Chapter 205 Assassination! (1/2)
”You killed my foster son,” Xiao Jin suddenly said.
”This is a private matter chieftain Xiao,” Han Xiao replied. ”Let's discuss it privately.”
”Sure.” Xiao Jin nodded.
The crowd's eyes twinkled. Black Phantom's reply to the same matter was completely different.
Darryl showed unhappiness on his face but did not say anything.
Han Xiao turned his head to look at Darryl and said, ”It's late. You don't mind if I stay the night, right?”
”Xiao Jin, take care of him, meeting dismissed.” Darryl stood up and walked out.
The crowd walked pass Han Xiao with different expressions on their faces.
A man walked up to Han Xiao, smiled, and said, ”I'm Xiao Ming, a foster son of Leader Xiao. I will be taking care of you during your stay. Please follow me.”
Han Xiao looked around and realized that Ummil, who had brought him here, was missing. The internal conflict in Alumera is really very severe.
The tense atmosphere in the hall earlier on further proved his point.
With such thoughts in his mind, Han Xiao walked out of the hall. Suddenly, a dozen or so players surrounded him with excitement on their faces. They were all from the Bamboo Rain guild. Bamboo Rain Xuan enabled the recording functions.
”We want to learn abilities,” Bamboo Rain Fragrance said.
Han Xiao surely would not miss out on an opportunity to earn some experience points, so he casually opened the ability interface.
Xiao Ming, who was standing on the side, asked in surprise, ”Do you know them?”
Han Xiao shook his head.
”Black Phantom seems to be very popular among the Inhumans.” The Alumera members who happened to pass by noticed this, and they were rather surprised.
The Bamboo Rain Guild wanted to trigger missions, but Han Xiao did not make any other interactions. He walked away after stopping for a few seconds.
”It's an unexpected plotline, but there's no mission.” Bamboo Rain Fly was confused.
”Seems like my recording has nothing of interest,” Bamboo Rain Xuan said in frustration.
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Xiao Ming arranged a room for Han Xiao. Although Han Xiao's attitude in the morning had made many of the high ranked officials very angry, he did explain the source of his hostility. Therefore, the atmosphere was not all that tense.
That night, Xiao Jin invited Han Xiao to his mansion with the purpose of discussing compensation.
Upon arriving at the place, Han Xiao realized that Xiao Jin's children were all gathered around, including Xiao Hai and other brothers and sisters. However, the foster kids were not there.
Xiao Jin had the same expressionless face as he had in the day, unpredictable.
Han Xiao was looking at Xiao Jin and his children, and these people were looking at him, too.
”What compensation do you want.” Han Xiao looked at Xiao Jin and put on a smile that did not really look like a smile.
”It's his bad luck that he died.” Xiao Jin's expression was cold. To him, foster children were just assistants and tools.
”Then why did you invite me here?” Han Xiao raised an eyebrow.
”There are no bad sides to getting to know a famous killer.”
Han Xiao could not figure out Xiao Jin's motive, maybe it was just to build a relationship, maybe there were other motives, anyway Han Xiao was interested in making more contact with the family of his original body owner so he could lure more information out of their mouth.
They chatted casually, talking about all sorts of things. Xiao Hai and his siblings said a word or two once in a while, and the atmosphere was peaceful. Xiao Hai was the leader of the siblings; one could feel a sense of adoration when the siblings talked to him, but Xiao Hai did not react to it, as if that was the norm.
One hour had passed without anyone's notice. Han Xiao suddenly frowned and said, ”I'm very interested in Han Xiao. Let's talk more about him.”
The atmosphere suddenly turned cold. Xiao Jin put the cup down and said slowly, ”He's my son. He has always been incompetent, but I didn't think he would become wanted by the Germinal Organization.”
”I thought he's dead for sure,” Xiao Hai said. ”No wonder they say scourges last for thousand years; he's still bringing us trouble.”
Han Xiao pointed at himself and said, ”You mean I'm trouble?”
Xiao Hai gave a cold laugh and said, ”Are you not?”
With a light cough, Xiao Jin said, ”It's getting late,”
”Indeed, it is.” Han Xiao stood up and left.
Xiao Ming brought him back to his room. He passed a stack of documents to Han Xiao as he walked through the door. ”This is Han Xiao's information. Father had told me to give it to you.”
Han Xiao nodded and accepted it.
As soon as Han Xiao entered the room, he checked every corner of it thoroughly. There had been three monitoring devices before he left, and now there was one more. He shook his head and used a program to crack it once again. After he was done with that, only then did he start reading the documents, from which he gained a deeper understanding of the original owner of his body. He was basically a nobody, and he did not hear about any NPC called 'Han Xiao' in his previous life either.