single word.

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¹ – Lei Yu’s sarcastic remark, to rarely meet a person like this.