Chapter 99 (2/2)
The bats hovered around Vivian before they flew towards and out of the window heroically, ready to embrace the bright sunshine. A thought suddenly hit Hao Ren. “Wait a minute, I’ve got an idea!” He darted into Lily’s room and seconds later, he came out with a bottle of sunscreen in hand.
“That girl bought this a couple of days ago out of impulse. She’s never used it. So, I guess it would be useful.” Hao Ren happily opened the bottle up and waved to Vivian’s tiny bats, signalling them to land and rest on the table. The vampire maiden looked on with her jaw dropped to the floor. “You’re so resourceful… Ahh, that’s so cooling!”
The bats and Vivian shared their bodily senses. As Hao Ren rubbed the sunscreen on the bats, Vivian felt it instantly and gave out a slight moan. Hao Ren picked up on her reaction, his hand jolted and he almost dropped the bottle. “Mind your reaction, please…”
“I’ve never used such an expensive thing in all my life,” Vivian spoke with a protesting face. “How ironic, first time using sunscreen not on myself but the bats… Don’t apply too much, it will weigh them down!”
Everything was up and running after a moment. The three tiny bats flitted out the windows like arrows toward three different directions. Their speed exceeded that of normal bats. Even the slowest one flew no less than 90km/h based on visual estimates. Staring at the three fast-disappearing, black dots, he could not help but say, “Well, I think I’m a little over-imaginative.”
Vivian did not say a word as she was immersed into the shared senses of her bats. Her entire attention was focused on the visual and radar signals received by the bats. A three-dimensional visual of the city started to form in her mind. Before long, the first bat arrived at its destination. It was the abandoned warehouse in the city, left behind by a transportation company.
Inside and outside the warehouse, there was not a single movement—the first target was ruled out.
The remaining two bats continued their journeys to the satellite town dozens of kilometers away and the Northern Suburbs respectively.
Vivian suddenly screamed in surprise. Hao Ren quickly pulled up and asked, “Got it?”
“One bat’s down.” Vivian was clueless about what had happened. “Before I realised anything, one of the bat went silent. The one that was en-route to the North disappeared right above the city.”
“Could it be the werewolves?”
“I don’t think so. Werewolves can’t fly. They couldn’t have possibly gotten to my bat,” Vivian frowned as she spoke.
“It may have hit a transformer or something and got electrocuted—such accidents may happen during high-speed flight. All these man-made structures are a real nuisance. I’ve collided into them many times myself. Any more sunscreen? I’ll dispatch another one.”
Hao Ren passed the sunscreen. “Do it yourself. You looked weird when I was rubbing the sunscreen on the bat earlier.”
Vivian looked at him angrily before lowering her head and rubbing the bat with sunscreen. Soon after, the fourth recon bat departed.
“Got it, the Northern Suburbs!” Finally, Vivian got a lead. “Doggie’s trace has been found.”