Even hybrid monsters have their day

"Don't you guys also feel that we're getting closer to the mission?" Geng Miaowan said happily. Although she acted as if she wasn't very enthusiastic about it when she was with Peng Yuxian, she was actually overjoyed inside. This feeling of "Oh, so that's it" was really great.

Xu Ruwen and Huangfu Aohan glanced at her together. "Don't be too happy yet. The key is to find out which laboratory it is."

Ignoring the fact that they looked much happier than she did, Geng Miaowan cleared her throat and said, "According to Peng Yuxian, Qiu Pi leaves the city on the 10th of every month, stays there for five days, and then returns. They speculate that his laboratory is likely located in the city."

"The 10th?" Huangfu Aohan thought for a moment and looked at the date. "Today is already the 5th, so the 10th is five days from now?"

"Speaking of which, he did say he was going on a business trip on the 10th of last month and didn't return until the 20th. Excluding the time spent on the road, that's exactly five extra days." Xu Ruwen also thought of something and said, "City? Isn't that the city we came to when we first arrived in this space?" He still remembered this, mainly because that strange forest was still fresh in his memory.

Huangfu Aohan lay sprawled in her sea of ​​consciousness, lazily asking, "So what do you plan to do?"

"It would be best to go to the city with him, so that we would have a better chance of finding a laboratory."

"Follow?" Xu Ruwen raised an eyebrow. "He'll let you follow him? And if you ask to go with him, he'll definitely become suspicious of you. Then all your efforts over this period will be wasted."

Geng Miaowan rolled her eyes at her, "That's a method only someone with your IQ could come up with."

Xu Ruwen felt like he had swallowed a mouthful of air, unable to go up or down, and could only glare at her angrily, "Then what good ideas do you have?"

She chuckled. Then, mysteriously, she said, "It's a strategic retreat."

"A strategic retreat?" Xu Ruwen and Huangfu Aohan exchanged glances, their eyes filled with doubt.

Qiu Pi returned to the villa two days later, and Geng Miaowan went to see him after he got back.

"You said you're leaving?" He looked at her, seemingly surprised that she would suddenly make such a request.

"Yes, thanks to Mr. Qiu's care during this time." Geng Miaowan's face was full of sincerity.

"Then where are you going?"

"I don't know either, I'll just wander around. I've loved traveling since I was little, and I've always wanted to visit every city, big and small, in the country. I saw those beautiful scenes in my textbooks when I was a child, and I've always wanted to see them, but even after traveling to so many places, I've never found scenery as beautiful as that..."

Geng Miaowan said with great regret.

Qiu Pi thought for a moment and said, "I wonder if Miss Geng has ever been to the city?"

"The city? The city that's known as the most beautiful city in the East?" Geng Miaowan was overjoyed, but she said with some regret, "I heard it's hard to get in there. I wanted to go in and take a look when I passed by last time, but I didn't have a pass, so I came to the city instead."

"How about this? If you're not in a hurry, you can wait a couple more days. I happen to have to go to the city branch in two days, so I can take you there for a visit."

"Really?" Geng Miaowan exclaimed in surprise, then looked at him hesitantly, "But...didn't they say that people without a permit can't enter the city?"

This is also one of the main reasons why Peng Yuxian, despite suspecting that Qiu Pi's laboratory was in the city, had not been able to go and investigate.

Qiu Pi smiled gently, "It's alright, I'm here."

After Geng Miaowan left, the gentle expression on Qiu Pi's face vanished instantly. He took out his phone, pressed the dial button, and gave some instructions to the person on the other end. His expression was obscured by his glasses.

Two days later, Geng Miaowan finally got her wish and traveled to the city with Qiu Pi. Sitting in his extended luxury car, she couldn't help but ask, "Mr. Qiu, why don't we take a train or a plane?"

Those two modes of transportation are significantly faster than this.

Qiu Pi's eyes blinked behind his glasses. "Because I need to take care of some things along the way, it will be more convenient for me to drive myself."

Geng Miaowan nodded. They passed through five cities on their way to the capital, and Qiu Pi stopped in each city for several hours. They seemed to be in a great hurry. It was unclear what they were busy with.

Two days later, they arrived in the city and, with Qiu Pi's arrangement, checked into the city's largest hotel. After settling them in, he hurriedly left again.

Immediately afterward, Huangfu Aohan's figure also disappeared.

When Huangfu Aohan returned at night, he was no longer as confident as he had been when he left in the morning. Instead, he looked listless and dispirited.

"What's wrong?" Geng Miaowan asked in her mind's eye. To prevent others from overhearing anything, she usually conducted her conversations with them in her mind's eye. Many times, she felt that her mind's eye was a really good place to protect against thieves, robbers, and villains.

"You can tell just by looking at it, it definitely didn't work out," Xu Ruwen said casually, leaning back on the sofa.

Huangfu Aohan glared at Xu Ruwen, but because he had transformed into a dog, the glare had no power. He then turned to Geng Miaowan and said, "I followed him into that forest, and then I couldn't get in."

"A forest?" The only place here that could be called a forest was the one they had stayed in when they first arrived in this space. Qiu Pi disappeared in that forest...

Xu Ruwen suddenly remembered something, "Right, when we first came here, didn't we see a birdman in the forest?"

His reminder brought back Geng Miao's resentment; at the time, she thought she had seen wrong. But that day, she had seen with her own eyes that Peng Yuxian had grown a pair of wing-like things on his back. Although she didn't know if Qiu Pi would grow such things, if they were infected with the same virus, then it was very likely that Qiu Pi would also have this ability.

But none of the other mutant-level, level-3, or even level-4 vampires had wings. Does this mean wings are a feature only possessed by the highest-level infected? Then could the bird-man they saw that day also be a level-4 infected, or even possibly Qiu Pi himself?! (To be continued.) xh:.147.247.73