Although she had prepared herself mentally, when the time came to set off, Laura Fonnna's eyes couldn't help but turn red."All right." Yin Xiu gently pinched her face, "I'm not dead, why do you cry like this? Didn't you also say that for vampires, parting is not a big deal?" "But you're not a vampire." Laura Fountain pouted, "You are a human being. Even if you are a master like you, if your airship crashes, you are poisoned, or you get seriously ill, it would be easy for you to die." "Hey! It's a good thing, the kid just said that because he doesn't know anything." Yin Xiu waved his hands repeatedly and said to Laura Fountain, "I'm about to take off. Can't you say something auspicious? Like, 'good luck on your journey' or 'immediate success'?" "I'll try my best." Laura rubbed her ears. "But you have to promise that you won't just die like this or forget me. Because you're not a vampire, your memory must not be as good as ours. Let alone one or two years, even in one or two months, you will definitely forget me completely." Even though Laura Fonnna has lived for hundreds of years, her personality is still no different from that of a little girl, which makes Yin Xiu feel uncomfortable.
So he could only promise again: "Don't worry, even if I return to Hong Kong Island, I will write to you. Even if it takes half a year to receive the letter, for a vampire, this is not a very long time, right?" Laura Fountain's eyes were swollen, "Are you serious?" "Of course it's true," Yin Xiu said seriously, "I won't lie to my cousin." At last, Laura Fountain burst into laughter and said, "Then I will believe you for now. As long as you remember, there is a lady in Dunling waiting for your letter. That's all." "I will certainly remember it." It was getting late, so Wright started the airship. The four huge propeller devices just turned slightly and entered the "standby" mode, which caused a whirlwind that made Laura Fountain's skirt and hair flutter and Yin Xiu's windbreaker rustle around her legs. When Yin Xiu looked back, Laura Fountain hesitated for a moment, and finally reached out and put her hand into Yin Xiu's pocket. Yin Xiu suddenly felt something falling into his pocket. "Take it with you everywhere you go. Don't let it leave your side unless you are taking a shower." Laura Fountain warned: "Things like this can help you." Yin Xiu nodded, but did not immediately confirm what Laura Fonnna had put into his pocket. "I should go now," he said softly. "I know." Laura Fonnna's voice was also very soft, like a delicate whisper. "The werewolf families in North America are much more powerful than those here. They are not very reasonable. You have to be careful." "If I need to reason with a werewolf, I'll use this." Yin Xiu raised his fist. Laura Fountain laughed again, paused, and urged him, "You should go now. Just tell me anything in the letter."
Yin Xiu didn't reply, but just nodded heavily. When he got on the airship and looked outside through the transparent glass, Laura Fonnna was still standing there. The glass had become foggy due to the rich moisture from Dunling, making it difficult for Yin Xiu to tell whether she was crying, laughing, or had any other expression. As the airship rose, the engine started, and the glass windows of the airship began to shake and tremble, making the outside world blurry. In this hazy state, Yin Xiu somehow had a vague premonition. That is, maybe one day in the future, in the far East, he and Laura Fountain will meet again. As the airship began to sway and the buildings on the ground turned into black dots, this sudden premonition gradually disappeared. Yin Xiu sat back in his seat, rummaged through his pockets, and found that Laura Fountain had stuffed a ring into his pocket. The ring setting is a pure gold ring with a silver line on it, like a snake, looming. The ring setting is inlaid with a black gem, which is about the size of the index finger's nail. It does not emit any light, but has an unpolished, rustic and heavy feel. Yin Xiu turned the ring over and saw a line of German words engraved on the inside of the ring: 【Ich deins. Du meins. Wir eins.】 "What is it written about?" Luo Wei, who was sitting next to him, also noticed the words. "Do you understand German?" Yin Xiu asked him back. "I only know English and a little Hakka." "Then it won't happen." Yin Xiu put the ring back into her inner pocket. "So what does this mean?" Luo Wei continued to ask. "Don't you know me yet?" Yin Xiu sighed, "If I knew German, I would be a very capable scholar, not a very capable Taoist priest. These girls are always doing this kind of secretive and mysterious things. I think it might be a vampire spell or some good wishes?" "Do vampires have anything to do with so-called good wishes?" Luo Wei asked doubtfully. "How do I know this?" Yin Xiu spread his hands, "You also know that my cousin is an atypical vampire. Some things cannot be speculated according to common sense. Maybe she is the kind of vampire with white wings on her back and a golden halo on her head?" "Are you crazy or am I doing something wrong?" Luo Wei's head was full of black lines. "Although Laura Fountain doesn't suck blood, you shouldn't associate her with an angel, right?" "Nothing is accurate."
Yin Xiu smiled and said, "Who says vampires are necessarily ugly and angels are necessarily kind?" "I wish you could say that in front of Archbishop Kashu." Luo Wei leaned back in his chair, and the stiff backrest inevitably made his waist ache. After finally completing the final acceleration stage, Wright released the joystick, stuck it in a specific position, and walked to Yin Xiu and Luo Wei. "Would you like something to drink? Coffee or tea?" Yin Xiu glanced at the bearded "stewardess" and asked him, "Do you have any wine?" "Of course!" Wright opened a cabinet on one side and happily took out some wine. "Whiskey, brandy, and sherry, I have them all here, just look..." Halfway through his words, he remembered what happened in the tavern before and broke out in a cold sweat. "Brother, I, I don't drink when I fly normally, believe me, I swear to God." "Swear to God?" Yin Xiu laughed, "We are now in the place closest to God, I don't think you dare to joke with him. Don't drink on the way, just focus on flying the airship, and when we get to Gaotan, I'll treat you to a week's worth of drinks." "Really?" Wright's eyes lit up. "When have I ever lied to you?" Yin Xiu blinked at him. "Just do your best and don't think about this or that. When you are in Gaotan, it will be fine if you want to find a football team to play the second half with you!" When Wright heard this, the light in his eyes became brighter and he waved his hands repeatedly. "No, no, if we really form a whole football team, then it won't be me kicking others, it will be others kicking me. I'm afraid I won't be able to get down after I get on." "They can't get down. Could it be that they know kung fu?" Yin Xiu changed the subject, "By the way, can you tell me about the flight plan, Wright?" "of course can." When this was mentioned, no matter how unruly Wright was by nature, he became serious. He pulled out a map from somewhere and showed it to Yin Xiu and Luo Wei. "We are very lucky these days. We just happened to catch the Atlantic monsoon. If we keep flying with this wind, we will reach Gaotan faster than originally expected, and we don't have to worry about fuel issues." He smiled and said, "Even if we run out of fuel midway, this big guy can still float along with the wind and land slowly somewhere." "It seems that your angel's prayer worked." Luo Wei smiled. "She can't possibly not want us, okay?"
