Su Xiao smiled shrewdly, "Let her go? Humph, let's go, we'll take our people to meet this woman."
With Luo Luo's excited expression, they specifically found the mercenaries who had been protecting them and swaggered back to the auction house.
However, upon arriving, they discovered the woman who had been sitting in the hall earlier had disappeared.
They went to find the manager, only to be told that Xu An had already left.
"Do you have any information on that woman? Give it to me!" Luo Luo said with a cold face.
The manager appeared troubled, "Miss Luo Luo, you know the rules of our auction house. I'm afraid we cannot provide this information."
The steward's respectful yet unyielding attitude clearly angered Luo Luo. She pointed at the steward's nose, ready to unleash a torrent of abuse.
But before the foul language could escape her lips, she was interrupted by Su Xiao beside her.
"It's alright, you may go. We were being rash."
After the steward retreated, Luo Luo's face had already turned as red as a pufferfish. "Why did you stop me? Why wouldn't you let me curse him? He clearly knows where that woman is, but he's deliberately refusing to tell us."
Su Xiao sighed helplessly. Although Luo Luo appeared to be a cool and abstinent beauty on the surface, she was actually a firecracker that could ignite at any moment, exploding the instant something displeased her.
If Su Xiao hadn't been by her side all these years, Luo Luo would have offended countless more people.
"Please, Miss Luo Luo, look around and see where we are. This isn't your home or mine, this is an auction house. We can't afford to offend the people behind this. Moreover, keeping customer information confidential is the auction house's duty. Wouldn't you rather our information not be easily obtainable by anyone?"
Thinking about it frankly, the auction house had actually done a decent job in this regard.
Upon hearing Su Xiao's words, Luo Luo's initially agitated heart gradually calmed down.
"Then what do we do now? We can't just let it go like this, can we?"
Luo Luo's face was full of indignation.
Su Xiao didn't reply. Instead, she led Luo Luo outside, intending to intercept Xu An there.
However, as soon as they reached the entrance, they found it deserted, with no one around.
Su Xiao grabbed a passing vendor.
"Did you see a girl about 1.7 meters tall, with short hair and a mask, here just now?"
The vendor, seeing Su Xiao's attire, knew he couldn't afford to offend her. He immediately replied without hesitation, "Yes, yes, I saw her. Miss, please put me down first."
After Su Xiao released him, the vendor said, "She was standing right here earlier. The girl seemed a bit off in the head, talking to herself for a long time. But suddenly, for some reason, she just ran off. She ran very fast, like someone trained in martial arts, very agile."
After speaking, he looked at Su Xiao obsequiously.
Su Xiao frowned deeply upon hearing this. "Is that all? Nothing else?"
The vendor rubbed his hands, looking excited. "That's all. Miss, is there anything else you'd like to know?"
Luo Luo walked over, found someone to give the vendor some money, and sent him away.
"That strange woman, she couldn't possibly be that supernatural, could she? Did she know we were coming? So she ran away in advance?"
Su Xiao remained silent, only gazing in the direction Xu An had left, lost in thought.
Meanwhile, Xu An, several kilometers away, looked back at the auction house with lingering fear.
"Phew, luckily I slipped away quickly. I didn't expect those people to actually come looking for me."
"You used dirty tricks to trip them up and snatch those鴛鸯 knives, so it's only reasonable for them to come after you, isn't it?"
Xu An shot Ze Yuan a fierce glare. Ze Yuan never missed an opportunity for sarcastic remarks.
"You played a part in this too, don't think you can deny it."
"Tch."
"However, those two women seem to have strong backing. How come I've never heard of them?"
Ze Yuan was about to retort, "What do you know when you spend all your time indoors?" But seeing Xu An's somewhat imposing gaze, Ze Yuan chose to remain silent.
"But how did you know to target the black-haired woman instead of the one in the Lolita dress?"
Ze Yuan cast a cool glance at Xu An and, with a parting remark, "Because you're clumsy," flew away.
Xu An, furious, stood rooted to the spot, stamping her feet.
Later, Xu An changed out of her disguise, replacing the clothes and mask with her usual sportswear.
She then returned home.
Upon arriving, she saw an unwelcome guest standing at her apartment door, head lowered.
A pile of cigarette butts lay at the man's feet.
Su Xiao softly tutted, mentally mocking Qin Chuan, still rich enough to afford cigarettes.
Qin Chuan also clearly noticed Su Xiao's arrival.
The two looked at each other from a distance.
For some reason, Qin Chuan felt as if Su Xiao was drifting further and further away from him.
Once, Zhou Zhe had asked him if he liked Xu An.
His immediate instinct was to deny it, but only he knew that it felt like the guilt of being caught doing something bad as a child.
But when he pondered the question more carefully, he found himself hesitating.
Qin Chuan's grandfather had often worried about his grandson's marriage, and even during the apocalypse, he frequently took Qin Chuan on blind dates.
Qin Chuan's grandfather's most common saying was that the Qin family had only one descendant left in Qin Chuan's generation.
If Qin Chuan didn't leave behind offspring, the Qin family's lineage would be broken.
But Qin Chuan didn't care.
Let it be broken. So many people had died in the great catastrophe of the apocalypse. Their family wasn't inheriting the throne, so why insist on having a child?
Qin Chuan's thinking was simple: he was someone who lived on the edge of a blade, not knowing when he might die. Why would he then ruin some young girl's life?
Therefore, Qin Chuan had always politely declined when it came to matters of romance.
But when Zhou Zhe asked him if he liked Xu An, Qin Chuan hesitated for the first time.
That man who could face rioting civilians and children aiming guns at them with an unflinching gaze and pull the trigger.
He actually hesitated.
Su Xiao looked at Qin Chuan, standing before her without speaking a word, and finally broke the silence.
"Is there something you need?"
Qin Chuan still didn't speak.
Su Xiao hesitated for a moment, then ultimately said nothing.
It wasn't that she hadn't considered telling Qin Chuan what she was currently doing. She knew her connections couldn't compare to Qin Chuan's.
But every time she saw Qin Chuan, Su Xiao couldn't help but think about how Qin Chuan had manipulated her.
Even before any of this was spoken, Su Xiao would instinctively begin to doubt Qin Chuan.
What if he had known about the existence of the laboratory all along, but to avoid offending someone, decided to use Yueyue as a scapegoat?