Yin Xiu scratched his head and asked Lai Te again, "Have you been to Gaotan before?" "Well?" Wright was stunned for a moment. "I thought you two were going there to visit relatives and friends?" "It's pretty much the same." Yin Xiu took the whiskey and poured out a glass. "There are friends all over the world. If you don't have any friends, you can make friends later." "It turns out that you two have never been to Gaotan." Wright suddenly realized. "So I ask you, have you been to Gaotan before?" Yin Xiu didn't mind letting Wright know their background. "Once or twice." Wright smiled and said, "Once it was during my college winter vacation, and I asked Li Zixiong if he wanted to go with me to broaden his horizons. As a result, he told me that he would spend the entire winter in the library. At that time, I thought he was stupid. Reading every day was not enough, but he also wanted to waste the few leisure holidays in his life. Not to mention this, the second time was last year, and I went there again last year. I have a cousin there who is engaged in stock investment. I heard that he is making big money. It happened that I didn’t have much opportunity at that time, so I went to see what he was doing. As a result, the stock market began to crash before I even got to his house. That's what they called Black Wednesday. My cousin was being hunted by the mafia and ran away. As a result, I was also held at gunpoint by those bastards several times and forced to tell them his whereabouts. So I really don’t want to go to that place if I can avoid it. Damn, it's a place where villains and murderers gather. During the day, those bastards are dressed decently, like gentlemen and ladies. You will know when the night comes, the streets are full of drug addicts, drunkards, sluts, and the murderers I mentioned. I was only there a week, and I was woken up three nights by gunfire and screaming. I probably didn't hear the rest of the time because I drank too much. Excuse me, you two, but that is really the place closest to hell. Not only the city itself, but also the residents living in it should go to hell because they are all complete bastards. Anyone who does is a liar and a murderer." Yin Xiu didn't expect to get anything out of Wright. After all, he was just a pilot, not a gossiper or a private detective. So he just chatted with him casually, "Have you seen Tang people in Gaotan?" "Tang people?" Wright stroked his chin and said, "I only heard that there is a Chinatown. Most of the Chinese should be building railroads in California." "So that's it." Yoon Soo swirled his glass.
When Wright was staring at the wine glass in Yin Xiu's hand in a daze, he saw the glass of wine being handed to him by Yin Xiu. "Hmm? No! No!" Wright shook his head repeatedly. "I told you, I am very dedicated. I won't drink at all at a time like this." "If you don't want to drink it, just put it next to the driver's seat and smell it. Just smell it." "Really?" Wright's eyes lit up again. After carefully looking at Yin Xiu and confirming that he was not luring him, he happily took the wine glass and ran back to the driver's seat. "Don't worry, I'll just smell it from a distance, that's all." Yin Xiu stopped joking with Wright and looked at Luo Wei who was fiddling with the teapot. "I can see that you seem to have a lot of things to ask me, but why didn't you ask them before?" "That's because you didn't say it." Luo Wei sighed, "I originally thought that we were brothers who had shared life and death together, and you would tell me everything. I didn't expect that after waiting for a few days, you still didn't say anything. This made me feel depressed." "Melancholy?" Yin Xiu was amused by him, "Great Detective, when are you not always so melancholy, looking like a teenage boy with unsatisfied desires?" "I'm glad you said I was young." Luo Wei folded his feet together and said, "Tell me, what's going on? We went to Gaotan because you found something in Jia Jingjing's memory, right?" Yoon Soo nodded. Although they had obtained some information from Jia Jingjing during the previous conversation, it was actually far from enough. They have no idea about the identity, location, or even related organizations of the mastermind behind the incident. Before she could ask these questions, Jia Jingjing had already died on the stage she loved most in her life. The only remaining means is the two chances to extract memories. If any of them were wrong even once, after Jia Jingjing's death, all clues related to the real Red Emperor would be lost. Even if Yin Xiu and his men only eliminated the enemies in Western Europe, they would probably never be able to find the culprit who was somewhere else. Fortunately, Yin Xiu finally found the target through some bold reasoning and conjecture. The man who used Laoshan Taoist magic is now in Gaotan, the financial center of North America and the city of sin. This is also the reason why they spent so much money and took such a great risk to go to Gaotan. "Somehow, I always feel a little uneasy," said Luo Wei. "disturbed?" It was the first time that Yin Xiu saw this extremely brave and passionate detective express such emotions.
"What are you worried about? Are you afraid that once we land in Gaotan, we will be surrounded by a large number of werewolves and vampires?" "Isn't that what's bound to happen?" Luo Wei also laughed and said nothing more. He just raised his teacup to greet Yin Xiu. "Bon Voyage!" Yin Xiu also picked up his glass and clinked it with his, "Success will come soon!" (End of this chapter)